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 24

The Titans stared. They had no idea what to do. Everything that was going on was still processing in their brains. Robin stabbed, Robin dead, Starfire angry, Kendrick telling story of Starfire's torture, Starfire sad, Starfire angry again, Kendrick dead, Starfire passed out, Robin alive?

Robin sat up and immediately winced in pain when his wound reopened itself and started bleeding again. Raven sprang into action then, ripping a long, wide strip off of her cape so she could tie it around Robin's waist to staunch the bleeding.

"Are you okay? What happened?" she asked. He shook his head.

"Nothing. I just . . . I just passed out, I guess, from shock of loss of blood. I'm fine. Where's Starfire? Where's Kendrick?" Raven glanced at Cyborg and Beast Boy, who both looked uncomfortable. How to tell him? What to tell him?

"Robin, look," Cyborg said, carefully. "A lot of stuff happened. Basically, Starfire thought you were dead and had a breakdown or something. She destroyed the robots and then Kendrick, which took a lot out of her. She's fine, but kind of . . . unconscious." Robin finally noticed the immobile body lying next to him.

"Starfire!" he whispered out in a pained voice. He shifted his body so that he could face her, wincing as he moved. He carefully set her head in his lap, as she had done to him earlier, and tenderly tucked a few rebellious ruby red strands of hair out of her face and behind her ear.

"She'll be fine, we just need to get her on a bed somewhere so she can rest and regain her strength," Raven assured him.

"And bring back the Tamaraneans," Cyborg reminded her.

"And we have to find Ryan . . . der," Beast Boy said, stumbling over the name. "He's been locked in a room somewhere for hours, probably, without a clue of what's happening. Not a great situation."

"So we'll get that done first," Raven said. "And then we'll explain everything, okay?" Robin shook his head.

"Don't make it sound so easy," he said, his strained voice revealing the pain he was feeling from his stab wound. "The Tamaraneans will be confused from being transported back and forth, and will still be hostile towards us. From what they know, we're the enemy. And why should they believe different from us? Their leader is dead by our hands. That's not exactly a sign of us extending the hand of friendship."

"Their leader isn't dead," Raven protested. "They are loyal to the royal family, which are Starfire and her brother. They will listen to them."

"Raven's right," Cyborg said. "So we'll find a room to put Star in, and then we'll find Ry . . . that kid. Star shouldn't be long in waking up, and once she does, Raven can bring back the Tamaraneans. Then . . . I guess we'll go from there."

"Robin needs to rest too," Beast Boy added. Though he didn't want to admit it, Robin was feeling a little shaky, and he wasn't even standing up.

"No, it's fine, you need me . . ."

"No way," all three said in unison.

"But . . ."

"We'll leave you with Starfire. That way, you can rest while waiting for her to wake up. Someone will have to stay with her. Why not you?" Robin stopped protesting, and Raven smiled, knowing she had hit her mark.

"I'll get her," he said.

"No way, man," Cyborg said. "You can barely carry yourself." He held out a hand to help Robin up, and held him steady while he got used to standing. Then, with Robin leaning on Beast Boy and Raven, Cyborg lifted Starfire gingerly into his arms and carried her out into the hallway where he was pretty sure her bedroom was. Robin, with the help of Beast Boy and Raven, limped along behind them.

They found her bedroom easily, because her name, Koriand'r, was displayed in beautiful script across the door. Carrying her in, Cyborg laid her down on the pink satin sheets of her large bed. She looked so peaceful, like an angel resting on a pink cloud. Robin sat on the edge of her bed beside her, trying not to show any of the emotions he was feeling. Scared, because of Starfire, pained, because of his wound, passionate, because he was sitting on his love's bed right next to her . . .

"We'll take care of this and get back to you," Raven said, quietly. Robin nodded, thanks in his eyes. The three Titans backed out the room silently as he turned his head back to gaze at Starfire. They closed the door behind them so they could have some privacy.

Beast Boy eyed the many doors that adorned the stretching hallway. They found Ryand'r's room easily as well, with Ryand'r scripted on the door, but he wasn't there, as Starfire had found out earlier when she went searching for him. The friends stared at each other, waiting for someone to come up with a plan. If he wasn't there, where could he be? There had to be about a thousand rooms in the gigantic palace. He could be in any of them.

"I'll perform a search," Raven said, finally.

"Are you insane? That'll take forever!" Beast Boy complained. She raised her eyebrow.

"Actually, it will only take a few minutes, since it's such a big place. Normally it would only take a couple seconds." Beast Boy stared at her like she was crazy.

Deciding not to waste any more time in explaining, Raven chose to show him instead. She closed her eyes and began to levitate.

"Azarath Metrion Zinthos," she whispered. As soon as the word "Zinthos" left her lips, a great black energy lifted from her in the form of a raven, its wings spread. (Like in "Haunted" when she goes after Robin.) It flew down the hallway until it came to the end, and then split into two, going down both halves. Beast Boy laughed, embarrassed.

"Right. Oops." Cyborg and Beast Boy waited patiently as she continued to levitate. All of a sudden her eyes opened wide, and her feet touched the ground.

"He's not here," she said, her voice unsure. "He's not in the palace."

"What does that mean?" Cyborg asked.

"What do we do?" Beast Boy asked. Raven shook her head, not used to being the one that everyone turned to for answers. There was always Robin for that.

"I . . . don't know." Beast Boy's jaw dropped.

"You don't know? What do you mean you don't know?" The panic was obvious in Beast Boy's voice. "How can you not know? You're the one who's all powerful and magicky and making the Tamaraneans go poof and . . ."

"Hey . . . wait a minute," Cyborg interrupted, slapping his hand over the babbling Beast Boy's mouth. "Raven, what exactly did you do?"

"I told you already," she snapped. "I transferred the innocent Tamaraneans . . ."

"Exactly. And wouldn't Ryand'r be considered innocent?"

"What are you getting at?" Beast Boy asked, pushing the metallic hand off his mouth.

"Well, it's possible that when Raven transported the Tamaraneans, she took Ryand'r with them," Cyborg finished, a triumphant smile on his face. "Man, I am brilliant!"

"Nuh uh," Beast Boy protested. "Raven said all the innocent Tamaraneans. That would include Starfire, and she was there the whole time." Beast Boy stuck his tongue out at Cyborg, who refused to be beaten.

"Well . . . Starfire's not exactly . . . uh, innocent, because she was involved in the fighting, and . . . um, she, uh, got rid of Kendrick, and that's not, like . . ."

"Cyborg. Just stop," Raven commanded. He shut his mouth. "You're right, anyway." Cyborg let out an exhilarated "BOOYAH!" while Beast Boy started to whine.

"How can he be right? Starfire's innocent! She's like the most innocent person I know! It's not faaaiiir, Cyborg's always right. I have good ideas too!"

"He's only right about what happened to Ryand'r," Raven said, causing Cyborg's disturbing victory dance to come to a halt, thankfully. "His reasoning is off. Starfire is an innocent individual, yes, but she was involved in this fight." She smiled for a moment. "Besides. I transported all the Tamaraneans. And Starfire's not one of them anymore. She's one of us." Cyborg slapped Raven on the back, jarring the rare smile off her face.

"Damn right," he said approvingly as Raven scowled up at him. "Now let's bring back those Tamaraneans!" Raven closed her eyes and began her chant while her friends watched as the once empty area in front of them began to fill with faded figures. Slowly, they became more and more defined until they were real again. Their white cloaks turned back to purple, and their frozen figures became animated.

"Uh oh," Beast Boy said as their angry and confused gazes turned towards them. "Maybe we should have waited until Starfire woke up . . ."

"The Titans!" shouted a soldier.

"Oh man." Beast Boy closed his eyes.

"Our allies," another Tamaranean finished, causing jaws to drop.

"What?" Cyborg said, surprised. The crowd parted in the middle as someone made their way through the mass. Reaching the Titans, Ryand'r smiled at them.

"I don't know what you did," he said. "But you gave me the opportunity to step up and take my place as a member of the royal family. Kendrick's false words no longer have hold over my people's hearts. They know him as our enemy, and you, as our friends. Tamaran and Earth will not be destroyed this day. My army and I are ready to fight. Take us to him!" The Titans exchanged looks.

"Uh, man, stuff sorta happened since you were . . . gone," Cyborg said, tentatively. "Your sister, she, uh . . . well, Kendrick's already been . . . taken care of." Ryand'r's eyes widened in surprise.

"My sister?" he said, and a smile spread across her face. "Of course." He turned to his army. "The Princess has vanquished Kendrick single-handedly. We will go to her and celebrate her victory, as well as return her to her throne. The royal family shall rule again!" Cheers spread throughout the crowd as the Titans' eyes widened. Starfire, returned to the throne? After all they'd gone through to get her back? Surely Ryand'r didn't expect . . .

But he did.

"Take us to her," he commanded. "Take us to our queen."


Uh oh, Tamaran wants Star back . . . why can't everyone just leave her and Robin alone and let them be together in PEACE! Well, no worries, guys, in case you've forgotten, the Titans did leave them alone. Starfire's unconscious, of course, but what kind of exciting chapter would there be if she stayed that way? So the next update will contain the LONG AWAITED reunion! YES!

So, Saturday's episode was interested. Needless to say, I was majorly grossed out by the whole NewFu thing. Those people were EATING Bob. But the Source made me laugh, because he had this booming voice but then when he was revealed as just this square of NewFu he was all squeaky! And, being the ever RobStar optimist that I am, did anyone notice how when they were undercover in the beginning (which was really weird) Robin was the farmer and Star was the farmer's WIFE? That can so totally NOT be coincidence. YAY!

And now for all my lovely reviewers!

RobinRox13- Aww, thanks! Well, before I came to I never considered the BBRae relationship. But then I joined here and read Roxeant's fic, Things Unsaid (WHICH I RECOMMEND HIGHLY!) and I started to think it was cute. My other three fics all have the BBRae relationship in them.

CidGregor- Hey, Cid! I know you didn't review this story, but I know you'll be reading this anyway, so I'll say it here. Yes, I'm a girl, lol. Thanks for the compliment about my boldness, because I like to take chances with my fics. And I totally loved the first chapter of your fic that you sent me. When you post it up, I'll definitely recommend it to all my readers!

BrassBanana- THANK YOU! That was an absolutely amazing compliment, because it's really hard to characterize Batman without going OOC. And I'm glad you enjoyed the fight scenes, because I work hardest to write those so they seem realistic and not boring or fake. So thank you!

swisscheese- Aww, thanks so much! The episode is called TROQ, and I'm HOPING it'll be a RobStar eppie, because I know for sure that it's Star-based. And I think it might be the only one that is, so if it's not RobStar, I might kill someone.

JulesFire- Your reviews are my favorite. Seriously, I always look forward to them because your compliments never fail to inspire me! I really appreciate that, because the characterization of Batman is really hard to capture and their relationship is supposed to be close but strained so I was hoping I succeeded. Thank you!

The Last- Thanks, that's a real compliment because I know exactly how you feel about finding a story that isn't OOC, has a plot and action, and is realistic. It's reassuring to know that I'm one of them, so thank you!

KoriStarMoon- Sure, I'd love some websites. I'm always looking for something to do in my spare time. Thanks!

Babie A- Thanks, I was trying to make sure it didn't sound like he was just listing off stuff about her, I wanted him to mean it. Yeah, I guess it is almost done. Wow, that's sad!

TtitansFan- I'm glad the thoughts of Robin weren't boring! I was hoping they wouldn't be, so thanks! So, what did you think about "Employee of the Month"? It didn't really have any RobStar in it . . .

Jadedea- I'm hoping the TROQ will have RobStar, because they were talking about Starfire being a problem to another planet, so maybe Robin will be protective of her or something? crosses fingers

That's all for me. I'm going to go write some more, so you should go REVIEW some more! NOW, says me!

Blair