Note: Wow, reviews. laughs No, the other pairing will not include Raven and Beast Boy/Changeling… I just.. don't see the motivation behind the couple. So I think I'd rather do something else. I have a soft spot for RavenxCyborg, but then again I might very well bring in kid flash. But hey, ya never know.

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And with Raven's words the party began. It was a relief to Nightwing to see that his teammate's eating habits hadn't changed. Save for Starfire; but the black haired man grinned with delight as he spotted the Tamaranean putting a more than necessary amount of mustard on her pizza. Loud music blasted through the tower and the Titan's laughed, danced, singed, until the wee hours of the morning when finally, the party began to simmer down and the young adult's bodies begged for nothing more than to head to their respective rooms where they would fall into peaceful slumber.

But the Titan's did not wish to sleep just yet. There was too much to catch up on, too many secrets to share. Everyone sat in a circle near the kitchen trying to relax as they came down from their dancing and pizza induced highs.

Nightwing smiled gently as he watched his best friend as she flopped down next to him with a giant grin plastered onto her face. Her hair was slightly frazzled since only moment ago Cyborg and Beast Boy decided it would fun if they hung her upside down as he tickled her mercilessly in response to what Star had said about men being weak. Her face was flushed from her hysteric laughing from a moment ago and red now seeped into the dazzling orange of her skin, and the boy wonder was mesmerised. He truly hadn't seen anything more beautiful than the princess beside him.

"So, what HAS everyone been up to the past two years?" Cy asked as he flopped in between Raven and Changeling. Nightwing thought he felt Starfire tense for the briefest moment before relaxing again, but he saw that her smile wasn't as genuine as it had been before. Puzzled and worried, the masked superhero's thoughts were derailed as the Green titan replied.

"You know, nothing much. Tried acting for a year but it wasn't for me. Other than that I just sorta wandered around, helping out whoever needed it." Changeling said with his eyes closed as he reclined. "What about you, Cy? Hung around with Titans East?" Garfield asked, opening the eye nearest to the robotic man.

"Basically," Cyborg laughed. "But I did end up living at a technology academy so I could learn some new stuff. Got my baby pimped out." Cyborg grinned and Nightwing chuckled, knowing his friend's affection for his car.

"I just trained, mostly." The former Robin reminisced. "Went back to Gotham, did the old crime fighting thing."

"What a workaholic." Teased Cyborg and the others couldn't help but nod in agreement.

"Well, me being me, I ditched society for a group of monks on a mountain." The empath grinned. Something the team never thought they'd ever see from Raven. "They never talked to me, it was heaven. But it did get very lonely, I missed you guys." She let out a small smile and a murmur went throughout the group with things like "Missed you too, Rae." "We could never leave you alone for too long." And "So we can go into you're room since you missed us so much?"

When silence consumed the Titans all eyes turned the only one who hadn't cared to elaborate on the two years she had disappeared. Koriand'r fidgeted nervously under their stares and swallowed a lump that formed in her delicate throat covered in her armour.

"Uhh.. it seems that everyone had a pleasant vacation." Nightwing looked at her, worry etched on his face as the alien all of a sudden found the ground to be the most interesting thing on this entire planet.

"Star?" Asked Raven, obviously seeing and sensing her friend's anxiety.

"I went home to Tamaran after everyone departed of course." The green-eyed girl began, still looking at the ground.

"It was nice spending time on my birth planet, I was able to relax. I trained with my old mentor. It was fun, I was able to be careless. But.. then," she paused, swallowing another lump. Richard saw tears beginning to form in her stunning emerald eyes. He didn't like to see her like this, this woman who he had grown with, laughed with, it was inevitable that he would fall in love with her. It was love that allowed him to gain the courage to drag the strong warrioress into his lap and embrace her in a hug. Starfire looked at him with curiosity and finally smiled a contagious smile and Nightwing beckoned her to continue.

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"Two months after I arrived something horrible happened, The Citadel, Tamaran's enemy attacked. We were caught by surprise, many of my people were slaughtered and the army had been all but entirely destroyed. Our allies betrayed us, joining the Citadel to gain more power… and the allies Tamaran had left been too fearful to interfere.

I was a captive of the Citadel in my own room for a while, but I was able to escape after they killed Galfore. I ran and eventually found what could be called the equivalent of a Nazi concentration camp full of my people where I overheard a Citadel general talking about when they were going to destroy Tamaran. Terrified, I was able to free my people from the camp.. As far as I know, we were the only ones to survive, because shortly after.. Tamaran was destroyed. We were lucky that no Citadel knew of our escape at the time. Using this to our advantage I had to relocate what was left of my people.. Our number at that time totalled no more than five thousand. The strongest warriors had already been murdered so we were left mostly defenceless, but those who remained persisted. And by dumb luck or fate, we found a habitable abandoned planet in a previously undiscovered solar system. While it wasn't Tamaran, my people were tired of travelling; all we wanted to do is go home. But since we couldn't do that, I declared the planet our new home, Tamaran the second."

"The planet was in a state of mourning for the next few weeks, as was I, but eventually I snapped out of it. I was the empress of Tamaran, for crying out loud! I had to rebuild a race, a culture. Mourn our losses and look to the future. It seems that my determination was infectious, soon the entire population helped in the rebuilding of our capital, Okaara. But… I had not intended for the Citadel to find us before I could call for help.

The second time genocide was attempted on my people was indeed the worse. Children were hanged, woman raped, men broke down in hysterics. I stayed; I fought as long as I could. But eventually.. I was captured again; I was forced to watch as my last shred of hope blew up before my eyes. Just like the first Tamaran had. I was so angry, so… animalistic.. I ended up destroying the ship, and everyone on it."

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Tears now flew freely from Starfire's eyes. She squeezed them shut and sunk more into Nightwing, as if trying to become one with him. All he could do was hold the crying girl closer and pet her hair trying to provide as much comfort as he could. The rest of the Titans stared wide-eyed at their team-mate's horrific story. How could such a wonderful and happy girl be forced to go through so much?

"Are you Ok Star?" Asked Changeling finally. The alien sniffled in response and looked at all three of them.

"I am fine, really. This happened over a year ago.. and.. I know some of my people still exist. I am not sure where, or how many, but they are still alive. And as long as they are alive, Tamaran will live on." Starfire smiled weakly, still not letting go of what she wished to call her boy wonder. "After I arrived back on Earth I stayed in a place called Sin City so I could know Earth at it's ugliest. So I could appreciate all the beautiful things on this planet even more." She looked around seeing her friends still in a state of shock. "I am fine, don't worry about me. I'm a big girl, I've already handled it." She smiled to enforce her statement and finally, they dropped it.

Changeling took a luxurious yawn leaving his mouth wide open.

"Well, I'm pretty tired. Think I'm going to hit the hay. Night guys." The morpher said and proceeded to stumble towards his room in a quest to find sleep; Raven and Cyborg followed him closely.

"I think I'm turning in too. Night."

"Too much partying for me tonight." Said Raven and Cyborg respectively as they left Kory and Richard alone.

"Thanks." Blushed the redhead out of embarrassment as she slid off her black clad leader's lap

Richard said nothing but stood up and took Starfire's hand in his own, dragging her upwards with the utmost care. They stood in silence for a few minutes. Looking each other up and down as if in the past five minutes each of them had changed and they had to examine one another all over again.

"So… wanna go up to the roof?" Nightwing invited; Kory looked pleasantly surprised and gave the boy wonder a giant smile.

"Absolutely." She agreed, squeezing his gloved hand with her own. Bowing, Nightwing allowed the love of his life to go first through the hallway as they made their way to the rooftop where they would smile, talk, and star gaze.

Just like old times.

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Not sure what I think of this chapter. XD It took a while, but I guess I'll see how it was from your reviews. (which are much appreciated, by the way.)