Chapter thirteen: Stop resisting
(A/N: Ok thirteen chapters in. If you've read this far, thank you so much. I really appreciate it cause I'm a really slow writer, I get distracted easily.
Decided to try a two parter that isn't really a two parter.
About Robin cray, I'm coming on that soon.
Also, this story has officially gone slightly non-canon. So character ages are different, the powers of some characters might also be different. They might be new villians and heroes that may not belong to the original DC universe besides Crystal off course. I'll try to keep my OCs to a bare minimum.
Also also I need chapter prompts please. Maybe a sentence or two that can serve as an idea to write a chapter and I promise I will give you a shout out.)
Crystal opened the door to Robin's room startling him.
"What the fuck, Crystal?!" he yelled covering himself completely with his blanket.
Crystal raised an eyebrow in confusion and scanned his bed with her eyes and espied a bottle of lotion by his bed side.
"Are you serious?! You just broke up with Star!" Crystal snapped in disgust.
"I've cried enough. Don't you think I deserve some relief?!"
Crystal gagged.
"That's what you get for barging into my bedroom at night."
"You boys are so disgusting."
"As if you girls don't do it too. Can you stop being a hypocrite?"
Crystal rolled her eyes.
"See! See! You know I'm right!" Robin pointed repeatedly at her to enunciate the words.
"So you're just gonna throw away two years?" she asked sitting on one of the bean bags in the room.
"Two of the worst years of my life? Yeah," he replied.
"Robin!" Crystal scolded.
"I'm for real. I was hanging on to a crush not love. I thought, you know, she was all she seemed on the outside. But when I got to be with her..."
"You were disillusioned."
Robin sighed, "yeah I was."
"I kept telling myself I've loved her since the first day..."
"After she kissed you to learn English? Robin..."
"Pretty dumb premise for love I know, you don't have to rub it in."
"But she wasn't your first kiss, was she?"
"No but it was different..."
"And sudden and forced..."
"Yeah at first but I responded..."
"She virtually raped you with her mouth."
"Crystal, please, you've made your point," Robin choked, then sat up with his back against the wall.
He tried to wipe his tears but his eyes were streaming.
She stood to go console him but he told her to stay back and he wiped his eyes.
"I'm sorry," she said.
"It's ok. I've been through worse and seeing as I'm the only Robin who isn't either dead or a villain. I've done pretty well for myself, don't you agree?" he asked with a small smile.
Sometimes Crystal went about with the slight illusion that they were all the same age and often forgot she was actually the youngest.
This was one of the moments she realized the age difference.
Sure the gap wasn't much but they were all older than she was.
She was 20, Robin and Cyborg were 23, Beast Boy and Starfire were 22 Raven was 21.
But the rest of them seemed much older than she was when she factored in how much they'd been through.
"You've done so much for yourself, Robin. You went from a side kick to your own hero. Most side kicks would agree that's next to impossible," she said.
He smiled.
"Can we discuss Batman being the worst superhero in history in terms of how the Robins ended?"
Robin laughed.
"It's a miracle he had any other Robin after you."
"I honestly don't know either."
"I finished cooking your Spaghetti for you," Robin said after a pause.
The alarm went off.
Crystal turned away as Robin dashed out of his bed and got his costume on.
When she turned back to him, he was at his computer.
"Shit," he cursed, "what is Doctor Freeze doing in Jump City?!"
"Doctor Freeze?!" Crystal repeated and she followed him to the living room.
"Titans! Doctor Freeze is attacking Jump City!"
"Now we'll need to divide ourselves into two groups. Crystal, you're with me and Beast Boy. Raven you're with Cyborg and Starfire. Raven and Crystal we'll need you to teleport us out of his ice blasts so be on high alert. Titans GO!" he ordered.
Crystal was in awe. He'd bounced back up to being their leader.
When they arrived at the scene, they met chaos.
"Doctor Freeze!" Robin called out in anger.
"Ah, Boy Wonder, took you long enough," the ice villain replied calmly and temporarily stopped his onslaught.
"You're a long way from home," Robin said in the same tone but there was a threatening layer to his voice.
"Gotham has become boring. I needed a change of scenery," Doctor Freeze stated.
Vines captured Robin and lifted him off the floor.
"A little vacation never hurt anyone, don't you agree?" Poison Ivy said revealing herself.
She suddenly screamed and Robin was released.
Crystal caught her tessen in her hand and smirked.
She'd thrown it and sliced through Ivy's tendrils.
Raven took advantage of the distraction to teleport the people to safety.
"Why you little bitch?!" Poison Ivy was infuriated.
Robin was on his feet.
"Crystal and Beast Boy you're with me, we'll take on Doctor Freeze. The rest of you handle Poison Ivy. Titans GO!"
Before Ivy could stand up to protect herself from the rest, Crystal threw her tessen again and brought Ivy to her feet then swiftly froze her.
Everyone else just stared at her.
"That's taken care of," Crystal said.
"Titans GO!"
They attacked.
Crystal realized then that she and Doctor Freeze had the same main Powers. She grimaced that freezing him wouldn't work.
Well it would if she found a way to drop him hard on his finger tips and the tips of his toes...
She had to find another plan.
"Crystal! We need you here!" Robin called whilst dodging the villain's ice bolts.
She tried to focus, to think but her mind wasn't coming to her.
By the time it did, it was too late. She blinked to focus and saw her friends as frozen popsicles on the ground.
"You're next Crystal," Doctor Freeze grinning at her.
He threw an ice bolt at her. She dodged and returned with one of her own, he ducked.
He froze the ground beneath her but she didn't slip.
They went back and forth.
"Give up, Crystal!"
"Give up first!"
She turned to check on her friends. In her brief distraction, Doctor Freeze caught her on her shoulder and knee with an ice knife.
She fell on her knees with a sharp cry.
The ice villain stood over her to deliver the final blow.
"Now comes the end of the Titans..."
He choked. His hand was bruised and scalding.
She held on to his arm and he screamed.
"You have steam powers?" he cried.
"Apparently so," she quipped and pushed him back, knocking him out with a swift kick to the temple.
She dashed to her friends.
Panic was evident in her actions.
She tried to unfreeze them normally like she used to but it didn't work. She realized then that she'd need a spell for this.
She held her head and tried to think.
"Mutare normalis ut de glacies," she spelt finally and sighed as they unfreezed.
They sat up.
Robin groaned and sat up to see Doctor Freeze a couple of feet away from him.
"What happened?" Raven asked.
"Yeah why did you freeze on us?" Beast Boy asked, "no pun intended."
"I don't know, I'm sorry,", she said and headed back to the tower alone.
Robin knocked her door two hours later.
"Go away!" she called back.
"You have not eaten, I have your food," he said calmly.
Normally she would've just yelled at anyone else at the door since her room was declared off limits but she sighed and opened the door with her powers.
"Come in," she said.
She heard him gasp in surprise from behind the door.
He'd never been in her room.
He opened the door, slowly, cautiously. Half expecting to get hit in the face or thrown backwards with magic, he stretched his face into a tight grimace.
He opened his eyes and almost dropped the tray with the food on it had Crystal not been watching and held it suspended in the air.
He'd always pictured a grim, dark room with a four poster bed like Raven's but he'd never been so wrong in his life.
The windows made the most part of the room and the curtains were parted so he could see the sky outside and apparently there was a balcony.
Three steps led up to where her bed was placed and there was a board with two lamps on either side above the bed.
The floor was off-white with chocolate lighting patterns on it. Her sheets were nude and off-white in color. The board and lamps above the bed were off-white as well.
The sofa by the window was a dark grey and white.
"This room is immaculate," Robin said finally and held on to the tray.
He walked up the steps and handed the tray to her.
"Thanks Robin, I was starving," she admitted.
He sat on the bed as she began to wolf down the meal.
After she'd eaten and gulped down the Pepsi, she placed the tray at her bedside table and sit up with her back against the wall.
"Do you want to talk about it?" Robin asked and she knew immeadiately what he meant.
She sighed, "Raven asked a question today that opened old wounds. I was trying to process my emotions and bring my mind back to the fight but I couldn't do so before Doctor Freeze hit you guys."
"What did she ask you?"
"She asked me why I never talk about my relationships and I told her it wasn't part of the job description."
"But we're all family here."
"Same thing she said."
"You've had your fair share of heartbreaks too haven't you?"
"Everyone I've ever been with only wanted me for either my powers or my body or just wanted to know how it was to date someone with demon and/or angel blood or didn't really love me at all," she replied.
"Remember when you asked about my first?" Robin asked and Crystal nodded.
"It was Zatanna," Robin revealed.
Crystal burst into laughter, "oh my gosh I needed that laugh."
She paused when she saw the serious look on his face, "You're not kidding."
"Isn't she like 40?" she asked.
"36."
"Then how...? When?"
"She and Batman dated when I became Robin. So one time when I was 13..." he paused and walked over to the windows and stood there looking out.
"One time she and Batman got into an argument. I can't remember what it was but Batman left her in the house and Alfred went after him. She was upset and crying and she yelled at me to go into my room..." he paused again and placed his right hand on the window.
"Later she came up to my room. She was slightly drunk but not enough to stagger or not know what she was doing. She was in a bathrobe. I asked her what she wanted but she didn't answer that, she only told me to relax. She came and sat behind me on bed and pulled me closer to her such that I was sitting between her legs."
Robin turned and sat on the floor, his back against the window. Crystal got up and went to sit with him.
"She put her arms around me then caressed my hair. She unbuttoned my pyjama top then she told me to sit up and she climbed astride me..."
At this point, Crystal covered her mouth in shock.
"... she kissed me and I pushed her back. I asked her what she was doing but she shushed me and told me to do as she said. 'It will be fun', 'you will enjoy every bit of it', 'don't be scared' she said over and over again. She removed her bathrobe and she only had her underwear underneath. I had not meant to but I had a boner anyway. She chuckled then took off my pyjama bottoms and gave me a blowjob. 'she's right' I thought, 'this is fun'. Then after awhile she took off her underwear and fucked me."
The horror on Crystal's face was indescribable.
"I won't lie, I enjoyed it but I remember waking up in the morning hating her and hating myself. When I confronted her about it and threatened to tell Batman, she used a spell to make me forget it. I pretended to forget and when I see her, I still pretend to. But I never have and never will," he finished.
"But despite how depressed I was with what happened, I still did my duties as a sidekick to the best of my ability. What you did today was dangerous, Crystal. When it comes to fighting villains and protecting the city, you need and must put aside your personal issues aside to do your duty."
"I just broke up with Starfire but when I heard the crime alert, I picked myself up. You need to understand that the people come first before even any of us. And you're supposed to be a team player, your actions put us in danger. Sure, you beat him and I commend you for that but if this happens again I'm going to have to bench you as a Titan until you have yourself under control."
"I'm sorry," Crystal said finally.
"I'm not angry at you, Cryssie. None of us are. If anything we are impressed that you single-handedly defeated Doctor Freeze and we want to know how," Robin stated with a smirk.
"But you blanking out in the middle of a battle is very dangerous. What if you didn't have the powers to bring us back?" he asked rhetorically, the smirk was gone.
Crystal sighed and nodded, "I understand and I will try to always get my emotions in check during a battle."
"Good. Now let's talk about how immaculate your room is!" the serious leader was gone, the youngster had returned. Crystal laughed.
"Eh, it's ok," she said with a shrug.
"Ok? OK?! Your room is the best in the tower. No wonder Beast Boy likes to sleep in here," he stated.
"Actually, Beast Boy hasn't seen this yet," she said.
"What do you mean?"
"He hasn't been in my room in three months and I used to change the decor in here every month cause I got tired. This is the longest I've ever had a particular decor and I think I've finally found my perfect decor."
"It's awesome."
"Thank you, Boy Wonder."
"Don't call me that."
Crystal laughed.
"We've never really had a conversation outside of work and food and training before. Just generic stuff. Never knew you were this fun."
"Hey! I'm fun. I'm literally the most fun person on this team!"
"Yeah, right, Robin."
"Ok fine. I'm boring."
"You're far from boring, Robin. You're just different. You're not outlandish like Beast Boy or half mature/half wacky like Cyborg or deadpan like Raven but you're fun in your own way."
"Thanks, Crystal," Robin smiled and then yawned.
"Go sleep then."
"I actually have bad insonmia when I'm depressed. Don't let this yawn fool you."
"You want me to sing you a lullaby like I used to do for Beast Boy?"
Robin looked surprised, "you'd really do that?"
"Sure, what are friends for?"
She teleported them both to her bed.
Crystal lay beside him.
"So, as team leader, you get to pick the lullaby," she said with a grin.
He closed his eyes and sighed, "How about... Into the unknown from Frozen 2?"
Crystal turned on her side to face him.
"You're joking."
"I'm not."
"That song is hard, even in a lullaby format."
"Please."
"Ok fine."
She sang it for him and at the end of it he was asleep.
She smiled and nearly laughed because his mask was still on and she wondered if he ever took it off.
Sure, only his eyes were covered but the mystery behind his identity was pretty strong.
This was a once in a lifetime opportunity to find out who he was... Dick Grayson or Damian Wayne?
He seemed most likely to be Damian Wayne because of the strong father/son relationship between him and the dark Knight.
Tim Drake and Jason Todd were villains so they were off the list.
These were the thoughts that ran through her mind as she fell asleep.
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