Me-Okay. I finally figured out this new unfamilarness of FanFiction.

Jake-Congratulations. Oh, about that last chapter...DON'T EVER DO THAT TO ME AGAIN YOU TWISTED PSYCHOPATH!

Me-Sorry.Giggle.Sorry again. You'll like this chapter. It's more...conservative.

Jake-Phew.


Chapter Fourteen-Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again

Starfire was moping around. It had been quite a while since Robin had left, and still no response from him. The poor girl could only think of one explanation.

"I am sure Robin is dead. How else is he not home yet?" she reasoned, "I must find his grave, for on Tamaran, we bury the dead immediately. Surely it is no different here!" Starfire dressed in a black Tamaranian ball gown and put on one of Raven's cloaks. She snuck out and walked to the tremendous Jump City cemetery. The tombstones and stone angels, covered in crystal white snow, towered over her as she searched for Robin's grave. the solemness of the cemetery created an aria, so Starfire could sing.

"You were once my one companion, you were all that mattered," she sang softly in an operatic voice. Tears welled in her eyes as she went on, "You were once my friend and father, then my world was shattered." She closed her eyes, letting the tears flow.

"Wishing you were somehow here again, wishing you were somewhere near. Sometimes it seemed, if I just dreamed, somehow you would be here." A dead flower lay at the foot of the tombstone. Starfire picked it up and held it to her chest. "Wishing I could hear your voice again, knowing that I never would. Dreaming of you won't help me to do all that you dreamed I could," she sang as she passed an angel statue, "Passing bells and sculpted angels, cold and monumental, seem, for you, the wrong companions. You were warm and gentle." As she left footprints, she thought of the rest of her life, without Robin.

"Too many years, fighting back tears, why can't the past just die?" she belted out. Then she calmed down and kept singing, "Wishing you were somehow here again, knowing we must say goodbye. Try to forgive, teach me to live, give me the strength to try!" At last, Starfire started to think.

"Indeed, Robin would have wished for me not to mourn, but to move on instead. Now I must leave, for I have to forget him." As she was walking out of the cemetery, she sang the last verse, "No more memories, no more silent tears, no more gazing across the wasted years...Help me say goodbye. Help me say goodbye!" Starfire closed the cemetery gates behind her.

Meanwhile, Raven came into the main room to find not Starfire, but Terra. "Hey, where's Starfire?" she asked.

"Looking for Robin's grave," Terra answered.

"What?"

"She's having a bit of paranoia."

"Oh. Um, Terra? I need to apologize for yesterday."

"It's okay, I mean, we were both-"

"Angry, we were angry."

"Hey, now that I think about it, I kinda see Star's point. Where is Robin?"

"Probably cheating on her," Raven suggested.

"With who? Michael Jackson?" Terra joked. Both girls cracked up.

"Nah. I doubt it. You know, you're cool, when your Benidict Arnold tendincies aren't screwing them up."

"And you're pretty, when your jealousy isn't screwing it up."

"Yeah, I'm really sorry."

"Me too. Is there anything I can do?"

"You're letting me date Beast Boy. Good enough."

"Speaking of, are you going to forgive him?"

"I need the coolest apology from him first."

"Amen," Terra agreed.

"Do you have any clue where Beast Boy went?"

"I haven't seen him."

"Not since our spat?"

"Nope."

"Oh Jesus, I hope he's okay."

"He will be."

"Where could he have gone?"

"Probably thinking of how to apologize to you," Terra told her. Raven got smug and nodded, "Yeah."


Jake-It was...cute.

Me-Terra and Raven made up! How sweet!

Jake-I was talking about Starfire and her nasty paranoia issues.

Me-Yeah. Isn't Phantom of the Opera awesome?

Jake-We should perform one of the songs sometime.

Me-I'll get my band and we can perform the epyonomous (right?) song.

Jake-I'd love to. How about the next chapter?

Me-Okay! Get the readers all pumped up for the next chapter, because it's a bombshell.

Jake-Uh-oh. You and your bombshells.

Me-Giggle. Again. Anyway, stay tuned for chapter 15!