Fan Fiction ❯ The Beer Hutt ❯ There has to be a morning after... ( Chapter 1 )

[ T - Teen: Not suitable for readers under 13 ]

Okay, first Titans fic, first romance fic. I'm not sure how it is. It's a Raven/Jinx pairing, featuring hot lesbians making sweet, sweet lesbian love. Just kidding, but it still has them in a romantic pairing. If you don't like Jinx/Raven pairings, well... I don't know what to tell you. I do, so here it is. Slightly OOC 'cause of beer. It'll do that to ya. Please read and review, and tell me what's good and what's bad. Puh-leez!

Also, on a different note: Has anyone out there in Cyberland heard Rent? Yes, Rent the Broadway musical. Isn't it fabulous? I recommend it to everyone, it's sad, and funny, and the singing is AMAZING! And now, moving on...

(Friday, 10:12 pm)

Raven sat by herself, slowly stirring the tea she had just bought. She liked this place, the coffee shop/bar/lounge named 'The Beer Hutt'. She herself didn't even know why. She liked to watch the people, she supposed. Watch them drinking, getting tipsier and acting more and more like idiots. She thought them foolish, but at the same time... she envied them. She didn't understand why they drank, but she wanted some of what they had, just hanging out with friends. She wished she could get along with the other Titans, but she just couldn't sit and play video games. She needed more mental stimulation than discussing who can belch the loudest or who's fart's smell the worst. She shook her head. Even Starfire and Robin could join in the debates with Beast Boy and Cyborg, but she just got zero enjoyment from it, and was tired of feigning interest.

She lowered her head to continue staring at her tea, just thinking about her home life, and wondering how she was going to get up enough courage to branch out, perhaps talk to a few people here tonight. Maybe this was a bad idea. She sighed, and was so deep in her thoughts that she did not notice a new person enter the quickly filling 'Hutt'.

Jinx entered the bar, throwing the door open and grinning broadly. She skipped (and stumbled, obviously a bit intoxicated already) to the bar and ordered a shot of Jack and a beer. She flashed her ID (which was obviously not her, but the employees of 'The Beer Hutt' really couldn't care less), gulped down the shot and grabbed her beer. As she turned around, she saw the absolute last thing she expected to see. She chuckled to herself. 'Well, well, well. What have we here...' she thought to herself. A somber (and painfully sober) looking Raven. She ordered another beer, and made her way past the groups of other patrons to Raven.

"Hiya! Long way from the Big T, heh?" Raven quickly looked up, then narrowed her eyes. Jinx's grin never faltered, however, as she sat one of the beers down in front of Raven.

"First off, why are you here? Second, no. I don't drink." She pushed the beer away, then paused, thinking. "You're not even legal to drink."

Jinx rolled her eyes. "Lighten up, chicky! Jeez! You really gotta be in constant hero mode all the time?" She pushed the beer back towards Raven. "This'll help loosen ya up. Look, I know we're enemies and shit, alright. But come on! I'm not robbin' the joint, just gonna sit here, drink my beer, and chit-chat for a little bit before leavin' again." Her grin broadened. "I'm dancin' the Dickson Street tango tonight!"

Raven's blank look urged Jinx to go on. "You know. I'm traveling down Dickson Street, hitting every bar. Man, I'm already buzzed and I just started. This is only my fifth stop!" She cackled.

"Wow. As exciting as that sounds, I came here to be alone." Raven just went back to staring at her tea, still stirring it, waiting for Jinx to leave. She was right, Raven supposed. She really wasn't doing anything illegal (except for the underage drinking thing, which was really out of Titan's jurisdiction), but Jinx wasn't exactly the kind of friend she was here to find.

"I call bullshit on that!" Jinx cried out, pointing at Raven. "Nobody comes here to be alone. Come on, gimme a chance, huh? All my little buddies are out of town on a job, so I'm here all alone." She sighed. "I'm not asking you to enjoy it, just that you pretend to. You might actually have fu-un..." She pouted her trembling lips and held eye contact with Raven. "Pleeeeeease?"

Well, she was here to make friends. And Jinx was quite persistent. May as well give her a chance; She won't go away otherwise. So, against her better judgement...

"Fine. Fine! If I drink this, will you go away?" Jinx grinned again, and nodded her head excitedly. Raven rolled her eyes and took a swig of the beer. "Ugh! Oh, Azar, this is terrible!" She squenched her face into what I like to describe as the 'Bitter Beer Face'. "Is this some sort of prank?" She glowered.

Jinx laughed, "No! People actually drink this crap! Hah!" She chugged the rest of her beer, then motioned for a waitress to come over. "Remember, I won't go away until you finish that off!"

Raven scowled, and begin slowly sipping at the putrid substance sitting before her.

(90 minutes later)

Jinx was on her sixth beer at this particular bar, and was currently laughing as Raven recounted the whole body-switching scenario from the Puppet Master ordeal. Raven herself had finished off her first beer, but had decided she didn't really want Jinx to leave. So, she ordered a second, and the a third, and finally a fourth. She had been hit hard by the alcohol about 20 minutes into the drinking, as she had never really drank before and her tolerance was loooow.

"Yeah, you shoulda seen it! Man, I think I woulda died if I'd been stuck. And the guys, I wish I'd had pictures. Admittedly, it wasn't them in there, but they looked freakin' ridic-alous. I wish I'd had a camera." Raven laughed, and Jinx followed suit. The laughing died down, and they were both silent for a moment before Raven spoke up.

"If I tell you something, you gotta promise to never tell anyone. Ever!"

"Who am I gonna tell, huh? Your Titan friends? Nooo. Gizmo or Mammoth? Hardly." Raven continued staring at her. "Fine, fine! I promise. Me no telly."

"I... kinda... checked her out..." Raven blushed.

"What?" Jinx was confused, and furrowed her brow.

"When we were switched, I... checked myself... as Starfire, out. Naked." Her face blushed even redder, while Jinx's jaw dropped.

"Duuuude!" Jinx started cackling again, and continued until tears were forming in her eyes. She got the attention of several people in the bar, which Raven was painfully aware of, but she didn't seem to notice.

"It is not funny," Raven growled.

"Like hell it's not! It's hilarious." Jinx eventually calmed down enough to speak. "I totally didn't know you were... heh heh... ya know..."

"Well, I don't really broadcast it to the world. Besides, I think Beast Boy might have a thing for me. Wouldn't want to break his poor little green heart." Jinx chuckled.

"So... what about you?" Raven ventured. The waitress had just went ahead and brought them a pitcher, which Jinx had refilled their mugs with. Over the past few beers, Jinx had taken on a new light, and Raven was actually started to find her attractive. And funny. Raven was finding herself very interested in the girl, in her bright pink hair and soft pink eyes. She grinned at her, a lustful look coming across her face.

"Oh, me? I... well, honestly, I've never really thought about it too much." Jinx herself actually had found Raven intriguing for quite some time, probably since the Hive had taken over their tower for a short while. Yeah, she was attractive and powerful, but she was a hero. Jinx wouldn't even let her mind wander in such a way, 'cause it just wouldn't happen. Heroes and villains... it just didn't work. But the way Raven was looking at her... aw, jeez. Maybe drinking with her wasn't the best idea ever. Jinx suddenly realized she had to get out. She was intoxicated, and Raven was amazingly drunk on just four and a half beers. If she didn't get out, something would happen, something that shouldn't. Something she knew Raven would regret, and she had unfortunately become very attached to her in just a short time. Ah, crap! Am I giving up some possible ass, because I have become attached to someone? A freakin' hero, no less. Dammit!

Jinx jumped up, startling Raven who nearly spilled the remainder of her fifth beer on herself. Her mouth was slightly agape, and she wore a questioning expression.

"I... gotta go... ya know, places to see, people to do. Heh heh..." Raven grabbed her arm, and looked at her pleadingly before releasing a small belch.

"Don't go! Don't leave me here alone. I'll get lonely. Pleeeeeease?" She whined. She pouted her lips this time, not quite having the trembling part down yet, using the same trick Jinx had used earlier in the night. 'No fair', thought Jinx, but there was little she could do about it now. Jinx looked longingly towards the door. She could make a run for it, and there's no way Raven could follow fast enough to keep up, not in her condition. Then she looked back at Raven, still gripping her arm, her eyes reflecting the sparkling of the Christmas lights strewn around the bar (it's not Christmas, the lights are just a permanent decoration).

"I really, really gotta go. I'm sorry Rave." Tears began to fall from Raven's eyes.

"I can't go home like this! Robin'll be so mad! I might get kicked off the team, and it'll be all your fault. All of it! You just got me all drunk just so you could leave me here, didn't you! This was your plan all along, wasn't it," tears were streaming now, and Raven's voice was getting louder. A few of the lights started popping. "You want me to get in trouble. You don't like me at all, do you? You are a big meanie!" A few shot glasses lined up along the edge of the bar, exploded, followed by their mugs and their quarter-full pitcher of beer, splattering beer all over them both, but Raven didn't seem to notice. 'Aw, crap!'

"Raven, calm down!" Raven became quiet, and things had stopped exploding, but patrons all around the bar were still looking at the two girls, mouths and eyes opened wide; even the live band had stopped to stare at Raven. Jinx looked around the bar, very aware of the eyes burning on her and Raven. "Okay, fine. I'll take you with me. Alright? We'll go back to my apartment, and you can sober up a little before you go home. Deal?" She stuck out her hand. Raven smiled broadly and hugged Jinx, completely ignoring the outstretched hand. Finally the band started back up, and people for the most part brushed off what had happened. I mean, how in the world would those two young girls have anything to do with the freakiness that just occurred. They blamed the band, who turned down their amps just in case.

Jinx wiped off her brow and led Raven towards the street, where she hailed a cab. Jinx had not paid the tab, but Raven had been to out of it to notice, or care. Once a cab finally pulled up and they crawled inside, Raven turned towards Jinx with a questioning look on her face.

"Wait, wait, wait! I can't go to the Hive! Are you on crack!" She said, quoting something she had heard Beast Boy use on occasion.

"Raven, the Hive is dead, gone, caput. I had to get an apartment. I live with Mammoth and Gizmo, but like I told you, they're out of town. They won't be back until Monday night, at the earliest."

"Oh." Raven just sat, then asked, "What happened to the Hive?"

"It's a loooong story. Ask me later when I feel up to going through it again."

"Okay," Raven mumbled, then slid right next to Jinx and interlocked her arm with hers. She then laid her head on Jinx's shoulder and promptly passed out. 'Oh, boy.'

As the cab pulled up to the apartment, Jinx shook Raven awake. "Nuh-uh, don't wanna wake up."

"Raven, we're here. Come on, wake up! Hurry." She handed the cabby a $10 bill and started shaking Raven again. "Come oooon!"

"Carry me," ordered Raven. Jinx jaw dropped, "What? No!"

"Please?"

'Dammit, she's doing it again...'

"Fine..." Jinx managed to hoist Raven into her arms, in a position like you would carry a baby. She weighed surprisingly little, but so did Jinx, who had a hell of a time carrying her up the three flights of stairs ('Damn elevator out again! Shit!') to her apartment. She layed Raven out on the couch and went to fridge to get herself another beer. She popped it open, and ventured back into the living room, where Raven was sitting up. She patted the seat next to her and smiled. Jinx looked towards the chair, then towards the couch, then towards the chair again, then, sighing, finally made her way over to Raven.

"Where's my beer?" She asked.

"Heh, you are cut off, my friend. No mas cervesa por tu."

"Hmph," then Jinx heard the fridge door open and close, and saw a beer floating through the living room and landing plop in Raven's lap.

Raven giggled, scooting right next to Jinx. She wrapped on arm around Jinx's waist, and laid her head on Jinx's shoulder once more, sighing contentedly.

Jinx just sat there, staring off into space, not really knowing quite what to do. This is most definitely not how she had envisioned her evening.

"You smell good," Raven stated out of the blue, then sat up to look Jinx in the eye. Jinx just stared at her. Suddenly, Raven closed the distance between the two of them, kissing an unsuspecting Jinx, who was too stunned to kiss back. Raven just smiled as she pulled back.

"You taste good, too," she giggled, "Like whiskey. And beer." Jinx came to her senses and finally jumped up.

"Y-y-you can't do that! You're Raven, and I'm me! What would Robin say, huh? Huh?" Sweat began to form on her brow. What the hell just happened?

'What would Gizmo and Mammoth say!' She pulled a cigarette from her pack of Marlboro's and lit it up, taking a deep drag off of it. Screw Gizmo's no smoking in the house rule. This was freakin' justified.

"Robin!" Exclaimed Raven. "You gotta call 'im, tell him I'm not coming in tonight. I can't call him, I just can't. Come on, please?"

"Hey, I said you could stay here until sober, chica. Not all night." You'd drive me crazy, what with the random kissing me and all... what the hell are you thinking, Rave?

Raven's pleading look said more than her words could have. Jinx rolled her eyes.

"Fine. What's the number?" Raven looked mock horrified.

"I can't divulge that information. You're the enemy. You might attack us with prank calls and fake pizza deliveries." A smirk pulled at the left corner of her mouth. Jinx's expression remained neutral.

"Number?"

"867-5309."

"I'm not trying to call 'Jenny', ya bum." Jinx sighed heavily. Raven laughed.

"I can't believe you got that! What a nerd." Raven sipped on her beer.

"Any second now would great."

"Fine. 555-HERO." Raven yawned.

Jinx just stared at her. "You're kidding me, right? You gotta be. No way you're serious."

"Don't believe me, just try it."

Jinx picked up the receiver and dialed 555-4376. Sure enough, Cyborg picked up.

"Titan's Tower, home of the Teen Titans, criminal exterminator extraordinaires. Cyborg speaking."

"Uh, hi. This is Jinx-kins. Uhm, Jenny Jenkins, yeah. I was just calling to tell you, uh,Raven will be staying with me tonight."

"Why didn't she call?" Cy asked suspiciously.

"Um, she's not feeling well. She's currently in the bathroom-" Jinx looked up at Raven, who mouthed the word 'puking' to her, "-pooping. Diarrhea, you know. Awful case of it, too." Raven just glared as Jinx suppressed a small grin.

Cyborg did not sound convinced. "Raven's never mentioned you. You sound familiar..."

"Look, Raven told me to call you! She gave me the number, alright! Take it up with her tomorrow." She hung up the phone before he could question her further.

She plopped on the couch, and glanced at Raven. "You so owe me." Raven sat down her beer and moved closer, crawling towards her on the couch.

"I know how I could pay you back." She had a smirk on her face and an odd twinkle in her eye.

'Not this again!' "No, Rave, no. You are too drunk to know what you're doing. I can't believe I'm saying this, but I can't take advantage of you like this." Jinx really couldn't believe she was saying it. It was what she wanted, to make sweet, sweet whoopie with the beautiful young woman sitting not two feet from her, offering herself up like candy to a five-year-old. But, alas, Jinx knew it was wrong. It didn't make her feel any better when Raven frowned and moved to the furthest part of the couch, away from Jinx.

"You don't think I'm pretty enough." A tear fell from her eye. "Fine, I don't care. Be a meanie. I'm leaving." Raven stood up, and abruptly swayed and sat back down. "Oh, my head. The room is so spinny!"

Raven tried to protest as Jinx helped Raven up and moved her to her room, but Jinx picked up the struggling Raven and somehow managed to get her into the room and onto the bed.

"Look, just sleep it off, 'kay? Everything will seem better in the morning." Raven looked up at her.

"Fine, you don't wanna kiss me. That's alright. Will you at least... you know, hold me until I fall asleep. I'm afraid of new places." Jinx could tell that she was completely full of shit, but what else could she do. If she said no, Raven would probably try to get up again, and would most likely end up hurting herself, or something in the apartment. She still hadn't forgotten what happened in the bar.

Grudgingly, she crawled into the bed with her, and Raven immediately wrapped her arm around her, and proceeded to spoon along her side, intertwining her legs with Jinx's.

"Thank you," she murmured, before placing her head on Jinx's chest and immediately passing out.

'Oh, man. What have I done this time.' Thought Jinx. She stared at the ceiling, many different thoughts running through her head, until finally sleep overtook her over an hour later.

Alrighty, I'm obviously not a regular romancey fic writer. Long time reader, first time poster. I figured I may as well get some input if I'm ever gonna improve. Please review. Any help will be much appreciated. Oh, and I am planning on making this multiple chapters. 'Til next time, this is Pookie.