We find out the emergency, not much action in this chapter, but I believe I got across what I needed to so I can move on to the next point. :)

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Starfire began hesitantly, floating back and forth in her version of pacing. "It is simple really; the children from my world are being taken. Where they are we do not know, through our investigations of this we have discovered that children on your Earth are beginning to disappear as well."

"I haven't heard anything about it." Nightwing replied his mind turning the matter over in his head, already trying to find a solution.

"The children missing belong to high ranking members of your politics. They are given notes saying that as long as no authority is notified their children will be safe. Then the child stealers force these people to pass laws or not pass laws in order to have their children returned." Starfire smoothed a hand down her lavender skirt. "After the demands are met, the children are returned. Nobody reports this because they fear what will happen if they do."

"So they aren't hurting the children then, just using them as pawns. It seems simple enough to find them and end this, why are you here? What do you need from me?" Nightwing was confused, he would get to the bottom of this, but it didn't really seem nefarious enough to warrant Starfire being here, or Raven coming out of hiding.

"I am Queen of Tameran." Starfire's eyes began to glow and she stopped pacing to stare at Nightwing.

"I'm aware of that Star, and I know that you worry for your people. This is a serious matter, but it doesn't seem that the Titans have to reform for this." Nightwing shook his head and glanced at Raven. She met his gaze with a knowing look and he realized that there was more going on here than met the eye.

"They took her daughter." Raven said quietly her voice seemed to echo throughout the room. "They are making demands of Starfire that she can't capitulate to, but they have her daughter."

"What are they asking?" Nightwing asked turning his attention to Star, forcing himself to remain seated as he watched the tears run down her face. "Can't you just give a show of giving into their demands until they return her?"

Raven shook her head at him in a way that threw him back fifteen years; she stood and wrapped her arms around the shuddering shoulders of the alien girl. "Who ever is doing this has asked Starfire to declare war on Earth; they have demanded that she destroy the Titans." She paused to let that sink in. "The original Titans, us."

"War?" He shook his head to clear it; Starfire's people were some of the best warriors in the universe. War with them would be detrimental to the Earth and to the Tameranians. The death threat that had been lobbied at him and the rest of the Titans didn't faze him; it wasn't the first one that had been tossed their way.

"I can not do this Rob…Nightwing," She stared at him, pleading and demanding at the same time. "I can not declare war with your Earth, too many would die; too much would be lost, but I will not lose my Mari, she is all I have left of the man I love."

Nightwing stared at Raven, not knowing why he had fallen back into the old routine of looking to her for support or suggestions. He shouldn't trust her, he shouldn't care for her or let her beneath his shields, he still hurt too much from the last time he had done that.

Raven met his look, her eyes calm; her face set in passive lines. She could read the turmoil running through him now, the old bond had finally burst open and she tried not to wince at the emotions that ran down it.

"You will help, yes?" Hope and despair warred across Starfire's expression, the tears that had been glittering in her eyes poured unchecked down her cheeks. "You must." She insisted when Nightwing didn't answer immediately.

He stood and turned away from both of the women, feeling emotions he had thought he had killed completely a long time ago. "Yes Star, I will help." He turned back to face them, his face blank. "Why you need the whole team is beyond me though."

"We have always been stronger together than apart." Raven replied before Starfire could say anything.

"At one time maybe, but things change." Nightwing said then sighed, "It's late, do you have a place to stay?"

"We must find Beastboy and Cyborg." Starfire demanded, her tears still falling, but under control.

"We will, but we won't get very far in this without some rest." Nightwing said. He had noticed the dark circles underneath the aliens green eyes and the tautness of her features. If Star was anything like he remembered, and it appeared she was, then she was under a great amount of emotional stress.

"I can rest when my daughter is home, safe." She moved out of Raven's embrace and hovered in front of Nightwing, her jaw set in a remarkable show of stubbornness. Obviously she had lost none of her drive to keep family and friends safe.

"Starfire," Raven's tone was low and calm; she reached back into her memory and her knowledge of her friend. "You must rest, you can't be seen as weak now and if you don't rest then you will be no help to any of us."

Defeated Starfire's shoulders slumped and she turned to Raven, her feet hitting the floor with an audible thump. "You speak truly my friend; I can barely manage flight since this has happened. If you say I must, then I shall rest."

"Is there somewhere nearby?" Raven turned her gaze back to Nightwing, who had watched the interaction and wondered how the two women could seem closer now than when they had last been near each other.

"Up one more floor there are some decent rooms, I set them up just in case." He didn't have to elaborate any further, both women remembered how prepared Robin had always been; yet another trait that had evolved with Nightwing it seemed.