A Bird's Reality
Chapter 3: Fairy tales aren't a reality.
The boy wonder danced and hopped around his room happily knowing that his girlfriend was the beautiful princess of Tamaran and he couldn't stop. After he finally stopped thinking about the date, which was about 2:30 in the morning, he decided to go to sleep and didn't know what dreams would over come him tonight.
It was raining outside of their little house. "Richard dear, it's time for dinner." He could hear his wife calling him to join his family. The rain kept pouring down outside, it couldn't or wouldn't stop. "How was your day?" he asked his wife Starfire, "Oh dear, I would have to say it was alright." "That's it, alright?" He noticed how she changed over the years; she wasn't any longer her cheery self anymore. All of a sudden there was a knock at the door. Once Robin opened it the lights went out. After all these years he was surprised at what he saw, it was Slade. As he ran towards the villain he noticed that his precious wife was gone and there was nothing but a shadow of a woman in her place. "Starfire!" he yelled as he approached a cliff not too far from their house. "Richard, I'm down here!" she yelled at him hoping he would hear her. When he found her he noticed that she was looking at him sorrowful, "I thought you loved me." He heard those words and was confused, "What do you mean? I do love you." She wasn't listening to a word he was saying, "I wouldn't blame you, I'm not the same person I was many years ago." Still confused he tried to help her from the cliff. "Don't." was all she said to him, "Star… I do love you!" "Do you?" he heard a voice behind him say, but no one was there. Ever since Starfire gave up her powers to be with him he was constantly worried about her. "I love you Star, I do!" "No…you don't." was the last thing she said as she let go of the edge, "NO!"
Robin woke up in a cold sweat and couldn't believe what he just dreamed about his beloved Starfire and the fact of her dying right in front of him. He wondered what he did wrong and was scared to go back to sleep, but eventually he did and didn't dream of a thing.
The next morning he slept in and no one dared to bother him at all. "Oh shi..." he almost thought to himself when he seen the time of 12:00 in the afternoon. He was preparing himself for questioning about what made him sleep in and so on. He slipped on his uniform, this time, going out of his room into the living room.
As he walked in he saw that Cyborg and BB was on the gamestation playing "SuperSpeed Racing 3" which BB just bought the other day. On one of the chairs was Raven reading her new horror book that she just got from the book store and Starfire was no where to be found. No one noticed him at first until a shrill was heard; "Robin!" the voice of Starfire came out. He was glad to see her and greeted her with a peck on the lips and all he heard was "ohhhh", all he did was laugh.
"Dude, you're finally up? We thought you rolled over and died or something." "Only Beastboy thought you died." He heard BB and Raven say, and then Cyborg mentioned, "Star didn't wear ya out did she." Everyone, including Raven laughed, which made BB jealous since he couldn't get the girl to laugh ever before. "Just a bad dream that's all." Knowing his friends probably couldn't handle his nightmare, especially Starfire, Raven, maybe.
"So what happened today that I miss?" the bold leader asked his team mates. "Well the one called Mumbo tried to take friend Raven again, but…" Star was cut off from BB, "But she made it clear to him that she wasn't going by…" BB cut off by Cyborg, "By kicking his butt and really causing hell upon him!" Shocked Robin looked at Raven and said, "You defeated Mumbo all by yourself?" "No, not really."
In his room he couldn't help seeing the face of Starfire in his dream before she let go. He knew he felt tears down his cheek that night while in his sleep. All of a sudden there was a knock on his door; when he opened it he saw Raven who actually pulled him from his room to the roof. "Hey! What's going on!" he was yelling at her, "Well I don't know you tell me." He heard her cold words stab him over and over again. "Don't you like Starfire?" she asked the confused leader, "Of course I do…at least I think I do?" "Oh now you want to think." He knew where this was headed so he told her about the dream and everything, well almost everything, not the fact that him and Starfire was married of course, she would probably think that was stupid and childish.
"Hey. A dream's a dream, and a nightmare's a nightmare." "You might be right, but if my mind is telling me I lov…I mean like Starfire, then why's my dream telling me I don't?" "I don't have all the answers Robin." "Did I say you did?" "No, but you're acting like I do." "Well if we have this special bond, then what am I'm supposed to think!" "Think what ever you wish!" "Fine, I will!" "Fine!" "FINE!" "FINE!" he heard her yell as she stomped back into the tower leaving him wondering, "must she be so difficult!"
Author's note: I know this chapter was shorter than the last but the next one will be longer, I promise.