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When candy goes bad or The attack of the left over mutant candy…

Tenshijaki

"You what?" Cyborg was waving his arms around in little pinwheels looking at a shamefaced Beast boy. "I told you, we broke up. You saw how Star and Robin took it – it's for the best." At this point Beast boy added a little sniffle in for effect.

Else where…

Meaning: author has lost train of thought where this last segment is concerned and has found a way to save this chapter. How you may ask? Well obviously by going to our long neglected couple cough cough dang cold – I mean friends Robin and Star. To catch you up: starandrobincaughtravenandbeastboydoing"something"andnowtheyarekinda-sorta-not-really-jealous.robindoesntknowhowtodealwithragingteenhormornesandstarhasadoptednewmutantpeepcandies… pant pant there, all caught up… now on with the story.

Robin and Starfire sat in her room in silence. Robin was sitting on a large pink poof looking out towards the bed that held Star. They were both highly disturbed and in shock, you could tell when you looked at them; wide-eyed, blank stares and pale faces. They were beginning to look like Everquest addicts – opps, er, we mean subscribers – after a 24 hour quest/kill campaign. Whether this condition was caused by the recent events with Raven and Beast boy, or whether it was due to the fact that Star used way to much pink in her room no one could tell, however we're leaning towards the latter.

"You know…" Robin started. Star looked up, "Yes, I know." Robin looked confused, "You know?" Star just nodded with a little smile, "You know that I know." "I know that you know?" Robin had no idea what Starfire was talking about. "You know that I know that you know that I know", "OoooKaaayyy", "And I know that you know that I know that you know that I know" "Huh?" Robin's eyes were doing a rather good impression of cinnamon buns. "Star please stop using the word 'know'." "Oh, should I rephrase it with something else then? How about glargenspeckle?" "NO! Just, wait a minute," Robin sat up from his slumped position on the chair and looked over towards the corner of the room, "what was that?"

Star looked towards the area in her room that Robin had pointed. At first she didn't see anything then suddenly there was movement. Out of the shadows came one of the colorful, sugary candies that Beast boy had given her. This Peep was in that shade of blue that Mother Nature never intended. It seemed to stare at them with its little chocolate dot eyes, as though it had designs on their socks. Yes, it appears that too much time covered in crayon colored sugar while living in Beast boy's closet does actually make one loose their fragile little minds. How could we tell that the mutant peeps were actually killer mutant sock hunting peeps? Well, just call it a hunch – and the fact that over in the shadows of the corner the peep queen was sitting on her sock throne demanding more socks. So now we know that the peeps are evil and after peoples socks, back to the story.

Starfire could see the peeps more clearly now, all of the ones that she had brought into her room and had a tea party with were there. However it appeared now that they were armed for war. They appeared to have found her makeup kit and put it to nefarious use. Some of the peeps were welding bobby pins like little lethal swords; others had manned a can of hair spray and found matches. More simply wore her lipsticks and eyeshadows as war paint. Overall they looked pretty impressive and intimidating, if you were perhaps 2 inches tall. Robin and Star looked at them for a few seconds then fell over laughing. Unfortunately for the wee peep army they happened to land on most of them. The memorial service for the fallen marshmallows that followed was moving, beautiful and in the end, Star and Robin had smores.1

"Sorry about your marshmallows Star."2 Robin was standing at the door getting ready to leave. They had gotten over the days surprises some time during the peep incident and now he was back to feeling awkward around the alien girl. "It is alright friend Robin. Besides, I still have this one left." Star held up a little cage with the bright pink peep queen sitting inside. Apparently she had managed to burrow into the socks and avoid the majority of the impact of the two teens falling, which future peeps would come to know as 'The reason why you do not let ex-clowns, no matter who's uncle they are, put the war paint on the warriors' incident. Star had actually been able to subdue her insane sock based rambling by giving her a frilly lace covered sock that had lost its mate in the 'dryer fiasco'.

Robin stared at Star. Star stared at Robin. Peep stared at sock. Sock stared at peep. They all stared at each other. Each other stared at they. The author stared at the screen. Uh… right. "Well goodnight." With a little wave Robin turned around to leave. Now we could all just choke him at this point. I know that's what Star, the peep queen and the sock were all thinking about. Ok, well maybe not the sock and the peep queen but Star was. Here she was, at her door, at night, looking as beautiful as ever, and he just waves goodbye to her. Obviously she was doing something wrong but she could not for the life of herself figure it out. Perhaps Cyborg had been right when he said that Robin was of the gay, though not happy kind. Suddenly she knew what she had to do. She knew how to find out what was wrong with her, if Robin was gay though not happy, and how many licks it took to get to the center of a tootsie pop. Off she flew to Ravens room.

"What do you mean that you are no longer making dates with Beast boy?" "I told you Star, we broke it off. Besides, I really didn't like him." Raven was sitting on her bed with Star next to her. Star had come to Raven in hopes that since Raven was obviously knowledgeable with the whole man/woman thing she could help her out with her problems with Robin. When Star got to Ravens room however, she had found out that her friends were now broken up. "But friend, you care for him very much. I could tell when you are close together." Raven gave her a funny look, "It isn't my fault that my body reacts that way every time I see him." Starfires eyes held a gleam in them not unlike those survivor people when they spot a Pringles chip. "Oh, does your heart start racing? Do your palms itch to reach out and grab him?" She was of course speaking of her own experience around Robin. Raven rolled her eyes. "No, I want to vomit."

"Oh come now, I can not believe that is how you feel around Beast boy. You must feel something for him. You let him in your lap, you were rolling around on the floor…" "I don't feel anything for him Star," Raven cut her off, she did not need a reminder of the days blunders. Just thinking about them made her fume all over again. "All right I do feel something for him. Hate. I hate everything about him. I hate his stupid smirk and that tooth. I hate his lousy jokes. I hate how he dresses. I even hate how he ties his shoes!" "You noticed how he ties his shoes? Raven, you have got the 'it' bad!" Raven looked puzzled. "What it?" "The 'it'. The 'it' in all my glorious movies of love and romance. The wondrous 'it' that brings happiness and flowers and hearts and babies with wings." Raven just stared at Star open mouthed as she pranced about the room rambling through everything she knew on the 'it' known to all, but Star, as love.

Duh duh duhhhhh….

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Raven had just whacked Star good. This had the added bonus of not only pleasing Raven but stopping the prancing and singing. Life was good. For a whole second. "Oh Raven, you know that I know of your feelings. There is no shame in them, and no reason to hide them any more either. You should find Beast boy and wet a plant on him." This was not the way that Raven wanted the conversation to go. She wanted to get off of the 'it' and Beast boy topic. "Hey Star, didn't you come in here for a reason?" Normally Raven would do anything, including a root canal, rather than have to listen to Star talk about Robin, but she had to get her on another vein of conversation. She already knew what the problem was. It was a simple math equation. Take 1 air headed space alien, add one 'oblivious to everything that wasn't a criminal' boy wonder, and add teenaged hormones and angst, mix well and what do you have? If you guessed one annoyed Raven on a bed you were right.

1 Yes, you can make smores out of peeps shudder but the poor peeps – it's just not right – my friend likes to roast peeps – its just wrong! twitch

2 Ok – this is bad – I killed the marshmallows and now nature has killed my cat sniff seriously – my mom woke me up this morning and said that the cat was dead so I'm like all depressed – next time you eat a peep – just bite the head off and think of my cat – Sammy. Thank you.

AN: This chapter is late for two reasons. 1. I had a really bad cold – sorry – 2. my cat died and I couldn't get funny – sigh – I just ran over him two weeks ago with my car and broke his leg and I was so happy because he was getting better and everything but now hes dead. I just carried him home from the neighbors yesterday and he was fine, put his little paw on my leg saying carry me… then this morning he was just dead, lying in the grass – I'm very upset now… but I will work to get the next chapter out – I hate to leave anything unfinished – I think maybe two or three more chapters and this will be done, I don't have any plans with cyborg really so if you guys want to see anything happen with him let me know… I think I can come up with something… something involving pink… and perhaps fairy wings…