A single star sat in the dark empty night sky as Robin stood there, up top Titans Tower, his cape hanging over his shoulders, it blowing in the soft wind. He stared at the reflection of the star in the bay water admiring it's beauty and wondering why it chose to stay with the night, all alone. As it reflected off of the surface of the ever moving water it looked like a flame flickering, like fire.
Starfire… like the star she sat in his darkness. He would be her downfall, he had always known it. He had tried to stay away, keep to the one rule he actually learned from Bruce. But he wasn't like Bruce; it was too hard for him. He gave in, and they fell in love; it felt wonderful to have someone to be by your side, someone you could trust completely.
Hopefully Starfire will understand that what he's going to do is for her and nothing else. For her own protection, no one would understand, they would try but they just wouldn't. They don't understand what its like to lose people who you care deeply about especially at the age he lost his. Beast Boy was given up by his parents, Cyborg lost his parents in a car crash, Raven didn't even know it when her mother died, and Starfire's parents condemned her to death. Though they never knew what it was like to watch their parents die right before their eyes and have a feeling that they could've saved them if they had just done something different.
Never…
That's why he couldn't allow himself to be with Starfire any more, it would kill her, hurt her to the core, everyone one he ever knew had been hurt by him, Bab's, Alfred, his parents. All except Bruce, Bruce was darkness down to the core, so there is nothing to hurt, or so he thinks. As much as Robin hated to admit it he was just like Bruce, afraid to get close to people for their own safety and Bruce was right.
Robin hated himself for what he was about to do but it was the only way he could save them, save her, and hopefully they would end him. It hadn't taken him long to figure out that Starfire had come in behind him.
"Robin? We are preparing for the movies of entertainment and buttered corns of pop." She said gleefully
Robin didn't say anything.
"Robin are you okay." Starfire said taking a step forward.
"Starfire…" Robin said not daring to look at her heart melting eyes.
"Yes Robin."
"One day you will think horrible things of me, and wish I was dead… you will curse at my name and never want to think of me as the man you once loved. I will be dead to you; I just want you to know one thing. I love you. When what I said before happens, kill me… Kill me Star. I could never stand to make you suffer, the way I will make you suffer if you don't. Remember me, remember what we were for as long as you can, that I was a good man, a good man that loved you and that you loved me. Remember that what I do now and what I'm going to do is all for you." He looked up at the dark night sky and at the twinkling star sitting with it.
He was the night and she was the light that traveled by his side at all times. He didn't deserve her, not at all.
"Robin I do not understand." Starfire said taking a few steps forward, she understood the meaning of what he was asking her to do but she didn't know why. He suddenly turned to her kissed her passionately making it last as long as he could and then pulled away.
He then ran and jumped off the building and fell into the ocean water. Starfire gasped and flew down as fast as she could, in an attempt to save him. She plunged into the icy cold dark water and searched for Robin but he was gone, his body was nowhere in sight. She came to the top breathing heavily and flew back up to the top of the Tower to see if she could spot him from atop, but she didn't.
Robin sat in the shadow of the bridge soaked. He watched as Starfire frantically flew through the air searching for him, screaming his name sending nails through his heart with each yell. He sighed with resisting the urge to run back to her and ask for the forgiveness he knew he would receive from her, forgiveness he didn't deserve for scaring her like that.
"Forgive me Star." He whispered as a deep voice then came from behind him.
"Robin let's go, we have a long ride back to Gotham." Robin turned to face him but took one quick look back. Starfire was weeping on the top of the tower as the rest of the Titans began to join her.
He looked down at the water for the last time and saw the reflection of the night sky. He watched as the star that sat once sat peacefully and beautifully in the dark night sky disappear.
A/N: Hey, I had so much fun writing this I just might create a contest to go with it, lets see what you people out there can make out of this. I'm not going to tell you much but Gotham is a HUGE hint at who was speaking to Robin and why Robin's saying he's going to do terrible things that'll be for you to figure out, I'll have the contest up in ready sooner or later, bi!