A/N: Wee! 7 reviews! Wow…. usually I get a lot more for the first chapter. But then again, I can't blame ya…that chapter was soooo short! This one is short too…but a little longer than the first.

Summary: A who-knows-how-long fic about the relationship between Starfire and Robin. They say true love is forever, but can it withstand Slade's mind-ray when it's turned at Starfire?
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Star-Crossed Enemies

By: Karen

It was darkness before anything else.

As Starfire began to feel her body waking up, pain shot through her spine, as if she had a hundred pins in her back. Groaning, she moved into a sitting position, her green eyes trying to adjust to the darkness. Making her way towards what she thought looked like a door handle; she pressed her hand on it, trying to turn it when a click caused the entire room to illuminate, bringing a yelp to the Tamaranian's voice.

"Awake are we?" Slade's voice echoed behind Starfire. She instantly tensed, turning around quickly to meet a strange ray gun like object at her forehead.

"You will not kill me after you have captured me. Your weapons do not frighten me," she said, hoping she sounded braver than she felt.

"Oh don't worry, I'm not going to kill you. But I can't say the same for your friends," his voice was almost at a whisper as the gun's point continued to dig into her brow.

"Why have you captured me, if you are wishing to destroy my friends?" she asked, resisting the temptation to rub her temples.

"Oh I will not be destroying them. You will, my dear," his voice curled, and the trigger was pressed.

After that, all went black.

At the tower, things were less than ordinary.

"Raven! Get on the computer and scan for all electromagnetic fields that are ranged between 120 and 150. Beast Boy, scan the skies, look for anything that might look like Starfire, starbolts, Slade…anything. Cyborg, get onto the trackers, find out if you can get anything from Starfire," Robin was pacing the area around them, shouting out orders faster than he could think of them. The Titans, however, knew it best not to get in the way of Robin…especially on the matter of Starfire.

"And you, Robin?" Raven asked, her eyes leaving the computer for a moment to look at her leader.

"I'm going out," he replied, heading out towards the garage. Moments later, the Titans heard the R-cycle heading away from the tower.

"What is your name?" She was seated in an all white room, in an all white chair with an all white bright light glaring into her eyes.

"My name is Starfire, I am from the planet Tamaran."

"I didn't ask where you were from, did I?" A slap across her face caused her to wince, and gave her captor another reason to hit her. "Flinching is a weakness. Do I need to remind you that?"

"No, Master," Starfire said automatically receiving a slow nod.

"Let's start again. What is your name?"

"Starfire." The name sounded distant, foreign to her tongue, like a long lost memory of something.

"Whom do you work for?" The question was easy, he was taunting her, trying to get some sort of reaction from her.

"You, master."

"What is your purpose?"

"To destroy the Teen Titans."

The Teen Titans.

Now there was a name she hated.

Hated without reason was what Slade explained it as. He explained to her that to hate them was the right thing, and the right thing was for her to destroy them. The Titans didn't understand them, they never would. They stopped villains every time, every time a villain would try to take something, the Titans would be there.

It wasn't fair. Who were those teenaged freaks to tell the powerful villains that they couldn't steal something!

It was…Un-American!

She shook her head slightly, not wanting to anger Slade, but just to calm herself down. She was getting out of hand. How she hated those…Titans.

"And how will you do this?" The question snapped her back to reality, and she quickly concocted an answer suitable for Slade.

"Any way I can," she answered as the light was clicked off and Slade walked out of the room, leaving her in darkness.

"Tomorrow, apprentice. Tomorrow."

It was almost 2 AM when Robin returned, cursing and kicking anything in his way. The Titans stayed silent, knowing how angry Robin would get if they spoke. During these times it was best to leave Robin to his own problems.

"Well!" Robin asked in a huff as he stormed towards the computers. A silent battle took place between the three other Titans, Raven losing.

"…. We couldn't find her," she held her breath, waiting for the screaming.

"And Slade?" His masked eyes were fixed on the screen, not looking at anyone as he pushed her computer chair to the side roughly and began typing.

"Nothing. We couldn't find anything," Cyborg added, grabbing Raven's chair before she flung into the wall.

"Did you even look?" Robin's voice cut through the silence, as the others frowned, exchanging glances.

"Dude, Star's like our be-"

"Look harder. You guys aren't trying," Robin muttered, pushing past them towards his room.

"Why that little hair-gel covered fre-"

"He's just being Robin…we need to work," Raven cut Cyborg off, dragging her chair back to the computer.

"I miss Star…" Beast Boy sighed, scooting his chair over to the screen as well.

"You better look like your doing something, BB, or Robin'll kill ya for slacking," Cyborg said, his human eye moving rapidly as he scanned the city's satellite images.

"Robin won't come out of his room unless we yell that we found her. He's in one of his 'I'm all dark and depressed like Batman' moods," Beast Boy said, rolling his eyes.

"Make sure you don't say that near Robin," Cyborg replied, shaking his head. "Where are you, girl?"

"I'm not picking up any brain waves from her either…" Raven said, looking up from a brief meditative state.

"You mean she's…"

"Not necessarily. I just can't pick up her frequency of brain waves…Slade could be blocking it."

"So now what? What else is there to do? We don't even know if she's alive or dead," Cyborg sighed, as the others fell silent.

"I guess…we wait and see what happens," Beast Boy said, staring out the window at the city. "I don't think Slade would let her die…he'd probably force one of his evil mutant brain waves on her so she'd think that she was a chicken farmer or something!"

"…For some reason…I doubt that…highly," Raven said, glaring at him.

"It could happen! It happened to this girl in Canadia!"

"…. You mean Canada…"

"Yeah, that's what I said. Soooo…you know, she could be still alive but like…brainwashed!" Heading over to the blackboard, he pulled down a chart, showing the possibilities of his idea, which Raven quickly dismissed by a psychic bolt towards it, causing it to roll back up. "Heeeeyyy!"

"We need to focus here, BB. Star's life is in danger."

"I was focusing! You guys seriously need to read your comics; I mean…anything can happen these days! Like on the Sci-Fi channel, I saw this documentary on these space aliens that eat your brains and then they-"

"…Do you know what Sci-Fi stands for?" Raven asked him, looking up.

"I'm not stupid. Science Fiction."

"…Exactly. Fiction."

"Computer, run it again," it was the tenth time he viewed the scene in a row. Everything was wrong. He could see it already that his team was too tired to fight Slade, but that was no excuse. He shouldn't have let Slade take her. "Starfire…where are you…" He sighed, his fist impacting his desk in anger. "I'm no leader…I can't believe I didn't keep my eyes on her."

"Starfire…"

"You may go, Apprentice," Slade's voice echoed in Starfire's earpiece as she stood on top of a building the next day.

"As you wish, Master," she replied. She raised her hands over her head, a starbolt in her palm as she began her attack on the city. She was clothed in all black, very similar to Blackfire's outfit, but sharp, dagger-like spikes adorned her elbows and upper arms.

Hearing footsteps behind her, she turned around, a malicious grin on her face.

"Titans, Go-" Robin froze, his eyes fixed on Starfire.

"Star…"

On the hopefully shuffled play list: Paint it Black- Vanessa Carlton, For Now- Avenue Q, If Only She Knew- Michelle Branch, No One Mourns the Wicked- Wicked, Annie- Vanessa Carlton, Papa- Vanessa Carlton, Along For The Ride- Vanessa Carlton, All You Wanted- Michelle Branch, Schadenfreude- Avenue Q, One Short Day- Wicked, I'll Always Be Right There- Michelle Branch, Dancing Through Life- Wicked, The Wizard and I- Wicked, Fall- Michelle Branch

Thanks to Fuzzy for Beta'ing my stuff!

Sorry sorry sorry! We're switching to DSL soon and I haven't had much time to write…