Home Truly – Teen Titans
Story Summary: Starfire contracts an unknown illness that mutates in her alien body. The Tower is thrown into panic at even the slightest chance of losing a fellow Titan. But as she slowly becomes delirious, will she still see the Tower as her home? R&S pairing, B&Rae pairing, I suppose.
Chapter 1: Whenever I am Feeling Low
Customary Author's (who doesn't own TT or anything) Introduction:
Good day, fellow readers. I'm hoping to be able to provide top condition fan-fictions for you. No original characters in this fanfiction, though. Those are rife in this place and I want to do something different.
I will try my best not to let anyone die, I promise.
Mr. Marvel: Some beings do not die. They EVOLVE!
That didn't have much to do with what I just typed... or did it?
Begin Story
"Robin."
It was a croaking, gravelly voice, but Robin mentally brushed it aside. He was far too busy with his own things; monitoring security cameras, organising his files, searching once again for any signs and clues of Slade.
He could have left it until a civilised hour, when the sun was up, but the young adolescent couldn't seem to wait until then. Already it was the fourth day in a row that he had glued his eyes to the computer screen until the wee hours of the morning. The droop of his eyelids, or perhaps his mask, was already obvious. Perhaps that was why he kept it hidden, facing a screen of numbers and images none of the Titans would care to look at.
"Robin."
There it was again. The boy was still cooped up in the chair, his green-gloved fingers rapidly jumping from key to key as yet more windows and data popped up at its command. Perhaps it soothed him to keep busy like this, or perhaps it gave him a sense of joy at the obedience of the computer that nothing else could. Sure his rather unruly team of Titans obeyed his orders, but not with the compliance of the machine he sat before now. And when you didn't need it, you could shut it down instead of his group that would lie around on the sofa or play volleyball, or just be irritating and knock on his door all day.
"Robin!"
"What...?" At last the Bird Boy responded, but he still gave no thought to who it was. His yellow cape lay crumpled under his suit of red and green, his green gloves came down on the metallic keyboard in frustration. He turned around.
A rather tall girl stood in the doorway, leaning heavily on the wall with her right hand and clutching her stomach with another. Her hair, usually neat strands cascading down smoothly to the small of her back, now was a scarlet bird's nest on the top of her head. Her purple outfit was crumpled and messy as well, and her unnatural orange skin had a green tinge to it.
That was enough to make Robin cease his work at last.
"Starfire," he dumbly spoke her name. "What's... what's wrong?"
The female, Starfire, gave a weak grimace. "I feel... unwell."
Customary Author's Post-Chapter Note:
I'm sorry that that was rather short. I may even upload two chapters at the same time since it's Saturday. Well, I suppose I'll see you around. I need to plan the next chapter.
Coming Up: I Look Around Me and I Know
Starfire is sick, very sick. So sick, that no one knows what it actually is. One doctor says that it's an entirely new strain, another says it's a mutation. Yet another says that it's an alien disease that cannot be treated, at least on Earth. The girl starts to get delirious and fits that may worsen her health even more. What will happen next?
