I'm home sick right now, so what better way to spend it than writing on FF? lol. Anyways...thanks so much to BerryDrops, cartoonfire, cartoonstar, FairieAngelx3o, Lil-Mz. Sunshine, pokemon-avatar, Random-post, RavenSis, and Royalfire14 for the great reviews! I haven't decided whether I will or not, btw, as an answer to almost all your reviews lol. But thanks again, you guys, and sorry I couldn't reply to most of your reviews, my e-mail is seriously messed up right now.

So I'm attempting to write the fifth chapter...There'll only be six...

Disclaimer: I don't own anything mentioned below.


"Eat," Nightwing ordered, and Starfire obeyed, taking a tiny bite of the mint-frosting topped pizza, one of her favorite foods. Immediately, she gagged, about to throw up, but Nightwing fixed her with a stern look, and she forced it down. His face broke into a smile as she wiped the excess frosting off her chin, beaming triumphantly. Nightwing leaned over and kissed her tenderly, but it didn't stay that way...
Robin sat in Starfire's bright and cheery room, feeling the complete opposite. He was pretty pathetic, wallowing in self-pity over here, but he didn't see what else he could do besides wait. Things had never looked so bleak and hopeless.

Silkie crawled into his lap again, chewing at his uniform. Robin pulled him away, staring at him eye to eye. "You are one disgusting worm. Go find something else to eat besides me." Silkie sulked away after Robin put him down, and Robin couldn't blame him. He was familiar, a reminder of the happy days. But why Silkie had felt the need to bite him was confusing, unless the worm was smarter than he looked and actually understood Robin when he said Starfire's death was his fault.


"Well," said Beast Boy, breaking the tense silence. "This is awkward." Cyborg nodded dumbly, while Raven just raised an eyebrow and sat down with her book, trying to ignore the sucking sounds coming from the couch.

"Is it even legal to do things like this in public?" Cyborg whispered to Beast Boy. The green teen shrugged.

"You don't have to talk so soft, I don't think they can hear you," he replied. "Let's play Mega Monkeys Four! I'm SO gonna kick your metal butt!"

"Uh-uh, you tofu-eating midget, you'll lose...again! I lost count how many times I've beat you at that game! Oh wait, no I haven't!" Cyborg glanced at his left arm. "3,792!" So they played for the three-thousand, seven hundred, ninety-third time, and of course, Cyborg won.

"Not fair! Just because you're part robot, you keep winning!" Cyborg raised an eyebrow and tried to keep a straight face.

"Are you suggesting that I know every cheat code that ever existed, or that I messed with the game and made it so I would always win?"

"Uh...the first one! No...the second one! Or, wait..." Raven smirked.

"So we finally found a way to keep a talkative idiot busy for a couple of hours. Give him choices that require brainpower." Beast Boy stuck his tongue out at her.

"You wanna play again?" Beast Boy's very limited concentration was directed elsewhere.

"Yeah! And this time I'm first player!"

"Uh-uh. Ain't no way you're touchin' my controller! You'll get grass stains all over it!"

"So that's it! You messed with the game so the first player would always win!" Cyborg stared at him in shock.

"Is it just me, or are you getting smarter?" Beast Boy morphed into a pig, snorted, and morphed back.

"Probably a lucky guess. Now gimme the controller!" Nightwing and Starfire's passionate make-out session on the couch was by now completely ignored.


Robin stepped out into the Ops Center, which was completely deserted. Changeling and Raven were out somewhere, and Cyborg was bustling around in the kitchen. Silkie crawled in after the Boy Wonder, who glanced at the worm and immediately knew something was wrong.

On the couch, what looked like a black swarm of bees had appeared. Occasionally they flashed different colors, but for the most part just swirled around of their own accord. Then, the T.V. turned on, but the remote was on the coffee table, at least ten feet away from either of the two heroes. Robin raised an eyebrow, not particularly disturbed. He just didn't care anymore. "Hey, Cy? Is that normal?"

Cyborg was staring with his human eye wide open. He whipped out his T-Comm, and called up the married couple. "Rae? BB? We got a situation here."

"We'll be there in a sec," was Changeling's reply. Not a minute later, Raven and Changeling arose from the ground in a swirling mist of black. "What's wrong?"

"That," Cyborg pointed out. The two turned to look, and, strangely enough, Raven smiled.

"Don't worry...it's a friend of mine."


"I love you, Nightwing," Starfire whispered as she drifted off to sleep. Nightwing smiled and kissed her quickly, so as not to disturb her too much. He'd waited forever to hear those four words.

"I love you, too, Starfire..." If anything, he wanted Starfire's last memory of him to be a happy one. Tomorrow, he'd be going back to his own time, and he had no idea whether this had worked or not. He had no way of knowing until he got back. But time travel was still a very shaky field, even for Cyborg, and Nightwing didn't want to push anything. Not only that, but he'd noticed what looked like a tiny swarm of fleas around his ring finger. He hoped his body wasn't deteriorating or anything.

Giving Starfire one last kiss on the cheek, he walked out of the room, only to be greeted by the rest of the Titans.

"Nightwing?" asked Cyborg suspiciously.

"I knew there was something different about you," Raven said, studying him. Nightwing laughed a little nervously.

"Here's a funny story...okay, it's the farthest thing from funny, but I guess you guys have a right to hear it."

"We've got time."

"Well, I've got time until eleven o'clock, 'cause if I'm not asleep by then, Raven gets really mad," chipped in Beast Boy, shuddering.

"I don't remember BB having a bedtime," said Nightwing. Beast Boy pouted a little it.

"It is SO not a bed time! It's a...a...curfew!"

"Bedtime," argued Cyborg.

"Curfew!"

"Cut it out!" growled Raven, and a bulb near them flickered threateningly. The two boys shut up at once. "Starfire is trying to sleep. Hurry up and start talking, whoever you are, and if you say one more word, Beast Boy, then I won't hesitate to trap you in Nevermore with Anger." Beast Boy gulped, and Nightwing snickered, choosing not to mention Raven and BB's relationship in the future.

"I am Robin, but from six years in the future. Starfire was supposed to die a couple of hours ago. That's why I came back..."


Okay, so they aren't bees, they're dots...and who do you think Rae's friend is? Hint hint: it's got something to do with those dots around NW's hand, too. Sorry this is short, next one might be longer.

Anyway...please review!