Title: Hey Jealousy

Author: Blair Lebeau, SocialButterfli

Summary: When a stranger named Derek appears at the door of Titans Tower seeking refuge, it leads to friendship, romance, and not to mention trouble. It seems to follow Derek everywhere he goes, and when he gets the Teen Titans sucked into it, Robin begins to believe that maybe Derek isn't what he seems. Is Robin onto something, or is it just the result of a little thing called jealousy? RobStar BBRae

Disclaimer: I don't own Teen Titans, which you already knew, but I can't afford to be sued so I'll just say it anyway.

Epilogue

It was a bright Saturday morning, the kind of morning that's the obvious beginning to a beautiful and perfect day. The sun was shining, the birds were singing, and the Teen Titans could be found where they usually were at this time of day: the breakfast table. Before them was a large feast consisting of tofu waffles, soy milk, normal milk, eggs, pancakes, bacon, sausage, and anything else you would find at an extravagant breakfast buffet. The Titans were talking animatedly among themselves as they enjoyed the feast and if one were to look at them, they would think they were nothing other than a group of normal friends, just enjoying each other's company. Normal, aside from the fact that one was half metal, one was green, one was levitating a tofu waffle towards her, one was slightly tinted orange, and one was wearing a mask and was in tights. But except for those trivial details, they seemed perfectly normal.

"Since when do you eat tofu waffles, Rae?" Cyborg asked, gorging himself on his over-large plate consisting of meat, meat, and more meat. Raven glared, but Beast Boy puffed out his chest proudly.

"My woman likes my food," he said. Raven moved her glare from Cyborg to Beast Boy.

"What did you call me?" she asked, eyes narrowed.

"Uh....heh heh....sweetheart?"

"I don't think so," she replied, and took a tiny bite of the waffle. Five seconds later, she lifted her hood over her head so she could make a face of disgust and revulsion. Nasty. This went unnoticed by Beast Boy, but not by the rest of the Titans, who grinned. When Beast Boy turned back around to face Raven, her hood was back down and she smiled at her expectant love.

"Yum," she said in her normal monotone voice, but Beast Boy didn't detect the sarcasm. Which was all as well.

Breakfast was interrupted by the alarm going off, signaling trouble in Jump City. Robin jumped up and raced over to the computer to find where the dilemma was coming from, and the Titans were on their way.

"What's going on?" Cyborg asked, behind the wheel of his beloved T Car.

"Apparently Mumbo Jumbo thought it would be fun to harass the new carnival in town. He's got the spinning ride at high speed and it doesn't look like he wants to stop it any time soon."

"Damn," Beast Boy said. "Makes me feel sick just thinking about it." Cyborg pulled the T Car up to the gates of the carnival, which people were streaming out of, screaming. You could hear Mumbo Jumbo's psychotic laughter ringing out above the din.

"Titans, go!" Robin shouted as they all jumped out. "Cyborg, you stop the machine. Starfire, you save the passengers. Raven, Beast Boy, let's take Mumbo down." Cyborg and Starfire raced to the whirling machine. It was going so fast it was a blur, and Star began to feel dizzy.

"Cyborg, please hurry with the dismantling of this object for I am very uncomforted by it," she pleaded as the mechanical man played with the control box. Finally after a couple of nauseous minutes, the ride came to a stop, creaking on its hinges. A large sigh of relief came from the people on the ride along with some crying and gagging noises. Starfire quite felt like gagging herself as she helped remove the passengers from the ride.

The other three Titans came over to help Starfire as Mumbo was already defeated and being taken away by the "abnormal villains" police. (I mean, seriously, what kind of police are those guys? They wear weird masks like someone would in Star Wars and have seriously weird guns and have no problem at all with dealing with these REALLY weird monsters. Like Cardiac? What kind of villain was that?) As Starfire lifted one smaller boy out of the ride and down into Robin's outstretched arms, the tearful child gave her a hug.

"Thank you for saving me, miss," he sniffled. Starfire and Robin smiled at the adorable little boy.

"What is your name?" Star asked, hugging him back, then flying him down personally and setting him on the ground. She stood next to Robin. Cyborg, Beast Boy and Raven could handle helping the people without them for a while.

"Derek," he said, wiping his nose. "It was very scary and I didn't think it would ever stop. And then it did and you saved me. You're like my guardian angel or something. So thank you." He waddled off and ran into the open arms of a sobbing woman who was probably his mother. But the little boy's words had left the couple speechless. His name was Derek and he had called Starfire his guardian....angel....

"Well that's everyone, our work here is done," Cyborg said. "My head is still spinning so I need to get behind the wheel of my baby to get back in focus. Can we go now?" Raven recognized the shock written all over the faces of Starfire and Robin.

"What's going on?" she asked.

"Nothing," Robin said, shaking his head. "Just something made us think. I'll tell you about it in the car."

"No way!" Beast Boy said. "It wasn't actually him, was it? I mean, by what you told us of that night, he just kind of, poof, disappeared. Was he, like, reincarnated or something?"

"It definitely wasn't him," Raven said, quickly. "I can promise you that, he's gone for good. What a half-demon does....what he did, there's no coming back."

"No, there's no cause for alarm or anything," Robin added, feeling foolish. "It was just, kind of, a coincidence that induced thought. I mean, it's been a year since the battle, and after you guys woke up and I explained what happened, we just kind of forgot about him. He was Raven's cousin from Azerath, he tried to destroy us, he almost succeeded but didn't, he erased himself from existence, the end. But we never talked about what really happened that night, personally, for each of us, with our weaknesses."

There was a pause as each Titan pondered this. For Starfire, Beast Boy and Cyborg were still clueless as to her reason for hating to be alone. For Raven, it was obvious why her weakness was what it was. For Cyborg, everyone had enough of an idea that he missed who he used to be but everyone also knew that he didn't want to be reminded. For Beast Boy it was easily understandable why he was afraid of rejection. And for Robin, well, he wasn't a failure, and no one wanted to go there.

"You know," Raven said, finally breaking the silence, "It doesn't matter."

"What?"

"We didn't have to talk about Derek's attack because we all overcame it, and we all know why we were able to conquer our weaknesses. Because of our friendship. Those weaknesses are a thing of the past."

Arriving at Titans Tower, the five friends reflected on Raven's words. Cyborg took the T Car into the garage and began working on it as he had noticed that it wasn't running as smoothly as usual. Looking under the hood, he found the problem, and had the right tool to fix it in his arm. While he fixed it, he suddenly realized that his "useless" mechanical arm was doing exactly what he needed it to do. Smiling, Cyborg finished up and began whistling as he began to polish his baby. Inability? What inability?

Beast Boy accompanied Raven to her room, which he was allowed to be in now. She sat down on her bed, and patted the spot next to her, signaling him to sit. There was no rejection in her eyes or body language as she wrapped her arms around him and began to kiss him. As he put his hands on her waist and began to kiss her back, the emotion of love filled her, and there were no light bulbs shattering and she didn't feel overwhelmed at all. There was just the simple, sweet sensation of loving and being loved back.

Starfire took hold of Robin's hand and flew up to the roof where they could enjoy each other's company. Sitting, he put his arm around her and she leaned her hand on his shoulder. Robin looked at the beautiful redhead. How could he be a failure and end up with the most gorgeous girl in the universe on his shoulder? He reached his hand up and stroked her hair lightly. She lifted her head and turned it towards him as he took his other hand and captured her face. Soon his lips were on hers, and she somehow found herself in his lap like the time they had gone to the scary movie with Derek and the others. He caressed her lips with kisses that she hungrily returned. She had needed this love for so long, and now that she finally had it, she wouldn't want it from anyone else. Robin broke the kiss and looked into her beautiful green eyes.

"When you're with me, you're never alone," he whispered, and they kissed again.

And so the weaknesses of the five strong Teen Titans were, just like Derek, simply erased from existence.

THE END!!! I hope you guys liked this story, next up is the sequel to Heart's Desire, titled Mind's Obsession. As I've said I'm going on vacation, and I'll be back Sunday. I'm taking my laptop with me but I don't have an internet connection down there so I'll only be able to write. But that means I'll have lots of chapters for Mind's Obsession and I can post it Sunday. Look for it! Now for my normal end-of-story questions, please answer in your review:

1.)How did you like this story?

2.)Did you like the pairings?

3.)How did you like the ending?

4.)What changes would you make, if any?

5.)What was your favorite part?

6.)What was your least favorite part?

7.)Did you read my first fic, "Heart's Desire"? If not, will you?

8.)Are you going to read the sequel to that, "Mind's Obsession"?

9.)What are some of your favorite Teen Titan fics to read?

Okay, that's all, and say anything else you wanna say. Tear, I can't believe it's over!!! But all good things must come to an end. If it weren't over, I'd never get to work on Mind's Obsession, which you will see on Sunday. I love you all!

Blair Lebeau