Hi everyone, sorry for the long delay of this chapter. I've been quite busy and inspiration has been a gerk with me by not giving ideas for this chapter so I think it is the worse one at the moment. However I think it was quite necessary to have it so here it is.

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Chapter 5: a band aid and go home

The night skies of Tamaran have always been an impressive sight for its inhabitants. Starry, clear and deep purple, it was one of the only beautiful consequences of the pollution of the planet.

However, that night even that landscape wasn't able to ease the sadness of the young alien's heart.

Starfire was crying in one of the many balconies that composed the Tamaranians home. Next to her Wildfire was trying to soothe her the best way a brother can, and that meant hug her and stroke that smooth red hair slowly while promising to the skies that he'll kill the human.

-Shh… It will be okay Koriand'r. – Said the alien for the thousandth time. – Someone who doesn't respect you doesn't deserve you. - Once again silence was the only response from her sister. Ryand'r sighed and stood up. As much as he wanted to help Koriand'r she had too fresh emotional wounds to be able to heal themselves by other people. The Tamaranian's feelings are too strong since they are the source of their powers. But the brighter the happiness of a Tamaranian is, the darker is the sadness. And as he knows, Starfire was highly in touch with her feelings since she was powerful.

In the young titan's eyes everything hurt. Breathing, moving even existing broke her a bit more than Robin already had.

Starfire p.o.v

Robin…

We heard an explosion and a courtain of smoke appeared not too far away. I was surprised and half scared for Robin. My brother and K'Norfka however only murmured a Tamaranian cure that I will never say and flew in the direction of the possible accident. I followed shortly after. The scene left me completely stunned. Robin was smashing what seemed to be a dead mature zorkaberry tree, I didn't know what to think about that.

-Damn human! I told you not to touch anything, and less kill it! – I saw the righteous fury in my brother's eyes and, knowing he was going to strike, I flew between him and Robin facing Ryand'r.

-Dear brother please I beg you to stop. Robin has the right to explain himself. – I turned to see him at his eyes… well masked eyes and smiled. His face however… it was a hate mask, he wasn't even looking at me. – Robin are you ok? – I reached to touch his face but he slapped my hand away.

-I'm not Starfire! I've not been ok since we have landed in this planet! Beastboy said he saw Slade and it seems that I'm the only one who cares. We are heroes, we have no time to rest. And less in this god forsaken planet! – That hurt, a lot. He wasn't only insulting my planet and culture, he acted like nothing happened, like Tokyo never happened. Our promise. Even our relationship. My chest hurt so badly, my head seemed to be crushed by rocks. I didn't even noticed that I was touching the ground.

I don't remember much more after that but when I woke up I was in my chamber and Robin…

Robin was long gone. And it seemed that my heart went with him.

Normal P.o.V

Ryand'r and Galfor where in the meeting chamber discussing about the human's behavior. Saying that both of them where angry at the Titan was an understatement. They were furious.

-Tell me again why we can't destroy that being. – The young alien smashed his fist in the large table. Galfor sighed. He shared the boy's point of view and wanted nothing more that to destroy the one that hurt her little bumgorf's heart but now he was a diplomat, and killing a known hero would only bring more hatred towards Tamaran from other species.

- You know why Ryand'r. – The young alien turned his head trying to feel betrayed but it was useless, the warrior was true. – Now we have to be with Koriand'r, she needs us more than never.

Both nodded and decided to return to the ex princess chambers. They would be the family that the young titan has always been deprived of.

Starfire put the last piece of clothing in a small bag she had brought from the T-Tower. She couldn't be here anymore. Her companions needed her, or at least that's what she had been telling herself. Robin or not she still was a titan and had a duty to do. She looked one last time to her room and sighed. Her feelings about her planet and home have always been heartwarming ones, but now, every time she looked around she saw Robin's face shouting at her. Duty didn't have anything to do with her escapade; it was all selfishness.

Prepared to fly home from her balcony Koriand'r tried to feel the joy of flight only to find that her broken heart couldn't feel the joyous feeling necessary to have a fast travel. Her usual graceful flight turned into something unstable and uncomfortable. She fell, her knees touching the ground and her hands in her face as she started crying one more time. A non flying Tamaranean was as well as a dead one.

The door opened revealing her two relatives that, at seeing her in the floor crying with a bag, didn't need to connect two and two together. Starfire had two pairs of arms around her in a matter of seconds. However, she didn't move. The hollowness in her soul enabling her of doing anything that wasn't letting the tears fell from her eyes.

-My little sweet bumgorf. – Galfor said tenderly while caressing her head with her gigantic hands. After 30 minutes of comforting the titan's cries stopped. That was the strong Tamaranearn's signal to start speaking with her – Why are you trying to go away?

- I-I have to! – Her voice rose before decaying showing her weakness - My friends need me, I need them. You know part of my heart will always remain here, but the titans are my family now. – Her gaze fell from Galfor's eyes to the ground. – Even if Robin's there. We are teammates not a pairing anymore, so I will have to be strong and accept being labeled into this grade.

As if her little speech was magic, her body started floating the second it ended. It wasn't like her usual flight but it was more than enough to travel to Earth. Galfor smiled, proud of her bumgorf's maturity while Ryand'r was still unsure about leaving her sister again with humans which were able to hurt her.

-You won't be delayed anymore Koriand'r. – The Tamaranian warrior told her while kneeling down in respect of the ex-princess. Fighting massive emotional hurt was an almost impossible task for their specie so seeing such a young girl doing it only served to show, once again, the strength and pride of the her royal blood. It was like seeing again her little girl fighting her traitor of a sister for the freedom of their people. – Just remember that we're still here for you.

- I will. – Starfire smiled. It was still a hurtful one, but spilling her pain through tears with the loved ones helped her. She hugged both of them and flew away into space.

Galfor and Wildfire stayed in the balcony looking at the now red little point in the sky that was the young Tamaranian. Both of them remained silent for a minute till Ryand'r looked at his emperor. Galfor didn't returned the stare, just stayed looking at the same spot even when Starfire was out of sight.

- Protect her. – Was all he told the young one before returning back into the palace. Ryand'r just smiled and flew in a blast of green leaving a large hole behind.

Starfire flew around dodging the asteroids of Saturn's ring while humming what she told Earth folkloric cantics and thinking about what would she do when she arrived to the tower. I really need to have a talk of the girls with Raven. She didn't expect the troubles that awaited her back home, ironically related to the purple haired girl that she wanted to see.