A/N: Fair warning, this is kind of depressing. And OOC. Read at your own risk.

Nightmare

She battled the robots long and hard as they flooded endlessly towards here.

How long she had been fighting, she did not know. Perhaps it had been only minutes, or maybe it had been hours, but it felt as if it had been forever.

Though she could take them out easily, rarely needing more than one or two alien strength hits per robot, there were so many.

She was becoming rather tired, and although she refused to give in to that, her fighting was becoming sloppy.

"Starfire!"

That single yell, the one she knew so well, ignited something within her. Pulling strength from some reservoir deep inside her, she blasted through the army surrounding here, her only thought being finding the owner of the yell.

He was not one to call for help, especially not where Slade was concerned. If he called her, then he must be in serious trouble.

Every part of her glowing with green energy, she burned through every obstacle that dared to separate her from her from her target.

The sight that met her eyes was a nightmare become reality.

A bruised, battered, and bloody figure lay limp on the floor.

It croaked a single word.

"Starfire…"

"Robin…" she breathed, her voice filled with horror.

Her legs collapsed beneath her, her body shaking.

A deep, sinister chuckle echoed throughout the room.


Koriand'r jolted upright in her bed, gasping and sweating.

"The nightmare again?" asked the man beside her, his voice full of concern and sympathy.

"Indeed," she mumbled, hugging her arms to herself as a single tear rolled down her tan cheek.

Warm, strong arms wrapped around her shaky body, and she gratefully returned the embrace.

"We should return to slumber…" she mumbled quite some time later.

"You are okay?" he asked softly.

"I…shall be. Thank you," she said.

"Of course, Kory. Good night," he replied softly, giving her a final reassuring squeeze.

"Pleasant shlorvacks, Karras."

A/N: My mind is a weird place at two in the morning, which is when I wrote this…

Anyways, I don't know much about Karras besides what Wikipedia said, so in this, Star eventually went back to Tamaran and married Karras out of duty after losing Robin, which was a flashback, not a normal nightmare. Don't bother questioning my two in the morning logic.