A/N: Long time no update, okay I know I said I wouldn't be updating till I finished Breaking Law or 14 Years but I'm updating anyways since this has been rotting in the attic of my laptop!
He didn't know how to describe it, it had only been a few days and he was being completely swept away by her. Not just because of her beauty too, which surprised him, he never imagined he could find, how to say 'the whole package' in someone like this, she may not have acted like it but she was actually quite intelligent, but what really got him was her compassion and forgiveness. She's deep in contrast to her sister who, though he hates to admit, seems infatuated with him also. He and Starfire shared the same room every night but made sure to stay as far as they could from each other as they could in the bed, though one morning he awoke to find Starfire's arms wrapped around him, his neck cradling hers despite that fact that she was taller than him by about two inches. Their faces were absolutely priceless; somehow in their sleep they managed to tangle themselves together into that position. Starfire was absolutely mortified and kept saying sorry, repeatedly.
This morning it happened again but something was different, when he say her strawberry hair he didn't freak out nor did he want to let go of her, he wanted to stay here with her and hold her, forever. He didn't know what had changed his mind but everything that troubled him seem to disappear just at the sight of her, she was his cure, the cure to the disease he had made for himself. Her tan eyelids fluttered opened and she instantly went to move away but she couldn't, he caught her hand, surprising them both.
"Starfire…" He was at loss for words, then suddenly he felt two warm soft hands on his checks and her soft lips press against his own for longer than just a second, his eyes seemed to have melted closed but then slowly opened when they separated.
"I am sorry." She said shyly instantly moving herself away from him.
"No you shouldn't." He said just as she ran out of the room.
Robin shook his head, devastated and overjoyed at the same time, he still couldn't understand how she had swept him away so quickly. He walked to go get changed in the bathroom and while inside he accidentally knocked over a bunch of Starfire's perfumes. He started to pick the bottles up reading the names of the bottles until he came to one that stood out. He knew this bottle all too well, a few years ago Poison Ivy had sold thousands of bottles of her toxic perfume that could make any man no matter how resilient fall desperately in love with you in the matter of days. It had been rumored that Poison Ivy had sold a few bottles off the planet but it was never proven; well now it was.
Betrayal swept over him as he opened the bottle up and poured it down the toilet in anger. He marched out of the bathroom after finishing changing in search of Starfire ready to speak his mind.
Aliens, they're all the same, the only reason Clark is trust worthy is because he was raised by the Kent's, by humans.
He was walking to the Throne Room when the ship started to rattle and shake and within several minutes he heard a large noise come from down a few halls. He ran quickly and witnessed the doors opening to reveal the fertile and slightly barren planet of Tamaran, the red and purple hues of the planet being its greatest highly besides its crystallized utopia. Starfire stood in front of him looking very sad, almost depressed and he was almost sure that he wasn't going to back down just because she had a pouty face on. Starfire turned to view him and just as he was about to speak her arms came around him and she hugged him hard and he could almost hear his bones cracking inside is body.
"I'm so sorry for this, I love your Robin." She let go and took a few large strides back. It was too late, too late for him to notice she had his utility belt, too late for him to notice that two large bulky warriors were approaching him aggressively, too late for him to react before he was pinned to the ground gagged, chained, and blinded. The last thing he saw being the tears falling down Starfire's all too delicate face and hearing the struggle of Cyborg and Beast Boy come up next to him.
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When he awoke his body ached, if he thought the beating was bad when he was originally brought aboard the alien ship, he was wrong, heck he'd take that beating over the one he just received any day. He sat in a cell all to his lone some the wet and sticky cement floor frigid against his throbbing skin. He attempted to look around but his necked killed him though he pushed away the pain and took a good look, only to see Cyborg and Beast Boy lying in separate corners unconscious and beaten also.
"Cyborg, Beast Boy." He choked out and they began to stir. He repeated it again and Cyborg's eyes eventually opened.
"What happened?"
"No idea but I feel like I just went through the spin cycle on my washer." Beast Boy said, that being his attempt at humor.
"We're in a cell; I'd know one in a heartbeat."
"You must've spent a lot of your child hood in Arkham huh, you know delivering those psycho's and all." Cyborg said.
"To be specific, I've been there 789 times, and that's not including all the times Joker has escaped or we were bringing him back in."
"Wow." Was all BB could muster to say.
"What I really want to know now though is what we're doing here, one second we're being treated like royalty on the ship now were like yesterdays garbage or something." Cyborg said.
"Agreed." Robin said then suddenly the door creaked open and Raven walked into the room abruptly shutting the door behind her quickly.
"I'm not supposed to be here but the Princess and I agree that you must understand what is going on." She sat down on the dusty cot next to Beast Boy.
"What is going on?" Robin demanded furiously.
"Ever male on the planet has to go through this process, the test. They're locked away in the prison, this place, for 6 months and are put through a torture that's worse than death itself from what I've heard. If you come out alive, sane, and not psychology scarred you will be allowed to marry the princess."
"What if I don't want to marry the princess?" He was quite frustrated with this whole situation and she could tell.
"You will but not because you have to but because you are in love with her."
"She was drugging me, how can I love someone who does that to a person!" He demanded and Raven let out a little sigh.
"It was necessary, you would resist to much if she didn't. She was ordered to."
"By who, she is the Princess?"
"The Tamaranian Royal council."
"What?"
"The Tamaranian Royal Council, it's their form of Parliament. "
"Really?" He said not really believing this.
"Yes, they gave her a code of conduct, of how this matter was to be dealt with, and this is part of the deal. She sends her sincerest apologies, honestly."
"Then why are we here?" Beast Boy asked.
"You're his wingmen so to say, so whatever his fate is so shall yours be."
"So say he dies, do we…" Beast Boy said sliding his finger across his neck and making a slurring sound with his mouth.
"Yes, Tamaranian law is strict and cruel when it comes to outsiders but they are also a very kind race. Oh and might I add that both of you shall have to marry, also, if you do not wish to be killed."
"What?" Both Cyborg and Beast Boy yelled frantically.
"Yes, the Princess's advisors have to also marry."
"Ya gotta be kindin' me." Cyborg said looking like he was about to faint.
"Well you're one of them, who's the other?" Robin asked.
"Bumblebee, one of you will marry her, and one of you will marry me."
Cyborg and Beast Boy stared at her for a moment.
"I call Bee!" They both yelled allowed.
A vain popped in Ravens forehead and she stood up abruptly, quickly making her way out of the room but not before dropping something in Robin's lap. A letter, a plain white letter with a short paragraph of writing upon it.
Dear Robin,
I know you must be angry with me and you have probably found out about the perfume by the way you looked when you came looking for me. I have to say I am sorry, and that I do, I really do, love you. Please endure for me, this will be worse than anything you have ever felt so endure, I don't know how many times I have to say it but endure. Endure for me Robin, please. Please respond, Raven will carry the note back and forth.
It wasn't signed but he knew who it was anyways, Starfire asked him to endure and he would but not for her but for his own sanity, for a better future, for these two guys who he had recently met and already had their lives hanging in the balance.