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Note: This chapter is a continuation of the flashback from chapter 1

For a second time stopped, and Starfire felt sure she felt her heart stop as well. But as quickly as it had begun it was over, and Star ran as fast as she could over to the body that she knew to be her leader and best friend. As soon as she was next to him she dropped down to her knees and rolled him over so that he was no longer on his side, facing away from her, but on his back. His eyes were closed; clearly he was unconscious, but equally clear was the fact that he was breathing- the fact that he was alive.

Star shook him gently by the shoulder, hoping to wake him, but she saw that although he was alive he was in critical condition. Robin's sleeves were ripped to reveal deep gashes on his arms, a dark spot had formed on the side of his stomach, his leg looked to be bent back at an odd angle, though not broken, maybe just dislocated, and his cape was no where to be found. She needed to get him back to the Tower, and fast.

It was only after she had gathered him in her arms, much as she had done the last time they had left the warehouse, that she broke down. Flying back towards the Tower, tears streamed down Star's cheeks and she gripped Robin closer to her. She cried from happiness, but more from relief. Because in her heart she knew, had always known, that she would never truly believe that Robin had died.

When Starfire arrived in front of the Tower at around four thirty in the morning, she realized she had no idea how she was going to tell everyone the news. It hadn't been all that surprising to her; she had read somewhere that when someone especially close to you dies you stay in denial for a while before admitting to yourself the loss. She realized that deep down she probably had never accepted what had happened. But the others, while still very close to Robin, didn't have the same sort of relationship with him that Starfire had. As she walked to the door, carrying Robin in her arms, she wasn't sure how they would react.

After closing the front door quietly behind her, Starfire took a look around the living room. The TV was on, and from what she could see the only person in the room was a half-asleep Beast Boy. Star cleared her throat and Beast Boy spoke without turning around.

"Having trouble sleeping, too?" When she didn't answer, Beast Boy went on. "I was having crazy insomnia so I said 'screw it' and decided to watch some TV."

"Beast Boy," Starfire said quietly. "I require your assistance." Now the changeling began to turn around.

"Star, what's the-" When his eyes fell on the limp figure of Robin in Starfire's arms his eyes widened and he lost his ability to speak. But only for a moment.

"Beast Boy, please, I need-"

"What the hell! Starfire, what is going on? Is that who I think it is?"

"Robin is alive. I found him at the warehouse. Please, he needs help." Beast Boy just stood there, unable to believe what he was seeing or hearing. Much as he wished Robin would come back to life, he had lost enough people to know that that wasn't possible.

"How? How is that Robin? How is he alive?"

Starfire sighed. "I do not know. I found him. I know this is strange but it is true. I will explain how I found him later, but now, he needs help."

Finally Beast Boy nodded. "Alright. Get him into the infirmary. I'll get Cy and Raven." With that the two parted ways, one of them dashing for the wing of the Tower where he would find their sleeping teammates, the other flying as fast as she could in the hopes of restoring the life of someone she loved.

When Starfire got to the infirmary she put Robin down on one of the beds, making sure not to use the same one that he had supposedly died in. For a moment she stood in silence, watching Robin inhale and exhale. When she heard the sound of footsteps she turned to see a very confused Cyborg.

He had stopped in the doorway, his mouth hanging open and his eyes wide, looking much like Beast Boy had a few minutes ago. When he finally found his vocal cords again, he could do nothing but stutter.

"How…? How did he…?"

"Cyborg, let's go." Raven teleported up through the floor, and had begun walking swiftly over to Robin. "If he's alive we need to work fast."

"How do we know that's even the real Robin?" Cyborg asked, taking hesitant steps forward.

"Even if it's not it's our duty to help him. But it is Robin. I can tell." The empath proceeded to hook him up to the same machines that had been used just days ago. Again, Starfire stood back and let Raven and Cyborg, who had finally found the ability to use his limbs again, take over.

"Where did you find him, Starfire?" Raven's voice still held its usual monotone, but Starfire could hear the excitement in it, too.

"At the warehouse."

"Why did you go back there?" Cyborg had finished connecting electrodes to Robin's temples and took a quick glance at Starfire before fiddling with the controls on a screen next to the bed.

"I found a… disc."

"A disc?" Beast Boy asked. He had collapsed into a chair, and his insomnia finally seemed to be fading, as his eyes and posture sagged.

Starfire sighed. She told them about how she had found the disc and had decided not to tell anyone else about it, and about how she had held onto it and then used it as a sort of tracker to find Robin.

When she was finished, Cyborg walked over to a desk in the corner of the room and took out an ink pad and a pad of paper. "I'm testing his fingerprints, just to make sure it's him. I don't want to get out hopes up and then find out it's another one of Slade's tricks." Cyborg picked up Robin's hand, pressed the pad of each finger into the ink one at a time, pressing it onto the paper afterwards. Then he pressed a button on his arm and a soft blue glow shone out, underneath which he held the card, print side up.

"It's a scanner. I've got samples of all our prints in case something… ever happened." They all knew he had been going to say "Something like this," but never before had they suspected something like this would occur.

Cyborg's arm beeped and he turned the scanner off and looked at the small screen that was displaying Robin's picture, height, weight, and blood type. Cyborg smiled. "This is our guy." Starfire, Beast Boy, and Raven nodded, but they had known from the moment they set eyes on him that that was Robin, the real Robin.

"So now what?" Beast Boy asked, his chin resting on his fist.

Raven sighed. "Now we wait."

"He's breathing and his organs are functioning, but he's not waking up. It looks a little like a coma, but not a deep one. I guess he should wake up soon." Cyborg shrugged, showing that he knew little more about the situation than anyone else did.

"I will wait with him tonight." Starfire spoke quietly and her voice surprised the rest of the team; she hadn't said anything since explaining how she had come to find Robin.

"Starfire, why don't you get some sleep? It looks like he's going to be fine." Raven said. But Starfire shook her head.

"I will be fine here. When he wakes I will call you." Cyborg, Raven, and Beast Boy glanced at each other, knowing they had just been dismissed.

"We'll be upstairs if you need us, Star," Cyborg said as he turned towards the door. He didn't really want to let Starfire stay, but he also didn't want to force her to leave. As he got into the elevator and pushed the button to go up, he realized that in times like these Starfire acted much the way Robin did when he was stressed: Reclusive, inflexible, unable to listen to reason. Stepping out of the elevator he shrugged. It wasn't true what they said about opposites attracting. Robin and Starfire may have seemed different to a passerby but on the inside they were exactly the same: Determined and stubborn.

It was only once Cyborg, Beast Boy, and Raven had entered the living room and were standing in front of a window overlooking the dark bay that it hit them: Robin was back. Cyborg grinned when he heard Beast Boy gasp, and the two looked at each other with pure joy on their faces. Raven smiled a little before trying only semi successfully to stop, but the look in her eyes remained the same. Later they would delve deeper into trying to figure out how Robin had returned, but for now they let the new found feeling of hope and gratitude wash over them

In the infirmary, Starfire sat in the chair next to Robin's bed. Her hands were folded in her lap and her eyes were locked on Robin's face. She realized he looked more peaceful now than he ever had before, and wondered if it would not be better to keep him in this state forever. She would always know where to find him, he would be out of danger, and he would be content. Much later, she would rue those thoughts.

As minutes passed by, Star found her gaze drifting slowly around the room, resting on random objects. The room was so bare, she realized, the walls and beds white, the machines grey, and few windows. When her eyes came to the window she noticed the sky was changing from black to pink as the sun emerged from behind the mountains. Slowly, she got up from her chair and walked over to the window, folding her arms around herself as she walked.

Outside, a tree obscured her view of the horizon, but the pink and orange smudge on the sky quickly outweighed the black sheet of night, and eventually the sky became the bright blue of day. Her attention was held so strongly by the sky that she jumped when she heard words directed at her.

"Star… Where am I?"

T-B-H-S

Starfire gasped and turned around, and at first she was unable to move or speak.

"Starfire?" His voice raspy, his eyes open but groggy, Robin struggled to prop himself up on the bed despite the jumble of wires surrounding him. When he spoke again Star felt her ability to speak and move restored.

"Robin," She said quietly and walked back over to him, her speed doubling with every step she took. When she got to the chair next to him she sat down and gently pushed him back so that he was lying flat again.

"Star, where am I? What's going on?" The look on his face was one of overwhelming fatigue and complete confusion.

"Robin," Starfire repeated, unsure of what to say. What do you say to the person who you care more about than you care about yourself, who has just returned from the dead? "How do you feel?"

"Uh, tired. I'm really tired. But why am I here? What happened?"

Starfire didn't know what to tell him and thought she should wait until the others arrived to fill him in on the past few days, so she continued to ask him questions. "What is the last thing you remember, Robin?" She couldn't seem to stop saying his name. It was as if each time she said it made it surer that he was back.

"I remember… We were fighting in a warehouse. We got separated from the others. We were fighting and… and we got separated. We tried to get out of the room and then… I wake up here." He smiled weakly as if to make up for his lack of memory. "But it looks like it's six or seven in the morning," He said, gesturing outside. "So I must've been out for what? Twenty-two hours?"

Hearing his estimate of how long he had been "unconscious," Starfire found she couldn't hold it in any longer and began to cry.

"Starfire? What's wrong? What happened?" In response the Tamaranian pulled out her communicator and dialed Cyborg. As soon as he answered he saw her face and his started to look grim. But when Star smiled he understood and within moments the other Titans were in the room.

"Good to have you back, man," Cyborg said as he walked across the room. "We were worried about you."

"Worried? We were a little beyond worried. We thought we'd never see you again!" Beast Boy exclaimed.

"Guys… I really don't understand what's going on here," Robin said, again trying to sit up.

"I have not yet told him what has happened. I thought it best to wait until we were all here together." Starfire said. Now she was rethinking if that had been the best tactic. Being told you've mysteriously returned from the dead would be bad enough, but to listen to four people tell you might be a little overwhelming. There was silence for a minute, as the four standing Titans contemplated who should tell him, and how to tell him. Finally Raven spoke up.

"Robin, you've been… Out of commission the past four days."

"Four days? Was I in a coma or something?" Robin asked, touching the back of his head as if to make sure he was complete.

"A little more than that. You were kind of…" Cyborg trailed off and Starfire sighed before picking it up.

"Robin, you have died and returned to life."

T-B-H-S

By the time Starfire had told the story and Robin had finished asking questions, two hours had passed. Robin was sitting on the edge of the medical bed, his legs thrown over the side. It was as far as he was able to get on the way to standing before the others had told him he was in danger of injuring himself. Now he felt the fatigue coming back, and he struggled to keep his eyes open. Cyborg had explained that for the next few days he would probably feel very tired, as his body had been working overtime to try and pull out of the deep sleep he had been in when Star had found him.

"Alright guys, let's clear out. And Robin," The boy wonder looked up when he heard Cyborg say his name. "I don't want you jumping up every time the alarm goes off. We can handle things for a few days." Robin nodded, too tired to argue, but in the back of his head he knew he wouldn't last even two days just sitting in the infirmary.

Starfire was the last one to leave. As she opened the door she heard her name being called for the second time that day.

"Starfire, wait." She turned around to see Robin still sitting on the edge of the bed. She smiled and walked back over to him.

"You should try to sleep."

Robin looked up and laughed.

"I won't need to try very hard. I'm exhausted. But, I wanted to say thank you. Thank you for finding me."

Starfire smiled again. "And thank you, Robin, for waking up." She turned back to the window as she continued. "I was very sad when I thought I would never see you again."

"I'm sorry."

Glancing over at him, Star said, "Sorry? Why are you sorry?"

"I'm sorry for making you sad. For making all of you worry. You shouldn't have to be worried for me. If I really do die, I know you'll be strong enough to stay together."

Starfire wiped a tear from her eye. "You should sleep now." She turned to walk back to the door, and as she opened it, she heard Robin walk up behind her. Before she could tell him to sit back down, he kissed her on the cheek, whispered "Thank you," and closed the door after her.

End Flashback

Well, guys, that was chapter two. I hope you liked it. Thanks so much to everyone who reveiwed chapter one.

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