You'd have to be kidding yourself if you said Starfire's not great at well...everything.

Great fighter, great teammate, pretty great chef (most of the time), and a really great friend.

And a great kisser.

A really great- Ahem. Maybe I should back up.

You see when Starfire first came to earth she spoke no english. She was angry and desperate. Running from these intergalactic slave traders. I met so many great new friends the day I met her.

There's that word again.

I really hate that word right now. It's the last thing I said before-. Right. Um, so like I was saying Starfire's from space so she doesn't understand earths customs. And apparently Tamerainians, that's what she is, a Tamerainian, Tameranians can instantly learn new languages by lip contact.

She kissed me. And I didn't know why she did it, she didn't know what it ment to me. She didn't learn what it ment until Tokyo.

Maybe I should tell you about Tokyo.

See there was this guy made of ink- well it's not really important, you see in Tokyo none of us could speak Japanese. So Starfire just grabbed some guy and kissed him. Right on the lips for seemingly no reason. And it was a long kiss too. I mean I counted to one hundred eight times before they stopped.

Don't. Ask. Why.

But after that, kissing-a-random-stranger-thing, she explained the whole lip contact language learning thing.

By that time she'd figured out it ment something to me- us! To see her kissing people. An-and later she and I were. Well alone on a building's rooftop and I guess I thought maybe...I'd kiss her again.

No, no wait I know what you're thinking! How stupid! But it didn't feel stupid.

Like I said Starfires's great- amazing really. And she looked so beautiful. She always does.

But I didn't do it. I got my act together and left to find Brushogun. On my way to find him I destroyed one of his minions. But the minion wasn't a real person! The minion was made of ink. I got covered in the ink destroying him and ended up getting arrested.

Starfire'd cried because she thought-

Anyway I broke out and kept searching. Since I was hiding from the law I had to look like someone else. Later when I found Star she had clothes and a mask for me.

After I changed back she came in to talk to me. I apologized for- what I'd said.

And what I didn't say.

Then we almost kissed. But the rest of the team walked in.

Finally once the day was saved and it was raining badguy parts I started my apology again. She shushed me and we just kissed. In the middle of Tokyo.

Right in front of the team. In front of the while world it seemed, but then I didn't care.

Until Batman found out. That's kinda what I've been leading up to.

Never in a million years would I have guessed what Batman would do.


~Flashback time~

We were supposed to be sparring, but somehow she found out my sides are a little ticklish. Not one to be defeated I tickled her too until we were both out of breath. Just lying on the floor smiling at each other and chuckling.

And maybe somewhere in the tickling Starfire's lips had touched mine. And maybe I'd pushed her away and drawn my knees to my chest.

"Robin?" Starfire'd asked suddenly seeming troubled.

My anxiety shot through the roof. I looked away from her and up at the ceiling. "Yeah?"

She sniffed. "Don't get cold again Robin please. I miss days like today."

"Days where we get nothing done?" I'd asked a bit too harshly.

"Days where we laugh."

I couldn't think of anything to say, but my face burned. "I do too. Sometimes."

"Oh Robin!" She'd smiled so happily and had hugged me.

I let myself smile just a little too. And then I frowned and sat up.

"Robin?"

"Starfire...there's something I've been meaning to ask. I. Wondered. If. You'd want."

I stopped and turned to see her reaction. She was crying.

I'd made her cry.

She was going to say no.

Still I had to ask. "I wanted to know if you're-." I couldn't do it.

"Still up for another round of laughs!"

And before she could respond I started tickling her again.

She was flat on her back and I was on top of her. I thought absolutely nothing of it. We were just being ourselves.

Then the door opened.

Starfire was still yelling, "Robin stop!" and it didn't look playful at all to Batman.

My old mentor and father figure was standing in the doorway judging me faster than the blink of an eye.

I stood up imeadiatly, still way out of breath.

"Bat-." I'd started to say.

"Outside, now." He commanded.

"It's not-."

Starfire saw that I did not know what to do. So she tried to help."Robin? It's okay to go say hello to Batman. I know you miss him very much sometimes."

Tried.

"Go ahead Robin. We can complete our sparring later. We can even finish tommarow. You and Batman must have so much catching up-."

I just turned and glared at her.

She gasped. "Robin."

"Yeah. Great." I'd said sarcastically. Then I left swiftly in hopes of explaining what had happened to batman.

Big mistake.