(A/N): Here we go. Chapter 2. Click that button below the chapter and review. I need to know what I got right and wrong with this chapter. Problems as pointed out by my Beta M.R. Dalizzle.
"Well. I see you kept that sweet way with the ladies." She smirked as Robin fell out of shock and hugged her closely. Starfire tried to keep from narrowing her eyes in annoyance. They hugged for a couple moments longer than Starfire thought was necessary and finally he pulled back from her. They smiled at each other as Robin began the introductions.
"Batgirl, this is the team. That's Raven, Cyborg, Starfire and Beast Boy. This is Batgirl or Barbara if we're in public." He pointed to each Titan in turn. She looked at each member for a few seconds before leveling her gaze at Starfire. Barbara put a hand out to each of them after each member greeted her. She narrowed her eyes at Starfire as she scoped her out for a few seconds. "I love that amulet, Serena." Starfire gazed back and said with fire in her eyes and probably her hands too, "Actually my name is Starfire, Barbara." She moved her gaze back to Robin who still had a dopey grin on his face as he looked at Batgirl.
"Now that everybody's introduced, let's go back to the tower and eat." Cyborg said. Beast Boy and Cyborg started a spiel about having tofu or real meat for dinner or not. Raven muttered about the stupidity of the whole argument as Star tried to maintain her normal, happy façade as she used all her strength to not look at Babs and Robin making the ham up.
"So where is your home Barbara?" Starfire asked. The team sat down to eat some leftover pizza from the night before. Barbara had the entire team cracking up as she told some of the wilder stories from her and Robin's past, excluding the truth about Batman of course. The entire team seemed to be enchanted with her, well with the exception of Starfire who seemed oddly melancholy to the rest of the team. She swallowed a bite of her third slice of pizza and looked at Starfire sideways. "Hmm?" she asked. "Where are you from?" Raven asked.
"Oh, I'm from Gotham. Robin and I go way back." Starfire scrunched her face up a little at this. That caught everyone's attention, except for Robin. Cyborg asked, "I'm guessing that you worked with Batman then?" She smirked and looked towards Robin out the corner of her eye. He was watching to see what she would do, she could tell. "Occasionally. I'd have to say more often than not." Beast Boy yawned very loudly. It was obvious that she was not going to tell much more about Gotham than Robin would. Heck, the Titans only knew that he ran into Batman sometimes in Gotham.
"Oh, can you tell us some stories about Gotham and Batman? I hear he can be really tough." Beast Boy said. Batgirl and Robin stared into one another's eyes, both dancing with mirth. "He can be intense and really annoying, but I can't really say scary. Can you Robin?" His eyes froze over. "I can't say Barbara. Well, I'm going to sleep." He yawned obnoxiously. "Goodnight Titans." Barbara and Starfire followed them with their eyes. "Oh, Boy Wonder?" Barbara said liltingly before he made it to the door. "You forgot to tell me where I'm staying for the night." He blushed slightly, way too out of character to the rest of the team.
"Oh right. I'll show you now, if you want." Robin said. Barbara followed him out of the living room and down the corridor into his own room. As soon as the doors to his room closed, she asked him, "So where can a girl change clothes?" He nodded over to his bathroom. Barbara disappeared through the doors and a few seconds later appeared free of her uniform with one of his shirts and a pair of boxers on. He cleared his throat to swallow the old feelings that came rushing back when she reappeared. "What's wrong, do you have something stuck in your throat?" He shook his head.
"If you need me I'll be sleeping on the couch." She frowned and pulled his arm as he was about to go through the door. "Nonsense, I can sleep out there if I'm putting you out. What happened to all of the guest rooms you were bragging about before over the phone?" She shook out her auburn red hair, the amber highlights catching the light. Her amber eyes popped out even more with the highlights around her face. Oh he definitely had an attraction to redheads, especially the one wearing his clothes.
"Don't be ridiculous Babs. The guest rooms were messed up by a little incident that happened a few days before and you're a guest. The couch isn't exactly the most comfortable place for you to sleep." She quirked an eyebrow.
"So why risk your back for tomorrow then? Come on. I don't bite, just sleep on the bed and we can share like old times." He hesitated. Before he could start shaking his head, she blurted out, "Does this have anything to do with that orange girl, Starfire?" He shook his head violently at first, then he nodded slowly. "So I take it you're confused about it. Why don't you act on it?"
Robin groaned. "Do we have talk about this now? I just want to go to sleep. What side of the bed do you want?" Babs smirked, mirth hiding the curiosity and jealousy brewing inside of her. "Left. I can tell that you need to release some emotions, so why not tell good old Babs." She plopped down on the edge of the bed and peeled back the covers, lying down on the bed and replacing the covers. His head was between his hands as he sat on the edge of the bed. "Robin you can't exactly hide from your emotions here. If you can't deal with your problems with Starfire, then how can we talk about what's going on between the two of us?" Robin shook his head. "That is your problem right there. You can't deal with your emotions. You are just like Bruce." Babs said softly. Those words broke through his emotional conflicts.
"I am nothing like that man! I am not cold and heartless!" Robin yelled. Babs only arched her eyebrows and rested her elbows onto the pillows.
"Neither is he. How many times has he come to your rescue? Been there for you?" She moved out of the bed.
"Thrown me out of Gotham? Turned his back on me? Never bothered to try to help me branch out of that damned city? He didn't even try to listen to me anymore!" Robin yelled.
She held up her hands in front of her. "Fair enough Robin. However he is still the closest person to being your father; he took you in when you needed it most. If there was ever any question about it you just proved it because this man that you claim to hate passed on the emotional iciness." She said with an edge of cockiness to her voice. She moved closer to the edge of the bed. Robin jumped up and said with venom, "I am nothing like him. You know how he is Babs and I am just not him." Barbara stood next to Robin.
"Your mouth is making checks, your actions just won't cash. C'mon Richard!" She threw her hands up into the air as he shook his head violently. "You can't even take off this mask to speak to your friend. If you are nothing like him then prove it. Deal with these emotions that no one gets to see. Be the guy that Bruce isn't." She placed her arms around his neck and slipped her hands under the mask loosening it until it fell to the ground and looked into his icy blue eyes. Their eyes held a contact line of electricity as she said, "Be the guy I remember." She placed her hands on his cheeks affectionately. He closed his eyes and leaned into her hands. The electricity intensified as their lips neared towards each other like magnets, eyes closing like windowshades. Her lips hovered over his enough that he could feel the rumbling of lightning strikes that were her words. "I miss him so much. Have you seen him?" He leaned in and planted a deep, throaty kiss on her. She smiled in victory once they broke apart."I missed you so much." He mumbled under her lips. He plunged back into the kiss, drowning in the depths before Starfire's face popped up into his mind and the hallway where she remained hidden from his line of sight. He took her hands from her face into his own and leaned his forehead onto hers.
"I can't do this Babs." She gazed at him, confused before a look of realization came across her face. "Oh. I get it. You feel something for her too." He looked down in guilt. He couldn't exactly deny that. "Wow. You don't have to be ashamed of that. It's been too long and I guess I still had pent up feelings. Hypocritical, huh?" She laughed a little, looking away from her.
He held onto her chin and pulled her face back towards his. "I can't jump back into a relationship with you. I will always love you, but I do have feelings for her too. I can't forgo them because I saw you again. I don't want to hurt either of you and I would be doing exactly that by jumpng into a relationship with you and not sorting out these emotions." He shivered as he spoke the word. Damn, one kiss and she had him speaking like this. She laughed and shook her head.
"I am not Supergirl, and this will not be my kryptonite. If you need to figure it out, then that's fine. Just know that I will be here for you until you can sort it out. In the meantime I'll leave you with something to consider." She pulled him close and kissed him more passionately than before, he tried not to let himself kiss her back, but failed as her lips unfroze him and caused him to melt farther into it. They made out for a little while longer. "Goodnight Robin. I'm going to the couch if you need me." She sashayed out the door and into the corridor, not even noticing the Tameranean standing opposite from her, eyes glowing brightly like freshly reflected jewels.
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