A/N: This is the last chapter! Be sure to look for the next story in the series soon!
A month after his capture, the youth that had attacked Raven stood trial. The other Teen Titans sat and listened as Raven recounted what happened that night. Beast Boy and Starfire nearly had to leave the room due to their tears. Raven had fought to keep from crying on the stand but it was an effort in futility. The effects of the trial were enough to make certain that the Titans were scrupulously quiet for the majority of the rest of the day.
Later that day, after completing her meditation with Raven, Starfire escaped to her garden. The sun had grown hot this time of day with its autumn angle and Starfire felt its effects when a bead of sweat rolled from her hairline, down her cheek and dripped off the edge of her jaw. She hardly saw it as a shadow fell over her back as she weeded her azaleas. She felt the absence of the sun and gasped as she rolled mid-air to face the stranger.
"Hi, Star," Robin said, a calm smile on his face.
"Robin," Starfire breathed. "You frightened me."
"Are you okay?" Robin asked, sitting down beside her.
"I am sorry, Robin." Starfire said. Robin raised an eyebrow in surprise.
"For what, Starfire?" Robin replied.
"You gave me a direct command and I refused. If I had followed your orders, perhaps the others might have backed down sooner and the situation resolved faster," Starfire explained, drawing little swirls in the dirt with her finger.
"But on the other hand, you didn't attack either, and doing that probably kept the others from attacking too," Robin said sliding an arm around her shoulders.
"So, you are not mad at me for this transgression?" Starfire said, her eyes gleaming.
"Of course not! Besides, if you hadn't shown the restraint that you did, I might have jumped right in!" Robin replied. Starfire smiled and picked one of her bright white Shasta daisies to tuck into Robin's hair. Robin looked up at the flower as Starfire giggled softly and then he looked back at her, catching her face in his hand and gently brushing it with his thumb.
"You have a little dirt on your face," he said softly, suddenly very aware that his face was mere centimeters from hers. They paused there a moment just looking at each other before Robin whispered, "Can I kiss you?"
Starfire thought her heart would burst.
"Any time you wish," she replied.
Back in the Tower, life was beginning to relax back into some semblance of its former reality. Cyborg and Beast Boy were furiously dueling away at their racing game as Raven passed through the room with one of her books. She stopped for a moment to watch what they were doing and slowly, as though she was simply taking over for him, she levitated the controller out of Cyborg's hands and stepped over the back of the couch in order to sit down between them.
"Hey! Who said it's... Oh! Hi! Raven?"
"Move over, Tin Man, there's about to be a new champion in this tower."
Fin