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It was hot. Not the good or manageable kind. The "I'm melting" kind.
Cyborg was trying to fix the thermostat but to no avail... Not that he'd admit to NOT being able to fix something.
"Don't you think it's high time we call a repairman?" Raven asked.
"Raven! I can fix this," he said, turning to smile at her but it was a strained smile. They could tell he was having a hard time fixing it.
The other Titans were lying on the floor that Crystal had made slightly cool. The girls were wearing sleeveless tank tops and free shorts that barely got to their knees. Robin and Beast Boy were shirtless and wearing swimming trunks.
Beast Boy had come out from his bedroom naked earlier, Robin and Cyborg had forced the swimming trunks on him ignoring his cries of, "it's too hots" and "why?"
"That's it, I'm calling a repairman," Crystal announced, standing up to get her phone. "NO! I CAN FIX IT! YOU GUYS JUST GO OUT TO THE POOL OR SOMETHING!" Cyborg shouted, stopping her in her tracks.
"That's a great idea, Cy. Titans! Looks like we're having a pool day," Robin announced. The others cheered.
Robin and Beast Boy just went to the pool immediately.
"Cannonball!" Robin yelled and splashed into the pool. Beast Boy jumped, turned into a whale and splashed in before turning back to normal.
Starfire came out in a two-piece bikini and Robin's jaw dropped, his hair stood on end. Beast Boy chuckled to himself as he watched Robin's reaction.
Starfire eased herself into the pool slowly, then sighed when she was in. "This was the great idea,"she sighed contentedly. "Yes it was," Beast Boy said and Robin just nodded as he tried to keep himself from drooling. He prayed the water would hide his growing boner.
Crystal and Raven came out then. Raven in a black, strapless swimsuit. It was now Robin's turn to laugh and Beast Boy's turn to show surprise. "She's drop dead gorgeous," Beast Boy mumbled and Robin submerged himself under the water to keep from laughing too loud.
Crystal was in a sleeveless turtle neck dark blue swimsuit. "So your love for turtle necks also includes swimwear?" Robin asked, looking directly at her.
Crystal knew the question was a ruse. She had seen Starfire step out in her naked excuse of a bikini. Crystal and Raven had laughed when they thought of what Robin's reaction would be. Now he was trying to engage in conversation with her to distract himself from the bombshell alien princess directly opposite him in the pool.
Raven nudged her and they both grinned widely. Crystal decided to play along, "yes, it does."
She and Raven entered the pool beside Starfire practically smelling of mischief. "Star, where did you get this bikini?" Raven asked.
"Oh, I the ordered it the online. You like it?" she returned. "Yeah I like it ON you. You're literally the only girl I know that can slay this bikini," Crystal said then sneaked a smile at the half demon.
"I do not understand what the killing has to do with the bikini?" Starfire asked, confused.
"No Star, she means you look really sexy in it," Robin burst out impatiently, not realizing what he was saying.
Beast Boy, Raven, Crystal and Starfire were mirror images of each other. Robin blushed in realization.
"You think I look the sexy in it?" Starfire finally broke the silence.
"Yes," Robin mumbled, scratching the back of his head, looking down at the water as though it held a complex code he could only decipher by staring intently at it. He didn't want to look up. He didn't want to see her reaction.
He thought he was imagining the giggling a moment later. Then he looked up. Sure enough, Starfire was laughing. "Well, the thanks Robin," said to him.
She and Robin stared at each other for a while. The others held a silent grimace. They had no clue what was happening at the time but it was getting really weird and uncomfortable.
"So... Who else thinks Cyborg can'ts fix the thermostat?" Beast Boy said finally, breaking Robin and Starfire's gaze at each other.
"Me!" the rest said in unison. "He should've just let me call a fu..." Crystal paused and glanced at Starfire, "he should've just let me call a repairman."
"His pride won't let him," Robin stated. Raven smiled in amusement, "you're the wrong person to be talking about pride Robin."
"What does that even mean?" Robin asked, making a disagreeing face.
"You're nots dumb bro, you knows whats she means," Beast Boy said. Robin turned to the shapeshifter in surprise, "et tu, Beast Boy?"
"Sorry bro, you knows I gots to say the truths likes it is," Beast Boy defended.
"I mean, remember the time we were called to LA to save them from that villian and you insisted on fighting him alone whilst we took on his minions?" Raven asked.
"Yeah and even when we were done with the minions you were still fighting him. We would've locked him up easily but you kept saying you'd handle it and he got away," Crystal added.
"Then we spents days trying to finds him again. We hads to locks you up so we coulds capture him," Beast Boy finished.
"That was just one time guys, come on!" Robin defended.
"Or that time Batman was in Jump City for the week and the Brain attacked the city and you insisted on handling it alone," Crystal reminiscenced.
"That wasn't the point!" Robin said, raising his voice.
"We had to come do the saving of the you cause you got the captured," Starfire said with a short laugh.
"And you STILL refused to admit to Batman that you got captured. You said you got captured on purpose as a training session for us," Crystal added, rolling her eyes.
Robin, at this point, was silent. He knew they were right and he hated when they were. He felt eyes on him and he looked, Starfire was staring at him.
"Seriously guys get a room!" Crystal snapped.
"What?!" Robin's eyes had grown the size of golf balls. Starfire was startled, "no!"
Crystal submerged herself under the water and swam under there for a few minutes. She came up with a startled look on her face.
"What's wrong, mama?" Beast Boy inquired. She got out of the pool and reached for her towel. Robin made eye contact with her, he grimaced. She knew.
"I'm gonna check if Cyborg is done with the thermostat," she said and practically dashed inside. "What's was that's all about?" Beast Boy asked no one in particular.
*
No one was sleeping in the Titans Tower. It was past midnight after the swimming day and Cyborg had finally fixed the thermostat with Crystal's help.
Crystal's sound proof spell was not enough to block the sounds that filtered into her room. Beast Boy had exhausted his repertoire of animals with coverable ear. He now lay on his belly and placed a pillow over his head.
Raven tossed from one side of her bed to the other. Cyborg was in his charging station but his human parts could not sleep.
Crystal cursed at the fact that her headset was charging and made it a point to buy another one.
What was the problem?
Starfire and Robin were fucking loudly. They had been going at it for a few hours.
Beast Boy took to banging his head against the wall in an effort to make himself pass out. Crystal got into her secret bathroom, sat in the tub and turned on the shower to drown out the sounds. Cyborg turned on his music player and the soothing sounds of the "The Night begins to shine" song lulled him to sleep.
Beast Boy gave up and went to the living room to play video games. Raven teleported herself to the bank of the sea with her pillow and fell asleep there.
Crystal turned off her shower and dipped herself completely into the filled tub. She created an air bubble around herself. She realized she couldn't hear the sounds so much under the water and so she fell slept there.
Beast Boy eventually passed out on the couch after playing games for over an hour.
The next morning at 10am, none of them were awake. Raven had teleported herself back at 6am but Immediately fell asleep on her bed on getting there.
Crystal woke up first and nearly drowned. She had forgotten she was in the tub so she'd stretched and breathed in deeply. A lot of water entered her nose and she panicked. She was struggling with the water and would've drowned if Raven had not come in and saved her. Raven used her soul self to pull Crystal out of the tub.
Crystal gasped and threw up some water, she coughed hard and tears ran down her cheeks.
"In all my years, I've never almost drowned before," she admitted, spluttering.
"Maybe cause you slept UNDER water. Are you Aqualad or Aquaman or are you a fish? Just imagine what would've happened if I hadn't sensed your danger?" Raven scolded.
"I wouldn't have had to if those monkeys in heat had let me sleep like a normal human being," Crystal snapped.
"They broke through your sound proof barriers too?" Raven asked. "Yes," Crystal answered breathlessly.
"How did you even find me?" Crystal asked in disbelief. "It's a secret bathroom in your bedroom, Crystal, not an ancient underground cellar. Your demon blood led me straight to you," Raven deadpanned, "artful thinking though, with the bathroom."
"I guess we better head to the kitchen," Crystal said, finally standing up. "Oh yeah," Raven facepalmed, "it's your turn with the dishes and mine to cook."
They teleported to the living room and saw Beast Boy passed out on the couch with the game controller on the floor, the TV was on standby mode. "Poor Beastie," said with so much care in her voice and Crystal laughed softly.
The half demon blushed and nudged Crystal playfully. "How long before you two become like RobStar?" Crystal asked. "RobStar?" Raven returned.
Crystal burst out laughing, "Robin and Starfire... It's their 'ship' name."
"What, no? Never!" Raven stammered blushing furiously. "I'm not blind, Rae Rae," Crystal teased while doing the dishes.
"No! Plus Beast Boy doesn't even like me like that, not anymore," Raven said. "Seems you're deaf as well as blind, Raven. If you can't hear what he says about you, you should at least SEE how he acts around you," Crystal stated.
Raven, who had opened the fridge to get some eggs, stood there frozen in thought, the cool air fanning her face. "Didn't you see the way he was looking at you in the pool yesterday?" Crystal was asking her. "No, you did not. Cause you don't have eyes," the hybrid answered herself.
Raven collected the eggs and started the meal preparation. It was obvious she didn't want to have this conversation and Crystal didn't push any further.
"Bacon and eggs?" Crystal asked when the dishes were done. "Bread and eggs," Raven replied. "With orange juice?" Crystal asked, looking at the half demon with puppy dog eyes.
"You'll make it yourself," Raven answered. Crystal pouted for a moment then took out the oranges from the fridge and grabbed the juicer.
About an hour later, the meal was ready but only Cyborg had gotten up. Crystal took her phone to the kitchen and was playing some Jennifer Lopez songs whilst sipping her juice absent mindedly.
"If Robin meets you in here with that phone..." Cyborg trailed off.
"He won't come out for another hour or more," Crystal said dismissively. "Yeah they were still going at it when I teleported back here at about six but I was too tired to even care anymore," Raven added.
"Seems like they had so much pent up to let out. Especially Robin," Cyborg said. "Not an excuse to keep us up," Crystal stated.
"You're the one that suggested they get a room," Raven mumbled into her glass. "You did?" Cyborg asked Crystal, a surprised expression on his face.
"It was a joke and I didn't expect they'd really do it. They were just giving each other weird looks and it was uncomfortable for us in the pool," Crystal defended.
"And I certainly did not mean a room in the tower," she added.
"Hey guys," Beast Boy said to them as he practically dragged himself into the kitchen. "Any of y'alls get any sleep?" he asked weakly.
"Barely," Raven and Crystal answered in unison.
Crystal served him breakfast and he sat down to eat. "Thanks mama," he said, "if Robin catches you in here's withs that phone tho."
"I'm sure he's too broken to even move right now," Crystal snickered. "Poor Starfire," Raven said and the four of them laughed.
Just then, "Run the show" by Kat De Luna ft Busta Rhymes came blasting from Crystal's phone and she went nuts. The others smiled. It was one of those songs she could not control herself when they came on and she would go crazy and dance.
After the song was over, she sat down and breathlessly gulped down the contents of her glass. Then she opened the fridge and grabbed a can of Pepsi when she wasn't sated with the juice. The others laughed at her.
"Shut the fuck up!" she shouted when she put her can of Pepsi down. Beast Boy reached for it, it was empty. "That's a news record for you, you empties the can," he said, he and the others doubled over in laughter.
She joined in. "You know I can't control myself with some songs."
"We know, Cryssie," Cyborg said, smiling.
They heard the door of the living room open. Crystal hastily stopped the music and hid the phone in her pocket.
Robin came in then, looking worse for wear. "Hi guys," his voice came out as a whisper. Apparently, he'd Lost his voice.
The others tried not to laugh. Beast Boy turned into a cockaspaniel and ran around the kitchen, Cyborg began reading his manual, Raven and Crystal began a random conversation about Game of thrones.
Robin helped himself to breakfast and poured himself a glass of juice. "Easy on the eggs, Robin. Save some for Starfire. I didn't make a lot," Raven said.
Robin looked up at her. She could not read the look on his face. He then reduced the egg quantity he collected.
"I don't know how people are actually fans of Sansa as a character," Crystal was saying. "I know, right? To me she was a bitch from beginning to end," Raven returned.
"Remember when she asked the Septa where she was from and then said she didn't care?" Crystal asked. "Yeah, such a disrespectful little bitch," Raven answered.
"Robin? Baby, where are the you?" Starfire called weakly from the living room. Robin abandoned his meal and dashed to her.
The others sneaked to the door and peeked at them. "You ok, Star?" he asked her. He held her close in a hug, his left hand around her waist and the right at the back of her head as she rested on his chest.
She looked way worse than he did but she smiled up at him, "I'm fine." He planted a soft kiss on her lips. Raven put her palm on Crystal's mouth to stop the hybrid from "aww"-ing.
"Sorry I kinda lost control of myself last night," he said with a soft smile. "It is the ok, I lost the control as well," she returned.
"But I have none of the regrets," she added with a smirk. Robin grinned at her. "Aren't you hungry?" he asked then glanced at the kitchen, the others promptly withdrew from the door. "There's bread and fried eggs and orange juice in the kitchen," he informed.
"Sounds the delightful," she said and they both headed to the kitchen.
"The death of Joffrey remains the best scene in the series," Crystal was saying to Raven. "Nah it's Viserion's death. It was so epic how the Night King personally acquired himself a dragon... Oh hey Starfire," Raven said.
"Good morning the friends," Starfire greeted.
"Actually... It's past noon," Cyborg corrected. "Oops, I am the sorry. Good afternoon," she said again.
"It's ok Star," Beast Boy said. "How are the all of you this morning? Did you sleep the very well?" Starfire asked enthusiastically.
A hashed silence came upon the kitchen. No one was willing to answer. They knew she'd feel bad if they revealed she and Robin were the cause of their sleeplessness and they weren't willing to lie to her either.
"You look very tired friend Beast Boy," she stated, looking directly at him, "didn't you sleep well?"
Crystal wanted to slap Starfire senseless at this point. They were trying hard not to hurt her feelings yet she was still asking questions. She was such a child sometimes.
"Friend Raven, Crystal? Are you the alright?" she inquired.
Crystal was surprised that Raven snapped first.
"No Star, no! We are not fine, we are not alright. We couldn't sleep well, I slept at the bank of the sea. If you could call that sleeping. Crystal nearly drowned this morning cause she slept inside the tub under water to drown out your noise. Stop asking us if we're alright as though you don't know what you did last night. Can you not?" Raven ranted.
"Let's go Crystal, away from the raging hormones," Raven said to the hybrid.
They teleported from the kitchen, leaving the rest of the Titans in speechless awe.