(A/N: Six months after Daddy issues)
It was morning, only the girls were in the living room. The boys were training.
Crystal was asleep on the floor, Starfire was absentmindedly brushing her hair and Raven was reading a spell book.
They heard the bell ding. Raven looked at the monitor and was surprised to see Zatanna waiting downstairs.
"Let me in Raven, I know you can see me," the sorceress said through the intercom. Raven opened the elevator for her.
"Is that Zatanna?" Crystal, now awake, asked. Raven raised her eyebrow in question.
"We both know Zatanna's magic signature is very different. Plus I could hear her in my sleep," Crystal said with a yawn.
The elevator dinged and the sorceress floated in.
"Hi," she said in a high girly voice. Sometimes it was difficult to remember how much older she was. She looked and acted like a teenager.
"What do we owe this visit?" Crystal asked after they'd exchanged pleasantries.
"Bruce Wayne is hosting a party and wants the Titans to be there, in disguise of course," Zatanna announced.
"Batman is inviting the Titans to a party?" Raven and Crystal chorused.
"Hush! The identity must be kept a secret!" the sorceress scolded.
"It's only The Titans here in the tower, Z, we know," Crystal said dismissively.
"I don't think the friend Cyborg and Beast Boy know," Starfire said.
As if on cue, the boys appeared in the room and tried to sneak attack Zatanna.
Raven and Crystal smirked as the sorceress simply held them suspended in mid air, choking them, without even batting an eyelid.
"Really boys? With all that training?" the sorceress rolled her eyes and let them down carefully. They gasped for breath.
Robin heaved and coughed, thumping his chest dramatically, "do you want to kill us Z?" he asked between coughs.
"You 'attacked' me first, I was only defending myself," she said, smirking.
"What do you wants Z?" Beast Boy said, pouting.
"Bruce Wayne has invited you all to a party," Zatanna said again.
"And he asked you to deliver this message? Why didn't he just tell me directly?" Robin asked.
"He said you'd pretend and he begged me to play along but no, I won't," the sorceress said intently looking at the Titans leader.
The rest sans Starfire turned to Robin who was pleading with the sorceress with his eyes.
"Don't pretend as though you and Batman didn't have a big argument over your relationship with Starfire," Zatanna dropped, calmly.
Starfire's head snapped up.
"The what?"
Robin's eyes had grown the size of golf balls.
"You had the fight with Batman about us?"
"Starfire..." Robin began uncertainly.
"You never tell me anything except it has to do with the sex!" Starfire snapped, cutting him off and flying off the couch dropping her brush in the process.
A shocked silence fell on the room.
Robin tried to gather himself together, "Starfire not right now..."
"No! Robin, we're discussing this right now! Why am I the hearing this from Zatanna?!" she cut in again.
"Because it wasn't important, Starfire!" Robin himself snapped at her.
"It was just a usual fight between us," he added calmer.
"Really?" Starfire asked in disbelief, "you and your adopted father had the fight over me and you're saying it was not the important?"
It was surprising to the others. They'd never seen Robin and Starfire fight.
Zatanna was beginning to feel guilty for revealing the fight.
Robin looked Starfire in the eyes now, "it was not important."
Tears formed in her eyes and she exited the room swiftly.
Robin buried his face in his hands.
"It's dresses and suits only," Zatanna said awkwardly and exited the tower.
"What's happening between you and Star, Robin?" Cyborg inquired.
"And if you hit us with that 'it's nothing' bullshit... I'm gonna smack you upside the head with this remote," Crystal threatened sternly.
"We actually were fine, even after the trauma your dad put us through," Robin paused for his words to take effect and Crystal rolled her eyes.
"But recently, she keeps asking 'what are we' and 'where are we going' and she keeps complaining I don't tell her stuff and I don't really care about her beyond sex," Robin explained.
"First of didn't you guys define what you were before you started?" Cyborg asked. The enthusiastic jokester was gone, the mature older brother had taken his place.
"I don't think we ever really did. At the beginning, it was just sex," Robin answered.
"Hadn't you been crushing on Starfire for a very long time?" Cyborg asked and he nodded.
"You've been together for two years!" Raven snapped rubbing her hands across her face impatiently.
"Yeah, how coulds you nots have defines what your relationship is?" Beast Boy inquired.
Robin sighed heavily, "I don't know."
"Do you love her?" Crystal asked.
Robin look up at her to retort but the serious look on her face silenced him, he swallowed, looked down and sighed again. "I did."
"Do you still love her?" Cyborg questioned.
"I don't know, it hasn't been the same. We've been fighting a lot..."
"Ands you two used sex to resolves it..." Beast Boy realized and the rest gasped.
"You two have been doing it since the first day," Raven added.
"No wonder y'all shook our magic," Crystal said.
Robin paled.
"Starfire was upset about you not telling her about your feelings ever since and you were mad about her feigning disinterest for so long," Crystal stated. She was seeing into the past now.
"What have you two been doing for two years?" Raven asked, seriously.
Robin could not answer and a very long, uncomfortable silence followed.
Hours later, Raven and Crystal were in the kitchen with Beast Boy.
Crystal was making spaghetti.
"Hey, what times did Zatanna says the party would be?"
"She sent a text saying it's Saturday at 7 and apparently it's a formal one," Crystal answered.
"You HATE dresses," Raven chuckled.
"ABSOLUTELY DESPISE is the right term," she corrected.
"So I suppose it's gonna be hard for you to get us and yourself formal Wear?" Raven inquired.
"Actually, it's gonna be super easy, barely an inconvenience," Crystal quipped.
"Oh, really?" Beast Boy asked, raising an eyebrow.
"Did you just quip Pitch meeting guy?!" Cyborg asked enthusiastically suddenly appearing in the kitchen.
Crystal grinned widely.
"Who's Pitch meeting guy?" Beast Boy asked.
"Oh, you're gonna love him!" Cyborg stood next to his best friend and showed him the Spiderman: Into the spider verse pitch meeting.
In a few minutes, Beast Boy and Cyborg were both laughing while Crystal smiled widely in amusement.
Raven rolled her eyes.
After Cyborg was done with Beast Boy, he showed her the Coraline pitch meeting.
"Oh my goodness!" she exclaimed, trying to suppress a laugh.
She finally succumbed when Ryan George said the iconic lines to the fact that it was actually easy for Coraline to find the eyeballs in the huge other world.
"Ok, you win," she conceded.
They snapped up at the sound of something breaking.
Crystal turned off the stove and the gang dashed out.
"I am sick of you and you ALWAYS PICKING FIGHTS ALL THE TIME!"
"I am the one always picking the fights? Wow, the really? I only talk to you to resolve how you do not respect the me!"
Robin and Starfire were completely unaware that the others were watching.
"You say that all the time, everyday. It's a broken record now. You know I loved and respect you."
"That is the biggest of the lies. Right from the beginning it has always been about the sex to you."
"Oh, and it hasn't been about that to you? Always starting fights so we can have hard and rough sex."
"That's never the what it's about!"
"Then what's it about Starfire?!" he yelled in frustration and pushed another of the lamps to the floor, breaking it.
"Ok, that's enough!" Crystal said, standing in between them.
"Tell that to Starfire," Robin spat.
"It should be the you she should be telling the that to," Starfire returned with a yell.
"And I'm supposed to be the childish one..."
"ENOUGH!" Crystal let lose her powers suddenly and the couple flew to the opposite sides of the room and landed painfully.
"Apologies but you two deserve that," Crystal said.
Robin and Starfire picked themselves up slowly. Robin holding his head and Starfire holding her arm whilst glaring at each other silently.
"If you two don't behave, that landing is gonna be from the top of Mount Everest," she warned.
"Now both of you, sit down with us let's discuss this," Cyborg stated.
"Oh, the no. I am not the sitting on the same chair with Robin," Starfire said, folding her hands stubbornly.
"I didn't want to sit with you and your disgusting hygiene either," Robin returned.
Before any of the team could say "wow", Starfire had blasted Robin with her bolts.
Robin, though bruised, lunged at her with his bo staff before Beast Boy or Cyborg could catch him and hit her so hard, her dislocated arm broke.
Before they could inflict any further damage on each other, Raven held them up with her powers and rapidly healed them.
Crystal materialized a couch opposite the usual one as Raven sat them down on the opposite seats. Crystal cast a spell that shut off Starfire's powers and made Robin lose his fighting abilities temporarily.
"Robin... Star... This isn't likes you guys," Beast Boy finally spoke up, he was teary and he wiped the tears from his eyes.
The rest sat down. Cyborg and Beast Boy sat with Starfire while Raven and Crystal sat with Robin.
"Let me start by asking how the fuck the both of you did this for two years under our noses. How did we not hear you fighting?" Crystal asked.
"All we heard was the aggressive sex but never the fighting," Raven added.
"The fighting was never really the loud..."
"I stole one of Raven's spell books and cast a strong barrier proof spell over mine and Star's room," Robin confessed.
The rest gasped, including Starfire.
"Oh my gosh! You've been complaining about it and we've been fighting off the Librarians of Azarath for a long time," Crystal said to the goth who was glaring at Robin, her demon eyes flashing.
"Do you have any idea what you cost me?! Where's the book?!" Raven yelled.
Robin stood up and backed away from Raven and backed away from the couch and stood by the elevator.
"You know that weird thing I have with putting stuff down my pants when I'm stealing it? So apparently I forgot the book and I jumped into the pool with it," Robin said with a shaky voice.
"I can reverse that, where's the book?" Crystal asked again.
"I threw it into the sea," Robin replied.
"YOU... WHAT?!" Raven turned into her demon form and lunged at him.
Robin had been subtly tapping the elevator button for a while but it didn't open.
It opened just then but didn't close fast enough and Raven caught him with one of her tendrils and slammed him hard onto the floor.
"DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA WHAT YOU HAVE DONE?!"
"The Azarath Librarians have strict and really dark rules about books. The book you ruined was more than what it seemed. We would have gotten Into trouble cause you two had weakened the spells with your aggressive passion but not as bad as this. We have to find even it's a piece of it... Crystal, you can do regeneration magic, right?" Raven had turned back to her usual self.
Worry echoed in her voice.
"Yes, what part did you throw it?" Crystal asked.
"Right by that little cliff," he replied, his voice barely a whisper,
"I'll come with you."
"Oh no you won't!" Raven snapped.
"You're gonna stays here and resolves your issue with Starfire cause that's what started this mess," Beast Boy added.
"Let's go!" Crystal said and stood beside Raven and they teleported out.
They appeared by the side of the small cliff.
"We'll have to enter the water," Raven said with a small shudder.
"Calm down kitty," Crystal chuckled.
She held onto Raven.
Crystal pulled them both down so they were just ghosting the water.
"Take a deep breath Raven," Crystal said softly and the half demon obeyed.
Crystal lifted her hands and crafted a bubble of water.
"Get in," she said.
"What?" Raven asked.
Crystal repeated herself.
They stepped in the bubble.
Raven held her breath and closed her eyes as Crystal submerged the bubble in water.
Raven was startled by the sound of Crystal laughing.
"You can open your eyes and breathe now Raven," she said.
Raven opened her eyes. They were under the water in the bubble but she could breathe.
"How did you...?"
"I can manipulate air near water as well," Crystal replied with a laugh.
"We should have a manual on your powers," Raven stated and Crystal guffawed.
"In summary, I have all the same powers with Elsa from Frozen and more," Crystal stated.
"You cannot create an ice mansion and cause an eternal Winter," Raven returned.
"You need to ask Titans North what happened when I had a heartbreak," the hybrid stated in low tones.
"You never talk about yourself or your relationships," Raven said.
"It's not part of the job description," Crystal returned darkly.
"I thought we're all supposed to be a family..."
"Look!" Crystal interrupted pointing to a little faint glowing fragment at the sea floor.
"Could that be the fragment of the book?" Raven wondered.
Crystal lowered the bubble and after a couple of minutes they were just ghosting the sea floor.
Suddenly Crystal shot up and removed the light in the bubble.
She had not realized or anticipated how deep they'd gotten.
"Don't move Raven," she whispered.
"What's wrong?" Raven returned in a whisper.
"It's a shark shhhh. If he finds this bubble, we're both dead," Crystal warned.
Raven was about to say something but she swallowed the words as she saw the dark looming figure in front of her just outside the bubble.
Crystal tried to slowly maneuver the bubble out of the shark's way but she had not anticipated the ripple sound and she grimaced as the shark turned in their direction.
"Raven I have to get you out of here."
"What about you?"
"Water is my element."
"No, ice is..."
"And water."
"You can't breathe under water."
"But I can manipulate it. I have to get the fragment. Do you have a soul to sacrifice if we can't get the book?"
Before Raven had the chance to counter, Crystal held her breath and left the bubble then in one strong pushed moved Raven to the top of the water.
The shark made a beeline for Crystal and she dodged it. She distracted it with a tiny whirlpool and headed down to the sea floor.
The shark had caught on to her ruse and turned it's attention back to her.
She finally grabbed the fragment.
Meanwhile, at the surface, Raven was wondering what to do. She was about to open a portal to go get Aqualad when Crystal burst out of the water and landed on the cliff gasping for air.
Raven rushed to her.
"If I ever... get an idea... like that again... slap me," Crystal stated between gulps.
"Did you get the fragment?" Raven asked.
Crystal opened her palm, Raven saw the fragment in it and sighed.
"Can you regenerate it?" Raven asked.
"Do you remember any of the spells in the book?" Crystal inquired.
"Yeah yeah I do. It's the one Robin used," Raven replied.
Raven said the spell and Crystal seemed to catch the magic and direct it at the fragment.
"redire ad normalis statu," Crystal spelt.
A bright light shone and the whole book materialized in her hands.
"Ok! That is literally the most awesome thing I've ever seen in my life!" Raven said enthusiastically.
"Let's go back and check on the madness," Crystal said.
"Can we not? Let's just breathe a little, there's too much madness," Raven said laying down.
"I agree. Let's just chillax, we deserve it," Crystal stated, closing her eyes.
"I have to hand it to Robin though," Crystal said after a while.
Raven scoffed, "How so?"
"He has no super powers yet he's constantly putting himself in dangerous situations that even people with powers wouldn't want to be in," Crystal replied.
"I admit he is very brave. But he was trained by Batman himself," Raven returned.
"I was trained by Wonder Woman herself but I wouldn't fight with Despero or Felix Faust anyday," Crystal stated and Raven smiled.
"You said Robin has no super powers," Raven said after another while.
"Yeah."
"He is super annoying."
They both shared a laugh.
They must've fallen asleep because when Crystal opened her eyes it was dark.
"Raven," Crystal called sitting up suddenly.
The half demon did not answer.
Crystal shook her softly and called her again.
Raven opened her eyes and stretched.
"Oh my gosh. We slept?! We have to go back now," the half demon said and teleported the both of them to the tower.
"Where have you two been?" Cyborg asked when they entered the kitchen.
"Regenerating a spell book," Crystal answered, offhandedly.
"Where's Robin and Starfire? Fucking I'm sure," Raven deadpanned. "Actually, no," Beast Boy said in low tones.
Crystal and Raven looked from Beast Boy to Cyborg and realized just then how sad they were.
"What happened?" Raven asked.
"Robin and Star broke up, mama," Beast Boy replied.
"What? Where are they?" Raven and Crystal asked simultaneously.
"Robin's in his room but we don't know where Star is. She left hours ago, we're starting to get worried.
"I'll go find Star. I think I might know where she is," Raven said.
"I'll handle Robin," Crystal stated.
(𝙋𝙡𝙚𝙖𝙨𝙚 𝙧𝙚𝙫𝙞𝙚𝙬)