Author's Note: A prompt that I feel we can all relate to this time of year. In fact, I spent the majority of my day wrapping presents. Ironically. I started at 11:30am and finished at 4:00pm. Like holy crap it was long. I had to wrap my brother's, sister's, cousins, grandparents etc presents for my mama. Whilst I'm not employed, I offered to do it all for her because she's been thrown on late shifts for the Christmas period so I'm being a good daughter nugget and am doing it all for her.

Meltdown though. My TV died tonight and I'm so annoyed. Like ughhh. I'm hoping that it'll work again if I leave it completely unplugged for the whole night. Sometimes they need power resets so fingers crossed!

Disclaimer: I do not own Teen Titans.

Day 21 - Gift Wrap

Tongue out, eyebrows furrowed; concentration was her muse for the evening.

She was a warrior Princess of a foreign planet. She had taken down armies and monsters alike as both a warrior on her home world and here on Earth. She was a superhero. She was brave and stronger than most.

And yet, no matter how hard she tried, this measly task was getting the best of her.

She was fighting with an inanimate object and it was winning.

"Floog horknarg!" Starfire grumbled, throwing down the red and silver glittery paper for the fourth time in the past 30 minutes.

Robin snorted from up on their bed and put the case filing he had been reading over off to the side. Crawling down the bed, he peered down at his girlfriend who was pouting in a frustrated manner.

He raised an eyebrow and smirked, "Whoa there, Princess. Curses? From you?" Robin paused, "Something must be really wrong."

Starfire remained quiet for a moment before she sighed and glanced up at him with a defeated expression.

Chuckling, he gently scratched under her chin to relax her. Simple scratching gestures such as this appealed to her feline heritage and it worked wonders when she got irritated or upset.

She sighed as he shifted his hand to come around the back of her ear to which she responded by tilting her head against his massaging fingertips.

"What's wrong, Star?" He murmured, once she had simmered,

Her eyes opened and she threw a scowl in the direction of the currently unwrapped present, "I cannot do the wrapping of the gifts." She paused, "I am still currently wrapping Raven's novel and it is my first to wrap!"

Robin smirked, "Is that all?"

"It is too hard."

"How have you managed in previous years?"

Starfire scratched her arm, "... They offer such a service within the mall of shopping. However, I forgot to do it this year whilst we did the shopping for gifts."

Robin rolled his eyes playfully, his mask resting upon the bedside table. He rolled over, landing in a crouch on the ground.

The Princess watched him as he shuffled over, coming to kneel beside her.

"What part is it you're having trouble with?"

She huffed, "All of it."

Robin chuckled, "Okay... then what part is most troublesome?"

She tapped her chin in consideration, her eyes shifting back and forth in an attempt to give him an answer.

"I believe I have severe difficulty in attempting to stick the tape down when the paper first is brought together." She replied, motioning the very first movement of wrapping a gift.

Robin smiled, "Don't worry. Loads of people have that problem. Do you want me to help you?"

Starfire smiled timidly at him, "Please?"

He leaned forward to give her a tiny kiss against her temple before settling down beside her with his legs crossed.

"Alright, so watch closely. There's a little trick that some people do, including myself to make this a lot easier."

Nodding, Starfire scrunched up her face in concentration as she watched Robin's movements like a hawk.

He pinched one side of the square shaped piece of wrapping paper and pulled it up to the middle of the book. As he proceeded, he glanced at the tape on the floor before looking up at Starfire,

"Do me a favour? Cut off a strip of tape?" He queried, earning a sharp nod from Starfire who did as asked immediately.

Robin nodded as he took the strip of tape and stuck it partly against the wrapping paper whilst the other edge stuck to the surface of the book, ever so slightly.

He sat back with his hands up in an almost, 'Ta-da' manner.

"See?"

Starfire gasped before she frowned, "But... does sticking the tape to the gift not ruin said gift?"

He shrugged, "You've just gotta be aware of the material of the item. Because of the glossy surface on this book, you can do it without fear of ruining the book."

She nodded as he continued to show her how to wrap the gift. Her eyes were glued to his hands as he manoeuvred the paper around the novel. Folding and bending and sticking. It seemed simple in theory.

"Please, when will you do the wrapping of your gifts, Richard?" She asked quietly as he cut a strip of tape to use on one of the edges.

"Already done em'" He murmured back,

She blinked, "You have?"

He pressed the strip of tape down before sitting up and smirking at her, "Yep. I did them after you fell asleep at my desk the other night."

Starfire paused before a small, cheeky smirk took hold of her expression, "May I do the shaking of my presents?"

Robin chuckled and shook his head, "No! You'll guess them too easily."

She giggled, "I will not! I promise you! Pleeease?"

He eyed her carefully before he sighed and raised an eyebrow at her, "Just one."

Starfire grinned.

Author's Note: Because let's face it... we've all had problems with wrapping presents. It can be absolutely infuriating.

This one was a little shorter than some others but ohh well...