How A Superhero Learns To Fly
Chapter 1: Prologue
He always loved her. Not like how a brother loves a sister or how a father loves a daughter, but how a changeling loved an empath.
The day he would admit it to her would be the day he ate meat, but he still liked to create fantasies in his free time of how he imagined it would go down like.
He would make up basic fantasies, just consisting of him admitting his feelings and her simply returning them, but he would also make more... detailed ones if he had the time. Sometimes, if he was feeling adventurous, he would even think of them moving out of the tower and starting a family together.
Alas, in reality he couldn't even make eye contact with her without getting flustered. But his shyness wasn't the only thing in the way of their unlikely relationship; she had a boyfriend.
To top it off, her sweetheart was one of his most trusted friends, and also his leader.
Yes, he was none other than Robin, leader of the Titans, Dick Grayson.
The two birds of the Titans had been dating for half a year, and their relationship had done nothing except rip the team apart.
After two weeks, Starfire couldn't bare the sight of them for much longer and made the decision to join Titans East and be replaced by Kid Flash and Jinx.
Robin had begged for her not to go, but the Tamaranian refused to respond to him after he harshly told her that they would never be anything more than friends.
The changeling didn't understand how they were still dating; it had been six months and the most they had done was hug. He knew that Raven was the sort of person who would want to take things slow in relationships, but he didn't think for her to want to take it that slow.
But Raven was Raven and he wasn't Raven. He was Beast Boy; a juvenile green boy who'd fallen madly in love with his teammate.
He sat in his room, thinking the same things that Starfire once had. Should he just go? With him gone, there would still be a reasonable amount of people on the team. The only thing stopping him was the fact that the couple were completely oblivious to his feelings; and would demand to know why he suddenly wanted to leave.
He could always just disappear without telling anyone but he wouldn't want to worry Victor and Wally, who over the years had become his two closest friends.
There was also the fact that he couldn't stand to be away from Raven for too long.
Garfield Logan was one smitten shapeshifter.