I am so sorry people,

I was supposed to update the fic on Friday or Saturday but I totally forgot that this weekend was New Years! So I'm updating today instead, again I'm sorry and please don't kill me people. I 've gotten lots of those 'update or I'll kill you' reviews. About this chapter, i just wanna say that I am not a Raven/ Rachel hater I made her like this for a reason, you'll see why way later in the fic.

I hated the last chapter and I hated the way they met it was stupid but I'm not a very good writer so I guess it was okay. Keep in mind that this is my first fic and I don't have much experience in writing so don't expect much. I hate this chapter too.

I've never had a disclaimer so why start now.

But just in case...

Disclaimer: I don't own Teen Titans

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She had found Rachel not long after her encounter with the weirdo at the front door.

She was sitting alone on one of the many chairs lined against the wall, staring at nothing impaticular with a calm face. Ever since Starfire could remember Rachel was always like this, never the social type. Starfire felt sorry for the people who didn't bother to get to know Rachel she had always been the best of friends to her. Starfire always had the suspicion that her husband married her because she was so quiet. Michael, her husband, never liked his women strong. He wanted someone that wouldn't argue or go against anything he said, and Rachel was a very passive person. They have a son, his name's Matt, he's nine years old, and he's a very good boy, always so sweet. But Rachel had always confided in Starfire on how concerned she was by how his father was raising him to be just like him. Michael still wanted more children but so far they had no more children, he always bugged her about how useless she was because she could not bear more. But Rachel had a secret that only Starfire knew, every night after Rachel was with Michael she drank a certain tea that disabled her from getting pregnant. She wanted children, she just didn't want anymore children with Michael.

Rachel spoke first. "Hey." She said quietly.

Starfire sat on a chair next to her and slumped "Hey."

"I saw your big entrance." She half smiled.

"Ugh, don't remind me." She shuddered. "Everyone's eyes were on me, the men were watching my every move. I feel sick I just want this night to end." She sighed.

"Well hate to tell you but the night's still young." She drank out of her glass.

"You just make everything sound better do you not?" Starfire said sarcastically, she looked around "Hey, where's Michael?"

"Oh-um he couldn't come, he had other things to do."

"He made you come by yourself?"

"No, my servant came with me, besides I didn't want you to be alone tonight."

"You defend him too much you know." Starfire said while Rachel just shrugged.

Blackfire walked up to Starfire fuming. "What the hell are doing here!" She whispered. "Get out there and find yourself a man!"

"Blackfire I don't want to-" Blackfire grabbed Starfire by the arm and dragged her across the floor trying not to make a scene. Leaving Rachel with a frown on her face as she saw how Blackfire treated her best friend.

Blackfire stopped in the middle of the room. "Starfire I'm serious you have to find someone tonight. And don't think I didn't see you and Grayson hit it off at the front door. Did you like him? Come with me I'll introduce you to him."

"Blackfire!" Starfire tried to keep her voice down. "You can't just rush me into a marriage with him!"

"Why not? He's the one I wanted to introduce you to tonight anyways."

"That's him? He's the one you want me to marry? No I don't want to marry him, he was drooling all over himself when he saw me, he's probably some sort of nasty pervert."

"Well it's either a nasty pervert or a gross old man on top of you every night. You choose." Blackfire let go of her wrist and crossed her arms.

In Starfire's mind the reality stung, she hadn't even thought of her wedding night. She didn't want her first time to be like that, choosing between an old hairy probably drunk man or a young man who was rotten from the inside, perverted and would maybe even treat her bad.

"Nasty pervert it is." She heard Blackfire say as she pulled her across the room.

They didn't find him right away they made several stops while they were looking. And those several stops included Blackfire starting a conversation with a man and Starfire having to finish it off with a hug, while the men hugged a little too tight not caring if Starfire felt a little too uncomfortable.

Then when they finally saw him he was across the room getting a drink from the servant holding a tray. "Oh my gosh!" Blackfire said excitedly. "There he is!" She pointed. "Isn't he just dreamy?"

"Blackfire maybe you should marry him." She raised an eyebrow to the hearts in Blackfire's eyes, getting bigger and smaller.

Blackfire sighed. "If only I could. But you forget, I'm already married. Not happily, but there's no other way. Now get over there." She gave her a little push.

"What? No way!" Starfire blushed. "I don't know him."

"Let's go meet him now."

"Blackfire please." Starfire was on the verge of crying, but Blackfire kept leading her towards Richard.

"Well hello Mr. Grayson." Blackfire said as she stood in a bowing stance waiting for Starfire to do the same thing and when she did she continued. "This is my younger sister, Starfire."

Richard was embarrassed, after what he just did. She probably thought he was an idiot. He blushed lightly. "Uhh..nice to meet you, Starfire." he bowed with one hand behind his back and with his other he grabbed her hand and kissed it.

"I'm sure you know why we threw this dinner party don't you?"

"Uuhh to enjoy yourself?" He really had no idea.

"Oh Richard." Blackfire laughed softly "You are such a card." She patted his shoulder. "I'm sure you're here to ask for my sister's hand in marriage like all these other eligible bachelors, aren't you?"

Blackfire do you have to be so blunt! Starfire was yelling to herself hoping Blackfire just might hear some of what she was saying and notice that she was being humiliated. She could feel herself burning up. Why am I blushing so much! I don't want to marry this guy! I don't even like him!

Richard noticed Why is she blushing so much? He asked himself. Is she really that shy? I wonder if she's that shy because she likes me?

"Well I'll leave you two alone." They were both put out of their thoughts when Blackfire said that.

They stood there in silence hearing the music in the background. Everytime Richard turned to look her in the face Starfire would just look away and her eyes would wander around the room.

She's so cute. He thought to himself. She seems so naive and she's really shy. Maybe if I spent more time with her she would grow to like me.

Starfire caught him staring for too long. "What?" She asked politely.

"Oh-I was wondering would you like to dance?" He found a quick solution to get out of staring at her and out of the silence they were in.

"Mmhm." She nodded.

They walked over to the dance floor. Dancing was nothing special to Starfire, it was no secret, to herself, that she loved to dance. Whenever she was dancing it was like she could feel her body become alive. Her body would flow to the rythym of the music and she would soar, she would feel her heart grow wings. And she wouldn't care who was watching her fly.

When Richard saw her dance, he saw her happy for the first time. She smiled at him and her smile was radiant. The dance was a simple waltz but her body moved like water. Her feet glided in swift movements making it a lot easier for his clumziness not to get in the way. His dancing was rusty but hers was perfect. When she danced her eyes were closed, it gave him a chance to take in every detail of her. Her face was so delicate, her skin was so soft and had a perfect orange tan, its color differed greatly from his milky white skin. But he loved it nonetheless, he could imagine himself waking up and being wrapped in it for the rest of his life.

Starfire opened her eyes and saw Richard staring at her he quickly looked away and hoped to god that she didn't see him. But she saw, and it made her blush wildly. But she shook it off, part of her was waiting for something else to happen.

He looked back at her and their eyes met. Looking at her eyes made him want to kiss her, to do something to her that would make her happy. He grabbed her by the waist and lifted her up in the air and she giggled, she laughed. She put her hands on his shoulders. He saw her hair blowing while he spun her in the air. He let her down safely on the ground and they began to dance again but this time with passion. He felt free dancing with her, they danced faster and closer than before, so close Richard's lips were breathing over Starfire's and hers were breathing into his.

What am I doing? Richard asked himslef. I can't control myself should I kiss her? I want to kiss her.

What is he doing! Starfire asked herself. Do I want him to kiss me? I feel so close to him. No, I don't want him to kiss me. She made up her mind. This guy has no right to kiss me.

Their lips brushed against each others for a second and Starfire immediately pulled back, she let go of Richard's hand and out of his grasp.

"Wait, I'm sorry!" He yelled to her back as she ran off.

"Crap." He cursed to himself. He looked around and was met by almost everyone who had been dancing, they had stopped to look at them two dancing.

"What!" He yelled, He kicked the air, he was frustrated. Arrghh I screwed everything up! He walked off the dance floor with fast steps.

Starfire ran back upstairs and Blackfire followed. She ran up to her room and slammed the door in Blackfire's face. Blackfire opened the door again. "What the hell was that!"

"Blackfire I can't do this." Her eyes were leaking. "My heart's still broken" she stuffed her face into her pillow.

"Your heart is not broken, it's all in your head! You have to go back down there and let Richard court you!"

"Blackfire please I can't-"

"Yes you can! You're going to marry Richard Grayson! whether you like it or not." She walked out of Starfire's room with the slam of a door.

Starfire sighed to herself and thought about Richard. Could she really like him? No, she could still feel Speedy in her heart and she couldn't do anything to rip him out, she had to admit, even if it were only to herself, that she still loved Speedy and as long as she did there was no more room for any other man in her life.

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Blackfire went back downstairs and X saw her.

"What's wrong with you?" He asked

"Tomorrow you go see Richard Grayson and I don't care how you do it but you get him to marry Starfire." She walked off with a smile on her face for the other guests.

How am I going to get him to marry Starfire! He thought. Dammit! I just wanted the deed to the house back. I never asked for a life this complicated!

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With Richard...

He had run off the dance floor hurridly, all he wanted to do was get out of the place. He didn't dare to even look for Starfire she had all the reason in the world to be mad at him. But he wasn't going to give up on her, he knew she was going to be his wife and he swore to himself to never give up on her.

He found Garfield leaning against the stairway with a proud look on his face and a red handmark on his cheek.

"What happened to you?" Richard smiled as he leaned against the stairway next to Gar.

Garfield just stared into space as he answered. "I met the my future wife."

"What! You, the ladies man, has finally found somebody worthy of your skills?" Richard cracked up.

"Shut up." Gar frowned.

"Besides I told you I wasn't going to let you have all the fun, didn't I?" He crossed his arms and pouted.

"Looks like you had loads of fun." Richard said sarcastically, pointing to the handmark on Gar's face.

"Well, we didn't exactly hit it off so perfect." Gar said

"What'd you do?" Richard said not believeing that his friend really could screw everything up even when it came to first acquaintences.

"Well I think she exaggerated.." Gar looked at Richard.

Richard just stared back waiting for a good explanation.

"Okay we were dancing-I had asked her to dance, it took her a while to say yes, so anyway she grabbed my hand and I meant to grab her waist, honestly, but I guess my hand went a little lower than I expected."

"You are an idiot. How do you expect her to marry after an encounter like that? I don't blame you though." Richard mumbled the last sentence.

"Huh?" Gar said surprised. "What do you mean you don't blame me? What did you do?"

"You remember the red head at the front door?"

"Yeah."

"Well I almost kissed her."

"Kissing and touching are nothing to be ashamed of. "

"It's called decency Gar. Besides these girls aren't like the prostitues you pick up at the whore house every weekend. They were raised to belong to only one man."

"Well I'm the man for..for..Oh crap I never got her name!"

"Well if I were her I wouldn't have given you my name either."

"I got to find her!" Garfiled was having a panic attack.

"Relax I've decided to stay here for a little while longer. You'll have plenty of time to see her again."

"Oh well that's good." Gar relaxed. "Besides, I never got to open the shop up this morning."

"Oh yeah I forgot about that. We'll go in tomorrow to at least set things up, we can open on Monday. I'm sure lots of people need help managing their money around here."

"What's with the sudden interest in staying?"

"I think you know the answer to that." Richard smiled slyly to his friend.

"Well then I guess you and I have the same goal don't we?"

"Yep but for now lets just go home."

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When they got back to Richard's house...

They were both tired they hadn't drunk a lot but the party was exhausting, keeping up appearances was a hard thing to do. People had surrounded him all night asking him questions he didn't know how to answer. Lots of businessmen who asked how much he sold his cattle for and asked if he had any extra land he didn't want. To say the truth he didn't know how much he owned, he didn't even know where the land he owned was. But he couldn't tell that to the people who surrounded him he'd look like an imposter.

They entered the house Gar went straight to his room without a word and Richard stayed there watching the house at night. He walked over to the center of the house and sat on the bench. He looked around, the house was two stories tall. It was in the form of a square and the whole center of the house was just a patio, so it was a sort of hollow square. The top story had three more bedrooms, his and Gar's bedrooms were on the bottom story. In all there were twelve rooms in the whole house, there was a library, his study, and the lounging room where they met their guests. The rest of the rooms were reserved for the servants' bedrooms.

He got up from the bench and went to his own room, he was tired. Right now showering wasn't important, he would do that in the morning. He went to sleep asking himself a single question regarding the feelings that were inside him.

"If this isn't love than what is it?"

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I hated the way I ended this chapter but I couldn't find any other way to end it so I'm sorry if it sucked, this chapter was also short compared to the others. This is the last chapter for a while, I'm going back to school on the 4th and I don't know if I'll have enough time to update as frequently as I have been for the past week. But keep in mind that I will try. I hope ya'll all had an awesome new year! Mine was good but my family and I missed the countdown...again but it was still fun and we got to get out of school for like 2 weeks.

The part where Richard saw Gar with a handmark on his face so reminded me of Inuyasha's Miroku and Sango, that's another pair I like.

Well anyways...

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