HI! I asked porcelaindakota if I could finish off this story and she said yes. These first four chapters are hers but anything after that is mine; I hope I can live up to the first four chapters!

KKA

(All of the Titans)

Beast Boy stood at the front of the room, with a very characteristic, lopsided grin across his face. "Ladies and gentlemen! It is…move night! Before we preview tonight's selection, may I suggest that if you are of weak constitution, that you leave the room!" The changeling then turned to his robotic companion. "Take it, Cyborg!"

Cyborg cleared his throat and shoved Beast Boy to the side. "For tonight's movie night," he spoke in a Boris Karloff sort of tone, "we will be watching the creepiest, scariest, most terrifying movie ever! I give you…Slashed!" Cyborg rubbed his hands together gleefully.

Beast Boy jumped in again. "By the time this movie is over, you will be freaked out so bad, you'll have to—" Raven, tired of all the hype, simply encased him and Cyborg in her magical bonds and threw them to the side of the screen. Robin then got up and placed the movie into the DVD player, as Cyborg and Beast Boy, grumpy that their moment had been ruined, slunk to the couch. When Robin sat back down, Starfire scooted slightly closer to him.

He looked at her, slightly surprised. "If this movie is as horrifying as the last," she whispered, looking embarrassed, "Then I believe I may be in need of your assistance once again." Robin chuckled and slipped his arm around her, resulting in slight blushes from both of the teen heroes.

(Later—midway through the movie).

Beast Boy was right…Robin thought. This is creepy. So far, the movie had mainly encompassed people being randomly killed by these giant mutant alligator-looking aliens. While there really was no plot to speak of, the sheer number of individual death-scenes were usually preluded by a scene in which the aliens would hunt down their victim. The stalking scenes were the scariest.

Feeling a slight pressure on his arm, Robin turned and looked at Starfire, who was holding on for dear life.

She was clutching his arm extremely tightly, but her eyes had not left the screen. Her pupils, strangely enough, had dilated, and she seemed detached and far away…like she wasn't really seeing the movie. Her eyes had lost their emerald glow and had gone gray and damp…lifeless. Robin was reminded with a chill of her presence of thought from the day previously.

Not entirely reassured, Robin turned back to the movie screen. Right now, the aliens were about to finish off one of the main characters. They were some kind of sewer or cellar (Robin hadn't been watching closely enough to notice) and three of the aliens had backed their prey into the wall. Then, one of the aliens raised its giant claws, and while the others held the man down, slashed through his throat and face in one blow.

The movie was fairly gory—every time someone died, the directors made sure to show every detail of it. This time, they zoomed in on the man's face, which was still wide-eyed in shock and terror. Blood was gushing from his wounds in his face and throat, and he…

Starfire let out a mangled cry and suddenly leapt up from the couch and flew away. Robin immediately sat up, as did the others.

They all turned to face each other, as Cyborg paused the movie.

"She was probably just freaked out, like I said," Beast Boy paused for a moment. "I mean, lots of people die in this movie and stuff…" Robin said nothing, but mulled the facts over in his mind…he couldn't help but think of the incident from the day before, which the other Titans knew nothing of.

"I'll go talk to her. You guys can keep watching," Robin said grimly, as he jumped over the back of the chair and left the room in a swishing of his cape.

(Starfire).

Starfire locked the door behind her, and crouched behind her bed. The darkness of her room calmed her somehow.

The movie…it had been like she was there again…the aliens had looked just like them…Starfire inhaled sharply and grabbed a fistful of her curtains. She was shaking uncontrollably as she leaned against her cool wall, silent tears pouring down her face. These were by far some of her worst memories…

"Starfire?" Robin's voice came from the other side of her locked door. Starfire attempted to wipe her face down, and then, deciding it was useless, floated over to the door and opened it.

Robin immediately stepped inside and shut it behind him. "Star, what's going on? Yesterday, and now this—" he looked at her face, and his eyes widened slightly. "You've been crying."

"Robin, it is truly nothing," Starfire said, trying to regain her consolatory tone. "I was simply upset by the movie, that is all." She gave him a weak grin, which he did not return.

"Do you want to do something else? To get your mind off of it? We could…" Starfire shook her head slowly.

"Robin, right now I merely wish to rest." Robin nodded slowly as she turned from him and crawled under her covers.

He stared at her for a moment, enchanted, as her fiery hair spread out over the pillow. "Robin?" Her voice snapped him out of his reverie, and he kneeled next to her bed.

Robin smiled. "Anything I can do to help?" Starfire's eyes flashed with excitement, and she grabbed his hand.

She smiled. "Sing to me. Please?" Robin opened his mouth to disagree at once, but by then she had turned over on her mattress and had propped herself up on her elbow, smiling dreamily at him. Her eyes had softened, and were pleading with him to do their bidding.

Robin sighed in defeat. "What song?" Starfire grinned and shook her head.

"Robin, I do not know. The singer always chooses the song," she stated, as if it were fact. "You must choose…since I am going to slumber, perhaps a lullaby?" Robin thought for a moment…he didn't really know any songs. The last person who had really sang to him was his mother, when he was small. But that had been years ago; he didn't remember any of it.

Except…

Robin smiled shyly. "I'm not very good," he mumbled, "and I don't know any good songs." Starfire merely watched in amusement as he floundered.

Then he cleared his throat. "Okay, um…"

"Are you far away from home
this dark and lonely night—"

His voice was one of a man; it was deep and rich. It crackled slightly, which made Starfire want to giggle, but at the same time, it was filled with his unknown past. In his voice there were secrets that she was never meant to know.

"Tell me what best would help
to ease your mind"

Starfire shut her eyes and leaned back onto her pillow, allowing sleep to slowly overtake her in a whirl of darkness and exhaustion and Robin's voice.

"Someone to give
Direction for this unfamiliar road
or one who says, "follow me and I
Will lead you home."

Robin finished quietly, and fixed his gaze on the now slumbering Starfire. He touched the back of his hand to her cheek, stroking it softly.

"Good night," he whispered, soundlessly leaving the room.

(Starfire—late that night).

She tossed and turned in her sleep, moaning softly in remembered pain. She kicked the covers off of her and began twitching and thrashing ceaselessly…

After her first day aboard the Citadel's ship, it had become evident who had betrayed Tamaran—and Koriand'r—to them.

Blackfire, or Komand'r, as she had been called, had left Tamaran years earlier, angered at being passed over for the throne in favor of Koriand'r. No one had known where she had gone; now it was apparent that she had taken refuge with the Citadel, and obtained a position of leadership among them. Komand'r had been the one to call for the so-called 'treaty' between Tamaran and the Citadel.

She had taken her revenge upon her sister one step further; she had exiled her into slavery under the Gordanians, a vicious race that lived in the center of the Vegan Star System, and was constantly at war with neighboring planets.

Koriand'r was now in her third agonizing year of enslavement to the Gordanians. She maintained hope that she would one day be either rescued or would manage to escape. Her hopes were slimming, however…things looked bleak. At the moment, her head was not filled with fanciful ideas of escape—instead, she was entirely focused on the task at hand.

Koriand'r's cautious work was disrupted, as she felt a strong, scaly hand upon her arm. Her 'master,' a particularly crude Gordanian, slammed her against the wall. He bared his fangs at her, driving her harder into the cold concrete. The muscular alien then unsheathed his claws, grappling them a few inches from her face and throat. His heavy, heaving breaths were laden with the stench of Gordanian alcohol. Koriand'r's eyes widened in fear as the alien flung her against a concrete beam, nearby in the darkened hallway. Her master crept closer and closer, his eyes gaining a murderous sheen as he advanced.

"Star! C'mon, girl, what's going on?"

"…she's going into shock…"

"DUDE! Raven, what's—"

"Raven, stop it! Whatever's going on, stop it!"

When he was only feet from her, a shadow leapt between them. "Leave her alone!" Koriand'r peered through her tightly shut eyes to see her new mother-figure from the slave camps, a woman named Hy'zzon.

Koriand'r's master stared, shocked at the interruption for a moment, and then bared his teeth and claws at the heavyset slave.

Then, in one fluid motion, he slashed her throat.

(Present)

"Starfire! Star, wake up! Raven, do something!" Robin was panicking, shaking the shrieking Tamaranian girl by her shoulders…nothing was working.

Raven moved in, placing her hands on Starfire's forehead. "Out of my way! Azarath…metrion…zinthos." Immediately, both hers and Starfire's eyes were alight with her dark energy, and Starfire ceased her bizarre cringing and shaking.

A moment, later, she awakened.

"Friends? What…what is happening? I do not feel like myself…" Robin frowned next to her, as Cyborg and Beast Boy grabbed her from underneath her shoulder and heaved her to her feet, helping her to stagger to the med bay, where she promptly threw up.

Meanwhile, Robin held Raven back. She looked at him expectantly, putting her hands on her hips—a silent gesture telling him to hurry up.

"Raven," he began, his face darkening, "do you think that…that Slade could be behind this?" Raven shook her head, knowing how Robin had drawn that conclusion. But she knew this had come from within Starfire.

"Starfire wasn't under the influence of anything. No psychotics or hallucinogens…not like when Slade tricked you, Robin," Robin shuddered internally, remembering the incident when Slade had poisoned his mind into believing that he was hunting him down. "Whatever Starfire was dreaming about…it wasn't because of any outside influence. If you have Cyborg scan her, you'll see that for yourself." Robin nodded, his eyes narrowing.

"Thank you," he said quietly, and walked away from her into the shadows.