Author's Note: I am trying super super hard not to have plot appear in this. And keep it fluffy.
It was six weeks before the Robin and Starfire found the perfect one. They searched high and low and nothing quite fit the strict ideals they both had.
This one was too small. That one was too big. This one wasn't shiny enough. That one had sparkles which vampires would be envious of.
But the one they finally agreed on was perfect in every way. They boxed it up, grinning at each other and carted their precious cargo back to the Tower.
Cyborg and Beast Boy were boisterously playing the gamestation when Robin and Starfire returned to the Tower. Raven, as usual, was complaining of the noise and yet not actually leaving to find a quieter location to read. She paused the moment Robin and Starfire walked into the room, regarding them with tilted head and narrow eyes. "What's got you two so happy?" she asked.
Robin coughed and cleared his throat. "Can we have your attention please?"
Starfire giggled, bouncing up and down in the air, unable to contain her happiness as she held her hands behind her back.
Beast Boy and Cyborg seemed oblivious, continuing to wrestle and make jabs at each other verbally as they raced.
"Guys!" Robin said, raising his voice. "Star and I have an announcement."
Cyborg turned, Beast Boy grumbled, tossing up his hands as Cyborg paused the game. "Dude! I was so winning!"
"You were not," Cyborg said. "I had it in the bag."
"Lies! See, check my score, clearly I'm miles ahead of you-"
"Clearly, ya'll need glasses," Cyborg said.
"Guys!" Robin called. "Announcement!"
"Dude, c'mon already," Beast Boy complained. "What's the announcement?"
Robin grinned. "I know Star and I have only been dating for a little while, but we both agree that it's time."
Cyborg's eye widened. Beast Boy paled. Raven raised an eyebrow. "Time for what?"
"We did the deciding that it cannot be helped," Starfire said. "We have discussed it and are both most pleased with the outcome."
Robin grinned again and headed for Raven. "We wanted you to be the first," he said, wrapping his arms around her.
"Dude," Beast Boy breathed.
Cyborg stood. "Ya'll are too young-"
"No," Robin corrected. "Never too young for this. Star, show her."
"Show me what?" Raven asked.
Starfire darted through the air and Robin quickly grabbed Raven's forearms, making her hold out her arms and Starfire plunked something in them.
Something horrid.
Something terrible.
Something blew up in the kitchen.
Shiny and pretty and pink. Fluffy and a gold horn mounted on its head, the stuffed unicorn even had a little love heart embodied on its cheek. Starfire had found a small nametag for it and inscribed 'Raven' on it, attaching a small bell to the collar. A little daisy chain crown on its head completed the ensemble.
"We brought you your own stuffed unicorn," Robin said, cheeky. "We knew you must be dying to have one."
"Is it not adorable?" Starfire crooned. "So fluffy."
A vein pulsed in Raven's neck. "I don't do fluffy."
"Not to mention cuddly," Robin teased. "Look at that cute little face."
"I don't do cuddly."
"Dude, it's awesome," Beast Boy said. "Now the chicken has a buddy."
The bell around the unicorn's neck chimed as Raven twisted to glare at Beast Boy. "I don't do buddies for stuffed animals."
"We thought it would fit your personality perfectly," Robin teased. "Cause you're so preppy all the time."
"Robin," Raven said in a dark, violent sounding voice.
"You may cuddle it at night if you wish," Starfire said. "If your press his little tummy, he glows."
"Now you don't need to be afraid of the dark," Robin said, enjoying this immensely.
"I am not-"
Starfire bounced up and down. "Oh, please, you must name him. Stuffed animals cannot be without a name."
"I'm not naming-"
"He's adorable," Cyborg said, grinning. "Maybe, Sir Lancelot would suit."
Robin swung his arm around Raven's neck. "You can thank me later."
Something else went bang and Raven's hood raised. "You need to run," she growled.
Robin bolted, snatching Starfire's hand on the way, dragging her behind him. He blew Raven a kiss as the doors to the common room swished open. Black energy spiked away from her, shredding toward the door and as it closed behind them, he heard the dull thud of impact. Grinning at Starfire who was giggling hysterically at their prank, he said, "C'mon, we need to hide."
They ran for the elevator at the end of the hall, there was nowhere on this level they could hide safely, especially since there were only bedrooms. Robin pressed the button at the elevator. "C'mon," he said, looking up at the elevator level indicator. He pressed the button a few more times. "Hurry up."
Starfire gripped his elbow. "She is coming!" she said, mock fear in her voice.
Robin glanced over his shoulder, seeing Raven stalking down the corridor toward them, so shrouded in energy he couldn't see the hallway behind her.
"Can't run, Robin."
"Oh. Shit." Dragging Starfire, he bolted for the stairwell. "Gogogo," he said, forcing Starfire through the door first. "Down!"
He leapt down full flights of stairs as Starfire flew down the middle, still giggling madly. His hand planted on the railing as he swung his legs over so he could leap down to the next level.
"Where are we going?" Starfire asked between giggles.
Robin stopped and peered up the middle, seeing the same darkness enveloping the top of the stairs. He was fairly certain Raven wouldn't kill them for the unicorn. But he was pretty sure she'd make him pay. "Anywhere but here!"
They burst out of the stairs at the storage level and into the darkened, basement like room. Robin grabbed Starfire by the hips, causing her to squeal, and tugged her down the stairs toward the bottom. "Not that way!"
Starfire looped, following him through the air as he ran, her mirth still echoing through her. They'd never be able to hid with her giggling away like she was, but Robin didn't care. Made it more of a challenge.
Of course, he knew if Raven really wanted to catch them, they were done for.
Robin shoved at Starfire. "Up. Hide in the rafters."
Starfire lifted up and Robin bounded up one of the support beams after her. It was dark, if Raven didn't turn the lights on, she'd never spot them. Robin pressed his back to a support beam, carefully balanced and looped his arms around Starfire's back to hold her. "Shh," he whispered, trying to calm her.
She tried, she really did, breathing slowly, trying to be calm, but the giggles just continued. She held her hands over her mouth to muffle the sound, and then pressed her face to his neck, but it wasn't much help. He could practically feel her grinning in the darkness.
"You are the worst prankster in the world," he teased.
She hiccuped. "I am -hic- sorry."
The door to the storage level banged open and Robin clapped his hand over Starfire's mouth to try and keep her quieter. He peered over his shoulder to see Raven at the top of the stairs, surveying the darkness.
"I know you're here," she called and held up the unicorn by the scruff of it's neck. "Do you think this is funny?"
"Yup," he replied, cheekily, causing Starfire to burst into giggles again.
"Hiding with the giggle monster isn't going to save you, Robin. I know this was your idea."
"And?" he called.
Starfire's whole body was shaking as she laughed.
Raven's boots clipped down the metal stairs as she descend down into the storage bay. "And, when I find you-"
"You can't resist the fluffy, Raven."
Starfire fell off the beam they were sitting on, she was laughing so hard. Tears streamed down her face and she was completely breathless.
"Whoops," Robin said, grabbing at her before she fell to far and pulled him down with her, lifting her back up so she was sitting opposite him, straddling the beam too. He wrapped his arms around her back again, holding her still. "Almost lost my cover then."
"You are such a dork," Raven said, rolling her eyes, her powers flicking the light switch.
The room flooded with light, even the rafters, although they were shadowy, he and Starfire could quite clearly be seen by Raven as she stood beneath them tapping her foot.
"Shh, shh," Robin told Starfire, exaggerating his whisper as he tried to hold onto her. "We're hiding. Raven'll never find us here." He chuckled, Starfire's laughter was incredibly infectious.
"Azar, you two," Raven muttered.
"I am most sorry, Robin," Starfire managed to gasp, wiping at her face in between the deep belly laughs. "It was the fluffy."
"Darn that fwuffy," he teased, laughing with her. "It haunts everyone with its jingling bell."
"Beware the pinkness of Sir Lancelot," Starfire joked.
"I am not naming it Sir Lancelot!"
"And his little horn too!" Robin called down, imitating the Wicked Witch of the West.
"It's so shiny," Raven complained.
Starfire folded backward, laughing hard and clutching her belly. Even Raven had to chuckle. Robin had such a hard time holding onto Starfire so she wouldn't fall, he had her hips, but he knew if she rolled, she'd pull them both down. Strangely enough, he didn't care in the slightest. He loved the way Starfire's whole body emphasised her happiness, her lips curved, her eyes practically sparkled with it. "I love you," he said, lost in her happiness.
Starfire's giggles stalled and died. She sat up, staring at him. "What?" she squeaked.
He blinked. "Huh?"
"What did you say?" Starfire asked, her eyes wide.
Robin's brain felt sluggish. What did he say? His eyes widened behind his mask, the only reaction he allowed himself. He said he loved her... He hadn't meant to say that and definitely not in front of Raven, it just sort of slipped out... not that it wasn't true, but he certainly hadn't meant to say it. He glanced down at Raven, seeing her staring at him, wide eyed too, before she melted into the floor, taking the unicorn with her. Robin looked back up at Starfire, who was cupping her hands together, forearms up against her chest, waiting and watching him. "Um..."
Starfire blinked. She had an unreadable expression on her face, he wasn't quite sure of her reaction, maybe she hadn't heard. "Robin?"
"Ahh..."
She stretched out a hand and placed it on his chest. "Please?"
"Um... I love you?"
She deflated a little. "You do not know?"
"Huh?"
Her hands flopped to her lap and her shoulders slumped. "Oh."
"What'd I say?" Robin asked, concerned.
"There was question in your tone," she mumbled, looking at the beam between them. "You do not know if you love me? Certainly, I have felt the love for you for some time now, but I did not know if it was appropriate to voice it. Customs are very different and I become so confused as to what is appropriate and whether you would react favourably if I mentioned anything and now you have and you do not even know yourself and it is terribly frustrating because I felt incredibly glorious when you said it, indeed I still feel as though meerknooks have invaded my being and it is so fluttery and glorious but then you do not sound as though you know-"
She was babbling and it was adorable and he didn't even think she realised she'd admitted she loved him too.
Which made him feel wonderful.
Robin scooted closer to her, sliding his hands along her legs until he could lift them up and over the top of his before he placed one hand on her waist, the other removing his mask.
Starfire dipped into silence, staring at him opened mouthed.
"I love you," he said. "And I do know."
Starfire's smile was brighter than the sun.
Robin grinned in return, then leant forward to kiss her.
TTTTT
Raven sighed as she slid open her cupboard and stared at the stuffed chicken sitting on the floor. Very carefully, she placed the unicorn beside him. "Sir Lancelot, meet Cluckington. I'm sure you'll get along fine."
Author's note:
Let's play 'Spot the flower' reference.
I've been asked to... ahem... deflower them. Next you'll be saying there's not enough kissing!
I didn't have any intention of pushing this up past a T though, so if I do, it'll probably be only alluded to. (Cue Kater angst). Can't I do something without making it an M? (Kater, shuddup). Cue whinyness of prissy author who'll probably do an M (and maybe post it seperate) anyway if enough people want it.
Then again, this might be the last chapter. We don't want to push the fluff bus to hard, now do we? I might crash!
