(I'm quite serious about the "Chart of Robins", but as I said last time: Don't worry about it in this story! And for Larry…well, I can't tell more about were he is without telling the end of the whole series, which I think I will hold on to a little bit longer. Just remember this: Not everything is what it seems like, not everything stays the same and you don't get all the answers now (in this story)! – JoBO)


Feelings

- or how to lose a friend

Raven was the last one to step out of the portal, which then vanished behind her, and joined her friends in some kind of laboratory. Cyborg ran back over to the place, where the portal had been, but there was nothing to see. He began to scan the area, but he didn't found anything.

"My sensors say we still are in Jump City."

Beast Boy, who had turned into a dog to investigate the area, turned back to his normal form as he ran back to Cyborg.

"But it sure doesn't smell like that!"

"What do you mean?"

Beast Boy blew his nose in his sleeve.

"Can't you smell it?"

Raven flew over to the two boys.

"There are some here, who doesn't have a olfactory organ, which are larger than their brain."

"Hey, that wasn't funny!"

Cyborg stepped in and stopped the two.

"BB, what can you smell?"

"Pollution!"

Raven rolled her eyes.

"Great, a dog, who can detect pollution! Give it a Nobel Prize."

"Hey…"

A call from Starfire stopped him. She was standing a distance away from the others and was looking up at the big skylight.

"Maybe we should go after Robin?"

She pointed at the almost invisible line, which the others immediately recognized. Beast Boy turned into an eagle as Raven lifted Cyborg up with her powers. Up on the roof they almost felt over DarkRobin, who was lying with his face down. Starfire rushed over to him and took him into her arms. She gasped as she saw his face.

"Robin, what happened?"

He opened his eyes.

"He… he…"

Cyborg kneeled down beside them.

"Who?"

"He was me!"

DarkRobin then passed out in Starfire's arms. Raven kneeled down and examined him.

"The injuries are only minor, so I should be able to heal them, but he will remain unconscious for a while."

She didn't say it out loud, but there was something, which didn't apply. The injuries didn't fit with someone being attacked. They were too homogeneous, but Robin was her friend. He had told them what had happened, so she pushed the thoughts away and began to heal him.

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He opened his eyes. It was dark. First he couldn't remember were he was, but then it all came back to him. He couldn't believe it. His plan had worked! Blockheads! He smiled over his own genius. Now there was only one thing left to do, and then he would have the power. Then he wouldn't need Red Claw's contacts anymore. He wouldn't be their errand boy anymore and he would finally get out of…

"Robin?"

He turned his head towards the voice and saw Raven.

"Starfire is…"

He tried to sit up, but she gently pushed him back.

"…Don't try to sit up. You need to give you body time to heal."

"I'm alright!"

His eyes made her stop.

"Sorry, I shouldn't…."

She turned around and was about to walk away, when he took her hand and guided her down beside him as he sat up.

"Raven…"

He looked around in the room and saw they were alone.

"…I…I…"

He leaned towards her and kissed her.

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Cyborg was sitting on the floor next to the machine, which stood under a meter behind where the portal had been. He had found some plugs in the machine and had connected himself to it. On his forearm panel came some writings up on the screen. It look like it was written in some sort of language, but he couldn't read it.

"Hey BB, could you fetch Raven for me? I have something, which I hope she can help me with."

Beast Boy, who snooping around in the laboratory nodded, and ran after Raven, who, just moments before, had left to see how Robin was doing.

Just for fun turned Beast Boy himself into a dog. First he hadn't like that form after the whole Soto-thing, but then he had found out how much Raven hated it, so now he loved it. He smiled as well as he could as a dog. That girl was something, which made him wobbly at the knees. He simply loved irritating her.

He came to the door and pushed it opened with his muzzle. He was just about to jump up at Raven, when he saw it. Suddenly he felt like a little puppy and with the tail between the legs he ran away.

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For a second she kissed him back, but then she pushed him away.

"Sorry, but I can't…"

He tried to look unaffected by it.

"It's alright."

"I can't. Starfire… "

DarkRobin got an idea as he saw there was standing two soda cans on the table beside them.

"It's alright. Let us just be friends."

She sent him a little smile.

"Just friends."

He took the two soda cans.

"Let us drink on it."

Reluctantly she took the one he handed her. The same one as the one he unnoticed had shaken, so, when she opened it, it then splashed all over her.

"Sorry, take this one instead."

He gave her the other one, which he unnoticed had slipped a little weird yellow pill into. She took the soda can.

o -

"Starfire?"

Starfire opened her eyes and rubbed the sleep out of her eyes, but then she saw Raven. Suddenly she was fully awake.

"Has something happen to Robin?"

"In some way… we need to talk?"

Starfire jumped up from her bed.

"Is he…?"

He tried to fly out of the room, but Raven stopped her with her powers.

"He is alright, but…"

"Then let me go. He needs me."

"I have to tell you something."

As Raven told her, what had happened between DarkRobin and her, became Starfire's eyes dark with grief. Raven ended her story and she withdrew her powers.

Starfire felt down on her knees and began to cry.

Raven walked over to her friend and laid a hand on her shoulder, but Starfire shook it away. She raised her head and looked Raven straight into the eyes.

"I thought you were my friend!"