Sorry it's taken me so long to get this chapter up. I've been busy with school and crap like that. I'm not one to ramble on for hours before a chapter, so I'm going to get this thing going.

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Back at the tower, Starfire sat in her room sobbing. She didn't know what had come over her. Lying on her bed, she remembered smiling as she relentlessly tortured Mumbo, and she couldn't get the sick pleasure it had brought her out of her head.

There was a knock at the door. Letting out a shuttering sigh, Starfire went to open it. The door swished open to reveal Robin. He looked at her tear streaked face and a look of sympathy came across his face.

"Starfire…" he said as he gently put his hand on her shoulder. She let out a sob and threw her arms around him.

"Oh Robin! I don't know what's wrong with me. I couldn't help myself with Mumbo. I lost control of myself and I don't know why!" she wailed.

"Don't worry Star, its not that bad," he said gently.

"But you don't understand," she cried. "When I attacked him, when I was causing him pain…. I enjoyed it!" The last words came out as a yell.

"Don't worry Starfire. I'll help you through this. I know you would never hurt anyone in your right mind."

She took in a shuttering breath and pulled away from him. He was right, she would never willingly torture someone, even Mumbo. She tried to think about what had happened earlier. She remembered going into the main room and seeing Robin. She thought something had happened earlier, something that had made her feel trouble, but she couldn't remember. Her thoughts drifted back to leaving her room. No, it was before that. She had to go further back….

Her eyes snapped open, a strange gleam in them. They turned to Robin, who stood poised by the door, a concerned look on his face. A strange but familiar urge came up in her, and she walked toward him.

"What's wrong, Starfire?" He asked, startled. Her hand shot to his throat, choking him.

"Starfire! What are you doing!" He gasped, struggling to get out of her grasp. It was no use, her grip was tight and strong. She flew in the air and carried him with her. When she was about 5 feet in the air, she swung him around by his arm and slammed him into the wall. She swung him around again and threw him at the opposite wall.

"Starfire?" he gasped feebly as she flew at him again. She had a cruel smirk on her face again, laughing when she saw the pain he was in. She held him down and began to mercilessly pummel him with blows. She threw him at the opposite wall again, giving him enough time to throw a container of knockout gas from his belt at her. He heard a thump as she fell. He picked her up and ran out of the room before the gas could effect him.

Down at the medical center he laid her down on the bed. Pulling the restraints over her, he looked sadly at her now calm face.

He was just about to leave when he felt her hand tightly clench his. He looked back and saw that her eyes were barely open. Tears were streaming down her face and she had a pleading look in her eyes. She tried to say something but it only came out as a quiet whisper. Robin leaned closer to hear what she wanted to tell him. She only said two words before she fell back to sleep.

"I'm sorry."

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Starfire was plunged into darkness, floating vaguely in her own mind as she rested in her forced sleep. She felt something in her, for the first time. It was deep down, somehow it had gotten in her. A horrible burning hatred of life, along with a sickening pleasure of others' pain. She didn't know how it had gotten there, but she wanted it out.

A sound awoke her, and she opened her eyes, she saw Robin, covered in bruised, and remembered what she had done. She felt hot tears on her face as she reached for his arm.

She had to say it. She had to let him know that she didn't want the burning thing inside her, but she didn't have much strength, so she could only utter two words.

Back inside her own mind, she again had to be near the repulsive thing she had become. And then she realized something, and she was horrified. The thing was groing stronger

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Sorry it's so short. I'm not good at writing long chapters. Please review, but you don't have to if you don't want to. I'm not one to demand reviews.