I love this chapter. I had an amazing time writing it and re-reading it. I know this is the chapter you have all been waiting for, but it is also the last one, so I guess I just wanted to use this authoresses note to thank you. I really cannot believe how popular this story is! I seriously have to scroll down to see all of the favs for it! I'm not sure any of you can comprehend what that means to me. But, writing's not just about the reviews; it's something I love to do. But it is an added bonus to know that this story also brings joy to other people, that's why it's cool to get reviews. And I know that more people get enjoyment from it than just the ones who review, because more people have it on their favs than the group of people that review every chapter. So, I want all of you, all of you that have it in your favs or alerts, or just reading it because you're bored, to review, so I can tell you how much that means to me. And if you don't feel like reviewing, here's this Thank you. But, towards my people who review every time I update, you guys inspired me so much more than you know! It's just so strange to see how my writing style has changed throughout this story. I'm sorry this note was so long.
And that is the end of that. I'm usually not that serious. I guess I can just be a lot different than you expect. On a less serious note, writing this chapter made me nervous. I really felt like I was getting married. Oh, no! I'm too young!
For the last time, I don't own the Teen Titans.
A girl with beautiful, long red hair stood in front of mirror in an empty room.
Is this really happening? She wondered.
This girl, alone in her small dressing room, was adorned in white garments. Specifically, she wore a long, white wedding dress. The dress that had recently gotten back from the cleaners since it had been exposed to massive amounts of water and rain. Her hair hung like she normally wore it, cascading down her back.
She sighed. It was her wedding day, a day that most women live for, but this girl felt like crying. And she did. She sat in a chair in the corner of the small room and began to cry into her hands.
"Kori?" She heard a yell from outside of the door. "Are you crying in there?"
Starfire swallowed the lump in her throat and attempted to regain her composure. "N-no."
"You'd better not be! It'll mess up your makeup!"
Starfire finally was able to identify the voice as Kathy Todd, her soon to be mother-in-law, who was now attempting to open the door. Unfortunately for her, Starfire had locked that door close to an hour ago.
"Sweetheart," Kathy continued, "You need to let me in. I have to make sure you're ready. You know the service is going to start in twenty minutes, right?"
Twenty minutes? Starfire unconsciously found herself looking around the room for an exit. A window or something, to escape and never have to worry about this again. But the only exit from the room was the door that her fiancé's intrusive mother was practically guarding.
Starfire stood up next to the mirror and quickly tried to clear her face of any signs that she had been crying. When she felt that she was ready, she grabbed her bouquet of white roses and unlocked the door.
At once, Kathy burst through, followed by too many women to fit in the small room, but they crammed in anyway. It seemed to be all of the bridesmaids that Kathy had picked out and the maid of honor (who was a woman Starfire had never met).
There was silence at first, but then Kathy stated "You look gorgeous!" and all of the other women began to surround the young alien with words of her great she looked.
"You must be so excited!" The maid of honor said, grabbing Starfire's arm.
"Yes." Was all the Starfire could reply. But the blond-haired, brown-eyed maid of honor just thought that Starfire was nervous.
"It'll be ok, honey," the woman comforted, "Jason's a great guy, and I know you both will have a fabulous life together."
"I suppose we will…" Starfire whispered.
Kathy, who had just hung up her cell phone, raised her hands in order for all of the women to quiet down.
"All of the guests are seated." She said, the women in the room immediately began to giggle and whisper in anticipation until Kathy once more raised her hands. "Everyone but the bride needs to get by the entrance now."
The bridesmaids filled out, leaving Starfire and Kathy. Kathy smiled sweetly at Starfire and walked towards her, grabbing her hands.
"Welcome to the family," she said, tears welling up in her eyes.
She then hugged the surprised redhead before scurrying off, wiping off the falling tears. "Come along, Kori," she called behind her.
Starfire looked in the mirror once more. She could feel tears in her own eyes, but she hurriedly walked out of the room before she began to cry. She couldn't believe that this was happening.
The young bride found her way to the entrance of the ceremony room. The bridesmaids were beginning to walk in. Jim Todd, her future father-in-law, walked towards her, smiling.
"Kathy's already in the church," he said, "And I get to walk you down the aisle."
Starfire smiled back at him. "Thank you."
Slowly, there were less and less people by the front of the door, until it was just Starfire and Jim.
"You ready?" he said as the piano began to play the familiar tune of 'Here Comes the Bride'.
Starfire bit her lip. "I am not sure," she answered truthfully.
"Don't worry," he reassured, "I'll talk you through it."
He held out his arm and she looped her tiny one through it.
"Here we go," he said.
Starfire felt her feet move, but she had no control over them. They were just walking at the same pace of Jim's feet. The beautiful alien lifted her head just as they took their first step in the wedding room.
It was a large room, packed full of people, and all of them had their eyes on her. She could here gasps and some whispering going on as she continued her slow walk. She was getting even more nervous and was beginning to wonder if she could go any further.
"Kori," Jim whispered, "It'll be ok, just talk to me."
Starfire smiled. She felt more comfortable now that someone was talking to her.
"What are you planning on doing after the wedding?" Jim whispered.
Starfire swallowed before quietly responding. "I am unsure. Jason has yet to tell me."
They were getting closer to the priest.
"Tell you what?" Jim whispered back.
"Tell me what he is planning on doing with the money."
They had reached the alter, and Jim was starting to leave Starfire's side. But before he got out of earshot, Starfire heard him quietly respond "what money?"
The former-heroine started to turn around to find out what Jim meant, but she stopped when her gaze met that of Jason. Her whole body froze over. She had not even talked to him since he had attempted to have sex with her the previous night.
He wore a smile smirk on his face that made his deep brown eyes positively glow. Along with most of the men in the room, he wore a black suit and tie.
"You look great," he whispered.
Starfire nodded in reply. That was the only motion she could make. She simply stood across from him, eyes wide, holding tightly on to her bouquet. The look he was giving her was frightening.
"We are gathered here today…" The chubby, white haired priest began. But Starfire didn't listen to any of the words that were coming out of his mouth. She was almost afraid to pay attention to anything other than Jason.
After what seemed like an eternity, her senses kicked back in when she saw Jason reach for her hand. She instinctively tried to jerk it away, but he already held her firmly in his grasp. She was wondering why he was suddenly holding her hands, but then she heard the priest say a line that she had subconsciously been waiting for him to say the entire process.
"If anyone present objects to the holy matrimony of these two, speak now, or forever hold your peace."
Jason's grip on the girl's hands tightened and he looked intently into her eyes, as if daring her to say anything. Starfire looked around, but to her despair, no one in the room looked as if they would object. Actually, no one in that room looked even vaguely familiar to the Tameranian. The only two people she recognized were Jim and Kathy in the front row. Kathy had tears of joy streaming down her face and Jim was smiling up at the couple.
The silence was deafening. It was if time was standing still. Starfire bit her lip and turned back to Jason, whose smile remained.
I don't want to do this Starfire thought.
"And now…"
No…
"The couple can begin…"
Stop…
"to recite…"
No. Stop. Please just-
"STOP!"
Starfire's eyes widened. Had she just said that aloud? But she took her hands out of Jason's to feel her lips and found them to be closed. She looked up at Jason and saw that he wasn't looking at her, either; he was looking towards the back of the room.
Starfire's twirled her head around, her long hair flowing out behind her and then settling around her shoulders.
And she gasped.
It was Robin, still in the outfit that she had seen him in the previous night. Though he looked fairly disheveled, with his shirt un-tucked and not buttoned up all the way and his hair askew, he was still clearly much more handsome than any of the men in the room, including Jason.
Robin's blue eyes met Starfire's green ones.
"Robin…" she whispered.
Jason looked over at Starfire, but she was too deep in Robin's eyes to notice. Jason knew he had to do something before this situation got worse.
"Who do you think you are?" Jason cried, "Do you really think you can just interrupt my wedding?"
"Yeah," Jason's father Jim agreed, standing up from his chair, "Just who are you?"
Robin stood up strait and looked first to Jason and then to his father. "My name is Robin, as in, the leader of the Teen Titans."
Jim looked shocked, as did Jason, who didn't think that Robin wouldn't openly admit who he was without his mask.
"What are you doing here?" Jim asked.
"I'm here to win back the woman that I love," Robin said, restoring his eye-contact with Starfire.
Starfire stood still as everyone in the room turned back to look at her. Wide-eyed and mouth slightly open, she couldn't utter a single reply.
"You mean Kori?" Jim inquired.
"No," Robin stated, "I mean Starfire. She's the one I fell in love with."
Even Jim turned to look at the redhead, and the looked at his son.
"Did you know about this?" the older man asked.
Jason opened his mouth to reply, but was cut off by Robin.
"Of course he did, he kidnapped her!"
There were multiple gasps.
"How dare you!" This time, it was Kathy standing up. "How dare you barge into my son's wedding, tell him that his innocent bride, Kori, is actually a Teen Titan, and claim that my son Jason kidnapped her?! Do you think that we are going to actually believe that you're Robin? Give me one reason why I shouldn't call the police right now!"
Robin promptly reached into his back pocket and pulled out his Titan communicator. Smirking, he held it up for Kathy to see. And just in case she didn't believe him, he pressed the 'call' button on the side of it. A couple of seconds later, the trademark tone began beeping. Robin pressed another button and Cyborg's voice could be heard.
"You called Robin?" Cyborg said. "…Robin?"
With another click of the button, Robin hung up on Cyborg.
"Happy?" he snapped.
It was clear to everyone in the room that he indeed with Robin from the Teen Titans. Jim and Kathy turned back to their son's bride. Only then did they begin to notice the similarities to her and Starfire from the Titans. It also began to make sense why she didn't have anyone to invite to the wedding.
"Jason," Jim said softly, "Why did you lie to us? Why did you lie to everyone?"
"Dad…I-"
"Because he didn't want you to find out that he had kidnapped her from our tower," Robin said coolly.
"Even if this is Starfire," Kathy began, "There is no way that Jason could sneak into your tower and kidnap her!"
Even Kathy knew that this Starfire was an alien with unimaginable strength.
"But Red X could."
All eyes turned to Starfire. This was the first thing she had since the whole thing had begun.
"Our son is not a criminal!" Jim shouted.
"He's been hiding it from you the whole time!" Robin cried, "Why do you think Starfire just suddenly appeared in his life? Your son is Red X!!!"
"No!" Jason shouted, "He's-He's lying! You don't believe him, do you?"
"I don't understand what motive my son would have for kidnapping your teammate," Jim said, "How do you not know she didn't willingly go with him?"
"He kidnapped me because he wanted to get the money," Starfire said.
"What money?" Kathy and Jim asked unanimously.
Starfire's eyes widened as she turned to Jason.
"You aren't getting any money for getting married, are you?" Starfire questioned softly.
Jason's eyes showed his panic. He swiftly reached into the inside of his jacket and pulled out an 'X' knife. He grabbed Starfire's wrist, pulled her towards him, and held the knife up to her throat. The crowd gasped.
"No," Jason replied to his struggling captive, "I'm not getting anything but you out of this marriage."
He left the knife up to her throat but took his other hand off of her wrist. He then gently swept her bangs out of her eyes, while she continued to try to pry the knife off of her neck. The criminal smiled sweetly to her before turning to face the audience.
"Yea, I am Red X," Jason snarled to everyone in the room, "But this marriage is going to continue."
"Why…Why can I not push you away?" Starfire asked, still trying to fight off the knife.
Jason smiled down at her and she froze.
"You-you drugged me again!" She cried.
"I found you on the other side of the house last night, cutie," he said, still smiling, "You must have been pretty tired because you barely moved when I stuck that needle in your neck."
Starfire gasped and Robin took a step further.
"Uh-uh-uh, birdboy," Jason taunted, "You wouldn't want this knife to slip into cutie's throat, would you?"
"You would do that!" Robin shouted, "You still want to marry her!"
"You never know what I'll do," Jason brazenly replied.
He turned himself and Starfire around to face the priest.
"Where were we?" The criminal asked.
The priest didn't move. All of the gray hairs on his neck were standing strait up.
Jason impatiently moved his other hand in his jacket pocket and pulled something out and threw it at the old man. What turned out to be a sticky 'X' wrapped around the holy man's neck.
"I can control how tight that is," Jason bragged, "So if you don't marry us now, I will kill you."
To emphasize his point, Jason pressed a button on a trigger that had been with the 'X'. It visibly tightened around his neck, causing the gray haired man to cough.
"No!"
Jason turned to see Robin running down the aisle towards him.
"It's about time I finished you once and for all!" Jason shouted.
Dropping the trigger back into his pocket, he pulled out an 'X' that was sharp on every edge. He reared it back and then quickly through it directly towards Robin's neck like a disc.
It was going to kill him. Starfire gasped.
"Robin!!"
Only inches away from his neck, the 'X' stopped in mid air, surrounded in a black glow. It was released from its hold and it clattered to the floor.
Once again, the entire shocked audience turned to the door and saw the other three Titans there.
"Robin," Cyborg said, "What's going on?"
Robin was in shock. "How did you know to come?"
"When you didn't reply after you called, we figured something had happened," Raven explained, "So we traced you here, and it looks like we made it just in time."
Robin was close to replying when a loud cough and choking noise interrupted him.
"DO IT NOW!" Jason screamed.
The four titans looked back to where Jason had Starfire facing the priest, who was now on his knees. Cyborg made a movement forward, but Robin held out his arm.
"Don't," Robin warned, "If you go near him, he'll kill her."
The Titans could then only watch as Jason continued to threaten the man to finish the wedding.
"Stop!" Starfire cried, "Don't hurt him!"
Jason glared at her but then loosened his grip on the trigger.
"Just finish it."
The old man cleared his throat and hurriedly started flipping through the pages of his book to find where he was.
Jason leaned over to Starfire. "After we're married," he whispered, "We're going to have even more fun than we did last night."
Starfire looked away in anger. "There is nothing to stop me from leaving directly after this ceremony is over."
Jason smiled. "I'm glad you brought that up."
He reached into his pocket and pulled out the gold wedding band. He held the ring up to Starfire.
"You see, this ring actually has a bomb in it," he said, "So if you leave, that'll be the end of you."
Starfire glared at him.
"I mean," Jason continued, nonchalantly, "I could just slip it on your finger now, but I'd rather do it the old fashioned way."
He looked up at the crowd.
"And no one else is going to leave this room until this ceremony is over! Understood?!"
No one in the room moved.
Starfire turned away from him again. Jason placed the ring back in his pocket and with his free hand, grabbed her chin and turned her face towards him.
"You're mine," he said.
The brown haired boy leaned in to kiss her, not realizing that she now wore an intense glare, complete with lit green eyes.
"I do not belong to you," she said, before blasting him across the room with her eye lasers.
He hit the wall with a loud crashing noise.
Starfire, whose eyes burned brighter than ever before, began to walk towards him, but she stopped when she realized her dress was restricting her walking. She casually bent slightly down and used her returned strength to tear off the bottom of it. There was a loud ripping noise and the alien tossed the tattered piece of material aside. She then was able to continue her slow walk to Jason with the full extend of her long legs, seeing as she had just 'fixed' her dress to be even shorter than her normal uniform was.
Jason groaned and slowly opened his eyes. At first, he thought he was dreaming when he saw Starfire walking towards him in a short and sexy dress. But he soon realized that this was no more than a nightmare when she stood above him, her eyes glaring evilly at him with the thought of what she was about to do to him.
On the other side of the room, the four titans had only been able to watch in shock as their beloved friend went from being threatened with a bomb to looking as though she was about to kill someone.
Robin was the first to fully grasp the situation. He understood from his talks with Starfire that Tameranians were very brutal when they are angered and forgot everything but their anger.
He began to run across the room shouting her name. He knew that if no one stopped her, she would kill Jason out of anger, which he knew the normal Starfire would never do.
"Star," he began, out of breath when he finally reached her, "Don't worry. We're taking him to jail. He won't hurt you anymore."
The redhead slowly turned around, her eyes still ferociously green. She looked at Robin for a second, and then proceeded to turn back to Jason and light two large starbolts.
"No! Wait!" Robin shouted, holding his hand up in attempt to stop her.
She ignored him, letting her starbolts continue to grow in size. Jason held up his arms even though he knew that would never save him.
Robin knew he had to stop her. So when she reared her arm back, Robin grabbed her elbow, spun her around, and kissed her passionately.
The girl slowly closed her flaming eyes and began to kiss him back. Robin wrapped his arms around her small waist and pulled her closer to him, loving the feeling of having her tightly against him. In return, she began to run her hands through his smooth black hair.
When they finally pulled apart, the room erupted in cheers. Robin smiled at Starfire as she looked back at him with her adoring, normal eyes. Robin took her hand in his and the two walked down the aisle and back with the other Titans.
"Oh, ho, ho, I see some future in that!" Cyborg said.
Instead of getting mad or embarrassed, Robin looked into Starfire's eyes and said "Maybe."
She smiled at him.
"Oh, Raven," Starfire said, remembering earlier, "I am sorry about not returning with you when you came to get me. And I, um, also apologize-"
Raven knew she was going to apologize for taking Robin, but Raven knew that Robin had been Starfire's to begin with.
"No, Star," she cut her off, "I'm sorry. Besides, I have Beast Boy now."
Raven smiled as Beast Boy protectively put his arm around her.
Starfire cocked her head to the side. "You and…Beast Boy?"
They nodded at her.
"Oh, friends! What a joyous day!!" Starfire cried, "Not only have I escaped from Red X, I also find out that two of my friends are finally together!"
"Finally?" Raven asked, but Starfire ignored her.
"Where is Red X?" she asked.
"In jail," Robin answered, "Cyborg called the police to come get him. His parents have gone to book him in."
Starfire smiled. She hadn't remembered what she had done when she was angry, but she was thankful she didn't kill anyone, no matter how big of a chlorbag they are. But as she dropped her hands to her side, she realized just how short her dress was.
"What happened?!" she cried, "Did I do this?"
The other titans just shook their heads at her.
"I must go change!" she said and began to turn around.
"Wait, Star," Robin stopped her.
"Yes?" she answered, looking back at him.
"Let's go home."
And he kissed her.
Well, I guess that's the end. I just like that last little line and thought I'd go ahead and end it now. There was some crazy major symbolism in this story and if you can guess it, you get a cookie! Anyway, did you guys like this chapter? Was it a good way to end the story? What did you think about the major change in attitude that Jason had? Did you think this chapter finally got Raven a little more back in character? Were the rest of the Titans in character? Do you have any questions? Are all of these questions freaking you out?
Feel free to email or message me about your thoughts on this story (if you don't want to review) or if you have any questions or suggestions on what my next story should be about.
Damn I write long author notes, starfirre