Fan Fiction ❯ Going Home ❯ Chapter 11 ( Chapter 11 )

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Chapter 11

Raven paced her room tirelessly, for the third day in a row. She couldn’t sleep until she worried herself to sleep. She was still afraid that Shadow would tell him even though she had sworn she wouldn’t. If he found out he would never let her go into battle.
She also cursed her sisters sense that let her know about her pregnancy. Since it took a shorter time for the child of a demon to grow, about five months or so, it was easier to tell. If you had the right abilities that is.
A knock came at her door making her jump. She hesitantly opened the door to find Beast boy standing in front of it. She had a sudden suspicion that Shadow had told.
“Yeah?”
“You alright? You’ve been acting weird these past few days.” he walked in and followed her to her bed where they sat down. “You’ve been avoiding me lately.”
“No I haven’t.” She said a little to quickly. At the raise of an eyebrow she added. “I’ve been training nonstop with Shadow, she has to be prepared.” Raven looked away.
He turned her head back towards him and kiss her lips softly. “Would you mind if I stayed with you tonight?” he asked quietly.
She shook her head. “You can if you want.” she replied, just as quiet.
“Oh I want to.” he kissed her against and gently eased her back, not breaking the kiss until they were slightly out of breath.
He trailed a string of kisses around her neck, smiling as she emitted small mews of happiness.
“We should get some sleep.” he said, kissing her once more.
She nodded and settled back in her bed with his arms wrapped protectively around her. “Beast boy?” she said after a few minutes.
“Hmm?” he hummed, not opening his eyes.
She paused for a moment, wondering if she should tell him. Instead she changed her mind. “Never mind.” she said, getting comfortable once more.
“What?” he asked, opening his eyes.
“It’s nothing.” she muttered.
Beast boy smiled and nuzzled the back of neck, tickling her. She giggled slightly. “Tell me.”
She turned in his arms so that she faced him. “I just wanted to say that... I love you.” there, she said it.
Beast boy stared at her, surprised at her announcement. It wasn’t until she turned away, hurt, when he said anything.
“Rae, I’m sorry I...”
“You don’t have to say anything.” She whispered quietly. “I know you love Terra, I know I don’t matter.” her voice had dropped till it was inaudible, her worst fear confirmed. Tears threatened to fall from her eyes, her shoulders shook from the attempt to hold them back.
Pain tore at Beast boy’s heart. “Rae.” he said hoarsely, “look at me.”
She refused to turn around and tried to block out the sound of his voice. She wanted to disappear and never come back.
Beast boy climbed out of the bed and walked over to the other side where her face lay. When she made an attempt to turn, he caught her, his hand on her cheek making her look at him.
“Rae.” He bent to kiss her but she tried to turn away. He stopped, hurt. “I wasn’t going to say that Raven.” he made her look at him once more. “I was going to say that, I love you too.”
The pain that was in her heart eased. “You do?” she asked quietly.
“I do.” He kissed her passionately and relief swept through her whole body as his lips caressed hers. Fire stirred in her lower stomach and her thought’s traveled to what was growing there. She smiled as he got back into bed and cuddled against her.
‘Best not to tell him until after the battle.’ she thought, curling up against him and falling asleep.
~*~*~*~
Raven sat sleepily in the lounge. She and her sister had enchanted the mirrors the day before the battle so that they wouldn’t be drained like they were now. She was glad that she had changed her mind and done it that day. She was starting to get a little nervous about the upcoming battle with her father.
‘It will all be over tomorrow.’ she thought, closing her eyes. She heard a soft “plop” and someone sit next to her.
She smiled. “Hello Garfield.”
“Would you quit calling me that?” he asked, kissing her cheek.
She opened an eye and saw his red face. Grinning slightly, she closed her eyes once more. He grinned and wrapped his arms around her waist, holding her close.
“Where’s the others?” she asked sleepily.
“Cyborg and Jinx are in the garage, Robin is going through stuff in his room and I think Starfire is with him, Mammoth and Gizmo are gone somewhere into the city. I think Gizmo was looking for some more parts.”
When he didn’t get a response, he looked down and saw that she had fallen asleep. He kissed her sleeping form and cuddled while Shadow sat in the chair grinning from behind her book.
~*~*~*~
“Starfire, it’s kinda hard to read with you looking over my shoulder like that.” Robin said for the third time. She backed away and looked around Robin’s room once more. She sighed and headed for the door.
Robin turned to her and took her by the hand before she could leave. “I’m sorry Star, I’m just getting nervous about tomorrow.”
Starfire sat on the edge of his bed. “You have never worried before. Why are you now?” she asked slightly confused.
“It’s all the new people. I’m afraid that they might not be able to work together or something else would go wrong.”
Star sat looking thoughtful. “I believe that things shall be ok. We have trained much this week past.”
“I know, but sometimes things can still go wrong.” Robin put his head in his hands. “I don’t think were all going to make it out alive.”
Starfire placed a hand on her friends shoulder. “You must have faith that we will.” she knelt down before him so that she could look at him. Slightly surprised, Robin lifted his head so that he looked into her eyes.
“Star...”
She smiled and kissed his cheek, her face slightly red after her action. “Do not worry friend Robin.” she sat back on his bed, avoiding his gaze.
Robin was shocked. “Uh... Star... why did you... uh..”
“I asked friend Raven what I should do.” she said quietly, suddenly shy.
“About what?”
She fiddled with the blanket on his bed. “What one would do to show affection towards another on this planet.” She muttered, face red hot.
Robin sat next to her and turned her face towards him. “You like me?” he asked, unable to believe what she was saying.
Starfire nodded. When Raven had explained to her what she should do, she never mentioned the feelings that were crawling in her stomach at the moment.
Robin was silent for a moment then turned her face towards his. “I... like you too Star.” he said quietly. “I’ll do everything I can to protect you, I promise.”
Starfire smiled. “Shall you, as they say, ‘seal it with a kiss’?”
Robin blushed but leaned over and gave her a small, light kiss on her lips and pulled away quickly, embarrassed.
Starfire smiled mischievously which scared Robin. “What?” he asked nervously.
“Friend Raven also explained the kiss of the lips. Though that was not as she said.” Star replied.
Robin blushed again. “What did she say?” he asked, dreading the response.
Starfire was silent for a moment then she leaned closer to Robin. “She said something about being warm all over for a long time.”
Robin’s face seemed permanently red.
“Robin, what do I mean to you?” she asked.
“Uh... uh...” he stuttered as Star leaned closer to him.
“Robin,” she whispered. “Do you love me?”
His eyes grew wide. “Where... I don... I mean... uh.”
She was inches away from his face as Raven told her to be. “It’s the only was to get the truth out of them. Tell him how you really feel.” she had said.
“Because Robin.... I love you.” she closed the remaining space between their lips and kissed him fully.
She pulled away. ‘Friend Raven was right, it does feel like fire burns you on the inside.” she thought.
Robin sat, slightly dazed. He pulled himself together and stared at Star. “Do you, do you really mean that?”
She nodded, a blush rising on her cheeks. His heart swelled and he reached over, bringing her close and kissing her once more.
“I love you too Star.” he whispered as he pulled away and then returned to her sweet lips once again.
~*~*~*~
Cyborg sat at his bench tuning up his sonic cannon, making sure it was in perfect working condition. Jinx sat next to him, keeping quiet and handing him tools when he didn’t want to look away.
“There.” he said, closing the panel. “That’s done.”
Jinx smiled. “Are you nervous?”
“Me, nervous, about what?” he asked, not meeting her gaze.
Her grin grew. “About facing Slade. Robin doesn’t believe were all going to come back alive with this one.”
“Well, kinda. I mean it’s not like we haven’t faced Slade before. There’s always that risk that someone’s going to get hurt or worse.” he said, looking at her.
She nodded and looked around the garage. “You know I’m not the type of person to sit around and wait for someone to make the first move.” she grinned and looked at him.
“Yeah, I know you aren’t. It is kinda hard to wait for the battle but it can’t be helped... R..”
“I wasn’t talking about the battle.” she said quietly.
Cyborg looked slightly confused. “Then what..”
His eyes widened as she kissed his cheek. “I’ve told you how I felt before. I want to know how you feel.” she said.
“You know I feel the same way.” he muttered.
Jinx smiled. “I want to hear you say it.” she said.
“Iloveyou.” he said quickly.
She smiled and kissed him again. “Now come on you great big bucket of bolts. Let me go kick your ass at video games again.” She grabbed his arm and dragged him to the lounge. She grinned at the sight of both Raven and Beast boy sleeping together on the couch. Jinx turned on the TV but the noise didn’t stir the two. She grinned and sat down on the floor, patting the space next to her for Cyborg to join her.
They played games even after the others returned. They laughed and played games and didn’t think of the day that was to come.
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Raven and Shadow silently got ready for the battle with the others in the lounge. They prepared their minds to fight against Trigon and made sure they could access the mirrors when they weakened him.
“Sis, what about, you know what?” Shadow asked quietly.
Raven rested a hand on her stomach for a moment. “Should be fine.” she muttered, turning from her sister to Robin who was checking and rechecking his supplies. Starfire noticed this and went to his side, setting a hand on his arm and kissed his cheek. Ryand’r watched them with a scowl on his face.
Raven grinned. Star had come to her last night and told her what happened. She was thrilled for her friends and hopped that they would all be fine. Her eyes traveled to the one person that could always bring a smile to her face. Beast boy stood with his back to the others, staring out the window. She quietly walked over to him and set a hand on his shoulder.
“Are you alright?”
He didn’t looking at her. “Something just feels, wrong. I don’t know what it is though.”
She slipped an arm around his waist and leaned against him, eyes closed. “Everything’s going to be fine. Don’t worry.”
‘Then why do I have a feeling that I’m going to lose you?’ he thought, not voicing his concern.

As it neared noon, all the Titans set out for the desert. There they met up with Aqualad, and Bumblebee. Aqualad was not very happy that they had to fight in the desert and was doubtful that he could help. Since they had arrived early and waited, leaning against boulders though not letting their guards down at the same time. They didn’t have to wait long until Slade showed up.
He appeared with 40 robots, Robin quickly counted, and the demon Trigon and Brother Blood following next to him.
“Oh my, If I knew that you had so much help I would have gotten more robots to help.” he said.
Raven’s stomach lurched as Trigon’s gazed fell upon her and Shadow. He bared his teeth and Slade next to him held out his hand.
“You shall have your fun soon enough.”
Anger swelled up inside of her. She started forward and beast boy pulled her back.
“Don’t let him get to you.” he whispered.
Raven nodded and pushed her anger back down. Robin stepped forward and looked at Slade.
“So how are we going to do this?” he asked.
“How about all out brawl?” Slade said.
Robin turned to the assembled Titans. “What do you think?” he asked quietly, examining each one.
What he mostly got back were nods. His eyes fell upon Raven who also nodded. “It seems to be a good idea considering the number of robots.”
Robin turned back and nodded. “We’ll go with you on this one.”
Slade nodded once and set up his robots in a line in front of him, Trigon flexed his hands into fists and growled once more.
Raven took a deep breath and kissed Beast boy’s cheek. “Be careful.” she muttered as she gave Shadow a wave of her hand to follow her away from the other’s battle.
‘It wouldn’t be any use to the others to have to worry about him.’ Raven thought.
They set down a considerable distance away from the others and Trigon ran after them at the same time that Slade set loose his robots. Brother blood’s hands crackled with energy as he waited for the Titans to come to him.

The Titans got ready, Robin in front.
“TITANS, GO!”