To say the salmon haired alien was acting a little strangely was an immense understatement, in fact even Raven felt a tiny pinch of the fear she spread like wildfires. It started with her strangely crimson tinted teas, the ones that tasted like metal and had hints of bitter salt in it. At first everyone had refused to drink it, of course, considering her long line of alien dishes that usually tasted disgusting to the other Titans. Eventually, however, Beast Boy was curious as a cat, after all who wouldn't be curious at red teas? But then again curiousity killed the cat, and that was what Beast Boy currently was. The green changeling had formed into a small kitten and dashed under the sofa after tasting the ingot tasting brew, scared slightly as the taste was far to familiar to him. He remembered vividly all the nervous lip bites he did, and how his blood tasted when he licked it from his chapped lips. Starfire was making tea from blood, and whoever's blood it was...well they were an unlucky first kill. Or one of many kills. Who knew?
Curiosity spread through all the Titans like a viruis, with Raven as the injection to stop it. She could easily tell Starfire was going slowly insane, and putting someone's vital fluids into a china tea cup was only step 1. Raven knew what insanity was, the creeping feeling in the back of your brain, voices screaming in your head that you wish you could just turn off, when you feel like falling into an abyss but that voice in your brain strangles you back, killing you by simply keeping you alive. It pierced you more than any weapon ever could. So, unfortunately for the bird and the cyborg, she didn't warn them of Starfire's growing insanity.
The second to drink the tea was the Cyborg, who had watched his usually light, kindhearted friend yelp, and leap under the couch in the form of a scared little kitten. Tentatively, the mechanical advocate gingerly accepted the scarlet tea, which the queer alien was more than glad to give to him. In fact, her smile looked more than pleased, but it was almost morbid delight. Nervously, Cyborg sipped the strangely-colored tea, expecting a usual tea taste to fill his taste-buds, but instead he got the sensation of rust and a bitter tint. The unnerved machine stepped away slowly, gently putting the china cup onto the table next to a disappointed looking Starfire.
The third to consume the eccentric drink was a concerned Robin, who had looked at the cup precariously for a moment, as though this thin glass would tell him why it's contents were different then that of other teas. The usually stoic teen brought on a pouted face of disgust while taking a sip of his girlfriend's tea. At first he was positive that it was just a taste of alien's teas, and that aliens found this mechanical taste delightful. However, Star's macabre face forced him to reconsider. The taste was familiar to him, but he just couldn't think of why. Oh but then he put it all together, with the last piece in an eccentric puzzle. "Star..." he wasn't sure what he would say, perhaps 'why did you kill people just to put their vital fluids into your tea', but that sounded rather odd and he couldn't bring himself to put all the fault of this on her shoulders. She usually was so innocent, why would he know begin to worry about her sanity which dripped away slowly. So instead, the black haired teen just left the cup with his alien friend and took off to, well, anywhere besides there. Starfire pouted, as she know was alone with her strange teas, before a periwinkle haired demon appeared in front of her.
Star allowed her shuddersome smile to return to her tan face before Raven spoke in her usual detached voice.
"Hey Star, how about some tea?"
ending note: sorry this took forever! *hides* I'm sorry.