He was good. She was better.

She smiled at him as they stepped of the machine. She had a bit of a bounce in her step as they walked out of the arcade. The sun was setting, and the beach was set in a red glow.

Suddenly her communicator went of the wall. She realised she hadn't told her parents she had left.

"Hi dad."

"Where are you?"

"I'm out with Lochan. I'm so sorry I didn't tell you I was leaving, it was kind of a impulse things."

Her father seemed to calm down, realising she was safe and not harmed.

"Where are you?"

"I don't know."

She looked at Lochan.

"Where are we?"

"Dawnbright."

Dawnbright? Her eyes widened with shock and her mouth opened. Dawnbright was more than half a day's drive from Jump City. She moved the communicator away, so her father wouldn't listen.

"How long did you fly?"

"An hour, hour and half."

She shook her head. She turned the communicator so she could see her father again. She knew it was useless to lie, since he could just track her, and she might score points by being honest.

"Dawnbright."

"What? What are you doing there?"

"We're just hanging out. I'm sorry I didn't tell you I was leaving, but I'm fine, see, and I won't be to late."

He looked as if he was fuming, but then he calmed down.

"Can I stay a bit longer pleas. I'm starving and we haven't eaten yet."

"Okay, but don't be to late home."

"I won't."

She smiled, and relaxed when he smiled back.

"Bye."

"Bye. Dawnbright."

The last was more a comment to him self than to her, but she let out a smile.

"Everything all right."

"Yes. I just forgot to tell them I was leaving. They got worried."

"Wow. If something like that had happened to me, my parents would have torn me a new one."

She smiled to him.

"It was my first offence. I got of with a warning."

They started to walk down to a restaurant he knew of.

"So, you taken a lot of girls on this kind of date?"

"Date? I didn't know we where on a date."

She glared on him.

"So what would you call it?"

"I thought we were just hanging out."

She was a bit hurt that he didn't think of it as a date, since she did. But, she reminded her self; he hadn't said anything to give her that impression.

"But no, I don't do much dating."

"Well, if you don't call them dates, of course you haven't dated much."

He smiled as he looked at her.

"You really are desperate to call this a date."

"Am not."

"Are to."

She stuck out her tongue, and he laughed and grabbed her, pulling her into an embrace.

"So are you going to tell me what I lost?"

She looked at him, thinking. He hiked up his glasses, so she could see his eyes.

"I want to ask you five questions, and no matter what they are you have to answer truthfully."

"Mina."

"You said I could ask for anything."

He scratched the back of his head, and looked at her.

"Is that really what you want?"

"Hey, if you want to go back on your word."

She turned and got loose from his grip.

"Don't be like that Mina."

He grabbed her arm. She turned and looked at him.

"So we have a deal?"

"Fine."

She got a smile that scared Lochan, but then he was intrigued. He had never met anyone like her.

"So what do you want to know?"

She looked at him, studying him. Her look landed on his eyes.

"Why did you take me here?"

"Because you talked about trust, and I wanted to show you that you could trust me. Like I trust you."

"And you did that by flying me to a beach."

She grinned, and he started to run after her as she ran out on the beach, caught her form behind, swinging her around. She screamed of laugher as he did this and kicked her feet.

This made him loose his balance and they fell down in the sand. She couldn't breath she laughed so hard. He just looked at her. Taking in everything about her. He bent down over her.

She saw him, and knew he wanted to kiss her. She quickly kissed him on the tip of his nose. She got to her feet, afraid of what she might do if she actually stayed under him.

"I'm hungry."

He rose to his knees.

"Okay."

He got to his feet, and started to lead her to the restaurant.

It was a karaoke place. The light was dim, and crowded. Mina was immediately uncomfortable, but didn't show it. He had gone to the arcade with her. She owed him this.

They got a table close to the stage, and ordered. A huge man and what must been his eve bigger wife went up on stage. They started to sing, and were terrible. He was monotone, and she couldn't hold a key. But they had spirit, and Mina caught herself cheering them on like everyone else in the room.

Her mood actually lifted, thou she still felt a bit claustrophobic, and with every singer that went on stage, her heart and spirit actually went to them. Some of them where good, some okay, most bad.

The food was good thou, salad and chips. He had gone vegetarian for the night since she was. Suddenly he rose.

"Okay, you've heard enough. It's time to sing."

"No."

"Yes."

She bit her lower lip and started to blush. Suddenly glad for the modest lighting. She wanted to run out of there, but she couldn't. He had gone to sign them up. She started to sweat, her right foot started to shake. She hated being the centre of attention.

"Our turn."

She looked up at him with pleading eyes. But she couldn't. She couldn't even open her mouth to protest. She just took his hand and followed him up on stage. He gave her a mike and turned to the screen where the lyrics where getting ready.

He started to sing, and he was the worst yet. Mina was shocked that anyone could actually have such a singing voice. It was even worse than her mother. But the crowed cheered, because he loved it. He was laying his heart and soul into the song, making the crowed love it as much as him.

He made her want to sing. So when it was her turn she opened her mouth, and a voice she didn't even know she had came out. He looked at her shocked, but she just smiled and kept on singing. The crowed went wild.

When the song ended they wouldn't stop clapping. They where standing very close. He leaned in, but she just turned and jumped of the stage. She could hear how they were laughing, and didn't care.

She sat down and took a new sip of her drink. He sat down, but didn't seem bad of her little display. Actually he was smiling from ear to ear.

"What are you smiling about?"

"Nothing."

She looked at the time. It was late.

"Oh no. We have to get back, my father is going to kill me."

"Okay."

He paid, and they left. They went into an alley and he took of his shirt.

"Why don't you just cut holes in the back?"

"And walk around with torn clothes. I'd rather fly half naked."

She laid her arms around his neck, and rested her head on his chest. Her heart was beating a rapidly, and she knew he could feel it.

"Its just hormones."

He smiled, and held her tight as he started to flap his wings.

"I know."

A week passed. She was shooting in the shooting rink. The music was playing, since she was practising blocking out sound. She suddenly felt someone place their arm around her, and she leaned her head back and let it rest on his chest.

"Good morning Mina."

"Slept well?"

"Okay."

She turned and gave him a smile.

"Good. Now go away so I can practise."

"You'll be up for breakfast?"

She smiled and kissed his cheek.

"Yes. Now go."

He smiled and went out the door. Putting on his sunglasses before walking out. He kept taking them of when he was alone with her. Mina didn't know what that meant.

Finally she wrapped it up, and went in to the common room. There weren't anyone there besides her brothers and Lochan. She liked it that her brothers had taken a liking to Lochan, but she didn't understand why she cared. It had to be that she didn't want anyone to not like her brother.

Her brothers where asking Lochan something, when the three of them looked up at her simultaneously.

"You need some guy time?"

She got prepared to turn and leave. Afraid she had walked in on something they didn't want to share with her.

"Actually you were the one I wanted."

She made a chuckle as she walked down to the three boys.

"I knew it."

"The boys were asking me if I could teach them to dance."

"Why do you want to learn that?"

The two boys looked down, and even thou they where green, she could see a slight blush creep over their cheeks.

"Never mind, none of my business. But why do you need me?"

He turned on the music, and reached out his hand. Waltz. Her brothers sat down on the couch, grabbing a pen and paper. Mina rolled her eyes, but smiled as she took of her cloak and grabbed his hand.

She smiled as he span her in, and her dark green skirt swung out. They positioned them selves, as Lochan explained. Mina knew she was just there for demonstration purposes, and kept her mouth shout.

"You want to make sure your partner is fine. Don't overstep any boundaries. Never touch her ass."

Mina chuckled, as did Gavin. Ulrich blushed, which just made them laugh even harder.

"Mina, focus."

"Sorry teacher."

Mina rose up, but still had a chuckle on her lips.

"Now, the waltz starts with the man taking on step forward on his right foot."

He did, and Mina quickly moved her left foot backwards as was her role.

"Then you take one step to your left with your left foot."

They did.

"That's one, two, and on three you close your feet together. Then on one you take a step back with your left foot."

They did the step.

"Step to the right."

Step to the right.

"Then together at three. The idea is creating a square with your feet. Like this."

He led Mina in doing the whole routine three times. The boys were just starring at their teacher and sister. Because they had forgotten about the boys they where trying to teach, and were now flying over the floor.

Soon he was twirling her around, letting go of her with one hand and pulled her into his embrace. Not exactly a classic waltz step, but the two looked wonderful out there.

Not because of the steps, but because they looked so happy. Like they where dancing on a cloud or something.

The music stopped, and they ended with Mina leaning back, only held up by Lochan's arm.

"I love you."

Mina was stunned. She turned to her brothers, realising they had heard it too, and therefore she couldn't have imagined it.

"And even thou you get caught up in the dance, pleas try to resist lying to your dance partner."

She relished herself from his grip and took a step back. Needing distance between her and him. From the feelings he was causing inside her.

"I didn't lie Mina. I do love you."

"No you don't."

"Yes I do. I have loved you since the moment I saw you."

She sighed. Mina would have killed for him to take of his sunglasses. She wanted to see what he was thinking, but he kept them on.

"The first time you saw me I was swimming in my bikini. It is natural that your hormones made you feel something, but it was not love. It was lust. Lochan, you're attracted to me. That's not love. It's your hormones."

"Don't you think I know the difference between my hormones and love?"

"No."

She wanted to say something about if men didn't confuse love and lust they would never try to get to know a girl, but she kept her mouth shut. Her brother where still sitting only a few feet from them.

"People don't just fall in love."

"Of course they do. Why do you think it's called falling?"

Mina started to get upset. She turned and walked out of the common room.

She was walking back and fourth in the hall, thinking about Lochan, when all of a sudden her heart went a mile a minute. She couldn't breath. She knew something was wrong with someone. Lochan was gone form her mind as a single named escaped her lips in a single whisper.

"William."

She ran down the hall to his room.

"William?"

She knocked on his door.

"William pleas answer me."

He let out a small scream, and Mina took this as an excuse to enter. He was going on 13, and was going in the boy-boy stage. But the boy sitting in the bed was frightening. He was terrified.

"Get them of me."

She ran over to his side, bending down.

"What?"

"The spiders. Get them of."

He was hysterical. He had a strong case of arachnophobia, and was petrified of spiders. He couldn't breath and his tears were running down his cheeks.

"Get them of."

"It's okay William, it was just a dream."

"Get them of."

He was looking down at his body and looked like he was trying to brush of spiders. First now did Mina realise he had tiny bite marks all over his body.

She drew of his blanket, but nothing. The boy was still hysterical. She was afraid he would actually scare himself to death.

"Okay, I'll get the spiders of."

She had to make his body calm down or he would overload his heart. She placed a hand on his head, forcing him to lie down. She closed her eyes, one hand on his head and one on his chest.

"Just breath."

Suddenly she felt her body get heavier and she closed her eyes.

She could hear him scream. She opened her eyes and saw a petrified William covered in spiders. She ran over to his side.

"William."

"Get them of."

"I will, but you need to calm down."

She grabbed him, and didn't care that the spiders started to walk over to her. Better her than him.

"Listen to me William, you have to calm down. I know you are scared, but you need to calm down. Just breath in and out."

The boy was shaking, but did as he was told. She could feel how he calmed down. Mina looked around; the room was dark red and fitted his personality perfectly. There didn't seem to be an explanation to why there were spiders in his mind thou.

Then she saw it, a bit metal disk about half her own size. She let go of William, who was still afraid from the spiders crawling all over him, and went over to it. It was very out of place, and Mina knew this was the cause. She tired to pull it out, but it was stuck too deep.

"William, come over her."

He did as he was told.

"Help me pull out this disk."

"But the man said to not touch it."

"What man?"

He looked confused. Like he had done as he was told, and now was told he had done something wrong.

"I'm not mad at you William, but has there ever been anyone else here?"

He nodded.

"A man, young, with long white hair. He put the disk there and said I wasn't to touch it."

She bent down.

"William, that man was a bad man. He is making the spiders come after you. If you pull the disk out they will go away."

William lit up, grabbed the disk and pulled it out. As she had predicted, the spiders faded away. He had bite marks over his enter body, and she quickly healed him. He made a sigh of relief as she took the disk and went back to her own body.

The disk wasn't bigger than a stamp. She closed her open palm so not to lose it as William sat up. The bite marks gone. She rose and went outside of his room so he could change in privacy. She kept looking down at the disk.

She didn't know anything about it, but she bet Cyborg would. William opened the door, and they went down the hall to the common room in silence. She could feel he was ashamed.

"You know you were very brave."

She stopped right outside the common room door.

"How? I was scared."

"Being brave doesn't mean not being afraid. It means doing thing even thou you're afraid. You were terrified of the spiders, and yet you managed not only to calm yourself down when I told you but also pull out the disk that was in you mind. To me that's bravery."

The boy looked up at her, and gave her a tiny smile.

"And don't worry, I won't tell the others your scared of spiders."

She raffled his hair, and he made a sound and straightened it before they went in. William went straight to the couch were the other children where watching a movie. Mina went over to the grownups, more specific Cyborg.

"What is this?"

Cyborg looked at the disk.

"Looks like a simple downloading/uploading disk."

Mina sighed and leaned back.

"What is it?"

"I just pulled it out of Williams mind."

"What?"

Robin looked furious.

"What do you mean you pulled it out of his mind."

"Exactly what I said. William was distressed, so I went to check on him. He was seeing things that weren't there. But the scary thing was that he got marks, as if the thing he thought he was seeing really was there. So I went in to his mind to calm him down since he was almost frightened to death. And there I found it."

The titans shared a look.

"I better go figure out exactly what this is."

Cyborg left.

"How did anyone get that thing into his mind?"

Robin was talking more to himself than the others.

"He said a man came with it."

They looked at her again. She turned to the children.

"William, come over here."

He did.

"What is it?"

"Tell them about the man inside you're mind."

He looked embarrassed and unsure at her.

"It's okay. You haven't done anything wrong, and we are not mad at you. We just need you to tell us about the man."

He nodded.

"One day this man was inside my head. He said he was a friend of my parents, and that they had given him something to give to me. He placed the disk, and told me not to touch it. Then he left."

"Why did you trust him?"

His father was mad, but he was mad at the man and not his son. Mina was just unsure if his son knew that.

"He gave me your names."

"Starfire and Nightwing?"

"No."

He blushed and looked at Lochan. They had been given strict orders since any of them could remember to never give out their parent birth names, with the exception of Raven, to anyone outside the tower.

"I better go check on the kids."

Lochan turned and walked over to the children. William went even closer.

"Koriand'r and Richard Grayson."