Disclaimer/Author's Note: I do not own the teen titans. They are the products of the imaginative people involved with the following Corps. : Dc Comics, The Warner Bros. and Cartoon Network of which I have no affiliation. Also I do not own Bad Boy by Cascada which I have used a portion of in this first chapter. I will be using it again I believe as the story progresses. And yes I know I used very little of the song but this is a far as this first part got. Thank you all and please review.
Teen Titans
Bad Boy
Chapter One
"Remember the feelings; remember the day
my stone heart was breaking
My Love Runaway"
Starfire looked back on the events that took place in Tokyo sadly. The poor princess had suffered greatly that day when Robin had rejected her. His cold words still wrung in her ears.
"This moment I knew I would be someone else
My love turned around and I fell"
Starfire had never felt more hurt as when her love had turned his back on her. Her, Robin had done the unthinkable he had hurt her. And from that moment on she knew things would never be the same but still she had clung to the small hope that her feelings would not go unwarranted. She would wait for him she had told proclaimed, but now the princess feared she could wait no longer for her prince. She was tired of wanting and waiting for things to change. After all how long was too long?
She'd lived on earth for many years now and longed to experience everything her new planet had to offer, especially love. Okay its not like love hadn't existed on her home planet but she herself had never experienced it first hand (at least not this kind of love) until she thought she'd escaped one cruel fate and destiny had brought her to another. The princess smiled at the bitter-sweet memory of the kiss she'd bestowed on the black haired boy and the spark she'd unexpectedly felt, when their lips had touched and she'd acquired the knowledge of this planets strange language from that moment on she had known what she had wanted.
Now however things were different. The princess couldn't place how, she just knew in her heart that she could not wait forever and though her heart belonged to Robin she knew that the exertion of loving a man who wouldn't let himself love her was just too much for her to bare so, she had come here today to do the hardest thing she'd ever had to do. She had come to tell the man she loved good bye.
Timidly the girl knocked on Robin's door. She didn't know how she was going to do this. The lump in her throat and the ache in her heart, felt like they were getting larger by every second that passed as she stood in front of that door. She knocked again fearing she would lose her courage.
Finally Robin answered. "Come in"
"Here goes nothing…" whispered Star to herself, taking a deep breath and exhaling before opening the evidence room door and stepping inside.
"Ugh Robin… I am sorry to interrupt you I know you how it displeases you for anyone to disrupt your important deliberation periods, but I do believe we need to talk."
"What is it Starfire?" asked Robin shortly never looking up from his desk as he pealed over evidence.
"I-I came because I am no longer capable of ignoring my feelings for you Robin and since you have made it clear that things can never change between us, I think the best way for me to move on is for me to move out."
"What brought this on?" posed the surprised teen, now she had his attention.
"Tokyo, Robin." Answered the princess. "I know you like to pretend that it never happened, but we both know it did. I told you how I felt and you have told me that it can never happen and I don't know how else I am going to move on with my life but to leave you and this part of it behind."
With that said Starfire chewed her lower lip and stood quietly for a moment hoping against hope one last time that Robin would not let her down again.
The boy wonder ran a hand through his slick black hair and sighed heavily before answering. "Well Star if that's how you feel and you're sure it's what you want then you should go. I hate to lose such a valuable team member but as I said if its what you want..." he trailed off.
Star nodded and sighed. "Alright then, well I guess this is goodbye…friend Robin."
The silence that followed the girl's words could have swallowed the entire universe in the minds of the two teens. Robin's heart ached he wanted to scream he wanted to shout. Don't do this! But he couldn't bring himself to jeopardize who he was. He was a hero and heroes' were just that. He had made his choice and he knew all to well the dangers of a relationship in his line of work. He only wished Star could understand... he was brought back to reality by the soft sound of the click of the door that signified Star's leaving.
Star wait! his heart screamed but his body turned and with a heavy sigh he returned to his literal and metaphorical cold hard evidence.
Outside the door Star leaned against the wall and just as she began to sob, Raven happened by.
"Star?" she said startled the red head looked up and wiping her eyes she gave her friend a shaky smile.
"Oh hello friend Raven, I did not hear you approaching."
"What's the matter Starfire?" inquired the empath.
"N-nothing Raven, I am just sad because it is my time to do the moving on with my life. I am leaving the tower...tonight." She informed the other girl.
Raven stood silently with her team mate for a moment before speaking. "Are you sure this is what you want?"
For the second time the alien princess nodded in response to this question even though she wasn't sure what she wanted. She was so conflicted.
"Alright, I'll help you pack." Raven offered not sure what she should do, she knew all about Star's confliction after all she was being practically assaulted by it. But Raven didn't know how else she could help her friend.
"That's alright; if you don't mind I'd like to do it by myself." Star told her and Raven nodded.
"Ugh my friend, I would like to ask one favor of you though" Star added. "Please do not say anything to the others I would like to be the one tell each of them."
Raven nodded. "Of course Star."
Dinner came all too soon that night for Starfire. She had cried all the while as she used her alien vacuum like suitcase to suck up her belongings. And now, it was time. "Friends I have something important tell you" she announced as she cleared the dinner table.
"What is it Starfire?" asked the credulous changeling cheerfully.
"Please do be patient with me friend Beast Boy; I am going to be getting to that point." She replied and then continued. "I have found an apartment of my own and will be taking up residence there from now on."
All of the team minus the two birds, of course looked at the girl in shock.
"Your leaving? Just like that?!" Cyborg rose.
Dude this is so not cool" protested Beast Boy at the same time.
"Friends, friends I will not be that far a way."
"Will you still be a team member?" posed Beast Boy concerned.
Starfire shook her head. "I am afraid not Beast Boy, I am doing the moving on, I will be putting my time as Teen Titan behind me. I have been offered a job with a modeling company."
"Wow a Model, Congrats girl but I still don't understand why you're leaving us?" queried Cyborg sounding a bit hurt at the end of his sentence while Beast Boy and Raven nodded in consensus. Robin's silence did not go unnoticed by Starfire as she continued.
"I just feel it is time for me to move on friends. I-I have been fighting for this planet for sometime. I would like some time to just enjoy living on it for a while." She lied the others did not know all that had went on in Tokyo and in light of how things had turned out she felt it was best to keep it that way.
"Well Star best of luck to you. If that's really what you want you know we are ganna miss you" Cyborg articulated sweetly in his big brother voice as he gave her a great big hug.
Star smiled bravely and returned his hug with equal force. "Thank you"
Beast Boy was next in line to hug Star goodbye, followed by Raven who had done her best to get by with a half smile and a handshake but inevitably had been unable to sideswipe the alien princesses embrace and lastly came Robin.
Starfire swallowed hard and plastered a fake smile on her face as she leaned in and gave Robin a hug, a hug that lasted just a bit a longer than everyone else's. When she was done she wiped a single tear from her cheek and took a step back from Robin. "Thank you, it has been an honor" and with that said the Tamareneon gave them all one last brave smile and left the tower for as far as anyone of them knew her last time.
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