Fan Fiction ❯ Burdens of Growth ❯ Chapter One: Contemplation and Humiliation ( Chapter 1 )
Teen Titians
Burdens of Growth
Chapter One
"___" = Speech
`___' = Thoughts
~~~ = Scene Change
***** = End Chapter
Robin sat on the couch in the lounge of Titans' tower contemplating the current events of the Titans lives. Something just wasn't quite right about it all. It's been just a few weeks since the battle with Adonis and Beastboy's short period of aggressive behavior. Things have pretty much been business as usual. Although a few petty criminals have sprung up here or there, nothing really serious has happened.
The only significant things happening are Beastboy's continual foul attitude and Raven's sudden intense detachment and extreme isolation. She's been locking herself in her room for hours, sometimes even days at a time. In fact whenever Beastboy sees Raven out of her room he instantly starts verbally attacking her. Now she won't talk to anyone at all. Whenever she does happen to come out of her room she avoids everyone and always looks completely worn-out. It's a wonder she's still useful in battle. Fortunately, for the Titans, none of the major criminals have been active lately.
Even Cyborg was beginning to act a little strange. Occasionally Robin would find him standing on the roof gazing off into the distance with a funny little smirk on his face. Other times, Robin would observe him walking around the tower just humming to himself. Just a day or so ago Robin came across Cyborg sitting on a bench in Central Park staring off into a field were bees were flitting around pollinating flowers.
The odd moods of his friends didn't seem to be affecting the team….yet. But nonetheless Robin was still concerned. `What if Beastboy's appalling attitude suddenly pisses someone off and causes an argument, breaking up the team? Or what if, God forbid, one day Raven just never leaves her room again?' Robin didn't know enough about what was wrong with Cyborg to even speculate on what horrible things could happen.
Starfire was about the only one acting normal….well, normal for Starfire. Robin chuckled to himself. `Starfire is one of the strangest people I've ever met….and the most enchanting.' He thought. `She's so beautiful, and not just on the outside; and damn, is she hot on the outside. But inside Starfire has to be the most sincere, honest and caring person I know.' Robin's reverie is broken when he glimpses Cyborg bouncing past the lounge with a cheesy grin on his face heading toward the exercise room whistling something that sounded suspiciously like "Flight of the Bumblebee".
`I really need to get to the bottom of whatever it is that's going on before something terrible happens.' Robin thought. `Maybe I should talk to Starfire first to see if she might have noticed something I haven't or, if she's noticed anything at all.'
Robin gets up from the couch and heads in the direction of Starfire's room. Once he's in front of her door he stands there for a moment trying to decide how to phrase his question. Once he has a good enough monologue planned out he raises his fist to knock. Just before his hand lands on the door to Starfire's room it swishes open and She comes flying out of her room, running right into Robin, and knocking them both over onto the hallway floor.
Robin falls over onto his back and Starfire lands straddling his hips. Realizing the position they're in, Robin immediately becomes hot and his face turns bright red from embarrassment and arousal. Then he feels his member twitch in his tights, as if to remind him of his strong attraction to her. `Damn it! This is so not good!' He mentally cries out in shame as he closes his eyes and tries to calm himself.
"Ah, um a-are you ok Star?" Robin asks, his voice cracking; hoping to take his mind off his growing excitement.
"Yes, I believe so Robin." Starfire replies. She then pulls herself up into a sitting position upon Robin's lower torso and wriggles around a bit to assure herself that she is indeed unhurt. Robin's eyes snap open in shock at Starfire's action, and then they grow even wider in alarm as he feels his traitorous limb stiffens fully. On instinct Robin reaches out and grabs Starfire's hips to still her movements. `Oh, shit. Oh, shit.' He mentally screams as his breath drastically shortens and he begins to perspire.
Starfire instantly stops squirming when she feels Robin grasp her hips, and then notices something pushing up into her groin. She looks down at Robin with an inquisitive expression on her face and bounces in place slightly to try to figure out what is poking her. Robin bites his tongue hard enough to make it bleed in an attempt to keep from moaning in pleasure and squeezes his eyes shut again.
Still perplexed as to what has happened, Starfire asks, "Robin, what is this…bulge sticking up from your lower region, stabbing me in mine?"
With hitched breath and unsteady voice Robin answers, "A-ah, its no-nothing Star…" Robin swallows a lump in his throat. "Ju-just, um forget about it." Robin takes a deep, shaky breath and lets it out slowly. Willing himself to cool down, he chokes out, "U-um, listen Star; I-I really think we should get up now, y-you know before someone sees us, this is a…kind of awkward post-position." He explains. `Especially for me' but of course Robin neglects to voice this.
"Oh! Forgive me Robin! I am truly very sorry for any discomfort I have caused you!" Starfire exclaims as she gets up off of him.
`You have no idea what kind of discomfort you've caused me Star.' He thinks. Sighing, he says out loud, "It, its ok, Star. Just, d-do-don…" Robin stutters, trailing off as he takes another steadying breath then bites out, "just don't worry about it." Then he gets up from the floor as well. "I'm ah, I'm just…gonna go to my room now. Talk to you later Star." he says as he turns around and hurries off in the direction of his room.
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As Robin makes his way to his room all he can think about is how much he needs a nice long, cold shower. `I can't believe that just happened. I feel like such a filthy, disgusting ….pervert!' Robin mentally berates himself. `I mean, sure I like Star. I've liked her since I met her, but only as a friend. All I've ever wanted to do is help her out since she was so new to the planet. Hell, she still has difficulty with some of the cultural differences between Earth and Tamaran. Although I've always thought she was attractive for an alien, I've always tried to keep everything between us as professional as possible. That's how I've treated everyone on the team. It's just not practical to become too attached to your teammate in the superhero business.'
Finally reaching his destination he lets out a sigh of disgust. `Oh who the hell am I trying to fool! Starfire is freakin' HOT! For anyone; and I've been lusting after her for months.' Robin admits to himself. He opens his door and just before he steps inside he grumbles foully to himself, "Argh, I'm such dumbass."
"You are, why?!" Someone asks from behind him.
Robin whirls around in surprise; seeing who it is, he shuts his eyes in sufferance and mentally drones to himself, `Oh great, this so not what I need right now.'
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Well there it is folks, the first chapter of my very first Teen Titans fic. I'll be working on chapter two and chapters five of two my other fics over the rest of the month so hopefully I should have chapter two up by the beginning of December. But don't quote me on that.
Oh, and to anyone who might recognize my screen name and thought I might have dropped off the face of the earth: I'm really, very sorry I haven't updated on my Inuyasha and Rurouni Kenshin fics. In my defense, I should tell you that last year September my family bought out a local Video Rental Store and we had to take our home computer up there in order to run the store. Since it is bad business, and since I really didn't have time for it anyway, I was unable (i.e. I wasn't allowed) to use the store computer for my writing. Again I apologize. But fortunately, just this month we bought a new home computer so now I am able to write/update my fics again. *Does happy dance*
Like I said I'll be working on chapters five of my Inuyasha and Rurouni Kenshin fics so I hope to have them upload by the beginning of December. But don't get your hopes up. There's just no telling what I'll be able to do with the kind of work schedule I have.