Cyborg held the sports pages up, so Starfire could see the big article about the football player Vic Stone, with a big grin.
"I can't believe, that I'm such a big name here. Look at this article."
Starfire turned around and tried to smile, but the worries were written all over her face. Jake walked over to her and laid a comforting arm around her shoulders.
"Don't worry. He is going to come back with Beast Boy in any second."
She looked at him with her green eyes.
"I just have the feeling, that something terribly has happened."
Cyborg dropped the newspaper in despair.
"You have right. Something terribly has happened! That bastard has kidnapped Raven and all we do is sitting here and waiting!"
"You have quite right, but it doesn't help just running around without thinking either."
He turned around and saw that Airmid was standing in the doorway. She came over to the table and spread a blueprint of a building out on it. Cyborg, who was happy over that something finally was going to happen, studied the blueprint exhaustively.
"It is some kind of a warehouse. How should that helped us finding Raven?"
Airmid smiled and spread another blueprint out.
"The first one is the official one, but this one is…well, the real one."
He compared the two blueprints with each other and could clearly see the different. He looked up on Airmid in amazement.
"How have you been able to get this?"
She blushed.
"I just have some good friends. Have Robin come back?"
No one answered her, but she could read the answer in theirs faces. She shrugged her shoulders.
"Well, he is probably coming back soon."
She sent Starfire a smile, but instead of returning the smile turned Starfire around and left the room. Cyborg was just about to go after her, when Jake stopped him.
"Let me."
Cyborg nodded. Jake walked after Starfire; therefore he didn't saw Airmid shaking her head behind him. He found Starfire in the library, where she was standing by the big window, which showed the most fantastical view of the ocean in the whole house.
"Star?"
She didn't move, so he walked over to her and laid a hand on her shoulder. He was just about to say something, when she turned around and threw herself into his arms. They stood like that for a long time, as he could feel her tears soaking his shirt, but then he ended the hug by lifting her face with his hand.
"Star…"
He had wanted to say more, but just in that moment he couldn't get a word out as he looked into her green eyes. He leaned toward her and their lips met in a kiss. For a second they just enjoyed it. Forgetting who they were, but then they realize what they were doing and pulled away from each other.
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Cyborg cast a glance over at the doorway, where Jake had left to check on Starfire.
"Should we go after them?"
Airmid shook her head.
"No, he can handle it. Besides we need to get a plan. If he holds Raven here, then it's needs to be a really good one."
Cyborg returned to the blueprint and agreed.
"Yeah, this thing is like a fortress. It is impossible to get in!"
"If memory serves, we've done the impossible before, but this should help."
A package landed on the blueprint and made Cyborg and Airmid looked up. They saw that Robin and Beast Boy were standing in the doorway. Gar' death was writing all over their faces. Beast Boy quickly walked passed them and out in the garden through the open sliding door. Cyborg was just about to go after him, when Robin stopped him.
"Let him be. He needs time. He has just seen Gar from this world die."
He voice was without feelings, but his eyes deceived him. Airmid walked over to him, but he turned around and left the room.
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For a second they just there. Looking at each other, while they tried to realize what they had done. Jake was this first one to say anything.
"This should never have happened!"
Starfire shook her head in despair.
"It was just… you are so much like Dick, when he…"
She blushed, but then she became focus.
"… We need to tell him!"
Jake nodded, but before he could answer her came Airmid into the room. She didn't discover the gloomy atmosphere between them, since she already felt depressed.
"They have come back."
Starfire was just about to walk pass her, when Airmid held her back.
"He isn't… Gar from this world has just died, so I'm worried about them."
Starfire just nodded and left to find Robin.
She found him in the training room, where he was beating a sandbag to death. She gasped as she saw the blood on the bag. She flew over and tried to stop him by taking his hands. First he tried to get out of her grip, but then he felt down on his knees.
"Tell me what's wrong. Please, tell me, Dick."
She sat down next to him and pulled his head up with her hand. He was crying. She automatically loosed her grip enough for him to get out of it. He jumped up and wiped his eyes with his bleeding hand, which leaved a bloody trace on his face. She tried to reach out after him, but he pulled away.
"Please Kory, just let me be alone."
She shook her head in despair. It tore her heart apart seeing him like this. He had always been her rock. So much in control, but now…
"Please, I don't want you to see me like this."
He turned around to hide his face, but she couldn't leave him. She walked over to him and laid a hand on his shoulder.
"I can't! I love you."
She could feel his muscles tightened under her hand as he turned around. She took a step back, when she say his eyes. They were so full of hate. For a second she thought he was DarkRobin, but then she saw, that the hate was directed towards himself.
"What do you want to hear? That I'm such a bastard, that I kill for money. Or do you rather want to hear how I killed Gar I cold blood?"
To his surprised she didn't pull away from him, but laid her arms around his neck. She pulled him closer to herself as she whispered into his ear:
"Remember what Airmid has told you; both him and Jake is you in this world, but Jake are so much more like you, that Dick from this world ever will be able to be."
She could feel her word working in him as his muscles began to relax.
"I just couldn't stop him."
