Heres chapter seven. Its release on Halloween. Cool. Anyways Enjoy People!
Chapter 7
EvenIf You Don't
"Kori, what's wrong?" Jake asked as they both got off their motorcycles. Starfire tried to think of an excuse.
"Well, I was getting bored at the park." Starfire even added a smile to it but unfortunately she could still see that he had some doubts and that he was about to say something. Starfire decided to try the first thing that she could think of. "Ok, fine I was thinking of Fluffy." Starfire faked a frown. Jake immediately knew where she was going.
"Kori! it wasn't my fault that the cat got run over!" Jake replied. Starfire smiled to herself that she succeeded on changing the subject but now she was on the subject of her dead cat which made her smiled to a frowned. 'Great.' She thought sarcastically.
"You were supposed to watch it!" Starfire continued now actually feeling sad. For once it wasn't about Robin and Kelsey it was about something else. Jake felt bad about letting her cat getting run over and Starfire thought that he wouldn't ask if there was something wrong anymore. "Fine, I forgive you. Let's go inside the Tower." Jake didn't want to go back to the whole cat situation so he followed her, ignoring the urge to ask any more questions. Jake and Starfire entered the Titans Tower to find it all damaged.
"Whoa." Jake and Starfire said in unison.
"What happened?" Jake asked as he picked up a book that read 'Poetry' Starfire looked around, shocked from what happened to their tower.
"I need to call the others." Starfire panicked when she couldn't find the titans communicator on her belt. "Damn, I don't have it!" Jake looked at the panicked girl next to him.
"Chill, Kori." Jake said, trying to calm her down. Starfire turned her attention to him. "Now breathe in." Starfire inhaled. "Okay, breathe out." Starfire exhaled.
"Thanks." Starfire was officially calm now. Jake shrugged. "No problem."
"It's usually Chloe who calms me down." Starfire stated as she saw the Game Station broken into pieces. 'Beast Boy and Cyborg aren't going to like this.' Starfire thought as she picked up one of the pieces.
"She did that to me too." Jake went to the tall broken glass windows. Starfire placed the piece of the Game Station down and followed Jake.
"I guess you won't get to see the whole tower." Starfire said sadly as she and Jake observed the tall broken glass windows.
"It really doesn't matter. You don't have to show me." Jake answered as he grabbed a piece of broken glass.
"Okay, if you say so. What should we do now? I can't call them because I don't have my communicator."
"Didn't you say that your friend Raven could read minds?" Jake saw Starfire smiling sheepishly.
" I guess I was so worried that I forgot." Starfire said. Jake chuckled when Starfire sat on the floor, closed her eyes and tried to see if Raven would hear her calls.
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'Starfire?' Raven asked mentally.
'Yeah it's me.' Starfire answered.
'Whats wrong? My empath's senses are going crazy.'
' Someone ruined the Titans Tower.'
'We'll be right there. Robin was on his way so he will be there in just a few minutes.'
'Kelsey is not over there with you all?' Starfire hopefully asked.
'Nope sorry she's with him.' Raven answered sadly. Starfire sighed.
'Ok.'
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Starfire opened her eyes to see Jake sitting on the floor waiting for her to come back to reality. Jake noticed that she was back from her mental conversation with Raven and smiled at her.
"When are they coming?" Jake watched Starfire thinking about something.
"Later but Robin and Kelsey should be arriving in—" Starfire was interrupted by a loud scream. Jake and Starfire turned to see Robin and Kelsey surprised at what happened to the tower.
"WHAT DID YOU DO?" Kelsey shouted at Starfire.
"I didn't do anything!" Starfire answered confused on why Kelsey was blaming her. Jake and Starfire stood up and told them that it was like that when they arrived at the tower. Robin knew that Starfire wouldn't damage the tower but he still wanted to know what they did when they arrived.
"We need to figure out who did this." Robin said in his leader voice. The rest of the team came in and were shock as well. Beast Boy and Cyborg quickly ran to the area where the Game Station was located. The two titans gasp as they both saw the Game Station broken into pieces.
"Who could do something so evil?" Beast Boy said as Cyborg and he tried to put the pieces together. When they put all the pieces together the Game Station fell apart again.
"NO!" Beast Boy and Cyborg yelled in unison. Raven rolled her eyes while Terra saw Kelsey staring angrily at Starfire. 'Ok, Starfire is not going to steal him away or anything. She's not that kinda girl.' Terra thought as she let her gaze fall upon a broken CD player.
"MY CD PLAYER!" Terra grabbed the broken pieces and mentally cursed at whoever damaged her CD player. Beast Boy and Cyborg stood up and watched Terra trying to put the pieces of her broken CD player together.
"Whats wrong with her?" Cyborg whispered to Beast Boy.
Beast Boy shrugged. "It's not a big deal being sad over a CD player."
"So is crying for a Game Station." Raven told the two boys angrily. Raven didn't consider Terra a friend but some feeling inside of her wanted to defend her. Terra stopped mourning over her CD player and gave Raven a confused look. 'Why did she just defend me?' Terra shrugged the thought off and went to check what else was broken.
"Robin does that mean we're not going to Club Soto?" Kelsey asked a bit angrily. Everyones attention went to the couple.
"Sorry but n—" Robin stopped as soon as he heard Jakes voice.
"So is the club good?" Jake asked Starfire.
Starfire nodded. "It's ok." Starfire thought that Robin wasn't going to go the club because he will try to find out who did this to the tower so she decided to go. "Want to go?" Starfire offered Jake.
"Sure." Jake answered. Kelsey saw Robin staring at Jake and Starfire and decided to ask the question again.
"So are we going to go the club?" Kelsey asked angrily. Robin wasn't really paying attention to her so he didn't notice the anger in her voice. Kelsey immediately changed her mind about going to the club since Starfire was going to go. "Never—" She couldn't finish her sentence because Robin interrupted her.
"Yeah, we'll go." Kelsey smiled at him. 'Damn it. This girl is really getting on my nerves.' Kelsey thought as she stared at Starfire. Robin left the room to see if anything else was damaged. 'Kelsey can make him forget about work and can convince him to have fun. I could never do that.' Starfire felt depressed at her thoughts.
"So you all have an idea on who did this?" Cyborg asked the remaining titans. Kelsey gave Starfire a death glare, which went unnoticed, and left the room to do who knows what. Everyone opened their mouths to say 'Slade' but Cyborg quickly added, "Except for Slade." The titans closed their mouths and started to think.
"What about um….ok, I seriously think its Slade! No doubt." Beast Boy said, not really wanting to do any work. All the titans nodded in agreement. Jake just stood there letting his mind wander on to his sister and how it was back at Gotham.
"Ill go change the security code since they somehow figured it again." Cyborg left the room. Raven went into the corner that her books were supposed to be and found a note. Beast Boy and Terra quickly followed, curious to see what it said. Starfire and Jake stood behind and waited for Raven to read it aloud or wait for her to hand the note to them.
"What the hell?" Raven said loudly. Beast Boy snatched the paper from her hands and tried to read the note.
"Um what does that squiggly line mean?" Beast Boy asked as he kept turning the paper around to see if it would make more sense. Terra then snatched the paper and gave the same confused look.
"Beats me." Terra handed the paper to Starfire and took a while for Starfire to recognize what it means. The note was in Tamenerean and knew who it was from. 'Slade.' Starfire thought bitterly. "So do you get it?" Terra asked Starfire. Starfire hated to lie to her friends but she really didn't want to bring them in any more mess because of her.
"I'm afraid not." Starfire said sadly. Raven was about to say something, but she let the subject go. "But I will hand the note to Robin on my way to my room." Starfire grabbed Jake's hand dragged him out of the living room.
"So they're gonna leave us here to clean everything up?" Beast Boy shouted. "It's not fair." Raven rolled her eyes and chanted her famous words.
"Azerath Mentrion Zinthos." The room quickly changed back to its normal self. Beast Boy sheepishly smiled. "Ok, I guess we're done."
"Well I'm going to find Kelsey." Terra announced as she left the room. She wanted to stay to keep Raven away from Beast Boy but something stopped her. Raven was surprised that she didn't stay so she said a friendly 'bye' to her. Beast Boy turned his attention to Raven.
"Um…Raven about earlier I'm sorry its just that uh…" Beast Boy thought for a moment. 'I can't tell her that I think she's pretty.'
'You already did.' His subconscious answered back.
'WHAT DO I SAY?' Beast Boy shouted mentally.
A thought came to him. "It's just that I never seen you laugh and its not ……bad?" Beast Boy said unsure of what he said was right. Raven rolled her eyes but gave him a weak smile.
"I'm going to meditate." Raven left the room. Beast Boy let his gaze fall on the Game Station to find it repaired. "THANK YOU RAVEN!" Beast Boy shouted loudly as he started hugging the Game Station. Raven was walking on the hallway when she heard him say that loudly. She smiled and carried on walking, that shout being all the thanks she needed.
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"So Kori, aren't you supposed to take that to Robin?" Jake asked Starfire as they passed Robin's room.
"Well, I'm going read it first." Starfire answered as she opened the door that lead to her room.
Jake shrugged and entered the room. "Whatever you say." Starfire took a seat on her bed and read what the note said.
'You made my job easier, Koriand'r.
I thought I would have to face the titans but
thanks to you I didn't have to face them too early.
Farewell.
Starfire placed the note in her nightstand and laid down her bed.
"Maybe coming back was a bad idea." Starfire said sadly as Jake laid down next to her.
"Kori, you missed your friends and you needed to see them." Jake told her trying to convince her she was wrong.
"But its happening all over again and I don't want them to get involved!" Starfire turned around to face her window.
"Kori, don't worry about it." Jake smiled. "Just enjoy your time with your friends." Starfire turned around and smiled at him.
"You're right."
"Aren't I always?" Jake playfully said.
"No, you're not always right" Starfire acted like she was thinking. "For a matter of fact this is your first time being right about something." Starfire then yawned.
"I have been right before!... and don't yawn because it makes me tired." Jake all of sudden yawned. Starfire chuckled and she then found a comfortable resting spot. Jake did the same and they both fell asleep. Starfire thought she was finally going to have a good dream or memory but she was wrong.
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Starfire appeared in Slade's lair. She turned around to find Slade sitting on a chair turning down a glass of water that his servant Wintergreen was offering.
"How did you hurt me like that?" Starfire asked getting straight to the point.
"No hello?"
"Answer the question." Starfire tried to say with out anger.
"A trick that I learned while I was recovering from the titans attacks." Slade answered.
"Why are you here?" Starfire gave him a questioning look.
"What a stupid question."
"Answer the damn question." Starfire said angrily.
"There it goes. Anger. You should show it more often."
"It's just anger." Starfire said.
"It's not just anger. It's power. It makes you stronger than ever." Slade corrected her.
"That's where you're wrong. I've been angry before and nothing happened."
"Remember Gotham? Something happened there. You almost destroyed the whole city until the Dark Knight stopped you."
"That was one time. It will never happen again." Starfire told Slade. "Why are you here?" Starfire asked again.
"I'm here because of you. I would never suspect such great power from a girl like you but you proved me wrong." Slade told her.
"A girl like me?" Starfire questioned.
"A girl who's always happy. Those people disgust me but, you changed from the last time I saw you with the Titans."
"Nothing's changed from the time I was with the Titans." Starfire stated, with little attitude.
"That's what changed. Your attitude towards the world. An attitude that would be great for an apprentice but sadly you turned it down last time."
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"Get away from me!" Starfire shouted as she ran to the other side of the room. She was covered with bruises and scars from all the attacks that Slade gave her.
"Someone didn't wake up in the right side of the bed." Slade said as he walked towards her.
"What do you want from me?" Starfire asked Slade as he walked closer to Starfire.
"For you to be my apprentice." Slade answered. Starfire gave him an angry look.
"Never. I'm not evil." Starfire said as she tried to form a starbolt but she got injected by the same thing that Bruce injects her with.
"You could be. You have great power in you." Slade look down at Starfire giving him an angry look.
"I'm not going to be like Robin and Terra so leave me alone!" Starfire yelled as she threw a punch at him, but Slade avoided it.
"Their nothing compared to you."
"I don't care. I will never work for a madman like you!" Starfire threw another punch but Slade disappeared.
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"I would never work for you, Slade."
"I'm sure of that but sooner or later that power will be released and nobody would be able to stop you. Koriand'r, you should let it all out. Not hold it in."
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Starfire's conversation with Slade ended when he left her mind. Starfire drifted off to sleep for once not disturbed with bad thoughts.
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"Why have you been so quiet?" Kelsey asked as she finished talking about something she read in a magazine.
"I'm just thinking." Terra didn't want to tell her about what she was thinking but then she did.
"About…" Kelsey waited for Terra to answer. A minute has passed and to Kelsey it seemed like 30 minutes. "Are you going to tell me?" Kelsey said a bit angrily. Kelsey wasn't the most patient person in the world and also she really wanted to know what was going through Terra's head.
Terra sighed. 'Why shouldn't I tell her?' Terra asked herself mentally. "About Raven." Kelsey gave her a confuse look. "Why are you thinking about that stupid goth?"
Terra faked a smile. "You're right why am I?" Terra let the smiled vanished as soon as Kelsey turned her attention back to the magazine. 'I know I'm being mean to her but why?' Terra tried to make up an excuse but she couldn't. "Kelsey, mind if I ask you a question?" Kelsey turned her attention away from her magazine.
"Go ahead but make it quick this time." Kelsey wasn't about to wait for her to answer a question when she could be reading her magazine.
"Why don't you like Starfire?" Terra seriously asked. Kelsey started laughing. After couple of minutes she stopped and looked at Terra like she was dumb.
"One, She is annoying." Kelsey raised one finger in the air. "Two, I just don't like her." She raised another finger in the air. "Three, She's trying to steal Robin away from me." Kelsey waved the three fingers in Terra's face. "Theirs more but I don't feel like saying all of them." Kelsey turned her attention back to the magazine once again.
"Do you love Robin?" Terra saw Kelsey smile. "Y-Yeah of course I do." Kelsey stuttered. Terra sighed, not noticing the way she stuttered. 'So Kelsey does love Robin. Poor Starfire.' Terra thought sadly. Terra thought all the times that Starfire tried to help her and how Starfire thought their still good inside of her when she was Slade's apprentice. What Kelsey said about her not liking Starfire came into her mind. 'Is this how I treat Raven?' Terra remembered on what happened at the park today. 'I need to talk to someone.' Terra turned to see Kelsey looking at her angrily.
"Do you let your mind wonder off a lot?" Kelsey stood up and placed her magazine in her pink nightstand. Terra thought she could be the meanest person on the world when Kelsey glared at her.
"No, I don't let my mind wander off a lot." Terra said angrily. Kelsey shrugged and headed towards the rest room. Terra watched her go.
'She's obviously not a good person to talk to.'
'What about Beast Boy?'
'I need a girl to talk to.'
'Raven can't be since she's the one you need to talk about.'
'The only one left is Starfire.'
Kelsey came back from the rest room smiling. "I can't wait!" Kelsey shouted happily. Terra was about to ask why but she remembered that she was going to Club Soto with Robin.
"Just because you're going to a club? Haven't you been to one before?"
"Um...y-yeah… I guess I'm so happy going to a club and I have been one to before." Kelsey stuttered and hoped that Terra didn't notice. Terra fortunately noticed and wondered why.
"I'm going to my room." Terra announced as she got up and headed towards Starfire's room. She knew that if Kelsey found out that she was going to Starfire's room she would be angry.
"Whatever…close the door on your way out." Kelsey laid down her bed still smiling about something. Terra closed the door and started walking towards Starfire's room. On her way to Starfire's room she saw that Robin was heading towards her room as well. "So you have to talk to Starfire too." Robin nodded. Robin and Terra both arrived the door that had 'Starfire' engrave in it. Terra knocked and they waited patiently for Starfire to answer but no one did. Terra knocked again but still Starfire hasn't answered. Robin was worried and decided to open the door to find Starfire and Jake sleeping.
Starfire heard her door opened and lazily sat straight up. Starfire yawned. "Why did you all opened my door?" Starfire asked still a bit tired. Jake heard voices and woke up.
"That sucks! I was having a good dream." Jake said loudly. Robin and Terra both look at each other and then they turned their attention back to Starfire.
"We were knocking, but you didn't answer. We were getting worried so one of us opened the door to check if you were alright." Terra knew it was Robin who opened the door but she was getting worried too and she would have opened the door if he hadn't done it.
"Well I was just sleeping." Starfire looked at the mumbo jumbo clock next to her bed that read 7:54 p.m. 'Time passed quickly.' Starfire thought as she stood up and face the two titans. "Why are you both here?"
"Well, I needed to talk to you." Robin and Terra said in unison.
"About…"
"Stuff." Terra simply said.
"Care to elaborate?"
"Not right now." Terra answered. Starfire then turned her attention to Robin. 'Crap.' Robin thought as he saw Starfire patiently waiting for him to answer. 'Why am I here?' He mentally questioned himself. Robin turned to see Jake using Starfire's laptop. 'That's mostly why.'
"I'm here because I was going to tell you that you are going to start combat practice tomorrow with the Titans." Robin saw Starfire having doubts but she shrugged believing what he said.
"Ok now well I have to talk to Terra s-" Starfire got interrupted by Jake.
"Yep, another 'girl talk'... I'll see you later." Jake placed the laptop on the nightstand and followed Robin out the room.
"No offence, Terra, but wouldn't you rather be talking to Kelsey?" Starfire asked the blonde girl. Terra took notice of how Starfire could talk well, but decided not to say anything for now.
"Yeah, well... she's not really a good person to talk to." Terra sighed as she thought of Kelsey getting angry at her because she's being all soft.
"I see." Starfire turned to look outside her window. "Well, what do you want to talk about?"
"I want to talk about Raven." Terra said uneasily. Starfire turned to look at Terra as soon as she heard Raven's name.
"Very well. We can talk about Raven." Starfire was ready to defend Raven for whatever trash talk that Terra was about to say. Terra stared at the floor as if finding sudden interest in it.
"See, you probably know that I tend to get into arguments with Raven." Starfire nodded in response. She was happy that Terra wasn't going to trash talk Raven like she suspected. "Well at first I used to try to keep her away from Beast Boy but after realizing what Kel—" Terra stopped as she realized what she was going to say.
"What did Kelsey do to make you realized?" Starfire questioned. Terra looked at Starfire and mentally cursed at herself for saying to much.
'How am I going to get out of this one?' Terra thought as she tried to make up a good excuse.
'Tell her that Kelsey talked about one of her ex-friends.' A voice responded hastily.
'Who is this?' Terra mentally asked the person she was having a mental conversation with.
'You don't need to know…just say what I told you.' The voice said angrily.
Terra's mental conversation ended when Starfire repeated her question.
"Kelsey was talking about her ex-friend." Terra answered.
Starfire shrugged believing what Terra told her. "Oh well you can continue." Terra sighed in relief and continued with what she was saying.
"Well after what Kelsey said I started to think if I'm being a total bitch to Raven. At first I thought it was because I love Beast Boy but that has changed."
"How did it change?" Starfire took a seat on her bed.
"Ever since I came back I didn't feel for him like I used to.. and I know that Beast Boy feels the same way." Terra said sadly as she took a seat next to Starfire.
"You both moved on." Starfire told Terra.
"I guess we did." Terra sadly said as tears formed in her eyes. Starfire watched Terra blink back the tears. Terra looked up at Terra faking a smile. "Well I'll meet new people and Beast Boy has… Raven." Terra let out a few tears. "I thought this was going to be easy."
"Terra, moving on is never easy."
"But why?" Terra shouted. "I don't love him anymore." Terra said more calmly.
"A small part of you still does." Starfire answered her sadly. "Even though you don't love him as much as you use to. There is still a very small part of you that does." Terra stopped crying and smiled at what Starfire said.
"Thanks Starfire. You're a good friend." Terra gave Starfire a friendly hug. "At least he's moving on with a person I know that will love him as much as I used to." Terra said as she stared outside Starfire's window. "So I'm going to change the subject to…." Terra wondered on what she could talk about with Starfire. "Um…how you improved the way you talk. So Robin must have taught you really well!"
"Robin did not teach me. My friend Speedy did." Starfire corrected her.
"Oh…. I always thought Robin would teach you." Terra admitted.
"Why would you think that?" Starfire questioned as she gave Terra a confused look.
"I always thought that he kinda liked you." Terra admitted once again. Starfire frowned but as soon as she remembered that Terra was here she replaced it with a fake smile.
"He loves Kelsey and Kelsey loves him. Robin and I are just friends…nothing more." Starfire avoided looking at Terra afraid that she may cry. Terra could see that she was having trouble and decided that she should leave.
Terra stood up and started heading towards the door. "Starfire, thanks for talking with me." Starfire turned to look at Terra and smiled.
"I am always here if you need to talk to a friend." Terra smiled that Starfire considered her a friend and left the room. Starfire saw that it was getting dark and remembered that Jake wanted to go to Club Soto tonight. Starfire quickly stood up and try to find Jake. After minutes of searching she found Robin and Jake sitting on the couch giving each other death glares.
"Jake? We can go to the club now!" Starfire said as she walked in. Robin and Jake stood up.
"Ok, but I guess we should wait for Robin and Kelsey too since they are going to go as well." Jake told Starfire. Starfire nodded in response.
"Well I'm going to change." Starfire told Jake. Jake nodded and took a seat in the couch once again.
"I'm going to call Kelsey." Robin said as he left the room with Starfire. Robin and Starfire both were walking the same direction. Once again silence settled over the two. Starfire saw the door with her name engraved on it and immediately went inside to change. Robin watched her quickly go inside and sighed.
'What happened to us?' Robin questioned as he knocked on Kelsey's door. Kelsey opened the door and saw Robin deep in his thoughts.
"Kelsey we're about to go to the club." Robin told her as soon as he noticed that she was standing in front of him. Kelsey smiled and gave him a kiss on the lips.
"I'm going to get ready." Kelsey told Robin. Robin gave a small smile. "I hope it's a great club. I love you so much for taking me."
"I love you too." Robin told Kelsey. Kelsey smiled and closed the door to get ready. Robin turned to stare at Starfires door for a while. 'I guess I don't love her anymore.' Robin thought as he went inside his room. Starfire could hear everything from inside her room and couldn't help but cry when she heard Robin telling her that he loves her.
"I love you, Robin... and I always will." Starfire said between sobs. She sniffed and started changing. "Even if you don't love me."
Not really proud off this chapter but the next one is going to be better. Happy Halloween and heres the poll.
Whats your favorite color?
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Credits: RoseMage for proof reading this story. Please Review and no Flames.
P.S. Thats not the end of Terra and probably one of the visions that Starfire had will happen next chapter.