Plan in Action

Over the next few days Robin and Starfire were inseparable (at least more than usual in BB's opinion). Raven never said anything about them going steady, but once out of earshot BB and Cyborg would tease them as much as possible. Once Starfire walked into the living room while they were having one such conversation. Raven saw her run into her room in tears, but no one else did. Raven wasn't good at cheering up Starfire, but after yelling at the boys she went into her friend's room and tried to comfort her.

"Starfire," she said to the closed door. "The boys are just being idiots, don't take them seriously." Raven gave up on getting Starfire to open the door, so she walked into the evidence room and found Robin.

She told him what had happened, and he was about to go scream at the boys when Raven stopped him.

"Yelling at dumb and dumber won't help Starfire, go talk to her, she won't talk me." Robin nodded and ran down to his new girlfriend's room.

He got to her door and walked in. She was lying on her bed bawling. It hurt Robin to see her like this.

"Starfire," he said walking over and sitting by her. "Are you ok? Look I know what you heard, but you have to get over it, those guys are just jerks. I still love you, Star please talk to me."

"Robin this isn't working, I love you, but I don't think I can take another one of those mean talks." She started crying again, burying her face in Robin's chest. That's when the idea came back to her. She wouldn't ever voice it, yet Robin did love her, and might do it, but she would miss the rest of her friends. Robin was the leader of the group; even if he did love her, he couldn't leave the team.

Robin couldn't take it anymore. "Starfire, please don't cry. I hate it when you do, your the happy one, I can't stand to see you like this. You have to stop, I can't stand to see you cry, please stop, I'll do anything."

Anything, anything, Starfire ran the word through her head. Anything, did he really mean anything or was he just trying to get her to stop crying.

She couldn't hold it in any longer, before actually realizing it she was blurting out the idea she had had since their first kiss. "Robin, lets run away. We can be are own team and fight the evil monsters, and be together, and we won't have to put up with the teasing, and-"

"Starfire," the boy wonder said carefully, he had seen her beat up monsters, and didn't want to be on the receiving end of one of her attacks. "That sounds like a great idea and everything, but we live here, we can't just abounded our team. I'm the leader; I have to stay here."

"Cyborg was once in charge of our team, when you were Slade's apprentice. He did a wonderful job, could he not do it again?" Starfire asked innocently.

"It's not that simple Star," Robin said sadly. "I would happily run away and be with you, but we can't. It's not as simple as telling Cyborg that he's in charge. Besides, were would we live? This is our home; we don't have anywhere else to go. We can't just move into..." he stopped talking. The cave! He had lived there before, when he worked as a sidekick he stayed there. The cave was empty now, he was sure of it!

It wasn't a real cave; it just looked like one. There was indoor plumbing, electricity, and running water. There was everything that they needed. Robin was even sure that there was furniture left in there.

"Robin," Starfire said waving a hand in front of his face. "You stopped talking." She noticed the look on his face and had become worried.

"Starfire I know the perfect place to go!" He said excitedly. "There's a cave outside the city, It's not really a cave though. There's everything we need to live there." he became exited and then added, " That is, if it's fit for a princess." Starfire smiled and kissed him.

They made plans to meet in the living room that night, with everything they could carry. They would go to the cave drop their stuff off, see if there was still furniture, and if not they would bring more later.

For the next few missions Robin would let Cyborg lead, so that he would get the hang of leading the group. Robin knew that their plan wouldn't be easy, and it would be hard to get the bigger stuff out of the house without anyone noticing, but when the time came, they would have to go through with the plan.

Starfire had a hard time keeping a secret, so Robin made her pretend to be sick, so that no one would bother her. Once everyone was asleep, Robin and Starfire would get out of bed, and carry supplies to the cave. They were in luck with the stock in their new home. There was already a fridge/freezer, a couch, TV, one bed, dresser, and a stove.

Starfire had amazing strength, so getting another bed, lighting, another dresser, clothes, food, and any other supplies that they needed was no problem. After a week of Cyborg leading missions, sneaking stuff to the cave, and pretending to be sick, they were ready to move out.

After a week of sneaking, Robin and Starfire moved out of the tower. They left a note on the table for Raven, Cyborg, and Beastoy explaining where they had gone, and why. They had brought the last few belongings to the cave, and were leaving the titans.