Chapter Six

Thank you guys for waiting so long for this! I'll do my best to not make you wait so long next time! I promise to make this psa short. If you like it so far let me know! Also thinking about making a separate one shot lemon between Starfire and Levi, review or pm if you're interested! Enjoy! ~Lily

After leaving the meeting room that day, Starfire was unsure what to do with herself. She didn't feel like finding the others and training, so she settled on heading back to her room. Her battle gear was damaged and she wanted to see what she could salvage. Earlier, she'd made a request to Raven to bring some clothing and a few other things from their home. She thought about bringing Silkie, but these people already had enough aliens and strange monsters here as it was. They didn't need an alien worm that could eat their whole city. Her steps echoed down the empty hallway as she walked. Her thoughts drifted and she became lost in her own thoughts of home.

Was it a mistake for her to stay here? She'd only known these people for a little while, nothing compared to how long she knew her friends at home but she was willing to stay here and help their cause? She was having troubles understanding her own actions when she rounded a corner and bumped into someone. They fell to the floor while Starfire stayed suspended in the air. She didn't remember when she started floating but she quickly landed now and hurried to help them up.

"I'm sorry, I did not see you there. Are you alright?" They were both standing now, and Starfire got a good look at who she'd knocked over.

"Damn woman, are you a wall or something? You didn't budge at all and I didn't even hear you coming," Jean complained, rubbing his elbow which he must have hit.

"Sorry," she apologized again, "I wasn't paying attention to where I was going." She smiled awkwardly and suspended herself in the air again. "You didn't hear me because I started floating without realizing it. Levi told me not to do that around the soldiers though because he thought it unsettled them."

Jean gave her a devilish grin, "well it's a good thing you bumped into me then, there's not a lot that scares me." He explained proudly.

She elbowed him in the ribs lightly, "not even talking to Mikasa?"

He blushes and shoots her a glare that could melt metal, trying to change the subject as quick as possible. "Of course not. Anyway, what are you still doing here? I thought you were going back with that metal man and the girl with the purple hair."

Starfire loses her playful smile and held her arms, "I told them to go home with out me. I'm staying here."

"Why do you look so sad about it then?"

Still refusing to look at him, she pretends to find a spot on the floor interesting and quietly answers him, "I'm sad because I'll miss my friends. But I could never ask them to come here, and I couldn't go home because I would feel like I was leaving you people behind. I made the decision to stay of my own free will and I won't leave until I see you people are at least on your way to victory." Through out her little speech, she slowly gained confidence and was now looking at Jean straight in the eye with a triumphant smile.

He smiled, "Good. Cause you're one hell of a fighter. With you, we'll have those Titans running for the hills." He claps her on the shoulder and nods a farewell. Starfire smiles back, feeling more confident, and hurries back to her room which was just down the hall. She spent the rest of the day in her room slaving over her outfit. Melding the metals together and hoping Raven wouldn't take longer than a few days to bring her her belongings. These military uniforms were useful to the others, but they were uncomfortable for her. Also, when she fought the Titans in her clothes from home, she felt like she was back there. Like she could turn and see Raven or Beast Boy annihilating the enemy along with her. She hoped they never would have to battle those monsters, but the thought of fighting beside them gave her strength. Before she knew it, it was growing late and she knew it would be time to eat soon.

Dinner that night was a rare one full with mirth and celebration of their victory and Starfire's extended stay. Many came up to her to congratulate her on such an excellent first day or to thank her for saving them. She didn't realize how many individual people she saved but apparently there were a lot.

Starfire was standing with Jean, Eren, Mikasa, and Armin and they were all drinking when Jean suddenly grabbed Eren by the shoulders and shouts.

"Eren. How much jaeger could a jeager drink if a jeager could drink jeager?!" Eren was stunned at first but recollected himself.

"Jean that's stupid." Dramatic pause. "Let's fucking do it."

Thus began the drinking contests. It took a while for them to get Starfire involved, but when they did, they found out exactly how much a Tameranean could handle her liquor. One after another challenged her to a drinking contest and one by one they all fell to the floor. Eight challenges later, she was floating around balancing plates on her head and telling jokes no one understood.

She flew into the air displaying for them dizzy corkscrews and flips. They cheered her on and started singing war tunes about conquering the enemy and coming home to pretty ladies. She didn't know the words so she just sang along by adding songs in her native tongue. They first looked at her weird when the strange words came out of their mouth but laughed merrily at the odd sound of them. She took their laughter as encouragement and flew to the rafters and sang even louder. She wasn't watching where she was flying though and crashed into a wall. She fell tumbling to the floor and the others ran to check on her.

"Is she ok?!"

"Someone get her to the infirmary!" People shouted from the crowd.

Sasha was the first to reach her and got inches away from her face, scrunching her nose as she concentrated. She smiled and waved the others away.

"She's still breathing, she's just passed out. If she can survive what she did yesterday she's fine now." She looked for Connie in the crowd to make a joke to but solemnly remembered his fate. She chugged the rest of her mead and shuffled to the kegs to refill her mug.

Levi eyed Starfire and stepped toward her. He knew she was alright but he felt bad for leaving her there. He slung her arm across his shoulders and called to Eren to help him. Together they left the noisy mess hall and carried her back to her room.

Once to her room, they grabbed the key out of Starfire's pocket and unlocked the door. It took some maneuvering to get her through the threshold and on to her bed but they eventually got it. Levi thought for a second and removed her boots so she would be more comfortable. Eren made his exit, but Levi stayed.

He couldn't help but stare at the helpless woman on the bed for a second. He thought she looked to be about nineteen or so. Not much older than the rest of them but he'd never seen anything like her. She was so young, yet she fought like a war veteran. Or even better than one. He'd done the paper work and the sheer number of Titans she'd killed was almost double his own. When he showed it to Irwin he could barely believe it. He was proud to have her on their side.

He remembered the way she looked in the outlandish attire she wore on the battlefield. The metal that protected her skin shone brightly and reflected the powerful green rays she ejected from her hands and eyes. The orange tinted skin that only showed on her face held her most striking feature: the green eyes he could see glowing from blocks away. The headdress she wore that outlined her face held back her scarlet red hair that trailed almost to her thighs. Seeing her now, in the military uniform was almost odd. He'd liked the way the purple cloth on her original outfit hung to her curves. The shirts here were not suited to accustom such largely endowed woman so the shirt was a bit too tight around the chest. He could tell she didn't like it either and much preferred her other clothes. Levi couldn't decide if he was attracted to her because of her striking beauty or the way he'd seen her take out a Titan the other day with a single well placed punch that took out its weak spot as well. Either way, he could feel his head pounding and he pinched the bridge of his nose. He wasn't drunk enough to be thinking about any of this. So silently, he took his leave. Taking one more look at her before closing the door and making his way back to the mess hall.

About an hour later, a very grumpy drunk squad leader was scrambling to get his keys which looked like a mass of metal and made no sense to him. He settled with sticking random keys into the key hole until one of them fit.

First key: dud

Second key: dud

Fifth key:dud

Twelfth key: dud

'Wait,' he thinks. Even in his mind he slurred his words. 'I only have nine keys...' He gave up with the damned keys and passed out on the floor outside of this room. Failing to remember that he kept his room key separate on a key ring in a different pocket.

The next day

Today, Starfire awoke on her own with a pounding head. It was still early and was tempted to stay in bed. But she forced herself up. She could tell right off her morning breath was enough to tranquilize an elephant and she still smelled of alcohol. She didn't even want to think about what her hair looked like. Still half asleep, she picked a new uniform and made her way to the wash house. The showers here were co-ed. Meaning the men and women showered together. With stalls of course but they ended at shoulder height so any woman with a taller stature was kind of out of luck. Nakedness never bothered Starfire. She often wore skimpy clothing because she felt it was more natural. Which was another reason she didn't like these uniforms. She felt so contained.

After arriving at the showers, she stripped in one of the curtained stalls and wrapped herself in a towel. Those stalls were just for dressing. Why they couldn't spring for stalls and curtains for the showers, she didn't know, or care in her current mood. Once she was in the small shower stall, she hung her towel on the side and turned on the tap. The cold water was a shock to her but she took in, hoping it would wake her up.

Just two stalls away was squad leader Levi Ackerman. He was there for the same reason as she was, trying to wash of the drunken state they both still feel lingering. But his focus changed from cleaning his nail beds to gazing at her. She still didn't know he was there.

While he was just four or five inches taller than the walls separating the stalls, it seemed like she towered over them. He could see on her chest where the supple shapes of her breasts began. She closed her eyes while she cleaned her hair, piling it all on top of her head while she washed her face and rinsed it off all at once. He tried to go back to cleaning himself so he could get out of there before she noticed him staring, but his eyes kept getting drawn to her. He couldn't help it.

The next time he raised his head to look at her, she was rubbing her shoulders the suds rolled down her body into the curves of her breasts. She threaded her hands through her hair, keeping her eyes closed. His eyes widened and he was about to look away, but right as he did, she suddenly opened her eyes and made direct eye contact with him.

"Good morning, sir" His eyes widened and he quickly looked away.

"Good morning, Starfire," He calls back seemingly undaunted. He couldn't let her know how much she turned him on right now. After looking down, he realized it was much too late for him to leave the stall until he calmed down. Luckily, she didn't continue the conversation, but turned off her faucet and wrapped herself in her towel. It was easier to take down a fifteen meter class Titan than it was for him to resist not to look at her ass while she walked away. After he heard her leave the room, he turned the hot water off and the cold water full blast. He had a day of paperwork ahead of him and he needed to keep him mind out of the gutter.

Starfire lifted a corner of her mouth while she made her exit from the showers. Originally, it took her a few minutes to realize he was watching her. But when she did she thought she would give him a show. She thought maybe now her time here might be more interesting than she originally thought. She dressed again in clean clothes and made her way to the mess hall.

The halls were filled with people and almost every one of them smiled at her or brought something up from the night before. She felt embarrassed about how it ended and didn't recall some of it, but she did enjoy what she remembered and entered the mess hall with a huge smile on her face. Her friends called her over to their usual table and after she got her plate of food, she sat between Armin and Mikasa with Jean across from her, Eren on the other side of Mikasa, and Sasha on Jeans left.

"Hey Star!" Sasha greeted.

"Hello Sasha. How are you-"

Before she could finish her sentence, a strange woman with spectacles sat on the other side of Jean leaning over the table so much she was almost right in front of Starfire.

"Uh, hello, can I help you?" Starfire leans back away from the strange person.

"Yes, let me introduce myself. I'm Commander Hange Zoe. I'm in charge of gathering intelligence about the Titans but you are much more interesting at the moment. Mind if I ask you a few questions?"

"Uh su-"

"Great. How much do you weigh? What are you? I've heard reports about your super human strength, do you know how much you can lift? How fast can you fly?"

Starfire looked at Hanje with a very confused look on her face. Thinking for a moment, she replied "One hundred thirty eight pounds, I'm Tamaranean, I do not know of the limit I can lift and I can fly around the planet in less than a day. Why are you asking me these things?" Hanje scribbled furiously without answering her. The others stared at her with mirrored expressions. All of their mouths were open and their eyes wide enough to see most of the whites in their eyes.

"Did you say you can fly around the world?"Armin asked.

"In less than a day?" Jean finished.

Hanje finished scribbling and climbed over the table to get up close to Starfire. Inches from her face, Hanje looked intensely into her green eyes. Not just her iris' were green even. The majority of her eyeball was a pale green. Her iris was an even darker green and her pupil was the average black. Hanje wondered if this had related to her ability to shoot lasers out of her eyes. She sat back down in her seat and wrote her findings in her book. Finally closing it with a thump, she stood up and held her had out to the red haired alien.

"I would be honored if you let me find out more about you. We'll find your limits, your strong points, your weaknesses, everything that might help clear human kind of the weight of being prey to those monsters."

Starfire stood up, but didn't return her handshake. "Why do you need to know my weaknesses? How would they relate to defeating the Titans?"

"If we know how much you can handle, and what you can't, we can utilize just your strengths and not send you on a mission that could possibly bring out a weakness. Such a mistake could be deadly to you and your comrades. Plus I just really want to see you shoot lasers." Hanje looked almost crazy with a huge smile and her eyes almost bulging out of their eye sockets. To others, they saw her as obsessed with Titans. Not like Eren was obsessed with their destruction, but she wanted to know all about them. She always said knowledge was the key to winning the century long battle. But right now she was being offered a new being to understand. This time the subject was hopefully even willing and probably wouldn't try to eat her. The possibility of new knowledge and facts widened her smile and extend her hand further.

Starfire stares at her hand for a moment and grasps it within her own. Starfire smiles at the strange woman and shook her hand.

"I hope working with you will help like you say it will. I've always wanted to know how much I can handle." Starfire admits. She lets their hands separate and she sits back down to finish her food. Until she was finished, Hanje interrupted with trivial questions and wrote down all of them in her book. She would ask things like how many vegetables she got a day. If there was abundant meat back where she lived. At the mention of home, she began to talk animatedly about the Earth she knew and loved. They didn't believe her at first when she explained to them what a pizza was. And they loved hearing about holidays like the fourth of July and Thanksgiving. Hearing about a day where friends and family sat around the table and stuffed their faces was totally unrealistic to them. They'd stayed there so long talking, they didn't even realize everyone had already left the mess hall except them.

When they looked around and saw all of the empty chairs, they all rushed to clean their table and hoped they wouldn't have to run as a punishment for being late. Hanje gestured toward Starfire and they walked together in the opposite direction of their friends.

"What kind of tests will we do today?" Asked Starfire.

"I'm thinking today we'll do a general physical and some blood tests to see exactly what we're dealing with." She decided.

Side note: I'd like to point out that in this story I imagined them having at least some basic machinery like microscopes, telescopes, and the knowledge of how different chemical analysis. Kind of like dropping a chemical on it and if the blood has, say, a disease, the chemical will react with that disease and they'll know what's up. But they would do this to see if her blood was different from theirs and stuff. This is how I imagine them doing blood tests without computers. Sorry, my knowledge is a bit limited on this specific subject. Back to the story!

The rest of the day continued with procedures such as drawing blood and testing her reflexes. She felt bad when she kicked one of the medical assistants into the wall when he hit her knee with the little hammer. Hanje just laughed and jotted down some notes. During the physical exam when she was asked to remove some of her clothing, she thought she would make it easier and removed all of them. The male doctor that was assisting them quickly informed her she could wear her underwear and hurried away to treat his nose bleed. Hanje was laughing hysterically while Starfire wondered why he'd reacted so bashfully. Had he maybe never seen a naked woman? That was quite odd for a doctor, she thought. Before the doctor could return to finish the physical, Hanje checked her watch and frowned slightly.

"Unfortunately, our research will be temporarily halted. It's time for dinner. I'm not particularly peckish but you need to eat something so your body can recover the blood cells we extracted." Starfire nodded and finished zipping up her ridiculously tall boots. Those were another reason she missed her clothing. The boots for this uniform were uncomfortably tall. Disregarding these thoughts, Starfire followed her friend close behind and made polite conversation during the long trek to the mess hall. The research facilities were located on the other side of the training grounds; a good way to get dizzy on the long walk there due to the loss of blood. She almost tripped a few times but refused help. They finally arrived and Hanje told her to sit down and she would get their meals.

"So Starfire," started Jean, "what kind of gruesome tests did they do to you? I heard you put up a fight and threw a doctor through a wall." All eyes turned to her, none of them spoke. Starfire could hear the not so quiet chewing sound coming from Sasha. Who was not interested in the conversation, but what was on her plate.

"No, no, you have it wrong," she waves her hands dismissively, "The doctor was just testing the reflexes in my knee and they turned out much stronger as we'd all expected. And all we did today was draw some blood so they could examine it and a physical. Nothing gruesome."

Hanje came back to the table and set a plate in front of Starfire and sat down next to Jean. They all made small talk and joked with each other. Jean and Eren got into another argument and Starfire knocked their two heads together, leaving bruises. They promised not to fight (around her although they forgot to mention that to her) and they went their separate ways after eating.

Starfire climbed up the stairs and walked down the hall towards her room. She heard faint noises like a chair scraping the ground coming from Levi's room and passed it quietly. Taking the key from her breast pocket, she unlocked her room. She was hoping she would see Raven sitting on her bed so they could talk like they used to.

Unfortunately though, even before she came to this new world, the Teen Titans were having problems. There was an extreme drop in enemies that threatened the city and the team had taken to sitting around all day. Robin even left them to train with Batman after an exclusive invitation was extended through a phone call. He was packed and gone the same night. Leaving her behind like she didn't even matter to him anymore. The others either played games or stayed in their rooms. Starfire had tried to reunite them again, but Raven had said something about training and would disappear in her room for weeks at a time. Eventually she gave up on keeping the team together and focused on strengthening her own skills. Soon enough, she grew tired of this routine and picked up a hobby of reading. Which was what led her to her current situation.

She sat on her bed and took off her boots. Not bothering to put pajamas on, she stripped and climbed under the covers. Feeling more homesick than before, she curled up and hugged herself. It was another melancholy hour before she finally fell asleep.

Hope you guys liked this chapter. More is going to happen in this next one. If you liked it don't forget to leave a review! If you didn't then if you could let me know why I would appreciate it. I'll upload the next chapter soon!