Chapter 5: Heart Filling R/S Fluff!

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His gaze held her, sealing her to her fate. His eyes were like vines that arose from the ground and dangled its threads all around her body or a snake coiling around its prey, ready to feed to it at any moment. His amber eyes had spoken quietly some sort of spell on her, because she was afraid to move, afraid to breathe, afraid to do anything because she was afraid that something would happen.

All she could do was look into his eyes and into his magnificent body and his handsome face, as if everything else was nothing but black and white and he was the only one in the entire universe who was in color; different and unique.

"My…groom?" Starfire's voice trembled, her face burning.

The young Karras moved away from the door as they closed on their own. His golden flecked eyes watched her carefully as his feet quietly touched the tiled floor, as quiet as the night itself. His long hair flowed behind him in his grace and balance. Starfire stood up in respect of his presence, but as she did, her hand slipped away from Robin's hand and his hidden eyes were filled with hurt.

Starfire carefully pushed her chair forward and stepped away from the table as Karras came closer and closer to her, his eyes never leaving hers.

Everyone watched them walk closer toward each other. Cyborg, Beast Boy, and Raven turned their eyes to Robin, who they noticed had his cheeks growing pale instead red with anger. His eyes fell behind that mask, blurry with the sadness that filled his heart so much. They saw him turn away from the scene, his body shivering with the coldness that ran now through his soul and his broken spirit.

Starfire approached Karras, and he approached her. He smiled at her kindly, his smile gentle with his white teeth and his perfect dimples. Starfire moved her bands away from her eyes. "Hai Karras." She whispered softly and she bowed her head before to respect his status and also to be respectful of this arrangement, although her heart was screaming to smack him across the face and run away from this place.

A hand reached out and touched her chin. She looked up as Karras raised her head and again she had to look into his eyes. She stared at him, spell bound and she felt like she couldn't move. "Hai Princess Koriand'r." He said in a deep voice that would haunt inside her ears and in her dreams.

Starfire tried to calm her pounding heart, but she couldn't. "I am honored to meet you, Princess Koriand'r. For I have never met seen such beauty in all of my life."

Beast Boy kneeled toward Redfire's side and whispered in his ear, "Except when he looks in the mirror."

Karras leaned very close to Starfire's face and eyes widened when Karras planted a small kiss on her cheek. Robin saw this from the corner of his eye and his hand gripped to the tablecloth underneath him. His fists longed to punch Karras' pretty face.

Starfire widened her eyes as Karras moved his face away from hers. "W-Well...it is an honor to meet you, Your Majesty. I hope that you'll find your stay here...a pleasant one." Karras smiled at her. "I know I will."

A loud groan came loudly in the room as a chair was thrown across the room. Cyborg ducked his head, "Whoa, careful Robin!" He shouted as the chair exploded on the wall. Pieces of wood tumbled on top of each other on the ground.

"I can't believe this!" Robin shouted, his hands gripping to his hair, wanting to tear it off his scalp. "Robin, you gotta calm down, this isn't the end of the world." Cyborg said, trying to reassure him. "The end of the world?" Robin looked up and stared at Cyborg. "They're forcing her to get marry, Cy! How am I supposed to be calm down when something like that came out!"

"There's really nothing we can do here, Robin." Raven said as she sat up from her chair. She had her cloak all around her, hiding her hands inside. "Things are different here. Who are we to question their culture?" Robin shook his head in denial. He looked up and stared into Raven's violet eyes. Although he wanted to shout at her in his defense and probably destroy this room with his own fists, deep down he knew that she was right.

Robin fell back against the wall and his body slid down until he was sitting down. He wrapped his arms around his legs and he glanced down at the ground, his eyes filling up with tears that had came from his heart. "You're right…I mean…did you see the look on her face when she saw him?"

The Teen Titans stared at him in disbelief. He looked like a little child curled into a ball in a corner of the room. He seemed smaller than everything else around him and his eyes, although hidden, they seemed so sad and depressed and torn by what has happened. They knew that he had a crush on Starfire for quite some time. It was quite obviously on the way he would look at her while she passing by or even while they are talking. Although she might have annoyed them with the many curious questions she had, Robin didn't seem to mind. All he could do was smile at her.

But now, he wasn't smiling and he was someone who had just seen something he didn't want to believe and had heard something he didn't want to accept. "It's obviously she's so interested in him…I mean look at him!" Robin shouted loudly and his echo crossed the room.

He looked away from his friends and thought of when Starfire's hand slipped away from his just when she had grabbed it to comfort him. The look in her eyes when she looked at Karras and the feeling he had when he kissed her. His heart couldn't take it.

She had said that everything would be alright. And apparently, nothing is alright. He wanted to scream more and hurt, but he restrained himself, like many times before.

"So? That's because he's handsome and is rich and understands everything about Tamaran, there's one thing that you have that he doesn't." Raven said to him sternly. Her eyes glared at him hard as he just laid there like a helpless and easy prey.

"Oh yeah? And what's that?" Robin scoffed.

Beast Boy stood beside the others and looked at Robin. "You have her heart, Robin." He answered simply. Robin looked up and stared his friends as they came close to him and stared right back at him. Robin looked at them confusingly. "Really?"

"Yeah man. It's obviously she's into you. Everyday she has to wonder where you are and it is you who she wants to talk to. It is you who she worries. It is you who smiled with. It is you who she wants to be with." "I dunno about you, but you seem irresistible to her." Beast Boy said with a small chuckle.

Robin didn't look at them, his eyes filled with doubt. "But you guys just said that there's no way we can change their mind. She's getting married." "Just go see her. Talk to her and ask her. You'll never know."

Robin stood up, a little lightheaded from standing up so quickly. He stared at his friends with a light smile and he nodded his head with gratitude. "Thanks guys." "No problem, dude." Beast Boy said with two thumbs up.

Robin zoomed out of their way and swung the doors opened and he started running through the halls, looking for Starfire or anywhere she would be.

When he had passed by a room with opened doors, he thought had seen a certain redhead at its balcony. Her hair flowed gently with the wind, a sight of beauty was her name. She leaned over the banister and stared out at the illuminated sky. Night birds flew across the sky, close together like a family. Something she had missed in a long time.

"Koriand'r! You must leave these parts at once!" Her father shouted, his eyes tired and widened with fear as Starfire came to him.

"Leave? But why?" She asked. She had just come home from a long journey and now she must leave?"

Myand'r grabbed the young girl by her arms and pulled her close to him, his eyes streaming with tears and with fear for his youngest daughter. "They want to kill you." He whispered to her. "Kill me? Who?" "You must go!" He shouted and pushed her away, overwhelmed with emotion and couldn't take it anymore.

Starfire looked over to her mother. She too had tears in her eyes. Starfire stepped forward to embrace her mother, but a strong hand pushed her back, almost making her fall over the platform. "GO!" Myand'r shouted with demanding.

Starfire looked over her father and sparkling tears streamed down her eyes. Her voice quivered, wishing that there was another way. But in his eyes, she knew that there wasn't. Once again, she had to be drifted away from her home, away from her father.

Starfire levitated from the ground as a small boy came by Luand'r's side and grabbed onto the skirt of her dress. His aqua eyes watched Starfire sadly as she floated higher and higher into the sky, to never return again from her home and planet. Blackfire watched with a dazed stare as Starfire started crying in the sky, her tears falling to her family; the only thing that she would remember.

"Goodbye, my family." Starfire whispered and she vanished in a stream of green light.

For months and months, Starfire journeyed alone through the emptiness and darkness of space. Not even the light of the stars surrounding her could ever comfort the emptiness she felt in her heart that she knew her family would be the only one to fill.

She floated through many planets unfamiliar to her and her tears came down her cheeks and froze in its size. Starfire whispered softly. It was too faint for anyone to hear her cries and come to her rescue.

Warmth suddenly ran through her body, boiling her blood with its heat and power over the things Tamaraneans all loved: the sun.

Starfire looked up and saw a golden orb nearby a planet. It may be thousands or millions of miles away from these planets that are of course strange to her. Her emerald eyes looked aside and noticed a planet that was as ripe and bright as a blueberry, spinning slowly around and with a small sphere of silver surrounding its gravitational field.

Her curiosity caught the best of her as she floated closer and closer towards this planet that used the sun's solar rays as its key to survival. What she didn't know though that once she came into this planet, her heart will be filled up again with the joy she had never dreamed would come true.

"Starfire?" A voice came from behind him.

Starfire turned around sharply and her eyes relaxed when she saw Robin standing by the door to her bedroom. "Robin…it's so good to see you!" She shouted with one of her cheerful smiles. "Star?" "Yes, Robin?" "Why are you crying?" He asked softly and with concern already for her.

Starfire glanced down and her finger caressed her wet cheek with fresh and warm tears. Robin approached by her side and Starfire looked at him softly. "I do not know…but then again…maybe I do." She bent her head down in shame, her hair fell in front of her face as she stood in front of Robin. "I'm sorry." She whispered lowly.

Robin arched an eyebrow. "You're sorry? For what?"
"For you having to go through this…finding out that I am betrothed."

Robin wanted to speak up, but then Starfire started laughing. It wasn't harsh or anything, but it was unusual. Tears started coming back again into her eyes. She quickly wiped them off her eyes roughly with her hand. "To think…I had thought that my parents actually missed me." "I'm sure they do, Starfire. They really did."

Starfire shook her head, doubtful. "I have been away from my home for far too long. They could have called me back years ago. They could have saved me, but they didn't…and now they expect me to save them by marriage…" Starfire bent her head down and wrapped her arms around herself and it was accompanied by her sobs and her cries.

"I don't want to marry…I just want to be with my family. But not like this…everyday I have thought about them. But have they thought about me? No…they only want me because I'm the key for peace between conflicting countries. I don't feel loved by them.

"I-I have gone through so much, more than they can—or anyone—can ever imagine. But they don't care…no one cares…and still they want me to marry, force me to love…" Starfire sobbed between each sentence and she narrowed her eyes as the tears squeezed through and slid down her cheeks.

Robin stared at her as he watched her cry more and more. His face was hurt as well. Hurt because she was probably in pain. What had her family done to her to make her feel like this? He remembered earlier that she had said that there were some things about her that he didn't know. Like what? But he brushed the thought aside and instead, he brushed his hand through Starfire's silky red hair.

Starfire glanced up in a gasp as Robin placed a hand over her chin and made her stand upright and made her stare into his masked eyes. Robin looked at her softly, his other hand caressing her cheeks warmly.

"That's not true, Starfire. There is someone who cares much about you and has come here to tell you that and that whatever you're going through and whatever decision you make, that person would always be here for you because he cares a lot about you."

"Really?" Her eyes lit up in awe. Robin smiled at her slyly and cupped her face in his hands. The wind blew passed them and his black cape flowed to his side and touched Starfire, coiling her close to him. He pulled her close to him, feeding them both with their warmth. He nodded to her lightly. "Really." He answered and placed his lips against hers.

Starfire closed her eyes as her ears listened to the music of the night, birds were singing and the winds were howling around her, blowing her hair crazily around her face and blowing Robin's cape around her close. Robin and Starfire parted their lips and their tongues met there, thrilling them with delight and pleasure.

Starfire grabbed Robin's face and her fingers dug into his thick black locks, curling them around her fingertips. His tongue tickled her gum and her body shivered with his sweetness and his love. Robin held her with all of his might, probably this would be his last chance he would ever kiss her just as passionately and sweetly. But maybe there was hope. He didn't know. All he knew that she cared for him just as much as he did. He could sense it as her lips brushed around his.

As the young couple kissed, standing by the bedroom door was a dark shadow. His long hair fell into his eyes, his golden eyes watchful at the scene taking place. His eyes narrowed as he brushed some hair off from his eyes. For a glimpse, something deep crossed his forehead and almost reached his eyebrow. But his hair came back and it was gone.

His eyes narrowed and disappeared into the darkness, leaving Robin and Starfire to savor their kiss.