A/N: Fair warning, OOC characters.
Selfish
"Robin, I understand you have a lot to do, but a short break could be quite beneficial-" insisted Starfire.
"No. Thanks for your concern, but I just can't afford a break," cut in Robin, becoming irritated.
They had been at this for several minutes now. A Slade sighting had Robin back to his obsessive side and had been neglecting his friends again. Robin's stubbornness had started to rub off on his girlfriend, and she refused to leave him be.
"I am merely concerned for you. You spend almost all of your time here. We miss you. I miss you…" she said quietly.
Her words were innocent enough, but they set something off inside of her boyfriend, and it was not a pleasant something.
"You MISS me! Oh I am sorry! Let's forget about all of the innocent lives in danger because my selfish girlfriend misses me!" he yelled insanely.
"What did you call me?" asked Starfire, her eyes a mixture of hurt and anger.
"You heard me! Selfish, that's what you're being!" he screamed at her.
She stood staring at him, and he realized what he had just accused her of.
"I am selfish? I sacrificed myself for my planet. I endured horrors you cannot imagine. I was willing to give up my heart's wishes to marry a horrible creature and save my people, despite the fact that they saw me as nothing more than a peace offering. I came back to Earth instead of being the ruler of a planet because the Titans did not want me to stay there. Every day of my life, I try to find ways to make you happy and comfortable as I fight the broken heart you give me. I wait for you instead of moving on to someone who treats me as they actually care for me. I forgive you every time you do me wrong. And on top of all of that, I do my daily job of protecting total strangers," she defended.
"Star, I didn't mean-" he started, only to be cut off.
"You, however, make a martyr of yourself by secluding yourself from the people who care about you. You expect me to wait forever and welcome you with open arms when you need me. You want to be the big hero and defeat Slade by yourself, when we could probably easily bring him down if you constructed a battle plan involving all of us. You want to prove that you do not need help from anyone else, even when it is quite evident you do. And you have the nerve to call me selfish," she finished with a hiss.
"I am out of second chances, Robin," she added as she shut the door between them, leaving a shocked, heart-broken Boy Blunder behind her.