Title: In Your Dreams

Author: Blair Lebeau, SocialButterfli

Summary: The memory of her is still clear in his mind. He'll never forget how his heart stopped when she turned her back to him and flew away, never to return. But when they find each other again, will their destined love finally become reality? Or can they only be together in his dreams? RobStar

Disclaimer: I don't own Teen Titans, but if anyone wants to buy it for me, feel free!


Chapter 18

We landed easily in a secluded area where the T Sub could be hidden from sight. We were pretty sure that we weren't welcome here, so we weren't going to take any chances. The palace was straight ahead, in the center of everything, but I was unsure of what we should do. It was obvious thanks the two shots that Kendrick knew we were here, and he was probably waiting for us. The question was, where? It was too risky to go rushing right into the palace without a plan. I turned to my team to discuss what we should do, but they were too busy arguing (as usual) to pay attention to me. I didn't even bother to listen to what they were arguing about; it was obvious that it was up to me to figure out a plan. Starfire's safety depended on me. Oh, yeah, and the safety of Earth, too.

No pressure, though.

I began to walk. I wasn't really sure where I was walking to, or why, but I had to clear my head, and it was hard to with the constant yelling. If they weren't careful, they would get us found. It wouldn't help to tell them that, though. I would just add to the argument. And the last thing I needed was to get caught up in was another one of those petty, mindless things. So I just kept walking. They didn't notice.

I cautiously stepped out into the open and waited for someone to jump out at me. When no one did, I relaxed a little and looked at my surroundings. It seemed to be the only town in a ten mile radius of the palace that wasn't torn to pieces. However, it was deserted.

At least, I thought it was until I connected with a pair of curious and mildly fearful eyes. They belonged to a girl, I would guess, because of her long, thick eyelashes. However, I didn't know any Tamaranean boys, so long, thick eyelashes could be a characteristic for them too.

The second I made contact, the eyes disappeared from the window, only to reappear at the door. I was right; the eyes belonged to a young Tamaranean girl of about seven or eight, if I had to guess. She continued to watch me, and neither of us made a move to break our eye contact, so I waved, uncertainly. She blinked, then took a small step outside. But once both feet hit the ground, her eyes widened in fear and she jumped back into her house. What was she afraid of? Us?

I decided that I needed to get back to the team. We couldn't waste anymore time arguing or wandering around this deserted land. But as I turned my back, I heard the door open again. I stopped and listened to her tiny footsteps.

"Teen Titans?" she asked, her voice quivering. I turned around to look at her. She was clutching at herself as if unsure of what she was doing. How did she know us?

"Yes," I replied, carefully. "I'm a Teen Titan."

"Save Princess?" Starfire?

"Yes," I replied again. "We've come to save Starfire." She shook her head, and I wasn't sure if it was because she couldn't understand me or if that wasn't what she meant. She began to babble in Tamaran, sounding confused.

"You are saving someone? How can you be saving someone? You are supposed to be bad."

"I'm . . . sorry, I . . . do not . . . understand," I said, slowly, not that it mattered. It wasn't as if pronouncing each and every word would make her understand a language that wasn't her own. And yet, she seemed to pick it up, because her next words were English. And earth shattering. Literally.

"You destroy Tamaran," she said, quite certainly. "Battle." I froze, unbelieving.

"What?"

"Yo, Robin! What're you doing?" Cyborg's voice didn't matter, and I paid no attention.

"What did you say?" I repeated.

"Mama . . . s-s-say . . . Teen Titans destroy Tamaran." The running footsteps of my team stopped suddenly at her words.

"Robin, who is this? What is this?" I held up my hand to silence Beast Boy. I knelt down in front of the girl and looked her in the eye. I tried to keep my voice calm. All the Tamaranean words I remembered Starfire saying didn't help my purpose in trying to break the language barrier.

"Battle," the girl repeated, struggling for words. "Kill . . . Titans."


We watched as Raven and the little Tamaranean girl stared at each other intensely. They had been doing this for a while now, and I was becoming anxious. I felt like we were wasting time, and we didn't have time to waste. We'd been on Tamaran for over an hour now, and we hadn't even caught sight of Starfire. They couldn't be doing anything to her.

"Her name is Jenica," Raven said, finally, but it wasn't what I was looking for.

"We waited all this time for that? A name?" I asked, close to outraged. She broke eye contact with Jenica and shot me a look.

"Was I finished yet?" she asked, and I sighed, impatient.

"Sorry." She continued.

"Her mother and father are up in the palace, along with all the other Tamaraneans who have survived what seems to be an anarchic period, which is a healthy sized group. Needless to say we have a challenge, because all of them are waiting to kill us."

"What?" Beast Boy blurted out. "What? Why?" Raven ignored him.

"Starfire, or Koriand'r, is Tamaran's favorite of the royalty. Kendrick made an announcement today about us, but Jenica doesn't know too much about it, because he spoke in English and she couldn't understand much except what she told us, but it made the Tamaraneans pretty angry. Apparently they think that we ruined Starfire, or something like that. Brainwashed her, maybe, to hate Tamaran, and now we've come to destroy the planet and take their princess back." Speechless didn't quite cover it. We all stared at each other in shocked silence, waiting for someone to react.

"How do you know that?" Cyborg asked, quietly. "How can you read her mind if she speaks Tamaranean?" Raven shook her head.

"A mind isn't like a book. There aren't just words for you to read. Thoughts are a universal language. When I read someone's mind, I enter it, and I see what they have seen. If there's something important that happened, I'll relive it with them. You don't need words to have an imagination and memories. I can feel her feelings, think her thoughts, all without words." She saw our confused expressions. "I can't really explain it, it's complicated. I just know." I nodded, deciding not to press the issue. I just wanted to get to Starfire.

"So what do we do?" Beast Boy asked. We all stared each other in silence. Jenica looked from Raven to the rest of us and back to Raven.

"Battle?" she asked.


Okay, soooo sorry that I haven't updated like I said I would. The thing is, I don't have any chapters prewritten like I usually do, so it's taking longer. But I'm working on it, and since creative writing is one of my classes this semester, I can pretend that I'm working on CW homework and instead be updating. So I'm sorry, I'm sorry!

Also, this story is obviously coming to a close. But I already have an idea of what my next fic will be, so don't worry. However, I do have a question: would you guys rather have a fic written in the sort of style of my first three, that's more happy and fluffy (not that this won't be fluffy, the fluff is coming) or like this, which is more dark and serious? Because my next fic could really go either way.

So, what are your thoughts on The Quest? I thought it was one of the funniest episodes, I laughed so hard to see them all in Robin's outfit. "You know, Robins, the mask makes me feel cool too." And totally loved Starfire's thoughts about Robin when she was missing him. Yay! I'm hoping that this season there will be progression into a relationship for them. Major hoping going on over here. Major.

That's all for me, I need to get started on my chem homework. Sorry that it took forever and I hope the wait was worth it. Review and tell me what you're looking for in my next fic por favor! Love you guys!

Blair