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Chapter Seven: Fast Forward

"You two are back late."

Starfire and Robin quickly looked around and saw Raven looking at them. She was sitting on one of the couches, a book in her lap. She had one of her eyebrows raised, obviously not interested, yet slightly interested at the same time.

"What?" Robin questioned as him and his girlfriend walked over to the other couch and sat down. "It's only 10:26."

"Only," Cyborg muttered, making him and Beast Boy instantly laughing.

Robin gritted his teeth, ready to yell at the other two boys when Raven asked, "How did your date go?"

"It was quite marvelous!" Starfire exclaimed, clapping her hands together and nodding.

"Anything "interesting" happen?" Cyborg asked, exaggerating "interesting".

"No," Robin quickly answered. Starfire looked at him, confused. 'Let's make them wait?' he mouthed to her. She stared at him for a moment before nodding.

"Whatever, ya'll are hiding something," Cyborg muttered, turning off the GameStation2 and looking at them.

"And we're going to find out sooner or later," Beast Boy added, nodding.

"Well, we already told you all the thing we WERE hiding," Robin told them. "There's nothing else."

"We had to wait three freakin' months for ya'll to tell us," Cyborg added in a matter-of-factly way.

"I'm off to bed," Raven quickly said, slamming her book shut and walking off.

"'Night," the other four Titans called out to her, watching her walk off.

"Now's your chance, BB," Cyborg quickly said, shoving Beast Boy off the couch.

"What're you talking about?" Beast Boy asked, astounded at what Cyborg just did.

"Go ask her out!" Cyborg hissed, grinning from ear to ear.

"What the- how-?" Beast Boy was confused.

"Man, it's the looks you give her! You stare at her all the time, you piss her off more and more each day..." Cyborg said.

"Okay...I missed something here, didn't I?" Robin asked.

"BB likes Rae," Cyborg told him.

Robin looked over at Starfire, who nodded.

Beast Boy then gasped at Starfire. "YOU PROMISED YOU WOULDN'T TELL ANYONE!" he exclaimed, then quickly put his hands over his mouth. His face was redder than a tomato and his eyes were big and worried.

"Thank you, Starfire," Cyborg said.

"For what?" the alien asked, tilting her head to the side.

"For making him admit his love to Rae," Cyborg explained, looking over at Beast Boy, who looked like he was about to die.

Even though she was still confused, Starfire smiled and said, "You are welcome, friend!"

"I can't possibly ever say anything to her," Beast Boy muttered.

"And why is that?" Cyborg asked. "Think she'll reject ya?"

"More like laugh at me and blow up the whole tower," the green changeling muttered, his face crestfallen.

"Aw, come on, BB," Cyborg said, slightly frowning. "Sure, she might not talk to you anymore, or really look at you, or maybe she'll kind of laugh...or she might-"

"DUDE!" Beast Boy exclaimed, glaring at the half-robot. "I get the point."

"Maybe you should just be straightforward with her," Starfire told him, smiling.

"Yeah, I should just walk up to her and say 'RAVEN, I LOVE YOU!'" Beast Boy yelled in frustration.

Right then, the door connecting the hallways to the Main Room slid open. Everyone started in shock as Raven walked in, a blank look on her face.

She walked over to a table and picked up a book. She then slowly turned her head and saw the other four Titans staring at her, their mouths wide open. She raised her eyebrows and asked, "What?"

"Y-you didn't hear anything about you...did you?" Cyborg asked, fearful for what might happen if she did.

"No." She stared at each of them, a now evil look on her face. "Were you all talking about me?" She then stared dead hard at Beast Boy, which started to freak him out. "Were you talking about me?"

"NO!" he exclaimed rather quickly, sweat dripping all over his face. "I mean...why would I talk about you? There's nothing to talk about."

"Okay..." Raven muttered, walking away from the group.

As soon as Raven was out of earshot, Cyborg exclaimed, "MAN WHAT WERE YOU THINKING!"

"What do you mean?" Beast Boy asked, tilting his head to the side.

"She could have easily heard you and do who knows what," Robin calmly explained.

"And she could have KILLED us all!" Cyborg said, placing his hands on the green teenagers shoulders and rapidly shaking him.

"DUDE!" Beast Boy snapped, shaking Cyborg's hands off his shoulders. "I know that! I know pretty damn well what the consequences can be if she knows!"

"Beast Boy..." Starfire tried to finish her sentence, but Beast Boy cut her off.

"I'm going to bed." He then walked towards the door, but turned around before he exited the room. "'Night everyone."

Ring! Ring! Ring!

"PHONE!" Beast Boy, Cyborg, Raven, and Robin called. Too bad for Starfire, because she "Phone!" one second too late.

"Sorry, Star, you gotta get the phone," Cyborg told her, grinning.

"But what if the person on the other end is doing the 'crank calling' as Beast Boy often does?" the alien girl asked.

"Just answer the phone," Raven muttered. "It actually might be important."

Starfire nodded and got up. She then walked over to the phone and picked it up. "Hello?"

Silence.

"Hello?"

"Close your eyes."

"What? Wh-"

"Just close them."

Sighing, she shut her eyes. She waited a moment, confused by what the person on the other line made her do.

"You may open them now." And with that, the line was cut dead.

Starfire slowly opened her eyes and gasped. The Main Room was empty and dark. No one stood or sat in there. Silence completely engulfed the room, which sent shivers down the young girl's back.

She slowly walked out of the kitchen and into the sitting area. "Hello?" she called out, hoping for a response. Nothing. Not even the scatter of a mouse (which there usually were none because Cyborg would have immediately tried to kill them).

She stood in front of the couches and looked around. The skies were slowly darkening outside, creating a swirl of colors such as pink, blue, purple, green, and orange. She continued looking around the room. Maybe it was all some sort of Earthly surprise ritual that she did not know of.

Right then, a door open. She quickly laid her eyes upon the front door, noticing that it was the one to open. "Hello!" she called out, hoping it was one of the Titans.

"Starfire?"

Oh, how the voice sounded familiar, although she could not pick up whose it was. The voice, though, did not sound as if it were a teenager; it sounded more like an adult's.

"Starfire? Is that you?"

"Yes," she said, as the figure, which was shadowed, came out from outside and walked towards her.

"It really is you..." The person then came out of the shadows to reveal a much older looking Robin. His hair was still back, slightly longer, was no longer spiky and full of gel. Instead, it was down and revealed his bangs. (A/N: Kinda like in Wavelength and Haunted when his hair is wet and down...yeah...) He no longer wore the mask, revealing his Pacific blue eyes.

"Robin?" she asked, amazed and confused. "Is that really you?"

He slightly smiled and nodded. "Yeah...you sound like it's only been ten minutes since you last saw me."

"You could say that," she softly muttered, frowning. She then looked down.

After a moment of silence, the older Robin asked, "So...it's really you?"

"Yeah." She looked back up at him. "Why do you ask?"

He sighed, scratching the back of his neck. "Um...well...it's been ten years since we last saw you."

It took a moment for her to realize what he had just said. "Ten...years...What?"

"Yeah," he said, nodding. "You answered the phone one day and you just disappeared like that."

"I...disappeared?" She gasped. "No, that cannot be right..."

"It's the truth, unfortunately." He sighed, looking around.

"The Titans broke up, did they not?" she asked. This isn't the first time she disappeared into the future. Last time, it was twenty years, and they did break up that time.

"Yep. We broke up five years ago."

"You all didn not break up after my disappearance?"

Robin shook his head. "Nope. It took a long time to realize that you would never come back..." He softly chucked. "At least, none of us thought you would come back. Lots of things..." He sighed. "Lot's of things happened since you disappeared...some things worse than good..."

"Like what?" Starfire quietly asked.

He remained silent for a moment before shaking his head. "It's nothing." He smiled and took her hand. "It's good to have you back. It really, truly is."

"Why are you at the tower?"

He sighed, grinning. "Well, today's the day you disappeared...ten years ago..."

"So, this is like the tenth anniversary of my disappearance?"

He nodded. "Yep." He then pulled her into a hug. "I thought I'd never see you again..."

She buried her head into his chest. She remained quiet, not knowing what to say.

"You know what?"

"Yes?"

"You should come back to my apartment. I can tell you what's been going on, and maybe we could do some stuff later or something..."

She smiled. "That would be nice."

A/N: Woo! I got this chapter OVER with. I'm going to do my absolute best to post the next chapter in the coming week. I hope you all liked this; I don't think this chapter was all too great...the next chapter should be better...filled with oh-so many surprises that'll shock you all (including myself).

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