Yea… sorry, I forgot to respond to the reviews last time…
Nadiagirl: Loved the chapter is there going to be romance I hope so Please update soon
Me: There probably will be some romance/fluff in the last chapter yes! And updating soon… not one of my strong suites sorry
Golfprincess: what just happened? i got lost but i hope that richard does confess that he is robin that was "killed" please update this story
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Me: Well… Starfire went to Richards home and now thinks more than ever that Richard is actually Robin. Then Raven entered Star's mind (again... ahem) and now Raven thinks the same thing and convinced the others of that. Make sense now?? I hope so, I don't like it when I confuse readers (which is unfortunately often)
Number-1-first-and-only: you and your cliffhangers anyway cant wate for the new chapter so update soon please
Me: Yes, me and my cliffhangers, don't ya just love them?? Hehe, yes, well, as you very well know, I can't update quickly to save my life, so I'll try to step up the pace, but don't count on it…
KBKs-Heart-Breaker: WHAT! NO! I don't get on here for forever and when I see that you updated you leave me in suspense again!! you have to update right now!
Me: bahahaha, when I first read this, I couldn't stop laughing… possibly because I'm in a delicate emotional state right now, but still, it cheered me up… Somehow…
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Anyhoo, I'm getting closer to finishing!! So, yay!!! This might even be the last chappie, so, yea, that's exciting!! I'm updating soon! I promise!! I'm working on it!!
A Lost Love
Chapter 7: The Green Light
The four superheroes stared at Richard, who stared back. Everyone was still for a moment as Richard seemed to give up. He gave a sigh of defeat, but then turned and ran. The Titans began yet another of their famous chases.
"WHAT?! I thought he was going to come easily!!" Beast Boy yelled as they ran down the street of Richard's neighborhood.
"Does that sound like something Robin would do?" Raven began to put up walls using her magic to block Richards escape, but they proved useless against his reflexes.
"Put him in a bubble Raven! This is no time for just slowing him down!" Cyborg yelled. Raven began a wall farther in front of him and began extending it toward Richard, but he jumped over it once again.
"Titans! Attack!" Cyborg yelled.
"I will not attack Robin!" Starfire called out.
"Starfire, you have too. It's the only way we can bring him back to the Tower." Raven said, her voice the essence of calm.
'Raven, Robin is not focused, penetrate his mind, take control over him. It will be most easy for you.' Starfire gave Raven a pleading look. 'It is the only way he will not be harmed.'
'Not if I can transport him-
'Raven, he will only destroy himself if that happens.'
Raven sighed. 'You're right.' She stopped and began to chant. "Azerath Metrion Zynthos. Azerath Metrion Zynthos. Azerath Metrion Zynthos." She repeated her mantra over and over until she found his mind.
'What's going on? I don't feel right." Richard kept running and dodging the attacks given by the Titans, but felt the disturbance Raven was causing, even though he didn't know what it was. That was what frightened him the most.
'That would be because I'm here too.'
"What?! NO!'
Raven didn't give him the chance to fight back. She quickly took over his body, leaving hers in a trance. Starfire stopped the others from chasing Robin. "He is lost in his own mind now, Raven has control.
"How did she gain control so quickly?"
"Yea? It took FOREVER when she tried to go into your mind that one time."
"I was focused on not letting her in. Robin was occupied by you all. He did not have such an advantage." There was a pause as Richard/Raven walked over.
"He's trying to fight me out, and even though he's already exhausted, I'd rather get home as quickly as possible. Starfire, would you give me a lift. The T-Car would take too much time." Starfire nodded. "Thanks. Cy, bring my body back okay? I can't control both mine and his at the same time, not with him fighting me."
"Okay, that's creepy." Beast Boy shivered.
Starfire picked up Richard. "What is?"
"I just can't get used to Raven's voice coming out of other peoples mouths. It's too weird."
"Gee, thanks." Raven spat.
"I wasn't calling YOU weird I just-
"Explain later, Robin's trying harder than ever to get me out. I need to focus."
Starfire took off, flying towards the tower as fast as she could. "raven, what should I do if he is successful in getting you out?" Starfire asked nervously.
"As long as I stay focused, he won't. His will isn't as strong as yours was."
"Why is that?"
"I'm not sure. Maybe because you had a point to prove. He's just been running from us."
"To PROTECT us!" Starfire defended Robin.
"Still, he's been running from his problems, you were trying to solve yours. I think that's why you were able to break free. Now if you don't mind, I need to concentrate." Raven closed her eyes.
Starfire saw the Tower in the distance. "We're almost there Raven."
"Okay, we need to go the medical center. Who know what he's done to himself in three months."
"What would he do?"
"People do crazy things to keep themselves hidden. And Cyborg will want to do a check-up on him, just to make sure he's okay."
Starfire nodded, and landed at the front door. "Here we go." She set Raven on the ground, who immediately started running.
"We have to hurry, we don't have time to waste."
"Why are we rushing?"
"Once he's retrained-
"we're restraining him?!" Starfire gasped.
"Star, it's the only thing we can do."
Starfire nodded again, running alongside Raven to the medical wing of Titans Tower.
"Okay, BB and I are here, where are you two??" Cyborg's voice came out over the T-Com.
"In the medical wing. We're going to restrain Robin so you can give him an examination." Raven answered.
"Okay, we'll be right up."
Raven lay down on the medical bed and Starfire began strapping her in. Cyborg burst in through the door, carrying Raven's body with him.
"Just set me down over in the corner." Beast Boy shivered at Raven's command.
"The restraints are on." Starfire announced.
"Okay, I'm going to leave him now… And get ready, he's pretty mad."
"Not surprising." Beast Boy murmured. Raven's soul self lifted out of Richards Body and was back in her own body like lightning. She stood up.
"This feels so much better." She barely got the sentence out before Richards's screams filled the room.
"LET ME GO!!!!!!!!!!!!! LET ME GO!!!!!!!!! LEMMEGOLEMMEGOLEMMEGO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Richards screaming was unrelenting.
"Ro-
"LET ME GO!!!!"
"Rob-
"LEMMEGO!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
"ROBIN!!!" Raven's energy sealed his mouth closed. She walked over to the bed and leaned in, dangerously close to him. "Shut up." She turned away and stood over by Starfire. Cyborg began testing him, and Richard's eyes widened.
'If you need to say something, just think it and I'll hear you.'
'LET ME GO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!'
Raven immediately left his mind. "DAMMIT ROBIN!" she covered her ears in pain and retreated to a dark corner of the room. "I'll be meditating if you need me." And she was in a trance.
"That doesn't look good." Beast Boy stood, mouth agape. "I don't think I've ever heard Raven cuss before. She's usually so…" His sentence petered out when he couldn't think of the right word to say.
"Poetic." He finally decided on. Cyborg and Starfire stared at Bb's word choice.
"Aaaanyway." Cyborg turned back to his work on Richard. "Robin seems to be fine. But what I'm wondering is why he ran from us. Raven-?"
"No." Raven answered Cyborg's question before he asked it.
"Could you please just talk to him?"
"I already said no. He doesn't want to talk to me."
"I will." Starfire
piped up. The others looked at her.
"I can give you some of my
power temporarily I suppose." Raven said warily. "But are you
sure you want to go into his mind? He's not exactly being…
quiet."
"I do not mind. I wish to talk to him anyway.
Raven walked over and placed hand on Star's forehead. "Azerath Metrion Zynthos." Her hand glowed with black energy and then returned to normal. "When you want to talk to him, just reach out with your mind. Does that make sense?"
"Um, not really, Raven. I have never… 'reached out' with my mind before."
"Remember how you talk to me through our connection?"
"Yes."
"Try it like that. It's the same thing, only with someone else."
"I think I understand. Thank you, Raven."
"You might think differently when you have the headache next." Raven mumbled.
"I've taken all the tests I can for now. We'll leave you two alone. Come on team." Cyborg left the medical room with Raven and Beast Boy following behind.
Starfire stood awkwardly, not knowing how to begin. 'Here goes something, I hope.'
'Robin?' She waited for a response, but none followed. 'Oh no. What if I cannot do this?'
'Robin? Can you hear me?'
'… Yes' Robin's response came in quietly.
'Why did you run away? Why did you…!' Starfire stopped herself. She had to stay in control on this conversation… not to mention she wasn't sure just how much of Raven's power she had received. If it was a significant amount, she could blow the place up for all she knew.
'Why did you leave?'
'I told you. I couldn't stay here. It was too dangerous.'
'But we are the Titans! We have fought battles that were thought to be lost cause. We have brought down villains who were thought to be undefeatable! How could you deny our strength?'
'This was different. More internal than anything. I could feel something was changing inside my. My… moral was different. I didn't want to…' He sighed. 'Be a hero anymore. I felt this pull to do something bad. And I was honestly disgusted by it, but I couldn't change it by being here. And I knew that being here would only make that feeling worse. How could I stay when I would only put this entire city in danger?'
Starfire struggled to remain expressionless. She couldn't let him know anything that she was feeling, otherwise he could use it to his advantage. Starfire knew she was naïve, but only through ignorance of Earth's culture, so she knew he could tell her anything and she may slip up and let him go. Allow him to leave the tower again and disappear. But how could he do this? She could sense he wasn't lying.
'That does not sound like you.' She said after careful thought.
'I know. I figured I would stay away from crime fighting for a while, try to become as normal of a human as I could. But I continued my training. I knew I would want to come back eventually to you all. You guys are my family. I liked living a regular life, not having to constantly be on the alert for trouble, but I did feel guilty whenever I saw the team fighting off someone. I would have returned soon, no doubt about that.'
'You thought you could just turn up out of the blue and rejoin the team? What would you do? Knock on the door and when we came say 'Hi guys! Guess what? I am not dead!' Starfire shouted.
'Well, maybe not quite like that-'
'Or would you have come crashing through a window? Or suddenly show up on the roof? Perhaps you would have merely shown up while we were away, and when we returned you would be here, acting as if you were never gone!'
'Starfire, I was weird for a while, something was messed up with my head. That's why I left. But I'm much better now, I'm back to normal. I'm the same Robin that was here a few months ago.' Robin looked at Starfire with concern
Starfire turned away from him. 'Robin… I cannot…' She struggled to find words again.
'Robin would not have left us.'
'I told you, I'm fine now. Back to the same old Robin.'
'And you agree that Robin left us, he betrayed us?'
'I wouldn't say betra-'
'Then what would you say?!'
'… I don't know. I don't like hearing the word betrayed used with me. It makes me think of, well, you know who I mean.'
Starfire nodded in agreement. She knew who he was talking about. 'But it is true. Robin deceived us.'
'I… I guess you could say that. It's the only way that I can think of. The only way I could think of then, too.' Robin looked away.
'Then… If that is really what happened… then you are not Robin.'
'WHAT?!? Starfire, I already told you. I am Rob-'
Starfire shook her head. 'Robin would not have done that. He would have found a way to notify us, as he had in other situations. Such as when he was forced to join Slade. Robin would not have betrayed us as you did. You are not Robin. You are truly Richard. I'm sorry it took me so long to realize.' Starfire didn't open her emotions at all. She stayed in control.
'Starfire… I-'
'Goodbye, Richard.'
Starfire walked out the door, and didn't turn back. The green light near the door into the medical room was shining brightly, signaling it was clear of bacteria or harmful viruses. And Starfire kept walking. Walking to a new future, a new beginning, but on an altered path. One where she could not trust like she used to. And all it took was a little love.
FIN
A/N: … Whoa. Now that ending was honestly in a WAY different direction than I was planning on when I first started writing this fic. Like polar opposite! If what my ending was going to be what I thought at first was the North Pole, then this ending was the South Pole. If it was supposed to end in Canada, I dropped down to China. If… You get my point! Funny how things change. So, what did you think? That last chapter was pretty intense, was it not? Sorry it took so long to update, but hopefully the wait was worth it! Oh, I dropped a little metaphor in the end there, care to give your opinion and thinking on it? What you think it was and represented? I'd be MOST interested in what you all think it was! Yea, I was going to have Starfire and Robin all in love at the end, happily ever after, about as fluffy as a marshmallow sandwich floating in a cloud… BUT as I got nearer to the end, I realized that that would be about the worst possible ending for this story. No joke, I think I would've killed myself if I did that. Hence, the ending in China, not Canada (no metaphor intended… if there is one… some people look way too far into the things I say, so I figured it would be best if I threw that in there). At least I didn't blow them up! BT said she liked the idea of them all getting in the T-Ship, and something going wrong and then KABOOM! Dead. Deady dead dead. Dead as a dead thing. But I thought this was better, and sort of the same-ish. Hopefully, this fic to you was pancakin' (Science vocab. word. It's slang for cool. Synonyms: (Super) Fly, dank, off the chain) and you enjoyed it, even though it took me, what? A year to write it? Haha. A few announcements!
I'm sixteen now! Yay! My birthday was just a few weeks ago, happy!!
I finished this fan fiction on October 29, 2007. But the internet is down, which means no uploading, which bugs me. I finally finish this, and you all can't enjoy it!
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