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Starfire stepped into the forlorn room sighing, 10 bunks hung down from the wall, no windows, no escape. She sat down on one of the bunks and buried her head in her hands. The team along with other Titan members had been forced into hiding because something awful had happened, what was it called again? Z…Z-, Zoo? No! That wasn't what Beast Boy and Robin had called them. Zombies! That's the strange word, Zombies! Starfire buried her head deeper in her hands, shuddering at the memory.
A week ago, while Starfire and Robin were on patrol together, she had begun to notice something strange about several citizens,
"Robin, is your holiday, Halloween, beginning?" She had asked out of curiosity, Robin had looked at her strangly,
"Star, it's May. Halloween isn't until October… Why?" Starfire glanced over at him,
"Because there are several citizens whom seemed to be dressed for the occasion." She replied while pointing down at the people who were standing in an alley way. Robin had stiffened beside her,
"Bring me closer, and quietly." He ordered in a hushed tone. Confused she had obliged and swooped down with Robin clinging to her hands. She dropped him behind one of the many dumpsters and watched the strange people with Robin, he looked even more confused and flustered, and also he looked quiet pale. Starfire's attention was drawn away by a male's voice, he was on the phone, and didn't notice as the strange people advanced on him.
Starfire stiffened, the man seemed quiet engrossed with his conversation and didn't realized that the people had advanced on him until he turned and saw them not a foot away. One of them reached out and grabbed the man's arm. The man seemed shocked and Starfire stared in shock as the thing leaned forward and…and it bit him! She felt Robin strain beside her, and wondered why he didn't call out a warning or fight, just crouched there, watching.
Starfire felt the color from her face drain when the man dropped his phone and fell to the ground twitching. She watched in fascinated horror as the man changed right in front of her, his skin wrinkling and getting unnatural color splotched in his face, his hair began to grown thinner and his eyes turned glazed, his jaw slacked open. Starfire screamed in horror, Robin turned to her, eyes wide when the zombies began to head her way. He grabbed her hands and she took off flying, "Back to the tower." He had ordered.
Other than that their flight was silent, passing a grave yard Starfire froze in midflight and stared at the Grave yard, noticing something was different, some of the graves where dug up, "Robin was there a grave digger in-," he cut her off telling her just to fly home.
Over the next week Star had started noticing more of the 'zombies' roaming the streets, others seemed to be stuck in between human and zombie. At the end of the week Robin had told the team to pack up their stuff, they were moving to the hidden bunker, then he had disappeared into the evidence room to make calls to the rest of the titans.
Starfire snapped her eyes open, and shook herself of the memory when Raven walked in. Without a word Raven claimed the bunk closest to Starfire's.
"Robin says the other titans should be here soon." She murmured to Starfire, with all the grief Starfire was feeling for losing Jump City to this UN fightable force, she couldn't help but feel sorry for the girl beside her. Starfire stood up hesitantly and wrapped her arms around her best friend, surprisingly Raven didn't pull away, but she returned it.
"Hello?" Starfire pulled away from Raven and turned toward her other friends voice, even under the circumstance Starfire couldn't help feel a sudden rush of joy as her friends piled in,
"Friends!" she cried and rushed over to give Bumble Bee, Kole, and Jinx. Robin walked in behind them,
"Come into the Main Room when you're finished." He ordered briskly before walking away. Starfire nodded at his retreating form and turned back to the girls,
"You may pick any bunk you wish, except for those two, which are me and Raven's." She said pointing at their two bunks. Bumble Bee smiled at her and walked over setting her bag on a bunk on the other side of Raven. Kole Claimed the bunk on the other side of Starfire, while Jinx walked towards the furthest bunk away on the opposite side of the room and set her bag down there, "Friend Jinx? Why do you place yourself so far?" Starfire asked confused,
"I- I don't sleep to well, trust me Star this is the best option for all of us." Starfire opened her mouth to argue but Raven laid a hand on her shoulder,
"Just drop it Star." She whispered while sharing a knowing and sorrowful look with Jinx.
"All right Titans! Let's go to the main room and meet up with the guys." Bumble Bee suddenly spoke up breaking the silence. Starfire felt a sudden rush of anger and jealousy toward the girl, 'she's always acting like she's the leader' she thought angrily, and instantly felt guilty for being mad at her friend. Instead of speaking Starfire just nodded and walked into the main room, Bumble Bee in front, Raven following, then Kole, then Starfire, and Jinx trailed at the end.
The boys (Robin, Cyborg, Beast Boy, Jericho, Kid Flash, Aqualad, Gnark, and Speedy) were already in the room and watched as the girls filed in. Beast Boy sat on a counter watching as Cyborg listed off all the food in the kitchen, and making notes for him. Robin sat at a computer looking at something with Speedy. Jericho sat, strumming his guitar in the corner. Aqualad and Gnark where arm wrestling. As soon as the girls walked in Kid Flash, ran over and tackled Jinx,
"Jinx! You made it! You're here!" he practically yelled, uncharacteristically while hugging her. Jinx frowned up at him,
"No thanks to you." She stated bluntly, "You didn't come and get me and I had to hitch a ride with them." She said jabbing her thumb angrily toward Bumble Bee who was now watching the arm wrestling. Jinx felt happiness bubble up inside her at the sight of him, but wanted to make Kid sweat first before she told him. As predicted the ginger instantly began to sweat guiltily,
"Jinx, I'm so sorry! At the last minute I had to run over to help-," Jinx silenced him with her lips, cutting off his explanation, and smiled against his lips when he froze in shock. She pulled back and looked at his stunned face and giggled when he kissed her back.
Bee started cheering, "GO GNARK! NO! GO AQUALAD! NO! GO GNARK! NO!" she chanted continuously. Her voice filled the room and everyone turned to look at her momentary. Bee felt heat rising to her cheeks and smiled quickly before stepping away from everyone's prying eyes.
Cyborg shook his head at the dark girl's embarrassment and turned back to the fridge to complete his list to Beast Boy, "Dried apricots- 10 bags, Canned Green beans- 52 can, and Mustard- 26 bottles." He turned to Beast Boy who was sitting on the counter, "Got it all?"
"Mm-hmm." He hummed back irritably and distractedly. Cyborg turned to his green friend confused. Raven was sitting on the counter by Beast Boy, patiently explaining the 'red dot' (as Beast Boy had put it) on her head. Beast Boy cocked his head, "But I thought only people in India wear the red dot thingy on their head." Beast Boy said confusedly. Raven sighed and explained patiently,
"In India men and women wear this as a symbol of Hinduism which is found in every sixth person of the world, as it is a common religion, and it is often referred to as a tilaka a bottu or a bindi. I wear the 'red dot' as a symbol of…part of my demonic side…I don't really wear it…it's just part of me, like my hair and eyes…" Raven trailed off at the last part and stared at the ground, closing up. That's why she didn't notice the conflict in Beast Boy's eyes. He was stuck between wanting to tell her that she was beautiful and wanting to stay alive.
Meanwhile Kole had walked over to where Jericho was and was sitting cross legged in front of him, singing the song he was playing, while he smiled at her beautiful voice. Kole had liked Jericho the moment she met him, she was pretty sure he knew but she didn't want to bring it up…because who could love a girl with antennas?
Jericho wanted to sing along with the beautiful girl more than anything he's ever wanted in the whole world. His throat ached with need to sing with her, he narrowed his eyes, he was going crazy. His fingers didn't slip, he had played since he was young 'cause having an evil father (Slade) who forces you to live on top of the mountain…well it gives you a lot of time to practice.
Starfire was slightly disappointed when none of the other girls stuck around with her, rather Raven went to Beast Boy and Cyborg, Bee to Aqualad and Gnark, Kole to Jericho, and Jinx was now glaring at Kid Flash for some reason. Starfire walked silently over to the couch to wait until the meeting started. She slumped down, her hair falling like a water fall over the couch. Starfire narrowed her eyes and tried to think of anything besides the man forming into a zombie. She looked around, how could they all act as if nothing is wrong? Perhaps they have not experienced any personal loss of their own.
Robin suddenly stood up and cleared his throat very loudly, "Titans!?" he called out and every one quietly took their seat along the half circle couch. Kid Flash sat on one end of the couch and pulled Jinx it his lap, with a startled yelp she landed on his legs, struggled for a second, then relaxed into him. Bee sat down and Cyborg sat next to her and slung his arm over her. Raven sat on the opposite end of the couch and Beast Boy stood in front of the couch looking back and forth between Raven and Cyborg. Finally Beast Boy walked over and sat next to Raven and tried to put his arm around her, like Cyborg did to Bee. As soon as his arm came in contact with her shoulder she zapped him with a small spark of black lightning. Beast Boy yelped painfully and yanked his arm away and cast his eyes downward in rejection.
Raven instantly felt guilty for hurting him. Although Beast Boy had been annoying, for the past month he has been…nicer to her and gave her space, or quiet. When she would read on the couch he would mute his video games and play without making noise, that is, until he would win. Raven sighed and with hesitation she snatched his arm toward her and entwined their fingers.
Starfire giggled at the dazed look on BB's face when Raven grabbed his hand. Aqualad sat next to Cyborg, Gnark sat on the other side of Beast Boy. Jericho sat in between Kole and Starfire, who was in the middle. Speedy sauntered over from where he was at the computer and plopped down, squeezing between Jericho and Starfire. Speedy slipped his arm around Starfire's waist, much to Robin's horror, and Starfire's surprise. Starfire turned to him, green eyes wide, he grinned at her, she elbowed him, he winked at her, Starfire blushed…no earth person had ever winked at her before.
Robin narrowed his eyes and glared at Speedy, Speedy grinned at him, he tried to catch Starfire's eyes but she was busy, not looking at him. Through a great amount of discipline, Robin didn't kill Speedy, instead he began the meeting,
"I'm sure you all know why you're here." He paused as grunts and muttered agreements rang through the air, "This is a hidden location that not many people know about, in fact no civilian knows about it, only the titans. And as you can notice…not all the titans are here." He swallowed, "I'm not sure if they have gotten attacked or caught but I sent locations of the hide out to all titans. Some might appear during the next week, others well, they will not." A sorrowful look passed between each Titan, except for Raven who squeezed Beast Boy's hand. "This is why there will be a guard posted every day and every night for the next month. If you see a Titan or Human coming who looks, well normal, then let them in."
"What about villains? This is a common enemy." Jinx spoke up with a frown on her face. Robin turned to the girl,
"It depends, if you think we can trust them, let them in. I'm putting you in charge of deciding if we can let them in." he didn't say why, he didn't need to all the Titans including Jinx knew his reasons. Robin raked the crowd, "Any other questions?" Every one glanced at each other and shook their head. Robin sighed and sat heavily on the table, "Fine…I guess this is as good of a time as any. We are all team mates now. We should be able to trust each other with are lives…and our secret identity." The Titans glanced at each other confused.
Robin reached up and grabbed one end of his mask, then with hitched breath he pulled it off, revealing ice blue eyes. Starfire gasped, half hurt that he hadn't shown her first, "My name is, Richard Grayson, adopted son of Bruce Wayne."
"No freakin way." Kid Flash muttered, "Well," he stood up, gently setting Jinx on the couch where he had been, "Since we're all sharing," he reached off and took off his mask, letting his hair fall crazily on top of his head, and revealing freckles on the bridge of his nose and under his eyes, "My name is, Wally West." Starfire giggled at the thought of Jinx and him together, Jinx West. She laughed harder and Wally turned to stare at her, hurt lingering in his eyes. Starfire's laughter quickly stopped and she widened her eyes at him,
"No! Kid-,"
"Wally." He corrected her, she nodded,
"Wally, I was not laughing at you!" He stared at her for a few moments then decided he could trust her and sat back down pulling Jinx back onto his lap. She glanced around the room, when Beast Boy spoke up
"Garfield Mark Logan." Curious looks were shot his way and he shook them off, "My real name is, Garfield... I'm better known by Gar." Raven looked at him,
"Rachel Roth." She said in monotone while looking at him. Starfire spoke up and said her name quietly,
"Koriand'r but I go by Kory or Starfire." She whispered
Aqualad stood up, "Garth."
Cyborg grinned you all know me, "Victor Stone." He said still grinning and Bee looked around the room,
"Karen Breecher." Speedy rolled his eyes,
"Roy Harper." Jericho along with Kole, Gnark and Jinx admitted that they didn't have secret identities, their name, were their names.
Robin cleared his throat for like the tenth time, "Well I guess we can call each other by our…"
All right readers! First off I would like to say thanks for reading my story, it's my first TT! Please tell me what you think in you reviews! Oh and here's a little poll! So what should Robin say, they should call each other by their-
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