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The next morning Starfire was hacking a horrible cough. Her body could heal itself, but with the chains that drained her power, she was own her own.
She wondered what the Titans were doing right at that moment. Hopefully they'd be looking for her, but she figured not. Who would want her? She was just a run-away from a distant planet with ordinary powers, right?
Her stomach was growling and she felt as though there was an active volcano inside her but Lexus never came. Finally it dawned on her, what if Lexus had been caught? NO! She was going to starve! NO! She hoped that he had taken the keys and looked back.
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"Hello maid. I've come to tell you something."
Starfire nodded, "Yes Lexus, what it is it?"
He slammed a fist in her stomach, "I TOLD you NOT to call me by my name! It is master to you, got that?!"
"Yes master." She looked at the ground.
"Now then," He continued, "I am going to get some gems from the jewelers today. Hand me the sack."
She did as she was told but protested, "Lexus no! Don't rob the jewelers! Please! Don't!"
"Stupid girl." he muttered as he threw a nearby wine glass at her, "Oh, I'll tell your friends you said hi."
She wiped the blood that began trickling down her face and sniffled.
He merely laughed, "Well that's it for now, TA!"
The instant he left her body was raked with sobs.
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She was REALLY hungry. Then she wondered how on earth she found herself in this trap. She felt so stupid. She couldn't believe that she actually fell for his lies.
"I guess that my thoughts of Robin were distracting me a bit. I don't even know how I managed to think about him at that moment. Though he does look good when fighting." She cast her eyes to the ground.
Looked at the ceiling and watched some water drip from it. She caught some in her mouth and that was her water for the day. When would Robin find her? Was he even looking?
Cyborg jumped in excitement, he had finally finished the blue prints and had a list of materials that he would need to make it! In fact, it wouldn't take a month at all! Just three days!
Robin burst through the doors and looked at Cy with confusion, "What are you jumping on about?"
"It'll only take three days to make the tracking device!" The half-human jumped over and over with glee.
Robin yelled, "Three days?! That's something to jump about?! That'll take forever!!"
"Better than the month it would have taken two days ago!!" All jumping gone. Cyborg stuffed the list at Robin, "Here's what we'll need to make it. And you know what? If it wasn't JUST me working on it, than it would be maybe two days!"
The boy wonder could feel blood dripping down his palms because he was clenching them so tight, "I'M WORKING TOO! WHO'S THE ONE MOST DEDICATED TO STARFIRE? ME! WHO'S HER BEST FRIEND?! ME! WHO TALKS TO HER WHEN NO ONE ELSE WILL?! ME! WHO LOVES HER?!"
He stopped there realizing what he had just said. Raven smirked from the doorway, "You Robin, most definitely you."
"Raven, this is not the time for I told you so…" He growled.
Raven stood there completely un-affected and Cyborg looked at her with interest (NO! NOT THAT KIND OF INTEREST!) "What does he mean I told you so?"
Robin prepared himself for a long teasing, but surprisingly, there was none. Instead of answering the half-human's question, Raven shook her head, "Now is not the time."
The leader looked at his dark friend with widened eyes and she smirked again, "What's the matter with you, you want me to like smile or something?"
Wow. Raven didn't try to embarrass him. Wow, this was a first.
She growled teasingly, "I heard that, wonder boy."
The next day at twelve, Beast Boy shoved another piece of tofu in his mouth and swallowed, "So Rae, you ready to go shopping?"
"Look, it's not my fault that I have to get the materials. Now sit, stay, be quiet, good animal." She rolled her eyes at him and flew out the door.
"What's her problem?" Cyborg asked, "Though that was pretty funny, hey animal, go fetch!"
BB growled and transformed into a T-rex, "SHUT UP."
"Ok! Ok! Touchy, touchy!" He commented as he grabbed some ribs and ran back to work.
Robin yanked the changeling away from his tofu and out the door, "Come ON BB, we HAVE to go look!"
Starfire was gradually losing her energy, it had now been a week since she was first brought here. She was completely convinced that Lexus was not coming back and she was still hungry.
"Well, at least I am getting the extra weight off." she tried to smile. But the problem was, she didn't HAVE any extra weight, her stomach was eating itself and her body was getting WAY too slim. She tried to place her hands on her face, to cover up the tears that fell, and surprisingly, her hands went right through the chains.
She looked at her swollen wrists and sighed, the only problem was that her feet would not go through their bounds like her now abnormally thin wrists.
Then it struck her. Her CLOTHES. Her communicator. She reached for the other side of the room and grinned as she caught the edge of her skirt and pulled it over, dragging all the other stuff too. She lifted it up and her communicator fell to the floor and shattered.
She cried, "My one chance! Gone! What if they never find me! What if?!"
She went on and on, and eventually ended up talking to herself. Saying things like, "It'll be ok, don't you worry." and "What do you mean don't worry?! They'll never find us and…"
It went on and on until she cried herself to sleep that night.
"Okay, let's see here, um, we need um here you just read the supplies and you'll know what we need, I can't pronounce their names." Raven said dryly to a dirty blonde employee.
She smiled, "Alright then, um, let's see… that should be fifty dollars. Hey, that's a lot of materials, you need some help bringing them to your place?"
The dark empath growled at the way she was looking at Robin, who never noticed anything when it came to girls, "He has a GIRLFRIEND."
"What are you talking about Raven? I have a BOYFRIEND, and um, well, I was just trying to do my job." The two girls glared and glared until Robin broke the silence.
He cleared his throat, "Now let's just get the materials and then see if we need help."
An hour later, the employee, who's name was Lisa Rose, pulled out the very last metal strip that Cyborg needed and nodded looking at the titanic pile before them, "Um yeah, I think you guys might need some help."
"Lalalala, lalalala… laaaa… HEY! Hey Robin, who's your friend?" Beast Boy grinned when Lisa Rose twirled in through the door and hummed a tune to a sweet song.
Raven's eyes sparked and flames were setting in them, "Her name is Lisa Rose and she has a BOYFRIEND, so BACK OFF BB."
Everyone gasped as Beast Boy turned into Cyborg and he chuckled, "Oh Raven, it seems that Robin is not the only one in love. Hehe… so Lisa, who's your boyfriend?"
But Lisa didn't hear him, she had earphones on and had her cd player attached to her belt while she carried a large strip of titanium metal and sang along while placing it down gently at his feet. Then she looked up at him and blushed.
Her bright gray eyes twinkling, "My bf? Well right now he's history."
Raven and Robin both cleared their throats and Lisa Rose walked out the door, "Well that was the last one, good luck with whatever you're doing, see you around! You guys should really come back next week, we have a 50% off sale on every game in the store! Anyhow, see you later!"
Cyborg stared at the door where there had been a girl as cute as a button moments before.
Raven glared at him, "Well I guess Robin and I both aren't the only ones in love?"
Robin smirked and jerked Cy to the garage were he was working on the device, "Get to work."
Raven looked at the sleeping BB on the couch, completely unaware that she had been standing there for five minutes strait.
"I guess Cy was right." She heard a very mocking voice from behind her.
"And so was I." She corrected.
Robin sighed and collapsed on one of the chairs in the kitchen, and tears began streaming down his face. He didn't want them to, but they did and Raven saw them.
She walked over and sat beside him, "You know, I have a feeling that if Starfire was here and you were missing, she would have lost her mind after the first four hours. Look how long you've lasted. Please don't give away now. You are so close to finding her, don't give up."
He shook his head but she went on, "Like Slade, when you were this close to finding something about him, you never left your room until you discovered something or had a plan. Robin, don't give in, please. I don't want to lose two friends in the same month."
He looked at her and saw a little flicker of seriousness in her eyes. She was comforting him? Wow, this was another first. A week of firsts.
"Look, if you're just going to degrade me in your mind, then it was pointless for me to actually comfort you. You know what? I think I'll follow BB's example." She shook her head and went to her room.
Robin looked at the couch and fresh new tears glistened in his eyes as he remembered that morning when He woke up and Star was still sleeping on him.
Then he remembered their time together on the roof. It hurt to think of it, but his mind wouldn't listen to his silent plea. He wished she was there, sleeping silently on his shoulder. He longed to watch her face as she slept, so innocent, angelic, sweet, loveable, adorable, lovely, beautiful, wonderful, magnificent, gorgeous, calm, peaceful, radiant… and all in all, perfect. (A/N 14 adjectives! Whew!)
His thoughts were drifting out of control and he didn't even bother stopping them , after he realized that he was not allowed to even keep his mind organized. How pathetic. Drifting… Starfire… emerald eyes… full lips… long legs… sweet face… sweet… loving… sparkles in her eyes… soft skin…
Sooner than later he was fast asleep in the kitchen chair. His mind floating wherever it wanted, and his dreams suddenly reared over to the thief he had stopped at the jewelers. Why? He did not know, but as long as it wasn't Star on his mind, bringing painful memories, he didn't care.
Starfire, oh how he longed to run his fingers through her hair and tell her that he loved her and live happily ever after, but didn't everyone?
Cyborg hummed a song as he worked on the tracking device the next morning. He remembered the previous day with Lisa, he had only seen her for five minutes, but hey, it only takes one look to be attracted. Right?
He grinned while humming a song to himself and took a break. Hey, only one day to go.
Starfire sighed, she was really scrawny now and if you looked at her with before and after photos, you would NOT believe that it was the same person.
She moaned and tried once again to unbind her feet, unfortunately, she had no such luck. She was really tired all the time and if Robin was there, he would tell her that she had something mild like a cold or a virus even though she had something terrible. The truth was, she was starting to get a bad case of mono and a cold and she was becoming an anorexic.
Life was sad, but she tried to keep her hopes up and thought of Robin very frequently. She wondered over silly little things like what color his eyes were, what his favorite food was, favorite color, and even things like what he thought of her. What did he think about her? That was a question that lingered in her mind even before she was kidnapped.
Oh how she wished he loved her as much as she did him. But her wish was granted long ago. Robin always loved her, she was just too blind to see it.
Raven floated inches above her bed and tried to meditate, but it was of no use. She couldn't stop thinking about what Cyborg said… "Looks like Robin's not the only one in love…"
What was that supposed to mean? Sure, she felt really mad when she thought that Beast Boy had interest in that stupid Lisa Rose, but really! Love?! No way! She couldn't love. There was just no way possible.
Her concentration broke into questions and she fell over onto the floor, not calm, not happy, and VERY humiliated. Tea, she needed some tea.
The familiar dark voice that was Raven's echoed gracefully from behind him, "Not too bright are you BB? Well here, you put the tea bag in the cup and pour water in the cup… then you stir."
"Hey!" He defended, "I didn't know how to make tea… so what? It's not like you know how to make tofu!"
Raven glared and took a calming breath, "Ok, fine. You teach me to cook tofu and I'll teach you to make tea… what's it to you anyway? Why were you into my tea?"
He blushed, "Oh, well, um…"
"Hold on, wait…" Raven entered is mind and found out that he was stressed over something, but she couldn't figure out what… she also found out that he went for a cup of tea to try to calm down like she did. Then a strike of pity waved over her, she'd been a tad rude.
"Hey BB, I'm sorry, here, I'll help you. Hey, everyone needs some tea every once in a while. Whatever you're stressed over, you can tell me." Even the sound of her own words confused her, she was comforting Beast Boy? Why she was, she had no idea, but her better judgment had no say in the matter what-so-ever. It was what she wanted to do that did it.
And right then it was like someone else was controlling her, yet she knew that it was all her.
She made the tea and they sat across from each other at the table. After one sip, Beast Boy thought it was funny and had no sweetness… he called it bitter. After that Raven sighed and they went back to the kitchen.
"Rae, what are you doing?" He whispered, careful not to make her mad.
She stirred honey into his tea, "Making the tea sweeter by adding honey."
"Oh." He said more to himself than her.
They went back to the table and sat down again. This time Beast Boy actually like his tea and there was an awkward silence between them.
He sighed, "Thanks Rae, I feel much better. So that's why you drink this stuff so much, it calms you down!"
"Sort of, I just get stressed I guess. I've never been allowed to feel, or at lest lose control. And that's hard when you have Slade on you're back kicking your friends around." She started opening up to him. She had no idea why, but she felt comfortable around him and really wished that he would talk with her more often.
He got up and sat beside her, "Oh, I'm sorry Raven."
"It's alright, it's not your fault that this power is mine… it's not your fault that I can't love, be angry, be happy. It's not your fault that what I want I can never obtain. It's not at all your fault that my father was and is a jerk and now I am cursed with his blood." Silent tears started streaming down her face, even though she didn't want them too.
She tried to gain control, but the cold tears slipped down her face anyway. She couldn't wipe them away, she couldn't move, or anything, she was frozen.
The changeling wiped them away for her and held her for a moment, the second time he had that week, and he was kind of happy that she was softening up to him because he never really knew much about Raven, and as crazy as it seemed, he wanted to know more about her. Maybe if he knew more he could get her to laugh.
And if he got her to laugh, that would be so cool. But then he had to do three things, (a) calm Raven down. (b) calm Robin down. © help Robin find Starfire.
Raven's tears stopped flowing and Beast Boy managed to get her to her room.
She tried a smile, "Thanks BB, I don't understand how that happened."
"Don't worry about it. I'm sure many things have happened to u that haven't to me and have given you plenty of reasons to cry." He smiled back and headed towards the door.
Raven, still not having control, stopped him, "WAIT! Beast Boy! I want to tell you about my life."
A/N: I got reviews!! WOW! Hurray!! I no that Rae seemed a bit off in this chapter, but that's what I wanted her 2 do, deal w/ it! Now then, about hose lovely reviews…
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RUBY