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[umadrobin]

Date & Time: 8/28, evening
Location: Library
Characters: [Unknown site tag]umadrobin & open!
Summary: Red X wants to find decent music. No luck.
Warnings: TBD

"Who listens to this!?" the thief hollars out, clearly irritated by what he's discovering. He's in the media section of the library, looking through their archives of music. Well... it's disappointing. Very disappointing. As in, it's mostly been censored and edited by the government.

No dirty lyrics. Nothing that can be considered 'subversive.' And a lot of the tracks have been edited to sound patriotic, if not jingoistic. A way of propaganda, obviously.

"This... isn't music!" he groans, almost exaggerating his outrage at the horrible choices of music. He's actually making quite a ruckus, given that it's a library, but the librarians clearly aren't going to try to do anything about it, except maybe call the authorities if he gets violent. Which he's strongly considering, at this point.

Dare approach?

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[feel_nevermore]

She looked up at him again, her eyes searching his. And it was as if she really could see them despite the mask. She could sense how deeply he cared for her. That brought some color to her cheeks and fierceness to her eyes. Because he was hers too. She pressed her lips against his throat and whispered: "I need you. Just as I need my team." Yes, he had become just that much important to her.

[umadrobin]

As she said that, his arms slid around her waist, holding her against him. That really did mean a lot to him; pray Robin never heard her say that, though. He sighed happily as he felt her lips against his throat, his eyes half-lidded behind his mask.

[feel_nevermore]

She wouldn't mind if Robin heard that. It was the truth. Now that she had accepted her own feelings - which was the most difficult part as far as she was concerned - she would not deny them, even in front of her teammates. She kept kissing the thief's throat, slowly starting to nip and suck the flesh. Clearly intent on leaving a hickey on his skin. To mark him as hers.

[umadrobin]

He only smirked as he felt her begin working on his neck like that. His hand moved down to her upper thigh, gently kneading the bare flesh through her cloak. If she wanted to mark him like that, he was only too happy to let her.

[feel_nevermore]

His touch on her leg was all the reassurance she needed that he enjoyed what she did to him. One of her hand was wrapped around his neck as she kept nipping at the flesh. Her other hand came up to clutch his suit. When she was done, she licked the newly formed hickey and leaned her head against his shoulder. She was smiling, just a bit. "It looks well on you."

[umadrobin]

"Doesn't everything?" It was a little sore, as hickeys always are when they first form. After all, they were bruises. Leaning into her a bit more, he stays quiet for now. He just wanted to enjoy this moment.

[feel_nevermore]

A sarcastic reply came spontaneously to her mind, by force of the habit. But she didn't say it out loud. She just snorted softly. She was learning to be sweeter to him, at least sometimes. Besides she felt him cuddle a bit more against her and she didn't want to ruin the moment. She closed her eyes, taking in his scent. She still had the taste of his skin on the tip of her tongue.

[umadrobin]

The music had just shifted to a suggestive song, but still oddly cliche. He scoffed. "Well, I guess to them, this is edgy," he commented, his cheek leaning against the top of her head, taking in the scent of her shampoo. Raven used girly-smelling shampoo. Who knew?

His finger traced patterns on her stomach, taking in the scenery. "You still don't expect me to dance, do you?"

[feel_nevermore]

Raven only started to pay attention to the song lyrics when he mentioned them. And she snorted lightly. "Tch. Probably, yes." It was indeed quite cliche but she liked it quite well.

Her eyes closed as his fingers danced over her stomach. He was starting to take up the same habit as her, it seemed. But she wasn't about to complain about it. She smirked at his question. "It hasn't even crossed my mind."

Failtag. :(

[umadrobin]

"That a yes, or a no?" he asked, his finger tracing a circle over her navel. He leaned in to kiss her forehead, just below the chakra.

[feel_nevermore]

She had thought he was just joking or teasing her when he first asked if she wanted him to dance. So when he asked again, she quirked a quizzical eyebrow. "Is this an invitation?" Seeing Raven dance would be a first for the bartender and any of the other people used to coming to that club. She closed her eyes as he kissed her forehead. "...I don't dance."

[umadrobin]

It would be hard to overexaggerate Red X's reaction to that revelation. "You don't?" he asked. "Phew. Man. So glad to hear that! I was really not looking forward to trying to squirm out of that one."

He then relaxes back in his seat, wrapping his arm tighter around her. "Thanks, babe."

[feel_nevermore]

Raven chuckled a bit at his reaction. It seemed a bit excessive but amusingly enough it sounded a lot like the reaction Raven herself might have had in that case. "Most people would probably thik I'd be the one trying to squirm out of that one." And she did squirm a bit as he wrapped his arm tighter around her. It still felt odd for her sometimes to have someone hold her like that. As if he was afraid she'd go or that someone would take her away from him.

"You're welcome." She smirked. "The next drink's on you. And I don't want to know whether you pay for it or not as long as we don't get thrown out." See? She was trying to make efforts for him as well.

[umadrobin]

"You mean, the next drink is on someone else," he corrected, ignoring her squirming. He wasn't entirely used to this, either; sometimes he still couldn't believe he was actually dating Raven of the Teen Titans. Ironically enough, she was the first member of the Titans he harmed while fighting them; teleporting behind her shield and sweeping her legs out from under her.

But here they were. He leaned over to kiss her cheek again, his hand moving back to her stomach, resting against her. "Anything in particular you have a taste for? You're the only person in here who is drinking tea in a bar."

[feel_nevermore]

Yes, it was ironic. Back then, she had been persuaded that the thief would have killed her if Starfire hadn't stopped him in time. Also she would never have imagined he saw her that way. Nor that she could ever develop romantic feelings toward him. ...Still here they were indeed.

"Yeah, I'm special like that. You didn't know?" she joked. She had stopped squirming. He could be so sweet, she could only deny liking being in his arms for so long. "Soft drinks, fruit juices... I remember tasting wine in Adstringendum. But it's unlikely they have any good one here." Besides she wasn't legal so the bartender was not suppose to serve her alcohol. ...Even if those were war times. "Surprise me."

[umadrobin]

"You got it." And just like that, Red X turned invisible, and removed his arm from Raven's side. A few minutes would pass, and Red X would be seen at the counter again, ordering a drink that, for some reason, Red X had ordered in a non-transparent cup with a non-transparent lid, and if the bartender's expression was any indication, what Red X had ordered was a bit of a surprise.

As he returned with the drink, two people on the dancefloor were freaking out; all of a sudden, their wallets were empty. They were pickpocketed, and didn't even notice until they were done dancing. Yeah. He was that good.

"You said to surprise you," he said, sitting back down, and handing the cup to you. It was cold. "Well, surprise!"

What did he get you, Raven?

[feel_nevermore]

Raven raised a quizzical eyebrow as she watched that scene. She could tell exactly what had happened. And her superhero instincts stirred a bit at the pickpicket episode but she had said he could pay however he wanted. She wasn't going to come back on that, so she just ignored the couple on the dancefloor and turned her attention back to him.

She took the cup he was handing her. "Can I take a sip or should I guess first?" The fact that he had asked for non-transparent cup and lid wasn't lost on her, and it really intrigued her.

[umadrobin]

The pickpocketing was mostly to test her resolve, as well as his own boundaries. She had indeed said pay for it however he liked, so he blatantly committed a crime - a petty crime, granted, but a crime none the less - just to see what she'd do. He could tell she didn't approve, but... she didn't do anything about it. Curious.

"Sure, why not. It's nothing too out-of-the-ordinary." He takes a seat, and practically stares at her, looking for her reaction to the drink.

[feel_nevermore]

She lifted the cup to her lips and took a sip, expecting pretty much anything. The bartender had seemed surprised by the thief's request. And nothing 'too out-of-the-ordinary'. Could he have ordered her tea? ...Or alcohol? Wine? Or beer maybe?

[umadrobin]

Surprise - it's tea spiked with spiced rum. The thief is grinning ear to ear behind the mask, waiting to see Raven's reaction.

[feel_nevermore]

Raven frowned as she tasted the "surprise" drink he'd brought her. Tea, definitely tea and... something else. She took another small sip. She couldn't say it tasted bad, just unusual. And definitely not something she had ever tasted before. She quirked a quizzical eyebrow at the thief. "What did the bartender put into my tea?"

[umadrobin]

Raven could probably just see the grin behind Red X's mask. "It's spiked," he said, pointing out the obvious. "In our world, it's called 'Captain Morgan.' Spices rum."

[feel_nevermore]

Tea and spices, that was a mix Raven liked quite a lot. And rum was sweeter than any of the alcohol she'd tasted before. So she took yet another small sip before setting her cup down. "And how did you convince the bartender to put some 'Captain Morgan' into my tea, then?"

[umadrobin]

"Sweetheart, everyone has a price. Even bartenders." He laughs, and runs his hand along her stomach. "You like that? I thought you might. I read about that online somewhere, though it's usually with iced tea, not hot tea."

[feel_nevermore]

Raven snorted at that answer but leaned into him anyway. "Yeah. I guess most people do." But not her. At least that was what she wanted to believe.

"It's quite good, yes." Of course, she did like it. Since the major ingredient was tea.