Starfire cautiously entered the room, and took sight of the brightly colored beanbag chairs, which seemed out of place in the dull room. "Oh!" she exclaimed, giggling a little. "Please, what are these whimsical devices?"
Dr. Lez chuckled, and said, "It's called a bean bag chair, Starfire. It's a sort of... fun, squishy chair, I suppose."
"Glorious! Please, what is this, 'evaluation' you shall be doing? Robin tried to explain it, but I still do not understand"
"Well, Starfire, the evaluations I'm doing on you will be to test how... sane, you are I suppose you could say. But for now, I'm just going to learn a little about you."
"Oh, well that surely is easy!" Starfire exclaimed. "I am the princess of Tamaran, my favorite color is pink, I like journeying to the mall of shopping, my best friend is Robin-"
"Whoa, slow down! I can't understand you!" Said Lez, laughing a little bit. "That isn't exactly what I meant. What I meant, was get to know you, like get to know about your past. Where you're coming from."
"Oh." Starfire seemed to be much less spirited by this bit of news. "My past is not of happy times, as I'm sure Beastboy's was not either."
"What makes you think Beastboy had a bad past?" Lez asked, curious as to what Starfire knew and didn't know, and also curious about the girls observations.
"Beastboy always seems to be the happy, and has the fun with his pranks and his jokes, but sometimes it seems as though it is all an act... as if he is hiding in his jokes, hiding from something sad."
"Uh huh..." Lez found this to be very interesting information. "So, a little about yourself?" Starfire nodded.
"I was born Princess Koriand'r of Tamaran, second in line to the throne only to my older sister. Our planet is a warrior people, and my sister and I were trained from birth to become great warriors, so either of us could assume the throne at any time if nececary. When I was thirteen in earth years, the Citadel attacked our planet."
"And the Citadel are...?"
"Not. Nice." Said Starfire, describing them exactly how she had to the titans when they first met. "The battle went on for two years, until our people called a truce. My sister and I were given as... prizes, to the Citadel, to take our turns as... servants to their people." Starfire looked down at the ground, not meeting Lez's eye. "The Citadel also experimented on my sister and I. Trying to see how much light energy we could obsorb. That is how we got our starbolts." She lit up her hands, demonstrating. "The rest of our people only have what the people of earth call 'flight' and 'super-strength'. Our people are almost as strong as the Kryptonians." She said this with a hint of pride, being able to compare her planet's people to Superman.
"So... what happened after they experimented on you?"
"On our way to the Citadel's planet, my sister broke out, finding out about the new power we possessed. She told me about the powers in our native tounge, and she flew off. The security on the ship found out about her leaving, and so they doubled security on me, placing metal handcuffs over my hands, so I could not use my powers. Eventually, I broke out, and flew to earth.
"I ended up in this city, though I could not understand any of earths people, and they frightened me. I was trying to get the metal devices off of my hands, but I could not. Robin came, and mistaked me for a villain, for I was causing great damage to the city. I faught him, and soon Beastboy and Cyborg came, to help Robin. I did not understand that they were trying only to defend their city. Soon I tired, and Raven stopped them from harming me any further. She told them that perhaps fighting was not the answer. Then Robin came foreward cautiously.
"He pulled out a small device which released the locks on my bonds, then I kissed him, told him not to follow me, and left."
"Wait, kissed him?" asked Lez, one eyebrow raised. She was sure she had heard the girl wrong.
"Yes. Tamaranians are capable of learning languages through lip contact." Lez just shook her head, thinking about how much of a surprise that must've been for Tim. "So, I flew to a store of movies and candy, and started eating what I could find. I hadn't been given food in days, for the Citadel didn't want me strong enough to fight. My friends found me there, and explained the word, 'nice', which is not like the word ruptha, the closest word from my own language, meaning weak." Lez nodded, confused slightly.
"Then my friends helped me to defeat the citadel, and stop them from destroying the city. Later on the next day, I met the others, sharing my decision to stay on earth. Robin and Cyborg gave Beastboy, Raven and I communicators they had designed to keep in touch. Eventually, we decided the city needed heroes, and to stay as a team. On this island, the tower was built from the capsule the citadel sent to earth, telling the people not to interfere. And now here we are."
Lez smiled, seeing how perky the girl was. "So, what happened to your planet?" she immediately regretted the question, as Starfire immediately started frowning, and seemed more like Raven than herself.
"The citadel armys left when my sister and I were taken. My k'norfka, Galfore, took care of my younger brother. My parents were both killed in the battle." A few tears trickled from her eyes. "My brother, though he was young, became the grand ruler of Tamaran, until my sister took over... after escaping prison..."
"Prison?"
"It is... a long story. But she took over Tamaran and I was coming because I had to marry a man to save my country from an invasion, and-"
"Marrige?" Lez exclaimed. How could a girl so young even think of marrige?
"Yes. To save my people. But Robin and Raven found out that it was merely a ruse created by my sister, and that she was really trading my hand in marrige for a gem that would make her powers unstopable. Beastboy and Cyborg found out the fleets of ships were empty, and not filled with enemies like we'd expected. So, I challenged my sister for the crown, won the contest and became the Grand Ruler of Tamaran. I then banished Blackfire from Tamaran. I felt like I was not meant to be the Grand Ruler, so I left Tamaran in the care of Galfore, and came back to earth."
"What happened to your brother though?"
"I am not sure. I am hoping Blackfire merely banished him from Tamaran. We have lost touch, and I am not sure what happened to him." Lez nodded, and decided not to ask anything else, seeing how upset Star was. "Is there anything else you wish to know?"
"For today? I think I've learned plenty about you, Starfire. Would you mind sending in one of the others?" Starfire nodded, and a few minutes later a grumpy Raven came into the room, immediately sitting on one of the normal chairs, avoiding the bean bag.
"So... you're a shrink or something?" asked Raven, one eyebrow raised.
"Sort of. I'm a doctor, but ever since what happened to Robin, I studied psychology."
"So... what are you trying to find out?"
"Today, just a little about your past, if that's ok." Lez for some reason was slightly fearful of the girl in front of her. She had a rather cold demeanor.
"Well, it's not ok." Raven said crossly. Lez didn't know how to respond, so she stayed quiet, waiting for Raven to continue. "You are supposedly doing some sort of evaluation becuase the city is questioning our sanity. What does learning our past have to do with anything?"
"Well... It helps me get to know all of you better, understand where you're coming from-"
"Is that relevant though?"
"W-well-"
"That's what I thought. This is about psychology, not therapy. You only need the slightest of details, and some observations."
"If that's how you feel... could you at least tell me what you find to be relevant?" Raven nodded, and Lez inwardly let out a sigh of relief.
"I am from the dimension Azarath. I'm half-human and half-demon. My powers act on my emotions. My full name is Raven."
"Just Raven?"
"Yes. To keep my powers from blowing everything to bits, I must meditate daily and surpress my emotions. That's all you need to know." She got up and started to walk away, when Lez decided to ask just one question.
"One question, non-personal, that'll let me know at least something about you." Raven raised her eyebrow, waiting. "Um... what's your favorite color?"
"Blue. And yes, I'll get Cyborg." She walked away, and Lez ran a hand through her hair. Hopefully the others wouldn't be so dificult...
*So... random chapter :) Don't worry, fun stuff will come soon :) and you cant really accpect Raven to trust her that easy, can you? :) reviews are welcome :)