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Chapter 12: Get Out to Make More Plans.

Starfire

Koriand'r awoke in a white room with strange machines, sharp metal tools, and a blank memory. She could only remember leaving the Gordanian ship. Sitting up, she took a look around and saw that there was a bright light hanging from the ceiling. A door on the other side of the room opened and a woman clad in white entered. She smiled at Koriand'r and said something in a language Kori didn't understand.

"Who are you?" Kori asked. "and where am I?"

The smile disappeared from the woman's face and she slipped out of the room. Kori sat there on the cushion-y mass of cloth for a moment later before attempting to stand. She felt a stab of pain in her abdomen and looked down.

She was wearing a white dress as if she were getting married. She stared around in puzzlement and thought, This is hardly a place to get married. Who am I betrothed to? Pushing the matter to the back of her mind for a later day, she removed the dress and saw a hole in her stomach. Pressing it softly, she felt another stab of pain. Koriand'r laid back down on the cloth and stared up at the ceiling until she heard the door open again.

She sat up and saw a purple-haired girl step into the room. Koriand'r remembered that her name was Raven. Knowing the girl's name brought back a few memories. She remembered fighting the Gordanians with a group of other teenagers, but the details were sketchy.

Turning back to the blue-cloaked girl, Kori asked, "Raven, where am I? And what is this place?" Raven stared at her in confusion before turning to the woman from before. The lady whispered something into Raven's ear and Raven nodded in understanding.

Raven walked over to Kori and pressed their lips together. Kori started to remember: the first kiss she had shared with Robin, the English translation of her name, mustard, the many battles and super-villains she had fought, Slade, the great number of superheroes the Teen Titans had met, her reuniting with Blackfire, her battle with Blackfire, Blackfire's banishment, and most prominent, a huge battle among the many villains and heroes ending in the destruction of the Brotherhood of Evil.

When the kiss ended, Raven pulled back and smiled. The smile brought back more memories: switching bodies with Raven, meditation with Raven, a small kiss in Tokyo, the fight afterward, sharing peace-filled nights with Raven, having many talks with Cyborg and Beast Boy, and eating her weight (and five times as much) in earth food.

Starfire smiled back at Raven and looked around. Something black caught her eye and she looked beneath her skirt to see a black tail. The tail unfogged the most recent memories: the red liquid, being bitten by the were-cat, changing, and her craving for meat-warm moist meat- and blood-hot, wet, luscious blood.

Starfire buried her head in her hands and began to sob. "What have I done?" she cried.

Raven rubbed her back in comforting circles. "Don't think about it star. It wasn't your fault. They were trying to kill you. You were defending yourself."

The white-clad woman stepped forward. "I'll go tell your friends that she's awake." She exited the room. Raven comforted Starfire for a few minutes more.

Suddenly, the door burst open and a cloud of smoke rolled into the room. Raven stood in a defensive position before Starfire and waited. Starfire recognized the voices speaking behind the puff of smoke and smiled slightly. Robin, Beast Boy, and Cyborg charged through the smoke and tackled Starfire in a fierce hug. "You're finally awake!" Beast Boy squealed. He turned into a roadrunner and ran in circles to burn off some excess energy from his joy.

Starfire smiled at Cyborg and Robin as they let go and beamed at her. "Please," she said. "Where am I and how long have I been sleeping?" Raven came to stand next to her.

"You've been in a coma for two months. Cyborg and I brought you to the hospital after those FBI bastards shot you with a silver bullet. The good thing is they were thinking about a human werewolf so the bullet was extremely thin and fragile. How do you feel?"

Starfire gaped at her. "Two months!" she screeched. "and the other cat-creature hasn't attacked anyone?"

The team all lowered their heads in embarrassment. "We've all been worried about you so much that we couldn't save those two people that he got." Robin muttered.

Starfire growled low in her throat and jumped out of bed. "I am going to kill him!" she roared. "I am going to flay him alive and use his furry skin as my newest pair of clothing." She started for the door but just as she reached it, it opened and a doctor stepped into the room.

He started at seeing Starfire standing before him, looking ready to do what she was just talking about doing; kill. "Bonjour?" he asked slowly. "Como estas?"

Starfire stared at him and asked, "You know many languages, yes?"

The doctor looked taken aback. "Well, yes, I do." The doctor said, a bit flustered. "Your friends told me you weren't from the United States so I wanted to try out my vast knowledge of languages to see if I could guess where you were from." He eyed her steadily. "You speak pretty good English for someone not native to the United States. How long have you been here?"

"A year." Starfire replied. She glanced at Raven with big eyes. Raven clearly read the message in them and nodded her head with a sigh. Starfire turned back to the doctor who had watched the exchange with slight interest.

Grabbing him by the front of his shirt, Starfire pulled the doctor into a deep kiss, her tongue lapping at his to scrape off as many languages as possible. When she was finished, Starfire let the doctor go and smiled at Raven, who rolled her eyes but couldn't help but smile back. "So do you want my number or are you going to give me yours?" Starfire turned back to the doctor. He had a leer on his face and was standing closer than before.

Raven stepped forward. "She didn't mean it that way." She said. "Where she's from, a kiss is just a way to acquire a different language."

The doctor looked at her and scoffed, "You make it sound as if she's from a different planet."

"She is." Robin told him shortly. Starfire glanced at him and saw the entire team glaring at the doctor.

The doctor's eyebrows rose into the air. "You mean I…? With an alien…? Oh god!"

Raven stepped up beside Starfire. "What's wrong with her being an alien to do it?" she growled. Starfire looked at her lover in confusion. "What…?" Raven shook her head.

Starfire shrugged and continued to the door. Before she reached it, she felt a hand grasp her forearm and looked back. The doctor had a strong hold on her semi-weak body and was smiling broadly. "Would you like to help out the other biologists?" he asked. "I myself am a man who enjoys researching beautiful creatures. Maybe you could teach us about your planet and your people."

He made to tug her back to him, but shadows pried his fingers from Starfire's arm. "Back… away… now." Raven's voice was little more than a whisper but there was a great amount of malice in it. The doctor quickly backed away from Starfire and hurried out the door. Raven stepped over to Starfire and kissed her cheek. "We won't let that bitch anywhere near you Star." She said. Starfire smiled and the team headed out the door.

In a matter of seconds they were surrounded by FBI agents, all of whom had tranquilizer guns. There were small pops and needles flew in all directions. Robin, Beast Boy, and Cyborg went down under many needles, but Raven turned invisible and Starfire lifted into the air. The needles that missed bounced off the walls and hit other agents. When the guns were finished firing, only three agents were left standing.

One pulled out a silver gun and took aim at Starfire. Just before he shot, Raven put up a force field to block the bullet. It backfired and ricocheted throughout the hall, finally landing in the side of one of the agents, breaking his ribs and tearing the tissue in his lungs. Raven and Starfire raised their hands together and shot another blast at the other agent, sending him flying into a wall. They turned to the one who had shot Starfire. Raven drew a hand and a claw came out of the wall and grasped the man around the chest. As Raven slowly closed her hand, the claw clamped tighter and tighter. When the man began turning blue, she let him drop to the floor, gasping for breath. Starfire stepped forward and shot laser eyes at the man. He narrowly avoided being blasted to smithereens by rolling to the side. As it is, his clothing suffered a lot of damage. Finally, Raven and Starfire put their hands together and aimed at the man, blasting him into the wall so hard, his skull cracked open.

Starfire smiled at Raven and drew the other into a deep kiss.

"That was amazing!"

Starfire jumped so high, her head hit the ceiling. Cursing in her native language, she glanced down to see the doctor from before; though his hair was in slight disarray and his lab coat was gone, he looked very excited.

"Can-can you do other things as well?" he asked Starfire. Starfire grew uncomfortable and shook her head. The doctor's face fell and he turned to Raven. "Can you do other things?" he asked half-heartedly.

"No and I've had it with you humans and you're obsession with aliens. That's probably why you've barely found any. The titans have actually helped many of them back into space. I hated area 51 and I'll be damned if you take her as well. Now get out of our sight."

The doctor, looking thoroughly defeated, scurried down the hall and around a corner. Raven picked up Beast Boy while Starfire threw Robin over her shoulder and picked Cyborg up. Grabbing hold of Raven, they were teleported to the tower infirmary, where they hooked up the boys and went to Raven's room.

Raven

"So what are we going to do now?" Raven asked. Starfire stood and walked over to the window, staring out at the sunset. When she turned back, Raven couldn't help but notice that her title and name were well chosen; Starfire's eyes were dark in the shadowy contours of her face but they still shone brightly just like the night stars. Her frame was outlined in the light of the fading sun, making her hair glow like fire. Her hands were clasped tightly behind her back and her straight back made her look like a member of a royal family (which, technically, she was). Raven's breath caught for a moment and she thought about how it would be to rule a planet.

Starfire's voice brought her out of those thoughts. "We are going to follow through with the original plan," The Tamaranian alien replied. "We are just going to alter it a bit. First, you will be my only backup because I have a way to lure him out. Second, the boys are going to make sure that the entire city is inside: all of the children with their parents, orphans in the orphanage, homeless people in the shelters. No one is to be out. This is going to put the other cat creature in a bad mood so that he will negotiate with us. Third—yes, I have decided to strike a deal with the untame beast—third, we are going to be out in an open field that I found outside the city. We continue with the fight only if the other cat doesn't want to negotiate."

Raven saw Starfire smile to herself. She knew that the other cat would most likely want to show Starfire who was the boss in the city and attack her with his strength and speed. Little did he know that she had better speed, the ability to fly, starbolts, and fighting experience. She would make sure the city was safe or she would die protecting it.

Raven came up to stand beside her as the taller girl turned to face the window again.

"Raven, what if something goes wrong?" Starfire asked softly.

Raven stroked her hand up and down Starfire's back soothingly. "Nothing will go wrong, Starfire. We'll make sure of it." They sat in companionable silence for a while.

Then there was a knock at the door. Starfire strode over to answer it and revealed the three boys standing there smiling. "We were wondering if you girls would like to go out to pizza with us?" Robin asked. Starfire shrugged and looked back to her lover. Raven shrugged as well.

"Let me just go get my cloak." Starfire told them. She disappeared and reappeared in a matter of seconds. Everyone stared in astonishment. Starfire looked at Raven sheepishly and asked, "I… did it again, didn't I?" Raven nodded with a small smile. Starfire shrugged and turned back to the boys, fastening her cloak on. "Let's go."

The boys shook themselves and the team headed out. As they walked through downtown, people stared at them. Raven could sense Starfire's irritation growing with every passing person.

Fortunately, they reached the restaurant before they could cause any trouble. Raven and Starfire sat in a booth together, while the boys sat together in the booth across the aisle. The waiter that came to take the girls' orders openly stared at Starfire, slack-jawed and wide-eyed. Starfire's irritation broke and she asked, "What are you staring at?" The waiter continued to stare at her and Starfire glared back. Her glare sent the waiter scrambling for somewhere else to be.

Raven sighed and glanced at the alien.

Starfire was glaring at the table now. She looked up and asked quietly, "Would you like to accompany me for a walk of some kind? I just don't want to be here." Raven nodded and they stood to leave.

As they walked out, a woman holding a child stopped and took a look at Starfire. Starfire sighed and she and Raven made to move on.

Before they could go, the woman began yelling at them. "You call yourselves heroes?" she questioned. "If you were heroes you wouldn't let that cat terrorize this city and make my family afraid of the full moon. This is what should be expected of teenagers, sloppy work and nothing done. It's a wonder the mayor doesn't send the five of you packing to somewhere else. We might get some real superheroes who will actually do their job." The woman sauntered away, leaving Raven and Starfire standing on the sidewalk.

Raven felt a huge wave of anger roll off of Starfire and turned quickly enough to see her lover drop to the ground as the transformation took over.

"It's two days until the full moon!" Raven said incredulously.

As Starfire writhed and twitched on the ground, Raven quickly picked her up and teleported to the clearing. She set Starfire down and changed into her demon self to avoid becoming the creature's next snack. When Starfire's transformation was complete, Raven went over to try and calm her down.

Starfire was seething from what the woman had said. How dare that hateful bitch tell us we're doing an awful job? Starfire roared in outrage. She should be kneeling at our feet, thanking us for saving this city. If it weren't for us, she'd probably be out on the streets, her and her child, begging for food. We made it possible for her to live in a house. We made it possible for her to live! I'm going to give her a very healthy portion of my mind when I change back!

Raven listened to this rant patiently, letting Starfire blow off the steam. When Starfire was finished, she laid her head on Raven's lap and sat there, tears rolling down her furry cheeks. Raven scratched her ears and whispered words of comfort to the distraught creature. When Starfire's tears had subsided, she began changing back. Raven watched the painful process and engulfed her lover in a hug when it was over.

Turning human again, she whispered, "Don't go after her Star. She's not worth it. She just doesn't understand exactly what you do for her. She'll learn. Whether it be on her deathbed or in two days, she'll learn." Raven held Starfire to her for a while, comforting the alien. A few hours later they went back to the tower and waited for the boys to come home.

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