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Sorry for not updating in forever but I've hadn't had the time to do this at all between traveling, baseball, brothers baseball, school, tests, exams, I have no free time so don't get mad at me please!
Red x
Chapter 16
Raven
The week had been quiet since we started the team bonding, I made sure to tell Dick to send all emergency's to other teams until this one got at least a little better. It was the last day and I knew this was going to be a bad day since this was the day that Blake and Red X are paired up. I fastened my cloak around me raising the hood to hide in the shadows getting ready for a stressful day babysitting overgrown children.
"Raven I will not get paired up with a criminal," my day had just started and it was annoying.
"you will and I don't want to hear any complaints from you or Red X, and if I do that person will be doing a five mile run every time I hear something," with that I left him there seething in anger.
"When will he grow up and act like a man instead of a five year old," I muttered under my breath as I made myself a cup of herbal tea.
"Morning," I flinched a little bit at his metallic voice that wasn't natural, "what's wrong with you?"
"It's your voice; it's not natural to have that kind of voice. The voice changer in your mask changes your voice so no one knows what your real voice sounds like."
"Ya so what?" I wasn't surprised when he didn't get what I was saying.
"How can we trust a person if we don't even know what his voice sounds like or what his name is, and most of all what he looks like?" the words rushed out of my mouth before I could stop them, I clamped a hand over my mouth as soon as I finish shock written all over my face. He stood there for a second before leaning against the marble island in the middle of the expensive looking kitchen.
"Your right, I'll make you a deal. I'll turn off my voice changer around you and only you but I won't tell you my name or what I look like, not yet anyway." I nodded as he grabbed a box of oatmeal and started to make some in a pot on the stove.
"So when does the deal start?" I asked removing my hand from my mouth.
"Right now," his voice was not what I expected it was like a flowing river, not the harsh voice that I expected but like an old man talking to a child, patient, clam, relaxing, trusting, but at the same time his voice held power, strength, and wisdom of a king. I just stood there watching him hoping he would talk so I could hear his voice again,
"Hey guys," I turned from X to see Brandon rubbing sleep from his eyes and the rest of the team following closely behind him, I nodded to him and the others while X just ignored them completely. Each of them grabbing a wide variety of food ranging from cereal to marshmallows. Once everyone was seated around the table, except for X who was standing at the counter with a bowl of oatmeal in hand with a spoon sticking over the edge, I cleared my throat getting everyone's attention which still made me uneasy,
"Tomorrow your all invited to bring your parents here to let them see how your settling in," I said making them look at me differently, "I know their all superheroes but they'll be here whenever they aren't needed." They all nodded at me in understanding but I knew it wasn't over and I was right when Blake stood up.
"Hey Red X are your parents coming or are they too ashamed of their son being a criminal to come? Because being the disappointment that you are I could see them doing that," I could sense Anger rolling off Red X and I was shocked because that was the first emotion that I could get off the guy the entire time he'd been here. Faster than I could warn Blake, Red X had him in a choke hold and slammed him against the wall with Blake's face turning red.
"Don't you ever talk about my family, you have no idea who they were and what kind of people they were. And no they won't be coming, unless your able to raise the dead," I was shocked Red X's parents were dead, "Until you've seen your family, your friends, and the only teacher that gave a dam about your future die in front of you knowing that if you've been a minute faster you could have saved them." So it wasn't just his parents it was his whole life that had died, I could now see how he became a criminal. Blake started to claw at X's hand as his face turned purple, X released him causing Blake to fall to the floor. We all watched in silence as X picked up his oatmeal on the counter and walked out of the room. I looked over to see Blake kneeling on the floor holding his neck gasping for air,
"Sometimes you're too much like your father for your own good," I told him as I kneeled down to look at his neck, I could see the bruises forming already.
"Don't ever tell me that ever again I am nothing like him!" I met his glare with my own until he looked away.
"You are exactly like him that's why you two don't get along so well, you both are too headstrong for your and others goods," he looked at me with a glare but I could tell my words were getting through to him.
"He won't listen to me,"
"If you talk to him a certain way he listens even if he doesn't want to," he gave me a little smile while the others continued to stare at us ignoring their breakfasts'. I more than desperately wanted to melt into a shadow right now but I got up and walked out the door that x just went through. I followed X's anger to the gym I went to the secret room to look in on X without him knowing about it.
I couldn't believe he could do that, he was doing past Olympic level gymnastics without breaking a sweat. He was listening to an old song called time of dying by Three Days Grace, (remember this is 25 years in the future).
On the ground I lay
Motionless in pain
I can see my life flashing before my eyes
Did I fall asleep?
Is this all a dream
Wake me up, I'm living a nightmare
I will not die (I will not die)
I will survive
I will not die, I'll wait here for you
I feel alive, when you're beside me
I will not die, I'll wait here for you
In my time of dying
On this bed I lay
Losing everything
I can see my life passing me by
Was it all too much
Or just not enough
Wake me up, I'm living a nightmare
I will not die (I will not die)
I will survive
I will not die, I'll wait here for you
I feel alive, when you're beside me
I will not die, I'll wait here for you
In my time of dying
I will not die, I'll wait here for you
I feel alive, when you're beside me
I will not die, I'll wait here for you
In my time of dying
I will not die, I'll wait here for you
I will not die, when you're beside me
I will not die, I'll wait here for you
In my time of dying
The words of the song told me what x was probably feeling right now but who was the other person mentioned in the song? I was brought back to the real world when x landed a perfect triple flip off a bar and picked up his cape that was on a chair and putting it back on.
"I know your there Raven so you might as well come on in," I was shocked that he knew I was there because this room was suppose to be sound proof, but I was glad when his voice was his own and not changed.
Red X
I knew it was a risk letting Raven know what my voice sounded like but it was a risk that I wanted to take.
"I know your there Raven you might as well come in," I hate it when people try to watch me without telling me. A couple seconds later the door to the gym opened up to reveal the blue cloaked figure of Raven.
"How did you know I was there?" she asked me as soon as the doors closed behind her.
"I knew you would come after me to see if I was ok," I said telling the half truth; the other half is that I could sense her.
"Why could I only sense your emotions back there when you were angry?" I sighed rubbing the back of my neck before explaining.
"I have a way of hiding my emotions and thoughts from physics, I guess my shields slipped when I was angry allowing you to see my emotions." She looked at me like she didn't believe me but nodded her head anyway.
"Sorry for your family and friends," I could feel my anger rise but I swallowed it down.
"I hate it when people are like that, they feel sorry and say sorry when they have nothing to do with it and no way to change it," she didn't reply so I walked around her and walked back to my roof to meditate and get my head together.
There you go! I may not update in a couple weeks since I have finals and away to places where I can't get near a computer so if I don't update don't get mad at me since I gave you guys and gals a heads up.
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