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When Starfire awoke in the infirmary of Titans Tower the next day she was badly battered and bruised surrounded by her teammates…no, not teammates, friends. Her best frieds. It was about 2:30 when Robin noticed that she was stirring, making faces as she awoke to a newly fixed leg that still hurt like hell and a splitting headache.

"I thought you guys were supposed to take care of me…?"

The Titans crowding around Star's bed chuckled appreciatively.

"Sorry, but he drugged you with a pretty powerful tranquilizer. You'll probably feel the effects until tomorrow, but it wears off eventually. Just be glad he didn'tstick you withthe cyanide," Raven said as she looked down at her. Star made a move to sit up, but as she winced, Raven took pity. "Here, let me see what I can do about that leg."

Star clutched the side of the bed in quiet pain as Raven put her hand over Star's knee, her hands glowing blue as Star's leg slowly lost all feeling and completely healed the fracture.

"There. I've reduced the swelling now, but you'll probably have trouble standing for a couple of days. You should be fine if you just hover around."

"Thanks."

Star looked around at them. Her best friends assembled at her side. How much it meant that they still cared, that he still cared, after all she had done to them…and there they were, looking out for her.

"So are you sure you're ok? Hungry at all? I can make you some chicken soup or waffles-" Cyborg began.

"You? Correction, we can make you waffles, or pancakes, or tofu dogs, or something, just not chicken soup," Beast Boy cut in.

"Waffles would be nice, thank you," Starfire smiled for the first time in what seemed like forever.

And Cyborg and Beast Boy raced each other to the kitchen, fighting all the way to the waffle iron over whether Starfire wanted strawberries or blueberries, and whipped cream or no whipped cream.

It was now just Star, Robin, and Raven-Robin looking directly at Star, and Star determinedly fixed on a spot just to the left of his ear. Raven, sensing the sudden awkwardness and deciding that it was better that they figure this out on their own, said,

"Umm, I'm going to go see if there's any tea…you want some Star?"
Star looked up at her, a silent plea for the extra company, but seeing that Raven didn't care to be there she managed to let out a disappointed "No, I'm fine, thank you though."

And Raven made her way out, smirking, knowing that she knew what would be going on anyway, their emotions were as obvious as an open book.

"So. Is Andrew in jail?"
Robin nodded. "Well, more like the jail infirmary. He doesn't take starbolts as well as some of the rest of us."

Star smiled to herself.

"So how did you find me anyway?"
"Raven. She had trouble at first, she said you were unconscious, and couldn't track your thoughts. She got it eventually, though…"

"'Eventually' being the key word here, it took forever for her to find me," Star replied, still smiling. After a moment of silence, she surprised Robin by asking, more to herself than him, "But why do you think he took me to a school?"

"Because he panicked, Star. He admitted it to the police this morning. He told them everything, his motivation…that syringe was for me. He knew who you were, and he knew how..umm…protective I am of my friends…" Robin blushed slightly as he said this, "and he said he only brought it in case I got involved some how…" Robin looked like he had just run a marathon. "He said he didn't think he'd have to use it all."

Starfire looked down at her hand, pondering. "That doesn't answer my question though, why did he take me to a school?"

"Oh, because like I said, he panicked. He couldn't go to his apartment, because we knew his name, and he most definitely go to the police and fess up (no matter how much I wish he did), so he figured his high school was the safest-and easiest-place to take you."

"Oh." Robin's hand was a few inches from her's. More silence, and-

"Why do you think Andrew kidnapped me"-Robin winced at the name-"if he knew who I was? I mean, what was his motor-vation, or motivacation, or-"

Robin let out a small laugh. That was the Starfire he knew and loved, the one who screwed up her grammar, not the one who sneaked out to go on dates with stalkers. "Motivation? Well, he said that you two talked online for about 2 or 3 months, and that he liked you, like really liked you, and that you liked him too-" Robin's face fell. He turned away for a moment, as Star looked directly at him, sympathy flooding her head.

"But I didn't," she responded, also looking hurt, that he ever thought she could really feel that way about anyone els-

"Then why did you agree to meet him?" Robin still looked at his hand.

Star sighed, a sad, I'mreallysorryjusthearmeout sigh, but closed her mouth. There was silence for another long moment, as she contemplated how to phrase her answer.

"Because you told me not to."

Robin looked up, confused. She sighed again.

"It's just that, you guys have always been my best friends. You're like my family. And families take care of each other. I guess that I felt weak-because I'm always getting stuck in situations that you all have to help me out of. And when you told me not to meet him-like you were scared that I would get hurt-it made me angry, because this was my business, not yours. Because just for this once, I wanted to feel like I wasn't weak, and that I could take care of myself. But I was wrong. I'm always wrong."

Star let out a funny-sounding, half-sigh, half-snort of frustration. Robin watched her, the entire time, his mouth hanging open a little.

"Starfire?"

Star looked up at him, but avoided his eyes.

"You really feel like that?" Robin looked at her with more determination than he ever had. Star wimpered, and her eyes sparkled, as she nodded.

"You're not weak! Yes, you got yourself involved with this guy, and he did try to take advantage of you-but you're not weak. You got yourself out. You fought until he was down. You got yourself out of this situation, not me. I only got involved because I was jealous!"

Star looked up now, her eyes wide. Robin's cheeks were on fire, his mouth snapped shut…I can't believe I just said that out loud…

Star stared at him now. Funny how they keep averting their eyes?

"You-were jealous-of Andrew?" she asked incredulously, barely blinking, as Robin kept his eyes down.

"Well-yeah," he replied, figuring this was as good a time as any. He looked up. "You're my best friend, Star. You're my teammate. You're why I wake up in the morning. I want to be there for you. When I saw you with him-because of something I had said to push you away-I just…I dunno, I snapped. I hated it. I hated seeing you with someone else. Have you ever felt that, Star? Because the only people who feel that are people who love each other. I love you, Star."

Star looked at him, about to break, oh dammit, why did she have to cry now?

And before she could answer, he leaned down and kissed her. She had given up all resistance. After all, it was a pretty powerful painkiller she was on, it's not like it was her fault Robin was kissing her…not that she minded. The moment was perfect. It felt so right. And this time, there was no one with a good pitching arm and a bag of popcorn to interrupt.

The End

Wow. I actually finished it! GO ME!
I really hope you liked the ending, as cliched as it was, I couldn't think of another, or a better, way to end it. And come on, I think you all expected this in the end anyway...lol.

I tried to answer any questions that might have arisen in this chapter, so sorry if I didn't get around to yours, I tried my very best. And to those who wondered what the guy at the carnival who kept chucking popcorn at them looked like, it was Robin, for the record (in case you didn't pick that up in chapter 7, lol). I never really did get around to describing him, but I don't think I have to. Just imagine what your perfect guy looks like (sorry to all of the guys who probably aren't reading this, if they ever would touch anything with 'romance' in the description, I know you must be loving this right now eyes rolling), because after all, in Star's perfect opinion, that's just who Robin was. (can't believe I just said that, lol) In my mind, the jealous guy at the carnival is Tom Welling, but that's just me.

Anyways, I feel the need to apologize one last time for the crappy/cliched writing, but then again I guess it couldn't have been that bad if I got so many reviews.

My Thank You List

Thanks to everyone who reviewed! I love you! (tosses out bags of increased sugar content products to reviewers) I can't name all of you, there were so many, so I just want to say that 1)the ending is intended to be, if you haven't noticed already, a Rob/Star pairing2) I'm not sure about a sequel, I'llthink about it (but I'm glad that you liked my story that much!) and3)I hope this answered all of your questions. Thanks again!

and p.s., sorry for all the cliffies!

and p.s.s., sorry about the extrasuperlong end notes!

I love y'all,

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