The team walked in, and Robin almost let himself fall back into the act he'd been keeping up for years. Then Starfire grabbed his arm in excitement, and it grounded him. The sly, mischievous grin he'd begun to paint on slid into something more natural, more true. He straightened his shoulders and strode forward.
"Welcome to Titans Tower."
"We are glad to be here," Kaldur nodded, ignoring the doubtful look his girlfriend was making behind his back.
"You've already met Raven," Robin nodded to her, "This is Cyborg, Beast Boy, and my girlfriend Starfire."
"Girlfriend?" Zatanna squeaked a little bit, but it was lost in the hubbub as Starfire swept forward to pull them all into a hug.
"New friends!" Starfire cheered, "I have been looking forward to meeting Robin's other friends for such a long time." Several of them started to turn faintly purple from the hug.
Kid Flash laughed from the other side of the room, leaning against the couch, "I'd heard you two finally got together. Congrats!"
"Yeah, it's fairly recent, but…" Robin watched Starfire as she finally let the team down and they all gasped for breath with a soft expression, "It was a long time coming."
"Oh yeah, that reminds me," Kid Flash snapped his fingers, "Who won the betting pool?"
"The what now?" Rocket asked.
"Raven did," Cyborg replied, "Next time she isn't allowed to bet."
"You guys were betting on me?" Robin asked incredulously, but the next moment he was yanked into the kitchen by Starfire to help her prepare a traditional tamaranean dish for the team, so he never got an answer.
Cyborg laughed and took Robin's place in front of the team, holding out a hand for Aqualad to shake, "Don't mind Star, she's just a little enthusiastic. All of us are, actually, just in different ways. Good to meet you."
"Nice to meet you too!" Miss Martian smiled.
"Hey, who wants tofu dogs?" Beast Boy yelled, emerging from the fridge with a package of them in hand.
"Man, nobody wants your nasty fake meat!" Cyborg yelled back. Miss Martian couldn't help but think that Beast Boy looked… familiar, somehow, but she couldn't place him.
"Anyway, make yourselves at home," Cyborg smiled at them, "We're probably going to end up going out to eat later if no one manages to cook anything edible, but for now we're just planning to hang around here." Then he wandered into the kitchen, presumably to check and see if anything cooked in there was going to be edible.
The team hesitated by the doors in a clump, clearly not sure what to do. Kid Flash had no such reservations, zipping all over like he owned the place and cheerfully chatting with various members of the titans.
"Come on, Megan. You have got to come meet Starfire, you guys will love each other! Two most gorgeous girls I know." He grabbed her hand with an eager yank.
"Wow. Nice to see I'm so loved," A dry voice echoed from the doorway, and the team all jumped. They whirled around to see another girl about their age, dressed like a witch with bright pink hair, standing in the hall.
"Aw, Jinx, you know you're the only one for me," Kid Flash teased fondly, zipping over to gently kiss her hand. She propped her other hand on her hip and rolled her eyes dramatically, but a fond smirk played at the corners of her mouth.
"Everyone, this is Jinx, my girlfriend" Wally smiled, "We've been together for, what, a month or so?"
"Eh, closer to two," she responded, waving her hand from side to side, "So these are your other friends huh? I was expecting them to be taller."
The team members silently noted that Superboy and Kaldur were nearly a foot taller than her each.
"So you're the mysterious girlfriend, huh?" Artemis sassed back, "Guess Wally finally found someone willing to put up with him for longer than a week."
"Hey, you put up with me for two," He defended himself, but Jinx cracked up laughing.
"Oh, I like you," she smirked, "Wanna talk trash about this goof?"
"Thought you'd never ask," Artemis responded, and the two of them drifted over to the couches, Kid Flash hovering nervously.
Slowly, the other team members started to spread out and settle down, finding people to talk to and exploring the tower. Miss Martian had joined Starfire in the kitchen, and the two of them were chatting up a storm while happily ignoring the faint smell of burning. Beast Boy had tried to flirt with Rocket and Zatanna and gotten shot down hard, but the two of them were now relaxed and laughing helplessly, so it wasn't a total loss. Afterwards, he'd volunteered to show Rocket their training course. Raven and Aqualad had gotten to chatting about different schools of magic, and even Superboy had been goaded into arm wrestling with Cyborg. Neither of them was giving an inch. Robin watched it all. For all his fears, this was actually going very well.
The alarm chose that exact moment to go off, because of course it did.
"Titans, trouble!" Robin barked. Immediately they all broke off their conversations and gathered around the screen,
"Aw man, Plasmus again?" Beast Boy complained as they watched the news report.
"Those HIVE idiots must've woken him up while they were being taken back to jail," Cyborg noted.
"Right. Titans, Go!"
"We'll help," Zatanna offered, standing up, the rest of the team following suit.
"No need, we've dealt with Plasmus before," Robin said brusquely, checking his utility belt, "Kid Flash, keep an eye on the situation from here. If there's been another breakout, let us know."
"Awesome," Kid vanished for a moment then was suddenly holding a bucket of popcorn larger than his own torso, "Go kick some butt."