It had been fifteen minutes. Fifteen long, agonizining minuites. That may seem like a insubordinate amount of time, but it really isn't. Imagine everything that could happen within a timespan of fifteen minutes! On single solitary quarter of an hour could change the entire world! Heck, it only took Trigon a mattter of seconds to take over the world.

I have been spending my last fifteen minutes pacing, again. It turns out that that is the exact amount of time it takes for me to go out of my mind crazy. I mean, Starfire had been hiding out in her room for fifteen minutes, who know what might have happened! If it had been up to me, I wouldn't have wasted this precious time. If Cyborg had let me do things my way, I'd probably know what had upset Star so much already, and things would be perfectly fine.

But no, Cyborg insisted I wait. Well, I had waited an eternity of time, by now, hadn't I? I answered my own question with a confident yes.

Striding down the corridor with a grin on my face, I relized that I couldn't wait to see Starfire again. I was actually looking forward to holding her and wiping away any tears she may have, and you know, helping her calm down by means of a lenghy make out session. . . Oh, come on, who could blame me?

Anyway, my stupid grin got wiped off my stupid face when I stopped outside her door.

I could hear her crying, actually crying. I guess I didn't realize how serious the situation was till I heard her crying.

After debating with myself for a while, I just deliberatly walked in without knocking. My logic at the time was, if you don't knock, she can't refuse to let you in.

She sitting in the exact center of her circular bed, back to the door, front to the double set of windows set into the opposite wall.

He knew that she heard him enter, but she didn't say anything. His brow creasing slightly, he stepped inside, and closed the door behind him.

The room was dark. No lights were on. Tentivly he crossed the room to where she sat. She was curled into a ball, her arms wrapped securly around her knees. The covers were brought all the way up to her head, tucked neatly under her neck. Almost like a pink and fluffy version of Raven's cloak, it wrapped all the way around her entire body, front to back, with her head sticking out the top.

She was staring out the window, as if in a trance, though the sun had already set long ago and the only thing that could be seen was darkness and the occasional winking of a star.

Slowly, Robin crawled onto the bed next to her. All his anxities had disappeared, just being near her seemed to make everything right again. She was like a painkiller to him. His dark past, his time with Batman that hardened him, even his parenst being yanked from his life, none of it mattered, and everything just seemed to . . . fit. Even his nightmares had deserted his too - happy body, perhaps they had found someone gloomier to annoy.

He placed a hand on her shoulder, making small circles with his thumb.

He leaned in close to her ear. She could feel his hot breath on her face, but he didn't say anything, and neither did she.

Usually, Starfire would have leaned into his embrace, what was the warmth of blankets compared to the comfort of Robin's strong arms? But not today. Instead of leaning backwards into his waiting arms, she went to the other direction, falling forward, rather limply onto the bed.

Robin didn't give up so easily, though. He scooted foreward a bit on his knees, settling back once he had gotten closer to her. What he really wanted to do was gather her up into his arms and never let go. He hadn't forgotten about the time when it had been her comferting him, not to long ago. He wanted so badly to return the favor.

He was determined to see her cheerful smile, not matter how much she didn't want to. He acted as though she was made of glass, reaching down with careful hands, to smooth some hair out of her face. This did not fare much better then the first attempt. She shut her eyes tight, and cringed away, shrinking under his hand, moving away.

Robin frowned. Her attempts to thwart him only made him want to try that much harder, but he was afraid. He didn't want a giant fight to start over something stupid, and he most definatly didn't want this relationship to end.

He backed off, and sat back, sighing.

"Talk to me, Star," he asked, "please?"

She didn't say anything, just acted like he didn't exsist.

"Please, Star, please talk to me."

The only movement that indicated she was still alive was the slow rise and fall of her torso, as she breathed.

The clocked ticked on, but nothing happened. Robin's anxieties were slowly returning. He wanted to resolve this now, he couldn't stand not doing anything, it drove him insane, but he was afraid that if he pushed her any futher something would snap, and he didn't want to lose her, even if it was only for a while.

He decided to leave. If he left, he wouldn't be tempted to grab her and kiss sensless, or at least untill she smiled and things were alright again. Besides, maybe Cyborg was right, maybe what she really needed was some time alone, without him bothering her.

That thought hurt him like a knife in the heart, but he decided that he was going to be strong enough to give her what she needed.

He backed out of the room. Just as he was about to open the door, step into the hall and leave her in peace, she spoke up.

Her voice was barely audible and weighed down with hurt and sadness. It was so different from her usual light, airy, tone that was so filled with happiness.

"Don't leave me." She was desperate.

Despite the circumstanses, he couldn't stop the smile that wound onto his face. He was glad that she still wanted him.

He went over to her, and placed a hand on her face, cupping her cheek. Her eyes didn't open, and she hadn't moved, but a tear slipped out beneth her eyelid. He lovingly brushed it away.

"Never," he whispered back, into her ear. He laid beside her, but didn't touch her.

And eventually, they both fell asleep.

Meh, I meant to make that longer, sorry. Next Chapter is most likely the last one. (dun dun dun) So yeah, keep checking my profile becuase when this story is done I'm going to changing a lot of stuff. Did I mention that before? I can't remember.

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