-Is mad at self, hits self repeatedly over the head and tries to think up a better excuse than 'writer's block' and 'drifting away from the Teen Titans genre' but can't- Uhhh... sorry, everyone?
Dedication: Morgan, my bestest best friend in the whole wide world!
Chapter Eight
Of Therapy, Kisses, and Girl Talk
"So what exactly went on between you and Robin yesterday?" Raven asked Starfire the following day, her violet eyes scrutinizing the red head. She wasn't stupid, she knew there was something that Starfire wasn't telling her. Maybe it wasn't her business precisely, but she had an unusual need to know what it was.
"We simply talked," came Starfire's ready answer.
"Okay. I'm not blind, I'm not stupid, and I'm actually willing to listen to your girl talk crap for once. Just tell me what happened."
"You will not tell a soul?"
"I swear I won't."
"Dude, respect the fish tacos! If you don't like 'em, you don't hafta eat 'em!"
"For all you know they could be my brothers! I'm just sayin'!"
"Senorita Starfire esta muy bonita! Te amo ella mas que tu!" (1)
"No! Te amo ella mas que tu!" (2)
Bumblebee watched the two seperate fights from a corner of the ops center, a sort of glazed look in her eyes. "Must. Get. Away. Must. Not. Kill. Boys." One chocolate-colored eye twitched. "Must. Get. AWAY. Must. NOT. Kill. Boys." It twitched again.
She was going to need big time therapy after this.
"And now that the rate of crime in our city has gone down, he told me that he now has more time to, erm, I believe his exact words were, 'focus on other things'. He told me he wishes to spend more time with me." Starfire said, wrapping up her rather long and detailed story of what she and Robin had talked about.
Raven frowned. "What? No kiss?"
"Erm... well, no."
The empath's frown deepened. 'Stupid boy wonders and their stupid being slow...ness. No I owe Cyborg fifty bucks!' She thought. "Oh. So why didn't you tell me this before?"
"I, uh, thought that after what had happened with friend Beast Boy, you would wish to, I believe the term is, wallow."
"Well I don't want to wallow. I don't wallow at all."
There was a slight pause before Starfire spoke again. "Perhaps you wish to talk about it?"
Raven shrugged. "Maybe when we get back to the Tower where things randomly blowing up won't be so suspicious."
Starfire nodded understandingly. "Whenever you wish."
"It's so di-difficult living w-with f-four guys!" Bumblebee wailed into a tissue. "Th-there's so mu-much testosterone a-and not enough es-estrogen! They're always fi-fighting!"
The therapist nodded sagely. "And how do you feel about that?"
The heroine stopped sobbing for a second to glare and the balding, bespectabled man. "I told you! It's so difficult!" And then the flood gates were opened again. "I-I hate li-living w-with them s-sometimes! I'm underappreciated! It makes me feel so damn mis-miserable!"
The man nodded again. "And how do you feel about that?"
This repeated question only caused Bee to cry harder. Therapy was not working out for her. At all.
"If you were a cat, what would you do?" Beast Boy asked randomly that evening when all the Titans were scattered about the girls' hotel room. The silence had been eating away at him until he felt he had to speak up. His friends looked at him strangely. "Just a question! Gosh!" The Titans returned to their activities; Raven to her book; Starfire to her magazine; Robin to reading over his new girlfriend's shoulder, a hand tangled in her crimson locks; and Cyborg to his latest invention for the T-Car.
Beast Boy sighed loudly and flopped down next to Raven on her bed. "Hey, Ravy!" Silence greeted the end of his salutation. Both empath and changeling were well aware that Starfire was watching them with interest.
"Hi, Beast Boy," Raven replied finally, her eyes still on her book.
"Watcha reading?"
"The Book of Azar."
"Oh. Why?"
"Because I feel like it. Why else?"
"I dunno. I do't really read stuff with big words for fun. Sorta thought maybe there's a bigger meaning as to why you've always got your nose- MMPH!" The other three watched in interest as the empath suddenly reached up and kissed her counterpart.
"Will you shut up, Beast Boy?"
"As long as I can get more from wherever the hell that came from!"
Raven blushed deeply and the lights exploded, plunging the five teens into darkness. "Oops."
Seconds later a loud screech and a dull thunk were heard followed by Starfire yelling, "Richard! I would appriciate if you would keep your hands off my grebnaks!"
"Heh... Sorry, Star...?"
(1) "Starfire is really pretty! I love her more than you!"
(2) "No! I love her more than you!"
Not sure if I wrote itright in Spanish. We never got to 'te amo' using you, we, she, he, they, etc. Te amo means I love, so 'te amo tu' means 'I love you'. Tell it to someone you love a whole lot.
A/N: Stupid filler chapters... Reviews? Please? -Itches leg- Damn mosquito bites...
