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"I'm sorry," he murmured and hugged her tight. She just nodded and he felt the cooling feel of calm flood his blood and sooth his frazzled nerves. |
"It's alright," she yawned and was sound asleep again. He pulled the twisted covers over them again and he stared at her for a long while. He had never had anyone do that for him. |
And it scared him how easily Raven had done it and slipped under his guard and he was letting her. |
He needed to leave! |
He just stared at her sleeping though, he didn't want to leave. |
Drawing Each Other... |
Art was Damian's forte, it was not hers'. Raven blamed Kori for the ridiculousness of this project, and Damian hadn't helped the matter. No, Damian had actually said it would be fun! Damian Wayne! Spawn of the Devil! Had actually said something would be fun! |
Raven had merely relented because Kori, and her boyfriend Roy, were so damn annoying when they wanted something. Kori and Roy could out annoy even the most stubborn of people when they set their mind to it. And they had annoyed Raven all summer, and Damian hadn't helped. |
Now it was Thanksgiving, she was halfway through the art class, and she was mortified at the midterm assignment. Draw nude! Of the opposite sex! |
Raven was embarrassed beyond belief, so much so her powers were a bit haywire. See, at twenty-two she was a virgin (and in all honesty she was probably going to die a virgin), hadn't even seen a naked guy (and given the fact most her teammates were guys and she had lived with them since she was thirteen, that was quite... |
Which brought her to where she was as she nervously walked the street of Gotham to the one guy she knew who wasn't going to be off put by her rampant emotions, and might be comfortable enough to endure a nude study. Raven was going to ask Jason Todd for this favor, and in exchange, she was never taking an art class aga... |
Now, why would she ask Jason Todd, a virtual stranger to her, to do this for her? Well, it was simple really. Dick was dating Barbara Gordon and Raven wasn't asking him because he'd say yes and Barbara would say no. She couldn't ask Tim, it was just to weird; especially since Damian would demand to see the drawing. She... |
Which brought her to Jason, who was age appropriate, comfortable enough and familiar with her powers, and able to keep his mouth shut about her embarrassment and the project in general. Damian would never know, and Raven could escape the mortification of having to face a naked stranger. |
Hesitantly she reached Jason's building to his main safe house. She hoped he was here, her empathy was ascue because of her turbulent emotions. There was a loud pop on a streetlap as a bulb shattered and Raven cursed her powers and her luck. Perhaps her father could chose now as the convient time to show up and devour ... |
She pressed the buzzer for Jason's apartment (she'd only found his safe house because she snooped through Damian's room at the Tower knowing he'd have the information). |
"What?" a gruff voice growled through the speaker. |
"It's Raven, can we talk?" she asked flatly, and as calmly as she could manage. The door buzzed and unlocked, she walked in and slowly made her way up to his apartment. She stood outside his door willing herself to knock, and for five minutes she tried to take the step forward, the sound of something shattering in an a... |
"What is it?" Jason opened the door and yawned. |
"Can I come in?" she asked. Something shattered in his apartment and she winced. "Sorry." |
"Yeah, get in," he sighed and then he locked the door behind her as he set his trap again. |
"I... I need to ask a favor of you," she said hesitantly. He nodded as he stretched and walked past her to his kitchen. "Please don't... laugh? Or tease me about it," she pleaded. |
"Speak little bird," he ordered. |
"I need to ask you to let me use you as a nude model for my art midterm!" she blurted out and the glass he had pulled down shattered just as he set it down. He blinked. |
"That's you, right?" |
"Yes, sorry," she winced again as she rubbed her temples. |
"Alright, why are you shattering stuff, you have better control than this, and what's this about an art project? I just woke up sunshine, go slow," he ordered as he rubbed his eyes. |
"I'm embarrassed, and they've been out of control for a week, I need to draw a nude guy for my mid term," she explained. |
"Don't they have a model for that?" he asked as he pulled out a kettle and started filling it. |
She gestured to the broken glass. |
"Right, and you're asking me why?" he asked. |
"Because you're the only one I know who will either laugh in my face and say nor or say yes and never make a big deal out of it," Raven answered. |
"Uh... sure," he shrugged as he pinched the bridge of his nose. |
"Thank you!" she squeaked as a picture shattered behind her. |
"When's this thing due?" he asked as he set the kettle to boil. |
"Three days from now," she muttered in disgust. She hated this project, she hadn't even started it and she hated it. |
"Kay," he yawned tiredly, it was now that she noticed the bruising on his face, and his arms. Now she felt bad about coming to him, however she was very at ease. |
The next afternoon she came over Jason was very relaxed as he settled comfortably, and selected a book to read, she noticed that all his glass things were gone and she was a bit relieved as she settled in to draw him. |
She knew her face was on fire the entire time, and Jason acted indifferent to his nudity when he talked to her. He'd talk sports, books, guns, books, movies, food, books, and ask her a few questions. She felt too embarrassed to talk, so she'd nod, hum, and the few times she did manage to talk it was in fast sentences a... |
"Thank you Jason," she finally said. |
"You owe me," he warned. |
"Whatever you want within reason," she promised. |
"Dinner and a movie," he stated and she blinked. |
"In exchange for a drawing, which I fully expect to either be destroyed or hidden away so the Bats will never see it after your midterm is completed, I want dinner and a movie," he said. |
"Alright?" she said uncertainly. |
"Good," he smiled like a cat who had just swallowed the canary and Raven was pretty sure he was up to something as she left to go home. Tomorrow she'd put the finishing touches on the drawing and be done with it never to see it again! Not that Jason was a bad specimen, quite the opposite really, but Raven didn't want t... |
Jason didn't draw, he doodled, he doodled a lot this evening as he smirked over the images of little bird's red face running through his head. |
See, one of his favorite people to doodle, when he was bored out of his mind, was Raven. And it wasn't because she was a boring person that he selected her for his doodles, it was because she was so contained. Raven's face was the ultimate poker face. And he loved drawing her micro expressions, they were challenging en... |
Today had been some of the most fun he'd had in a year. Raven sitting there all twitchy and nervous, yet composed as she drew. It was fun just watching her. Asking for dinner and a movie was improv, one hundred percent because the moment the mere suggestion had left his mouth he'd been shocked. |
Her face thought... completely worth it. The skeptical, elusive, poker faced Raven. She intrigued him, not many ever had. Also he liked her company, found her to be very beautiful, and she was interesting. All the more reason to chase her, not that he knew exactly what he was chasing just yet. But he was going to chase... |
He looked at the doodle of a blushing Raven and smirked. |
This was going to be entertaining. |
Having a Lazy Day... |
In their chosen professions, lazy days were a rarity. A real rarity. |
It was almost as rare as Arkham actually holding a prisoner. So, Jason wasn't questioning his luck at having a day off, with his girl, and laying in the morning sun on the grass, in the park with a book. It was Raven's idea for their date, a reading date as she'd called it; and he just happened to have a new novel he w... |
"We should buy groceries," Raven muttered. |
"I'm not moving," he warned her. "The moment either of us move to do something serious is the moment something will happen and I'm not putting my book down until I finish it." |
"Agreed," she replied solemnly. The best thing about dating a bookworm, and happening to be a booklover too, was that they understood the need to finish the fucking book! No one in the Bats, aside from maybe Alfred, understood the need to finish the book, and Jason liked finishing his books. |
Which was why, laying the park's grass, in Gotham (because he'd managed to coax Raven to coming to visit him in Gotham for the weekend, they'd been commuting, but usually he just went to New York where she went to school), using Raven's small back as his pillow as he read his book. |
"Your family might see us," she had argued, and since Jason knew how Bruce felt about metas and knew a demon was so much worse than a meta he'd let that argument work before. However, Dick and Kori were expecting a kid and that made every "I don't trust metas" argument Bruce had invalid. Which was why Jason had resorte... |
"Are you scared of a human Bat?" he had asked her, she was there in an hour. She'd come to prove she wasn't intimidated, just like he knew she would. And he had even cleaned up his preferred safe house for her weekend here, only to remember he didn't have food. However, today was too good of a day to go shopping and en... |
Besides, demon brat, Replacement and Agent A all knew he was dating Raven (simply because they had accidentally stumbled across their dating, at different various times), so her coming to Gotham was natural. No, he had not told Dick or Bruce, if he'd told them they'd have scared off Raven, and coaxing the pretty little... |
Dick would scare Raven off with his openness, Dick and Raven while good friends, were very different people, and Dick was an open guy who would start dragging him and Raven around on double dates and stuff and Raven would bolt. Truthfully Jason would bolt to, it'd be too much pressure for them when they were figuring t... |
As to Bruce, Bruce would pull his disapproving father routine (not that he had any fucking right to do that, at least with Jason, in his mind) and Raven would bolt, thinking she was ruining things between him and his family. Raven took family seriously and she didn't like messing with other's families. And Jason would ... |
Jason and Raven were cautious, not just about their relationship but approaching it. Honestly, it was so natural it freaked them both out, and it was precious enough that they both approached it like a carefully drawn up battle plan. It'd been this way for about a year, and slowly he found they were something steady, h... |
Fucking abandonment issues, they both had it and they were both careful with their relationship because of it. |
And getting Raven here, for a weekend, and actually having a lazy day with her... well, it was like winning the fucking lottery in his mind and he was not going to jeopardize that. So, to keep the very good, happy, peaceful, lazy day going, he was just going to lay here with his girl and read his book as she read hers'... |
"What are you two doing?" he asked. |
"Reading date," they answered. |
"Tt, ridiculous" Damian snorted. |
"If that's all you have to say, go away," Jason ordered as he again settled with Raven as his pillow and she turned her undivided attention on the book. |
"I draw here!" Damian snapped. |
"Large park, we were here first, go elsewhere," Jason warned. |
"Be nice," Raven ordered. |
He didn't reply to his girlfriend as he resumed reading. Damian was gone the next time he looked up and Jason rolled his eyes. It was Saturday, no school, but Bruce letting the little assassin out, alone into Gotham was unbelievable, mostly because Bruce didn't let them into the city alone. But it wasn't his concern, h... |
It was around noon when he felt hungry and he peeked at Raven who was using him as her pillow now. |
"Food?" he asked her. |
"Is something going to explode?" she wryly asked. |
"Fair point, we can skip lunch, I'll make a huge dinner," he agreed. This was Gotham, and it was a quiet day, the moment he moved to get them lunch at a hotdog vender or something the bank would be robbed. He shifted when Raven sat up and he used her lap as a pillow. |
"Master Jason, Master Damian said you and Miss Raven were here," Alfred appeared which had him putting his book on his chest as he blinked dumbly at the butler. |
"Uh..." Jason started. |
"Did we do something?" Raven hissed at him. |
"Not that I know of," he replied. |
"No, you didn't, but as you and Miss Raven are here I must insist you come to the Manor for dinner," Alfred said. |
"Sure," Raven answered for him. |
"You don't have food in that fridge, and if we get up something will happen to ruin our lazy day, dinner plans ensure lazy day," Raven said, never looking up from her book. |
"Clever, but you'll deal with Bruce," he warned her. |
"If nothing explodes I don't care," Raven answered. |
"Glad to see Miss Raven is forcing you to take a day off," Alfred smiled a bit. |
"Not forced," they answered. "It's just a coincidence nothing has happened." |
"I see, well, I will leave you to your lazy day, dinner is at six o'clock," Alfred said as he walked off. |
"Good book?" he asked her. |
"Excellent, yours?" |
The silence ensued, and Jason did not move as the afternoon sun beat on them in the relative safety of the tree they had settled under. |
"Wow, Damian said you two hadn't moved but I didn't think you'd be here," a voice said, sounding a amused. |
"Next time we stay at the apartment," Raven said. |
"Go away Replacement," Jason said as he turned the page of his book. "Lazy day here and Bats attract trouble, leave now." |
"See you two love birds at dinner then!" Tim laughed. |
"Any other relatives you'd like to spring on me?" Raven asked. |
"We've been here since," he looked at his phone then and noted the missed calls from Dick and Barbara, and then looked at Raven. "We've been here since eight, it's three o'clock, we're lucky that Bruce hasn't found us." |
"Mmm, reading," Raven said. He agreed as he opened his book again and resumed his story. It was nice, having lazy days, but more than that it was nice actually getting to read. |
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