A Caged Bird:

Chapter 9

"LET ME GO!" Shrieked the tameranian as she was pulled by her hair into another room.

"Quiet!" Slade hissed in an annoyed voice, that would have satisfied Starfire in knowing he was upset, if she was not in immense amounts of pain.

"Ouff!" Starfire said as she was thrown down. She sat up kneeling and looked around at the room she had been dragged into. It was not, luckily, the room she had been locked in before. It was fairly dark, with only a few dim lights around the room. More metal crates lined the walls and various sheets of cloth were in heaps onto of them. At the far side of the room was…

"Robin!" Starfire yelled, bolting up and racing toward him.

"Not so fast." Slade sneered, suddenly appearing behind her and grabbing her by her collar. "Look, don't touch." He said showing definite signs of being ticked off, and tossing her back to where he had first placed her.

Starfire looked up at Robin. He was just dangling there by his arms, unconscious. Starfire couldn't help wondering if he'd ever be able to use them again, after holding all his weight up like that after all this time; if they got out.

"No! I must not lose hopefulness." Starfire thought to herself. "We will get out… Correct?"

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Author Notes: (sniff) The Second last chapter (sniff)

♥ I know, it's a totally short chapter. Sorry, but that's where the best cliff hanger was. But the last chapter and the conclusion are so long, when I hav to type them up I'm gonna cry!

♥ Let me guess. You're thinkin' "With only one chapter and a conclusion left, how the heck is she gonna finish this story!" I know, kinda seems like that, huh. ANd no, I'm didn't get bored of my story and did some stupid ripe off ending that rushes the whoe story. If I'm gonna start something, I'm gonna end it with pride!

♥ Anyway, I'd like to dedicate this chapter to my freakishly annoying, love obsessed sister. Good luck on your first after-break-up date! Don't do something stupid and scar him away! (Teehee!)

♥ So the next chapter will be up when it gets up. It's SO long that I'm going to be up until the wee hours of the morning trying to finish. Groan. Save me!... (By the way, talking about "Wii" did anyone hear aboyut how the new nitendo system is going to be called the nitendo "wii"? Creepy, eh.)

-- Shikku ♥