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Teen Titans: Alpha
Fear and Flashbacks
Isis nodded and Taiyou closed his eyes for a moment. "Fine. But, for the record, I didn't want to tell you." The three Titans nodded and they all sat down, with a silence that seemed deafening, a silence that sent a shiver down their spines. Taiyou ran a hand through his permanently messy hair and sighed. The Titans couldn't help but notice his tired appearance and it left them wondering whether he'd had any sleep for the past few days.
"Phoe didn't want me to tell you, but, well here goes... We all know that Phoe and Pyro are twins-"
"Yeah I think we got that." Zeru interrupted impatiently and Isis shushed him, nodding at Taiyou to continue, causing Zeru to scowl.
"Well Phoe told me that they've been separated ever since they were little-"
"But why?" Li interrupted and Isis was frustrated now;
"Will you two just shut up and let Taiyou finish? Please!" Li and Zeru pouted like naughty school children, but were quiet now all the same, whereas Taiyou just looked as tired as ever.
"They've been separated from birth because of Pyro. He's never accepted Phoe's dad. He 's been violent since he was little and tried to kill him and Phoe when he was small. Phoe says that Pyro has turned his back on his human blood, he's denounced his father and the fact that his half human and considers himself to be purely Tameranian. He hates Phoenix because she won't turn her back on her father, he wants to kill her because he considers human blood to be weak and that weaknesses are not acceptable."
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Robin watched his daughter silently as she slept on the sofa in the teacher's lounge. He could see the likeness between them that Starfire kept talking about, if it were him he wouldn't have been getting much sleep, if at all and he could see the same tired look in Phoenix's features. 'She has her mother's beauty though.' He thought as he watched her sleep. He closed his eyes in thought, remembering the day that this whole sorry affair started...
"I'm not going to leave you Robin, I shan't! Earth is my home and I love you. I will not go!"
"But Pyro can't stay here, I don't care what he tries to do to me, but I won't let him hurt his sister, I won't let him hurt Phoenix. Pyro has to go and you're the only one he'll listen to. You're his mother-"
"And you're his father, but you can not go with him and neither can I. I love you and I love Phoenix, I love Pyro as well, but I will not leave my home, my daughter and my husband not for anyone-"
"Not even me? Star, I can't bare to see you away from him, you're his mother it will kill you."
"And it will not kill you?"
"He doesn't want me, you know that-"
"I know, but I won't go."
"Are you sure? Are you sure this is what you want?"
"Yes. Pyro will be safe and happy on Tameran, it is best for him. I shall visit him regularly but I am not going anywhere."
Robin reopened his eyes and continued to watch Phoenix silently. He hadn't meant it to go this way, neither he nor Starfire had, they had only wished to do what was best for their children, but now he feared that the situation was hopeless, a feeling that he wasn't ready to accept.
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"He's crazy." Zeru muttered and Taiyou nodded.
"I can't believe it, I mean, disowning your own father just because of his blood. Can imagine how he felt?" Isis' face was blank as the others stared at the floor.
"So where did they send Pyro? Starfire wouldn't just leave either of them would she? Pyro didn't reject her, and even though Pyro didn't accept Robin I bet the pair of them still loved him, love him now in fact, after all he's their son."
"Blood ties don't matter to everyone." Isis said quietly and coldly and Taiyou nodded.
"That's true, but they did matter to Starfire. She wouldn't leave Robin and Phoe though and Earth was more of a home than Tameran to her. They sent him to Tameran as he wouldn't hurt them or anything like that and Starfire went to visit him. Robin tried to visit him, but after the first visit went sour he didn't try to see him again... Phoe doesn't know exactly why Pyro's here, after all if he wanted to kill her he would've tried as soon as he got here, at least that's what she thinks."
"So that's why she's been so distracted then? She's been trying to second guess him all the time." Li asked quietly and Taiyou found it hard not to tell them how Phoenix had broken down, how she'd cried, how she'd shaken with fear as she spoken about Pyro and all that he relayed to the Titans; his faith had been shaken in her, he didn't want to do the same to the others. Zeru was sitting, looking at the floor with his head in his hands, pulling at his hair in frustration.
"So she's gone after him?" Taiyou nodded. "Is she mad?" Taiyou sighed,
"I don't know, I really don't." Taiyou replied with a defeated tone that mad Li, Zeru and Isis look at each other.
Phoenix was gone, they didn't know where she'd gone and there was her maniac brother to think about.
"What a mess eh?" Li said and it was a good job Zeru had stopped pulling at his hair, else he would've been bald by now.
"We've got to stop her! We've got to stop her Tae!"
"You think I don't know that? She's gone Ze! What're we supposed to do."
"That's easy." Isis said quietly, causing the boys to look at her.
"Think, if you were Phoenix and you couldn't turn to anyone else who would you turn to? Who would you go to help to?" Zeru and Li shrugged, but the penny dropped with Taiyou.
"You think she's gone back?" Zeru and Li looked at each other as Isis nodded her reply.
