The Living Room

[Bry]

Aly:
Babs stretched her arms above her head as she walked into the large room, just getting a glimpse of Robin's back before he left. 'Dang.' She thought as she looked longingly after him. After a moment had passed, she shook herself mentally and continued towards the couch. She plopped down and set her booted feet upon the coffee table. Today she was just dressed in her uniform. They weren't going to be sitting around all day like yesterday, so she decided not to wear the shorty-shorts and shirt today. It had attracted unwanted attention and deferred others, so she didn't know if she would do that again. At least the shirt. The shorts she would keep. Picking up the remote, she began flipping through channels.

Bry:
Raven frowned at the noise, still hovering inches above the ground in front of the window. Still, she kept her eyes closed, tried to block it out. /Azarath.... Metrione..../ Her eyes flew opened and she flipped to her feet, rounding on Babs, who sat lounging on the couch. "Do you mind?" she snapped at the other girl.

Aly:
Barbara hadn't really noticed Raven's mumbling until it stopped. Suddenly, Raven rounded on her with a /Do you mind?/ "Well, you could go... meditate... or whatever you're doing in your room. This is the only tv." She shrugged, really indifferent to whether Raven got to meditate or not. Television was the priority here

Bry:
Raven snorted. "It really isn't," she retorted, thinking of the number of televisions the team went through in a month. Somehow, things always got broken.... But she relented, saving her meditation for later, and went to sit on the couch, subconsciously sitting on Speedy's other side, away from Babs. She set her boots on the table and leaned back, closing her eyes again and listening to the babble of the tv with a sigh.

[Kenni]

This was a perfect chance to see how the two interacted with one another. Speedy's usual first call was to tease the pretty magician. "Awwh, is someone feeling a little murky 'cause they didn't get to finish their meditaaatioooon? Can I calm ya down a little, Princess?" He arighted his posture, got off the backrest, and leaned his chin on Raven's shoulder still on the side where Babs could see his face. His arms were around her shoulders. Flirting with someone in front of another girl didn't phase him much, even if that other girl was supposed to meet him later in a secret rendevouz. He was getting a real thrill out of potentially more than one girl liking him at the same time. So, it was time to tease his first choice immensely in the presence of the other and see where things would go. But really, he only wanted to be close to her genuinely.

[Aly]

Batgirl rolled her eyes at Raven and continued flipping, finding nothing interesting on. Finally, she landed on the news. Maybe they would find something to do while watching it. Movement out of the corner of her eye caused her eyes to seek it out, coming to rest on Speedy with Raven. Speedy. With Raven. It suddenly clicked. So THAT was why he was so reluctant to fall into her clutches with the flirting. But that still didn't explain why Speedy still wanted her to meet him in his room later... She narrowed her eyes at the boy before returning her gaze to the television.

Beast Boy had, in a rare moment of wisdom, stayed out of Vana and Robin's argument. Tensions were running high in the Titans Tower lately, probably brought on by the new arrivals; he sensed that they would take some getting used to before things simmered down.
He was eating some tofu waffles he had just made when Babs, Speedy, and Raven huddled together to watch some television. Always interested in the TV, BB wolfed down the last few bites of waffle and hopped on the couch the same time Robin did. Shifting into a green dog, he lay sprawled on the couch next to Raven, watching the tube with mild interest.

[Bry]

Raven turned her head with a little smirk and looked at Speedy, so close to her.... "You can try," she mumbled at him. "But you never really seem to calm me down...." No, of course not. Just the opposite. Meditation put her emotions under control and then the archer went and brought them all back to the surface again. A lot of good THAT did.... "Why? What were you thinking?"

[Kenni]

"You're right, I'm a thrilling adventure. That's no good for calming down a stressed mind.."Sure, he was making a mistake or something by his actions here. Something a little more subtle would have cost him drastically less in the long-run in terms of Raven's hurt feelings, but this was all so exciting. Could he really pull off a two-timing feat with both girls so conscious of the other that his every move would be scrutinized? It wasn't going to be easy. "..but then again, I've heard excitement can be very therapeutic. Let me know later if you'd like to try my methods. I was thinking a to-die-for personal massage."Still, his main focus right now was to tease and not really make good on any promises. "Gotta do my stretches first though!"All at once he was off of her, back to his slumped over position on the cough, his cheek propped up with an elbow in the comfy couch cushion and an exploratory glance over at Babs to see how she was taking this in. He'd /just/ seen her none-too-pleased face, and that tore it; she must have /some/ real interest in him then if his actions had been the cause of that just then. What had begun as a simple want to be close to Raven had now turned into an experiment. If Babs still showed up later at his room, he'd know she was either serious about him or seriously going to wallop him a good one for not mentioning his thing with Raven at all. Or well. A bit of both. He'd send her a T-communicator text about the time after they dealt with Iris' secret laboratory business.

[Aly]

Well, if Speedy was with Raven, she didn't really care. Or that's what she told herself. She was just doing this to get to Robin, right? She wished Robin were there. She also wished Robin liked her even a fraction of how much she liked him. As she bore a glare into the television, her mind reeled. She pictured how they would look after all of this was over. Robin sitting on the couch at her side with his head on top of hers, which would be resting on his shoulder, her hand lightly placed on his fairly large bicep... Starfire would be trying to scream while being gagged and tied up in the basement... Then her mind moved to Speedy and what they would be doing later in his room. She would somehow have to drop a hint about it around Robin to make him jealous. Maybe she could say something to Speedy about it when he got back. She would just have to make sure Raven wasn't around to hear it, or she'd probably go berzerk. Babs slumped further into the couch, her arms crossed over her chest

[Bry]

Raven flushed at the mental images he'd planted in her head. She could hardly be alone like that with him.... What would it do? What would she do? If it took two hours of thinking about nothing just to erase the night the lightbulbs blew....

This would get complicated.

Absent-mindedly placing a hand on BB's puppy dog head, she stroked his fur as she tried to get a hold on her thoughts. And then Speedy glanced at Babs.

She couldn't place a finger on the reason, but something about Batgirl irked her. Perhaps it was intuition. Perhaps it was her empath nature closing in on her, warning her. Perhaps she was just being petty, liked she'd always worked so hard against. She sighed heavily, trying to sort out thoughts and get over the fact that Speedy had mentioned a personal massage at the same time.

"I'll take that into consideration," she answered him after a moment. Geez, like she could help it.

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Beast Boy released a puppy-ish sigh, his tail thumping against the couch cushions a few times in response to Raven's petting. As entertaining as the television could be, he suddenly found himself itching for action. Mayhaps it was just flea season kicking up again, but he still felt this feeling should be acted upon.
Licking Raven's hand in doggy gratitude, BB hopped off the couch and loped out of the living room. Once out of the Tower, he shifted into a crow and flew off to Jump City. Robin had looked like he could use a patrol buddy.

[Kenni]

"I'm not runnin' a 9-5 here so don't consider too long, Princess. " he winked, calling after Raven as she fled the area. Was he laying it on a little too thick? Well, that was the price for progress. Progress in learning about this new interest of his Batgirl that was. Actually, he was bringing low the human male reputation for his actions so this was more like a price for regression. As soon as Raven was out of sight, he rubbed his neck, now a little nervous. He didn't really have anything particular planned to ask this girl to his room for to be honest. Speedy came up next to Babs and nodded his head silently towards the corridor. He held out his hand. He just wanted to have them in a private space where he could be sure of what she was telling him about these confusing new feelings. "Take my hand..there's a world I need to know." He had now been reduced to quoting Disney again. Things were not looking up.

[Aly]

Batgirl looked up at Speedy with an aprehensive look on her face. He had just been full-out flirting with Raven a minute ago and he still thought their deal was on? Were her feelings for Speedy really just made up? She couldn't tell anymore, to be honest. Taking Speedy's hand, she stood up, laughing as he quoted Tarzan. It was actually one of her favorite movies, but he had no way of knowing that. Staying quiet, she pulled him along to his room.

[Kenni]

OoC; From here on, events took place slash continued plot-wise in Speedy's Room! You guys're free to post in here whenever you'd like and it doesn't have to be plot related. ^^ |