A/N: Well, it's finally here: the end of Mistletoe! I know it's taken a while, and for that I apologize, but circumstances aren't always under my control. It's been a blast writing, and look for more of my fics in the future! And many thanks to all my reviewers! You guys are the best! Merry Christmas!
Mistletoe
Chapter 10
It was about one before Robin and Raven arrived home, completely exhausted from their night out.
Raven stumbled into the living room and collapsed onto the couch, drained of all her energy. Robin walked in after her and laughed when he saw her sprawled out over the couch, looking as if she was so depleted that she was about to lapse into a coma.
"You're that tired?" Robin asked incredulously, teasing.
"Yes," Raven said shortly, a huge yawn escaping after her curt statement. Robin laughed again.
"Oh, look," Robin said, his eye snagging on a piece of paper left lying out on the counter "The Titans left us a note. Do you want to hear it before you pass out?" he teased.
"Very funny," Raven said, a soft smile on her face. "What's it say?"
"Robin and Raven," Robin read. "It's 11pm now, and we have no idea when you'll be getting home, so instead of staying up to greet you, we left this note to greet you instead. Remember, tomorrow's Christmas! Love, Beast Boy, Starfire, and Cyborg."
"That's nice," Raven murmured quietly. Robin looked up from the note to regard Raven and smile.
Raven was lounging lazily on the couch, spread out like an eagle, her eyes half open, looking thoroughly exhausted.
Robin smiled at the half-asleep girl and lay down on the other side of the sofa. Raven glanced at him questioningly, to which Robin responded to by simply opening his arms, as if giving a hug. Raven smiled, and moved over to him, snuggling up against him warmly. Robin wrapped his arms around her tightly.
"Did you have fun?" Robin murmured, absentmindedly tracing figure eights on the small of her back.
"Mm-hmm," Raven murmured quietly against his chest, burrowing deeper.
Robin couldn't help but smile. He'd never viewed Raven as a very touchy-feely type of person, but now that he thought of it, he supposed there had never been anyone she'd wanted to touch her until now. He felt happy that she felt comfortable and trusted him enough to let him see this vulnerable side of her that no one else had really ever seen.
A soft snore escaped Raven, slightly startling Robin, who hadn't realized she'd fallen asleep. Smiling gently at the goddess entwined in his arms, Robin slipped into a peaceful sleep as well.
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"Cyborg! Time to get up!"
Cyborg sleepily opened his eyes to see Beast Boy and Starfire mere inches away from his face, grinning widely.
"Whoa! Dude!" Cyborg exclaimed, leaping backwards, drastically startled. "I understand you wanting me awake cause you want your gifts and all, but dude! Keep out of my face!"
"Yeah, yeah, whatever," Beast Boy scoffed. "Now that you're awake, let's go open presents!" Cyborg reluctantly sat up, yawning.
"You get Robin and Raven up yet? You know we're not allowed to open presents unless everyone's there," Cyborg asked, stretching.
"We went to awaken Robin and Raven from their slumber, but they were not there," Starfire told him. "We have concluded that they have already awoken and have gone to the tree of Christmas already."
Cyborg stood up. "Well, then, what are we waiting for?" he asked, grinning. "Last one to the living room's a rotten egg!"
Cyborg took off sprinting, only to soon be neck and neck with Beast Boy in the form of a cheetah moments later.
Roughly shoving Beast Boy, Cyborg gave a flying leap into the living room off of Beast Boy's head. As Cyborg crashed into the floor, he called out jauntily, "I win!"
"Dude! That is so not fair!" Beast Boy complained, stumbling into the room dizzily. "You cheat so bad!"
"So?" Cyborg smirked. "No big deal. Star's the last one anyway, so at least you're not the rotten egg."
"Good point," Beast Boy conceded.
A slight cough came from the far side of the room, and Cyborg and Beast Boy turned to see Starfire standing patiently beside the Christmas tree.
"Please," Starfire asked, "what is this egg of rottenness?"
Cyborg and Beast Boy's jaws dropped.
"How did you get here so fast?" Beast Boy demanded.
"Oh," Starfire remarked innocently. "Did I not tell you the secret of travelling faster than the speed of light? It must have been Robin I told then."
"Figures," muttered Beast Boy.
"Anyway, Star, 'rotten egg' is just a silly expression," Cyborg said. "Forget about it. Hey, where are Raven and Robin? You said they would be down here."
"We said we thought they would be down here," Beast Boy corrected. "We don't know everything."
"That much is obvious," a dry voice said from the couch. "Though I'm surprised you could think at all, Beast Boy."
The three Titans turned towards the sofa, to see Raven still curled up against a sleeping Robin, rubbing the sleep from her eyes.
"Oh, I see," Starfire said. "You and Robin slept together on the couch! That is why you were not in your beds!"
"Yes," Raven responded, as she sat up, "and not in that way," she shot at Beast Boy and Cyborg, who were sniggering at the double meaning of her words behind their hands.
"How come you're awake and Robin's not?" Beast Boy asked.
"I'm a light sleeper, and it'd take a miracle for me to sleep through all your ruckus," Raven smirked. "Robin, on the other hand, is a surprisingly deep sleeper. I doubt the Armageddon would wake him."
"Move over," Cyborg said. "I'll wake him up."
Reaching past Raven, Cyborg grabbed Robin's shoulders and roughly shook him. Raven laughed at Cyborg's dejected face when his method didn't work.
"Dude, since when do you laugh?" Beast Boy asked, stunned.
"Since now," Raven responded, scowling at him. "It was funny. Why shouldn't I laugh?" As Beast Boy opened his mouth to retort, Starfire scurried over to Robin in an abrupt change of subject.
"I will awaken our dear friend!" Starfire proclaimed.
Leaning over, Starfire put her mouth by Robin's ear, and, taking a deep breath beforehand, yelled as loudly as she could, "ROBIN!!!!!!!!" causing several things in the room to shatter from her high-pitched sound waves.
"Uh, Star?" Cyborg said cautiously. "I don't think that's working."
"It certainly worked in making my ears ring," Raven grumbled.
"Oh," Starfire said.
"Let me try," Beast Boy said, moving over to stand beside the couch.
Quickly morphing into a snake, Beast Boy slid down the neck of Robin's uniform and down his body inside his clothing.
"Beast Boy's lucky he never tried that on me," Raven said conversationally, "or his remains would be strung up on the lights by now."
Cyborg snickered, as Beast Boy slid out from Robin's pant leg, morphing back to his normal form as he went.
"Dude!" Beast Boy exclaimed. "If that can't wake him, nothing can!"
"We'll see," Raven said, smiling secretively. "My turn."
Raven leaned over and kissed Robin gently on the lips.
"Ew!" Cyborg grimaced, shielding his eyes. " I did not need to see that this early in the morning."
"Is there something wrong with kissing?" Starfire asked confusedly. She turned to glare at Beast Boy. "Beast Boy, you said there was nothing wrong with kissing last night!"
"There isn't!" Beast Boy said hurriedly. "Cyborg just doesn't want to see people kissing!"
"Oh," Starfire said. "It is a good thing Cyborg did not see us last night at the skating rink then, I suppose."
"Way too much information there, Star," Cyborg groaned.
Raven pulled back, smiling triumphantly, as Robin shifted on the couch, stretching.
"Hey guys," he yawned. "What's up?"
"Cyborg was complaining about the fact that he found out Beast Boy and I were kissing last night," Starfire informed him. "I should think he should be happy for Beast Boy and I."
"I should think so," Robin said, smiling amusedly. Raven smirked.
"Enough with the mushy stuff," Cyborg said, rolling his eyes. "There are presents to open!"
With that, Cyborg and Beast Boy dived headfirst into the pile of presents littering the area beneath the Christmas tree, while Starfire swooped after them.
Robin laughed at his teammates' antics, while Raven rolled her eyes, smiling.
"So," Robin said, kissing Raven on the forehead. "Did you sleep well last night?"
"Better than ever before," Raven admitted, smiling up at him. "Want to open your presents?"
"You bet!" Robin exclaimed, causing Raven to laugh. The two soon joined their friends in shredding the decorative wrapping paper off of their packages and scattering them all over the floor.
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Ten minutes later, the Titans could be found exclaiming happily over their gifts. Robin smiled, as he looked over his teammates, happy that they were happy as well.
Cyborg was clearly thrilled with his new digital camera, USB cables, Gamestation game, and football. Beast Boy was already intent on playing in his new hand held Tetris game, his other gifts scattered around him. Starfire was happily experimenting with her new hair ornaments and make up kit, pausing every so often to glance at herself in her new mirror and smile. Robin turned to look at Raven who was sitting across the couch from him, deeply immersed in a fantasy thriller.
"So, do you like what you got for Christmas?" Robin asked Raven teasingly. Raven looked up from her book and raised an eyebrow.
"No," Raven said sarcastically, smiling slightly despite her words. "I absolutely despise my new books, and I hate my art set. Do you like what you got?"
"Of course not," Robin returned coolly, smirking. "Why would I like my new numchucks, which I have only wanted since forever, and my new punching bag?"
Raven laughed, surprised that Robin could return her sarcasm in such a witty way.
"Seriously though," Robin said, smiling at the laughing girl. "How do you like your art set? Everyone else was getting you books, and I wanted to try something different. Do you honestly like it?"
"I love it," Raven confessed, laughter still alight in her eyes. "How did you know to get it for me? I generally keep my sketching and art a secret."
"I guessed," Robin told her, glad that he had gotten her something she liked. "I mean, it was no secret to you about what I wanted, so it was easy for you to get me something. I really did want to get you something to make this Christmas special, though. I really wanted to make you happy."
"Robin," Raven said gently, sending a smile at Robin that was so laden with happiness Robin thought his heart would burst. "I have you. I don't need anything else to be happy."
Robin couldn't help but smile at Raven's sweet words. Grabbing her arm and tugging her into his lap, Robin kissed his way up her neck to her ear, and whispered softly, "You do realize how cliché and corny that sounded?"
"Yes," Raven whispered back, smiling. "But it's true nonetheless."
Robin was so filled with emotion at that statement that he was completely rendered speechless. He had no idea how to express all she made him feel at that moment, so he did the only thing he could think of to express his emotion.
He kissed her.
He kissed her so deeply and fiercely it quite literally took her breath away, before she returned the kiss with equal fervor and passion. Robin moaned into her mouth, before losing his mind completely in the kiss, becoming oblivious to the remainder of the world.
Beast Boy and Starfire turned at the sound of Robin's moan, looked at the kissing couple, turned to look at each other, and smiled simultaneously before returning their attention to their gifts.
As Robin pulled his head away a bit for a break for air, he ran his fingers through Raven's hair, and whispered against her lips, "Merry Christmas Raven."
"Merry Christmas indeed," Raven murmured, before pinning him against the back of the couch, her lips fervently meeting his own and her tongue ruthlessly invading his mouth.
As Robin closed his eyes and lost himself in sensation, one last thought drifted across his mind before it became wonderfully blissfully blank.
This was the best Christmas of his life.
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.:sighs:. Don't you just love happy endings? Especially when they're filled with fluff? .:smiles contentedly:.
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