"Robin. Robin. Robin!"

Robin grimaced and glanced over his shoulder. "Beast Boy. What do you need?"

Beast Boy took a deep breath. "There's… It's Control Freak. He's making another attack. A mission!"

"You guys can handle it."

Outside Robin's doorway, Beast Boy turned to Raven with a desperate expression.

She stepped in front of Beast Boy. "Robin, people could be in danger."

"I don't care. It's not important." He continued refreshing his tracker.

Raven closed her eyes, and stepped closer. "You need to get outside. Get your mind off her. She's gone. I'm sorry. I would- any of us would- do anything to find her. But we can't. It's been too long for there to be a chance. There's no way she can ever come back."

"No!" Robin snapped and spun around. "She's out there, somewhere! I know it!"

Raven's voice became stronger, "She wouldn't want this. She would want you to move on."

"Shut up! Don't talk about her like you knew her!" Robin yelled. "No one knew her like I did. No one! And I know she's still out there. And I will find her! I don't care if I go insane or die, but I will find her."

With that he whirled back around and continued typing on his computer. Raven started to say something else, but stopped as she felt a hand on her shoulder. She sighed, nodded, and left the room with Beast Boy.

"Every mission this happens," Raven sighed as she and Beastboy approached the main room.

"Tomorrow marks a year," Beast Boy said nostalgically. "365 days. 300 missions Robin's missed. Four he's gone on but just stood and watched."

They entered the room together and began walking over to Cyborg.

"365 stupid days without her." Beast Boy gave Raven a sad smile.

"He ain't comin'?" Cyborg detachedly asked.

"No."

"What a surprise," he sighed. "Doesn't matter. Let's take Control Freak down again."

"Okay."

As soon as his friends had left the room, Robin broke down. Tears streamed down his face and he pounded the floor with his fist.

"Dammit! Star, where are you?!" he muttered into the ground. He looked up around his room.

The walls were completely covered with pictures. One wall was dedicated to Starfire. Pictures of her, of them together, and her communicator rested on a small table in the corner. The rest of the room was all Slade.

Any trace of evidence was there, along with countless reports on him, patterns of behavior, etc. But none of it could possibly help lead Robin to what he wanted. None of it was enough.

"A whole year, Starfire," Robin murmured, staring at the ground. "How much longer do you expect me to go on like this?

364 days ago, Slade had returned. How? No one ever found out. He seemed to be immortal by now. But that wasn't important. The important part was what he did.

He took Starfire. He knocked down the rest of the Titans, and simply took her away without a trace, a hint, anything. And neither of them had been heard from since.

For the first week, Robin didn't stop running. He ran everywhere, screaming her name. He ran all throughout the city and to every place Slade could possibly be hiding. The other Titans looked too. Raven couldn't locate her with her even with her empathetic powers. Beast Boy found it impossible to pick her scent anywhere outside of Titans Tower. Cyborg couldn't even locate her communicator.

When all of Earth had been searched, Robin took the T-ship (much to Cyborg's objection) and searched the whole galaxy for her. Yet every planet he went to, including her home, had no clue where Starfire could be. So Robin returned home empty-handed. Weeks of no sleep and barely any nourishment caught up to him and he became very ill and depressed. He retreated to his room and attempted to track Slade from there. He didn't leave his room for two months. When he finally did, he tried to go on a mission with the rest of the Titans. He found himself incapable of focus or battle without Starfire's presence. So he just watched as the other Titans were able to take down the weak villain without his help.

When they returned to Titans Tower, Raven tried to help Robin to understand that Starfire wasn't coming back. When he denied it, Beast Boy and Cyborg began pointing out all the evidence and also tried to get Robin to accept it. But Robin refused. There was no way he would ever give up on her. He went back into his room for another month, until one day, Starfire's communicator appeared on the doorstep of the tower. No trace of her, just her communicator.

Robin went berserk. He tried twice as hard as he had ever tried to find her. Still, she was impossible to find.

He didn't know where Slade had taken her. He didn't know what he was doing with her. All he knew was that Slade still had her alive, and she needed him.

Robin fell asleep on the cold floor.

The other Titans returned to the tower after putting Control Freak back in jail.

Raven sat on a countertop and began reading her book. Beast Boy and Cyborg started playing video games.

"EAT MY DUST," Cyborg said gleefully as his car passed Beast Boy's.

"Oh yeah?" Beast Boy replied. "Well I've looked up some new hacks, so-"

Suddenly, the television turned off as the clock stroke midnight. Then it clicked back on, but this was definitely not the video game.

"Hello Titans. Miss me?"

"Slade."