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Yes, I do know that I have been very lazy about updating lately. For those of you who have read my member profile you will note my explanation for that, being that my family's computer is so slow it is almost impossible for me to write and that I am getting a new one soon. So, for the time being thank you for your patience. Updates will be slow from me for a while but just stick with me, and in the mean time here is an extra LONG chapter, just for you guys! So thank you all for reviewing and sticking with me, and here is the new chapter….
Disclaimer: I don't own Teen Titans; I however own the worst computer in the world. Would the creators of Teen Titans perhaps trade with me?
The Pendant
Chapter VI: scarred hearts
"Alright Richard, it's past your bedtime" Bruce said to the 7-year-old boy
"Tell me a scary story first!" Richard exclaimed, jumping on his bed
"Alright. Once upon a time…"
"How long ago is once upon a time in this story?" Richard interrupted
"When I was around 25"
"How long ago was that?"
Bruce sighed "A very long time ago. All right so a long time ago there was this mean man and he was a psychiatrist. Every one thought he was a nice man, though, until everyone found out that he was making all the criminals in the city insane by testing a harmful chemical on them"
"What did the Chemical do?" Richard asked as he went under the covers
"It made people fear things. Scary thing became extra scary. And soon, the mean man rigged something so a whole part of the city was filled with this bad chemical. The whole city was in fear and…"
"No no! I don't want to hear any more! This sounds scary!" Richard shrieked
Bruce chuckled "Alright Richard, good night"
"Night Bruce" Richard replied, shutting his eyes as his care taker turned the light off and exited the room…
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Robin woke up as rays of morning light cast through his window. It was dawn, even earlier than the Boy Wonder usually woke up.
Every morning he slipped on his uniform, than his pendant, then his mask. He had his uniform on, and he reached for the pendant. It wasn't on his nightstand. He looked in the closet, the drawers, his utility belt, and even in the Japanese lantern that hung over his bed. No such luck.
Robin ran down the hall and knocked on Starfire's bedroom door. No answer. He then remembered that Starfire went to the roof every morning at dawn, and ran to the roof as fast as he could.
"Where is it?" Robin demanded as he stood behind Starfire on the roof
"Where is what, Robin?" Starfire asked, her gaze not leaving the rising sun.
"You know what! My pendant! Where'd you put it?" Robin demanded
"Robin, I have not seen your pendant since I gave it to you after I found it," Starfire answered, turning around "Therefore, I do not know why you blame me for it's disappearance and…. Robin?"
"What?" Robin asked, "What are you looking at?"
Starfire giggled "your eyes are beautiful, Robin"
Robin gasped. He had forgotten to put his mask on. His bright blue eyes were showing in public for the first time in about 3 years.
"You saw nothing, got that?" Robin asked, grasping her arm
"Let go of me Robin" Starfire demanded, staring out at the water
"Got it?"
"Let go of me"
"What's wrong with you lately?" Robin asked, releasing her arm
"I believe Robin, the correct question would be, what is wrong with you lately?" Starfire replied, leaving the roof
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"Hey we're out of Tofu Fruity's! Who was supposed to go shopping?" Beastboy exclaimed, tossing out the empty box
"You were. And besides, no one else eats that stuff so you have to remember to get more" Raven replied, peering over her book
"Yeah BB, we ain't your mother!" Cyborg said, eating his meat cereal
Starfire giggled over their silly fight "Who wants a Zorka berry omelet?" Starfire asked, "They are most delicious!"
"I'll pass" Raven said
"Same" Cyborg said, mouth full
"Do they have any disgusting meat in them?" Beastboy asked
"No, they do not contain any of the meat" Starfire answered
"I'll take some!" Beastboy said, gobbling up the alien delicacy
Starfire beamed "Do you like it?"
Beastboy nodded "this stuff is awesome! Got more?"
Starfire clapped happily "Oh yes! I have abundant amounts! Please, take!" Starfire said, handing him the frying pan.
Beastboy quickly shoveled the rest into his mouth "This is better than tofu fruity's!"
"Oh joyous! After Silky mutated from eating the Zorka berries I was afraid my abundant stock would go to waste!"
"You mean, these were the berries that caused Silky to explode?"
"Yes…why?"
"Um…heh…no reason" Beastboy said, turning more green than usual
And then, he came. Every one expected Starfire to do her usual morning routine. Her usual 'Greetings Best Friend Robin! Did you sleep well?'
Instead, when Robin came through the door to the main room the smile was erased off of Starfire's face and she tuned around and made one of those 'hmph' noises that she made when she was mad. Usually, at Robin.
Stunned by the silence, Beastboy jumped to end it.
"Hey Rob, try some of Starfire's alien berry omelets! They rock, dude!" Beastboy exclaimed
Robin pulled out his whole-grain-fiber-o's "No thanks"
Beastboy shrugged "More for me!"
About half an hour later the Titans sat in the main room still, going about their business. Beastboy and Cyborg were rattling on about the newest video game. Robin was filling out a crossword puzzle. Raven was teaching Starfire how to knit.
"So I may not use the bubblegum pink yarn?" Starfire asked
"Not while I'm teaching you" Raven grumbled
"How do you even know how to knit, Rae?" Beastboy asked, peeling his eyes off the game box for a moment. Raven glared and handed Starfire a pile of Jet Black yarn.
"Now, you take the knitting needles…"
"May I use a pink pair of knitting needles?" Star asked, pulling out a pair of bubblegum pink needles
Raven shook her head "Nothing pink will touch me or I will shove your mustard collection down the trash compactor"
"But Raven! I am oh so very fond of my-"
Starfire was stopped mid sentence by the sound of the blaring alarm. In a split second the video game was forgotten, the crossword puzzle strewn aside, and a pair of bubblegum pink knitting needles fell haplessly to the floor.
RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRobin was mad. Very, very mad. Very mad at very many things. He was mad at the pothole in the road that had almost tossed him off his motorcycle, mad at the rain for screwing with his motorcycles new paintjob, mad at Silky for eating the straps of his helmet, and mad at Starfire, for whatever reason he had been mad at her, he couldn't quite place it right now. But most of all, he was mad at whatever villain had decided to mess with the Titans today, because he had picked a very bad location to stir trouble: the circus.
Robin hated the circus.
RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRThe circus tent was on fire. Families cowered in fear.
The ninja was busy stealing things. The kidnapped ringmaster didn't know why.
There was nothing to steal. There was a balance beam and a clown car. There was a trampoline and a safety net. There was a cash box, but there couldn't have been more than 200 dollars inside. Not enough to ram sack the whole place. The only thing not on fire was the acrobat's swings and such. It was kind of ironic.
Last time there was a disaster at this circus the acrobats had been the first to go.
RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRStarfire was the first to arrive at the scene because she had flown. Raven was not far behind.
It was a fire again. Biting her lip she flew in. It was tremendously hot, everything was on fire. A group of preschoolers shouted from the highest seats. Starfire flew to them, scooped half of them up, and flew them outside. Raven, who had just arrived, flew in and brought the rest.
Beastboy arrived next.
"Dude, a fire AGAIN?" he shouted, finding the nearest fire hydrant and turning into elephant form.
Cyborg arrived soon after, tearing open entranceways so hoards of people could get out of the blazing arena.
Robin was last, his motorcycle dripping from all the rain, a scrape on his chin from a near fall. Without thinking he ran in.
The blood. The fire. The chaos.
His brain thrust him into a hoard of repressed memories. Flames blazed around him, on him. And he didn't move a muscle.
"Robin, move!" Starfire shouted as a beam started to collapse.
Of course, Robin did not hear her.
Flying as fast as possible Starfire pushed Robin away from the beam. Robin's left sleeve tore on a piece of wood jutting from the ground and a flame caught his bare skin. He bit his lip and ignored the pain.
Something caught his eye and he tore away from where he and Starfire had landed. A little boy with dark black hair and piercing blue eyes stood in the middle of the flames, huddled over his parents. They were only injured however the boy wailed his eyes out. Robin grabbed the boy and his parents. Ignoring that he could barely do so he ran and plopped the family outside of the burning chaos area.
"Wow! Thanks for saving me, mister!" The boy exclaimed
Robin smiled and ran back, silently wishing that someone had once done the same for him.
RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRSupposedly there had been a ninja causing all the havoc. Cyborg said the ninja's plan had bit him in the back, and that the ninja was barely grasping on for life at the nearby hospital.
Robin didn't really care.
He sat in the medical ward of Titans tower, staring into space.
Starfire came into the room, first aid kit in hand. When it came to patching up scars, Starfire was the best. Robin remained silent as she dabbed some blood off of his head.
"This'll sting a little," She said quietly as she sprayed an anti bacterial formula on the large cut on his head
"OWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!" He yelled, grasping his forehead
"I did tell you it would sting a little," She said, suppressing a giggle
"A LITLLE? My head is burning!" Robin exclaimed
Starfire continued to treat various cuts on his head and legs. After a few minutes, she broke the silence
"Robin, what happened back there?"
Robin stared at a speck in the wall "I don't like circuses"
"And I don't like fire, but I do believe I am not yelling at you"
"You don't understand"
"I believe the correct term would be 'try me,'" Starfire said, dabbing a cut that ran up his knee
Silence.
"My parents were the best acrobats in town and then one night this crazy guy came and shot up the whole circus. My parents tried to stop him" Robin gulped "They died that night"
"I do understand" Starfire said, placing a bandage on his knee
"No, Starfire, you don't"
"Oh, really?"
"Yes, really"
Starfire stared at a similar speck in the wall "the whole palace of Tameran was on fire. My parents were trying to save me, my brother, my sister, and the rest of the Tamerainiens. They died that night"
It was silent for a good ten minutes. Starfire was wiping some blood off a scar on his upper left arm. When the blood was away, she could see that the scar had a shape. She gasped, and unlatched her silver arm band
"Look Robin, our scars look exactly the same," Starfire said putting her arm beside his
"Wow, identical scars that look like blobs" Robin said with a smile
Starfire giggled, "My brother says my scar looks like a heart"
Robin looked. They did both look like hearts. Identical hearts.
"Uhm, that's really stupid" He said, lying
Starfire looked at their scars. Now that she thought about it, they did look like hearts "Uhm…yes. He is only 8. He has a very large imagination. It is very… stupid indeed"
To be continued…A poem:
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