NOTES:

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Chapter Two – SLADE AND LOVE

"Starfire..." Raven mumbled anxiously. "Starfire…he has Starfire…" Beast Boy had just noticed this. Shocked, he yelled over to Cyborg. "Cyborg, Slade took Starfire! Where ever he went, he took her! She's gone!" Cyborg pulled a shaken Robin out of the rubble that had trapped him.

It took a moment for this thought to finally hit Cyborg and Robin. Raven stood up looking distressed. "That thing in the box. It was a little silver thing. He messed with it and then he and Star just disappeared."

Robin stood silently, not wanting to believe what Raven was telling him. "Her communicator is offline. Slade must have shut it down so we couldn't track her. We have to get back to the tower. I'll bet anything Slade will have some sort of cryptic threat to bestow upon us all," said Cyborg, a hint of sarcasm in his voice.

Robin could not speak, could not think. Starfire kidnapped? Slade could be doing all sorts of horrible things to her. At this thought Robin shuddered furiously. "Cyborg's right. Let's get back to the tower," said Robin. Raven teleported the four remaining Titans back to the living room, Beast Boy muttering madly about Raven mentioning that she was going to teleport before she actually did. But sure enough, Slade's face was smirking at them from the window/computer monitor.

"It's nice to see such happy faces looking back at me, I must say," Slade began, his smirks even more obvious now. Robin started shaking with compressed fury until he blurted out, "What have you done with Starfire?"

Slade laughed. "Oh, I forgot. You love her, don't you Robin? I've known that for quite some time. Love is a great and terrible thing, Robin. Your love will lead you to search obsessively for Starfire. But her love, for you, will keep her right here."

"What the hell are you—"

"Patience, Robin. Patience. I will show you."

The screen switched from Slade's face to a dark, cold room. The only light was coming from a flickering candle set down next to a dark figure with long red hair, knees pulled up to her chest. Starfire.

"Let her go!" demanded Beast Boy. The other Titans looked at him, mildly surprised. "What do you want from her anyway?"

"Service. And after I encouraged her to through the window in her room, she was most agreeable." The screen had switched back to Slade's evil, smirking face. The Titans looked confused. What could Starfire have possibly seen that would make her agree to help Slade?