The Last Candy

By

Teen Tyrant

And so, here we are again folks, for one final Teen Titans Valentine's Day. As mentioned in last year's installment, these two chapters that are being released this year are the concluding chapters of this story. I do hope everyone who has enjoyed this story for the last five years will enjoy these as well. As also mentioned last year, these last two chapters are arranged differently, with Beast Boy and Raven's story being first in line, and Robin and Starfire's chapter concluding the fic, just as they had begun it.

Disclaimer: As you might have guessed, I do not own Teen Titans. If I did, they'd go another five seasons at least.

Part 10

Starfire opened her eyes. Today was the day; her first Valentine's Day as a married woman. This first waking thought brought a smile to her face, brighter than her usual smiles, which is saying something.

Starfire looked to her right where her man lay. Robin, soon to be changed to Nightwing, rested his head upon her pillow, his chin touching her shoulder, his arms wrapped around her waist, breathing smoothly as he slept.

It has only been a week since their marriage and already she was used to waking up with his arms around her, something that enjoyed tremendously. Robin had always been so shy and nervous about showing affection to her, even once they were a couple, only bringing himself to do so every now and then or on special occasions. Now he was showing her love and attention each day and she simply could not get enough.

Smiling, Starfire leaned over and kissed his forehead gently, so as not to wake him. Typically an early riser, as was his vigilante nature, Robin had been pretty worn out lately. Not surprising, considering all the energy that had gone into their wedding. Then their honeymoon, from which they had returned only yesterday. Each night since their wedding had been a… special night, as she understood typically happened with most married couples on earth, and she was quite content to follow this particular earth custom. Robin apparently shared her thoughts on the matter, as she had awakened to see a smile on his sleeping face each morning since. A rare sight.

Carefully prying herself free from his arms with a small pang of regret, Starfire smoothly slipped from their bed. Floating a few inches off the ground to keep the sound of her walking from disturbing her husband, Starfire moved to the closet to put on her clothes. Their room was located in what had once been referred to as only her room. Robin's old room had contained only his living necessities, so it had been thought to be easier to simply have him move into her room and make it theirs. This was convenient as it saved the trouble of moving all of Starfire's numerous possessions around.

Having fully dressed, Starfire tucked Silkie's Valentine's Day present beneath his sleeping body, where her pet grub worm would be sure to find it once he awoke, and then left, heading for the common room.

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A short while later, after all of the Titans had awakened and moved into the common room, the team began to hand out and open Valentines, from each other, from fans and from other Titans around the world. Starfire and Raven received the usual Valentine from Aqualad, which Raven kept as usual (to Beast Boy's minor annoyance).

The candy passed out this year seemed sweeter than usual. Much of it was chocolate-based, and with two couples in the tower and all the emotions left over from the wedding, it just seemed to have a much greater flavor this year, and was likely caused more by the mind than the mouth.

Beast Boy in particular consumed a massive amount of candy all day. Beast Boy almost seemed nervous about something and appeared to be eating all the candy out of compulsion. When asked about this behavior, he stated that he simply found it so good that he couldn't put it down. The other Titans merely shrugged as they accepted this and went about their business.

As an added surprise, Bumble Bee showed up in the late afternoon and dropped off Valentine's in person, giving Cyborg his directly. Then, asking if he had any plans for the rest of the day (and Cyborg concluding that he definitely did not), the two left to spend the rest of Valentine's Day together.

Starfire, still wound up in love emotions from her wedding, asked Raven if she and Beast Boy had any special, romantic evening plan. Raven told her that they did not, which caused Starfire some disappointment.

Starfire was further disappointed (though only momentarily) by the fact that Robin did not appear to get her anything special for Valentine's Day. Starfire did not put too much significance on this, however. It was likely that Robin had something special planned that evening, while the two of them were alone. Past experience told her that this was pretty likely.

Later that night, Starfire's intuition proved to be absolutely correct.

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It was nighttime now, and Starfire was waiting on the edge of her round bed, anxiously. A few minutes ago, Robin had told her to wait right here for him.

"I've got something special for you, but it's a surprise. So just wait here and I'll be right back."

Starfire knew how sweet Robin could be when he tried. Other than a few rare occasions (the worst being the whole incident last year with Batgirl), Robin had only ever been a an extremely caring guy who was always careful around her to not say or do anything to offend her, knowing how new and insecure she was with Earth's culture. So she was pretty sure it must be something he felt would be very special to her that he was about to bring to the room.

As it was, Starfire also had something special for him; she was wearing a purple Valentine's Day nightie that she had secretly purchased before returning from their honeymoon, and she had put it on when he had left the room to get her surprise. Now she heard his footsteps as he approached their room and she now sat coyly on the edge of her bed, waiting for him. The door to their room opened.

"Surprise, Star!" he exclaimed, walking into the room holding a chocolate cake with red and pink frosting. There were several candles ringed round it, burning slowly. He stopped as he saw her in the outfit she now wore, surprised that she would suddenly be wearing something so sexy, then grinned and continued forward.

Starfire beamed with delight as he sat next to her, holding out the cake.

"Oh Robin, it is magnificent! Where did you get this splendid cake from?" she asked, eyeing it hungrily. Robin smiled at her.

"I asked Cyborg to make it for me while we were on our honeymoon. I know you wanted our wedding to be a week before Valentine's Day so that we'd have two of your favorite days to celebrate without them being too far apart. So I got to work right away to figure out what to do for you. Cyborg made this and then put it into a special containment unit that would keep it fresh until I could give it to you." Robin then held up a pair of forks in his other hand.

Starfire smiled back at him in delight, then looked back down at the cake and received a shock.

Written across the cake in red icing letters were the words Happy Valentine's Day To My Wife, Starfire. This was extremely touching, since they had only been married a week now and Robin had yet had an occasion to refer to her as "my wife". However, it was what was located in the very center of the round cake, below the written words, that caught her eye.

It was a small heart candy, the kind that are of abundance during Valentine's Day. Written upon the small piece of candy were the words I Love You.

She recognized it of course. It was the same piece of candy he had given her four years ago, before they became a couple. That night had always remained special to her because it was the first time since they'd known each other that Robin had admitted his true feelings to her, and without having to say anything at all. He'd simply left her standing in the hall at night holding this same candy, at a rare loss for words at how touching such a simple thing could be… and how important.

Starfire reached out and gently plucked the candy from the cake, being careful to do it so that it would not take any of the icing with it. Starfire held it up in front of her eyes for a moment before looking back at Robin, tears slowly build at the corners of her eyes.

"Robin." she said simply, too filled with emotion to know exactly what she wanted to follow up with. Robin simply reached out and closed her hand around the candy, closing his own fist gently around hers as he did so.

"I know that candy means a lot to you, because of what it meant when I gave it to you. I wanted to use it one more time as a reminder that nothing has changed since that night." he said, then leaned in and passionately kissed his beautiful wife, whom he loved more than anything in the world. Starfire kissed him back with equal passion and equal love. After a minute or so, the two separated, although they continued to stare each other in the eyes.

Not taking his unmasked blue eyes from her emerald green ones, Robin released her hand, placed one of the forks into it, then took his own fork and scooped a piece from the cake. He brought the fork with its piece of chocolate up, level in front of her mouth, but didn't place it in.

Taking the cue, Starfire also scooped a piece of cake with her fork and leveled it in front of his mouth. Together, the two Titans fed each other cake, taking their time and keeping their eyes on each other, never for a moment doubting the love they had for each other.

Sitting on the bed between them, the small candy heart that Robin had given Starfire four years ago, his last candy, sat until it was eventually placed back in its container for Starfire to keep for all time.

The End

Well guys, this has been a blast returning to write more for this story every year, posting it only on Valentine's Day. But alas, like the Teen Titans show itself, this fic must unfortunately come to its end. I'm afraid I just have nothing else I can think of for it. I would like to think that I sent off the two couples well. Beast Boy and Raven are going to get married, and I think that's the best place where to leave off with them. Robin and Starfire are married themselves and are just beginning to enjoy the married life with each other, celebrating Valentine's Day only a week after celebrating their marriage, which I think is a really sweet thing. That's a good place to leave them as well.

It has been a fun five years (four in the story, but the first Beast Boy and Raven chapter was posted the year after the first Robin and Starfire story, so the story itself took five years to write), and I will admit I will miss it. It was only supposed to be a oneshot with the first chapter, where I truly think I lived up to the fullest of my romance writing talent with Robin giving Starfire that piece of candy. Man, just thinking about it makes me wish so much that the Teen Titans animated series would come back. I don't think there's ever been a show I've wished to continue more.

I want to thank everybody who ever read and enjoyed this story, as well as those who posted a review to say so. I especially want to thank those who would continue to come back each year for more. I'm glad you've stuck with the story this long and didn't mind the odd set up of the story only being updated one day out of the year and for each chapter only taking place during one day out of the year. A strange gimmick but one that nobody has complained about. Thank you all so much for your praise and I hope you like these last chapters. From the bottom of my heart to all of you, and to all Teen Titans fans everywhere, never forget them or let your love for the show die, even if it never returns. And please, by all means, enjoy your last candy. For the last time on this, my first Teen Titans fanfic, this is Teen Tyrant, signing off.