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Pairing: RobRae
Rating: PG
Warnings: None really.
Disclaimer: Not mine. Unless Santa gets it for me tonight. *crosses fingers*
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7snogs and x-posted to robin_raven. Uniform- Christmas Version 2.0
Raven felt ice-cold shock and horror brush the nape of her neck like a lover’s kiss. There could be no rational explanation for the state her teammates were in.
“Wh-what’s going on?” The stammer left her lips in a rush of breath, her eyes wide with disbelief.
Four titans smiled back at her, their usual uniforms altered to match the holiday season. Each was decked with holiday cheer, from BeastBoy’s green and red theme, to Starfire’s snug ‘Santa’s little helper’ get-up, to the Santa hat perched on Cyborg’s head and Robin’s transformation from Human Traffic Light to Human Christmas Tree.
“It’s Christmas, Raven!” Robin smiled (Raven ignored the flutter in her stomach). “We thought we’d customize our uniforms to match the occasion.”
“Yes, Friend Raven!” Starfire chimed in, her arms flying open, nearly K-Oing BeastBoy in the process. “This earthly tradition of the Mass of Christ is wonderful!”
“Er, if you say so,” Raven replied, eyeing her friends with some trepidation. “Well, if you need me…” She began to backtrack out of the room slowly.
“Actually Rae, we’ve got something for you!” Cyborg’s singsong voice stopped her in her tracks. Identical Cheshire smiles stretched across all four of their faces as Cyborg revealed Raven’s ‘holiday costume’.
A tight red leotard and a long velvet red cape, complete with white, faux fur trimming.
Raven turned and fled.
She got about three seconds’ head start before the others reacted. Cursing softly, Raven rounded a corner and was starting to teleport when someone tackled her from behind, latching onto her legs. Both of them hit the floor with a ‘thump’.
“Let go of me, Robin.” Raven felt the brush of his mind against her own, and knew immediately whom her captor was.
“If you’ll wear the uniform.” She could practically feel his smirk, the cocky bastard.
“No.” Raven’s answer was curt, forced out through gritted teeth.
“Aww, c’mon Raven,” her leader cajoled. “It’s Christmas! Where’s your holiday spirit?”
“Where you’re going to find yourself if you don’t get off me in two seconds.”
“And if I refuse?” His breath tickled the back of her thighs even through the fabric of her cloak.
Having had enough, Raven lifted Robin off forcefully and stood up. The Boy Wonder grinned at her as he scrambled to his feet, knowing as well as she that she wouldn’t be able to move or teleport fast enough to avoid another tackle at this range. She glared. “Why don’t you just leave me alone?”
He shrugged, his mask (red with white covering for the occasion) fixed on her face, an amused smile tugging on his lips. “Because I think you’d look cute in that outfit.”
In spite of herself, Raven felt a blush rising in her cheeks and averted her glare to hide behind her hair. “Idiot,” she muttered.
“Who you love,” was the smug reply.
Before she had the chance to send him off to an alternate reality where smug little boys got eaten by giant, carnivorous earthworms, Starfire’s voice rang out, alarmingly close to where the duo stood.
“Raven! Friend Raven! Please come out and celebrate the Mass of Christ with us!” Her call was followed by the clatter of three set of running feet.
“Raveeen!”
“C’mon Rae!”
Raven’s eyes darted back to Robin’s smiling face and the offending article of clothing in his hand. Seeing her movement, Robin held out the revised uniform, offering it to her with a teasing cock of his head.
“I’m going to get you for this,” Raven vowed.
The Boy Wonder’s smile merely widened and he waved his hand dismissively. “As you like. But first…” He lifted the outfit towards her.
Raven growled and snatched the cloak, whirling it around her shoulders just as the rest of the Titans appeared at the end of the hallway. It settled around her in a flurry of red and white.
“Oh, you look wonderful, Friend Raven!” Starfire exclaimed happily as she ran to sweep Raven into one of her bone-crushing hugs.
“Good job, Robin,” Cyborg congratulated.
“Dude, how’d you do it though?” BeastBoy whispered.
“I didn’t do anything,” Robin replied. The two other boys looked at him disbelievingly, but the Boy Wonder didn’t say anything else.
It turned out to be a good Christmas, even if Raven was mortified that the entire city witnessed their change of attire when they got called out to stop a bank robbery later that evening.
- Mood:
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Comments
Nice to see you're in the spirit. Happy holidays.
*applauds*
MERRY CHRISTMAS~~~~
*hides*
The fact that I write for Teen Titans could seriously hurt my 'image' at school. XD! But yeah, I ship Raven and Robin with all my fangirl <3. So I'm glad it came out alright. Connie's actually been asking me to share this fandom with her for a while. Of course, she doesn't know it's TT. ^^;;;
Merry Christmas to you too!! =)
*hug* no no no- teen titans is cool; it is it issss---
raven x robin is now one of my prime fandoms *worships both u and then :D*
Merry Christmass~~~
I heart that line. it's hilarous XD Totally laughing on the floor right now.
So yeah. ^^
And I'm very happy you actually took the time to concrit my story. ^___^ It means a lot when I get advice from writers like you on how to improve.
And it was my pleasure to concrit your story! I love reading good works of fiction! I hate having to concrit bad works because I never really know how to give it constructive crit when every bone in my body is going, "Abandon ship! CLOSE THIS SUCKER UP BEFORE YOUR BRAIN BLEEDS OUT OF YOUR EARS!!"
But with good stories, it's fun! (I told you I was an English major in University, remember?)
"Abandon ship! CLOSE THIS SUCKER UP BEFORE YOUR BRAIN BLEEDS OUT OF YOUR EARS!!"
LOL! Ahh, I get that whenever I'm editting work for most of the people in my English class. And they ask me why I'm banging my head against the desk. -.- Oooh, you're an English Major? Cool, I was thinking of going into English, but I wasn't sure if that led into Law (wanna go into Law). ^^;
I know what you mean, when I was still in undergrad doing my English Major I had to try and school my face to not wince at some of the stuff I was reading...and when I'd take out the handy-dandy-trusty-red pen the person I was editing for would grimmace. But sometimes I feel that some of those really bad ones aren't even worth salvaging...I know it's mean, but some of the stuff I read as an English major and some of the stuff I read fic-wise it seems like the author hasn't even tried to make anything sound even remotely understandable by another reader and I feel like saying, "if you don't care if other people can understand what you're trying to say, then don't post it for other people!". I'm a bit of a grammar Nazi. Honestly, unless I'm Beta-ing a story for someone, if I can't stand to read the first few sentences (maybe the first paragraph) I just close it up and move on...no matter that sometimes the plot seems to be really interesting or promising, I just don't torture myself. If I wince while reading the first few sentences, I just move on...save myself the headache.
And yeah, I guess I thought I had mentioned it, but I was an English Major in undergrad. I got my BA degree in English with a minor in History and I just recently graduated from Loyola University Law School in New Orleans (in May) so...if you really want to go into Law School, I think I'm a pretty good resource for you! ^_~. Ask me anything you need to and feel free to tell me if there's anything I can help you with, kay? I always love to meet other people who are going into Law! If you like the law and having your ideas and perceptions challenged and all that wonderful stuff, then you're going to love it...even if you won't sleep, will pull out your hair (or it'll fall out due to stress, like what happened to me) and you generally won't have a life other than law school for three years, you won't mind ultimately because what you learn, and even just after the first semester of law school, you think and speak and react to things differently.
^_^
Okay...enough babbling from me...
Heh, sounds like fun! I've always loved challenging perspectives and cliches (it's gotten me into trouble more than once). Going into Law was always the goal for me since middle school, but it was the getting there that was kinda sketchy. Since I can't go into Law school until after doing undergrad and stuff, I wasn't sure how to proceed after high school and counsellors here are no help. They tell me to look around and decide on something that's "right for me". -.-"
If I knew what was right for me, I wouldn't have asked them! But anyways, back on topic, I'm on the debating team in school and it's loads of fun and I love it (read: obessed with it).
Ask me anything you need to and feel free to tell me if there's anything I can help you with, kay?
Yay! *clings* I'm always happy to meet people who have gone through it all before. I used to know someone who just passed the Bar in London, England, but he headed off to China and we haven't been in contact yet. ;_;
The thing about Law school is that I think the things I know about it are mostly either really rose-coloured or too pessimistic. I don't really actually have anything solid. It sounds like so much fun, and yet I'm constantly told how hard it is to persevere not to mention do well! *sigh*
But there's usually a lot of pressure to do well, with all your classmates asking you where in the rankings you placed (whether your in the top 10% of class and hence eligible for the ever illustrious "Law Review" group or not and if not, where exactly in relation to them you placed. I went through my entire time in law school, btw, without telling anyone other than my closest friend exactly what my grades were, but it wasn't easy: people kept being nosy and making sure I knew that they had gotten straight As even int he toughest classes that I got a C- in. It can be very competitive and very stressful during exams, but the classes and the lectures and the learnings were all worth it in my book.
I could tell you a dozen stories, and I went to a smallish private school in the deep south, so my experience was a little different than the people I know who went to law school here at University of Miami (and I feel I got a better deal, btw...) Everyone in my class (the same year as me, I mean) knew me or at least of me or recognized me by sight...and some of the people from other classes (higher or lower years than me) knew me too just as I knew them. The cool thing about Loyola was that you went in and were sorted into a class, kind of like I've read in the mangas they do in Japanese schools actually. I got Class Schedule B, which meant that for my first year, I had all my classes with the same group of kids. It was good that way because throughout the rest of the years, we all knew each other and it was like we had all gone through something special together and we were always closer friends with them than we were with any of the kids from other schedules no matter if we were in classes with the kids from other schedules in later years.
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If you don't have the best grades, it's not the end of the world (maybe if you want to get into Harvard or one of the top tier schools) but not to get into law school at all (My gpa in undergrad was 2.7 because my father died in my sophmore year and my gpa went from a 3.4 to a 1.3 just like that...and I had to fight to bring it up.) So, i still got into a good school, so don't worry about that, BUT, I would suggest when you get into undergrad, work at least part time or as an intern or volunteer in some law capacity job...the reference they can provide for you when you apply to law school is going to mean the world...trust me. And make friends with your professors in undergrad so that they know you by first name: the professors' reference is going to be gold for law school applications, too.
I don't think what I've been writing is organized at all and I'm sorry, but I've just been spewing out stuff as I can think of it: if you have specific questions, please ASK...it'll give me somewhere to focus my babbling! ^_^
I guess that's it for now...
and made it through alive. Experience is always better than just knowledge after all. ^^I'm not sure about the whole GPA thing. I've heard about it, but I don't live in the States, so I'm not familiar with it. I think 3.0 is about 80-90% and 4.0 is 90%+? That's really all I know and I'm not even sure.
My grades aren't too bad, but the thing is, I have to take the SATs if I wanna even think about applying to the States and that's what I'm most worried about right now. I see the practise ones my friends bring in and I'm like "Ahhh!" (mostly on the Math section). And maybe I just don't know where to look, but it's hard to get a job or placement at law offices. I was going to go to the University of Toronto for my undergrad and then my goal was for Cornell, and then there's the whole financial issue (which I already rambled on about in another comment)!
Despite that though, I still think I want to do Law for sure, especially now cuz it sounds like something I would LOVE. For sure. Besides, nothing that's ever worth anything ever comes easily... or something like that, right? ^^
Also, if not receptionist work, you can always go to your local legal aid office (I don't know what Canada would call it, but the office that offers help to indigent clients, mostly they offer really cheap or free help) and because they don't really get that much income from their clients they're always willing to hire either students who they can pay minimum wage and get away with it, or people who they don't have to pay at all and can work there just for the experience (I don't know what you're financial situation is and whether you need to work for $ or not, but that's always an option cause trust me, you'll get plenty of experience working there) and honestly, you should work in the law field somewhere so you can see first hand what it's like before you go through all the trouble of applying to law school (which trust me, is a much more harrowing and expensive experience than applying to undergraduate schools)
I knew a girl who graduated from Harvard, she was in my first year group at Loyola and she was in the top 10% of our class and was very intelligent and very nice and before the second semester was over, she just quit law school. It wasn't like she wasn't cutting it, cause she was. I asked her why and she said because she just realized that she didn't want to practice law, so why should she continue studying it? I respected her a lot for it: it's not easy to go through all you go through to get there, do well, and still have the courage to quit, but I still thought that if it would've been me, my family would've KILLED me if I made them go through all that and then decided that, "nope...sorry...I was wrong...not what I wanted to do" also, I'd probably kill myself...all the time and effort of studying for LSAT and applying to school and money to apply to school and all that...wasted.
^_^;; As you can see, that experience traumatized me.