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Chapter 2: Aftermath
"Victory at last," Starfire said after finishing off the last robot.
"No, we didn't win. Just look around you," Raven replied as she crossed her arms. Everything in the room was destroyed from the fight.
"Beast Boy! Come in Beast Boy!" Robin shouted into his communicator.
"Where is friend Beast Boy? We needed his help," Starfire said, floating down so she could pat Robin's shoulder.
"I'm here."
They all stopped and turned their attention to the green shape shifter and the blonde earth-manipulator by his side.
"And just where have you two been?" Robin shouted, making his way other to them. "Do you have any idea of what we just had to go through?"
Terra held her head down in shame.
"What happened?" Beast Boy asked, trying his best to act shocked at the damage.
"We just had to fight hundreds of Slade's robots! We could've used your help! Where the hell where you guys?" Cyborg asked, joining in with Robin's lecture.
"We were... on a date?" Terra said, almost as it were a question. She noticed Raven cringe after she spoke.
"That's no excuse! Why didn't you have your communicators with you?" Robin shouted, almost shaking from his own anger.
Beast Boy quickly looked at Terra and looked away before saying, "I lost mine."
"That's just perfect. Almost everything in the tower is broken and you need a new communicator! We don't even have anything to make you one with!" Robin shouted, almost screaming.
"It's alright, Robin," Raven spoke up, scowling at Terra. "He can just share one with his girlfriend."
"Please friends, we must not fight over this! We have just dealt with the most upsetting of tragedies. The fault is none of yours," Starfire said, getting in-between them.
"You're right Star, I'm sorry," Robin said, forcing a smile to his alien crush.
"You are forgiven. Now let us clean up the mess."
Within hours the tower was already looking better. Raven used a few spells to repair the appliances, Starfire used her super-strength to put the heavier objects back into place, Robin was making some important phone calls and Cyborg was working on the plumbing. Beast Boy and Terra were out shopping for groceries and the items that couldn't be fixed.
"I didn't mean for any of this to happen," Terra said, placing some cereal into the shopping cart.
"A good friend once told me, 'we cannot change the truth, no matter how much we dislike it.'" He replied, smiling at the memory of him and Raven getting along.
"Wow, that's pretty meaningful," she said with a smile. It quickly faded before she said, "I can't believe that all the damage that happened was my fault."
"It's okay, really. Can we just move past this already?" he asked, deciding if he should put Cyborg's favourite sausages in the cart. He put them back on the shelf after saying, "nah."
"Friend Raven, is everything okay?" Starfire asked, catching the empath off guard.
"Huh? Oh yeah, I'm fine," she said, shaking her head quickly and began to paint the walls.
"You do not seem to be fine," Starfire replied. "Is it because Beast Boy and Terra have been doing the dating?"
"They're not official, Star. They've only been on one date," she said, forcing a smile.
"But they will be soon. Oh it is most romantic! Soon they will start doing the hugging and the kissing-"
"Stop!" Raven screamed, interrupting her. She slammed her hand over her mouth, annoyed at her sudden outburst. "Sorry, I just... I can't concentrate when you're talking such nonsense."
"I apologise. I did not realise you held the romantic feelings for our friend," Starfire said quietly, hoping she wouldn't make her friend mad again.
"Excuse me?" Raven said, accidentally dropping her paint brush in surprise and shock. "And just who do I have feelings for?"
"I did not mean to offend you, but you have made it quite obvious that you are attracted to Beast Boy."
"W-what?" she stammered. "I do not like Beast Boy!"
"On my planet, when someone is in love with another, they constantly abuse them for a while to get their attention," Starfire said, smiling slightly.
"Do I look like a Tamaranian to you?" Raven sarcastically asked as she crossed her arms. "If that's the case, then why don't you abuse Robin?"
"Robin is not as strong as my people. I could never harm him."
"Well, I'm not going to start talking about how confusing your alien ways are, but I'm going to end this conversation with saying that I don't like Beast Boy in that way."
"Raven, you must not lie to me."
"Starfire, I'm not lying to you," Raven said, picking her paintbrush off of the floor. She hesitated before painting the wall again. "C-can I ask you something?"
"You can ask me anything, friend."
"Do you really think that I," she paused for a moment. "Do you think that I abuse Beast Boy?"
"You ignore him, you tell him his jokes are not humorous and you hurt him physically sometimes," Starfire replied as she also picked up a paintbrush to help with decorating the walls. "He sometimes tells me how upset he is because of you."
"What?"
"He tells me that he wants to get to know you more. But whenever he tries, you push him away and make him feel like a troq."
"Troq?"
"Nothing. You make him feel like he is nothing."
