Story Status- Everything was perfect for Starfire was perfect; she was beautiful (still is), naïve, optimistic, had many friends, and even lived with the famous Boy Wonder in his and her own little world-but then, Super girl comes, and takes everything away! Starfire is heartbroken, hurt, and remembers all the good times she and all her friends including Robin had. Then Speedy comes into the picture; hopelessly head over heels for Robin, she settles for a replacement. But how far does it go until two loves can surpass obstacles?
Pairings-OC/Robin/Starfire, Speedy/Starfire/Robin, Terra/BB/Rae, and Cyborg/Bumblebee
A.N.—Hey guys! Okay, so, welcome back to "Heart's Content"! I know, I know! –Slaps head- the original title was "True Hearts Desire", well…I just realized that Socialbutterfli's first story on fanfiction is "Hearts Desire", it's really, not as god as her other "Evil: The other side" but you know what I mean. Besides, this sounds better.
Also, my characters may be OOC; like, Super girl, Robin, and Speedy- especially Super girl. Because in reality, I LOVE Super girl! Its just Jackalobe wrote "I Can Stop The Pain" and used Wonder girl, I don't really know her, but she looks more like a bitch than Super girl; Super girl is just blonde and she looks nice, something about Wonder girl, she's more preppy looking. Also, Bat girl hope not, but it may happen, to work with the fic, but I'll keep them as close to their characters as I can.
As for my "Games & Affairs" readers, if you're reading this by any chance, I won't be able to update that for weeks, or at least 'till I finish this and update "The Girl Of My Dreams" 'cuz right now I'm into finishing this story, and I'm having trouble writing my story "Games & Affairs" but if you've got any ideas, send 'em in! I call this chapter, "Splitting Two Apart" because Super Girl and Speedy her splitting Robin and Starfire apart.
Well, on with the fic!
Heart's Content
By-Waterlily-clone
Chapter Seven-Splitting Two Apart
"May we go back now?" I asked. She was with Speedy at the club lucky 7 where Speedy was getting a girl named Crystal's phone number. "Uh, yeah, I guess so…" Speedy said unenthusiastically. "But it's only like ten or whatever wanna go to Baskin Robbins?" "Um…why would I wish to see Robin in a basket?" I asked naively. Speedy chuckled. "It's an ice cream palor."
"Oh, I see! Yes, of course!" I replied.
"Then get on my motorcycle." Speedy motioned her to his black & red motorcycle. It wasn't quiet as big as Robin's, but it had more space for one passenger, and, judging by the engine, it was very powerful.
"…A motorcycle…" I mused. "…Yay…"
He tossed me a red helmet and strapped on his black one; he smiled narcissistically at his reflection in the review mirror. "I bet Robin doesn't have a ride like this, right?"
"Um…I guess so…"
'Whatever,' Speedy thought frustrated, 'Robin isn't the one with the hot babe on his motorcycle anyway.'
Robin was on his motorcycle with Super girl with him, they were on the look out for Starfire; Beast Boy and Cyborg were searching Starfire's favorite places; and Terra and Raven were going around searching for strange phenomena, in case Starfire could have been kidnapped.
"I've got the coordinates of the tracking device chip on Starfire; she's located…at the pier!" Robin checked his tracking signals to see if he was correct. Super girl, behind him, was frowning. 'GGGGRRREEEAAATTT, now Speedy and Starslut are making out at the beach? I hope he doesn't get too attached to her or he might not dump her!' Super girl grinded her teeth. "Oh, I bet she just wanted to see the Ocean! You know, I heard in this type of season it was supposed to be pretty." Super girl tried to sound innocent.
"Yeah, but she went without permission." Robin said strictly.
'Yay!' Super girl thought maliciously.
"But then again, Starfire's new to Earth, maybe she didn't know about asking…"
'ACK!' Super girl thought.
"Cyborg, tell the others that Starfire's at the pier on the Oceanside." Robin ordered. On the other side of the communicator line, Cyborg answered in response, "On it."
"You are having fun?" I hoped, over at the pier. "Uh…yeah. I was just thinking." Speedy said as he looked up. He was starting to remember what Super girl had ordered him to do. Robin has that blonde bimbo. What did I promise her? Oh, yeah, have sex with Starfire…check…and then make her head over heels for you…doing that…the third one was dump her before she and Robin come back from a date…hmm…interesting…I didn't know a bimbo could think of something so evil, but, then again, blonde's like her are bitches…but dump her!' Speedy glanced at Starfire; but she was so cheerful, cute, and innocent. He had never seen a girl like her, she was unique in every way, unlike Super girl. He had dated so many girls that acted like super girl that might have been hot but boring and ditzy after awhile. Starfire wasn't like that. Maybe he wouldn't dump her and break her heart like that. Especially on a date after Robin and Super girl came back from; that would make it bad for him, too. Speedy wasn't a bragger…okay…he was. But he knew that if broke up with Starfire right before Super girl and Robin came back, Robin would go over to Starfire and try to cheer her up. Besides, wasn't dating her beloved Boy Wonder enough? Shouldn't she be glad someone is distracting her from him? And since when did he take orders from anyone? No…he forgot that Super girl was basically using and expected him to do everything like he was her rag doll; he might be a jerk, but he knew from his last girlfriend Amber that he was a rag doll to her. In his mind, the guy had the control, power, and say. Also, he wasn't going to dump her, but maybe cheat on her.
"Um…Speedy?" I asked.
"Yeah, star?" Speedy questioned. 'Maybe I should call her my star to piss off Robin?' Was too deep in thought, to realize his chocolate ice cream had spilled on his shirt. 'Damn. Should'a seen that…'
"SSSSSSSSSSTTTTTTAAARRRRFFFIIIIIIRRREEEEE!" a leader's voice rang.
"Oh, joy. The Calvary's arrived." Speedy's eyes looked like dots (anime style).
I gasped. How did they find me? Did they care? When did they find out? Am I dreaming? Am I still at the party? Is Speedy-
"WHAT WERE YOU THINKING!" Robin yelled, outraged. Behind him Super girl was clinging to him for dear life; she was grinning, then winked at me. "We were so worried-!"
Beast Boy piped up. "-Excuse me? Worried? Yes, me, Raven, Terra, and Cyborg…but you two were snoggling on the couch!"
I glared at a Robin who was sweating. "Well maybe I could still be there if you hadn't goddamn (sorry if you're Christian or not I'm not trying to upset or offend anyone) left!"
"Starfire why did you without telling us?" Cyborg's question but me on the spot.
"Yeah, Starfire, me and Robin were happily sleeping on the couch." Super girl smirked."And what's Speedy doing here?" Robin asked at his 'clone' skeptically. "He-" Before I could speak, Speedy interrupted me. "I met her at a club." Speedy said without regrets. "A CLUB?" Robin asked astonished.
"Yeah, we went to club lucky 7."
"Club lucky 7? Star…that club is for like…alcoholics, drug addicts, and sluts…people who are the opposite of you…" Beast Boy said, trying understand the whole situation.
"But, Star…we were looking for the whole night worried sick while you were clubbing?" Robin's face hardened. "Well, I know what's what now, and if that's the truth, then I don't want to know you."
Raven, Beast Boy, and Cyborg looked gob-smacked; Terra looked confused; Super Girl was smiling; and Speedy was frowning, it was hard to tell whether the frown was directed to Robin or me. While as I, myself, was horrified. How could I have just let them down like that? Robin was right, and I don't even deserve to know him. By now, everyone was silent, whether happy or angry. Except me, who spoke up: "Robin…you wish to not know me? I must leave the team?"
"You don't have to leave the team," Robin said cruelly. Meaning to say, I could stay, but he didn't care for me anymore.
My face crumbled, and sobs broke out. I couldn't control my tears, as they rolled down like a waterfall. But Robin seemed none whatsoever sympathetic of my pain, and turned to face his motorcycle. Super Girl flounced behind him, sitting on the passenger seat. After she sat into her seat, Robin ignited the engine; as soon that happened, Super Girl wrapped her arms around Robin's waist tightly and gave a patronizing smirk at me. I could already feel my impatience curl up inside. She keeps this up, and I wouldn't be able to keep calm.
Raven deciding to leave, and wrapped herself in her black magic and transported away. Beast Boy morphed into a bird to leave. Terra lifted a bolder in mid-air to fly on. Then Cyborg and Bumblebee went in the T-car. Everybody left Speedy and me. Speaking of Speedy, I wondered what he was thinking.
He startled me by spinning around; I almost fell, until he caught with his muscular arms. "I'm glad they're gone now," he leaned forward, "What a distraction they were."
I blushed as leaned in more, nearly inches away from my face. Even though we had made more contact before, it felt like I was seeing him for the first time in my life as I got a closer look of his cerulean blue eyes. They were deep, mystical, and hypnotizing blue. I had never seen Robin's eyes, I would have loved too, but it felt like I was staring into Robin's right now. I gazed dreamily into them, they were so beautiful. What pretty blue eyes he has.
"I guess they'll be waiting for you."
"Waiting for me: yes. Wanting me: no." I inhaled, for this was the first I ever revealed this secret in two weeks. "I heard Super Girl and Robin making noises from the room, and Super Girl asked if Robin would ever choose me, and he replied: 'Starfire's a great friend, but nothing more. She contributes to much to the team for us to loose her if she knew about us, and this'."
Speedy paused, and nodded, "Why don't you leave? If I were you, payback would be the first thing on my mind."
"Because even if I did desire revenge, I would have nowhere else to go. Tameran I would be forced into a wedlock, no matter how much of a luxurious life I would have."
"Then you could stay sat Titans East!" Speedy suggested happily. "Since they would have Super Girl, and your powers are the same, you could switch."
"A marvelous idea," I appreciated his offer, "But I shall reconsider this first. If I d not wish to I the next week, I shall inform you of my acceptation to your offer. I am still uncertain if I wish to leave this soon."
"Alright, then." He was about to pull me towards him, but I backed away.
"Please do not do this anymore."
He chuckled, and tucked away a red strand of hair on me. "Y'know, not too many girls tell me that."
"I am not one of those 'too many girls', Speedy."
"I've noticed." Speedy said in response, he hoped on his motorcycle. "I guess I'll be seeing you, my Star?"
Surprisingly, not knowing what I was getting myself into at the time, my lips curved into a smile. "Yes, I suppose you will."
When I returned 'home', things were not pleasant. It's hard to say that without my loyal best friend, Raven, I wouldn't have survived. Bumblebee wasn't mad about with Speedy, she just was irritated by the fact I was enjoying myself while she was using precious time to find me. Cyborg seemed like he didn't care about anything, he just wanted everyone to shut up and stop arguing. Beast Boy was shocked that I was flirting with Speedy, and that I had gotten over Robin so quickly. Terra was mutual, but she had somewhat of a resent towards me, too, I could see after this. Super Girl was only making things worse, like reminding Robin of all the bad things I might have done, or worse, that he should have fired me. Robin, Super Girl or no Super Girl, either way, he was still angry.
"What were you thinking?" Robin growled. "No, of course, you weren't thinking!"
"Robin, listen, I-"
"Nobody wants to listen to you! Right, Robin?" Super Girl interrupted me as she provoked the situation even more. "Anyone who does this doesn't deserve to be a Titan."
"Exactly. But I can't let her-you go, Starfire. No matter how much it might be necessary; you add too much to the team." There he said it again, and humiliated me in front of everyone.
Actually, anger was flowing in me, not sadness. I was angry that Robin had said such things about me, angry that Super Girl existed, angry that everybody was against, and above all, angry that no matter how hard I tried, I just couldn't seem to compare to Super Girl in Robin's heart.
"And another thing-" Robin was just about to hurl an insult at me, but Raven blocked it.
"That's enough, Robin. I'm pretty sure she gets it now. I think she left because she was tired of you and Super Girl, of everything, and needed some alone time. She probably didn't want someone tagging along with her thinking she was too incapable of being by herself because she's foreign. And you me, and how I like my privacy. You know how it goes, too, Robin. You of all people usually stand up for her!" Raven finished.
"Raven…" he muttered, but seeing as he was outnumbered because everyone else nodded their heads in agreement for Raven's statement, he gave in. "Whatever, I need to go invent new tactics and strategies in combat."
Almost instinctively, Super Girl followed him to the gym, before the door closed she stopped it with her foot. "Watch your back, Starslut, because Raven won't be there forever to protect it. And when she can't, I'll be there, when you least expect it." Only for me to hear it, in a low whisper, and left.
I would have been intimidated, if Super Girl was intimidating. I was just glad she wasn't ruining everything else now.
"Raven, I thank you for your helping me."
"No need for thanking me...but next time, come to me for reliance." She reassured me, and before I got the impression she would materialize with her three magical words in thin air, she added: "By the way, Speedy is handsome, isn't he?"
"How do you-?" But knowing Raven was telepathetic, I sighed. "You are clever, Raven, I shall give you that."
Cyborg asked me if I could let Bumblebee stay in my room, and I said yes. It was almost twelve, only in twenty to fifteen minutes it would strike midnight. She needed a bedspread o sleep in, and Cyborg told me that Robin had extra blankets and mattresses to lend. I was on my way and stopped at his room, it wasn't very far from mine, about six or seven doors down. I heard sudden noises…giggling and chuckling.
"Hehehehe…" Super Girl giggled again. The blonde finally seemed to overcome her absent-minded admiration of Robin. In a way, I couldn't blame her for slipping into the dream's embrace so readily, considering the experience they'd just left behind, the nightmare they'd only barely escaped. I wound up idly wondering exactly where in her subconscious desires getting torn to shreds by an army of mindless beasts shaped like her secret heartthrob resided, then dropped the concern, instead watching the way Super Girl very slowly and timidly floated up behind Robin. I felt, in that moment of watching Super Girl stress over her crush, the most unimaginably despicable combination of contempt for my cowardly display and envy for my proximity to Robin. It quite distracted me from asking Robin if she could borrow a blanket and pillow for Bumblebee.
I immediately hated myself, hated to feel that way about my teammate, hated that I even had the capacity to have such treacherous thoughts about the only person who'd ever taken an interest in my life, and I wiped those unworthy contemplations from her mind as I stared on in silence. Super Girl had finally gotten up the nerve to break Robin's quiet brooding with a gentle touch on his shoulder, and he turned, the two coming face to face, Robin having to look up as Super Girl was still flying.
The moment Robin noticed who it was, a grin split across his face, probably from relief that she was acting normally again, that the smile she fixed on him was lively rather than dreamy or distant, and this time, no matter how hard she tried, I couldn't keep the throb of gnawing jealousy down. She wanted that smile pointing at her, and unlike in the past, she couldn't be happy for Super Girl, they weren't exactly friends. I wanted Robin's smile, she wanted his affections, I wanted his touch, and it was killing her that Super Girl was getting all three instead of me.
So… what was I going to do about it? Looking over at the smile of my best friend in the world, the one person who really understood my and her problems, who didn't consider me even somewhat annoying, who I'd shared secrets with and whose secrets I herself held in sacred trust…of course, she meant Robin. I couldn't just force or plot against them. Then I she realized exactly what the answer to that question was.
Nothing.
I saw their lips moving, but did not have to hear the words to know that they were making love. Forestalling the explosion by counting slowly backward from twenty, I let my body meld with shadows, slipping out of what passed for reality here and willing myself away. I wasn't going to be able to hold it in this time, and when it came out, it wasn't going to be quiet.
But of course…she needed that bedspread for Bee, and interrupted the lovers…'meeting'. "Um, f-friend Robin?" I stuttered. "Cyborg told me to come ask if I could borrow some blankets for Bee since she shall be visiting for the night, so…" I didn't finish my sentence and Robin nodded.
"Okay, Star. I'll be right back." He promised. When he left, I saw Super Girl, she was like a rattlesnake about to kill a mouse. When she looked at me, I realized, that mouse was me.
"You just can't stand it, can you?" Super Girl crossed her arms, waiting for my reply.
"Stand what?"
"Us, as in me and Robin being a couple. You're used to being a dear friend of Robin, and you regret not telling him that you liked him sooner. Well, here's a little advice. Don't hope or dream about that anymore. Robin loves me. I'm his girlfriend. His dream come true. He doesn't want you. Never has and never will. So, take it from me. Stop dreaming and longing and lusting after him. Because he's mine. You had your chance. You blew it. So back off. You can be his friend for now and that's all. He belongs to me. You try and become more than just friends and attempt to take him from me, you'll regret it. I told you already, I'm no pushover. I don't take things lightly. Especially when people take my things away from me. Or when things don't go my way. It's my way or the highway sister. See. Robin and I have lots in common. We both get our way, always. So back off or else. You can't compete. Sorry."
I didn't know what to say, I was so shocked! So she continued, loving the reaction I gave her. But before he could say 'bitch', Robin returned. She immediately sprang from the bed, and I twitched. As she unraveled the covers off of her, I got a closer look at her choice of cloths.
She was wearing a white Victoria Secrets silky see-through robe, under it was a lacey pink handcuff bra and even her black underwear was visible. Her shoulder-length blonde hair was in Shirley temple curls, and they bounced everywhere. She applied on her red lipstick and pounced on Robin. "Oh, Robin! You're too ah-dorable!" Her lips smothered his face in short kisses, when she pulled away traces of red lipstick covered Robin's face. Robin gave her a look of: 'not-in-front-of-you-know-who'! But she batted her green eyes and giggled.
Me, having a front-row view of everything, not to mention a sudden idea of hacking all of Super Girl's blonde hair and spinning into paintbrushes while hitting Robin over the head with metal bats over and over for letting her humiliate me like this.
Super Girl whispered something in Robin's ear, and shook his head and blushed; and then Super Girl flounced off into Robin's bedroom bathroom to soak in the already filled with water bathtub. That's when I knew she had asked him to take a bath with him and he said no.
"Um…well…here." Robin handed me the pillow and blanket. His face covered in lipstick, making him look perverted beyond reason. I looked hurt, and I could tell I did to him, "Are you okay, Star?" Robin asked, quite dumbly, too, if you ask me.
"I am fine," I answered, my voice calm.
"O-okay…" Robin said unsurely. As I closed his door, I tried to digest what just happened, but I couldn't.
Me and Robin were being split apart.