The thug with the gun wasn't aware of the disappearance of his comrades until it was too late. His gun had started to heat up and disassemble in his hands. He turned around with wide eyes just before a heel met his jaw and knocked him out. Raven stood over the unconscious body while Nightwing helped the hostages to their feet and asked them if they were all right. The purple-clad girl looked around, making sure she hadn't missed any details or hostiles, and back at Nightwing, who was still comforting the scientists.

"Nightwing," she called, and the acrobat turned to her. She continued, "Remember that we have to deal with Harley. I can't sense her nearby, so we have to move quickly to find her again."

"Right you are, Raven," replied the raven-haired acrobat with a nod. He turned to the scientists and announced, "We'll take you to safety. Stay out of here for an hour or so before resuming your work. Don't worry; we'll handle the one who did this to you."

Raven quietly opened a portal that led to the outside of the ACE building, and the scientists expressed their gratitude while passing through it. Finally, Nightwing and Raven were left alone in the room. The girl looked at her companion.

"Well?" Raven extended her hand. "Phone?"

"We gotta chase Harley, Rae," Nightwing reminded the purple-haired girl, "and you wanna erase my pics? What the hell? Priorities!"

"I was doing my job and you were taking selfies with my sleeping body, Grayson."

"Touché," Grayson said, defeated. "I'm sorry I didn't ask for permission… It's just that you're so cute when you're asleep…"

"I'll pretend I didn't hear that," said the girl while her cheeks turned red and a shadow blasted through a nearby wall. Her hand was still extended. "Quit raising my hopes and gimme your phone already."

"We'll have to call Batman, though," said Nightwing, still not relinquishing his phone. "While you erase the pics, Harley will get away."

"You should've thought of that, you moron!" Raven was starting to lose her patience. Why wouldn't Dick want to give her his phone? The invasion of privacy was a fair deal for the breach of trust, so Dick had no right to complain. "Give. Me. Your. Phone."

Nightwing sighed and handed Raven his phone after unlocking it. It was the first time the girl would see through the acrobat's phone, and she wasn't sure what to expect. Was the acrobat a horny teenager, or did he have absolutely nothing in his phone that wasn't business? She was surprised to see herself in the wallpaper, and Dick started fidgeting where he was standing. What did he not want her to find? She opened his photo album and was surprised at the amount of pictures he'd taken with her, including the one where she'd finally opened her eyes. The first few he had taken without any graffiti on her face. Following, he had drawn the blush marks and took three photos in which he was softly kissing her cheek. Finally, there were the two photos of them that she had caught him taking. Besides those, there were many pictures of Raven, both in costume and without it. Raven couldn't feel anything other than the heat of embarrassment, and he couldn't hear Nightwing calling out to her until she was done sending the pictures to her phone and erasing them from Dick's.

"What the hell is it, Grayson?" she asked, once she noticed the acrobat's calling. "You gonna embarrass me further? Do you have a joke with West or Caldur that concerns me?"

"You've destroyed all of the walls in this room and you want me to answer?" said Grayson, who seemed to still be cowering from Raven's powers, which had gotten out of control.

"I expect you to answer because you're being a total douche with me!"

"What?! How the hell am I being a douche?!" Nightwing's eyes widened at her accusation.

"You pretend to like me and raise my hopes for a chance with you when we all know I'll never be your girlfriend!"

"Raven, have you been reading shitty novels again? Why the hell would you say that?"

"Because I like you a lot!"

"Well, great, cause I like you too!" Grayson rolled sideways to avoid a black tendril that lunged to attack him while he said this. Raven and her shadows suddenly stopped.

"Wait, what?" she asked, stunned.

"I said that I like you too, Raven!" said Nightwing. "Can we talk about this later? We need to catch Harley!"

"No! You've been stalling too much, Nightwing!" said Raven, her shadow starting to move menacingly. "Since when have you liked me?"

"A few months now, but we need to move!" Nightwing approached her and grabbed her by the shoulders. "Lives might be in danger!"

Raven took a few deep breaths, calming herself and her powers down. She looked back up at Grayson and nodded slowly before opening a portal back to City Hall.

"Call Batman and tell him to handle this. We need to talk," said the purple-clad girl lowly. Nightwing nodded and walked with her to the portal and back to the secret room where Grayson had obtained his equipment and left his clothes neatly folded.

The acrobat grabbed his phone from Raven's hands and called Bruce. He quickly told his mentor a summary of the situation Harley had caused and what was left to do. The acrobat hung up and looked at Raven.

"It's done," he said. "What do you want to talk about?"

"Firstly, we need to return to the ball," said Raven austerely. She used her magic once again to change into the violet dress that Nightwing had bought her, and blushed. Nightwing nodded and quickly discarded his costume and dressed up for the ball again.

Once the couple left the secret room, they started to talk in the hallway.

"Seriously, Rae," said Dick with a slightly disappointed tone, "just because I like to help people doesn't mean I'm raising their hopes."

"I know…" replied the girl, looking down.

"I did, however, wanna spend Valentine's with you," added the young man, looking at the girl. "You're a good girl…"

"I'm not smart enough, though," said Raven, looking up at the acrobat.

"You are! But not everyone can be good at physics," chuckled Grayson, giving her that sweet smile that enamored her. "You're also generous and kind, even though you often don't show it. I can't have a smart bitch, you know."

"And by bitch you mean…?"

"Not a nice person," said Dick. "The attitude doesn't matter, though. You look cute with that snarky face of yours—hell, you always look cute…"

"You're a dork, Grayson," muttered Raven, looking away.

"Maybe," said the acrobat with a shrug, "but I kinda wanna be your dork…"

"Stop being so cheesy! It's annoying!" Raven shook her arms in annoyance, but her red cheeks showed otherwise.

"Can't help it," replied Dick with that damn smile again. "But what's your answer?"

"Depends on whether you're still gonna be an idiot even if we start dating." Raven crossed her arms and turned away.

"If you want idiots, you should talk to Jason," joked Grayson. "I prefer being a dork any day."

"You're being an idiot now, dammit!" Raven rushed at Dick and hugged him tightly. Grayson laughed and hugged her back, planting a kiss on her head because of their height difference.

The couple let go of each other and started walking back to the hall. Everyone hadn't taken their eyes off the television in the time they were doing their job, but this time the news had changed.

"Thanks to help from the Batman," said the reporter, "Police Commissioner Gordon could finally apprehend the criminal known as Harley Quinn. Her 'boyfriend' the Joker couldn't escape Arkham as Harley had planned, fortunately, so we needn't worry about him…"

"Glad to know it all ended well," said Dick, joining the crowd. "Whaddaya say we dance for a bit, Rachel?"

The purple-haired girl rolled her eyes. "You haven't finished helping with my physics homework, Grayson."

"Really?" Grayson looked confused. "I'm pretty sure we managed to finis—"

Raven pulled on Dick's tie, forcing him to bend over, and pecked a kiss on his lips. Grayson was surprised, though pleased, and he returned the kiss quickly. "Okay, that's my kinda finish," added the acrobat with a smirk.

"Don't get used to it," said Raven, looking away. "About that dance…"

Two weeks later, Rachel Roth was returning to Titans Tower, exhausted from school. Starfire and Zatanna greeted the half-demon once she entered the living room, and asked how her day went.

"I hope I aced that goddamn exam," groaned the half-demon girl, dropping her backpack next to her while she slumped into a couch next to Starfire. "If I don't, I'm gonna kill Nightwing."

"Didn't you and Dick spend the last few days studying for that exam, though?" asked Zatanna curiously. "Dick's pretty good at that stuff…"

While Raven's mind suddenly filled with memories of the dates the acrobat and she had gone on (admittedly by her request) instead of "studying," the purple-haired girl nodded and said, "Yeah, but it's kinda hard for me to understand…" She added in her mind, 'Plus I can't even study with gorgeous looking at me with that cute face of his…'

Nightwing did try to help her study, but Raven would always cut the lessons short with a kiss and taking him out to wherever either wanted to go. Raven knew that if she flunked, she'd deserve it, but she didn't want to. At that moment Nightwing entered the room, and all three girls looked at his handsome features. He waved a hand in greeting and asked Raven how it went.

"It went ok," she replied with a shrug.

"Good," replied the acrobat. "I'm glad all that studying paid off." With a wink at the purple-haired girl, he left the room and entered the kitchen.

Raven blushed. Maybe she'd require more "studying" with him, she thought with a small smirk.

finally done with this one! ;w; sorry it took me so long to finish it and sorry if this chapter is a bit shorter than you expected but hey at least we got what we wanted, no~? .w. Raven and Nightwing are finally dating~~ 3 3

(tbh i had writer's block which is why i didn't finish this chapter sooner ;-;)

I hope you liked this fanfic and don't worry~ it won't be my last DickRae fic~~ ^^ also, thank you all for the kind reviews :'D

~Humbert

ps. I'm gonna take summer classes in college *cries forever* so I won't be as active as usual for the next month and a half ;-;