B'shert

And fixing them

Chapter Six

Oh my god this is a long chapter....but anyway, thank you to everyone who's voted and who's still reading this story and even bothered to check it in the beginning!

It doesn't get much better after that. The following week is filled with more moments like that morning in the kitchen leaving the rest of their team thoroughly confused but too scared to ask. (Nightwing tried approaching Damian while he was massacring holograms in the training room around the third day- a stupid move on his part because he could seriously have picked a better time. Anyway, Dick ended up getting slammed into a wall so...) And around Friday after witnessing one of their fights Kori is really glad that they have metal sliding doors and not the normal wooden ones that you can slide shut because she thinks that had they had those they would have had to replace the ones on Raven and Robins room a couple of times. So she's thankful for small favors. (On Saturday she finds she stands corrected about the slamming doors thing because apparently you can pull the doors shut-there's a lot of slamming the next two days before she finally threatens to remove their doors)

And they really should talk and not fight they know. Because this isn't helping their link, at ALL.

But both of them are too stubborn to broach the word sorry with the other so they stay as they are. Raven knows she should be more mature because she IS technically older (by a few months) and she IS the one who knows how bad this could get. She's the one who's doing most of the work in keeping the shields between their minds up because Damian hasn't got the hang of it yet and he's too angry to really do any good. But this is dangerous because it could really backfire and if it happens during a mission it won't just be putting them but their team and innocent lives at risk so....yeah Raven should fix it.

But she's not good with words, or needless to say relationships and Damian is even more complicated so she kind of needs advice so it's really no wonder she calls Jinx.

They agree to meet up behind the Pepsi billboard on this old building on the farther side of jump city. When Raven gets there the pink haired sorceress has yet to arrive so she sits on the edge of the building and lets her legs dangle down.

The sun is setting and painting the sky all these pretty colors and her father misses the blood red skies of hell and she tells him he should get used to this because he'll never see that awful place again as long as she lives. (He can't wait till she dies he says, so she tunes him out afterwards) She turns her head towards the shadows behind the billboard when she feels a familiar tug.

"Hey Lucky," she gives a small wave as another girl, older than her but still a teenager herself with pink hair and magenta eyes walks out of the shadows to sit next to her. "Hey pretty bird," she says. And there's a momentary silence because it's just nice to have a bond mate near you. (And she shouldn't think about that because she remembers Damian and how much she's missed having him near her these past few days.) "So," the other starts. "What's bothering ya?" "Straight to the point?" Raven asks wryly. Jinx gives her a small sad smile. "We don't really have much time." Raven nods and proceeds to tell her about Robin. (She keeps it as 'robin' because his identity is not her secret to tell)

"And I know I should fix things but I just don't really know how because so far trying to talk to him about problems hasn't really gotten us anywhere." She finishes. "Hmm....so you think he's mad at you to the point he wants to just forget about your bond?" "I don't know," Raven says hugging her knees and looking towards the star speckled sky. "What do you think?" "I think you should ask him."

"My thoughts exactly" A new, oh so familiar voice cuts in.And Raven whirls around, and how could she not notice him goddammit. Now Damian, glad in his Robin uniform walks out of the shadows and stops right in front of Raven who'd jumped up upon seeing him, he crosses his arms over his chest. They stare at each other for a few seconds, no talking through their minds or words. Then his gaze shifts to the other occupant on the roof. Then back to her.

"She's a bond mate." Raven says. "'Lucky' I presume," Damian recalls the name being mentioned in Ravens notebook. Raven nods. And she nearly gasps when she hears his voice in her mind because that hadn't happened intentionally in a while. Not like this.

'She's a criminal,' and Raven scoffs and rolls her eyes.

'I don't see you complaining about your fathers' relationship with Selina Kyle'

'You know very well that I complain.'

'You secretly like her.'

'Do not.'

'Bullshit'

And Ravens smiling and even Damians mouth has a little upward curl at the corners ad this is the easiest conversation they've had in a while. It's their back and forth banter before that terrible fight. They're snapped out of their little world of 'them' when Jinx clears her throat. She has an amused look on her face.

"Well now that the two of you are back to your happy domestic life I'll be on my way. It was nice seeing you again Rae," she says and Raven hugs her because no matter that she's a criminal Jinx really is a wonderful person. "You too Lucky"

When they're back in the tower Damian in the control room finishing up some mission report and Raven in her room taking a shower it occurs to her. 'Hey Damian?' She asks, reaching out to her soul mate. The link is strangely calm, probably an effect of the fact that they have gone through the worst of their fight. 'Hmm?' 'This past whole week I've been shielding our minds to try and stop any unwanted thoughts from being heard- you weren't really helping by the way,' 'Sorry,' the dark haired boy says sheepishly. 'mhm. Anyway, you couldn't have known about my meeting with jinx through the bond...so...how did you know where to find me?'

And he's silent which makes Raven pause while washing the shampoo out of her hair.

'Damian?' she thinks her voice stern. 'You hadn't left the tower for anything other than a mission or to cool off after one of our fights for the past week or so and neither of those had happened so I was curious as to where you went. In all honesty I didn't mean to pry but I was...worried. Also I was going to apologize to you and try and make amends but you leaving was counterproductive to that so...' And she senses the honesty in his words and his good intentions (and her heart does this weird fluttery thing at the knowledge that despite their fight he was worried about her and that he wanted to fix things too) 'First of all I'M sorry. You're right I really should have been more sensitive and not let curiosity get the best of me...' 'While that's true I understand how your perception of the situation and mine vary...But I accept you apology if you accept mine.' 'I do, thank you for forgiving me.' And she nearly forgets what she's originally been asking but no, she's sometimes thoughtless, but not very often is she forgetful. So she understands, both as a result of knowing Damian and because of common sense what he was indirectly saying.

'Oh my GOD Damian you put a TRACKER on me!??!'

'Technically you can track me through our bond so...'

She's not as upset as she should be over this and while that's disturbing it means they'll be alright.