Just Drabbles
Chapter 6: Zorkaberry Pancakes
Disclaimer: Not mine.
This chapter is not in connection to Fixing a Shattered Heart, but is in connection to My Favorite Sweet Nothing.
I dedicate this chapter to xStarfirexRobinxo. :) You go girl!
Starfire stood in the kitchen assembling the ingredients required to make her new favorite breakfast treat, pancakes. She carefully poured the flour she needed into a measuring cup; from there she dumped it into the blue bowl that was awaiting the ingredients. The Tamaranian princess giggled as a small cloud exploded upon impact. She cracked an egg, poured water and began whisking her batter when a pair of strong warm arms encircled themselves around her waist.
"Whatcha doin' my Rainith'lystil?" A handsome tenor voice with a slightly lazy undertone asked. Starfire grinned hugely as she leaned into her boyfriend's chest.
"I am making pancakes Robin. Or at least I was until you came and proved yourself to be a very attractive distraction!" Robin smirked and rested his head on her shoulder; inhaling the sweet scent of jasmine that had been laced into her crimson locks.
"It's what I do best," the Boy Wonder finally replied. Starfire rolled her eyes and shook her head in amusement as she focused her attention back on the pancake batter. It was a butter cream color and perfectly smooth; completely devoid of any bumps or bubbles, yet Starfire frowned anyway.
"This is too plain," she murmured. Turning her attention back to her boyfriend Starfire asked, "Robin, could you please retrieve the pitcher of zorkaberry juice from the refrigerator?"
The young man being addressed smiled, "Sure thing Star." Starfire also smiled and leaned back even further to kiss his jawbone in thanks.
Aloud, as she turned on the griddle Starfire said, "Thank-you Rainith'lystil."
"You're welcome. Did you remember to spray the griddle?"
The Tamaranian pretended to be hurt. "Of course I remembered Robin, do you not trust me?"
"You will always have my trust Starfire," Robin vowed as he snaked his arms back around her waist and let them settle there.
Starfire picked up the zorkaberry juice and drizzled some into her batter. She stirred the batter, giving it a marbled pink and off-white effect. When she poured some onto the now sizzling griddle into flawless circles; she giggled as a realization struck her. "These pancakes look like miniature, edible versions of my planet Tamaran!"
"They sure do," Robin replied as he reached for a spatula, his other arm remaining around Starfire's slim waist.
"Boyfriend Robin?"
"Mmm?" He couldn't say more than that, for at the moment his concentration was solely on watching the pancakes cook."
Her voice was filled with amusement as she continued, "How exactly do you plan on eating the zorkaberry flavored pancakes if your arms remain around my waist?"
"I don't know," Robin answered as he began flipping the half-cooked breakfast. "But I'm way too comfortable to move." Then he added mischievously, "Maybe you'll just have to feed me."
Catching on to his playful tone; Starfire began to talk the way a mother would speak to her newborn. "Then I shall cut the pancakes into bite-sized pieces so that my wittle Rainith'lystil shall not choke." Smiling cheekily, she leaned back further into his arms and kissed his cheek.
Robin rolled his eyes and laughed, "I walked into that one, didn't I?" He elicited a giggle from his girlfriend.
"Yes, you did."
After the last pancake had been flipped and the whole batch had been transferred to a plate; Starfire gently loosened Robin's grip on her waist and went to retrieve the cornstarch and sugar used to transform the zorkaberry juice into syrup, pointedly ignoring her boy of wonder's soft whine of neglect.
When the miniature, edible versions of Tamaran had cooled; Starfire poured some syrup onto a pancake, cut a piece and held out the fork to Robin.
"Taste?" She inquired, tilting her head in the adorable manner that caused her long ruby locks to slide over one eye, leaving the other gorgeous sparkling emerald for Robin to drown in.
Smiling, Robin complied and ate the piece off the fork his girlfriend offered him. Swallowing, he said, "Ooh, I like it. The zorkaberries give the pancakes a nice, sweet punch."
Starfire returned the smile, grateful for remembering the lingo behind the word "punch". She quickly closed the gap between herself and Robin, kissing him softly. Robin felt Starfire lick the side of his mouth and before he could deepen the kiss, she said, "You had some zorkaberry syrup on your face."
Blushing a bit, Robin reached over and dipped his finger into the syrup. Smirking, he smeared the thick liquid across Starfire's full lips. "Now you do too," he whispered. Wrapping his arms back around her waist, Robin kissed her sticky lips with passion.
Ooh! I think I like this one too! Hee hee.
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