Returning to normal

I do not own the Teen Titans or the Blues Brothers, one of the single most awesome movies of american cinema to ever grace the silver screen. Blues Brothers 2000 wasnt so bad... It has its place, even if it is just a shadow its still alright... I also dont own ANY of the songs sung this episode, got it? No suing.

Three weeks saw the titans tower returned to normal. The deep coffers of wayne-tech enterprises had repaired all damages quckly and discreetly, something Robin was gratefull for. In the meantime Things outside the tower had seemingly returned to normal as well. He smiled as he washed his face and looked up into the bathroom mirror as he got changed.

Yep, pretty normal. When the cruiser had been repaired and returned to movie condition they had had to stop Control Freak from stealing it. What else had happened? Ah, they had stopped mumbo twice, fought Lance and Kitty, stopped an infamous De Lorean from being stolen out of an automotive musem a few cities away by control freak. It seemed as if he couldnt have the cruiser, he had wished to outfit the De Lorean to go back in time for real and try winning it at the auction again, thus giving him two collectable cars. Robin laughed as he brushed his teeth. That kid never learned.

"Coming?" Ravens soft voice said from the bedroom. Robin grunted a reply. The titans had escorted a few diplomats that had recieved death threats, helped ecacuate an area after a chemical spill, and the original five (plus Jinx, for the feline appeal) made a pro-bono appearance on a commercial for the local animal shelter. Robin smiled around his toothbrush as he spit into the sink while remembering Jinx and a certain uncooperative feline staring each other down at the shooting location. It had taken 24 takes to get it right, mostly because the cat kept mauling her. Take seventeen had been his favorite.

The camera began on Jinx holding a large tabby. She opened her mouth to say something, but the cat, unprovoced latched onto Jinx's side and began to swat at her hair and ears. Jinx ran about frantically, and tripped. She came back up into camera focus holding the offending feline at arms length by the scruff of the neck in one hand and pointing it at the other. A psychotic/manic look broke out on her face and her voice cracked as she spoke. "If someone doesnt come adopt this little bastard, I'm gonna cut his head off!" The cat had let out a long, annoyed growl, expressing similar ideas for Jinx.

"Cut cut cut..."

Robin snapped himself out of the memory. Other than the incident with the cat no one had needed so much as a bandage in recent weeks. It was just like old times. Fight the criminals wearing the underpants on the outside, save the people, be nice, do good. Wrap it up with some traded banter and go home, no one gets hurt. He finished changing and looked down at himself. It was good. He affixed the last pieces of the costume and stepped out into the bedroom to be greeted by Raven. He looked up and down her form, liking what she was wearing. "Looks good on you." He told her.

"Robin." She said, in a voice as teasing as hers ever got. "Are you saying I look good in a mens three piece black suit?" Robin nodded goofily and pulled her into an embrace. Raven let him kiss her, but pushed him away before too long. They were going to be late!. A smirk tugged at the conrers of her lips. "I look good in this?"

"Yup."

"I think you have a latent attraction to John Belushi." Raven told him, and slipped from his arms as he stuttered for a response. She floated out the door, beckoning him to follow.

Robin shook his head and put on his hat and sunglasses. Making sure one last time that his suit was on just wrong enough to look the right way he followed. The noise intensified as he approached the living room. Oh yes... A true sign that normalacy had returned to Titans tower...

"Its starting!" Starfire squeeled with joy. "It has been forever since we watched the movie of the Blue Brothers who are not blue but peachy in color!"

"Its Blues Brothers Star, blues is a type of music." Cyborg wondered Idly if Starfire needing that explained to her was a sub-tradition of the main one.

"Alright guys, while its in the credits lets face a fact. We have too many people to keep changing out scenes and acting them out under the screen. Instead, I say we pair off and do the musicals. We all know the words, and It'll be fun." His idea was met with approval, and as prison guards escorted Joliet Jake out of his cell block everyone sat down to watch. Robin looked around. There were alot of new faces. Blackfire, Iana, Kali, Jinx. "You guys can have whatever songs you want, I reserve "Everybody needs somebody" for Raven and I though. The rest of the teem nodded agreeably. Robin looked to Beast Boy, catching a hint of movement. He was fiddling with something, but Robin couldnt tell what. He wished that Blackfires child would come around and Join them. Oh well, give it time.

Almost an hour into the movie Cyborg leapt into the song in the busy streets of Chicago. The titans and company found themselves slapping knees and tapping feet. It was unanimously agreed that this was a great idea. Halfway through him Kali, having figured the song out by now mirrored him, singing just a fraction of a second behind and just a few decibles quieter. The effect was outstanding. When the song ended Cyborg leaned back into the couch a little out of breath, face flushed.

"Heck yeah!" He shouted. Fives that were high were sent his way.

Starfire watched, slightly nervouse. She looked to Blackfire and nodded. Blackfire had seen this, and heard the song several times seperate from the movie enough to have memorized it by now. Blackfire nodded back to her and Starfire stood up as the brothers ordered four fried chickens and a coke, and dry toasted white bread.

"My sister and I will be performing a duet with the song 'think'." The audience paled, slightly concerned about the the volume tameranians can reach. Before anyone could affix ear plugs though the song had started!

Think (think) think (think) think (think) think (think)
You think (think) think (think) think about it
You better think (think) think about what you're trying to do to me
Yeah, think (think, think), let your mind go, let yourself be free
Let's go back, let's go back, let's go way on back when
I didn't even know you, you couldn't have been too much more than ten
I ain't no psychiatrist, I ain't no doctor with a degree
It don't take too much high IQ's to see what you're doing to me
You better think (think) think about what you're trying to do to me
Yeah, think (think, think), let your mind go, let yourself be free

Oh freedom (freedom), freedom (freedom), freedom, yeah freedom
Freedom (freedom), freedom (freedom), freedom, oh freedom

Hey, think about it
You, think about it

There ain't nothing you could ask I could answer you but I won't (I won't)
I was gonna change, but I'm not, to keep doing things I don't
Hey think about what you're trying to do to me
Baby, think, let your mind go, let yourself be free

People walking around everyday, playing games that they can score
Trying to make other people lose their minds, be careful you don't lose yours

Yeah think (think) think about what you're trying to do to me
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah (think, think), let your mind go, let yourself be free

You need me (need me) and I need you (don't you know)
Without eachother there ain't nothing people can do
Yeah yeah, think about me (what you're trying to do to me)
'Till the fall of the night, think about it right now

Oh freedom (freedom), freedom (freedom), freedom, yeah freedom
Freedom (freedom), freedom (freedom), freedom, freedom

Hey, you, think about it

There ain't nothing you could ask I could answer you but I won't (I won't)
I was gonna change, but I'm not, if you keep doing things I don't

Yeah (think) think about what you're trying to do to me
Baby, think (think, think), let your mind go, let yourself be free

You need me (need me) and I need you (don't you know)
Without eachother there ain't nothing people can do

Yeah yeah, think about me (what you're trying to do to me)
'Till the fall of the night, think about it baby
(Think about - ah me, think about - ah me, think about - ah me, think about it)
(Think about - ah me, think about - ah me, think about - ah me, think about it)
(Think about - ah me, think about - ah me, think about - ah me, think about it)
(Think about - ah me, think about - ah me, think about - ah me, think about it)
You had better stop and think before you think
Think

When the song ended Blackfire and Starfire were panting, a little slouched in front of everyone. Faces a bright red they looked at theire friends. They were met with astonished silence. They knew they had done well, there wasnt a mouth among them closed. Most chins were sitting on the floor. The silence was interupted suddenly by thunderous applause and whistling. The sisters joined hands and took a deep bow, laughing with the team.

"If the hero business doesnt work out, well we have the pipes for the music industry." Blackfire joked. Starfire nodded happily.

The general consensus was that the sisters had an amazing talent. The team had been floored by it, and heaped praise upon them through the commercial break and well into the next song by accident, so it was skipped.

Jinx moved to Starfires lap and put an arm around her. "Stick with me kid, you'll go places."

The next song up was Rawhide. Cyborg had the barritone for it, and Beast Boy backed him up. It was another good performance. "We're in the wrong business man!" Cyborg said as he sat back down. More applause followed. Cyborg felt good to be having fun, acting normally.

Minnie the Moocher was skipped, everyone anxious for Robin and Ravens debut. The two eyed each other, slightly nervous. It was time. The band on the tv was playing the real Blues Brothers onto the stage. Raven and Robin got up, mimmicking what was going on on the screen perfectly. Raven shot Robin a sideways smile and he returned it. They walked out in front and Robin helped Raven uncuff herself from a suitface and set it down. Robin backed off, and came flipping back into view right next to Raven.

Silence... But thats how it was supposed to be, they reminded themselves. After only a slight pause, Robin began.

"1...2...3...4..."

"We're so glad to see so many of you lovely people here tonight, and we would especially like to welcome all the representatives of Illinois' Law Enforcement Community who have chosen to join us here in the Palace Hotel Ballroom at this time. We do sincerely hope you'll all enjoy the show, and please remember people, that no matter who you are, and what you do to live, thrive and survive, there are still some things that make us all the same. You, me them, everybody, everybody."

"Everybody needs somebody
Everybody needs somebody to love (someone to love)
Sweetheart to miss (sweetheart to miss)
Sugar to kiss (sugar to kiss)
I need you you you
I need you you you
I need you you you In the morning
I need you you you When my soul's on fir"

"Sometimes I feel
I feel a little sad inside
When my baby mistreats me
I never never never have a place to hide
I need you"

"Sometimes I feel
I feel a little sad inside
When my baby mistreats me
I never never never have a place to hide
I need you you you
I need you you you
I need you you you
I need you you you
I need you"

At this point everyone was suprised Raven could manage a good baritone voice. Quickly, Beast Boy got up and pulled a hormonica out of his pocket. Robin realised that was what he had been fiddling with . He knelt between Raven and Robin, who had almost been distracted by this. He put it to his lips, and proceeded to whale the hell out of it. The rest of the titans were now up dancing randomly with each other.

"You know people when you do find that somebody
Hold that woman, hold that man
Love him, hold him, squeeze her, please her, hold her
Squeeze and please that person, give 'em all your love
Signify your feelings with every gentle caress
Because it's so important to have that special somebody
to hold, kiss, miss, squeeze and please"

"Everybody needs somebody
Everybody needs somebody to love
Someone to love
Sweetheart to miss
Sugar to kiss
I need you you you
I need you you you
I need you you you..."

The song ended. Robin was panting, as was Raven. The stares they sent each other told them that the evening wasnt nearly over for them. The sexual energy between them was nearly enough to manifest as sparks. Who would have thought empassioned singing together would do this? Robin groaned. There was still about a half hour left of the movie! The look on Ravens face told him she was thinking something similar, but hid it better. Jinx and Starfire got up for the next song. Robin sat down on the couch, and pulled Raven down into his lap. Soon as this movie was over he told himself, the very instant it was over, they were history...

God, having her in his lap was torture. He knew they hadnt been as good as Starfire and her sister but the energy it caused them was intoxicating. "Sorry." He whispered to Raven. "We owe them the respect to pay attention, cant quite do that like this." She smiled, nodding and moved off him. He found it easier to concentrate now.

Starfire could sense what singing together had done for Raven and Robin. She doubted Jinx could. She looked at her lover with a predatory glint in her eye. She hoped it did the same thing for them. "Ready?" She asked. Jinx snapped out of her confusion and nodded.

Come on
Oh baby don't you wanna go
Come on
Oh baby don't you wanna go
Back to that same old place
Sweet home Chicago

Come on
Baby don't you wanna go
Hidehey
Baby don't you wanna go
Back to that same old place
Oh sweet home Chicago

Well, one and one is two
Six and two is eight
Come on baby don't ya make me late
Hidehey
Baby don't you wanna go
Back to that same old place
Sweet home Chicago

Come on
Baby don't you wanna go
Back to that same old place
Sweet home Chicago

Six and three is nine
Nine and nine is eighteen
Look there brother baby and see what I've seen
Hidehey
Baby don't you wanna go
Back to that same old place
Sweet home Chicago

Oh come on
Baby don't you wanna go
Come on
Baby don't you wanna go
Back to that same old place
Sweet home Chicago

Starfires chest heaved as she took a bow with Jinx. She took the other girls hand in hers and jumped as if voltage was passing through her. Oh, the feelings she had were tremendous! What a glorious way to incite passion! She came up from the bow with Jinx, catching the look she was getting from Raven. One of the other girls eyebrows were slightly raised, as if saying "I know, right?"

Starfire, Jinx, Raven, and Robin managed to stay only long enough to see the chase all the way to the Richard J. Dailey plaza before beginning to make excuses to go to bed. They were all gone before the handcuffs were put to the brothers. Robin and Raven practically raced to the room they shared. Jinx and Starfire did the same thing. The non sexually over-charged members of the group stayed put.

Cyborg gave Blackfire a good slap on the back. She jumped a little, but relaxed when it was Cyborg grinning down at her. "Damn Blackfire, you have one helluva voice." He told her. Her face turned a little red, and only got worse when Beast Boy put his two cents in.

"Blackfire we never knew you were that good! God, it just made my whole week to hear it!" He waved his arms carefully, no as not to strike anyone accidentaly.

"Speaking of good man when did you learn to play a harp?"

"I just kinda picked it up a while ago. I normally practice while everyones out. Robin knew, he's the one who got it for me, and got me the lessons tapes. I kinda helped him brainstorm this whole thing earlier today, and decided to bring it and unvail my new tallent." He laughed nervously. He offered the harmonica up to Cyborg who took it and gave it a look over.

It was a nice piece. Instead of a cheap metal and plastic one this one was constructed with stainless steel and laquered green wood. "Its cool dude." He put it back in Beast Boys hand. He turned to Iana. "Want a lift home?"

"Sure Vick, I'd love one."

Twin Fedora hats bumped rims clumsily as Robin and Raven kissed in the hallway outside the room they shared. Robin couldnt believe how good Raven looked in the black suit with her hat skewered to one side. She was gripping the lapels of his coat furiously, and he grapped her hips and pulled her to him roughly, making sure she could feel him through the clothes. She growled into the kiss. Robin growled back, but she only chuckled in response. The kiss broke, and before Robin knew what was going on she had spun him and forced him into the wall. He 'umphed' and was silent.

"Silly." Raven said. "You know I'm the one with the teeth in this relationship."

Robin only moaned as she worked all sorts of wonderful magic up and down his colarbone with her teeth and lips. He looked over. Somehow his coat had come undone and his shirt unbuttoned. God, she was quick when she wanted to be. Her hands snaked around his chest, one under his arm, the other holding him at the collar. She tweaked his nipple and he couldnt help but let the moan out. Hell, he didnt want to. She dragged her teeth up his neck teasingly, a promise of what was to come.

"Raven..." Robin felt himself fall, and when he opened his eyes again Raven and he were on the bed. It didnt startle him in the least. She was looking down at him, her fedora now gone and her tie all askew. He reached up and started to mess with her buttons. She swat his hands away and leaned down towards him, and bit his neck. She didnt bite deep enough to draw blood, but instead massaged the sensitive area with her teeth. "Gnh!" Robin began to sag to the floor and Raven kneeled to stay with him. He blinked and suddenly they were in the room, and he was standing again. He blinked a few times, and spun around. Raven had been behind him. They grabbed each other up in a kiss, Robin pushing her back onto the bed. He broke the kiss to remove his coat and tie, and frisbeed his hat across the room. Raven followed suit.

Above her Robin hooked his fingers into her pants. He snuck his fingers into the hem of her underwear and tore that off of her as well in one fell motion. Raven let out slight cry as the cold air made contact with her skin. Then she let out another, more startled/suprised cry. She looked down the length of her body, and saw Robins head between her legs. He had managed to suprise her. She would get him back for that as soon as, "Nh!", as soon a, "Ah!", oh the hell with it he could do as he liked! The onlyy drawback of this was that he couldnt be bit in this position. She didnt even know how long he had been doing this now, but she could feel release building slowly in her. She grabbed the head board of the bed with one hand, and gently ran the other through Robins hair, guiding him to just where she needed him. Just a little mo-, "Oh!" ,re. "Rob-ha-in". She said pleadingly. Then, sudenly there were fingers inside of her. It was entiiely too much. She lost it. She could feel Robin smirking against her, which was simply obscene! Oh, how she would make him pay! She couldnt help but smirk a little herself, but for differant reasons. She knew that across the tower Starfire was in a situation very similar to her own.

Soon Robin was kissing her, and re-positioning himself. She put her arms around his neck. When had he found the time to take his clothes off again? Oh well, it didnt matter anyway. He was within her now, a bow creating soothing melodies across the strings of a violin. She drew her legs around him and applied resistance, wanting him to move just a little slower so she could properly feel each note. She knew not to call his name out, or needlessly make any noise. After all, Robin was still young, and more easilly effected by the strained voice of the opposite sex. She didnt want to cause anything to happen early. Still, there was nothing she could do when he found, and hit 'that spot'. There was nothing she could do to stay the sounds she made when he did everything perfectly, nor would she want to. Be it five minutes, or forty-five she didnt care.

He knew she wouldnt take that long, and was glad. He didnt have any confidance problems, and knew when she enjoyed what he did. Right now she wasnt enjoying it, she was loving it. He hurried in this, because he didnt always get to know what it was to come with her. Sometimes he would find release before her, and hse would bite him to bring herself over the edge, or she would find release first and bite him to take him there. Tonight, he thought, it wouldnt matter. They would look for it and find release together, or at least close to it. He brought one of her legs over his shoulder, and trailed kisses along her calf, and gave her ankle a playful nip. She let out a small yip, and her face turned redder. "Your so beautifull." He growled. Despite everything they had ever done, her cheeks always turned such a sexy shade of red when they made love. To know he had caused her porcelien skin to change like this only served to arrouse him further. With his free hand he took hers and placed it on the scar over his heart, her mark. Ravens eyes rolled back in her head, and when he withdrew his hand hers stayed where it was. He lowered his now free hand to the flesh where they became one, and searched with his thumb for his quarry. He found what he was looking for, and pulling back the hood began to thumb her there. Raven cried out his name, and he closed his eyes. It wouldnt be long now, he could feel her pulsating around him.

Raven stared up at him through heavilly lidded eyes, and decided to take the smirk off his face. She clenched around him as hard as she could and his facial features did inddeed change. A look of shock and ecstacy painted his featurs as his whole body quivered, and hers as he managed to hold out long enough for her to catch up. Robin collapsed on top of her, his world shattering in time with hers. At climax she couldnt conciously control her body, but instinct made short work of rolling over on top of him and pushing him face down into the bed. He tilted his head to the side to breathe and then she had him. He went rigid under her as she took what was hers. Not much, just a taste but the effect on him was still profound. She leaned back, smiling. "Just remember who runs things in here." She said dryly.

"Yes ma'am." And the grin on his face told her that they were far from done tonight.

Blackfire opened the door to her room and instinctively ducked, letting a part of her chair sail over her head and collide with the wall across from her room. "Throwing things again?" She asked as she turned on the light. "I thought we were past that."

"I thought we were past chaining me up and locking me in differant places." Came her charges bitter reply. She laughed.

"The door was never locked. Your free to explore here, but at your age you'd do well to keep away from Robin and Jinx."

"What were you doing? What are you up to?" Came singrifiths suspicious voice.

"I watched a movie and sang with my sister." Blackfire was lauging. "Were you this difficult as a human?"

"Blood sucker."

"Cross-tosser."

"I want my life back."

"No you dont. You'll get used to this in time." Blackfire tossed him a glance before sauntering to her closet, changing into something more suitable for sleeping. "We've been over this before." She said, getting slightly frustrated. "I was mad, alright? I'd lost my marbles and they'd rolled to the four corners of the earth. It didnt help that you couldnt just stay dead." She finished what she was doing and approached him. He had stopped taking care of his hair, her favorite thing about him. "Im sorry for that. But I'm not a monster, if I was I would have left you there to your own devices, let you go mad and kill innocent people. But I didnt, did I? I'm here now because I want to help you." He was silent, for some time, just sitting in her windowsill not moving. Blackfire sighed. "Its alot to get used to, given your new strengths and weaknesses. Your old martial arts dont work in this new body, do they?"

"They relied on balance. On life force. If there were a way for me to go back, would you let me take it?" His question only earned him silence.

"I dont know."

"I've spent every waking moment thinking about it."

"What do you mean?"

"I dont seem to be good at staying dead. I think if I died, even in this form I'd go back to being me." He sighed and looked out longingly at the city.

Blackfire could certainly feel for him. She looked up at him sadly, but he wasnt looking at her to see how he was hurting her. "I've gotten really used to you."

"This isnt what I was meant for." He got down and faced her. "But if I'm honnest with myself, this experience hasnt been a total waste."

"Would you still fight us?" Blackfire asked. He gathered her up in his arms, his strength nothing compared to hers now. Blackfire let him anyway.

"Yes, but I'd only fight you." Blackfire smiled up at him. In the short span of time they had spent together he had learned just how differant she was from human women. He kissed her forehead and smilled against it. He hated her, sure, but he couldnt convince himself that that was all there was to how he felt towards her. "We could fight each other, one on one in a fair fight." Blackfire purred against him. "It would be glorious." She looked up into his eyes, looking, pleading for something.

"Do you think fighting is the only reason we would ever see each other?"

"I doubt it."

"Do-." Blackfire wrapped her arms around his waist. "I'll miss you." She was crying now, about to lose her first child. She wiped the blood from her eyes and traced it onto his lips. He wouldnt even lick it off. She made her decision. He leaned in, eyes closed to try and kiss her. She wanted badly to let him. She put her finger against his lips, stopping him. He opened his eyes, obviously confused.

"Wha-?" Was all he got out.

"My mother would never approve." She said with a sad smile on her face. She easilly disengaged from him and pushed him out her window, towards his death several hundred feet below. As he went out into the night though she could see it, a mad smile plastered across his features.

"Thanks!" She heard before he hit the ground below. She leaned out to check. He was completely lifeless on the ground below.

"We'll meet again." She said, more to herself before closing the window. She sat down on her bed, and with her face in her hands began to cry.

There, this is the sort of relationnship I have an easier time seeing blackfire in. Like it? Love it? Want to print it out onn toilet paper to show your distaste for it? Leave a review.