"Cyborg!
Heads up!" Robin yelled as Cinderblock came up behind him, fist
poised clumsily over his head. Cyborg turned around quickly and aimed
his cannon up, shooting a considerable hole through the monster's
hand. Screeching in fury, Cinderblock wheeled around, knocking a hole
through a brick wall in the process. "Star, help me--"
"Yes,
Robin," she complied, already lifting him by his wrists,
inexplicably anticipating his command, as always. According to his
instruction, she brought him up to the back of Cinderblock's head as
Raven distracted him with a floating minivan to the face. He planned
to attach a freeze disk to the rocky skull, and take him out with a
flying kick. It did not quite work out that way, however. Just as he
neared Cinderblock's head, Star sneezed...loudly. Wheeling around,
the monster swatted Robin off from his perch on his shoulder like an
annoying fly--sending him careening into Starfire, who was hovering
behind him and feeling mortified. They both sailed 20 feet to the
other side of the street, Starfire forgetting to fly in her shock of
being hit. As they landed, they rolled over and over and came to rest
in a tangle of limbs. Starfire started speaking as soon as the
rolling stopped.
"Robin, I am so sorry, I did not mean
to, it is my allergies, I..." as she turned her head she trailed
off. Robin's face was two inches from hers, and she was lying half on
top of him, one of her legs thrown between his and her arms on either
side of his shoulders. Robin was about to tell her she had nothing to
worry about, but he felt himself get lost in the scent of her hair,
which had fallen down like a silky curtain, shielding their faces
from the sun and ever so slightly brushing his cheek. He could make
out every fleck of light in her eyes, and he couldn't seem to tear
his own away from their gaze. Realizing he must be making her
uncomfortable, he made himself lower his eyes...and they rested on
her mouth. Big mistake. He gazed at her slightly parted lips,
mesmorized at the way they moved as she began to breath more heavily.
Unaware what he was doing, he had moved an inch closer to her face.
Seeing nothing worse than slight surprise in Star's eyes, he let out
a breath, closed his eyes and let himself be drawn in the rest of the
way.
If Starfire didn't know better, she could have sworn she
was flying. But no, she was on the ground...actually, she was on
Robin, who was on the ground...Robin...she didn't know if it was the
tingle of his lips on hers, or the increasing warmth of his hands on
her back, or the smell of him so close, but she felt like her stomach
was doing flips and her body was floating through space. Robin
tightened his arms and rolled over so he was on top of her, and she
thought she could feel his lips form a smile as they pressed even
harder against hers.
They were interrupted by a loud crash.
Robin broke the kiss abruptly, breathing hard, and Star yelped. They
had forgotten that the other Titans were still fighting Cinderblock.
Looking guilty but deleriously happy, Robin helped her to her
feet.
"We've got to help out now. Maybe later...?" She
nodded and he grinned, pulling her in for a quick hug. She breathed
him in, getting as much of him as she could, before they started
running back across the street. The others, who had just noticed
their absense, saw Star and Robin running toward them, ready to
finish off Cinderblock. However, they didn't see the extra sparkle in
Star's eyes, or that the usually graceful and nimble Robin stumbled
quite a bit as he ran, an almost undetectable smile on his face.
