Ch. 7

Robin slept on his bed for about an hour until he heard a knock on his door. He jolted up and rashly said "Come in"

It was Beast Boy.

"Hey Robin, I think you better get down here because Slade just called." said Beast Boy entering Robin's room as he spoke.

Robin jumped out of his bed and ran down stairs with BB. It was true, Beast Boy was not joking, Slade did call and was now on the screen of their big TV.

"Hello Titans, how is everything?" asked Slade in his very sly and annoying voice

"What have you done with Starfire?" yelled Robin

"Ha, ha, ha that truly is comedy, that is the same thing Starfire asked me about you when I saw her today, seems that both of you have the same values." laughed Slade

"I don't see anything funny about that." Said Beast Boy

"To answer your question Robin, I will tell and show you what I have been doing to her."

A couple seconds after Slade said this a black screen appeared out of the top right hand corner on their TV. It was just black for a couple of seconds but then a night vision appeared and you could see the room.

Down in one of the corners sat Starfire; she looked so scared, like she had just seen the living dead. Her eyes were widely opened and each time she blinked tears rolled down her cheeks. The red hair from her head was all around her covering her like a silky red cloth. Her knees were tightly pressed agenized her chest and she was rocking back and forth in a rhythm, shivering a couple times from the cold feeling of metal all around her. You could see marks from starbolts on the walls, probably from her trying to get out. Suddenly the black screen disappeared and Slade was once again looking at all the Titans.

"What have you been doing to her?" Beast Boy asked almost yelling as anger was rising in his voice.

"Let me tell you, since both you and I know that Starfire is from another planet, I guess it is easy to say that she will believe anything that I say or show her. And believe me when I say that I use it to my advantage. You see, I have been showing her somewhat disturbing images, mostly you Robin, you being ripped apart, tortured, cut open and broken all over. And I have been telling her that this is all her fault, and that this is all happening because she was not there for you, that you are now in all this pain. But of coarse she does not know that this is all a hologram and that you Robin are all safe and sound here at Titans Tower." Slade's evil face curled into a small smile of pleasure as he watched the shocked faces if the Titans.

"And I guess you want to know why I'm doing this, because there is always a why in everything that I do. Why I am creating all sort of adversity for you, well Titans that you will have to figure out on your own."

With that Slade was gone from the screen of their TV, leaving Robin, Raven, Cyborg ,and Beast Boy all in shock, shock from what they had just see and heard from Slade.

After Slade disappeared from their TV Robin started to run around looking for something.

"Raven, you need to go and try to locate from where Slade was calling, Cyborg you can help her. Beast Boy and I will go and get ready, we need to find Starfire." ordered Robin.

Back with Starfire

Starfire was sitting by the wall, her hair was all around her. She was still in shock from what she had just seen in very deep shock.

I can not believe that this is happening she thought, I can not believe that his is because of me. Robin is going to die because of me, he is going to die. I failed him, I failed everybody.

But of coarse all the things she thought were true were actually all lies; Robin was not hurt he was completely safe, for the moment. He was not being tortured, but Star did not know that, she did not know anything beyond the room that she was in. It never really hit her on how much she really cared about Robin until now. She really loved him, even though it was an innocent love it was a very powerful one, one so powerful that it went beyond just protecting each other, it went to the point that they would die for one another. And Starfire felt like she could not protect him anymore, not to be able to protect him from anything. And she did, for one second wish that she would rather feel all the pain that he was in right now, because she would, after all do anything to protect Robin or any of her friend's for that matter.

Starfire's head still hurt and she was really tiered, she did not even know what to do anymore, she already tried to shot starbolts at the walls but they just hit and then disappeared. Star was worried about where her other friends were right now, were they also suffering as Robin was from what she had done? She thought about it, and wondered if she had done anything at all.

Soon she drifted of to sleep, an unpleasant, horrible sleep.

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