Thread:Silly1!/@comment-7665418-20140804040417/@comment-8475730-20140805023103

Okay, chts down. Anyway, heres what I wrote:

Raven was going towards the bathroom with a towel and a pair of large and small scissors when she heard footsteps come down the hall. Robin. He still had some frost in his hair from the snow outside and his clothes were soaked from earlier melted snow. Despite his palpable discomfort, he still went towards her. He had a relieved look on his face. "Raven? I came back from the party by a taxi. Are you okay?"

She suddenly felt very vulnerable. Instead of a laconic quip, she answered, "I told you I was fine. Where's everyone else?

"Still in Steel City. I came back by myself after I had that dream." She knew Robin could tell she knew what he was referring to. "Are you positive you're okay?"

"I told you. It's under control." She tried to move past him to the bathroom, but he stepped in front of her. Not in a way to directly block her but just enough to make her have to move again. Buying him time for another question.

"Just, if that's just your self-doubt then... he was saying some really horrible things. Do you really feel that way about yourself?"

She murmured in her most exasperated voice, "I don't want to talk about it, Robin. I really don't." She slid between him and the wall, opening the door.

"It's not true. None of us feel like that."

Without a word, she walked into the bathroom and shut the door behind her. She picked up her scissors and was about to pull back her hair. She didn't shut it completely closed, however, and Robin was standing at the doorway.

"Raven..." He said, softly. Through the mirror, he could see how sad he looked. "Why do you reject other people like that?"

She placed her hands on the cool sink and leaned her forehead against the mirror. She didn't want to look... it was heartbreaking. After a long silence, she said, "It's better for everyone if people don't get too close to me."

He walked into the bathroom, right next to her. "You saw my dream. Y-you're wondering why I'm not like that anymore, aren't you? I mean, I could feel you." Robin leaned against the wall, holding a hand to his forehead. "I let her down. Remember when I didn't show up on weekends for all that time? Stephanie replaced me after my father made me swear never to do this again. But I thought she was in over her head... my old team didn't care much for her and she was taking on too much risk. I tried to bring it up to her but I wasn't forceful about it. She either ignored me or asked me to not care, that she had a handle on it." Robin was quiet for a bit, letting the weight of his words sink in.

"She tried to take on a really dangerous man to prove her worth and was tortured to death. I still feel like I could've done something about it. Raven, there is no way you can ask me not to care. Because I do. I do so much it hurts."

She lifted her head off of the mirror. She found herself emboldened by his words. She always knew that if it came to it, she could share her most secret thoughts with him. It looked like it was coming to that. "Robin, what happened to you was dangerous. If my feelings went into your mind... something terrible could happen."

"I have worse memories than that. You said it was just doubt."

"It is. Slade manifested as an emotion. The way my father did, too. Didn't Cyborg and Beast Boy tell you about that?"

"They didn't."

"Well, it is that. A lot of strange things happen when you're dreaming. Your inhibitions come free." That's as close as she could hint right now.

Robin stepped closer to her, just a little bit closer than what would be reserved for mere friends. She saw Starfire enter this space often, but this was the first time Robin had done it to her. "Do you want to talk some more about it?"

It was a curious feeling, but from some place in her heart she found the courage to open up to him. To say 'yes'. She nodded and he smiled in return. But then looked closer. He saw something underneath her hood. "Is that..."

She pulled down her hood quickly. It was hot and full of static with her longer hair. The same length she had when he rescued her from Slade. She saw the shocked glimpse in his eyes and turned to face him. "Robin, please. Don't worry. It's fine. I swear that it isn't Slade."

Raven herself was taken by the almost instant acceptance on his face. "Okay." He rubbed the back of his neck. She knew the feeling. Despite the intimacy they shared, it was very hard to know where to start. But he wanted to help her. "Then... what is it? You can't tell me that was just your dark side, Raven."

"It's not just doubt. It's a collection of negative emotions."

Robin didn't seem to understand. "What about all those emotions? When they were listing off the kidnapped ones, they had a few good ones in there, too."

She sighed darkly, placing her face in her hands. He gets so close to the truth yet couldn't see it. "Oh, Robin."

He moved a little bit closer to the girl, believing that she said something under her breath. "Mm?"

"Weren't you listening to the dream? He's right. I can't have this. Or these feelings."

"You mean love? Raven..." Comforting Starfire was a lot easier. A quick, cheesy speech about believing in yourself and always having the love of your friends would make her feel better. He had the feeling he'd be insulting her by saying something like that. But he had to say something. "You already have that."

"No, I don't. Not like I want." She saw Robin take a step back from her, from what he saw. She couldn't hide the woe and longing from her amethyst eyes. "I... real love. Affection, romance. But I can't have it."

"Stop saying that. You will have love. It doesn't matter about your powers or any of that."

She bowed her head down and shook it from side to side, her purple hair falling between her eyes. "Even without that. I won't have someone to love me. The person I want loves someone else."

Robin was speechless for the longest time. Gently, he reached over and took her hand, holding it in both of his. She looked up at him vacantly, not expecting the words to come. "No, he doesn't."

Her expression was disbelieving, but there was a small amount of light returning to her eyes. "But you are with Starfire. She wants you and you want her. I don't want you to do this out of pity for me. I'll just have to accept... this." Her voice sounded bitter. Raven thought she had pushed the heartsickness from with Malchior out of her mind and found it was returning.

"Raven, I don't want Starfire. I mean, I do, since she's a good friend, but I don't feel the same way about her I do about you. The dreams... I'd never feel comfortable sharing that part about myself with her. And your own dreams, I don't think it's stupid or embarrassing that you feel that way. No matter how things went, I want the dreams to continue." Robin squeezed her hand a little tighter. Her eyes locked with his, unflinching.

"I want to be closer to you, Raven. I really value our bond and our friendship... and if you do, too, I want to take it further."

She could feel her pale skin turning red. Cyborg commented on how cute she looked when she blushed; he and Starfire said that she did it more often than she realized. Robin must have thought she was cute, too, because he was smiling at her. Earnestly. She felt her heart soar.

"Robin... come to my room." Her voice was naturally melancholy, but Raven did notice how much less sad she sounded. She had the feeling that it would be like that around her new loved one from now on.

I ship Robin ad Raven, btw.

What d you think? And Ill try to get chat working.