Previously:

Once they left Starfire lifted herself from her seat and floated over to the bed before laying down at Robin's side and wrapping her arms around him as if creating a shield to protect him from any threat of danger. She laid there in silence holding onto him tightly, hoping above all hopes that Robin would understand when he wakes but regardless of his forgiveness she would make sure he was well again. "Do not worry Robin, I will stay by your side until you are well and I will fix the mistakes that I have made."

Robin awoke with a blinding headache and a throbbing pain seemingly everywhere else on his body. He squinted into the light source on the roof above him and slowly but surely his eyes started to make out the shape of the roof, as blurry as it still was to him. Gradually the image began to focus and stared at the white tiled ceiling above him, he managed to tilt his head left and right to scan the room a bit but his muscles were extremely stiff and only allowed the slightest of movements. The room didn't resemble any that were in the tower.

He began to think over the previous events, he remembered them finding Cinderblock making his way towards the high security prison and stopping him before he reached the prison. He remembered being in mid-battle when he saw Cinderblock's huge fist travelling towards Starfire and it didn't even seem like she was paying attention. He remembered that he had threw himself in front of the hit to knock her out of the way but the rest seemed to be a blank and he didn't know if he had succeeded in knocking Starfire out of the way. "Star…." He groaned out sadly as he realised that he may not have made it in time.

Starfire had been sat in the chair at the side of Robin's bed she was staring hopelessly down at the floor gently swaying her feet back and forth in anyway to keep herself cheerful. She had stayed by Robin's side the past 2 nights as he rested, when the nurses tried to throw her out she would lash out at them that she would not be leaving and they should give up on asking. Despite her knowing that Robin was healing and would recover she felt more dread over the idea of what Robin would think of her when she told him what happened. The thought of him kicking her off the team was bad enough but the idea of him being disappointed and upset with her was something that would destroy her.

She heard a faint noise to her right and she lifted her head to scan for the source of the sound, her eyes landing on the sight of Robin tilting his head around to examine his soundings. "Star….." he groaned out through a hoarse voice almost quiet enough for it to be a whisper but Starfire heard it immediately. She sat up quickly from her chair "Robin?"

"Starfire?" Robin asked sounding relieved

"Robin!" she gasped as she threw herself onto the bed next to him and began to pepper his face with kisses as if each one would somehow miraculously cure the injuries done to him. Robin looked up at her, a mixture of shock but also relief evident on his face. She realised what she had been doing and quickly lifted her face away from his "Oh-my sincerest apologies Robin!" she said ashamedly "I am immensely glad that are you are the okay".

Robin chuckled softly "I'm glad you're okay too Star" His lack of care for his own wellbeing reminded her of a question she had forgotten to even ask herself

She wanted to yell and scream at him for being so foolish but she realised that he had only just awoken and is still damaged and so the full force of a Tamaranian scolding would probably do more harm than good. So she settled for the gentler approach "Robin…why did you injure yourself in place of me when we were fighting Cinderblock. Tamaranian's are far more durable than humans and so I would have sustained far less damage than you did from the hit."

"Because Star…" he ground out, trying to put as much of his energy into being able to speak to her "because it would kill me to see you get hurt and know that I could have done something. Even if that something gets me injured instead"

Starfire was speechless so instead she simply held Robin in a tight embrace and buried her head into his shoulder allowing a few tears to drop down her cheeks. She could not believe that he would be willing to put himself in a normally certain-death situation in order to stop her from being injured. The idea of Robin taking a fatal hit troubled her deeply but the idea that he would be there to protect her gave her a warm fuzzy feeling.

"Star?...Did we manage to stop Cinderblock in the end?" he asked awaiting a response

Dread filled Starfire from her core, she wanted to fly away as fast as she could and never have Robin ever find out what happened and what she did but she knew that he deserved to know. Regardless of the circumstances. "I-I…" she choked out through sobs.

Robin leaned back against the headboard of his bed and took Starfire's shoulders in both of his hands and titled her to be sat in front of him "Star, what's wrong? What happened?"

"I-I…killed him" she finally managed to say before covering her face with her hands and sobbing harder.

"Cinderblock?" Robin asked, he wanted to make sure that he had heard Starfire correctly.

She nodded.

"Wha-How? Why?" he asked utterly confused and shocked of the idea that his sweet and innocent Starfire had gone so far as to kill anything.

Starfire lifted her hands down from her face and looked timidly at Robin "I-I thought you were dead….that Cinderblock had killed you…It was all my fault and I was so full of grief and sadness that I lost control".

Robin couldn't think of a response so he allowed Starfire to continue.

"I do not remember it well but according to Beast Boy I punched my fist into Cinderblocks face and blasted him, reducing him to rubble. I did not stop destroying him until friend Raven cast a spell to do the 'knocking out' of me" She stared into the confused and shocked face of Robin and her worst fear had come true. Robin was upset with her for what she had done and he would probably never forgive her. In a panic she threw her arms around his sides and buried her face into his chest "Oh Robin I am so sorry! Please do not be upset or the disappointed in me…

"Star" Robin tried to interrupt but she ignore him and continued

"Please! I beg of you Robin, you must forgive me for what I have done. If you wish me to leave the team then I will understand but please do not be upset with me" she pleaded

"Star" he said placing his hand on her cheek "I understand why you did it" he stated gently

"Y-you do?" she asked hopefully

"Yeah Star. If something had happened to you then I would have done the same"

"No you would not have Robin. You live by a rule of not killing"

"I do…but you're different Star" he paused "You are extremely special to me and if someone hurt you...I don't think I'd be able to stop myself from breaking that code"

Starfire was so relieved and grateful that Robin understood she began to once again pepper his face with kisses.

Robin chuckled as she did this and before he realised what he was doing he had leaned forward and had laid a kiss on her lips. He saw Starfire's eyes widen and her gasp and he regretted it immediately. He couldn't believe he had just done that.

Seeing the worry on Robin's face she quickly pressed her lips back onto his firmly to reassure him that she felt the same way. She deepened the kiss to which Robin eagerly agreed and a soft sigh escaped his lips. Up until this point Starfire hadn't been focusing on Robin's condition but now she realised that he was probably gasping for air and so reluctantly she pulled her face away and rested her forehead against his smiling widely. "So you are not the upset with me?" Robin shook his head smiling "and I may keep my place in the team?"

"Of course Star" He paused a wide grin forming on his face "I couldn't go kicking my girlfriend out of the team now could I?"

Starfire beamed, her eyes shimmering with glee at understanding the connotations of the new term. She quickly pressed her lips back against his much more softly and gently now so that Robin would actually be able to breathe this time.

"You two having fun?" Cyborg asked trying his hardest to supress a laugh.

The new voice shocked them back to reality and Starfire fell backwards off of the bed and onto the floor before standing up and smiling sheepishly at the other 3 titans stood in the doorway.

Raven gave the couple a grin as she moved over to Robin and began to examine his condition and then began to unscrew the top from a bottle of aspirin.

"I wouldn't bother Rae" Cyborg stated a teasing grin spreading on his face "I think lover boy's already got all the medicine he's going to need" he teased

Starfire was about to raise her voice and scold Cyborg for mocking Robin in the state he is in but Robin gently lowered her scolding finger for her.

"Cyborg may be an interrupting idiot" He said taking a firm grip of Starfire's hand in his and smiling deeply at her "But he is right"

The End

Author's Notes:

To all of you who have re-read this story then thanks a bunch for sticking around. I really wanted to write a 3rd chapter to this story but I just cannot think of any addition that wouldn't just spoil the ending of this chapter.

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