Crawling
That night, Starfire choked out some water. She had been beaten and almost drowned. She didn't know who did it, everything seemed like a blur. She tried to stand up, but couldn't. She lay on the ground, looking at the dark sky. She saw her dried blood on her skin and looked at her boots that were torn. She tried a second time to get up, but fell and landed on her face and stomach. Tear drops came down from her eyes. She couldn't fly, her mind didn't want to, her body didn't want to. Her thoughts were not even close to being happy.
She started to crawl, little by little. She didn't know where she was, she tried to get an idea, but the place seemed unfamiliar to her. She crawled for thirty minutes, resting in between time. She had only moved half a mile. Then there was the city and there was the Tower. I probably won't be there until dawn, Starfire thought. She encouraged herself to go and keep on crawling, she wanted to get home. She crawled a little faster, ignoring the pain that shot through her body.
Soon she was at the Tower's trail, heading up for the doors. She crawled up, the door bell was high and the rapper was high too. The door knobs still being above her. She tried to pick herself up, she was standing straight, but it hurt her to stand. She opened the door and fell in. She lay there for twenty minutes before regaining her strength. In the living room, the lights were on. Starfire headed for the elevators. She hurried herself inside the elevator, before it closed. Her legs hurting and her arms. The elevator came to a stop and she fell out into the living room. All three Titans looked at her, she lay there conscious and hurting. Her clothes black from crawling on the sand and on the road. Raven looked at her in bewilderment. She immediately used her telekinesis to carry Starfire and lay her on the couch. Raven was the only one who was home, in case Starfire had come back. The rest of the Titans were out searching for Starfire.
"Are you okay?" Raven asked concerned.
Starfire couldn't speak, she looked up at Raven and slowly nodded. Starfire slowly started to close her eyes.
The next morning, she got up still aching from her toes to her shoulders. She opened her eyes slowly and saw Raven. She was in the infirmary.
"I thought you were gone, the rest of us thought you were dead," Raven told her.
"I was just beaten by a stranger." Starfire said sounding tired. Starfire sat herself up, but the pain didn't subside.
"I'm glad you're okay, well a little." Raven stated.
"Yeah, at least I am not dead."
Raven patted Starfire and left the room. She tried to figure out who had done this to her. Robin came in and sat at Starfire's foot. He smiled at her. Even though she had been beaten up, he still looked beautiful to her. He kissed her on the cheek. He stared at her and he was thinking. He knew he had to tell her, it was the right moment, it seemed like to him.
"Starfire?"
"Yes, my dear friend?"
He coughed out and leaned closer to her. She stared back at him with her emerald glossy eyes. He almost forgot what he wanted to say from her hypnotizing eyes.
"I love you," Robin finally said.
Starfire smiled. Robin got closer and kissed her for a couple of minutes, due to her pain. After they broke the kiss, they smiled at each other. Starfire thought she could fly again, she thought that nothing was wrong, she thought that she had no injuries. She hugged Robin and he hugged her back. She was very delighted to hear him say those three words she'd been waiting for almost forever and now he had said them. Her heart felt like it wanted to flutter or jump out, she was so happy.
Beast Boy and Cyborg came in, "Look at the love birds," as they smiled to see Starfire doing well.
Robin and Starfire blushed.
They went to hug her as they thought she could've died.
"We're glad you're okay, Starfire, but we have to find out who did this to you." Cyborg said.
Starfire laid back on the bed and nodded. She and Robin looked at each other concerned.
Three days later she was back on her feet. Robin and her had been going out since he said that he adored her. They tried to find out who had done all the damaged to Starfire, but they hadn't. They didn't give up though, who ever it was, they had to be stopped.