Robin opened his eyes; the warm sunlight gave a pleasant glow to his room. He shoved his mask on and walked slowly rubbing his masked eyes, though the hall to the bathroom opened the door and gasped; Starfire was on the floor unconscious, her beautiful urban hair all over the place her emerald green eyes loosely shut.
'Starfire Are you ok!?' Robin asked panicky
No reply
'STARFIRE!' Robin yelled fear gripped at his heart
'No-please –please!-don't kill him-kill me instead!' Starfire said softly
'Starfire?' Robin asked completely bewildered
'Irregular heartbeat-but apart form that she seems perfectly fine' Alfred said in response to Bruce's question to see how Starfire was doing. In the hospital ward-made for Batman's injuries, so he didn't have to go hospital in fear of suspicious questions.
Bruce nodded, 'I suppose well just have to see how she is when she wakes up'
'Indeed sir' Alfred agreed and then went off to the kitchen
But Bruce thought to himself; 'she's a Tamerian isn't she?-not human-there body clock works differently to us'.
Bruce turned around and got a fright, Robin and the titans had apparently had been hanging over his shoulder with anxious expressions on their faces,
'Cripes titans-you startled me!'
'Aw heck sorry Bruce-but is Starfire gonna be ok?' Robin asked sadly
'I don't know-I don't really know how Tamerian's systems work-Martins yes-Tamerians-no' Bruce said shaking his head sadly
The Titans heads hung low.
A loud explosion irrupted form Starfire's bed that caused the whole room to set on fire
The Titans and Bruce watched in horror as Starfire had leaped form her bed fall into the flames unharmed, tears streamed down her face and she fell on to her hands and knees sobbing; 'Their dead-there all dead!-MUM, DAD PLEASE LISTEN TO ME!' she screamed. 'ARZAN, MINTION, ZINTHOS!' Raven yelled
In a blinding flash of light Raven saw grassy plains, firm hands grapping a short haired red head and pulling her away, a man sobbing, a woman looking cold, a older girl with long dark hair with a look of evil glee on her face, then more images flash before her;
Two girls slightly older than before they appeared to being torched, then a horrible flash of purple light, a girl screaming and another laughing spitefully, then in one final flash a long red haired girl who was being unconscious pulled into a space station that looked familiar. Then she saw planet earth, looking beautiful in her glimmering sphere.
Then the visions stopped and Cyborg with the help of elephant Beastboy had put the fire out. Tears streamed down Raven's face as she turned to her friend when utmost horror etch on her face, 'heaven forbid' she whispered
Robin was almost tearing out his thick black hair after Starfire had collapse again then Raven screamed her words-Raven what on earth did she see? It cant of been pretty, he had never seen the normally mono calm Raven loose control like that-mind you he'd never seen Starfire on her hands and knees screaming about her parents-her parents now that he thought on it-he had never met her parents he didn't think much of it at the time but looking back he'd never asked-she'd do all the questions,
'Robin' Batman said snapping him out of his chain of thoughts
'Were on duty, get your head in the game!'
'Yeah' Robin agreed putting 100 focus into it.
'Harsh ae?' Cyborg said a low voice to Beastboy the two best friends were staring up at the TV screen that actually blared; GAME OVER GREEN MAN, BOT BOY WINS!'
They didn't notice this,
'Tell me about it Vic, she wakes up perfectly fine-then-then that happens' Garfield shook his head sadly
'I don't think she was perfectly fine Gar' Victor said thoughtfully
Garfield gave him a puzzled look
Victor sighed; 'she didn't use any of her powers-and she didn't fly once-and she barely ate anything last night'
Gar nodded in agreement.
'Soooo,' Victor started after a long pause 'you and Raven together yet?'
Garfield punched him in the arm, 'shut up dude!'
'Gee wiz dude don't take it so harsh!' said Vic rubbing his un-robotic arm
But Garfield wasn't listening he was staring intently at the wall,
'I wish Raven would tell us what she saw' he accidentally said out loud
'Yeah' said Victor suddenly getting serious
'With such great powers like hers there has to be downers ae?'
'You got that right' Beastboy looked down sadly
Cyborg gave him a quizzed look.
Raven sat cross legged on her bedroom floor, chanting her infamous words trying to forget all the horrible images that had and were flashing though her head
Arzan- mintron- zinthos- Arzan- mintron- zinthos'- tears streaming down Starfire's face, Starfire screaming was all to much for her. The fact that sweet innocent Starfire went through all that was a little over whelming, but something her bothered her; 'how come she never tolled us?'
'Somehow Batman I'm sensing that the joker has more planned' said peering over the city streets of Gotham,
'Hmm I got that feeling too' Batman agreed
Robin took his gaze of the city and gave it to Batman
Batman looked at him and said;
"Robin-I think that this is going to be the biggest battle yet"
The room was dark.
Starfire laid there in bed wide awake; soon they were going to ask her questions-she dreaded it.
The door creaked opened, Robin came in he was all flushed up
"Been on Gotham duty?" she asked to the darkness
Robin didn't answer in stead he made his way over to her bed, took the computer chair and pulled up next to her bed.
"Robin?" Starfire called
No answer
"Robin?" she repeated
Robin stood up leaned over her and brushed his lips against hers,
"Starfire" he murmured "come with me"
Even though it was late the busy city streets of Gotham were still buzzing with car horns blaring, shoppers determinedly hurried off to their designations.
"Robin, where are you taking me?" Starfire asked
"Somewhere I-me and you should of gone a long time ago Kori" Starfire thought she heard a hint of sadness and regret.
"Ok" she said completely trusting him
He led her down a dark ally which led to a type of ghetto.
The ghetto had paddocks surrounding it; the extremely long un-cut grass was slightly damp. Robin helped Starfire over the rickety old fence, she was feeling very weak and it showed. They ran across the paddock, the long grass caused their legs to get damp; Starfire who normally wore her purple uniform was now in long dark blue skinny jeans with a white frilly sparkly top. Robin had hurried back from parole duty early and roughly pulled a red t-shirt, black jumper, a grey (man) scarf and his old trusty baggy blue jeans which had just as much holes as he did battle scars.
It was dark but Starfire could make out it was a graveyard. Robin opened the entry gate and came in after her. Robin led her hand through the mazes of tombs it seemed like he had done this many times before.
At last they came to a stop, two weather worn gravestones side by side boldly declared;
Mary and John Grayson
Proud parents of Dick Grayson
Like a Robin
Robin fell to the ground of his knees and showed for the first in front Starfire-he cried
He let the tears fall on his cheeks and on the ground,
Kori laid her hand on Dick's shoulder
She handed him a bunch of Ruby red roses she had picked form around the fence
He placed them on the grave
He sobbed more; Kori sat down with him and hold him in her arms comforting him.
He wiped away his tears and turned to her
"Tell me about your parents Kori"
She looked at him with sincerely
"They did what ever they could to do what was right"
They look each other in the eyes
Robin why do you hide behind your mask? 'Finally' Kori thought 'I'm goanna see…'
She gently took the Black mask off Dick and gasped
The most beautiful dark sapphire blue eyes she ever seen sparkled at her,
She stared at the sapphires with her own emeralds,
"Wow, she said breathlessly why do you hide them? They-there beautiful..."
He shrugged I guess I've been Robin for such a long time I've forgotten about Dick Grayson"
"No-you forgot about you-you have to show people who really are"
He looked up at her in surprise
"You are Dick Grayson-Robin is Dick Grayson's alter ego"
He smiled
"I don't know how you do it Kori, but you always bring light into my life" Dick laughed
She smiled
They linked arms and started to walk back to the Wayne manor
"Now can you tell me what a playboy is?" she asked curiously
"Uh..."
"Your not going to tell me, aren't you?"
"Nope"
"Will you one day?"
"Oh I'm sure the subject will come up someday" Dick said mysteriously
Koriandor had no idea what he meant by this.