Hide and Seek

Haddix walked to Starfires door, calming himself from the sudden rush of power that he had just withdrawn from Raven. He calmed himself, thinking of Starfire. Lifting a bold hand to her door, he sent a small flare of black light which opened it.

"Hello beautiful" he said walking towards her

"Oh, hello Haddix. I thought that my door was locked, how did you-" she said

"I have my ways" he said, cutting off the end of her sentence

Haddix, walked past her, dragging a hand lightly across her bed as he passed her. She watched him walk to the balcony, and she followed. When she entered the cool night air, she looked all around but couldn't see him. Could he have been her imagination? She thought he could be.

Starfire approached the railing and folded her arms so that her elbows rested against the cool stone. She stared up into space, tracing the many constellations with her eyes. Starfire felt a sudden sense of bliss. Everything was perfect, except for Robin. She longed for him to be by her side.

"The sky is beautiful isn't it" said a voice from behind her. It sounded so much like that of Haddix, but much more icy, with the sound of a dark intent.

Starfire attempted to turn her head, but just like in her dream, she couldn't. She opened her lips to try and speak, but no words would come out. From her waist, she felt two arms wrap around her small figure. Their icy touch chilled her very exposed skin.

She felt the hands lock in front of her stomach. Then, Starfire felt a chin rest on her exposed shoulder.

"We haven't really had any alone time since I got here, but were alone now," said Haddix

Starfire would have given a reply to that, but again no sound came out of her lips. Haddix gently moved his head at angle so that his lips were touching her neck. He gently began to kiss up the long stretch of skin that was her neck.

Starfires discomfort grew. All that she wanted was Robin. She did not want Haddix to do this to her, she wanted it to be Robin. She prayed that she would find some sort of strength to cry out for help, but alas. All of her hope was in vain.

"You are so beautiful. I don't know how that Robin fellow can resist you and your embrace. So close to you, he had so many opportunities to love you, but he never took them. And you, poor, poor, Starfire. Fearing love since you left our planet. But I'm back. Now I am a prince, and now, we can be together," said Haddix in an icy and seductive voice.

Everything that he said seemed so true to Starfire. That Robin had the opportunity to take her so many times. That every single attempt she had made to get him to love her was simply in vain. That Robin never would love her, and that Haddix was her first love. That Haddix would always be her first love.

Haddix ceased with her neck, and Starfire felt her body compulsively turn to face him. She no longer had control over what she was doing. Starfire gathered the very last hope that she had, trying to refuse everything that Haddix had just said. Every last bit of her courage, and her strength had been gathered. Every last memory of the one she loved swelled in her brain.

"Robin," she whispered.

Haddix looked surprised, his concentration and his hold on Starfire had broken. Starfire to had realized this and began to run from the balcony, until she was encircled in a cloud of black light, it took her back towards Haddix.

"We can play hide and seek as much as you want, but you will always be mine" he said with a life.

Starfire again tried to refuse his advance, but this hold was stronger than the last. It felt like something that would come from Raven, it was that powerful. Then Haddix took her and pulled her into a forceful kiss, and for a moment she let herself believe that Robin truly would never love her. That Haddix was the only one that she could hold. Then she remembered the ice that Haddix held. She again gathered all of her memories of Robin and broke the concentration of Haddix.

She pushed him backwards and he fell back off of the balcony. Knowing that he could fly, and knowing that he would be back, she rushed back into the palace to find Robin.

Haddix rose onto the roof of the palace. "Drat, that Robin boy always ruins my plans. But I will have Starfire, and no force in this universe can stop me