A/N: Sunflame's back! Back again! Sunflame's back. Tell a friend! lol. ok I have a serious report. If you really want to read a trully phenomenal fanfiction then read "White Rose" on my favorites. I am seriously awed by the quality of the fic. but first we need to do the disclaimer. Where is speedy?
(speedy is sitting outside of my house on the steps. he looks sad. SerinityPhantom comes up to him)
SP: hello. Why are you sitting on sunflame's house, mister ooo-bad-grammer-didn't-do-what-the-authoress-said-so-now-you have-to-find-a-new-disclaimer-guy?
speedy: I still don't have a new discaimer person! I already begged for more time and she gave me one day and I still didn't find anyone!(starts to cry pitifully)
SP: (takes pity on his crying soul)I will help you brave guy.If you put up withSunflame's retarded self--(sf: HEY!)-- ok, ok!
(sp takes out mysterious box and a piece of paper and hands it to speedy)
SP: when she asks to see her new disclaimer guy just follow those instructions. (dissapears in a puff of smoke)
speedy: (shivers)
LATER!
(sf sits in thhe shadows with her spazzy dog and pets him slowly)
sf: you are late. is it because you do not have my disclaimer guy?
speedy: (cringes) y-yes i do! umm...( pulls out paper and reads it.)
on paper: OPEN BOX.
speedy: (rolls eyes and opens box)
(suddeely a big cloud of darkness issues from the box and starts to swirl around the room. everyone is blinded for a moment. when they opee thier eyes they are met with none other than...)
speedy: THE FREAKIIN' TELETUIBES!
(yes it was the teletubies, but they were really freaky looking. Tinky Winky, the purple one, was sporting a niftty looking sword. Dipsy, the green one, hada broken beer bootle. Lala, yellow, had a chain-saw. and po, the red one, had a flamethrower. creepy right? they all looked thouroughly POed.)
sf: (blinks) (then laughs) Stupid SerinityPhantom! Speedy this was your task and you task alone, but I love the evil tubbies and SP knowsthat so I'll let you slide. You are free to go.
speedy: (jumps for joy then looks at dipsy) that's really kool and all, but are you sure thatdipsy is all right?
Po: (cocks flamethrower) that ain't dipsy, foo'! that's tipsy!
speedy: well the narrator said he was dipsy. (crosses arms)
(my mistake)
tipsy: Hey man! back off man! I ain't done nuttin' man! just... stay cool man! (falls down with his fat legs all in the air.)
Sf: hmm. thatmightbe a problem. Anyway do the disclaimer so I can get on with my life.
all tubbies: Our new master does not own the Teen Titans. She does own Logan, but we keep him for venting rage. She also owns Tyler our mystery guest that you will hear about later. She only owns 1/3 of us(she claims po and a third of Tipsy)
po: so don't sue us foo'!
Chapter 5 :Hell Hath No Fury:
DING DONG!
Robin sighed as he went to answer the door. Starfire was sitting in front of the large windows, meditating. This in itself was weird since Starfire rarely meditated without Raven, but she insisted that she needed to clear her head.
She had withdrawn even more since Logan had found her. She was talking less and when she did she spoke quietly, but it seemed that the meditation helped. Since she started, she was slowly returning to the outside world. Robin shrugged. Unfortunately, he couldn't help her anymore than to give moral support. It was all her now.
What he saw at the door did not do anything to lighten his mood.
He sighed again. "Mail call!" he shouted back into the tower. He picked up the pile of envelopes on the steps and started to sort them out.
"Raven, Beastboy, Raven, Cyborg, me, Beastboy, Starfire, Cyborg, Raven, me, Starfire, Starfire, and Beastboy." he listed. He sorted them out and tossed the piles to their owners. He looked up at Starfire, who was still meditating.
"Hey Star, heads up." he said and tossed her the pile. Starfire opened one eye and caught the envelopes in her hand. She lowered herself to the ground and started to shuffle through her mail. She stopped at one of them and opened it curiously. The rest of the Titans did the same in silence until Starfire looked up with a confused face.
"Robin, we are currently in the California, correct?" she asked. Robin raised an eyebrow.
"Yeah, why?"
"Well the writer of this message claims to be California," she said. This got Robin's full attention. He walked over to where Starfire sat and looked over her shoulder.
"Let me see." Starfire gave him the letter. He scanned it briefly before lowering it to look at his friends. By now the rest of the Titans were looking at the letter too.
"It's a subpoena," he said slowly. Starfire blinked. "It's like summons. They are ordering you to come to Logan's trial. As a witness." Starfire didn't move, but Robin could see the fear in her eyes.
"I must tell others of him?" she asked quietly.
"Just like 3 people. The judge and 2 attorneys." Robin said quickly.
"And the jury." Cyborg said hesitantly.
"And they will probably put it on television." Raven added. Starfire flinched.
"I can not." she said and pushed herself up from the couch. The others watched in shock as she walked toward her room. Robin quickly caught her arm.
"Star, you have to do this," he said gently. "We have to get this guy behind bars! He shouldn't be allowed to walk the streets!"
Starfire shook her head. "He will be there too." It was more of a statement than a question. Robin frowned.
"He can't touch you. No matter what he says to you, I promise, he won't touch you," he said softly. Starfire shook her head harder. She looked down at her arm.
"Let go."
Robin stared at her. He ran his hand through his hair in frustration.
"What is with you? I would think that you would be the first one to testify and get the shit off the street. Why are you being so damn difficult?" he burst out. The rest of the team stared. Raven's eyes flared and she struggled to control her emotions.
Starfire's eyes widened in shock as she jerked her arm away from Robin. Robin realized the hardness in his words too late. "I will not do it. I will not, and you cannot make me. X'hal, could you try to understand! I just cannot!
"But, excuse me for ruining your plan for a perfect crime free city. If you think you are so brave why do you not call the bastard to come fuck you and then you can testify at the damn trial!" she cried, tears spilling down her cheeks at Robin's harsh words. Without another word Starfire turned and ran from the room.
Robin lowered his head in shock, at being cursed out by Starfire, and shame, at being so uncaring. "How did that happen?"
"Robin," Raven said, massaging her temples warily, "I know that you have been the closest to Starfire while she has been getting through this, but you have to step back and look at these things from her perspective. Her thinking right now is not rational, so no matter how illogical she seems there is a reason, in her mind, for everything. Did you ever think that maybe Logan threatened her life?"
Robin looked up. "But Raven, I told her that he could not touch her! She should trust me. And she can take that wuss." Robin responded. Raven shook her head.
"You don't understand. Her whole world is basically collapsing in on itself. Do you know how hard it is to live with yourself when you let someone else hurt you in the worst way?"
Robin opened his mouth to say something but Raven cut him off. "I know it wasn't her fault Robin, and she does too. Most likely the high emotions in the situation caused her to be unable to fly, summon starbolts, or use her alien strength. Starfire knows that if she gets upset enough she is just like every other girl in this city with a pretty face. But there will always be that little voice in her head asking her 'What if I had fought harder.' "Raven said angrily.
Robin fished around his mind for something to say, but came up with only one thing. He hung his head lower. "I'll go apologize," he said quietly.
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In her room, Starfire had collapsed on her bed. She clutched he pillow to her chest and cried hard.
'Why?' she thought miserably. 'Why can't they understand? Why did this even have to happen!'
Right after she did this, Robin opened her door. Starfire's eyes hardened with anger.
"I would like to be alone." she said through clenched teeth. Robin tried to reason with her, but as soon as he stepped into the doorway a pink pillow hit him in the face.
"Go away." Starfire said. Robin stood, amazed, until he was hit with another pillow. "GO!" Robin moved into the room more and stepped to the side as the door was hit with a purple brush.
"Starfire, I came to apologize!" he shouted, dodging different things. He picked up a pillow to shield himself from the barrage. Starfire chucked a small hair dryer at him, hitting him on the leg.
"OW!" Robin yelped. While he was distracted Starfire sprinted into her bathroom and loaded up on more ammo. Robin followed her to the door before he was met with a barrage of toilet paper and other stuff.
"Come on, Star! I'm sorry! At least hear me out!" he shouted before being hit in the head with a well aimed bar of soap. Starfire was too furious to listen.
"I do not care what you came to tell me! Go catch a criminal since that is all that you care about!" she yelled. Robin yelped again and retreated to the other side of the room, near the door.
"That's not true! I do care—" he paused to catch her battery operated alarm clock. "I care about you!" he shouted.
"Sure you do! Go care about me somewhere else!" she screamed. Robin dodged more items before deciding to leave her alone. He ran out of the room and down the hall, hoping to escape her anger. He skidded into the living room, where the rest of the titans were trying to do some normal stuff like watching TV.
"What happened to you!" Beastboy laughed. Robin plopped down on the couch warily.
"She attacked me. She threw stuff at me. She hit me in the head with SOAP!" Robin said incredulously. Beastboy laughed harder. Cyborg cracked a smile.
"Hell hath no fury than a woman scorned" Raven quoted.
"I think you mean ' Hell hath no fury than a woman on days that end with 'Y' " Beastboy cracked. Raven rolled her eyes.
