Quick question: Has anyone ever seen a SladeStarfire paring on this site before? I know I haven't. Well, unless its like rape and it involves some sort of Robin thing (which I've noticed is dreadfully overused). But I mean like, them becoming friends and whatnot? Hmm, I wonder. Though I did see a SladeStar story on That's what inspired the little bit with Star. So I must give credit to that author. (Themasterj)
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Robin took in a deep breath and let it out through his nose, tapping his fingers on the long table. He had called for a team meeting, and so far, he was the only one in the room. He had ditched his uniform earlier in the day and was sporting a sweatshirt and some jeans. He had grown quite weary of the tights and cape...well...maybe not the cape.
His thoughts were broken by Raven slipping in the room, gripping a mug of tea. Nervousness lined her eyes, her lips twisted into a small frown. She took a seat next to Robin and he gave her a reassuring smile. She didn't return the gesture but merely stared at the reflection in her mug.
Cyborg was the next to come in. He sat across from Raven, furrowing his eyebrows at her disaterous demener. For some reason, there was a thick silence in the room, no one dared to break it by speaking. Everyone knew that this meeting was not going to be anything good...
Starfire and Beast Boy entered the room together and took the remaining two seats. Starfire twisted the hem of her skirt in her lap as Cyborg and Raven secretly shot her daggers and looks of disgust.
Robin looked at all of them. Tension. It was so thick in the room you could cut it with a knife. Finally, he spoke.
"I've called you all here today to reveal something very important..." Robin said slowly, making sure he was choosing the right words.
He went to elaborate, but Raven lifted her head up. "It's about me...and the baby..."
She stood up, facing all of them. Her hand drifted under cape and clutched her stomach protectively.
"Is everything alright?" Cyborg asked, his eye filling with concern.
Raven nodded and sighed. "But...the father isn't who you think it is..." She muttered out slowly.
The silence filled the room again as everyone but Raven looked at Robin. He bit his lip and began to chew on it, stirring blood quickly.
Raven continued, fearing a sudden confidence fill her heart. She relized that these people were her friends...they wouldn't judge her...
"The father is..." Her throat constricted and she thought she might choke. But she pushed out the words. "Slade." The name came out in a raspy whisper.
Cyborg's jaw dropped gently and Beast Boy gaped. Starfire bowed her head, she had already known this...but hearing it from Raven was still a bit of a shock. Raven wiped stray tears from her eyes.
"I...I need to be alone..." She whispered and teleported out of the room.
Robin stood up to go find her, but Cyborg stopped him. "Man...she needs some time to think..." He started at the boy wonder for a couple of seconds. "But...how?"
Beast Boy ran a hand through his hair. "He raped her didn't he...Man, I knew something was strange ever since her birthday..."
They talked for a little while, exchanging pained words between each other. Then they called it a night and everyone left the room. Starfire made her way to the kitchen along with Robin as Beast Boy and Cyborg went off to bed.
Starfire began to pull ingredients from the cabinets. Robin raised a masked eyebrow in response.
"You cooking something?" He asked, starting the coffee maker.
She nodded softly. "Making something for a possible friend of mine..."
"Oh Really? Do I know him?" Robin asked, raising his eyebrows.
Starfire nodded again. "Yes...But he does not like you very much..."
Robin furrowed his eyebrows, blinking a few times. "Well, why not?"
She looked over at him while adding a mass amount of salt to her mixing bowl. "Perhaps it is the hair?"
Robin let out a slow chuckle and focused on making his coffee. Starfire popped her mixture into the oven. By the smell of it, Robin was sure glad he wasn't the one having to ingest it. A large part of him wondered who in the world she was giving it to...
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Starfire took in a deep breath and sighed as she walked along the docks, her eyes scanning the warehouse numbers. In her hand was a baking dish, full of some random tameranean meal. Her auburn hair swayed in the wind as she reached the warehouse farthest from the city. Small chills went up her spine. She turned around sharply to meet two of Slade's drones, glaring back at her.
She placed the dish at her feet and stood perfectly still. "I-"
Her sentence was cut off as one of them fired at her. She flew upward and blasted at them, destroying the one that had shot at her quite easily. The second drone caught her off guard and slammed into her, causing her to flying into one of the surrounding brick buildings.
"Seems I have a visitor, hmm?" Slade walked foward, his hands behind his back as always. He wore his same uniform, glistening in the moonlight.
"Slade..." She said slowly.
He began to circle around her like a vulture waiting to catch its prey. "So, I take it your friends will be here to retrieve you any minute now. My hideout will be revealed and we'll have the usual fight, am I correct?"
Starfire's heart beat was erratic. His voice was so calm, yet so scary. "T-They do not know I am here..." She said, trying to will herself not to stutter, but it was without results.
"Liar." He accused harshly. His single eye narrowed. "Soon little Robin will come rushing to save the princess and try to beat me to a pulp."
"They do do not know of my whereabouts...I...I lied to them, I suppose." She said, insisting her point.
Finally, she caught his attention. He stood directly infront of her, his eye full of question. "Really" He took a step foward. "Now why would you do something like that?"
Starfire rubbed her arm absent mindedly. "Well...I was hoping to..."
"To kill me? You are aware that murder is a crime darling, no matter whom the victim may be..."
Her green eyes met his single darkned one and locked for a second. "I am here to make a deal?"
"We already have a deal, remember?"
She sighed, "Yes but...I was hoping to propose another one..." Visions of being pinned to her wall by him from the night before slipped into her head.
"Please, do elaborate." He began to overlook her, taking in her form from head to toe.
She bowed her head slightly. "Instead of Raven's child...perhaps you would like a new apprentice?"
"I am willing to offer myself in exchange that you leave my friends and their newborn child alone...You can do what you will with me..." She swallowed silently, her stomach twisting into a knot.
Slade's eye narrowed harshly. "Get out."
"W-What?" She stuttered, looking back up at him.
"I said get out. If you don't get out of my sight now, you never will." He growled slightly and turned ,disappearing into the shadows.
Starfire narrowed her eyes and flew through the air, avoiding an attack from more drones and leaving her food behind. Sure, Slade had turned her down, but that was the thing...he had the chance to take down the Titans, hurt everyone by taking her, or maybe even her life, but he didn't take it. He spared her dignity. Time for plan b...
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Robin was sitting on the couch when he heard the front door click closed. He tensed up and his hands began to finger a compartment in his belt. He was ready to attack when he saw that it was just Starfire. A long breath he had been holding escaped him.
"Oh...Star...It's you..." He said, relieved.
She gave a weak smile and nodded. "Yes...I was just...out."
He stood up, walking over to her. She seemed...shaken. He noticed a small cut on her head and reached out.
"That looks pretty deep...You gonna be alright?" He asked.
Starfire stepped back and looked at Robin skeptically. "Robin..."
"Yeah?"
She narrowed her gaze. "I do not mean to sound rude but...why the hell are you being so nice to me?"
He blinked a couple of times. It took him a second or two and then he had to stop and ask himself the question again. It was a pretty good question...
"You're hurt and I just want to bandage your wound, alright? Don't take it as something more..." .
She tilted her head, inspecting him. She had practically raped him...and he was still willing to have her on the team? Where was the real Robin and who was this boy they put in his place? Her hand wandered up to her forehead, grazing the cut. She looked at her fingers to find them dampened in blood.
Robin had already gone off and retrieved some bandages and ointments. Star sat down on the sofa while he cleansed her wound carefully. She sighed, looking down at her hands as he worked.
"Star...Where were you?" He asked, applying some anti-scar ointment.
"Out with my possible friend..." She muttered.
Their conversation from earlier popped into Robin's head. He furrowed his masked eyebrows and smoothed a band-aid onto her cut. She sighed and gave him a silent thank you. Starfire stood up and began to make her way to her bedroom, leaving Robin in the kitchen.
Before she was fully out of the room, Robin said, "You're playing with fire you know...fire that won't be put out easily..."
Starfire froze for a second but kept on moving.
"I always did enjoy a challange..."
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Slade sat at his computers, tapping his fingers on the arm of his chair. Starfire had managed to confuse him more than a jigsaw puzzle could ever hope to. Infront of him sat the bowl of the tameranean cuisine. He eyed it warily. Even under the plastic wrap he could see it was a strange looking meal.
"Intresting..." He muttered.
But he certianly wasn't talking about the food dish infront of him...
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A/N: I promised you guys a new chapter, and I have delivered. So, what are your guys' views on the StarSlade thing I have going on here. I like where its going and it might actually develop into its own little fan fiction if you guys approve of it. This is actually a bit of a test run. It's going to sort of envelop the plot of this story for a while, but it's going to play in nicely with Rae's pregnancy, I promise you.
Oh, Oh and concerning Robin's behavior towards Starfire, he's sort of just willing to put everything behind him for the sake of the team. I know you're all gonna be all 'OMGWTFBBQ! HE'S BEING NICE TO HER!' and shit. Ugh, you're making me regret writing it. But you know what, I'm going to do what I feel like. XP Robin has slightly forgiven Starfire because he's nice like that, alright? Alright.
Tell me what you think please. Any flammage, I will use to make me some s'mores. And if I don't have chocolate, your skin will do nicely. :-D
Love,
Emmery. :-