Muffled groans were the only sounds in the second floor hallway at the station. The officer gripped at the hem of Ethan's shirt while he ripped the shirt of her uniform swiftly off of her, exposing her chest. Ethan grinned beneath her lips, a low, menacing chuckle escaping from his mouth. This was all too easy for him. All he had to do was run his hand down her arm, inject the tiniest bit of Versonicaine, and she was throwing herself all over him. He loved this power, this control. She moaned as his hands continued down her body. The janitor closet was an absolute wreck; mops, toilet paper rolls, and other supplies were scattered all over the floor. Due to the mess, Ethan had the officer pinned against the wall with her legs wrapped tightly around his waist. The officer cooed in his ear the more he touched her, sweat dripped down the nape of her neck.

Flashbacks from the night before was all Ethan could think about the entire time he was groping the officer. Starfire from the Teen Titans. The sexy alien warrior. The green eyed goddess desired him, a lowly bar tender. Regardless of what caused her actions, she still straddled him, she still kissed him, still touched him, still wanted him…

"More, Ethan, please…" she bucked her hips against him.

"Not yet…," his nose trailed along her neck, making her shiver, "what is it you're going to do for me..?" The officer bit her lip, trying to suppress a moan. "I…I-I..mm…Ethan..," she kissed him forcefully, running her hands through his hair. He took her shoulders and pushed them to the wall, "No, no, no…you have to give me what I want before I can give you everything you want."

The officer whimpered and squirmed beneath his hold. "T-tease," her head fell back against the janitor closet wall, "I'm going to release you…"

Ethan's hands trailed along the waistband of her pants "Yes…?" he tauntingly hooked his fingers under the material to slowly pull them down her legs, breathing lightly on her inner thigh.

She clawed Ethan's shoulders. She was close. "and…an-and I won't pursuit you. A-all reports I have about Versonicaine," she trembled at the word, " will be destroyed."

Ethan smirked wickedly. Keeping one hand in between her thighs, he reached into his back pocket to draw another vial of the poison and held it in her view. "Drink up, babe."

xxx

Four star bolts blasted three of the five boulder missiles, three swift blocks deflected countless metal objects, and a direct eye beam shut down the system. Starfire was out on the training ground, annihilating any obstacle in her path while the titans watched closely behind the control panel. Starfire gritted her teeth as she fought. She had a throbbing headache along with swelling bruises on her wrists and hips developed from last night. Acidic bile burned her throat as she trudged across the field.

"I can do this," Starfire wheezed as she ran, "Don't…stop."

"She's not flying," Robin muttered, watching her intently. When she first started, she flew over the first trap easily, but after she continued on foot. Even on foot, however, she'd never gone over a three minute mark before. The stop-watch read 3:42:08, and she had another four traps to endure before the buzzer signalized her completion.

Raven sighed and stood beside him. "She's weak from last night," her brows furrowed at the sluggish alien below them, "but she want's to prove she's fine."

Robin's lips went into a thin line. She fell to the ground after tripping over a rock in her path, emitting a strangled gasp when she made contact with the Earth.

"Maybe you should hit the stop button?" Beast Boy looked away from Starfire up to Robin, urgency evident in his tone.

Starfire shakily rose from the ground, only to be hit by an explosive disk from a nearby boulder canon and knocked onto her back.

Cyborg nodded, "Yeah, the girl ain't lookin' too good."

Starfire's orange glow faded into a sickening white, and beads of sweat glistened in the sunlight. "Don't give up," her thoughts were muddled under the scorching heat, "you..you can..not.."

Robin's fist slammed on the microphone button. "Starfire, stop," he commanded, "you're done for today." His fingers danced across the keypad and turned off each trap she had left. Cyborg and Beast Boy sighed in relief. With a pain-filled whimper, Starfire collapsed in defeat, emptying her stomach of anything resonating from the day before.

"Starfire!" Beast Boy morphed into a cheetah and pounced to her side. He transformed into his human form and began to rub Starfire's back as Cyborg ran over to hold her hair. Cyborg spoke softly to her, calming her the more she felt the need to vomit.

"Could it be all the Versonicaine?" Beast Boy questioned, turning his head to his friends for an answer.

"It could be," Raven floated over to them, "we couldn't tell how much Ethan had given her."

Starfire heaved the more she thought about the night. All the drinks, all the sensations, all the touches…she held her gripped onto the grass tightly as her stomach churned. Robin knelt to her side the second he reached them. He gently removed a strand of hair away from her face, tucking it behind her ear. "Are you okay?" Robin said gently, though it sounded as faint as a whisper. She nodded slowly, refusing to look at him.

Robin clenched his fists and rose from the ground. "Cyborg," he ordered, "take her to her room. She's done for the day." Cyborg gave him a curt nod as he gingerly lifted Starfire into his arms. Starfire coughed repeatedly while in Cyborg's hold, and she held her hand over her mouth to prevent any vomit from passing through her lips. Instead, drops of blood covered her palm, and she slouched against Cyborg's metallic chest. "R-robin," she croaked, holding her hand out to her leader. Her emerald orbs were pleading for him to take her hand.

Robin's eyes narrowed as he turned his back to her. "Take her to the medical wing," he said stoically, with those words he began to walk towards the tower leaving the rest of his team behind.

"Dude…," Beast Boy murmured, Cyborg, Beast Boy, and Raven's eyes wide in disbelief as they watched their leader storm away.

Xxx

Robin stared at his bedroom ceiling, a hard scowl was stretched across his face. His bedroom was dark due to the unexpected cloudy weather that'd arrived minutes after Starfire buckled on the training grounds, and his bed felt like a cold rock beneath his back, but he didn't care. It seemed as though he didn't care about much at the moment.

"This is all my fucking fault." he sighed angrily. There was nothing he wanted more right now than to go to the medical wing and lay by her side. He wanted to hold her hand and stay with her until she recovered. But he couldn't. He wouldn't dare. He had no right to be near her. Not even to apologize again. Why should he? She went to prove him wrong, and she deserved what happened. Everything that she's going through right now was her own doing; she couldn't handle what she set out to do. She failed him, not the other way around.

Bullshit.

Robin restlessly ran his fingers through his hair. The thoughts running through his mind were overwhelming. He thought a lot about the scumbag locked away in the jail cell. He had no idea what Ethan had really done to her, and it made his blood boil. What if he'd gotten closer to Starfire than Robin ever could? What if she liked it? The concept of Starfire enjoying kissing Ethan made him queasy and flustered. He silently prayed that whatever Ethan did or didn't do wouldn't shatter Starfire's entirety, and that Ethan didn't do half of the things Robin was worrying about.

His thoughts were interrupted briefly with a loud rumble of thunder from outside. "Appropriate," he scoffed as he rolled over to stare at the clouds through the glass of his window. As he moved in his bed, he couldn't shake the idea of how great it would feel to have in bed with him. His cheeks burned with yearning and slight embarrassment as sensual images surfaced in his mind; he didn't think about having sex with Starfire, well, not often, really. For a moment, he forcibly assured himself that he was just thinking like a normal guy would. It wasn't as though he imagined them in a raunchy, aggressive fuck session. (..well…). He'd always expected, and ultimately hoped for, the two of them sharing a special connection, a unbreakable bond that no one other than each other could understand. His bottom lip quivered at the sudden surge of emotion flooding under his skin. He'd rather have her heart over her body any day. He would never have sex with her as some kind of past time or something to do when he's bored. He wanted to be able to take his time with her; tell her how much he cares, show her how much he loved her. Starfire meant more to him than just a team mate and a best friend, though she always was and would be a friend before anything else.

"Robin?" Raven's voice startled him, and he rose from his pillows faster than his head could take.

"What…What's up, Raven?" He asked calmly, rubbing his temples. Out of the corner of his eye, he saw her walk into his room and shut the door. She strode to him swiftly, her face expressionless. There was an icy tension between the two of them, the struggle to swallow their pride was evident the longer they stared at one another. It seemed as though they were challenging each other, taunting the other one to say something they wanted to hear without saying a word.

Robin gave an aggravated sigh, breaking the unbearable silence, "Look, Raven, if you're going to-"

"Don't." She commanded sternly.

Robin's eyes narrowed at his team mate. He lifted himself from his bed, "What? I don't have to sit here waiting for you to say something if you have nothing to say."

"Oh, there is a lot I want to say, Robin," she hissed, taking a step closer to him, "but I'm not going to."

Robin shrugged nonchalantly, "Is that all you came here for?"

She scorned at her leader. "Yeah. I guess that's it."

"Well then," he gave her shoulder a pat, "Thank you for wasting my time." He brushed past her angrily toward the door.

Before Robin could reach the key pad, Raven stormed to him and slapped him across the face.

"You know, Robin," Raven muttered, trying to maintain some form of composure, "the more you treat her like trash, the more she's going to feel like garbage. Do you really think she wanted to go on the mission to get a guilt free make out? Or to have an excuse to intentionally show off her sexual knowledge? We both know that's a lie; Starfire would do anything to help anyone, especially you, Robin, And after you lied to her, it only intensified her anger and determination to carry out the plan."

Robin stood there motionless as she crossed her arms, "You honestly believed her when she said Ethan was the one she wanted? If that's the case, then you're a cowardly fool. Starfire would have done anything to hear you say how you feel about her. This is the last time I'm going to tell you this, you know she loves you. She wants nothing more than to be with you. It's obvious. But she's too naïve to realize that what you're doing right now, sitting here in a dark room wallowing in self pity, is nothing more than pathetic."

"She shouldn't have to see you this way," Raven reached over to the keypad to open the door. "Or…maybe she should, so she's not making a mistake. Talk to her."

Too astonished to speak, Robin watched dumbfounded as Raven exited the room.

Xxx

Heavy rain drops fell from the sky and tapped against the window pane looking into the medical wing. Starfire gazed out the window, her eyes puffy and cheeks stained with salty tears. She could not stop thinking about how cruel Robin has been treating her the past couple of hours. Was this mistake she made so grave that it would destroy the beautiful friendship they share? Were they still friends? Would Robin forgive her? "Does he love me at all?" She cried, wiping a tear from her eye.

The rest of the tower was asleep, and the medical wing was heavily locked up for the night. She sighed and fell back against the pillows.

Why was the night so muddled, yet so explicitly clear in her mind? She pondered the possibilities of what would have happened had she listened to Robin, had she not kissed Ethan. She wanted to kiss Robin, feel Robin's hands caressing her, feel Robin's…An exasperated moan resonated in the back of her throat as she covered her face with her hands.

"What have I done?" She whispered.

"Nothing you didn't want to happen."

Starfire shot up from where she was laying to come face to face with the man who'd answered her.

"..Ethan…"

So. Uh, everyone is allowed to hate me. I am so very sorry about my terrible procrastination, college applications started and it's been takin' a toll on mah muse. I have soo much planned for this story and I have every intention on completing this fanfic.

This chapter sucks. Ahaha.

xoxox