A/N: Okay… I'm confused and really lividly ticked off at my posting and myself, so in order to appease everything…including the "Writer's Block" gods… I am no longer touching anything ever again! (Except to update, which is why this chapter is up so quickly).

Reviewer Replies (Also not that many today because of the screw up, but posting quickly to rectify!)
-Because I screwed up badly (I am soo sorry), Plate-Sized Cookies (Oreo today, I've had a request!) to everyone who can forgive me - plus M&M's to all of the people who have me on their "author alerts" who probably got 3 emails for 1 chapter. I promise to try my hardest not to let that happen again: lil' LIK Star, SweetEmotion6String, Evilevergreen, corza12002,DeathIsMyWayOut, "jolie94", robin("plus")Starfire, kmc99, and a "special oreo" to Scott Okragleski.

angelinajfan322: no, no "darkside" as you put it. (She almost died again… I mean come on, Robin would have to be there for her). --Anyway--All Rob/Star from here on out.

There WILL be fluff, just not in this chapter and for those of you who don't like her… no Krystal in this chapter either.

Disclaimer: Arrrrrrrrrrrrggggggggg! Quit asking me!

Though I do not profess to be great, I do not profess to suck either.

Realizations
(chapter 7)

"Raven. How are you feeling?" Robin asked when she finally opened her eyes again.

Raven looked around her. She was hooked up to all sorts of gadgets and monitoring equipment. "I look like a lab rat. How would you feel?"

Robin chuckled, "I'd feel helpless, but you know me: always gotta be 'mister go getter.'"

"Yeah, well it's not much easier for me, but at least it's quiet." As if that were their cue, Beast Boy and Cyborg burst in carrying a balloon and flowers respectively.

"Hey girl! Great to see you in the land of the living," Cyborg greeted, laying the flowers next to her purple roses (rush delivery).

"Yeah, you've even got more color in your cheeks than usual," Beast boy chimed in as he tied the balloon to the foot of the bed (it was black, Robin could tell they were trying really hard).

"Thanks guys. These are lovely." Robin could see that she really did like them, but he could also see that she really did need some peace and quiet.

"Guys, could you go make her some tea?" Robin suggested.

"We're up to the task," Beast boy said saluting.

"We'll be right back," Cyborg finished and they left.

"Thank you." Raven sighed.

"You know it's a good thing Starfire's not…" his eyes bugged open. "Starfire!" Raven's trauma had made him almost completely forget about Starfire. 'How could I neglect to remember her?' he scolded, smacking himself on the head. Though he probably had the best excuse, it wasn't good enough. "Oh, my gosh! Raven, I still have to find her!"

"Robin, go. I'll be okay. You've been a wonderful doctor to me, but at least I've got two nurses who will dote over me. Starfire has no one right now."

He held her hand in both of his, "Don't worry, I'll find her and I'll be back to check on you. I promise." He put her hand back down and walked to the door.

"Robin! Wait!" he heard Raven cry out desperately.

He turned to see her hands grasping the sides of the bed and her eyes rolling back into her head. She groaned in pain for an agonizingly long moment. He rushed to her side and tried to quiet her. He held the sides of her face in an attempt to reassure her he was there. 'What the hell is going on!' his mind screamed. He couldn't bear anything more happening to her.

Her body fell still, then she fixated her gaze directly on Robin, "Starfire!" she could barely speak, "Robin she's here! I can feel her." His eyes widened excitedly. She continued, "Her mind…she must have been unconscious. She's still fading in and out, but she's here. In…Beast Boys room?"

She seemed uncertain at this, but he could tell it was just a questioning of why Starfire would be in Beast Boy's room. Even so, he still had to ask, "Are you sure?"

"It took my last bit of strength, but I'm absolutely sure. She's here!" Raven's head fell back to her pillow either unconscious or sleeping. Robin checked and she was still breathing.

He whipped out his communicator and yelled to the guys, "Get up here now. You need to watch Raven. We've found Starfire!" He was anxious and excited at the same time. He didn't want to leave Raven, but he knew that she would be in capable hands, 'And if she's right, I'll be back in a matter of minutes.'

He ran down the halls and up the stairs to Beast Boy's room. He waded through alternating piles of junk and crap, but he didn't see Starfire. His one last hope was the closet. He shoved some more shit to the side to make enough room.

Every effort he had put forward and all of the sleep he had lost was all worth it, when he pulled open the door and saw her lying there. "Starfire! Starfire!" He tried his best to reach in and shake her to awaken her, but he only succeeded in causing more things fall on top of her. 'I need to get her out to a safer place where I can untie her.' This thought made him feel horrible that she was even tied up in the first place. 'It's my fault, I shouldn't have sent her back alone.' Then he remembered Raven, lying in the medical room. 'Wonderful, I'm two for two,' he thought bitterly as he lifted her from her place in the closet. He placed her over his shoulder and carried her out of the room. Once outside, he used his cape as a makeshift pillow and laid her gingerly on the floor. He removed the bindings from her wrists and untied the knot behind her neck. His fingers gently brushed her lips as he carefully removed the scarf from her mouth.

"Starfire!" he tried again to wake her. Robin felt a passing sense of déjà vu as he raised Starfire into his arms and placed her head on his lap. For a long moment he thought hard about pulling her close and passionately kissing her right then to see if that would wake her, though his logical mind got the better of him…this time. So, his sense of déjà vu became even stronger when instead, he lightly kissed her forehead.

Not one second later, he regretted even that decision. At this touch, she shuddered and curled into the fetal position. He softly stroked her hair and tried to reassure her, "Starfire, it's alright. It's me… Robin." At the mention of his name, she calmed and snuggled closer to him. As much as he was enjoying this, he really wanted to know that everything really was all right, "I've been looking everywhere for you. I want to know if you are okay. Please, wake up."

"Robin?" he finally heard her say, "It is you?"

"Yes, It's me Starfire. Look."

She opened her eyes cautiously and was pleasantly surprised by what she saw. "Robin!" she squealed with delight. She rolled over and hugged him tightly. While he recovered from her bone-crushing squeeze, she looked around and noticed the ties and the fact that they were both sitting out in the hallway, "Robin? You said that you have been looking everywhere- what has happened to me?" When he didn't respond, she continued, "You sent me to look through the tower, I found nothing. I contacted you to tell you as much, then all I remember is this strange dream in which I am talking to a bloody skeleton." She shuddered then reached up and touched her face, "And why is it that my eyes are stinging?"

Robin tried to follow her thoughts, but got lost at the mention of her dream. To sort his thoughts, he had to ask her, "You mean you don't remember anything?" She shook her head no. "I'm sorry, but all I know is that I found you tied up in Beast Boy's closet," he explained, but she just looked at him confused.

"Robin how could that be? I am stronger than even most males on this planet. No one should have been able to overtake me," she stated matter-of-factly.

Robin knew that this was true. In fact it was one of the reasons why he had sent her back alone in the first place. "Whoever it was, must have snuck behind you and used something to knock you out," he reasoned. "I guess chloroform works really well on aliens. You were out for more than twenty-four hours. Raven only just sensed you now when you started to wake."

He remembered that she had said something about her eyes stinging so he told her to close them so that he could check it out. "They are kind of red Star. I wonder how that happened?" He answered his own question, "It must be an allergic reaction to the chloroform. We should go get some medicine for you."

Starfire agreed, "Yes, that sounds like a good idea."

"Then you can see Raven there and let her know you are alright. She used her powers to help find you, the least we can both do is thank her," Robin stood up and offered his hand to Starfire.

"What is wrong with friend Raven? Why is she in the room of healing?" She looked and sounded extremely worried as she took his hand.

Robin stared at his feet. He didn't want to explain everything to her right now, but he knew he'd have to sooner or later. He related the incident to Starfire on the way back. As he spoke, he watched Starfire's every reaction and by the time he'd finished, her concern had turned to tears. He had to run to keep up with her as she flew to the infirmary holding tightly to his hand.

Starfire burst into the room and landed near Raven, "My friend! Robin has told me everything. Show me how you are hurt so that I may take great care of you."

Raven smiled, Robin massaged his hand, and the others just stared at her in shock. "Hey Starfire. Glad you could make it," Raven groaned as she tried to sit up.

Beast Boy walked up and poked her a couple of times, "Star! It is you!" he grabbed her and hugged her, "You're okay!"

"Yeah girl! We've been worried sick about you," Cyborg chimed in. He waited until Beast Boy let her go and hugged her as well.

"I thank you all very much for your concern and your time spent in searching for me. I would like to return as much care as I can for the one who is in trouble now," Starfire turned to Raven again, "Raven, please. You must let me look at your wound."

Being too weak Raven complied. By then she had on pajamas so she just lifted her shirt a bit. Starfire gasped. Robin wouldn't even want to begin to describe what she saw. Even though it had already healed a bit, any description would just be too gruesome to anyone who hadn't already seen it.

Starfire flitted around the room gathering things and came back to the bed, "Raven there are some Tamaranian remedies that I can use to make this heal much more quickly, but I need some more things. Boys, I trust that you can all look after her for a bit while I am gone." She flew out of the room and came back ten minutes later with a large bowl. She started mixing stuff furiously and in spite of himself Robin had to chuckle, well under his breath at least. Her hands were moving at fifty miles per hour and there were things he couldn't even begin to identify flying through the air.

Starfire doted over Raven for the next two days and she was starting to improve very quickly. By the third day Raven was able to start healing herself. All Robin could do at that point was check in on her every now and then, but nothing changed. She barely budged for the next eighteen hours, but after that she was moving without much pain. Because of her vast improvement, he let her move out of the infirmary and back into her own room.

Everyone else, including Starfire, had been sleeping like it was going out of style, but Robin just couldn't. He did sleep, just not as much as he should have- considering. It wasn't until Raven was almost fully healed that he even somewhat relaxed. It was wonderful to see Raven out of critical danger and it was good for Robin's heart to see Starfire smiling and laughing much more now, but he was still very confused about what had happened to her.

Stuff didn't add up. A while back, he had heard Beast Boy exclaim, "Dude! Somebody took my tunes!" but that seemed to be the only thing missing. 'Why would somebody try to break in here just for some CD's and a stereo? And why would they be wandering around with chloroform? They'd have to be calculating enough to know that they'd need it so why would they be dumb enough to only take inconsequential stuff they could get anywhere?' Nothing made sense –especially the fact that Starfire was overtaken so easily. It was possible that someone could sneak up on her, it had been done before, but it usually seemed to result in being flipped through the air and landing with her hand at your neck before she would recognize you and back off. Also, he couldn't understand why Starfire's communicator had been found in the 3rd floor hall, when Beast Boy's room was on the 5th floor. 'I know she's tiny, but why would the thief want to take her up two floors when she was already incapacitated? He could've just as easily left her there.'

There were way to many questions that he needed answered, including: Who was this Krystal Ice and does she have anything to do with what happened to Starfire? Basically that one was in his mind because he just really wanted to kick her ass. So Robin decided to take another look around the tower. His first thought was to check out Beast Boy's room, but he couldn't find anything in there even if he wanted to, so he wandered around the 3rd floor hallway slowly, starting with the spot where he'd found Starfire's communicator. There was nothing out of the ordinary there, but he scanned carefully around the area and about six feet away there was a crack in the wall. It was small, but it did peak his curiosity. Additional searching produced nothing more however.

He had given up and begun to walk away when his foot stuck to the floor for a split second. Normally he would've written it off, but he decided it was worth a look just in case. He felt the floor beneath his feet and noticed that there were actually four sticky spots. He felt around a bit more and noticed that three feet to the right there were four more. More searching resulted in two more "patches" about four feet down from each of the others. 'Okaaay, this is really out of place. There is no way this could be accidental.' He retrieved some cocoa powder from the kitchen and came back and dusted it over the spots. He noticed that every one had the same shape –a rectangle with one side at a 45-degree slant. After he dusted them all, he noticed something else, 'These are just about the right size for…' he splayed himself out on the floor, 'Oh… my…, damn it!' He lifted himself up and finished out the picture. There were four Xes on the floor in just the right places for the wrists and ankles of a tall Tameranian girl. "X!" he hissed through his teeth.

He played out the scenario in his head. 'She must have been standing here, then he surprised her and knocked her to the ground -the crack in the wall was either caused by him throwing her or more likely her throwing him.' He stopped and thought for a second, 'He had to have figured out how to prepare for her star bolts.' He looked down, 'He kept her palms to the floor and…holy shit! Why didn't I notice it before! The red on her eyes wasn't a rash! He…taped her eyes shut!?' Robin didn't even want to think about how horrible that must have felt.

A blaring realization hit him and he ran to his room. He tore the mirror off of the wall. It cracked as it hit the floor, but he didn't even care. He quickly punched in the combo and whipped open the safe. 'I knew it! I knew it! That asshole took the belt and used the arsenal I created, on Starfire (Okay, now I have to apologize to her twice).' He finally put everything together. 'Beast Boy's missing stuff wasn't the target. It was only a diversion! Starfire wasn't tied up by some inept guy who happened to get lucky; that was a calculated step and I was almost stupid enough to believe it!' It was a good thing he was so stubborn and questioning or he would've missed the clues and X would've gotten away with everything, but now… Robin clenched his fists so hard he drew blood from his palms-even through his gloves 'Oh, I am so kicking his ass!'

A/N: Starfire's back! What's Robin going to do now?
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