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Chapter 3
The titans began to shuffle into the restaurant that had been closed off just for them. There was long table beautiful set with Italian themed plates. It was a in a huge dining room with a small acoustic system playing soft relaxing music. Everyone admired at how fancy this place was with a variation of oohs and ahhhs. Robin sat down at the head of the table with Starfire to his angled right. Next to her was Mas y Menos who could not keep their eyes off of her. Robin thought it was quite amusing. Next to them was Speedy rounding out the right side of the table. Sitting at Robin's angled left was BumbleBee followed by Cyborg, Beastboy and Raven. Aqualad was sitting at the other head of the table next to Raven. He made sure that he grabbed that seat.
A team of waitresses came out and slowly began to take drink orders. Everyone slowly began to place their preference and the waitresses dispersed.
Beastboy and Raven were flirting playfully at the table.
"Babe." Raven would turn her head to him but he would turn it as if he didn't say anything. She smiled at him and popped him in the shoulder. Everyone seemed to enjoying themselves expect for Cyborg. He couldn't shake the situation he had with Aqualad. He just could not believe the audacity he had to completely disrespect someone's relationship like that in front of all of their friends and he didn't even show compassion. Cyborg was fiddling with his fork and was uncharacteristically quiet. Raven noticed this and was a bit concerned because usually Cyborg would be incredibly energetic and talkative. She brushed Beastboy back a bit and leaned in front of him. She nudged her neck out and made herself known to Cyborg that she was staring at him. He had his eyes in his plate but he could sense that he was being stared at. Beastboy caught on too what Raven was doing and he joined in on the staring. Cyborg looked up and jerked his head back at the fact that he was being glared at.
"Can I help you?" He said nervously.
"Cyborg are you okay?" Raven asked with a quiet tone. Cyborg perked his neck up and made it seem like he had energy in him.
"Yeah I'm fine." Raven looked at him sarcastically.
"You sure?" Cyborg cleared his throat and he figured now would be a good time to see if his friends would be struggling like this.
"Can I ask you guys something?" Beastboy sat up and looked at him.
"Yeah dude what's up?" Cyborg became restless in his chair and blurted out his question.
"If you guys saw someone disrespect Bee and I wasn't there you would tell me right?" Beastboy put his hand on his shoulder.
"Without a doubt." Raven nodded in agreement.
"Is there something you wanna say Cy?" Raven nudged her chair forward.
"No I was just curious." Fuck Cyborg felt like hitting himself in the face with the plate for lying right to his friends face like that. He knew that was he did was wrong as soon as he did it. He knew he had to rectify the situation. He was going to tell Raven about the situation and let her tell him because he knew exactly what would happen if he told Beastboy and then Aqualad's death would be an almost certainty. Beastboy was very easy going but one thing you didn't fuck with was the people he loved. His fight with Terra proved that without a shadow of a doubt. He kept a straight face the whole time as Beastboy and Raven shifted the conversation back to something more laid back.
"You ready for karaoke night?" Beastboy called out to the table.
Everyone looked at him like he had just grown three heads from his neck. Speedy dropped the fork from his hand.
"You can't be serious?" Beastboy was nervously smiling.
"Why it will be fun guys." Robin scooted up to the table.
"How when you're the only one that wants to do it." Beastboy shot him a sarcastic smile.
"Fine than I have a deal for you folks." Everyone waited for him to speak and he paused thinking for an idea to come to in.
"Um if all of you pay for dinner than Robin, Cy and I will be the only will sings and if us three pay then all of you have to sing." Cyborg smacked him in the back of the head.
"How you going to decide that." Beastboy glanced around the table and found a stray quarter laying on the ground and he quickly snagged it.
"This way, Heads we sing Tails we pay." Robin had his hand in a fist.
"Why would you volunteer us for this?" Beastboy giggled nervously.
"Because us three are pals." Cyborg and Robin both rolled their eyes. Beastboy placed the quarter on his thumb and scanned the table.
"Everybody ready?" Everyone sarcastically waited for him to flip the coin in the air and he then sent the coin soaring through the air. It landed back on Beastboy's forearm and rolled onto the floor. He dived headfirst onto the floor and began to search for the coin. He found it and grabbed it quickly without looking at what it landed on. He returned to his seat out of breath from his quick search and rescue mission.
"Okay and the result is in DRUMROLL PLEASE." Mas y Menos began to bang on the table frantically in their drum roll. Beastboy waved his hand across to cease the noise and then he lifted his hand off of the coin.
"Fellas get your singing voices ready we perform tomorrow." Robin planted his head onto the table. Cyborg was also equally embarrassed but it was nothing the three of them couldn't handle. The chef came out of the kitchen doors and walked up to Robin.
"Are you folks ready for your bill?" Robin took his face off of the table and nodded respectfully to the chef. He then presented the bill to Robin and he slid it too the middle of the table.
"You guys got this since us three have to start rehearsing." Robin slide the check into the middle of the table. Aqualad leaned forward and grabbed it. He sarcastically smiled at Beastboy.
"I have no problem paying for you to make an ass out of yourself." Beastboy shot him a glare. He watched Aqualad lower his eyes to the check. He also noticed that he still had some pasta sauce left on his spoon and decided to "accidently" fling the spoon. He and the rest of the titans watch the red sauce soar through the air and land on Aqualad's crisp, white shirt.
He shot his eyes down at the freshly made stain and gritted his teeth.
"Did you do this?" Beastboy put his elbow on the table and rested his hand in it. He then batted his eye lashes at him in a comical manner.
"I don't know does a bear shit in the woods?" Aqualad then nodded and then raised a glass of water right into Beastboy's face. He began to laugh while Beastboy whipped his eyes but his fame was short lived when a certain empath dumped a glass of wine onto his head.
Cyborg then stood up with a roll in his hand and screamed out "FOOD FIGHT!" He then hurled a mound of mashed potatoes out onto the table. The skirmish was on with everyone either shielding themselves from food or throwing it as fast as they possibly can. A collection of screams could be heard from the kitchen causing the head chef to run out in pure panic.
"Stop it My god!" the thunderous scream made every titan stop dead in their tracks.
"What is the meaning of this?" Robin whipped gravy off of this face and walked up to the chef.
"I'm very sorry sir we didn't mean it." The chef threw a towel down on the floor.
"Well sorry does not clean my dining room."
"We will clean it." Robin could feel the stares piercing into his back from volunteering them but it was the least they could do. It looked as if a tornado had sucked up every item in the room and spit it back out through a cannon. Robin turned around and gave the titans a look to remind them that they were responsible for the mess.
"Fine just hurry up or I will charge you double." Robin nodded as the chef exited the dining room. Robin turned back around and ordered.
"Okay everyone split up and start cleaning this won't be a big deal."
Perfect. Cyborg thought to himself. Now he had his chance to tell Raven about what Aqualad had said but all he had to do was separate her from Beastboy which at this point in time would be an easy task. He began to work on cleaning and he followed closely to Raven and when she was in the corner scrubbing a sauce stain off of the wall he made his move.
"Hey." He blurted out nervously. Raven just raised her head to acknowledge him. He sat down next to her and began to work on washing the area she was. He swallowed a nervous lump in his throat and looked at her.
"You know I kind of have to say something to you." Raven looked over at him and lowered her wash cloth.
"What's up?"
"You remember how you asked me if something was wrong?" Raven stuck her neck out waiting for him to continue.
"Um yeah it was ten minutes ago." Raven's dry sense of humor never ceased to stop. Cyborg mimicked a laugh and continued.
"Well I wanted to tell you this and not BB but I think Aqualad might be up to something with you." Raven scrunched her face up in confusion.
"What do you mean?" Cyborg moved forward and lowered his voice.
"He was asking weird questions about you early like if you and Beastboy fuck or not. It was just so weird." Raven's eyes began to fire up in anger.
"That's none of his concern." Cyborg quickly tried to calm her down.
"That's what I said but look I wanted to tell you because BB would kill him but just keep your eyes open in case he tries something." Raven exhaled.
"Thanks Cy." Cyborg nodded.
"No problem Rae but like I said keep this on the down low and if it gets more obvious then we will call him out and let either you or BB handle it.
"Got it." Raven snapped back. She turned around and watched Beastboy playfully cleaning up with Starfire. She shook her head in worry because she wanted to tell Beastboy but she knew nothing but bad things would happen.
