Requisite Disclaimer: I don't own any characters, settings, or expressions that are contained in this story.
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The Life Of the Titans
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Starfire finished putting her leftover pizza into the refridgerator, next to Beastboy's nearly expired tofu, and Cyborg's long expired ham and beef jerky sandwich. She then closed the refridgerator door and floated towards the couch, watching with mild interest as Beastboy and Cyborg played a racing game on their gamestation.
Beastboy's ingame persona, a green-painted car, was easily winning the strange futuristic race. Cyborg was trailing by nearly six carlengths, which Starfire knew from experience was a nearly unbeatable lead this far into the race.
"Haha! Beastboy, ruler of the universe, is about to score another win!"
Cyborg smirked knowingly. "Don't get cocky, B. I can still win this!"
"Cocky? Never!" Beastboy turned into a rooster, strutting up and down the back of the couch, gloating as his car in game headed full tilt down a straightaway.
"Ha! I knew you couldn't resist the joke!" A missle flew out of the front of Cyborg's racer, which Beastboy couldn't dodge in his current form. His car exploded into dozens of peices, mere inches from the finish line. Cyborg passed the wreckage a moment later.
Beastboy changed back to a human, a look of disbelief on his face. "No way! That's so cheating, Cyborg!"
Starfire laughed happily, startling them both out of their fixation on the game. "Wonderful! You are both so very good at the videogames! I can not even understand the controller myself, you are very skilled!"
Cyborg laughed while Beastboy nodded, winking at the tallish alien. "Yeah, all the ladies love us racers!" He pretended to flex his muscles.
"Hey, Beastboy! The ladies only like racers that actually WIN!" Cyborg laughed as he pressed the button to start another race.
"Dude! I wasn't ready!"
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Starfire giggled and floated away from the couch, looking for someone less occupied to talk to. She stopped at Raven's door, half wanting to knock, and half wondering if Raven would prefer privacy. Starfire decided to knock anyway, as Raven had not spoken much on the way back to the tower from the pizza parlor.
"Raven, dear friend, I desire to talk to you!"
Raven put down her book and sighed. Standing, she walked quickly towards her door, opening it to see Starfire once again smiling brightly at her.
"Hello! Have you got the undigestion? You were most quiet on the way home." Starfire floated into Raven's room uninvited, a common thing for the orange-skinned girl. Raven closed the door behind Starfire.
"Starfire, it's 'indigestion', and no. I was just... thinking about things." Raven pulled her hood up over her head, trying to resolve her will to avoid a lengthy conversation.
"Oh. You know that I tend to worry when you are unahppy, Raven. What were you reading?" Starfire floated over to Raven, who was now sitting again in her chair, trying to resume her study.
"It is the Book of Azar. Azar is the high priestess of Azerath, the place of my birth."
"Oh! I can not read the strange letters. Perhaps you are reading of meditation techniques?"
Raven looked away from Starfire. She was going to try once more... "Yes. I'm studying a form of meditation called--"
Starfire giggled. "You are lying again! Your eyes looked away from mine!" Starfire flew three quick circles around Raven.
The pale girl sighed once more. "Uh.. I know it's not exactly my style, but I'm reading a section on love. Azar knew love well, but I don't. While I was reading into Beastboy's mind over dinner, he was thinking of... me."
Raven tried to ignore that Starfire had begun braiding her hair while she was talking. "I wanted to know more about Azar's stance on it, before I decided what to do about Beastboy."
Starfire finished the short braid of Raven's short hair, letting it fall back to her head unsecured, since she had no clip on her. She lightly closed the book and floated in front of Raven. "How joyous! I had honestly been wondering how long it would be before you found out that he was affectionate towards you. What is it that you plan to do now?"
Raven was unable to decide at the time, and felt a need to find a way out of this. She ever so lightly skimmed Starfire's strange mind, trying her best to not allow the alien structure to distract her. Suddenly she smiled slightly at Starfire.
"Have you planned on what to do with Robin?"
Starfire blushed deeply. "I-- I did not know it was so obvious! I do not yet know what to do. On my world, it is not customary to hide such things, but I have been on Earth too long now, and I feel... nervous... when alone with him. I want to tell him, but I can not." Starfire still smiled, and looked to Raven with an expression that seemed to beg for advise.
"Uh... I'm not really good with this sort of thing. Maybe you should just tell him though. I get the feeling that he won't take it badly."
Even such a noncommital response seemed to thrill the hovering girl. She smiled and hugged the pale empath happily. "Very well. I will attempt telling him at some point. What about Beastboy? Perhaps you will speak with him?"
Raven sighed. "I'm not sure I share Beastboy's feelings, Starfire. I promise that I will speak with him regardless, if you go and speak with Robin." Raven didn't really want to talk about it to the green boy, but knew that Starfire would hound her until she did. Talking about it couldn't cause any harm though, could it?
Starfire smiled happily. "Thanks to you, Friend! I will go and find Robin now, perhaps speaking with you will have given me the courage to tell him of my attraction." Starfire floated out of the room, leaving a stunned-looking Raven behind her.
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Robin was training hard in preparation for the next time a criminal tried to attack the city. He knew that Jump City relied on his skills and the skills of his teammates to defend against any attacks. At the moment, however, his attention was focused on keeping the punching bag on the defensive, punching and kicking quickly, remembering that the only way to win is to be aggressive.
"Yah!" With a sudden powerful kick, the chain holding the bag to the ceiling broke, and the bag went flying across the room, and into the freeweights set, causing a loud crash and several wheels of iron to go rolling around the room. Robin's ears perked as he heard clapping behind him.
"Very good! You are showing the bag that you are its father!" Robin smiled as he recognized the voice.
"Yeah, I sure am. Hi Starfire. What do you need?" Robin began to pick up the weights on the floor, trying to keep his mind off the alien girl behind him.
"I am here to... just to see what you are doing." Starfire's voice seemed nervous. She was nervous! It was an unusual feeling to her. She did not relish it.
Robin replaced his barbell on his weightbench, and then stood looking forlornly at Cyborg's seven hundred pound monstrocity. He'd never be able to lift that. "You sound a little worried, Star. Is everything ok?"
Starfire smiled at Robin. "Everything is wonderful! The pizza was good, and the pursuing was delighfully trivial." She lightly lifted the barbell and replaced it on the sagging weightbench.
Robin's eyes widened slightly as his slender teammate lifted the weight. He often forgot that she was quite stronger than she looked. "Well OK then. Just remember that if you ever need to talk about something, you can talk to me." Robin grinned charmingly at Starfire. Robin was too oblivious to notice the blush spreading across her cheeks.
He wiped his sweaty forehead with the back of his glove. "I'm going to go to bed now. See you tomorrow morning?"
The Tamaranian smiled at him. "I will see you in the morning then! Pleasant snorvax!"
Starfire was still happy, despite the fact that she had once again failed to tell Robin how she felt. He just made her happy being around him. She floated down the hallways and into her room, quickly falling asleep, dreaming of a costumed Boy Wonder.
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Raven looked at the empty teacup with irritation. Of course it had to pick now, of all times, to be empty. She closed the Book of Azar once more, sighing as she stood and walked out of her room and towards the kitchen.
"I really need to remember to buy a personal tea machine," she muttered to herself as she walked across the common room, ignoring the loud videogame being played on the other side of the room. She wordlessly began boiling the water for her tea, idly watching the game as Beastboy sped along the track, no doubt 'training' for tomorrow's games against Cyborg.
She jumped when she heard Beastboy's voice from across the room. "Hey Raven, are you just going to watch or do you want to play?"
Raven's eyebrows twitched slightly. "I don't do videogames."
Beastboy turned into a chicken and squawked loudly. Changing back into a grinning boy, he turned to face her. "Why not? Chicken?"
Raven rolled her eyes. "Changing into a flightless foodstock is not going to change my mind, Beastboy." She poured the hot water into her cup, covering the single-serving teabag she'd placed inside.
"Your loss!" Beastboy turned back towards the game, nimbly regaining his position as the lead car in next to no time. Raven stirred her tea, whilst staring at the green tuft of hair sticking out above the couch cushions.
She had promised Starfire, and Starfire had gone to speak with Robin... Raven sighed.
She'd talk to him about it tomorrow.
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A/N: A little more substance to this chapter, and a little more Raven, which of course makes it less fluffy, since she tends to be so irritable. However, Starfire is still here and still fun. If it seems like I'm focusing on the girls of the team, it's just because I enjoy writing them more than I enjoy writing the boys. Author's perogative! Anyway, Update will come soon. Until then, read, review, and enjoy.
Review Responses:
Bold Achilles: Unrequited is perhaps the wrong word. I suppose "Unstarted" is a tad closer. I'll fix the summary one of these days. Glad you like the fic, however, and thanks for the comment about staying in character. It's tough to do sometimes.
Ihuncalwen: I like the way adolescents and teenagers always have to dance around the relationship for a long time before they can start it. It's cute, particularly with those two. Glad you like the fic.
Someone: I like pointless stories too! I'll continue writing.
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The Life Of the Titans
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Starfire finished putting her leftover pizza into the refridgerator, next to Beastboy's nearly expired tofu, and Cyborg's long expired ham and beef jerky sandwich. She then closed the refridgerator door and floated towards the couch, watching with mild interest as Beastboy and Cyborg played a racing game on their gamestation.
Beastboy's ingame persona, a green-painted car, was easily winning the strange futuristic race. Cyborg was trailing by nearly six carlengths, which Starfire knew from experience was a nearly unbeatable lead this far into the race.
"Haha! Beastboy, ruler of the universe, is about to score another win!"
Cyborg smirked knowingly. "Don't get cocky, B. I can still win this!"
"Cocky? Never!" Beastboy turned into a rooster, strutting up and down the back of the couch, gloating as his car in game headed full tilt down a straightaway.
"Ha! I knew you couldn't resist the joke!" A missle flew out of the front of Cyborg's racer, which Beastboy couldn't dodge in his current form. His car exploded into dozens of peices, mere inches from the finish line. Cyborg passed the wreckage a moment later.
Beastboy changed back to a human, a look of disbelief on his face. "No way! That's so cheating, Cyborg!"
Starfire laughed happily, startling them both out of their fixation on the game. "Wonderful! You are both so very good at the videogames! I can not even understand the controller myself, you are very skilled!"
Cyborg laughed while Beastboy nodded, winking at the tallish alien. "Yeah, all the ladies love us racers!" He pretended to flex his muscles.
"Hey, Beastboy! The ladies only like racers that actually WIN!" Cyborg laughed as he pressed the button to start another race.
"Dude! I wasn't ready!"
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Starfire giggled and floated away from the couch, looking for someone less occupied to talk to. She stopped at Raven's door, half wanting to knock, and half wondering if Raven would prefer privacy. Starfire decided to knock anyway, as Raven had not spoken much on the way back to the tower from the pizza parlor.
"Raven, dear friend, I desire to talk to you!"
Raven put down her book and sighed. Standing, she walked quickly towards her door, opening it to see Starfire once again smiling brightly at her.
"Hello! Have you got the undigestion? You were most quiet on the way home." Starfire floated into Raven's room uninvited, a common thing for the orange-skinned girl. Raven closed the door behind Starfire.
"Starfire, it's 'indigestion', and no. I was just... thinking about things." Raven pulled her hood up over her head, trying to resolve her will to avoid a lengthy conversation.
"Oh. You know that I tend to worry when you are unahppy, Raven. What were you reading?" Starfire floated over to Raven, who was now sitting again in her chair, trying to resume her study.
"It is the Book of Azar. Azar is the high priestess of Azerath, the place of my birth."
"Oh! I can not read the strange letters. Perhaps you are reading of meditation techniques?"
Raven looked away from Starfire. She was going to try once more... "Yes. I'm studying a form of meditation called--"
Starfire giggled. "You are lying again! Your eyes looked away from mine!" Starfire flew three quick circles around Raven.
The pale girl sighed once more. "Uh.. I know it's not exactly my style, but I'm reading a section on love. Azar knew love well, but I don't. While I was reading into Beastboy's mind over dinner, he was thinking of... me."
Raven tried to ignore that Starfire had begun braiding her hair while she was talking. "I wanted to know more about Azar's stance on it, before I decided what to do about Beastboy."
Starfire finished the short braid of Raven's short hair, letting it fall back to her head unsecured, since she had no clip on her. She lightly closed the book and floated in front of Raven. "How joyous! I had honestly been wondering how long it would be before you found out that he was affectionate towards you. What is it that you plan to do now?"
Raven was unable to decide at the time, and felt a need to find a way out of this. She ever so lightly skimmed Starfire's strange mind, trying her best to not allow the alien structure to distract her. Suddenly she smiled slightly at Starfire.
"Have you planned on what to do with Robin?"
Starfire blushed deeply. "I-- I did not know it was so obvious! I do not yet know what to do. On my world, it is not customary to hide such things, but I have been on Earth too long now, and I feel... nervous... when alone with him. I want to tell him, but I can not." Starfire still smiled, and looked to Raven with an expression that seemed to beg for advise.
"Uh... I'm not really good with this sort of thing. Maybe you should just tell him though. I get the feeling that he won't take it badly."
Even such a noncommital response seemed to thrill the hovering girl. She smiled and hugged the pale empath happily. "Very well. I will attempt telling him at some point. What about Beastboy? Perhaps you will speak with him?"
Raven sighed. "I'm not sure I share Beastboy's feelings, Starfire. I promise that I will speak with him regardless, if you go and speak with Robin." Raven didn't really want to talk about it to the green boy, but knew that Starfire would hound her until she did. Talking about it couldn't cause any harm though, could it?
Starfire smiled happily. "Thanks to you, Friend! I will go and find Robin now, perhaps speaking with you will have given me the courage to tell him of my attraction." Starfire floated out of the room, leaving a stunned-looking Raven behind her.
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Robin was training hard in preparation for the next time a criminal tried to attack the city. He knew that Jump City relied on his skills and the skills of his teammates to defend against any attacks. At the moment, however, his attention was focused on keeping the punching bag on the defensive, punching and kicking quickly, remembering that the only way to win is to be aggressive.
"Yah!" With a sudden powerful kick, the chain holding the bag to the ceiling broke, and the bag went flying across the room, and into the freeweights set, causing a loud crash and several wheels of iron to go rolling around the room. Robin's ears perked as he heard clapping behind him.
"Very good! You are showing the bag that you are its father!" Robin smiled as he recognized the voice.
"Yeah, I sure am. Hi Starfire. What do you need?" Robin began to pick up the weights on the floor, trying to keep his mind off the alien girl behind him.
"I am here to... just to see what you are doing." Starfire's voice seemed nervous. She was nervous! It was an unusual feeling to her. She did not relish it.
Robin replaced his barbell on his weightbench, and then stood looking forlornly at Cyborg's seven hundred pound monstrocity. He'd never be able to lift that. "You sound a little worried, Star. Is everything ok?"
Starfire smiled at Robin. "Everything is wonderful! The pizza was good, and the pursuing was delighfully trivial." She lightly lifted the barbell and replaced it on the sagging weightbench.
Robin's eyes widened slightly as his slender teammate lifted the weight. He often forgot that she was quite stronger than she looked. "Well OK then. Just remember that if you ever need to talk about something, you can talk to me." Robin grinned charmingly at Starfire. Robin was too oblivious to notice the blush spreading across her cheeks.
He wiped his sweaty forehead with the back of his glove. "I'm going to go to bed now. See you tomorrow morning?"
The Tamaranian smiled at him. "I will see you in the morning then! Pleasant snorvax!"
Starfire was still happy, despite the fact that she had once again failed to tell Robin how she felt. He just made her happy being around him. She floated down the hallways and into her room, quickly falling asleep, dreaming of a costumed Boy Wonder.
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Raven looked at the empty teacup with irritation. Of course it had to pick now, of all times, to be empty. She closed the Book of Azar once more, sighing as she stood and walked out of her room and towards the kitchen.
"I really need to remember to buy a personal tea machine," she muttered to herself as she walked across the common room, ignoring the loud videogame being played on the other side of the room. She wordlessly began boiling the water for her tea, idly watching the game as Beastboy sped along the track, no doubt 'training' for tomorrow's games against Cyborg.
She jumped when she heard Beastboy's voice from across the room. "Hey Raven, are you just going to watch or do you want to play?"
Raven's eyebrows twitched slightly. "I don't do videogames."
Beastboy turned into a chicken and squawked loudly. Changing back into a grinning boy, he turned to face her. "Why not? Chicken?"
Raven rolled her eyes. "Changing into a flightless foodstock is not going to change my mind, Beastboy." She poured the hot water into her cup, covering the single-serving teabag she'd placed inside.
"Your loss!" Beastboy turned back towards the game, nimbly regaining his position as the lead car in next to no time. Raven stirred her tea, whilst staring at the green tuft of hair sticking out above the couch cushions.
She had promised Starfire, and Starfire had gone to speak with Robin... Raven sighed.
She'd talk to him about it tomorrow.
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A/N: A little more substance to this chapter, and a little more Raven, which of course makes it less fluffy, since she tends to be so irritable. However, Starfire is still here and still fun. If it seems like I'm focusing on the girls of the team, it's just because I enjoy writing them more than I enjoy writing the boys. Author's perogative! Anyway, Update will come soon. Until then, read, review, and enjoy.
Review Responses:
Bold Achilles: Unrequited is perhaps the wrong word. I suppose "Unstarted" is a tad closer. I'll fix the summary one of these days. Glad you like the fic, however, and thanks for the comment about staying in character. It's tough to do sometimes.
Ihuncalwen: I like the way adolescents and teenagers always have to dance around the relationship for a long time before they can start it. It's cute, particularly with those two. Glad you like the fic.
Someone: I like pointless stories too! I'll continue writing.