Chapter 5

Reunion

The sun shines through the glass walls as we enter the main room, with my heart skipping a beat as I see the figure staring out of it. His black hair lays messy on his head with his mask covering those beautiful blue eyes. The suit shows every muscle hes built for years. I bite my lip as he turns to us, revealing his thin lips, ive kissed so many times. He notices shooting me a crooked grin. This makes the blush even more intense on my cheeks.

"Nightwing!" Starfire Flys to him, embracing him in a hug. Jealousy shoots through me and I immediately feel bare. Missing my cloak I turn from the main room heading for my private suite.

These halls are home, I carefully brush them with my hand against the wall as I walk to my room. entering my door the dust is immaculate on my furniture. I sigh walking to the windows pulling back the curtains letting the sun light my room. grabbing the empty laundry basket I pull the dust covered sheets off throwing them in. I carry them out when I run smack dab into Nightwing.

"Rich- Nightwing." I sigh, "Hard to switch from citizen to heroine again." I smile walking towards the laundry room with him in tow.

"How have you been?" he carrys a cup of coffee watching me load the washer.

"Can I be honest?" I throw the laundry soap in.

"always." He sits his cup down on the counter above the machines leaning on the cabinet.

"I cant tell if I want to bite your lip every time you throw me that smile or take that mask off." I stop realizing this is not what I meant to say. Its then I realized lust broke through. Shock registers his face as the quiet goth girl just verbally molested him. "Oh my god, I'm so sorry." I cover my face.

"Don't be." He picks my chin up as I uncover my face, bringing us face to face. Were inches apart and his breath is on my lips. He leans in closing the gap and our lips touch. My adrenaline kicks in and I'm groping his face, pushing myself onto him. His hands grip my hips, then to cup my ass, lifting me onto him. My hands fly through his hair and I bite his lip hard. A low moan escapes his mouth but were suddenly stopped when we hear a gasp. We turn to the open door to see Starfire with a basket and Beast boy behind her.

We scramble away from each other and I'm sat down. "Hey, BB good to see you" I lick my lips awkwardly as I open the cabinet grabbing cleaning supplies.

"You two are still together."

"No." Nightwing scoots past them into the hall. Hurt fills my heart as I look back at him. He turns around sensing it through the bond. But im quickly overcome with anger as I grab the supplies slamming the cabinet door and going into the hall walking past him fast. "Rae." He follows.

"Don't worry, I'm the one who said no." tears slide down my face.

"Then say yes. Rae." We stop in front of the door. "I love you."

I sigh opening my door. He follows me in as I leave it open. Sitting the supplies down I turn to him with his mask in his hands as he closes the door. "Marriage is a commitment, not a solution Dick. I don't know what to do." I sit on the bed with my head in my hands.

"I'll wait forever for you." he sits next to me rubbing my back.

"Richard, I need to tell you something." I wipe my tears away trying to avoid eye contact. "I'm-"

"Dudes! You might want to get out here!" Beastboy bangs on the door. The urgency sends us running to the door. We follow beastboy down the halls to the main room as Nightwing puts his mask on.

We enter the main room to see Jinx and Flash along with Bumblebee and Cyborg. Jinx stands with her hands bracing her back as her belly protrudes out. Flash stands talking with Cyborg lightly touching the big belly. "Wow, congradulations." Starfire looks at Bumblebee's ring.

"Hey," I smile walking towards the crowd. "Guess ive missed a lot." I hug Cyborg and turn to look at the ring. "When is the big day?"

"Next March." She gleams, "Don't worry you all are invited, and Rae you have to be a bridesmaid."

"Id be honered" I smile.

"Happiness looks good on you Rae." Cyborg smiles.

We all sit on the couch discussing how our lives have been since we last met 3 years ago. Beastboy tries not to talk much about Terra but as his wife it slips out sometimes. I cringe every time but it eases each time. Jinx and Flash will be welcoming their little girl into the world sometime in the next 3 weeks. They've already picked out her name. Lucy Marie. We talk for hours it seems like, through pizza and video games. With my laundry done and on my bed I return to my room to finish cleaning while everyone goes to their own rooms to sleep.

I'm almost done when a knock interrupts my focus. I open the door to starfire with a plastic grocery bag. She smiles lightly handing it to me. "I know it is the sore of subject, but I hope you accept my gift." Looking into the bag is a book on pregnancy and prenatals.

"Thank you Star." I smile looking at the cover of the book.

"Sleep well friend." She smiles walking away.

Closing my door I begin to pull the book out carefully examining the front. I sit the bottle of prenatals on my bed side and the book next to it. Changing into sleep shorts and a tank top, I snuggle under the clean sheets with my side lamp on beginning to read the pregnancy book. An hour or two pass and I'm overwhelmed. I close the book and sit it on the table turning the light off. I didn't expect this to happen to me ever, and now that it has, I'm overwhelmed. A baby wasn't in my plans. I sleep hard and dreamless until I feel something. I jump up to Richard crawling under the sheets with me.

"Shh, go back to sleep." He smiles snuggling me close against his bare chest. I breath in his cologne and it soothes me. "I should have came in here sooner." He rubs my back softly.

"What time is it?" I kiss his muscled chest.

"5 in the morning." He kisses my forehead.

"Its almost time to get up, your just now going to bed?" I yawn.

"Been working out. Its nice having a full gym."

"So we got interrupted earlier in our conversation." I swallow.

"What were we talking about?" he smiles.

"about our agreement for the weekend."

"Do you still just want to be just that weekend." He looks in my eyes.

"No." I kiss his lips.