My Fiction. My Blog. My Life:After braving the vast world of the internet with fanfictions, I've decided to expand my portfolio with short stories, blog posts, and snippets of my novel.
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Chapter 16Fully dressed and cleaned to the best of their ability, Gar and Raven quickly stepped out of her room. Victor had buzzed them to let them know he was still working out the details with those sending out the alert, but that they were going to be gone for a while. Gar turned to face Raven, walking backwards as they headed towards the common room. "I liked that simultaneous vibration thing going on. I could feel yours a bit when you had it in with me." He said. "Yeah, me too. I liked flipping which side got the real penetration. I don't think we've done that before." Raven kept her voice low. Though she trusted Gar to tell her if anyone was near, she still preferred to speak of such things will an even lower voice than normal. "Yeah, I don't think so." Gar smiled excitedly and turned back around as they made the last turn before the shut door to the common rooms. Raven gave his back a small smile in return. It amazed her how open she was with him about these things. And so completely shut off about others. With one last inhale in she entered the common room with Gar.
"It'll be at least an hour then, but we can do that. I would still suggest calling some others. We'll call who we can on the way over, but you might need more back up than you think." Victor said, finalizing the plans he had been discussing. Gar was already scanning the various screens full of data for anything important. But Raven was still stuck in her mind, trying to sort her emotions, and only looking at his face. Of course she had heard of women crying after sex before. It always seemed like a joke played on rom coms to laugh at the overly attached girls. If anything Raven was too unemotional in bed. But that sudden rush of joy, release, and satisfaction was overwhelming. Not to mention that realization of just how connected she allowed them to be. All in all it had to have only been five minutes since the alarm went off. But Gar was giving no indication that what happened was anything beyond normal satisfying sex. Which is how she wanted it. He still left the tower from time to time. She still needed her space. They weren't a couple. And it wasn't the time to be forming emotions, let alone merging feeling like that. So she started focusing on all the things wrong with him. His piratical jokes still irritated her, even if she saw a certain usefulness in them. He sometimes ate his cereal with his mouth open. If he was congested he would have the oddest snore that kept her up at night. He left the seat up. Most importantly he didn't like her like that. And that had to be a turn off for sure. Gar's arm brought her out of her concentration. He had pivoted her casually enough that Victor walked in front of the two, talking about the mission like he hadn't noticed she was completely spaced out. What she caught contained something about a small village and an attack. But either way, it was a distance away and she would have plenty of time to catch up on the plane. As they stepped into the elevator, Gar lightly snatched the side of her cloak enough to direct her to lean on one side with him. Consumed in typing out something on his arm, Victor didn't notice a thing. "You seem tired," Gar murmured to her. "Why don't you catch some sleep on the way there?" Though she was tired, her stubborn need to protect others kicked in to overwhelm her sinking lids. "No, I'm fine. You should though." She replied, equally quiet. With one purse of his lips she knew what he was saying. She rolled her eyes and crossed her arms like a child. "Fine." She spit out as the doors opened. It only took them fifteen minutes to finalize their attack plan. Cyborg had recently refueled his battery and didn't need to rest. So he offered to continue to call others in the area as they flew, and let Raven and Gar rest. Scooting herself down in her seat, Raven peaked out to the side at Gar. Her first reaction was an immediate desire to be able to curl up with him. He always calmed her. And in her tired state it would be well welcomed. But another emotion quickly followed the first and overwhelmed it. Denial. She just leeched on to his emotions during an intimate time and was feeling the consequences, and that was it. Thinking rationally calmed her and she managed a short nap on the thought that nothing would have to change. She was having a perfectly normal temporary reaction. By the time they got to the small village several others had beaten them there, including Jinx and Kid Flash. Jinx quickly filled them in that the ring leader of the attacking party was well beyond layers of his goons and safe. They had come to raid the village for kids of power. It wasn't the first time this had happened in the area. They usually turned up empty handed. But after the leader got his hands on his powerful adopted son and convinced him to work for him, he was assured he had found some sort of secret supply. And after that son had been killed he was more hell bent then ever to build an army of brain washed children. Screams could be heard from the right and the three new arrivals quickly went to ward off the attack. Despite Kid Flash radioing in some optimism they were surrounded as soon as they broke from the small alley way into the street. They seemed to have found one of the few larger clusters of hunters left. Cyborg and Raven were blown back first, each landing several yards away from the center on opposite sides of the fight. Gar had been quicker to avoid the shots and started on those men left in the center while Raven and Cyborg each now had their hands full with circles closing in around them. Luckily they were simple men and easily knocked over with forcefields and levitated items, but once in a while Raven would suffer a good blow to her body. After ten minutes of fighting she was finally able to at least see the path between her and Gar. He was protecting the small group of villagers the best he could till Raven and Cy worked their way back in. With only three men left, Raven figured she was close to helping Gar and was already picturing a field around the villagers to protect them. But one of the men suddenly struck a match and lit the ground on fire. Dread slammed over her as it registered that she was standing in gasoline, in the middle of a forested village. They all were. The forcefield was taken from the families and all her focus was directed on the growing ball of fire in front of her. In a purely knee jerk reaction, she threw up the field and pushed back against the three men. It worked, though she wasn't sure in that moment what was behind them. The flames leapt with dismal heights as they caught on the house the men slammed up against. Finally able to catch her breath again she inhaled deeply and reassessed the area, luckily the house she had set on fire was empty. And the only souls she could sense were the three men now trapped with the burning building. But the only thing she could do was extinguish the flames. Gar had protected her backside and Cyborg had taken out his men, running to join them. With another deep breath, Raven wrapped the field around the building and started to pull it inward, snuffing out the flames. She caught the brief flicker of Gar's eyes to the base of the building as the black walls closed in depriving the fire of oxygen. The men were already dead, they had died quickly. And they would have killed them given the chance, but no one likes to know they took a life. Gar's eyes flicked over to hers next with a quick smile, as if already formulating an explanation for her needed killing. But shots rang out behind them, distracting him. Hiding behind a shorter new field Raven watched as Gar duck from the shots before turning to knock down the attacker. The fire was already too much to handle and if she let her mind wander too much it would again grow and feed on the land. So she helplessly watched as Gar and Cyborg avoided the bullets and neared the crazed man trying to kill them. A loud wail pierced the night and Raven's blood instantly went cold. She knew what it meant, but she didn't dare look. As soon as the fire was out she was going to help Gar and Cyborg. Only a few more seconds. The wail rang out again. And Gar froze. He just froze. Raven watched in horror as she urged the fire to subside. Gar was frozen in battle. Slowly he turned his gaze behind him, exactly where she knew to avoid. He probably knew to avoid it too, but something deep down forced him to turn. Raven yelled out to him just as the little boy near her yelled out to his dead mother again. She knew whose scream he actually heard. And it wasn't hers. The man behind him had found his mark. But before he could take it, a yellow and red blur snatched him from his perch. The fire finally subsided and Raven flew to her frozen comrade. Her presense seemed to snap him from his fog and he met her with gasping breath. "Raven, his mother," he started, pushing by her numbly. "I can't." But he was already past her, walking on shaking legs. "Gar." Raven's voice rang out sharp and definite. Gar stopped and turned. "There's nothing to do." The revelation did little to help his ability to grasp the moment and his eyes darted around the scene lost about what to do next. There were no more hunters running around to attack, no more fires to put out. A jump in his arm brought Raven's focus to his side. It had been totally subconcious and he looked around unaware of the bullet wound his arm had just avoided touching. "Gar," Raven almost whispered walking up. She doubted he would really care about his own health, but still approached afraid of putting him into more shock. "Gar, you're shot." His skin was clammy to the touch and with one last look into his eyes she pulled them from the street. They reappeared in the back of their plane. The sounds of various communication channels could be heard coming from the speakers as Raven pushed Gar down onto a table. They didn't speak for several minutes. He didn't try to stop her from healing his side, but he didn't do much to help either. It was on her to move his arm out of the way or push his body to the side to pull out the bullet. The voices went over several checks. The south side of the village was clear. Now the north. Teams were safe and alive. Jinx was radioing in another casualty of an older gentleman, followed by Kid Flash summarizing the deaths and injuries of the opposing side. Raven tried to keep a mental note of everything as they spoke without straying too far from the task at hand. But a voice suddenly took her attention away. It was Dick's. They had finished their job and had been vacationing nearby. Star had landed only moments before and Dick was checking in on the status of the ring leader. He was not to be found, but all the children were. The news seemed to finally shake Gar of his fog. "I'm glad all the kids are safe." He mumbled, finally lifting his arm out of the way on his own accord. Releasing her mental grasp on his appendage, Raven nodded and poked at the wound again. The inner muscles were fusing together but the outside still looked a little rough. "Hey," Gar said, wrapping his larger hand around hers. "I got it from here." Raven paused but didn't totally pull away. "If a starfish can regenerate a limb, I think I can handle a small chunk of flesh." With a shrug, Raven stood up and crossed her arms. She wanted to talk about it, but gave him the chance to start. "Thanks," his words were barely a whisper. Then in a much cheery voice, he pulled her in close with tentacle and said, "looks like we're all alone." The waggle of his eyebrows confirmed he was back to normal. "Gar," Raven groaned, pushing against the tentacle as it shifted back into his hand. "Gar, what happened back there?" "What?" Eyebrows arched as if he didn't know. "Oh nothing. I'm fine. But what's going to happen next is a different story." His voice dipped low and seductive as he tried to pull her close again. Raven rolled her eyes, though despite her irritation, she let out a small laugh. Going with the flow of his movements, she came in to wrap her arms around his neck. "You scared the shit out of me." She whispered against his shoulder. "Aw I didn't know you cared so much," He joked, leaning back enough to look into her eyes. But she didn't smile this time. Instead she placed her hands on either side of his face, lightly resting on his cheeks. "It was the boy, wasn't it. Him losing his mother. That was you?" Gar's face abruptly dropped. And his eyes slid down to his lap. "Yeah," he whispered. Subtly his grip on her waist tightened and Raven pulled him in for another hug. Tentatively Raven reached out to get a grasp of his emotions. He had managed to stuff them down deep moments before. But now he wasn't trying so hard to pretend they weren't real. He was actually letting himself feel them, and slowly they were going away. Raven hated to know he was feeling so low, but it gave her some sense of joy to know she could comfort him as well as he did for her. Then his emotions changed in dramatic contrast, and the hand on her hip suddenly began shoving her to the ground. Before she even hit the floor she had managed to wrap the two of them in a protective barrier. Around them, the plane came to life in a brilliant explosion of melted steel and flying glass. They tumbled a few times together, Gar keeping his body wrapped around her in a hodge podge of species, and Raven encasing them in darkness. Finally he started to unwind and she knew it was safe to uncover them. As soon as she did he took off, running after someone. Raven went to push herself off the ground, but a long blade found her neck and pinned her down. "I heard you would be here." A deep voice said above her. In the smoke of the explosion she could only see up to the man's waist. The handle of the blade and the rest of the figure were obscured in a dark cloud. "Sadly it's too late for you my dear." He continued, "But there are rumors of another like you around here. I will find him and raise him to actually appreciate his demonic heritage. Unlike you." He spat out the last two words and the sword swung up from her neck, aimed to return to it's mark with a much greater force. Sticking out her hand, Raven flew the man several yards away. But in the ciaos of the ruins, she couldn't tell where he had landed. "Brillant," Raven muttered to herself. She kept her eyes peeled, constantly scanning the area around herself. Tears formed in the smoke and she tried to stifle a cough. "Rae?" Gar called a few feet away. "There's someone here." She hollered back. Slowly his face appeared in front of her. Though blurry from the tears she could see he was at much greater ease than she was. "He left. I felt the movement as he ran away. Come on, lets get out of here." They spent the next hour searching the area for the man. Partly due to fatigue, Raven irritation at herself grew as they all realized he was gone. They had figured him to be the leader, a man named Kon, and Raven had let him go. The boy he was looking for was in fact a member of the village, and the very boy that had stunned Gar so much. As they had searched, Dick had called Gar in to try and calm the boy down. And after the search had been called, Raven found him holding the sleeping child. Gar gave her a quick smile before handing the boy off to Doctor Fate, and walked over to join her. "Well, I think he'll be alright. They're sending him to Yessar." Gar explained, turning to watch the boy being taken from the village with Raven. Raven only nodded. She knew of the place, and had thought to go there herself a few times. It was a temple hidden in the valley between two tall mountains. Rumor was that it was one of the best places to learn how to meditate. The serenity and seclusion would help the child as he came to discover whatever powers he might possess. "So we didn't find him?" Gar asked, unaware of how personally she had taken it. "No," she spat out, turning on her heels to walk towards Dick's ship. "I had him, I almost had him. But I literally threw it all away." Flinging her hands out she emphasized her exasperation as they passed a cliff to their right. Gar was between her and the cliff giving noises of agreement, trying to be sympathetic without egging on her self loathing. It only registered to her as the sound of rocks thumping on canvas could be heard above her, that she had caused a chuck of the cliff to come off. Gar had sprouted wings from between his shoulder blades and was shielding her head with something resembling a dragon's wing. Quickly protecting him, she raised her eyes to meet his. He was smiling as if nothing had happened. "Sorry," she whispered. But he only shrugged, pulled his wings back in, and continued to walk. He pointed to the ship where the group was reconvening, "Looks like we'll have a full house again." Gar smiled and turned to give her a wink. And Raven smiled back. Though not at finally seeing her beloved friends again. But because of his casualness in her malfunction. She had lost herself there for a minute. "Thank you," she whispered, trying to quickly get it out before the others could hear. He gave her another charming wink. "Hey babe, you shower me with rocks, I freeze it battle because a kid cried. It's all good." Raven arched her eye brow at his apathy of almost dying. Gar's smile widened "I got your back, you got mine." He turned back with another careless shrug before Raven's smile fell. Maybe it wasn't just about the sex.
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