Teen Titans Fan Fiction ❯ Falling ❯ Revelations ( Chapter 7 )

In a replay of the previous week, minus the rain, the Teen Titans raced towards the woods. Robin skidded his R-Cycle to a halt at the tree line, tossing his helmet to the side just as Cyborg was climbing off of a pterosaur Beast Boy. “Any sign of it?” he asked his half-mechanical friend.

Cyborg studied the readout on his forearm. “It’s…98 meters that way.” He pointed off to his left.

“Titans, Go!” Robin headed off into the woods, followed closely by his teammates.

They all dodged and ducked and wove through the trees, heading in the general direction Cyborg had indicated. “It is there!” Starfire called after several minutes, firing a few starbolts at it. The creature howled and arched back in pain.

“Dude, this is all me!” Beast Boy crowed, turning himself into a rhinoceros and charging the thing. He hit it with all his weight and strength, and the creature tumbled over onto its back. Raven quickly hit it with a bubble of her magic and Robin encased it with a large net.

“Well, that was easy,” Raven commented as the team gathered around the trapped creature. It did not seem to be very agitated or to be struggling very much.

“Almost too easy,” Robin replied.

“Perhaps it is ill,” Starfire said, crouching near the creature. It suddenly growled and tried to swipe at her. Starfire quickly retreated.

“You okay, Star?” Robin’s gaze shifted from the creature to her.

“Yes, it was unable to harm me.”

Cyborg was scanning the creature. “This thing’s too big for us to handle long-term. We should maybe take it to S.T.A.R. Labs and let them take a look at it.”

“Good idea. How are we getting it there?” Robin asked.

“Dude, I can carry it. Pterosaurs were pretty strong, remember?” Beast Boy flexed his muscles.

Raven rolled her eyes. “Don’t you think we should bind it up a bit better first?”

“Good thinking. I have some cable on my utility belt here. The rest of you hold him down while I wrap this around his limbs.” The team approached the creature, and it seemed calm as Cyborg, Beast Boy, changed into a bear, and Raven came near to subdue and position it. But as Starfire put a hand on the thing’s forelimb, it growled and swiped again.

“It does not like you, Star,” Cyborg observed.

“Apparently not. You will be able to handle this without me?”

“Yeah, we’re good. C’mon Boy Wonder, let’s get this show on the road.”

But the creature became even more violent as Robin advanced, throwing Cyborg to the ground and tossing Beast Boy away. Raven, who was simply waiting for the order to remove the net, retreated several meters and encased the thing in a bubble of her magic again.

Beast Boy morphed back into his human self and shook his head. “It doesn’t like you either, Robin.”

“I guess not. Can you handle this, Raven?” He held out the cable to her.

Raven nodded and accepted the cable. With a little wrestling from Cyborg and bear Beast Boy, the creature was quickly hog-tied and re-encased in the net. Robin again approached it, only to have it snarl at him.

“Um, okay. Well, it looks like it only gets bothered when Star and I get near it. Can the three of you handle this? I’d be happy to meet you at S.T.A.R. Labs…” Robin did his best not to let his dislike of being left out of the action color his orders.

“Nah, we got it,” Cyborg replied as Beast Boy morphed back into a pterosaur. “You two go back to the Tower. We’ll meet ya there later.”

Robin and Starfire looked at each other as the three other Titans flew away. “I uh…I guess I’ll see you back at the Tower,” Robin said and headed back towards his R-Cycle.

“I shall see you there,” Starfire replied, and flew off.

--

Starfire was staring at her toenails. It was something she did every so often. She was currently fascinated by the nail on the smallest toe of her right foot. It was rather long and pointy. She wasn’t really thinking about it though. She was “zoning out” as Beast Boy called it. She didn’t know why she did this. She had come to the Common Room to sit on the couch to put her boots on after her shower. They currently sat in a heap beside her on the floor. But it had been a long, confusing, and tiring day, and when she had sat down and reached for her boots, she had suddenly grown very tired, and instead leaned back and began wiggling her toes.

That’s how Robin found her: reclined on the couch, wiggling her toes, legs totally exposed. He felt the blood in his head rush south, and any cool-headed logic he may have had left regarding Starfire went with it. He’d always considered her to be attractive, even long before he’d even realized he had more than friendly feelings for her. But this was the first time she’d taken his breath away. All he wanted right now was to touch her.

Robin dropped his gloves, which he had not yet put back on, next to the sofa and moved around to sit next to her. He hesitantly put his hand on the soft skin of her thigh. She looked up at him and smiled softly. Unable to stop himself, Robin ran his fingers up her thigh, over her skirt, across her abdomen, between her breasts, and around her neck to rest behind her hear, cradling her head. He gazed into her eyes and smiled back, leaning over to kiss her firmly. Brain nearly disengaged as he trailed his other hand up the outside of her other thigh and settled his weight onto her, Robin felt his control loosening. In no position to really examine this, and having no desire to, he let himself fall, both literally and figuratively.

And he liked it. Starfire made him feel things that he knew he really didn’t have any right to feel: happy, relaxed, excited. That excitement thrilled through him now as he opened his mouth and licked at her lips. Her lips parted for him and he ran his tongue over her teeth. Yes, she definitely used cherry-flavored toothpaste.

Grinding himself against her, he moved beyond her lips to nibble at her jaw line and suck on her earlobe. He heard her gasp softly as her fingers found their way into his hair. His hands roamed over her back, and something in the back of his mind registered the fact that they were floating several inches off the couch.

He’d found a spot behind her ear that had caused her to whimper. It was a musical mewing sound that drove Robin ever crazier. He felt his arousal press itself against her belly. He pulled back for a brief moment, something in the back of his mind telling him to stop. But then he felt Starfire dig a heel into his calf and the voice was silenced. He nibbled again at the spot behind her ear, working his hands beneath the back of her top and fanning his fingers across her shoulder blades. He was oddly proud to feel her labored breathing.

He looked up, taking a few deep breaths in an attempt to regain control over his own breathlessness. Starfire had a frenzied look in her eyes and a pouty grin on her lips. Before Robin could question her or even decide what to do next, she threw the leg that was not grinding its heel into his calf around his hips, gripped his hair, and pulled him down into a ravenous kiss.

“DUDE!”

Startled by Beast Boy’s exclamation, Starfire fell, bouncing off of the edge of the couch and onto the floor, taking Robin with her. It took Robin nearly a minute to frantically disentangle himself from Starfire’s clothing and the peel himself away from her sticky legs.

“Friends!” Starfire was babbling. “It is splendid to see that you have returned from your errand safely. And so quickly! I trust that all went well at the S.T.A.R. Lab?”

“Peachy,” Raven’s monotone returned.

Hoping his face wasn’t too red, though he could feel the embarrassment burning on his skin and in his stomach, and thankful that his arousal had died the second Beast Boy’s voice had pierced his brain, Robin slowly stood up to face his fellow Titans. Raven stood impassive; she was nearly impossible to read most of the time. Beast Boy was slack-jawed, a look of total surprise graced his green features. Cyborg had his arms crossed over his chest, a mixture of bemusement and I-told-you-so on his face.

“So what have you two been up to while we’ve been gone?” Cyborg asked teasingly.

“Uh….” Robin fought for something to say.

“Oh, Robin, may I tell them? Please? They are our friends,” Starfire was looking at him with that cute pleading in her eyes.

Robin felt his shoulders fall, the last of his guard leaving him. “Okay.”

Starfire rose over the couch, flying to her friends. “Glorious news, dearest friends! Robin and I have begun the courting process. Indeed, we have reached the stage of bicuia. Is that not wonderful?”

“Great news, Star,” Cyborg smiled at her and then shot a look at Robin. “Now tell us something we don’t know.”

Starfire’s hands balled into fists and she flew over to Raven, staring at her nose to nose. “You promised you would not tell!”

“You told Raven?” Robin was angrier than he probably should have been.

Starfire looked back at him with great sorrow in her eyes. “I was… in need of some information. Please forgive me, Robin, I was only…”

“Calm down, both of you,” Raven said, giving Starfire a little push. “Yes, Starfire told me, but to be fair, Cyborg and I figured it out a long time ago.”

Robin slumped against the couch. “That’s what I get for having an empath on my team.”

Beast Boy began to wave his arms around. “Wait! I didn’t know anything! What’s a biciua? How long has this been going on…?”

Cyborg whacked him across the back of the head. “They’re a couple, tofu brain.”

Starfire answered Beast Boy. “We have been biciuas for five glorious weeks!”

“So…does this mean that you’re going to be making out on the couch every time we come home?” Beast Boy asked, rubbing the back of his head.

“We were not…” Robin started, back on his feet.

“Uh, yeah dude, you were,” Cyborg cut him off.

Robin puffed out a breath, sending his defenses with it. “We’ll be discreet. We have been for the past five weeks, haven’t we?”

“Please, what is this ‘making out’?” Starfire was looking between Beast Boy and Robin.

Robin couldn’t help but quirk a smile. She was so cute when she didn’t know something. “I’ll explain later, Star.”

“Maybe with a little demonstration?” Beast Boy made kissing noises. Raven whacked him in the back of the head this time. “Hey, come on! What am I now, a punching bag?”

“No,” Raven replied tonelessly. “Just an ignoramus.”

Robin put a hand on Beast Boy’s arm to hold him back and changed the subject. “Look, you guys, I want you to know that nothing has changed in regards to my being the leader of this team. On the practice field and on missions, none of you is any more or less important than anyone else. I think I’ve demonstrated that so far, haven’t I?”

Glances and nods were exchanged between the five members. “Good,” Robin said. “Now, I need you three to swear that this goes no further than the Tower. If one of our enemies were to find out, they’d be that much more diabolical. So, outside the Tower, Star and I are just friends and teammates. Got it?”

Nods were again exchanged. “That’s a no-brainer,” Cyborg commented.

Robin blew out a breath he didn’t realize he’d been holding. “Good. Now that that’s out in the open, tell me what happened with the creature at S.T.A.R. Labs.” He took Starfire’s hand and went to sit down.

“Nothing to report, really,” Cyborg began. “The thing was pretty quiet on the way there, and they locked it up and are planning on studying it. They said they’ll get back to us with a report.”

Robin rubbed his chin. “Well, I guess the important thing is that it’s out of the woods and isn’t a danger to the town anymore.”

The Titans fell into silence. It wasn’t long before the focus shifted to Robin and Starfire’s intertwined hands.

“So…” Cyborg started and ended.

“I think I’ll go meditate,” Raven said, floating off.

“Hey, it’s still early yet,” Beast Boy chirped. “How about some Super Monkey Go-Kart Land?”

“Great idea!” Cyborg’s enthusiasm had a tinge of nervousness to it. “Fire it up, BB. Your green butt is mine!”

Robin began to relax a little as the gamestation hummed to life. “Please, Robin?” He turned to see the familiar question in Starfire’s eyes. “While our friends are enjoying a game of video, perhaps you could demonstrate this ‘making out’ for me?”

Both Cyborg’s and Beast Boy’s characters crashed as they gaped slack-jawed at Starfire and Robin, waiting for Robin’s reaction.

Robin cleared his throat, scratching the back of his head. “Uh, sure. But let’s go….” He was about to suggest his room, but realized that not only would that be totally inappropriate, but he wouldn’t have the out of saying he needed to go to bed if they went there. “…to the roof! I think I’ll be better able to explain it there.”

Starfire beamed. “Very well.” She picked up her long-discarded boots and headed for the elevator, Robin doing the same with his gloves and following close behind.

“Don’t stay up too late kiddies!” Cyborg called.

“And don’t be making any more kiddies!” Beast Boy’s voice followed.

Robin heard the thwack that Cyborg applied to Beast Boy’s head just as the elevator door closed.

The story takes a big jump here; this is a major plot point.  I'm really happy with how this came out; it's very in-character and pretty funny in places, at least in my opinion.

Soon: Chapter 8: Preparations