I am so bad at keeping my stories going…

Anyways, read on anyway.

Saffire's blue eyes were suddenly sparked with knowledge and shock. Her mouth gaped open for a moment, but then she later closed it, and returned back to her emotionless state.

"I work for the Teen Titans. Do you have any problem with that?" she said calmly, thought almost forcefully, not exactly in anger, in controlling her astonishment of distrust.

"Yeah, give me the name of your previous boss, or maybe even your still current boss," Robin countered back in words.

"That has nothing to do with you," Saffire furrowed her forehead and her eyebrows knitted together.

"Of course it does; your boss is our enemy."

Saffire again went into her shocked state. Her blue electric eyes were filled with facts. She opened her mouth to have a say, to fight back in words. But she decided countering would not be effective. She only looked down, her eyes welling, and quickly walked to her room.

Now she understood.

Robin's hard glare was kept at her, piercing her, hurting her, hunting her down. He showed no mercy in his glare behind the mask.

"Yes, please upgrade our friendship with the Simians by sending diplomats to them. Please had them this contract as well," Ruler Starfire agreed, signing her name quickly on a piece of paper and handing it back to the messenger. She went back to her work, answering and occasionally calling in a translator to help her decipher alien characters.

She placed an 'X' at the end of her sentence and her thoughts began to wander.

She looked out the window, searching carefully with hope for a tint of blue in the Tamaranian sky.

When she had spotted the other planet, she pressed her hand to the large paneled window. She missed her friends so dearly. She enjoyed the idea of staying to rule her home planet. There was so much to do. She had based many new things in Tamaran that she had set up on things on Earth. She even opened up a new contract of alliance with them. She still hadn't received any reply from them. She wasn't sure if the Earthlings accepted such a vast and new idea of faraway alliance with an unknown planet light-years away.

She commenced to think optimistically that her sister now enjoyed the pleasures of Earthling acquaintance just like she had herself.

It didn't help to think of it that way, however. She, herself, wanted the pleasure. Then again, she also had hoped she was now ruler of Tamaran. She wasn't two people. Nor would she be in two places at once.

What could she ever do?

Starfire snatched another paper and began to write in her neatest and most accurate English.

My dear sister and friends,

What is up? Is this the correct term? But anyways, I am currently enjoying myself in Tamaran. It has changed and I must say, improved since my leadership on it. I dearly love my planet but I miss—

"—all my friends and my sibling. I cannot be in two places at once, for I am not of two. So therefore, I hope you can take a small break from your fights against the Titan enemies and might want to come and visit Tamaran and your friend, Starfire. Also, if you need help getting there, I am sure that Saffire will be glad to help you," Cyborg read.

"Any replies?" the messenger asked.

"I don't even know what Starfire's handwriting looks like. I don't know if it's a real letter from her or not," Robin muttered.

"Of course it's Ruler Starfire's!" the messenger countered.

"Heh. We leave no reply."

"Are you sure? The Ruler wishes to hear from you, that's why she chose the fastest messenger to send this over to you."

"Correct, no reply."

"Well, maybe," Beast Boy suggested. "Maybe we'll go visit her."

"No," Robin repeated. "Just leave without a reply." He shooed the messenger along his way.

"Maybe Saffire might want to leave a message," Raven said, suddenly emerging from the hall.

"Nope."

"Maybe I'm right, something is wrong with Robin," Beast Boy said.

"Yeah, you might not know if Saffire really does work for Slade or not. If Starfire doesn't know about it, then Saffire probably couldn't possibly be on Slade's side," Cyborg agreed. "I'm not on her side exactly but, hey, just saying, you never know."

"She's left herself in there for some days," Raven added.

"Some days, some years, what difference does it make?" Robin said. He was going to stick to his belief, even though they didn't believe him. This time, just this time, he would make the choices and he would get it right. This time, they were going to listen to him and get things right instead of messing up when they didn't believe and listen to him. He would show them.

Robin was a very obstinate dude.

"Can you think? She's probably met her death," Raven countered in her smooth tone.

"I hope she is dead."

"Starfire loves her sister. What is Starfire going to think"

That hit Robin a bit, but not enough to make him fall to the ground. Sure, she was Starfire's sibling, and Starfire was in the Teen Titans. But perhaps Starfire did not know that her sisters had turned evil, maybe even including Blackfire was well.

"Go talk to her yourself then," he finally said.

There was a pause. "What kind of a leader are you?" Raven spat.

"You…" Robin turned to face Raven, "are you trying to pick a fight?"

"No, but I'm proving a point."

"How are you going to go about doing that?"

"Why can't you just talk to her?"

"Go do that yourself, if you say so."

"I'll be back with the proof that Saffire just might be innocent!"

"Good, I'll be expecting you without it."

Raven eyed Robin angrily and without further emotion breaks, she stormed off, her cape swishing to the right in her sharp turn.

Beast Boy and Cyborg glanced over at Robin, who walked off in the other direction. They looked at each other, warned.

Raven knocked on the door to Saffire's room. When there was no answer, Raven used her shadow power to mentally enter Saffire's room. Raven concentrated, her shadow bird of power was the eyes for her. Her mind gently observed Saffire's room.

Saffire was not appearing to be there.

Raven opened her eyes, losing her train of thought. Her shadow bird dissolved into the air. Raven quietly went through Saffire's locked door. Perhaps Robin was right in not trusting Saffire. Why did she still trust her somehow?

Raven heard a small stir in the air.

"Saffire?" she called, looking around, her purple hair whipping her face with each turn.

The stirring continued.

Raven commenced to back up to the door.

"Please, leave me, I deserve to die," Saffire's familiar voice stated.

"Starfire wishes to hear from you."

"How—"

"She's fine. She sent us a message."

"Does—"

"She wants to come back to Earth, but she can't so she wishes for us to go and see her instead."

"I must write to her," Saffire groaned, slowing sitting up and walking to her desk. Her room was so dark. The bright lamp light killed Raven's eyes once they were turned on. But soon she adjusted. Saffire snatched a paper and a quill. She wrote in foreign letters, most likely Tamaranian characters. She rolled it up and passed it to Raven.

"Give this to the next coming messenger," Saffire said, closing her eyes and her head rolled back onto the chair's back. Her face was so pale.

"Sure," Raven said, apparently to no one.

"They didn't leave a reply."

Starfire sighed and scribbled another message. "Send this," she said, more frustrated and with a bit more anger.

"Please, she'll probably kill me if you don't," the messenger begged.

"No,"

"Please?"

"Got one," Raven approached the messenger.

"No!" Robin blocked her.

"Forget you, I need this delivered," Raven pushed him away.

The messenger kissed the paper maybe about four times. He gratefully flew off.

"Why did you do that?"

"Why are you not letting me do this? You're not the master of my life."

Robin opened his mouth, but Raven interrupted, "It's all part of your little plan against Slade, is it not?"

"My plan is for the good."

"Get back to real life, Robin."

"You don't even know it."

"A bit obvious from what you are doing."

"What did you put in the message?"

"I didn't put any message in."

"Then—hey, did you send a message from Saffire?"

"And you finally realized that?"

"You..." Robin threw his fist at Raven's face, his temper lost.

Raven was thrown back at the force. She stood up and ignored all the pain and damage inflicted.

Cyborg and Beast Boy ran over to her, asking if she was okay, or fine.

Robin turned off and went to the stereo, muttering under his breath.

Raven grit her teeth and went back to Saffire's room, purple blobs on her cheek.

"A reply!" the messenger gladly gave Starfire the message. Starfire was equally as happy as the messenger who knew he would live. He wouldn't want to go to jail in Ruler Starfire's anger.

Tamaranian jails only locked, never opening after being closed.

Starfire read it, recognizing her sister's manuscript. She was delighted. "My sister is still as brilliant as always," Starfire grinned, then continued to read. Her face dropped. Starfire blinked and hastily wrote a reply, handing it to the messenger.

"I'm sorry. You will be greatly rewarded," Starfire apologized to her messenger.

"No matter, my please to serve you, Ruler."

"Off with you then," Starfire commanded. "I want this sent as quickly as possible." Then she muttered, "So that's why they still haven't returned an acceptance signature yet."

"What, Ruler?"

"No matter, messenger, no matter," Starfire said quickly. But was this really no matter?

See ya later

Midori