(Well… -Excited squeal- Last chapter before time skip. : Very much angst in this chapter. But all in the good course of love! …

Kinda. Anyways…)

Chapter 5

Only One

Beast Boy only listened to the conversation the funeral director was giving with only one ear open. He's mind couldn't help but wander on where Starfire was, she was alone…Alone. Like Colad.

Colad. The dead Colad.

Instantly being brought back into the conversation by a gentle nudge from Cyborg, Beast Boy snapped himself out of it.

"We don't know what happened! First he was there, and now he isn't. We swear we did not even leave the room. I turned my back for half a second before turning back around to discover the body gone!" Came the panicky voice of the funeral director, his grey eyebrows matching his even greyer eyes.

Robin placed a hand on the old man's shoulder comfortingly, he looked at the coffin from behind his mask and sighed.

"Well, you don't think he's still alive do you?" Cyborg asked, his eyes also wavering at the coffin.

"Don't be an idiot dude. What's dead stays dead." Beast Boy responded to the equally worrying question and the worry of Starfire being dead in a street corner. Lying there, blood oozing out of her neck and lips - everywhere. Covering the whole street with the Tamaranean's blood, every sidewalk, every sewer and everything that was in sight of it. Her head tilted to the side, still smiling as her life slowly ebbed away. Her arms outstretched, calling for him. Begging him to come into her arms.

"Beast Boy…"

He was lost at her voice. The soft lyrical voice that was calling him into her arms, pleading him to kiss her lips, giving her the last breath of his inside her. Rattling her bones softly.

He wanted to go to her. But he couldn't. Something was holding him back. Looking back to see who would dare do such a thing, he was scared out of his wits as Raven's steely violet eyes looked back at him.

The fantasy broke as he found himself back into the funeral director's shop.

Shaking his head and cursing himself at the morbid thoughts inside his head - probably no thanks to Raven - he managed to stammer a short, "what?"

Raven looked at him, her mouth not moving an inch from their current frowning position. She was obviously not pleased with him for some reason. He just knew it. The way she looked at him, the way her figure was so tightly close to his and the way she was going to squash him with her arms.

Pulling the green changeling into a hug, Raven wrapped her arms around Beast Boy's neck. This wasn't a desperate hug, or a romantic one. Definitely not romantic, Raven was not a person who got over the love of their life in two whole days. It was based basically on friendship and understanding.

Beast Boy on the other hand, was trying his hardest not to choke on his own tongue as the empath tightened her grip on his neck. At first, he thought she was coming onto him and was quickly trying to struggle out of her grip before realizing that Raven loved Colad very much, in addition to that would never dare to try and come onto him like that.

His thoughts were confirmed when she breathed the words in his ear that he was hoping to hear off anyone all day.

"Go find her. You won't be any good here if you aren't focused on finding…Colad's body. Go find Starfire, then report back to the tower. We'll probably be scanning the city there."

Then she muttered the last sentence that made him chuckle outwardly.

"Don't think I like you by the way."

Feeling the arms around his neck drop, Beast Boy nodded before flashing a grin at the empath and running out of the shop. Trying his hardest not to laugh out loud at the dark magus sudden change of heart.

.XIfYou'reNotTheOneX.

Starfire tried her best not to scream as she struggled against the shackles that were bounding her to the wooden pine floor. Her hands were so far away from each other that she couldn't fire any star bolts to hit the other one with. Her vision was blocked by a reflective titanium steel that fitted her like razor vision glasses. (A/N: Think of Cyclops from X-Men.) Her super human strength had been drained away by the fight she put up to stop these two men in long cloaks from dragging her into a house of some sort.

"Please you nasty man! Let me go!" Starfire struggled against her shackles as she tried her hardest to pull them out of the wall.

"It's men sweetheart." Came a cold but lust-filled voice that made a shiver go down Starfire's spine.

"Please, I am not your sweet of the heart!" Starfire cried out as two hands rested on her arm.

The hands travelled up her arm and only stopped when they came to her soft lips as the owner of the hands pressed his two fingers against her lips.

"Shush my Starfire. Or shall I call you Koriand'r?"

Starfire jumped as his harsh breath hit her ear, wishing she could blast the steel out of her face, but knowing very well she'd be unsuccessful because of the reflectivity.

"You shall not call me Koriand'r! Only Garfield shall call me that! And you are by far are not Garfield! Now please, let me go! Or I will be forced to call my -" Her yelling was cut short as the fingers to her lips were pressed harder against her.

"Your little friends won't be any use to you. I've destroyed your communicator so they won't be able to track you and have gotten rid of anything that would alert anyone of you being here. Including your neck collar." He added as he let his hand brush against the bare skin near her neck.

Starfire felt her herself repulse against the touch and she found it hard to keep herself from vomiting against the touch of this vile human.

"Leroy, Axel, remove the body. Put it into a storage. Freeze it. Do anything, but don't let it decompose." The voice commanded as angry footsteps left the room at his command.

"I saw you from afar two days ago my pretty little star." He caressed her cheek and smirked at the reaction of almost having his finger bit off by the alien. "And I haven't thought of anything apart from you. Please my little fire of the stars." He planted a soft kiss on her cheek. "Be mine."

Starfire felt the tears welling up in her eyes, she had only come to fly around the city to think and instead she was being held hostage by none other than a normal citizen.

Now he was asking her to be his. No! She would not let that happen. She loved Beast Boy, and had risked her life for him to love her too.

"Never, please! We can talk this out! I belong to Garfield, not a normal civilian. But I assure you, if you let me go we can become friends, yes?" Starfire pleaded, the tears falling silently down her eyes.

"Who's Garfield?" Was the silent but deadly tone that escaped her torturer's lips.

"Why do you wish to know this question?" Starfire squeaked out, her eyes dilating at the thought that was progressing through her mind.

"It's that green brat. Isn't it?" The tone was getting more angrier and even Starfire knew when red meant red.

"It is none of your concern!" She managed to stammer, her heart racing 50 miles per second.

"Be mine! Or I'll kill Garfield. Tell the Titans that you're leaving. Be mine Starfire of Tamaran. Or I promise. As I have promised to all other people who have denied me what I want." He pressed something sharp against her throat. "I will kill your Garfield. Do you understand?"

Starfire only nodded, her eyes red and puffy from the tears that was racing down her face.

"Garfield…Please forgive me. I am not one to give up so easily, but with you…It's so much easier to give up if somebody threatens the one that I love. And for that. I am sorry Garfield…"

She closed her eyes as he undid the shackles and let her gaze fall upon him.

"I love you Garfield…"

.XIfYou'reNotTheOneX.

The Titans was back from the funeral directors, scanning the city for anything that seemed suspicious. Beast Boy had promised he would look for anything that didn't seem right either as he looked for Starfire, his life and his love.

So when he came back empty handed, even the likes of Raven was surprised to see him.

However, Raven stood up straight away as he came in, her eyes that was full of hope a few minutes ago, vanished. She knew she was being stupid, wanting to see a dead body would make her even more depressed than she was already feeling.

As a result, when she walked silently down the corridors to her room she was flabbergasted to see the three boys looking at her. All three of them looking very solemn.

"We know very well Raven that you are going to be like this for a while." Robin started his expression undetectable. "So we are going to keep you a promise. We won't rest until we find the body of Colad. We'll be here for you Raven, especially Starfire. She cares a lot for you as well as Beast Boy. We all care for you." Robin turned away before looking over his shoulder and giving a small smile as he walked down the corridor.

"We'll always care for you." She heard briefly as Robin turned around the corner.

Looking up to see Beast Boy staring at her made her eyebrows twitch in annoyance, then she remembered that she had given Beast Boy a hug - she brushed her leotard down.

"Uhm. Thanks. Cyborg." She gave the mechanical man in front of her a slight twitch of her mouth before returning her gaze to Beast Boy.

"And, uh. You too. Uh, Beast. Boy." She wasn't nervous. She was just not new to even saying please or thank you to Beast Boy. Jeez, she even knew more about Silkie than Beast Boy. Well, no that was a lie, but.

Whatever.

A small flash of red caught Raven's eye as something hurried across the end corridor to Starfire's room.

"Your princess is here Beast Boy." Raven said blankly, her eyes half shut so she could focus clearly.

Instantly spinning around, Beast Boy dashed to Starfire's room, his eyes glittering with happiness.

Meanwhile, Raven locked eyes with Cyborg. Grey and Violet clashed as they stared at each other. Neither knowing what to say.

Cyborg sighed as he searched the answers in Raven's eyes.

"You're leaving?" He asked, his eyes widened little by little as she slowly confirmed it with a nod.

"You know the team will break up don't you?" Cyborg asked again, his surprised eyes turning into ones of disappointment as she again nodded. "Keep in touch. Please Rae."

Raven's violet eyes darkened and she pulled her cloak more tightly around her as if she was waiting for the coldness in her to go away.

"Don't do it for me. Okay?" He wasn't surprised when he saw her head shoot up and her eyes widen in shock. "Do it for all of us. For B, Star, Rob and me."

Raven tried her best not to let her lips twitch into a smile, the sadness slowly fading away at the oddly comforting words.

"I will. Don't worry." Was all Raven muttered as she walked down the end of the corridor. Never to be seen again until ten years later…

In the meantime, Beast Boy pushed his way through to Starfire's room, his face never looking happier until he saw what she was doing.

"Star? Kori? Why are you packing?" He asked gently as he walked slowly towards her bed where she was packing things in her suitcase.

"I am leaving." She replied simply, a small but delicate smile on her face as she continued to pack.

Beast Boy began unpacking Starfire's belongings as she packed them, the pile getting higher and higher the faster Starfire went.

"Why?" Beast Boy asked forcefully, trying his hardest to not let his deepest fears come true.

Noticing what Beast Boy was now doing, Starfire simple lifted the pile up and placed it in her suitcase before pulling the lid over it and zipping it up hastily.

"It is for your own good friend Beast Boy." She plainly said, picking her suitcase up by the handle and lugging it over her back.

"Friend? Starfire!" He called as she floated out of her door to descend the stairs up the roof.

Once they were both on the roof, she turned and placed her hands on his shoulders, smiling weakly to herself.

"Please friend, do not follow me. You will only make it harder for me to leave your side."

Beast Boy had no idea why that was such a bad thing.

"Kori? What's wrong Kori? Dudette? Is it because I don't appreciate you? Is that it? Or is it because I don't cook for you? Or say I love you a lot? Kori? Dudette?" Beast Boy's desperate cry rang through Starfire's ears making her heart feel like it was being shredded into a million of tiny little pieces.

"No." She whimpered, her smile failing a little to stay upwards. "It is not that. I just wish you not to follow Beast Boy…"

Before she could stop herself, Starfire lunged herself at the changeling, her arms wrapping firmly around his neck and her lips connecting with his. The kiss was desperate even in Beast Boy's eyes, he knew something was up. And he wanted to know what it was.

Not saying that he didn't ENJOY her tongue tasting his.

She pulled away quickly, before firing a star bolt reluctantly at him, sending him flying away from her as she soared up into the sky -praying that the dark clouds would protect her from Beast Boy's eyes.

Finally being able to stand up, Beast Boy quickly jumped up, running as fast as he could as he called out her name.

"Starfire! Star! Koriand'r!"

Taking flight as he transformed into a green eagle, Beast Boy soared across the sky, scanning for anything that would signal he was close to catching up with her.

10 hours later

Beast Boy was crying, he couldn't help it anymore. Starfire was gone! He couldn't find her and he had just received a message saying the Titan's were no more from Robin!

"Dude. Who's going to buy me tofu now?"

He dryly chuckled at himself.

Then the realization hit him.

Hard.

"Why? Why now? Why did she leave me?" And for the first time since Terra's betrayal, tears started to slowly fall down Beast Boy's cheeks.

"I thought I felt worse with Terra. Oh god, this hurts so much that I'm actually crying more." He placed his face in his hands. "I suck big time."

And with that final sentence.

Beast Boy got up to start his new life.

(Time Skip Time! Dun dun. Anyway, do you think I should hit up my rating higher? Oo I'm not sure you see. If you think so just tell me and I will :)