B'shert

It's Giving yourself away

Chapter Nine

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Damian realizes perhaps a little too late how bad an idea asking Raven to join him and his family for Christmas was.

Because other than the constant teasing and persistent presence of people to socialize with there's Bruce blowing hot and cold towards the half demon girl and their lack of time together (They should have just stayed at the tower). Not to mention he forgot, actually forgot that Bruce would be hosting some charity ball for Gotham's elite socialite. Raven as a guest is put in the position where she can't exactly refuse to attend a party being held at the manor itself and therefore is subjected to a full day of shopping and spa treatment with the other girls. (Given his soul mates lack of mental connection during the day she was out Damian kind of figured that he'd have hell to pay for) But no, turns out his girlfriend enjoyed it so all is well.

Until that is that BRAT Tristan Quinn starts flirting with Raven the night of the ball. In fact A LOT of people both girls and boys start flirting with Raven (And it's possible there'll be a rumor that Bruce has adopted yet another child floating around for a while) But back to the point, Damian totally understands the attraction that anyone would feel towards Raven Roth. Because she's beautiful inside and out but the problem here is that these entitled brats (whom he is sometimes cast in with) don't understand boundaries. The problem is that Raven is HIS girlfriend and he so swears that if Tristan so much as touches her again he'll do more than just spill cider on him. (Raven takes everything in stride though and by the end of the evening a few people have twisted ankles and bruises as a result of purely graceless falls. If Damian didn't know better -he doesn't- he'd say they were hexed.)

Christmas day itself is a quiet and cozy affair.

They wake up late (Well everyone else wakes up late but Damian, Raven and Tim are up by sunrise) and gather around the giant elaborately decorated tree and exchange gifts. There's a lot to go through and it takes them a while but it's fun and worth it. And Damian gives her some really comfy looking shirts and she gives him a copy of Lord of the Rings. But later when everyone's drifting back to their rooms to get washed up he pulls her aside. He hands her a book. It's a note book, much like the one she gave him only it has a deep blue cover. "I still don't know how to tell you how I feel," he says in way of explanation. And she looks from his face back to the book and she understands what it is. (She doesn't anymore than he did hers, all she knows is that Damian isn't good with words because he can't figure out what to SAY, and that this is him trying to work around that. She doesn't understand what exactly is in the book-but she will)

"Thank you," She says and she means it because while they've made progress this feel like a major step. It's not exactly tearing down a wall which he'd built up around himself over the years.

It's giving her a key, a door, an exclusive way in that's meant just for her.

The moment's shattered however by the sound of Kori....screaming? Squealing? They're not sure which it is but it's better to be on the safe side and check it out. (Apparently the rest of the bat family heard it too and are tripping over themselves to save their oldest brothers girlfriend- which Raven finds ridiculous because Kori's one badass alien princess trained by the war lords of Okara and she can take care of herself) They all run into the hallway where Kori and Dicks room is only to walk in on the two making out. Jason and Cassie make gagging noises while Damian rolls his eyes. Then Barbra saunters into the scene and takes one look and smirks wicked. "Tt, finally asked her to marry you huh?" And they were not expecting that.

"WHAT??!!"

(They really should have though.)