So I decided to try a Teen Titans fic centering on Raven and Starfire once again. I hope you like it, and that I do a better job than with the two I already did.

28th of January

"Friend Raven, do you know what the 'experimenting' is?"

The splintering sound of an exploding vase filled the silence in my room. I had lost control of my powers for a moment, totally taken by surprise by what Starfire said. I must have gotten it wrong.

"What? Where did you get that from?", I asked, aghast, but nevertheless trying my best to keep my calm.

"Friend Beast Boy asked me whether I had ever performed the experimenting with anybody. When I told him I did not know what he was talking about, he just said 'you know' and did this." She waggled her eyebrows in a way that was meant to copy the suggestive way in which he had most likely used it, but really, it mostly looked odd on her as it clashed with the innocent aura that seemed to surround her like a halo most of the time.

Good God, how do I explain something like that to her?

"Star…" I hesitated, before finally completing the sentence: "You know what sex is?"

She nodded enthusiastically. of course I knew that she only did so because she was her usual overbearing self, but my mind could not help seeing it as an enthusiastic response showing that she wanted to have sex. I tried my best to calm lust down, who had seen this as some kind of opening to take control. I forcefully pushed her down. I needed to focus on the task ahead.

"Have you and Robin ever…?" I honestly did not know where that question came from. It certainly had not much to do with what I was trying to explain.

"No, I never did the mating with Robin."

For some reason, my body seemed to react to that statement. Once again, I did my best to push the feeling down. Lust was perhaps the most dangerous emotion after rage. I had not had to deal with it too much as of yet, but Starfire was, next to Aqualad, one of the few people who had triggered it more than once. There were, however, several reasons to never let lust take control, the most important being the fact that I had no idea what would happen if I ever let it free. I had gotten a small taste of that the few times that I had lost control of it, like when we had gone to the beach the last summer and Starfire had worn a bikini that had left absolutely nothing to the imagination as it was even less cloth than she usually wore. The boys were drooling too, but they did not blow up every glass within three hundred feet radius. I explained it with an unpleasant memory of Trigon back then, but I could not be able to do that all the time.

"Some humans like trying sex out with a friend before they do it with their lover." That was all I said. I knew that I should be more critical regarding the subject. For some reason I was not.

"Oh, I see." She was silent for a moment. "Friend Raven, will you do the experimenting with me?" And just like that, there went another vase. I was just glad that my soul mirror could not break.

I did my best to fight down lust, but as my emotions were separated, they had a bigger freedom than they would otherwise. More so, it did not stand by itself. While rage did not care and both timid and wisdom told me that it was a bad idea, knowledge was curious, happy knew it would feel good, never mind the consequences, and brave just told me to 'go for it'.

"Please, friend Raven?" God, those doe eyes as well. This was Robin's girlfriend, who did not know that infidelity was not, as I had implied, something that was normal amongst humans either. It would be her first time, something that was reserved for a lover. This was wrong on so many levels. I really should not. I should use this opening to explain to her exactly why I would not do that with her, that I would likely destroy her relationship with Robin like that, do exactly what wisdom prompted me to do.

Instead, I found myself saying: "Alright, if you want to", before pulling her close and kissing her whilst phasing us both out of our clothes.