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The water stilled and no ripples came from where the two people had fallen. The titans stared in shock and dismay, refusing to give into the idea that she might of died. Raven carefully levitated everyone onto a large disk of black energy. They looked desperate for a sign, anything to indicate that she was ok.

Suddenly a mangled body broke the surface and floated there. It was a male body. The breath that they had all been holding in was let out.

The water was still, quiet.

Suddenly, a green flash of light erupted from under the surface of the water, shortly followed by a feminine body breaking the water in an arch, hair flying back, a vision of beauty even with the horrible wounds visible on her body.

Just as the body of Black Angel started to fall it was encased in black energy and was teleported to the hospital wing of the tower. At the same time, the black disk of energy disappeared resulting in dropping everyone else back into the lake, which was unexpected.

After making their way out of the lake, to anyone who was in the tower, would have thought there was a stampede as everyone ran to the hospital wing. They all burst through the doors to come face to face with the sight of a pale Black Angel, lying in a bed hooked up to various machines; and a worn out Raven.

Raven spoke:

"She's Stable."

And a bit of relief reached the people who called themselves her family.

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The others had left around six hours later to get some sleep. No one even tried to get him to budge, it was a lost cause. They all knew that, they knew he would never leave her side. He knew that Raven would be here soon to check up on Starfire and that she would make him leave so he stood up to stretch his muscles before he was asked to step out.

The monitors went crazy.

Robin starred in numb shock as the machines around him began to shriek loudly signalling Starfire's fading life. Raven rushed in as well as Cyborg herself, each rushing around taking down notes and doing their best to save their surrogate sister's life which was placed in their hands.

Cyborg accidentally ran into Robin sending him slightly off balance. "Robin you are going to have to leave." Cyborg said as he tried to push him out of the room.

"Like hell! I'm not leaving this room!" he shouted in anger and fear.

Raven opened her mouth to argue but another high-pitched squeal cut her off. Starfire's heart monitor flat lined.

And Robin's world crumbled.

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I opened my eyes, only to see a lady with red hair and eyes. Her clothing was also red. She walked closer to me.

"Who are you?" I asked trying not to show my fear.

"I am X'hal. And I can see the past, present and future." She replied.

"You are Koriand'r.Princess of Tamaran. Know as Starfire on earth."

I gasped "How do you know all this?" I asked.

"I can see the past, present and future. And I am sad to say, that while you are lying in the hospital wing dying."

She smiled a nice warm smile.

"My dear, you need to fight the feeling of death and wake up. Don't worry, you can do this. The man you love, Robin is by your side begging you to wake up. You are making him suffer by dying. He truly loves you and I can tell. You do too. Fight. Wake up and end his misery."

With those words said, she disappeared.

I snorted. Yeah, she tells me to wake up, but how?

I clenched my hands into fists. Suddenly a key appeared in front of me floating in the air. I looked at it. It was a magnificent ornate key. I lifted a finger to touch it, but the moment my finger came into contact with it, I was consumed in a bright light.

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Robin sat curled up in an empty corner of the room as he watched Cyborg and Raven continue their work on Starfire. His face was blank and haunted as he watched Raven back up with an empty smile on her face. The monitor was once again beeping telling him that Starfire hadn't left. That she was still with him, and yet he there he sat unmoving. As if he thought that a mere twitch of his finger would send his Star careening into the inescapable clutches of death. Slowly, painfully so, he stood and inched his way to the pale girls' bedside.

Cyborg and Raven parted allowing him access to do so. They flinched at the haunted, vulnerable, look on the boy's face. They doubted that anyone had seen the Wonder Boy look so lost in years. The watched quietly as he kneeled next to Starfire's body. Raven bit her lip in order to hold back the tears that threatened to break loose as Robin reached out to touch the red haired girl. However nothing could stop the dam of tears from breaking loose and joining the ones that Robin was shedding on Starfire's sheets when he lowered his ear to her chest and heard her heart beating to check she was still alive. Simultaneously various lights, windows, objects shattered into a million pieces , black energy being the cause of it.

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A week later, she still hadn't woken up, but she also hadn't crashed again and remained stable, that was a good thing according to Raven. Night fell and everyone was asleep in the hospital wing. Cyborg on a chair with Bumble Bee resting on his lap, with the twins asleep each against one leg. Raven was on a big cushion with her legs tucked under her, back against the wall; however what shocked the ones who were awake to see her fall asleep was that curled up in her lap was a very content green kitten. Speedy and Aqualad were asleep in their chairs which were opposite each other on either side of the window. Robin was on his knees with his upper half resting next to Starfire on her bed. Due to his position he was the first person to wake at Starfire's slight movement.

Starfire's hand twitched lightly and Robin's head shot up, instantly alert as he stared hard at the red haired girl. Again her hand twitched, this time moving slightly over top of his own.

"Starfire?" he whispered, hardly daring to hope. As if summoned by his call, Starfire's eyes gently fluttered open only to be glazed over by concern as she watched tears gather in Robin's already red eyes.

"Robin?" she asked, her voice barely a whisper. "Are you alright?"

Instead of answering, Robin just leaned over and caught her lips with his own.

Just as they parted, a green kitten's enhanced senses picked up something which caused him to wake up. The two watched as he blinked tiredly at them, and then went back to sleep.

Starfire looked at Robin quizzically, arching one eyebrow. Robin answered her by muttering quietly:

"Wait for it…."

Pandemonium broke out.

The kitten's head shot up so fast, that Robin thought it was going to part with its owner's body. The kitten promptly shifted back into Beast Boy. However he forgot he was on Raven's lap.

His body crushed her.

She woke, emotions array and surprise caused black surges of energy to be let loose.

The waves hit bumble bee hard enough to knock her and Cyborg over.

As Cyborg fell backwards with his chair, the twins who were on each leg were sent flying into the air.

In their flight path was Speedy and Aqualad.

Both woke as small twin size missiles smashed into their chests.

The sight of disarray before them, made it impossible for Robin and Starfire to hold in their laughter. Both broke out laughing.

The grumbling and yelling of accusations stopped as the Titans sprawled on the floor recognised the tinkling, female laughter that was distinctly Starfire's. All heads spun to focus on the hospital bed.

Simultaneously smile broke out and nine voices yelled out:

"STARFIRE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Before they all pounced initiating a group hug. Starfire hugged back. But what they all noticed was that instead of correcting them about her name, she didn't. A realization came:

Their Starfire was back, different in many ways, but still she was Starfire.

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People stopped to stare, furious whispering broke out, even reporters showed up. The people of Jump City, ha never seen such a sight. Certainly it had been a shock a while back when the original titans re-emerged.

However this sight was amazing. Their sullen dark hero Black Angel was playing football with the other Titans, smiling and laughing.

It was then that the people of Jump City realised that Starfire, had never died, she merely had succumb to grief, causing her transformation into Black Angel. But now she was back.

The Titans were back. The whole city was rejoicing. Newspapers reported the events. Tabloids had a field day when Raven and Beast Boy were caught holding hands while at the pizzeria.

But what caused the more stir a few weeks later, was that Black Angel, who had become Starfire again, was clearly seen wearing an engagement ring. And what was more, was that Robin had a matching ring on a chain around his neck…

But that is another story altogether.

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A/N: finished, thank you for your patience. I am so sorry this took so long to go up. But I moved country with my family, and was deprived of the internet for 4 months. I've also started university, so my life is crazy right now. But now that I've balanced it all out; I am going to finish my incomplete stories, and start so new ones. Open to requests. I may do a sequel for this, one about the engagement and wedding. Any ways I hoped you all liked this story. Please review. Ciao