Um…Hi. Yeah this is awkward since I haven't updated in a while. Sorry. The thing is, I wrote most of this chapter, took a break, and then forgot what I was going to write about. I don't like this chapter very much. I don't know why, I just don't. And it kind of dances along the edge of the T rating, so if it needs to be changed to M, tell me, but be warned, if I have to change this to an M rated story, I'm going all out. Anyhoo, enjoy!
I do not own the Teen Titans
Dedication: NightstarGrayson! Thanks for being the 200th reviewer!
Starfire rolled over in her king size bed she was sharing with Jason. She couldn't sleep. Her gaze drifted up to the digital clock next on the table next to her. '1:30 A.M.' She sighed.
Starfire had gotten in from her party over an hour ago. Most of the women had left after they met Starfire and promised to be at the wedding the next day, the rest of them (along with Kathy) had had some weird drinks that made them act strange. Kathy offered Starfire some, but Starfire thought the drink was awful. It had burned her throat and made her almost physically sick!
After listening to these women ramble for hours while they drank more of those dreadful drinks, Kathy finally admitted that it was time to get Starfire back. But even though Starfire had gone straight to her room, changed into a camisole and some pajama shorts that Kathy had given her, and gotten into her bed when she arrived at the mansion, she was still unable to sleep.
"Married…tomorrow?" she mumbled quietly.
Her rhetorical question floated out of her mouth.
"Can't sleep either?"
Starfire turned over in her bed quickly to find Jason looking up at the ceiling. He turned to her when he knew she was looking at him. He smiled at her. His bare muscular chest almost glistened in the moonlight from the window. Wait, bare chest? The sheets of the bed only covered him below his stomach, where Starfire hoped he was at least wearing some boxers. She just realized that she was closer to him in the bed than she had ever been before. Did she move over without knowing it? Or had he gotten closer?
She figured it was the latter when she felt her edge of the bed with her toe.
'It was an accident,' she told herself, 'He hadn't meant to get that close.'
"Sorry if I woke you," Starfire said quickly, "Goodnight, Jason."
She turned back to the edge of the bed. Why was she suddenly feeling guilty? Maybe it was because it just hit her that she had kissed a man that was not her fiancé.
'Damn Robin,' she thought to herself. At first, she mentally kicked herself for using language like that. Then she remembered that he deserved it. He deserved it for kissing Raven and breaking her heart, not for kissing her.
Starfire unconsciously found herself touching her lips as she remembered the kiss. Unfortunately, it was the best kiss she had ever had.
Suddenly, Starfire felt Jason lightly run his finger down her back. She shuddered. Immediately she felt a mixture of fear and unease. He brought his fingers back up to her shoulder and began pulling it down. She didn't resist his pulling on her and found herself flat on the bed. A shadow was cast over her as Jason lifted himself over her, hands on either side of her head.
Starfire gulped. "What are you-"
He mouth was over hers in an instant. At once Starfire could tell the difference between this kiss and the one she shared with Robin. Robin's kisses where tender and filled with love. This kiss was rough and was brought upon simply by lust.
But, Starfire didn't want to disappoint Jason. If she was going to spend the rest of her life with him, she had to get used to it. She began to kiss him back, but after a while, she wished she hadn't. He had taken it to mean she wanted to go farther.
Jason began to sit up and Starfire followed suit. He sat up on his heels and Starfire brought her legs up under her. Jason had his hands up around her head while hers were lifelessly at her side. Soon Jason's hands made their way to Starfire's chest as he began to feel her outline in her tight shirt. Starfire tensed immediately but tried to keep her cool as Jason's hands began to go under her shirt. Casually, she tried to push them off her without breaking the kiss, but wound up merely pushing them down.
Jason smiled inwardly.
He rested his hands on her thighs for a while before gradually beginning to move them up her leg. Starfire flinched.
He was heading towards her most private part, the one that she was always taught to keep only to herself. Raven had called it her 'flower' and warned her to not let any man ever take it from her until she was married, or at least in love. When Starfire had inquired as to how a man was to take this 'flower' Raven had told her the many ways, and it had not been enjoyable to think about for Starfire.
Jason was becoming dangerously close. Starfire told herself that he would stop before he got there, but he didn't. The minute his fingers brush the fabric protecting her 'flower' from the outside world, she pushed him away from her. With her alien strength, he was sent crashing into the nearest wall. He slid down to the ground and then began rubbing the back of his sore head.
"What did I do wrong?" Jason groaned.
Starfire was too angry to even feel sorry for the fact that he was now going to have multiple bruises because of her.
"Why did you do that?" She cried.
Jason slowly stood up and gave her a questioning look. "Do what?"
Starfire opened her eyes wider incredulously. Did he really not know what he did? She glared at him. "Why did you try and touch me there?" She was pretty much yelling now.
Jason first thought to remind her that they were almost married and would be doing it soon, but he stopped himself. "You were the one that pushed my hand down!" He yelled back.
"I did not do it on purpose!" She cried.
Jason rubbed his temples and let out a long sigh. "Look, Star-uh, Kori, baby, let's just forget about this, ok?"
Starfire's eyes narrowed and she scowled at him. She got off the bed and walked strait past him and out in the hall. She was going to find a couch to sleep on or something.
I am getting married tomorrow. Enjoy the rest of your life without me.
Her words rang in his head. Had she meant it? 'If she had only let me finish my sentences,' Robin thought to himself 'Maybe she could be with me right now!'
He was walking down the streets of Jump City. It was past midnight, he figured, everyone else is asleep. He wondered if anyone in the tower was worried about where he was. No one had bothered to call him on his communicator.
Robin reached down in his pant pocket for his communicator to check it but found his pockets empty. He quickly checked the other pocket and still found nothing. Robin stopped walking in panic and patted his back pockets. Nothing. Then he remembered that he had left his communicator in the Tower with his uniform when he had to change into the waiter uniform he was wearing.
'This is just great,' he told himself, 'This is freaking spectacular.'
Not only had he lost the love of his life, his friends all probably thought he was dead. He had no way to tell them he was alive, either. He had not a cell phone nor money for a pay phone.
But in reality, he didn't want to talk to them. He didn't want to have to explain what he had done. He hadn't told them where he was going. He had just said he was going to check a lead. If he went back, he would have to be the one to tell them that she's not coming back. He decided he'd let them figure it out themselves.
Why should he have to tell them anyway? It's not like any of them cared like he did. They weren't out searching for her. Cyborg had been on his computer when he left and was probably recharging at the moment. Raven and Beast Boy had been flirting while reading books (which Robin supposed were Raven's) and were probably sleeping at the moment, maybe even together.
It was Raven's fault she was gone in the first place! Actually, Raven was only the one who prevented her from coming back. It was Red X's fault for taking her in the first place! Damn him! When Robin finally got his hands on him, he was going to kill him! Well, first, he was going to make him suffer, then he was going to murder Red X with is own hands!
Robin sighed. Thinking like that wasn't going to bring Starfire back. Would anything bring her back? Maybe she was happy with Red X…
'No!' Robin told himself, 'She is not in love with him!'
Robin thought back to the kiss he had shared with Starfire. He had kissed many women, but that was the best kiss he'd ever had in his life. And Robin could tell Starfire had felt the same way. The best kisses are the ones you share with the person you love.
But she was gone. In one night, she had ripped out his heart and shredded almost all of his hopes of getting her back.
"This night could get any worse," Robin muttered to himself.
Suddenly, Robin felt something on his head.
"There is no way in hell…" he cursed.
It had started to rain. Pour. In about two second, a drop of rain had turned into a flood. Robin glared up at the sky.
"You think this is going to ruin my life?!" Robin cried to the sky, "MY LIFE IS ALREADY RUINED! YOU CAN'T DO ANYTHING MORE!"
"Shut up! I'm trying to sleep!"
Robin looked up to see a bald man leaning out of his apartment building.
"Listen, buddy, I don't care if your girlfriend just died, shut the hell up!" the man yelled.
Robin didn't have time to deal with this. He picked up a rock from of the wet sidewalk and hurled it directly at the man's face. It didn't miss either. It hid the man smack in the middle of his forehead.
The man yelped and rubbed his forehead. "Now I'm going to have to go to a wedding with a giant freaking bruise on my forehead. Thanks."
The window slammed before Robin had time to realize the man said 'wedding'. Could it be the Starfire's? Robin sighed. There was no use. Robin didn't know where the wedding was. He wouldn't be able to get in anyway. And even if he found the wedding and got in, would Starfire go back with him? She had a perfect opportunity at the party and she walked away from it. Why would this be any different?
Robin turned around and began walking toward the Tower. He was giving up.
"Found anything?"
Raven and Beast Boy looked up at Cyborg and shook their heads.
"I can't find anything that makes one more suspicious than the others," Beast Boy commented.
For the past couple of hours, Cyborg, Beast Boy, and Raven had been trying to find out which Jason Todd was the Jason Todd Starfire was being forced to marry. Robin had told them Red X's real name was Jason Todd after he had heard someone at the hotel restuarunt call him that. Robin had told them that even though he was hiding behind a plant, he knew that that's what the other man had called Red X.
So, the three had searched for information to make one of them stand out more as Red X, but they had not been successful. Raven and Beast Boy had searched through the city archives they got from the library while Cyborg checked his computer.
"Me either," Cyborg sighed, "I haven't found anything about any of them getting engaged."
Raven looked up. "Jason Todd could be a fake name."
Beast Boy stood up from the floor and lay down on the couch. "You mean all of this searching could have been worthless?" he whined.
Raven scowled at him, but inside, she was smiling. She knew Beast Boy liked her and she was starting to like him back. A lot. They had been flirting the whole time they were searching for Jason Todd, but Raven didn't think anyone else noticed.
Beast Boy sat up on the couch and smiled at Raven. She locked eyes with him and smiled back. Well, kind of smiled. Raven doesn't do real smiles.
"Aww…Such a happy couple!" Cyborg joked, laughing.
Raven and Beast Boy both quickly looked away from each other and blushed.
"I'm sleepy," Beast Boy said after a while.
Raven groaned. She handed him the newspaper from the day before. "Here, read the comics."
"But I've already read these!" The green boy replied.
Raven glared at him and he immediately flipped the newspaper open and began to read.
"Uhhh, guys," Beast Boy said, "I think you need to see this."
He held out the newspaper and Raven and Cyborg walked over to see it.
Todd-Anders engagement
The headline caught their attention. Todd was the name they had been looking for, but Starfire's last night wasn't Anders. Did Starfire even have a last name? They continued reading:
The newspaper owner's very own son is to be wed tomorrow to the beautiful Kori Anders.
"Wait," Raven said, her brow furred as she tried to remember something, "Starfire once told me her real name on Tamaran was Koriand'r."
"Koriand'r, Kori Anders!" Cyborg said, "We've found our guy!"
"Are you sure?" Beast Boy asked, skeptically.
Raven smacked him on the back of the head. "Look at the picture, dumbass."
There it was. Starfire. Standing with a man who fit the description Robin had given them. Brown hair, brown eyes, and slightly taller than Starfire.
"The wedding is tomorrow at 1:30 in the country club on the other side of town," Cyborg said, "We'll be-"
The door to the main room flew open and Robin walked in, soaking wet and still dressed in his black pants and white shirt.
"Robin!" Cyborg exclaimed, "I've been trying to get in touch with you…"
He faltered off. Cyborg's, Raven's, and Beast Boy's mouth dropped open when they saw Robin, mask-less.
"Robin," Beast Boy was the first to speak, "I think your mask fell off."
"It didn't fall off, Beast Boy," Robin snapped, "I took it off."
"Why?" The other three immediately asked.
"Because I went to get Starfire."
"Where is she?" Raven asked.
"Obviously not with me, Raven!" Robin replied, glaring at the dark girl.
No one spoke.
"She didn't want to come back," Robin broke the silence, "She's getting married. And she's through being a Titan."
Raven tried to comfort him. "Rob-"
"No, we're through. We're through looking for her. We found her and she's through with us."
He stormed out of the room, leaving the other three shocked.
"He's joking, right?" Beast Boy asked.
The other two shook their heads.
"Robin doesn't joke," Cyborg said.
"Then what does he mean?" Beast Boy asked, "If he found Star she would definitely want to come back!"
"Well…" Raven stuttered. The two boys looked at her with great interest, as if forcing her to continue.
"Do you know a reason why Starfire wouldn't come back, Raven?" Cyborg inquired.
Raven sighed. "Whatever, I'll tell you. Robin and I kissed-Well, I kissed Robin-at the café we were supposed to meet Star at. And she saw us."
"Oh," Cyborg said, "That makes sense…"
Beast Boy couldn't even speak. They had kissed?
Raven saw the expression on Beast Boy's face and immediately felt guilty.
"Beast Boy," she began, but he began to walk through the swishing doors before Raven could stop him.
"This is bad," Cyborg said.
Raven's expression began to change from one of guilt to one of anger.
"He doesn't have a right to be angry with me!" Raven practically shouted, "We weren't dating when that happened! We aren't even dating now!"
She shook her head in angst and walked the same path that Beast Boy and Robin had previously taken, the one out of the room.
Starfire groaned as she slowly sat up in her bed. She had just had the worst night of sleep ever. The couch she had slept on was too small and her long legs were bunched up at the edge. She sat up and stretched her legs and neck but immediately cried out in pain. Her neck felt like it had been stung by a thousand bees in on spot and Starfire couldn't figure out why.
The redhead slowly opened her shut eyes and took in the sun of the morning, while still holding on to the sore spot on her neck. She had slept in a small study, very far away from Jason's bedroom.
Suddenly, the door flung open.
"KORI!!!" Kathy cried. She leaned her head back out of the window and called down the hall "She's in here!!"
In a matter of seconds, three unknown women were in the room grabbing Starfire's arms and guiding her out of the room.
"Kori, we had no idea where you were!" Kathy explained.
"Um…" Starfire started, "Where are you taking me?"
Kathy laughed. "It's your wedding today, sweetheart. You have to get you dress on!"
"Today?" Starfire mumbled.
What did you think? Please please please tell me, promise? By the way, does anyone know why Starfire's neck hurts?
I love you all, starfirre