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This is a Star/Rea story, don't like it. Then don't read it.
Wings for Raven Part 1/2
After the fall of Trigon, Raven gained some control over her emotions, but she still was not use to the idea of exploiting them for everyone to see. Raven floated a foot off the ground in deep meditaition. Raven felt as if she could shut out all of the outside world, and remain perfectly content in her own little world within the walls of her room. All of that was ruened by the 'Tap, tap, tap' at her door. Raven then fell onto the ground with a loud 'thunk'. There was only one person who was so native, who would interupt her meditation.
"Friend Raven, I wish so see if you want to participate in the hanging of out with me." The orange haired alien said as she still knocked on Raven's door.
Raven craked her door and saw Starfire beaming at her. "Star I'm not in the mood right now." Raven said then closed the door before Starfire could say anything. Raven turned away from the door and heard Star's voice again.
"That is not all that I wished to talk about." Starfire said and knocked again, "May I come in?"
The door opened and the alien walked into the gothic titan's room. Raven made a motion for her to sit beside her on the bed. "I... I have something to tell you." Starfire said weakly.
Raven knew it was serious, and reassured her. "You can tell me anything Star."
"I have been talking with Robin on how to say this, but it is still hard." Starfire explained, "I... I think I wish to be your friend that is also a girl."
Raven though about what she was trying to say. 'Did she mean girlfriend?... No there must be some mistranslation here... Maybe she meant best friend.'
"Star do you mean best friend?" Raven asked.
Starfire looked confused, there were so manny different meaning on this planet. Just one world off could mean something completely different. Starfire searched through her mind for anything about best friend, when a memory came to her. It was a few weeks ago and they had just saved the day from a guy named Acid man. He looked like he was from the 60s, and ran around in his underwear yelling about carrots, when she passed two women coming out of a store interlocking arms. One of the women telling the other that she was her best friend.
"I think, but am not sure." Starfire finally said not knowing exactly. She thought back to when she talked to Robin.
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Starfire found Robin in the common room playing video games with Beastboy and Cyborg. They where playing a game that involved a lot of loud noises and going around the path before the other do. Starfire walked over to Robin and sat beside him. "Umm... Robin can I talk to you?"
Robin didn't look away from the TV and said, "Yeah yeah just a minute."
Starfire knew better. The boys often said that to her while they were playing, and never stopped. "Robin it is important."
Robin put the game down and they went to the next room to talk. "What's on your mind Star?"
"Is it uncommon on this planet for females to like other females?" Starfire asked.
Robin was taken back by this statement. "What do you mean?"
"On this planet can a female have a relationship with another female?" Starfire asked.
"Well... th...they can. It's not common, but not unheard of... Star why do you ask." Robin asked.
Starfire was very reluctant to answer, it took her a good minute to draw up the courage to tell him. "Well you see on my planet we have a shortage of males, so female female relationships are as common as male female ones here." Starfire explained. "So you see for me it is only natural to be drawn to the female gender, I wanted to tell you this because you are my closest friend, and I think I need help."
"I'm guessing you like someone."
"Well yes, but as you said female female relationships are uncommon."
"Star if you like someone, it is always better to tell them than to let it build up inside. Like the old saying goes 'it is better to loved and lost, than never to have loved at all'."
"Well how am I suppose to tell this person?"
"Just tell them how you fell."
"So I walk up to them and ask if they want to be my glakishmor?"
"Umm... Star on this planet we call them girlfriends."
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Starfire stood in front of the girl she was trying to ask out, trying to find the difference between best friend and girlfriend. When it hit her like a ton of bricks, she would perform the act of a lover. Starfire grabbed Ravens hand and licked her palm.
Raven stood confused as ever. The alien interrupted her meditation, mistranslated something about being her best friend, and now licked her hand. "Star... what was that?"
"On my planet one preforms that act when one finds their glakishmor." Starfire explained.
"Starfire... use Earth terms."
"Here on Earth you ether call them best friend, ... or girlfriend... I'm not sure which...it is so confusing when you don't know these Earth terms."
Raven took a big gulp of air. "Ok... Star a best friend is a you share a strong friendly relationship with. A girlfriend is a girl who is in a loving relationship with someone else."
Starfire thought back and remembered an Earth term that might clear this up. "Raven would you preform the dating with me?"
Raven's eyes grew tenfold. 'She didn't mistranslate, she was asking me out. W...what do I do in a moment like this?'
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Raven awoke in a cold sweat. She glanced at the clock, and it read 3:42 am. Raven took a deep breath, she knew the night before her birthday visions of the near future plague her dreams.
'There is no way that's in my future.' Raven told herself. 'Good thing they don't know what tomorrow is.' Raven rolled over and tried to go back to sleep, but to no avail. This happened every year, she dreams of events that happen in the next day or so, and each one of them come true. 'Starfire is in love with me... and I don't know how I fell about her. I mean we are both girls, and she probably doesn't know better.'
Raven spent the rest of the night tossing and turning with her reacquiring dream of Starfire asking her to 'preform the dating' with her. In all honesty Raven knew it could be worse like the end of the world, and Starfire wasn't that bad. Sure she was annoying half the time and totally clueless the other half, but she was loving, and caring, and looked good, and... "Stop thinking like that!" Raven yelled at herself.
Starfire had gotten up, and made her way to the kitchen to find her a jar of mustered. Every night around 4 she got hungry, ate some mustered and went back to sleep. It was her nightly ritual, only this time when she got there her mustered jar was empty. After several minutes of searching for another jar, Starfire gave up, and was on her way back to her room the she heard a loud yell. It came from what she figured was Raven's room. Starfire couldn't just leave without seeing that she was ok, so she made her way to Raven's door. 'Tap tap tap' "Raven... I wish to know if you are all right. I heard a yell, and I think it came from here."
Raven shot up from hearing Starfire's voice. "I...I'm ok Star."
"Did you have a bad dream?" Starfire asked.
"I... ... ... I don't know yet." Raven said stroking her face thinking of her vision.
"Well I was going to ask you this in the morning, but since I'm here I might as well. Friend Raven, I wish so see if you want to participate in the hanging of out with me." Starfire asked.
Raven's eye's grew. 'It is already happening.' She thought. She didn't want to have this conversation right now, and thought of anything that would get her off the hook. "Let's talk about it in the morning Star."
"Oh yes I forgot how early it is. Then we will continue in the morning." Starfire said and made her way back to her room.
"Why didn't I ask her?" Starfire scolded herself as she got back into bed. "Tomorrow... I will ask her tomorrow."
'Why would Star ask me out? Doesn't she love Robin? I knew this day would come, but never in my vastest dreams did I expect it from Starfire.' Raven thought to herself. 'If she only knew... she would never want to be near me again.' It was true Raven did feel something for the alien, but what is was she didn't know. She never felt anything like it before, it was a warm feeling, that turned her stomach into knots. She wasn't sure if she liked this new feeling. 'I have to push her away... for her own good.'
A/N There is Part 1/2.