"Friend Mîr I am very grateful for all of your party making but, where is Robin?"

Starfires question made Mîr flush with anger. That little snot, she left him a note over 3 hours ago to tell him to come and he hadn't.

"Mîr" Starfire said breaking her from her thoughts. "I am sorry if my question had angered you," She spoke with slight confusion. "But Robin was invited to my 'birthday party' yes?" Mîr nodded her head and put down her punch cup. Her eyes turned slightly cold as she headed for the door.

"Hay Mîr, where ya goin?" Cyborg called as he watched her.

"Yeah the parties just getting started! I just found some more ice cream!" BeastBoy yelled emerging from the kitchen, arms full of ice cream buckets.

"Oh don't worry," She growled. "I won't be gone long"

Words could not describe the rage that Mîr was experiencing. How could he, how could he forget, of all people, Starfire's birthday! What could he be doing that could be more important than the party! Various insults from many different languages poured from Mîr's mumbling mouth until she reached the door of the 'Obsession Room'

Mîr softly knocked on the door. Maybe he just forgot and was preparing himself and a gift for Star. She knocked again, this time slightly louder.

"I'm kinda busy." Came a gruffled voice from behind the door. Mîr rolled her eyes and decided on a slightly different plan. She took a deep breath, relaxed, than started pounding as hard and as rapidly as she could on the door, along with shouting Evlish insults.

"ROBIN YOU CRANN (krahn) TAVOR! OPEN UP THIS DOOR!" She continued to pound until she heard the sound of a chair sliding across the floor, then falling to clatter loudly inside. She finally stopped as a very agitated Robin appeared at the door.

"If looks could kill I think I would be dead now." Mîr said looked at him. His eyes where narrowed and he held a bird-a-rang in a very threatening position.

"What do you want?" He growled looked at her and putting away the weapon.

"I want to know what's so bloody important that you have already missed one hour of…" Robin shut the door right in Mîr's face ignoring what she was saying. Luckily Mîr was fast and shot through the door before it closed completely.

"Someone's grumpy." She stated flatly looking around. The room was named appropriately. News articles, photos and reports all referring to Slade hung around the room. It was a very chilling picture. Mîr felt very uneasy and almost scared at all the pictures. All of them seemed to be watching her, their eyes followed her. She shook her head to break the trance and focused on where Robin was. He was standing at a table littered with papers and strange objects. Mîr noticed the chair she had heard earlier discarded to the side, along with a white cloth that had a slight black tint to the inside of it.

"So…" She began slowly. "You've been locked in here for around five hours, what's so important?" Robin turned his back and ignored her. Mîr sighed and walked overt to the table to see for herself. She glanced about the table; it was mostly covered with newspaper clippings about Slade. But a single space had been cleared, Mîr could have seen what was in this space but Robins head blocked her view.

"Look, I really don't want to stay but I would like a half decent reason to why you aren't down at Star's…" Robin cut her short.

"Who do you think you are? Barging in here then demanding explanations to why I work so hard, so much harder than any of those idiots out there." He paused for breath; he had been on the verge of yelling. "I work to keep this city safe, I work to keep them safe, to keep y…" This time Mîr cut in.

"Don't you dare say it." She growled. No one would ever be able to keep her safe. "Let me at least tell you why I'm here. Raven, Cyborg, BeastBoy, and I have been working like mad for three hours to make Starfire's surprise birthday party a masterpiece." She had put a lot of emphasis on Starfire's name. "She was soo happy when she saw everything we had done, then right in the middle of all that happiness she asked me where you were. She looked like she was going to cry."

Robin kept his back to her and grumbled. "You didn't tell me anything about a party." Mîr looked across the room to spot a piece of paper that had somehow remained under the door. She walked over and picked it up, and opened it as Robin continued to speak.

"Besides, if it was Stars birthday she would have told me, she would have told the whole team!" Mîr folded the paper she had found and walked over to Robin's desk and laid it on top of a notepad he had been writing on. She had given up. Robin looked up annoyed and watched as she walked to the door.

"You know Robin; I have only one question left to ask you. What would you do if you never saw Star again? If she died tomorrow or tonight, what would you do?" Robin stood, turned, and looked Mîr dead in the eye.

"Is that a threat?" Robin growled not breaking eye contact. Mîr closed her eyes, sighed, and then looked back at him.

"No Robin, I would never hurt Star and it hurts me that you think that I would." She turned and opened the door and took a step out. "That makes two people that you've hurt tonight." It seemed like it took forever for the door to shut, neither titan breaking eye contact with one another. Finally the door closed and Robin was alone again.

Robin sighed and stomped back over to his work desk. How dare Mîr come in there and accuse him of hurting Star. He would never do that! Still grumbling non-sense to himself as he sat back down at the desk and began to work out the next equation to solve the current problem in front of him. He figured out the answer in his head easily and grabbed a pen to write down solution, then he spotted the note Mîr had put on his notepad. He sighed, put down the pen, and grabbed it. He walked over to an empty trashcan and almost threw the note in but noticed some writing on it. Curiosity over took him and he opened it to read what was written on it.

Robin,

Cy, Raven, BB and I are all working on a surprise party for Starfire. She didn't tell anyone because she thought it would be too much trouble to throw her a party. Silly girl. Anyways I know she would want you there and I know you're busy with something but please come. Thankies!

Mîr

Mîr was going too far. Now she had left a fake note to try and trick him again. He crunched the note in one hand and threw it down into the dark depths of the trashcan. It echoed as it bounced off the sides and hit the bottom. He smiled superiorly and marched back over to his desk, but on the way passed by a calendar that had been hanging on the wall. He noticed that he hadn't been marking off all the past days and got the pen that hung next to it. He began to cross off days when he reached today's date. There was a funny chibi picture of Starfire with a cone birthday hat on in the corner of the square. It was waving and smiling, he remembered that picture. He had let Starfire draw it at the beginning of the year. For a split instant he swore his heart had stopped, just for a second though.

What had he done, What Had He DONE! He slammed his fist against the wall next to the calendar making it come off its hook and fall to the ground with a clatter.

'You IDOIT!' His inter conscience screamed. 'Why didn't you believe Mîr! She wouldn't lie to you!' He gritted his teeth and pressed his head against the wall. Now what would he do? Mîr had already left and the party had already started. He had no time to buy a present and the sun had already set. Then a brilliant and beautiful idea came to him. He jumped over the calendar and dashed towards the door. He slammed his hand down on the scan pad and waited for the door to open. It finally opened and he ran as fast as possible out it heading for the briefing room, leaving Slade's slightly burned mask alone on his desk.

Meanwhile in the briefing room while Robin was racing to find his parting team-mates….

Starfire sat on the couch, a huge plated loaded down with a gigantic slice of cake and four scoops of ice cream. She was beginning to worry that her simple question had angered Mîr. She had been gone for a little more than 15 minutes and the party was getting very fun. Cyborg was in the kitchen searching for more ice cream, and BB was recovering from the two smacks in the head Raven had given him because he had given her non-dairy "tofu" ice cream instead the normal kind.

Raven was sitting next to Star also recovering, (due to the fact that the non-dairy ice cream was totally nasty and three months stale) but soon noticed Star's slightly disheartened face.

"You alright?" She asked suddenly. Star looked up and nodded giving a small smile.

"Yes, but I am worried about Mîr, I am afraid I may have angered her." BeastBoy gathering his courage over heard and walked over.

"Don't worry Star! Mîr just went to get Captain Research out of the dungeons of darkness." He said putting a hand on her shoulder. "Wana open some presents? That'll cheer you up!" He gestured to a present covered table near the kitchen counter.

"That would be most delightful but, I would like for Mî…" Star wasn't able to finish her sentence because a messy haired, red faced, Boy Wonder had just came stumbling into the room. "ROBIN!" She cried happily jumping from the couch. Her plate of food went flying off her lap and splattered all over the floor. Cyborg came out just as the plate hit and watched in horror as his cake and mountains of delicious ice cream carpeted the floor. "Opps…." Star whispered, blushing a deep red. She went to pick up the plate but Cyborg and Raven stopped her.

"We'll clean it up." Raven said getting the plate.

"Yeah don't worry about it." Cy said looking sadly at the now exposed cake and ice cream mix. Star smiled and thanked her friends then hurried over to greet Robin.

"I am joyous that you have finally come!" She said coming to stand next to him. "Please would you like to partake in the eating of cake and the iced cream?" She smiled happily and gestured to the food table. Before Robin could reply however BeastBoy came over and began to question him, quite loudly too.

"Where were you?" He yelled. "We've been waiting for hours for you to show up!" Robin sighed and looked at the ground.

"I know, I've been stupid, In any case I would like to make up for all this." He looked and Star and smiled. "If you'd like, we can go into the city and go to the park Star was just delighted, she jumped into the air and when she came back down she gave Robin a huge hug.

"I have never seen the city after the sun has set! This would be wonderful!" She cheered letting him go. BeastBoy however flipped out over the idea.

"I don't think so!" He cried. He ran over to a window and extended his arm towards it showing the darkened sky. "The suns set, and everything is closing! What is there to do?" He can back over to the foot of the steps where Star and Robin stood a top and waited for an answer.

"There is a festival going on in the park tonight. There will be food, games and later on fireworks." Robin said looking away from BB and back at Starfire. "If you want we can still go." She nodded her head happily and was about to turn and leave with Robin but once again BB interrupted.

"But, But you can't just leave! It's not fa…." BeastBoy froze in mid-sentence trying to interpret the scene that had unfolded before him. Mîr had appeared from out of nowhere and was now behind Robin in Star in the still open doorway, waving frantically and jumping up and down. She shook her head no and slid her hand horizontally as if cutting off her head.

"Yes?" Robin said annoyed. BB looked back at him and saw him look towards the door. BB panicked at first but then saw that Mîr was no where to be seen.

"Ahhh…" BeastBoy began. "Sure Robin you can go! I don't mind at all!" He said a little too cheery. Robin gave him a questionable look but was hushed when Mîr came out of the kitchen.

"Going out now are we?" She said giving Robin a curious glance. "One suggestion though." She said walking over next to BB, Raven and Cyborg coming over as well. Mîr Stood on tip toe and whispered something to Cy who snickered and ran off to retrieve something. Robin seemed to become ever angrier and sighed heavily.

"If we don't go now we're going to miss the fireworks." He said. Finally Cy came back and now having a basketball in hand.

"Let me finish." Mîr said. "I suggest you not wear your uniforms out." She said coolly.

"And why not?" Robin said sounding insulted. Mîr smiled.

"I'm glad you asked" She said walking back over to Cy who was smiling as well. "Two words fan girls." She started acting all prissy and prancing around. "Oh My Gosh! Is that Robin?" She said in a very preppy way causing BB and Cy to snicker. "AHHH!" She screamed happily and Cy threw at full force the basketball right into Robin. It collided with a slam and he was knocked hard onto the ground. Mîr and Cy walked over, Mîr helping him up and Cy fetching the basketball. "I don't think you want a hundred mentally unstable girls chasing you down in the middle of the night. Don't wear your uniforms You'll be less easy to spot." She helped him up, Robin looking slightly embarrassed and mad.

"So what do you suggest we wear?" He said brushing himself off.

"I don't know about you but this gives Star the perfect opportunity to open on of her presents." She said gesturing to Raven who had managed to hid a gift under her cloak and no one notice. Star squealed in delight and floated over, taking the present in hand and hugging her two friends.

"You did not need to do such a task." She said sweetly looking at Raven and Mîr. The gift was wrapped in a beautiful paper, almost oriental looking. It had Cherry blossoms all over the paper with tiny flying dragons. She slowly began to unwrap it and finally the gift was revealed. It was a very pretty shirt and a nice pair of jeans. Star thanked her friends again and picking up the shirt discovering it was not an ordinary tee-shirt. It was an off the shoulders shirt, it was a light pink and very soft. There was also a pair of blue jeans with them. Star smiled happily and decided that Raven and Mîr should be the first to see her in her new outfit. She hauled them off to her room and change leaving Robin alone…

Raven and Mîr Waited patently outside Star's room, She had instructed them to wait there until she had finished changing. "What took you so long?" Raven asked Mîr as they waited.

"Oh!" Mîr said remembering her loud discussion with Robin. " Robin was being a crann (krahn) tavor and refused to listen to me." At her Evlish insult Raven giggled some.

She replied"Robin not listen to someone, that's strange." Mîr looked at her in disbelief.

"With is attitude I'm not surprised." She said leaning against the wall. Suddenly the door opened next to her and Raven and Mîr jumped to attention. "How does it look?" Star asked turning in a circle. "Wow…" Raven and Mîr said in shock. Star looked amazing in her new clothes. She was even wearing a golden necklace chain, but there wasn't a pendent on it.

"Where'd you get the necklace chain Star?" Mîr asked as they headed back to the living room.

"Oh, it was my mothers. She gave it to me when I left for earth. She kept the jewel that used to hang from it though." She explained. They were nearing the living room when they ran into BB. He whispered something to Mîr who nodded and began to follow him.

"I'll be right back." She said to the confused Star and Raven. She hurried off to do something and Star and Raven continued to the living room….

Sorry this took so long. It has become soo long it's going to be in two parts. Hope you like and please review.

Dragon