Chapter Seven-Reality's Dream
Robin finally gets to sleep, but the Titans are in big trouble. Can Robin save them, obey Slade, and let them know what is happening all at the same time?
What if? That is a good question. What if I was to drop dead, and never get to see them? What if Slade dies? What if one of the Titans die? What if...that is a simple question. Yet so complicated. What if I do escape? Where will I go? What if the Titans don't trust me? Then what? What if...
This question never occurred to me. The five years I have been held prisoner, not once did I think what if. What if I slip up? What if Robin takes control of me? Slade is one of the most insidious creatures I have encountered...how can I defeat him, Robin? How...
The voice has begun to cry once more. Robin takes control. "Starfire!" he says, picking the pager up. I had to resist. As bad as I felt for the both of them, they must believe I am gone. Dead. Never coming back. Never.
It was late that night. It was one in the morning when I dozed. I fell asleep, tears falling. Crying myself to sleep. More of Robin crying me to sleep. I was weeping for the two of them. I hadn't slept in weeks. I did tonight.
I am running. Stealing for Slade. I hide from the cops. I begin running. I get to the factory. The doors are locked. I can't find my key, and Slade won't let me in. The Titans have chased me. I am cornered. Cornered like a rat. A rat whose hair is clumped with dirt. The dirt of betrayal. A traitor. I turn to the Titans, my mask shown with evil. A flaming moon overhead, the flaming rays blazing down on me, showing me for the dirty, betraying rat that I am. They hold back, but Slade is urging me to fight harder. They fight harder than I have ever seen before. I beg for mercy, and plead for forgiveness. They fight harder. I am holding back now, Slade threatening their lives. I hear the button suck into the controller, the probes out of control. They are almost dead, no matter how I attack, the probes never stop. Slade is saying that if I attack they will be saved. I attack with all I've got-still nothing. The orange and red body's glowing with fear. I can't save them! I attack more. The probes stop this time. The Teen Titans are dead.
I awaken, wet with fear. Slade at the door, anger in his eye. It was all a dream...all a dream...a dream... My heart begins to slow as Slade comes over me. "I gave you an ORDER!" he shouts in my face. "What is it that you wish me to do, Master Slade?" I ask in hope that what I call him will freeze the lava flow from his eye. "Go cause chaos in the city. How, I don't care. Just do it." He turned. The door closed as I laid on the hard mattress that felt like the floor of the factory. I opened the drawer. "Robin...Robin answer! You must answer! Please! Answer...Robin..............." She paused as if waiting for a response. I muted it and slipped it away into my drawer.
I managed to sneak my journal with me. As well as pencil and a stamp. Robin was back. He-no...I was going back. The did need him. They always needed him. Always had, always would. Always.
I sat on the corner and wrote. When done, I slipped the crinkled paper into the envelope I had stolen from Slade and sealed it. I wrote the address on the envelope, and hesitated. Writing the name "Robin" seemed so strange, yet so right. I dropped it into the mail box, and thought of how to cause chaos. I decided to throw energy disks everywhere from the streets to the buildings. Once the job was done, I ran before the Titans showed.
author's note: AWWW! Wasn't that so sad? Anyway, the dream was kinda creepy wasn't it? shudders I would have nightmares from that for weeks! New chap soon
Niobe