♥ It's been a long, long time. ♥
This chapter has a lot of Robin/Starfire and some Raven/Beast Boy fluff in it. Just thought I'd give you the heads up. Also, because of the lack of reviews I got for my last chapter I am thinking of not posting it here anymore. I like posting it because most of my best revising happens on the computer but I have no reason to type it if no one reads it and I don't know if people read it when they don't review. I was very sad when I discovered that only two people reviewed it. (BTW, thanks for reviewing Mel and Jen!) Please review so I don't have to discontinue my story. I'm begging you here! If it's about my lack of posting, I was at a hectic time in my life with my stalker and so many other things going on and the chapters should never take that long to get up again. (I hope.) But I really like getting your reviews and input on my stories.
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Chapter 4
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Starfire was shocked and suddenly brightened at the word. (A/N: Thanks to Melanie for helping with the word choice for this part.) "Sister?" she repeated in a daze.
"Yes, my little sister," Robin confirmed. He was quiet. He couldn't tell what Starfire was thinking, how she was reacting.
Starfire broke the awkward silence between them. "Why did you not tell me before? Do the others know of this information? Does she know?" suddenly hitting him with a storm of questions, though the presentation of them was in her gentle way.
"I didn't know how to say it. And there was never time before-" his voice became mute.
Starfire said quietly, "I am positive she is well. We shall find her." She continued to reassure him and even dared to massage his back for a moment before she lost her courage.
As the silence became too much for Starfire she began to sing a sweet and relaxing Tameranean lullaby. (A/N: Don't worry; it's nothing like the ear-shattering opera stuff she has tried to sing before. :D) Robin's exhaustion overcame him at the sound of the quieting singing. He soon drifted off into a deep sleep, too tired to take joy in that he was leaning on Starfire with her arms holding him. (A/N: Awww! Isn't that image so adorable?)
Starfire continued to sing then quieted into a hum. She stared at Robin's face. It was calm and peaceful. It was almost never like this when he was awake. One of the few times she remembered him being not-so-stressed-out was when she had been looking into his eyes as they were on the Ferris wheel at the carnival. Her voice slowly became still.
She drew herself out of her daze and began to move from her position behind him, moving gracefully until she held him in her arms. She laid him on the bed gently and pulled the covers out from under him and covered him to his chin, beginning to hum again as his sleep was disturbed. Instantaneously (A/N: Oooohh! Big word. Sorry, I'm in a weird mood) his breathing became steady and relaxed. Shocked, she noticed this.
Her eyes wondered around the room and they fell on the digital clock on his bedside stand. It was 12:38; just one hour ago they had been watching Roxy disappear as Red X taken her as his prisoner.
Starfire was tired. Her jealousy the night before had made her sleep restless with worry. (A/N: Well, I thought I should explain stuff here. When I say Starfire is jealous it doesn't show on the outside, it's just her dealing with her inner feelings. So you don't think she's out of character or anything.) She couldn't leave Robin because of how her lullaby comforted him so much and she could see how much he needed a good night's (or day's since it's just after noon) sleep. She gently lay down on the opposite side of the bed from the side Robin was on, comforted by his steady heartbeat and breathing in the silence of the room. She drifted into a serene sleep.
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Recreation Room…
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"Where do you think you're going?" Cyborg said as Beast Boy started toward the door.
"To see what Starfire and Robin are doing," he replied simply.
"Starfire went to her room and Robin went to his," Raven said, not looking up from the book she was reading.
"How do you know?"
Raven closed her book, knowing she wouldn't get much more reading done now, "One: Robin just had an angry outburst about something that had to do with Red X. He always goes to his room when he has thinking to do. Espacially when it's about villians.Two: Starfire looked sad, she went to her room to see Silky and have it cheer her up."
"Yeah, but that's just speculation," Beast Boy shot back.
"Okay, you want proof, here it is: I read their minds before each of them left the room. There! Now be quiet," she said, getting irritated at his annoying persistence. She knew she shouldn't lie to him but she had to if Robin and Starfire were going to get any quiet time, even if it meant she had to deal with Beast Boy.
As Raven picked up her book again an all too familiar voice said, "I don't think you're telling the truth. You can only read Robin's mind because of the connection you made with him when he was going crazy with that powder Slade triggered."
"Beast Boy just drop it and I'll go easy on you with video games," Cyborg said, also beginning to get annoyed at Beast Boy persistent nosiness.
"As if you'd ever need to go easy on me. I can whoop you with one hand tied behind my back!"
"Then prove it," Cyborg responded coolly, knowing he could still beat him.
"Fine then," Beast Boy said as he turned into an octopus and moved one tentacle behind his back.
"Uh, dude? You said hand, not tentacle, you gotta be human for that," smiling in an annoying way that was saying he had, in a way, defeated Beast Boy.
Beast Boy frowned, as he turned back into his human form. "Well, if you're going to be that way, I'll go see if Robin or Star want to play," he said with devilish intentions.
Raven put down her book again, "No. Remember what happened last time you were too curious after someone had an angry outburst?" she said referring to the time he and Cyborg had gotten stuck inside her mind.
"Yeah, bu-"
"No buts, I am not going to let you go and do something stupid."
"But Robin doesn't have a mirror that leads into his mind, and neither does Starfire!"
"But Robin and Starfire can both kick your butt if they're angry or you bother them."
"Nuh-uh!"
"She's right Beast Boy. They can so kick your butt."
"Cyborg! I can kick your butt right here if you'd rather. I can kick your butt here while kicking your virtual butt at the same time."
"Do I smell a challenge?"
"No one can smell anything other your tofu breath," Raven stated, looking up momentarily.
"Hey! I don't have tofu breath! It's minty-fresh!"
"Like I really wanted to hear that," Raven said as she rolled her eyes.
"Actually he's right Rae. It's his clothes that stink," Cyborg laughed.
"Yeah- Wait. Hey! My clothes don't stink! … Do they?"
Both looked at each other, turned back to Beast Boy and nodded.
"I guess I'll have to go take a shower, which, is right past Robin's room, and if the door is open…" he said sinisterly.
Beast Boy started walking up toward the sliding doors threateningly, but before he finished going up the steps leading to it, Beast Boy found that he couldn't move. When he looked down he saw that he was covered in a black aura.
He morphed into a mouse, hoping to slip Raven's grasp but found that whatever shape he transformed into, she was one step ahead.
She moved swiftly, Beast Boy not taking notice of the collar covered in black coming towards him from the other direction. It was the collar Soto had used on Beast Boy, and Raven had spent time modifying it so that if Beast Boy ever got on her nerves and she wanted to be left alone she could teach him a lesson with it. She modified it in that if anything but her mind powers tried to open it, they would get a shock. She had picked up a few things from being inside Robin's head.
Beast Boy, on the other hand, didn't know this. He learned the hard way, after the lesson had been taught more than once.
Raven had gone back to reading her book as Cyborg explored the "adjustments" that had been made on the collar. He touched it once and if he hadn't been quick his systems would have overloaded. The end of the red technology (A/N: I don't know what to call it. I don't think it's rope or anything like that so that's the best word I could come up with) that connected the collar to something around was attached to the island cupboard in the kitchen, but was long enough for Beast Boy to sit on the couch and play his video games.
And that was the scene as the time passed, Raven read her book and the two boys played video game after video game.
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So that's where this chapter ends. I would have updated sooner but I don't like typing until I get some reviews so I know what needs to be fixed for the next chapter. And I was waiting, and waiting, and waiting, and waiting, and waiting, and waiting, and waiting, and waiting, and waiting, and waiting, and waiting, and waiting, and waiting, and waiting, and waiting, but I never got reviews other than from my two best friends, which I appreciate, but bf's aren't as cruel and questioning as unknown reviewers. They are there to give support where others doubt. Anyhoo, please review; I might even start threatening not to update until I get a certain amount of reviews. Please don't make me start having to do that. I trust this lack of reviews was a one-time occurrence.
