Chapter 2
Starfire sat in her room still frustrated with her conversation with Slade "how dare he..assume to know and understand me..no one here really
knows me..or understands me..but I know that I can never reveal that I saw him unmasked Robin would flip if he knew I found out before him..hehe
when I think about it it's kind of funny how that happened..and Slade's appearance I would of never guessed that his hair...was white...it's
interesting..I wounder if it's always been that way...and he seemed to of lost an eye..which is some what tragic...I wonder what happened...why am
I wondering these things..I never have before..why should I care...I guess...just like me no one really knows anything about him..." she suddenly
hears a knock on her door she gets up to answer it seeing Robin at her door "oh..hello Robin..is there something you needed" Starfire asked feeling
slightly uncomfortable "you..left earlier where did you go...just wondering" Robin asked as she paused for a moment
"I went out to get coffee...why does it matter where I went why do you care to know I am allowed to leave and go places" feeling irritated with him
"I just wanted to know is all..I should l always know where my team mates are" he replied crossing his arms "well..you don't need to worry about
me..not like you ever have before" Robin glared "really...your going to start this again...you never did know how to let anything go so its expected"
Starfire glared back with her hands on her hips "please leave...I wish to be left alone now.." starting to shut the door on him but pushes it open
stepping in and her stepping back
"..what do you want from me...why do you continue to harass me knowing I'm not ok with it...just leave it alone...we split because...you wanted to
split up not me..I actually loved you..but it never seemed you felt the same for me...your the one that walked away..I tried all that I could to keep it
together fix everything..when you never tried...and I'm so tired...please just leave...get out.." Robin going silent as she goes off on him when the
alarm suddenly goes off "we'll talk later...lets go" Starfire sighed following her friends out into the city being lead to a cave mine "got a hit on a
suspicious character wondering around here going through the equipment" Robin explained as they began searching through the cave mine
completely dark Starfire lighting her hand to a bright green flame instead of a starbolt
"awesome that lights the way a lot better its cool how you can use fire now" Beast Boy said with a smile causing Starfire to smile "yes...I agree it is
very helpful to me now...now let us find this character" Robin scuffed rolling his eyes "it's not hard to guess who it is...really how naive can you be"
Starfire had finally had enough her eyes glowing bright green "you know what!...I am not stupid..I am more educated then most of you!...but you
could never know that...I don't need you to do this...and to prove..it I'll go on my own I'll show exactly what I can do" grabbing him against the wall
slamming him leaving Robin in shock "...I'll show you whos the stupid one.." letting him go taking off quickly out of sight
"starfire no! wait" Raven trying to stop her from taking off but is too late Starfire was too quick then turning to Robin "what the hell is wrong with
you...why would you say shit like that to her...you know that's not true about her..all your doing is pissing her off and upsetting her..and I'm telling
you..now your gonna get whats coming...come on guys lets go look for her...before she gets herself hurt" Ravens eyes now glowing red with anger
with Beast boy walking beside her placing a hand on her shoulder "it'll be ok we'll find her...Robins just an ass..who doesn't know how to keep his
mouth shut don't lt him get to you or any of us Starfire can handle herself...you'll see" making her smile
Meanwhile Starfire wondered far into the cave "I'll show him...I'm not stupid..I'm not weak I have worrier blood running through my veins and it's
about time I let it show and embrace it.."clenching her fist hoovering off the ground both of her hands on fire and her eyes glowing "you seem pretty
strong to me" a voice behind her echos as she turns to see Slade standing there "ugh!..why is it always you..it has to be you!...don't you have
anything better to do..then fight a bunch of teenagers for years on end getting no results.." Slade chuckled slightly stepping closer "well...your not
exactly teenagers anymore are you...or have you not realized that yet" she glared ready to strike "yes...I'm fully aware I'm not a teenager
anymore..but" he cut her off to speak "but...someone else doesn't see that does he..he thinks you'll remain teenagers forever...titans forever am I
right" she looked at him shocked that he actually understood that "h..how did you know that I thought that way..."
her eyes stop glowing but keeping her flames lit "it's really not that complicated to understand...answer me this honestly..can you really see yourself
being a titan forever...as you said your people are worriers made to fight born to fight but not like how you and your friends do...you and your
people understand war I'm assuming" {no stop don't talk with him he's the enemy here stay focused he's tricking you}she shook her head making
the flames bigger "no...enough of this...I should not interacting with you..." Slade began smirking under his mask "hmm if you can handle it...do
you think you could take me on by yourself...honestly I've been curious about how this fight would one day go down" she nods with a serious look
on her face "I'm always ready I can take on almost anyone...just try and bring me down you wont" Slade got ready for an attack charging at her
moving quickly as she hoovered above the ground moving out of the way pushing him back slightly making him stumble back "your quick but your
not quick enough" going for another attack Slade jumping up kicking at her torso knocking her down to the ground "ugh!" quickly
shaking it off pushing herself off the ground charging at him grabbing him slamming him into the wall making an indent from his body feeling his
back getting scrapped and scratched up tearing his suit "not...bad you actually managed to hurt me.." grabbing her arm twisting it slightly causing
her to let go yelping from the slight pain quickly grabbing her other arm pinning her against the wall with her arms above her head "and now you've
been caught..that didn't last very long at all I'm honestly disappointed" Starfire glaring at him her eyes glowing "let..go..right now..." she suddenly
flinched as he got closer to her "why would I want to do that...were enemies remember...right now normally you'd be my captive..towards your
friends...I could easily use you to my advantage.." she slightly blushed with how uncomfortably close he was to her "you...know something your
right..normally I would be easy to use...but I'm not that person" grabbing a hold of his hand lighting her hands on fire burning him causing him to
yell and her to kick him back sending him flying across the room flying into the wall dropping to the ground "a bit of advice...dont ever touch me..."
Slade slowly pushed himself off the ground brushing off the dirt and rubble off of him "now..that was more pleasing hmm...looks like our little fights
about to end your friend has arrived" Slade pointed noticing Robin running up
"figures...its always you.." Robin was soon cut off by Starfire "just...get out of here..I don't need you..you'll just get in the way" Robin clenching his
fist "what! in the way...if anyone ever gets in the way..its you now..you go back with the others and if you could not run off every time you throw a
fit that be great as well" as he ran past her to chase after Slade "well...I'll leave the two of you alone you have some talking to do" she quickly
grabbed him holding him back "no!..I'm sick of this..sick of you!...your not going after him" Robin struggling to get out of her grip thrashing until he
was able to grab her and shove her back against the ground causing her to smack her head scrapping her forehead as she starts slightly bleeding
Robin ignored it throwing a bomb to trap Slade from getting away but Starfire quickly got up to grab a hold of him again but he ended up shoving
her in the way off the blast as the bomb goes off which then causes a cave in collapsing on top of her trapping her underneath and Slade gets
blasted back against the wall being trapped with her Robin suddenly started to panic "shit...she got hit.. it!.." he ran off getting scared of the
result for this Starfire her body shaking being trapped under the rocks getting dizzy before passing out Slade got up "Well I need to find a way out of
here" he said to himself but then looked over at Starfire something in his head telling him he shouldn't leave her there sighing "..sometimes you do
get in the way...but I don't think you deserved that.." going over kneeling down digging her out of the rubble picking her up setting her down on the
ground against the wall tending to her injuries wrapping up her abdomin that was severely scratched up causing bleeding and placing a bandage on
her head leaving her to start up a small fire sitting on the opposite side of her "what..the hell am I doing" he said to himself
about an hour later Starfire started to wake up slowly sitting up seeing the light of the flames from the fire looking around seeing him sit away from
her "you...what happened..." gripping her head then remembering "never mind don't answer that.." Slade looking at her feeling somewhat bad for
her and he couldn't understand why "yea..we got trapped from the cave in your "friend" caused your lucky to be alive..if you were any normal
human you would of been killed" he said to her "where..did he go..." she asked trying to get up "I don't think you want me to answer that..but..he
ran away he got scared and ran away left you here" Starfire going quiet going over to pile of rubble "what are you doing.." he asked as she tried
pushing on them yelping in pain but ignored her pain continuing to push until she fell gripping herself from the pain "would you stop...your not going
to be able to push that with your injuries your going to make it worse for yourself.." Slade explained to her "well I'm not just going to sit here...I
can't stay stuck in here" sitting back against the wall "why what would be the hurry getting back to them what would be the point in going back you
cant honestly be considering on going back to all of that" Starfire feeling annoyed "I...don't know...I'm more concerned on getting out of here
I don't think you want to be trapped here either..." Slade agreeing "well that is true..but is being trapped in here with me so bad" slightly chuckled
"well..honestly no...it's not so bad..if you weren't here..I probably wouldn't be alive...so thank you..."
Slade sat shocked that she actually thanked him " she then looked at him curiously "I need to know something...you've been trying to get rid of us
for years..kill us off...if so then why save my life if you want us gone would of been one less member" Slade then looked at her not seeing any harm
in telling her the truth honestly I'll tell you...I was hired to kill you all of ...brother blood hired me I'm a mercenary and since he's no longer well
active I was able to break out..and honestly I'm tired of doing this whole back n forth thing it's pointless now...as you said we can't keep this up
forever" she looked at him stunned that he actually told her "ok..if that's true then why did you keep doing all of this past that point what was the
point" he sighed reaching for his face pulling his mask off "well..at that point I wasn't even alive...I was dead but I wasn't ready to be dead and I
was resurrected by Trigon gave me an offer ...my life back I took it out of being desperate but...soon turned into one of my biggest mistakes yet"
Starfire looked at him slightly stunned "what...your saying is you regret everything you did working for Trigon.." he nodded giving this guilty look "I
didn't think much of it at first...only thought of myself and when I was betrayed by Trigon basically lost everything all over again and seeing the
world for what it was not just in a vision but for real...it messed with me a bit so...at that point I knew I had to help you and your friends restore the
world...hoping it would make up for my mistake" he explained once more she soon started to feel sympathy for him understanding mistakes but
then became curious "Ok...then..why today did you decide to put the suit on and draw our attention if your done with all this..with us" he then
looked at her with a smirk "I wasn't trying to get their attention...I was trying to get yours...and it seemed to work I have it" her eyes widen looking
shocked "w..what why would you try and get my attention that doesn't make any sense..I mean I know I have my secrets that not even they know
about me...but I don't think that's the reason is it...it's something else...what exactly do you want from me.."he suddenly stood up against the wall
"honestly..nothing just something about you the other day made me...I guess curious about you not really sure what it is I never
payed much attention to you in the past and now...it's different I guess" Starfire then struggled to her feet still feeling some pain "that's..kinda
odd..because after that...I thought the same as well...I never really cared for knowing anything and now...it makes me wonder who are you
exactly..." he chuckled "really...you ask me that...well I don't really see the harm...who am I...I am Slade that is my real birth name is Slade..." she
felt slightly surprised by this that after all this time that was his real name and none of them ever knew it "ok...well then I'll have to be honest
myself..Starfire is not my name it's more of my "human" name but my name on my home world is koriandr...consider yourself lucky I never told
anyone that" Slade himself was slightly surprised "let me ask you...what are you going to do once we get out of here..." she went silent for a
moment not really sure how to answer him "I...don't really know..I know that I can't stay there with him it'll just get worse..but I've never left
before..at least not on my own..and I'm not sure what would happen to the others..if I were to leave because of him" feeling confused in her
decision "well more or less the others would back you up they probably would leave the team as well but don't think they would lose contact with
each other including you...but Robin himself with probably go solo he'll like it that way..but I'm sure once word gets out what he did...your team
wont be a team anymore..that's why he left in hopes of making something up to cover himself but I know once you tell them the truth which I
recommend you do they will rip him apart mabey literally or figuratively...maybe after this...could continue if you wanted it to"
she then looked at him completely shocked "wait what...you want to continue talking to me..I..well I guess we could...ok" her response made him
slightly smile
{he smiled!...} shaking it off snapping out of "not that this isn't fun but we need out think you have it in you to blast those out the way..I know your
injuries are still pretty severe but give it a try" she nods lighting her fist "I think I can" shooting off this large flame blast blasting the rocks out of
the way completely destroying them feeling pain slightly gripping herself he went to step up to her standing behind her so she wont fall back putting
her hand out to stop him standing back up straight taking in a breath "I..I'm fine..looks like this is where we go separate ways for now..." Slade
nods slipping his mask back over his face taking off in a different direction just as Raven and Beast Boy came running up together "Starfire!..there
you are...oh no you got hurt..are you ok! what happened!" Beast Boy said concerned for his friend "well...I" she was shortly cut off as Robin and
Cyborg came running up to her Starfire glared at Robin "well..I got stuck in a cave in..it was random just happened...I was passed out for awhile
then I woke up and blasted my way out but I'm ok now" Robin standing there with his arms crossed "that's horrible come on lets get back home so
you can rest" said Raven but Robin quickly got annoyed "what..about Slade I saw him run off.." Raven quickly glared "Robin...Starfire is injured we
need to take her back...plus Slade hasn't shown his face for a year now...let it go!..he's gone!" Starfire went to speak out "She's right Robin...none
of us saw him...was a false alarm...just let it go" Robin glared as he walked off with his team back to the tower {he's lying ...she fought with
him...why is she lying}