Ravens Birthday

Part One

Raven woke to the sound of something frying, and the smell of coffee he knew was one of Marc's special blends. He scratched his chest and rolled out of bed, throwing on cargo pants to cover his naked body and shuffled out of his bedroom. He briefly wondered where the little thief Kayli had slept. It sure hadn't been his bed. Again. Life is full of boxes of sour lemons.

He made his way into the kitchen and stopped dead, his bare feet squeaking on the linoleum floor. Normally, Axel would still be in his room doing science shit and the twins would be in their own apartment. But everyone was already up, and gathered in some kind of meeting he had missed. It didn't take a genius to figure out they had been talking about him because the conversation froze solid, colder than Russian ice skating rink. Something was up. "Little thief." He whined, coming to stand behind Kayli who was eating bacon like the hungry bear inked into the skin if his back. "Tell me what I missed."

He tried to sneak the bacon out of her hand but she punched him in the ribs and crammed the bacon in her mouth. "My bacon. Get your own." She swallowed and gave him the beautiful smile he loved.

Raven didn't bother looking to the other guys for an easy answer. He knew they would not keep secrets from him if it was important and he needed to know them. He would enjoy extracting this particular not-so-secret from Kayli, rather than have one of the team tell him. Raven launched, and grabbed her around the waist, taking her down to the floor and pinning her underneath his massive weight. She hissed and spat like an angry wet cat, but that was no matter.

He didn't mind getting a little scratched up.

"Little thief. You had better tell me, or I am going to sit on you while they eat all the bacon."

Her eyes widened and she fought harder, even landing a decent punch to his ribs. "No! I want my bacon!" She screamed.

He yawned, feigning sleepiness and fell forward onto her, snoring loudly. He thought he had her, until her heard sounds of her eating and opened his eyes to see Corey hand feeding her bacon nibblets, dropping them into her mouth from where he was standing above them.

"You, I will kill later." Raven said, pointing a deadly finger at Corey, who smiled like the traitor he was.

"No killing on birthdays." Axel warned.

Today was a birthday? Yes! Yes it was! It was his!

While he was distracted, Kayli managed to wriggle out from under him and throw him off against the cabinets. He allowed himself to be thrown. It didn't matter. He would catch her again later. "It is my birthday." He said in surprise. How had he forgotten? He supposed it was all of the drama going on lately, he was starting to forget things he shouldn't.

"Oh no." Kevin said sarcastically. "He figured it out."

"You were planning me a surprise, yes?" Raven asked excitedly, now a hundred times more awake than before.

"Yes, but we are divided. We couldn't decide what to do." Brandon said. "We were torn between taking you to a UFC fight, or taking you to a boxing ring. Might as well just let you choose now, where do you want to go?"

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A/N

This part was written by @MorganPhillups ! Please vote and comment what you think of the story. This is a fanfiction of the scarab beetle series by C.L.Stone and will probably be a short story. We'll be trying to work in some Russian birthday traditions and make sure Raven has a great birthday!

We don't know when Ravens birthday really is yet, so this will be set in the winter time, which is his favorite season. :)

Thank you all for reading!