I Don't Want to Miss A Thing

Broken Angels

I want to thank all my reviewers. Thank you all! If only you could all just see how happy I am when I get a review. I am truly honored that so many readers take time to read and review me story, wow, it's just so mind boggling to me to know that you just voluntarily sat and read my story for 20 or 30 min and then reviewed, and no one was holding a gun to your heads! Wow! I just can't thank you all enough. Thank you, thank you.

I'm not too proud of this chapter, I rushed through it too quickly and didn't spend enough time editing it. So excuse my indiscretions.

Ok, I'll get on with the story(too much sugar…hehe)

Oh one last thing, my best friend, Bree-2006,I'm sure some of you must have read at least one of her stories, if not you should, she wont be updating for a while because she was grounded and the computer at her dad's house is also broken, which really sucks, so she asked me to tell you all that she is sincerely sorry and will update as soon as she can.

Disclaimer: I don't own Teen Titans, DC and whatever company makes the cartoon (I forgot right now).


At that moment all she could hear was her heart pounding like drums, the air around her turned icy cold. Her whole world just stopped and just focused on the man's face. It might have been disfigured but she could tell who it was. His lips, the lips she had kissed so many times. His eyes, she had stared into his eyes countless times before under the moon and the stars. His arms, the same strong arms that held her close and protected her from pain.

She felt so numb, paralyzed, she couldn't feel her legs anymore. She just fell to her knees. She didn't care if she was kneeling on shards glass and was bleeding, all she cared about was that her Franklin was dying right in front of her eyes. Tears began to pour down her cheeks as she touched him with shaky hands.

The rest of the Titans just stared at her, not knowing what to do. They had never met this man and now they saw her crying and breaking down, this wasn't like her, he must have a connection to her that no one knew of.

Nightwing reached out to hold her hand and ask what was wrong but she just rebuffed him and grabbed Franklin's left hand. She could feel him tighten it around her own hands. Franklin was still breathing hard, but she heard him mumble something.

"Franklin?" she spoke softly. The rest of the team understood now why she had reacted like she had this was the famous Franklin, he wasn't the perfect man that Starfire always talked about anymore.

"Franklin?" Nightwing asked Starfire. She just ignored him and continued to focus on Franklin. Raven began to chant again and began to ease more pain and to probe his mind for answers on who had done such a horrible thing to him.

"Ko-Kory" Franklin spoke through rabid breaths.

"Don't try to talk, you'll hurt yourself." She tried to say calmly to not alarm him. She bent down and kissed him gently on his lips.

"Kory, I have to tell you" he coughed up some blood, but continued painfully to try to talk "tell you that I love you."

More tears began to run down her cheeks, her once emerald eyes now a pale green, no longer carrying the happiness that made her who she was.

"I love you too. With all my heart." She choked out through her sobs.

As soon as Nightwing heard her say that, it just tore at him, as if a million daggers had just pierced his soul. She was to one woman that he had ever loved and now she was proclaiming her love to another man, right in front of him. He unconsciously began to tighten his grip, he didn't even notice his nails digging into his skin and drawing drops of blood. Cyborg walked up to him and squeezed his shoulders.

"Take it easy man." He whispered into Nightwing's ears.

Nightwing just shrugged him off and relaxed and continued to tend some wounds, Cyborg joining him.

Starfire notices that Franklin's grip on her was beginning to loosen. Blood was beginning to seep down the corner of his lips and from his ears. She looked franticly towards Raven who was hovering inches above the ground deeply meditating.

"Franklin! Franklin! No, don't do this to me, don't leave me." She sobbed into his chest, holding onto him tightly, as to not let him go. His chest was barely moving now.

"I'm sorry, Kory." He whispered in a raspy voice. She stared into his eyes threw her tears. She wasn't going to let him go, not now, not today. She pressed her lips onto his in a desperate attempt to keep him from dying. She could feel him kiss her back with the last ounces of strength in his body, and his body fell limp in her arms, in her lips. At that moment all of the windows in the room shattered and Raven fell to the ground, as if she was kicked out of her trance. Beast Boy ran to her to see if she was ok.

"Raven, what happened?" he asked concerned.

"Nothing" she stated in her usual monotone voice, she proceeded to hide her face in the darkness of her hood and stood up.

Starfire sobbed harder, she couldn't accept that the love of her life had been killed, no murdered, like he had. He wasn't suppose to die, he was suppose to be with her, but never be murdered. She was so angry at the world, at herself, even a bit at the team. They should have tried harder to save him, they should have been there faster, she should have saved him.

Nightwing could sense her distresses, but he also knew that she wanted to be alone, but he had to do something. He couldn't just sit there and watch as she was beating herself up over Franklin's death. It wasn't her fault, it wasn't anybody's fault, he was just an innocent bystander. Her cautiously moved closer to comfort her, but before he reached her, her eyes and fists began to glow and emerald green and she began to float above them. then the green began to change to red and black. Her hair began to stand on end behind her and a red and black aurora surrounded her body. Even through the brightness of the lights, he could see that she was angry, she was being blinded by rage. Then suddenly she began shooting red starbolts at the gears in the warehouse. She destroyed everything her starbolts came into contact with, each time throwing them with more fury until they could only see a blur of her hands.

Tears still streaming down her cheeks, she couldn't hold in all her pain, Tamaranean's weren't suppose to hold in emotions, they didn't work that way, she had to do something, anything to get her pain out.

In her rage she didn't notice that she had hit the supports that held the gear nearest her, which also happened to be the biggest, about fifty feet across and approximately 2 tons of solid steel. The gear began to move, falling toward her. Nightwing jumped up to push her out of the way, only to be stopped by one of her red starbolts. He flew to the other side of the room, he had been hit with Starfire's starbolts before when they were training, but they had never been this strong. He clutched his stomach in pain, but got up and ran back to her.

Raven tried to stop the gear from falling, engulfing it in black energy, but it was too heavy for her and still continued to fall. Starfire still in rage had not noticed what was happening, until she saw black surrounding her and yanking her away from her position. She continued to fire starbolts to try to break out of the black energy ball. Raven obviously knew that she was confused and angry. She turned to look at Raven, pure hatred and pain in her eyes.

"Why didn't you save him? WHY?" she screamed at the petite empath.

"I tried, but I couldn't, it was too late for him Star." Raven was trying to calm her down, trying to make her understand reason, even if she wasn't giving Starfire all the reasons.

As Starfire's anger grew her starbolts began to change colors again from red to deep violet. She continued trying to break out of Raven's hold at this moment in time all Starfire cared about was destroying anything she could.

Raven's mind was overflowing with pain, Starfire's pain, the pain of her starbolts, her own pain. The force of the starbolts was multiplying, Raven didn't know how long she could keep Starfire contained. If she let her out, she was going to hurt herself and maybe the others.

The pressure was building, but she couldn't hold it anymore. There was a vast explosion as Raven's mind finally burst from all the pressure, knocking her and Starfire unconscious.

Starfire began to fall as the aurora around her disappeared and her eyes and fists stopped glowing. Nightwing arrived just in time to catch her as she fell and cradled her in his arms. Beast Boy ran up to Raven before she could hit the ground and could see that she was exhausted, her violet hair was sticking to her sweaty face, and her pale cheeks were flushed. Starfire, looked pretty much the same way. They both took in a lot.

Cyborg scanned both of them to see if there were any serious injuries, but there were none so he called on the T-Car by pressing a button on his arm. In less than five minutes the T-Car would arrive, in the mean time he walked around the room to check things out, leaving Nightwing with Starfire and Beast boy with Raven.

Nightwing stared at Starfire, she looked so tired, not just physically, but emotionally. She had gone through so much today and he didn't blame her. He looked towards Franklins torn corpse. She loved him so much and it ate at him, seeing the way she cried over him, the way she looked at him, the way she smiled when she talked about him. He had to move on, but now he had a chance and he couldn't just let her go, not again. He caressed her cheeks so lovingly as if stroking the most fragile rose, feeling the softness of her face.

Beast Boy had Raven's head on his lap. He was pretty certain that if she ever found out that he had her head in his lap that she would kill him. Sometimes she wanted it to make it seem that she could handle everything, but he knew that there were circumstances were even the strongest and the bravest needed help, and right now she needed help and he was there. He felt honored to be behind her when she fell, literally, but he hoped that in the future she would allow him to back her up. He wasn't the immature little boy anymore and he wanted to prove it to Raven especially, sure he made jokes and had fun, but that's just the way he was, he couldn't help it, and it was always fun to make Raven mad. He cared for Raven but it wasn't like Starfire and Nightwing, it was a more than friendly but not romantic way either, nor did her care for her like a sister, it was hard to explain, he just cared for her, to him it was just that simple, but explaining it to others, he couldn't put it into words.

Cyborg walked around the room, over the broken pieces of steel, scanning the room for fingerprints, foot prints, blood, anything, but Starfire and petty much destroyed any possible evidence that there was. He walked back to Franklin's body and began to inspect it. The scratches on his face were from nails, the gashes on his arm were defiantly made from razors, and his bruises were big as if he hadn't been punched but a common man. He put his fist next to the bruises to compare sizes, even his fist wasn't big enough to make such big bruises, and yet Cyborg was certain that it had been a hand, he could clearly make out the knuckles. It had to be a hand, but whose? He searched his pockets, taking out all his personal affects. In his wallet all he had was his driver's license, a couple credit cards, not a lot of money, Cyborg presumed that he was going to pay lunch with his credit cards, and a picture of Starfire and him.

He checked another pocket, in that one he had his cell phone that had been turned off, Cyborg turned it on, on the screen there was a little box that said missed calls. He checked out who they were and as he had assumed the were mostly Starfire's. He looked through his contacts list, the only number he had was Starfire's. That was weird, he was almost certain that Starfire had told them that he had a sister and a brother, he would at least have their number's but nothing, no other numbers. He took the cell phone with him to inspect it later and continued to search him before the T-car came.

He patted his jacket and felt a small bump on his left breast, he looked on the inside of the jacket for the opening, he looked for the contents and took out a piece of paper that had been folded in fourths, Cyborg opened it to look at its contents, it started:

To my precious Kory,

Cyborg stopped right there, he couldn't keep on reading it, he knew it was something for Starfire's eyes only and it would feel wrong to read it all. Instead he searched the same pocket again and found a small black box, but before he could open it he was interrupted by the honk of the T-Car so he stuck the cell phone, letter and box into his pockets and left to open the doors for Nightwing and Beast Boy.

Nightwing carried Starfire in his arms easily to the car and laid her in the back seat. Beast Boy took Raven and set her in the front seat reclining the seat back so that she wouldn't move. Cyborg took his place in the driver's seat and took of as Beast Boy transformed into a green raven and flew off into the dark sky towards the Tower. Nightwing jumped on his bike and drove past the lights of Jump City until arriving at the Tower.


I'm sorry that it took so long, school and homework aren't exactly easy as you all surely understand, so I ask for your forgiveness in my tardiness, but writing is time consuming to me and I write when I can. But please review it makes me so happy (as you can tell form my a/n in the beginning).

Love,

Josy