Hello everyone! Thanks so much for participating in the Voting Poll! The poll is now closed and we have picked three prompts for each day. You may chose one or multiple prompt(s) for that day. Posting/sharing does not have to be limited to these days. The dates with the most votes came out to be: December (Saturday) 25th - (Friday) 31st!!
The prompts are:
Day 1: Family (Kory's Family, Batfamily, or Future Kids) | Tending Wounds | Flying
Day 2: Jealous Dick realizes Kory keeps secrets from him while she tells the Therapist | Seduction | “Hold Me”
Day 3: True Love | “I’m Sorry” | Batman!Dick
Day 4: Sparring | “I Will Always Love You” | Criminal AU
Day 5: Modern/No Capes AU | Royalty | “The natural beauty of this world reminds me of you”
Day 6: Star-Crossed Soulmates | Circus/On The Trapeze | Kisses
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Synopsis: Starfire is having trouble hiding things from her friends. As she tries her best to act as normal as she can, she starts to let some things slide and they all notice how weird she is acting. Things get worse after she gets a call from Slade in which he assigns her a mysterious mission. She flies to meet him, leaving her communicator back home. The Titans are confused when they find out she has left it and Robin is filled with guilt because he thinks it's his fault. When Starfire arrives to meet the masked villain she finds out she won't be going solo for this mission. Starfire and her partner are going to do something that she never ever imagined she'd do.
Almost a week had passed since Slade’s and Starfire’s agreement. She hadn’t heard from him and at this point she was getting really nervous. An idea popped into her mind as her team fought an alien invasion of tofu like people: she would go back home and deal with her sister herself if she didn’t hear from him until Saturday, the day that marked a week since they spoke. Since today was Friday, she had to tell him about this no-plan plan she had just come up with asap.
That evening she went home with her friends while her mind tried to find a way to contact him without raising any suspicion from her best friends. Lucky for her, the alien invasion had left a lot of homeless cows in the tower as the Titans called every place they could think of that would take them.
In the main area, her friends were busy calling every farm they could find in their data base. Beast Boy was trying his best to feed the cows and keep the space clean. Starfire stood there, in the back, just a couple of meters away from the main hall that took them to the dorms. She cleared her throat before speaking. “I shall call from my bed. I am most tired”, nobody answered. She stepped back and the automatic doors opened to let her in.
She flew back to her room. When she entered, she sat on her bed. The communicator was under her puff seat. She stared at the device for a while.
She sighed, defeated. She had to tell him. So, she bent down and tried to get her hand under the seat. Suddenly her door opened. She fell to the floor, on her knees, pushing the puff seat. The seat fell too, covering the communicator but the photo stayed on the ground. Raven stepped in. “Are you okay?”, the empath asked. Starfire quickly took the photo and hid it inside her hand, turning it into a fist. “Yes, friend, I am well”. Raven nodded at her answer. “Robin said that we both should fly the cows to their new home”, Starfire looked through her window. “One cow at a time?”, she asked. Raven shook her head. “Cyborg has made a platform with chains so we can carry the whole thing with as many cows as we can fit in it. Are you in a hurry?”. Starfire knew that lying to Raven was not a good idea. Her powers allowed her to feel other people in a deeper way, she could notice that Starfire wasn’t telling her the truth. She could even get into her mind and find out about Slade. “Yes, I am. Robin has arranged a new course of training for me to do at sunrise. We have to hurry so I can get the most needed rest”. Raven started walking to the door. “I’ll wait for you at the rooftop”, the half demon walked out of Star’s room. The doors closed and the darkness filled the room again.
Suddenly, something vibrated and made a strange sound. She sat on the floor and picked up the communicator from under the puff. It was ringing. She heard Cyborg calling Robin and Beast Boy for help with the cows on the corridor. It got pretty noisy outside in a second as her team got the cows to the roof. She opened the communicator; there she saw Slade.
“Starfire, the preparations are almost done. I need your help for something else. I will meet you tomorrow. I’ll send you the coordinates when the time comes for us to meet. Be ready”. She didn’t even have time to respond. The call ended and she quickly closed the device. Starfire hid it back where it was with the photo. As she walked to her door it opened again. It was Robin this time.
“Star, we are ready for you to take the cows to a new farm”, she nodded and was about to past him when Robin quickly grabbed her hand. “Everything okay?”, the question came purely out of curiosity, but for the first time Starfire didn’t want to talk. So, she nodded once more and flew to the rooftop still holding his hand. “Star!”, was the last thing she heard. “Hey, Star! I can get there myself”, the boy wonder laughed a little bit.
She only let him go when they got to the top of the building. “What was that?”, he asked again as their friends secured the last details of the delivery. “Nothing”, she answered. “Sometimes I get lonely when I am flying by myself”, she smiled at him before hugging him. Her arms were around his shoulders. He put his around her waist. “I am always there with you”, he took a step back to point to the communicator that was attached to the belt on her skirt. The one marked with the T. “See?”, she stared at it blankly. “Star?”, Robin didn’t understand why all of a sudden Starfire looked so lost.
“We are ready!”, Beast Boy shouted. Starfire flew to one side of the platform without saying anything else to Robin. Cyborg had made a platform made of metal strong enough to hold 20 cows. Starfire took one chain and Raven the other. The chains were attached to both sides of the platform. They both lifted the whole thing and Beast Boy cheered. “Cy, you made it!”, the shape shifter yelled as the girls flew away. Robin looked at Starfire, she was acting weird. She didn’t make a comment on the cows, nor Cyborg’s last-minute creation. It wasn’t like her to just fly off on a mission without saying goodbye to her friends. Why was she acting like this?
The mission went well. Raven and Star couldn’t really talk. The cows were moving too much and they had to concentrate on getting them to their new home safely. When they came back, they were too tired to even say a word.
At sunrise, Robin waited for the Titans on their private training camp. The whole team gathered there to practice. The leader had created a new course with Cyborg’s help, and this was a very difficult one. Since Starfire asked Robin for help to get better, he started designing a new training program for the whole team.
The team wasn’t complete. Starfire wasn’t there yet. She was in her room trying to hide Slade’s communicator in her regular outfit. She didn’t really know where to put it. In her belt, she carried the Titan’s communicator. She tried to disguise it there but a quick look at her and you could clearly see it. She looked at herself in a full body mirror, turning around again and again, trying to see if anyone would notice it if she clipped it to her glove, to her top, to her skirt. But anywhere she put it, everyone would see it.
“Starfire?”, Robin called her name from behind the door. She let out a small gasp. Quickly she hid the communicator in the first place she could think of: inside her top. Since it was tightly closed around her neck and on her shoulders, she figured there was no way that thing could fall off. And it looked kind of weird, but she thought that no one would be brave enough to comment how it looked on her chest.
She flew to the door and received her best friend with a big smile. “Greetings, Robin! I wish you a good morning”, she hugged him for a second and flew her way out to the training site. Robin stayed there. He thought that it felt like if she was trying to act like herself, but she wasn't doing well.
The training was about to start. Beast Boy wanted to go first; he was still very excited after he saved the world from the tofu aliens. He jumped to the control center on the side, where Robin was standing behind the computers. “You go second, I think Starfire should go first!”, Robin said to the team, looking at Starfire with a playful smile on his face.
The teenage alien flew to the starting point. She looked back at her teammates who cheered on her and then at Robin. “Ready, Star?”, he asked. She positioned herself on the starting line, eyes set on the finish line. Her eyes lit up as she nodded. “3, 2, 1, Go!”, Robin yelled and she flew as fast as she could.
Five rocks came from the ground and flew right her way. She immediately wrecked them apart with her green laser eye beams. Then she avoided fire balls thrown at her from both sides. Two very strong cables tried to pull her back to the start, trapping her arms and legs. She struggled for a second and then used her super strength to pop out of the one around her arms. When her hands were freed, she shot starbolts to the one around her legs. As she did that, lightning bolts started shooting at her. She avoided each and every one of them until she was just meters away from the end.
She turned around to find her teammates cheering her up from the sideline and in that same moment her chest vibrated. Slade was trying to reach her. Her eyes met with Raven’s. The half demon looked shocked. Starfire held her stare on her friend and then she moved her head down to see a small red light shining through her top. She couldn’t think about it for one second more because one lightning bolt shot her in the back and she fell to the ground on her hands and knees.
Robin ran to her. “Starfire!”, everyone yelled as they went to check on her.
She lifted her head and looked at Raven again, she could tell the empath had seen something and as the fear filled her mind, she stood up. She looked at her friends for a second, backing off and then flew back to her room.
“Wow, she is not okay!”, Cyborg pointed out. “Dude! She has been acting off for a while now”, Beast Boy added. Robin listened to his team mates carefully, he noticed the same thing about Starfire: she was not acting like herself since the night that Slade got inside his head. “I‘ll talk to her”, the boy wonder walked away. “No! I will, I think I can help her”, Raven stopped him, putting her hand on the leader’s shoulder. “It’s just that we talked after what Slade did to me, so I think that maybe-”, he explained, Raven could feel how tense his body got. “Look, Starfire has been weird since then yes, but I feel like that is not the main reason why she is acting that weird. I felt it when we went to the farm, she avoided talking to me. She has used my powers before, she knows the more she says, the more I can sense when she is hiding something. And even thought she didn’t say much, I know she is”, Robin chuckled and shook his head. “You know Starfire is the most transparent person, she wouldn’t hide anything from us”, Raven just shrugged her shoulders and levitated her way to the alien’s room. Robin came after her, running as fast as he could. And when he got there, Raven was inside looking through the window. She was alone.
“Where is she?”, Robin asked. “I don’t know, Robin. I am telling you-”, Robin opened his communicator and pushed the call button. Raven’s lit up and made a sound but they both heard another communicator in the room. It sounded muted, like it was hidden. They both walked to the bed, Robin picked up one of the pillows and there it was, Starfire’s communicator. He sighed, sitting on the edge of the bed. “Why would she leave it back here?”.
The rest of the team got there. “Something wrong?”, Cyborg asked. Beast Boy walked inside the room and immediately noticed Robin’s attitude. “She left her communicator”, Robin answered. “Why?”, Beast Boy sat next to the leader of the team. “You think she is in trouble?”, Cyborg asked. “It’s my fault. When Slade poisoned my mind, I hurt her, she said that. She asked me to stop and I didn’t let go of her”, Robin’s shoulders relaxed, he looked at the communicator in his hand and he tried his best to stay calm, to keep it together. “Hey, you know Star is a strong girl. She will be okay. Maybe she just needed some time alone to think. Maybe she thought she was okay but today she felt like she wasn’t and that’s fine, she will be okay”, Raven sat on the floor in front of Robin. “Yeah, man, you know she likes to go to the mall, maybe she is there”, Cyborg added coming close to his teammates. “Or she went to get more mustard, you know she loves mustard”, Beast Boy said, trying to make Robin laugh and he succeeded. They all joked around for a while before getting back to training.
Meanwhile, Starfire flew through Jump City’s sky for a couple of minutes just in case. Then she looked at the screen on the communicator to get the coordinates. She had to go to the woods, the threes covered most of that was in the ground, so she used the coordinates to get to the right place. After a couple of minutes using her speed flying abilities, she found a lodge hidden in the middle of the woods. It looked modern and very mysterious even though the windows were almost as big as the ones on the Tower. If the coordinates were right, she was looking at Slade’s place. She flew down and stepped on the entrance. As soon as she got to the door it opened. She entered the house and the door closed after her.
Slade was there in the entering hallway. “Hello, my child. I am glad you made it. You kept our secret, right?”, he asked as he guided her to the living room. She nodded and walked with him. The living room had an amazing view of the hidden paradise that surrounded the place. The furniture was elegant, everything was either black or made out of a dark wood that looked so sleek mixed with the darker color. It looked like one of those modern houses she saw on magazines.
“How was your flight? Did you find it easy to get here?”, he asked. “Yes, it is very hidden even from the top, but your message helped me get here with less difficulty”, she answered. As she talked, she could hear a door open inside the house, she heard steps approaching and then a familiar masked face appeared. “Oh, yes! I forgot to mention that you will be having a partner for this particular task”. Slade pointed out introducing her to the guy in the black uniform. “Hi, cutie! Time we had a date just for us, right?”, Red X spoke offering Star his hand. She crossed her arms around her chest as her eyes lit up.
“Calm down, child”, Slade put a hand on her left shoulder as he stood by her side. Her eyes went back to normal and she sighed. “Why must he be here? I can go to any mission you want by myself. I do not trust him”, Starfire stated firmly looking angrier than every time she fought Red X. “He knows just what he needs to know for this mission, and this is a task for two”, Slade walked away from the teenagers. He went to the living area and stopped in front of the big screen in the middle. As he touched the screen to reveal his plan to Starfire he explained: “You see, for this plan I need a distraction but a really good one. Red X has a very powerful suit that will make him almost unstoppable and the skills to trick anyone who gets in his way. While Red X is distracting the people, who will be protecting our target, you will get it out of that place. You know this place; it will be a piece of cake for you and Red X will join you for the great scape”. Red X sat on the big black L couch in front of the TV. “What place is it that you are talking about? And what is the target?”, Starfire got closer to Slade, standing beside him as she looked at the files he was opening. A couple more touches to the screen and a detailed plan with graphics appeared. In the center there was a picture of the Titans Tower. “You two are going to get the T-Ship out of the Tower”.
A/N: I loved Red X’s interaction with Star in the episode X, so I wanted to pay tribute to it by adding the word “cutie” into his dialogue. I love to play with the way he speaks, later you’ll see a lot more of him.
Let me know what you think! Hope you enjoy this episode <3
It can be said that while Kory is living the dream of getting married, she did not care for work the people on Earth took in having that wedding.
Since they were two different planets with very two distinct values and cultures, Kory already knew that the wedding process here was going to be vastly different from Tamaran. While the ceremonies were somewhat similar, the majority of weddings on her home planet took no less than a couple of days to get prepared for, and the emphasis was placed more on the couple than the ceremony.
On Earth, most people had to start planning months in advance. For some, that was even years before they were officially married. There was the shopping of dresses and suits for not only future spouses, but the people attending the wedding also. She also found that that catering was a giant deal (had to accommodate for all guests) along with seating and music.
That was not even counting the work put into deciding where one wants to hold their wedding and planning the honeymoon that comes after.
Kory had lived on Earth for a few years now, so she was not ignorant in how western weddings were usually suppose to look like. She just honestly did not ever seeing herself foam at the mouth at the kind of dream wedding she had read and saw most brides cried over.
She would be just happy to get married to the person she loves the most in this universe.
The wedding planning stuff was pretty irrelevant to her.
Because of that attitude Kory had on weddings, all the classic planning was directed at Dick. He was very vocal on the kind of things he wanted at his- their wedding. He decided on the perfect season to get married (apparently June was very special for summer weddings); he decided on the food and how everything would be arranged. Dick even went out of his way to pay top line to have custom made wedding invitations passed to all their friends and family.
Kory was told by Donna a while back that technically it was some kind of non-written rule that the groom could not see the bride’s wedding dress until she was walking down the isle. Once again, Kory found it very silly, but nevertheless, she had planned to go through with it.
However, that did not stop Dick from trying to suggest ideas to her on certain wedding dresses that he absolutely loved. Kory would say yes to all of them because his suggestions were very gorgeous, but each time, one of their friends would tell Dick to stop and that it was Kory’s choice.
Dick could not stop it though. Her finance was totally in love with his ideas on his dream wedding. He had told Kory stories his parents told him about the day they got married. He had that glistening look in his eyes when he told her about his parents would tell him that their wedding was one of the best days of their lives, next to his birth of course.
Dick just wanted to create a similar moment for himself.
Kory was okay with that, but Donna and Rachel fussed at him for even recommending dresses that were almost all over 12K. It was not the fact that they did not have the money for it, but Kory agreed that spending that much money on a dress (that was more important to Dick than her honestly) was probably not the best option.
But they still had to figure out the wedding.
So that is how Kory found herself staying (more like dragged away) at Wayne Manor for a week. Dick had asked Alfred and Barbara on what to do for catering and desserts, while Kory was stuck as a taste tester. If Kory had to be true to herself, despite being familiar with Dick’s life in Gotham and the family he grew up, Kory never cared for Gotham herself.
She did when she first arrived on Earth, but the glamour quickly came off once she knew the true dark nature of Gotham.
Kory worked better with the Titans and the Justice League. Gotham, and the vigilantes that came with it was not a place she felt completely comfortable with. Sure, she worked with a lot of Gotham’s heroes, but Kory would claim that came with being a superhero.
It was not until Alfred regularly served her tea and scones; not until Dick got pulled into a case with Bruce and Kory was allowed into the Bat Cave that she realized that she was slowly being treated as part of “their” family. A family she never really cared if she was a part of as long as she could keep her relationship with Dick Grayson.
That was until she had to deal with Bruce, or Batman.
She has always been very neutral with Bruce. Overall, she did not have a big problem with him, but Kory was very critical on the way Bruce treated Dick in the past. Being in the Titans changed Dick for the good, but that could not erase the years of being in Bruce’s care.
While Bruce allowed her to stay at Wayne Manor; while he allowed her to knew family secrets and stay in in the Bat Cave, he was very clear to her that he really did not want her patrolling Gotham with them. He held the belief that they could handle everything with those with superpowers.
Kory wanted to fight him on that, but Dick just got in the middle of them and said that they would call if he needed back up.
They did not call for help. Bruce had brought Dick home with a shot to the leg and unconscious from tear gas.
“You were suppose to protect him! Why is he more hurt than you?!” Kory had yelled at Bruce while Alfred held her back.
“Let’s not talk about this now.” Bruce did not look up at her as he said it. He kept all his attention towards her injured fiancé.
“IS IT BECAUSE I AM AN ALIEN?! IS THAT WHY YOU NEVER LET SUPERMAN HELP YOU?!” Kory knew that using starbolts was too much, but she really wished that Alfred would let her kick him.
Bruce did not say anything. He simply turned around and left, leaving Alfred alone to handle Dick.
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Alfred had said that Dick’s injury was nothing serious, but he would need a knee brace and crunches for almost a month. He also had her help him to his room so that he could rest on his bed.
Kory just took all this information in as she took her new spot seated next to Dick. She wanted to be there when he woke up. She wanted to be there if he was aching anywhere.
In her mind, one of her thoughts were if Dick was going to delay the wedding now that he had gotten a serious injury. Once again, Kory personally did not care (she would married him at this exact spot if he woke up and ask her to), but she knew how important it was to Dick to have his dream wedding. Recovering from a gun shot was probably not on his list of things to take care of for his dream wedding.
As Kory’s mind continue to wonder, she heard the bedroom door open, she quickly turned her head to see Bruce standing there. He looked physically drained, hurt.
As Bruce walked towards the bed, she heard him ask “How is Dick?”
“Alfred said it was nothing major. He should be waking up soon, but…but he will be very limited with his right leg for a while.” Kory folded her arms as she directed all of her attention back to Dick. She was no longer mad at Bruce anymore. She just wanted Dick to wake up.
“Have you two planned where you want to go for the honeymoon?”
That was a weird question to ask. Kory did not picture Bruce as one being particularly interested in their wedding, but she understood that maybe he was trying to make small talk.
“Dick said he wanted both the wedding and honeymoon in Honolulu.” Kory felt awkward as she told him this. “Donna keeps arguing with him that he should save Honolulu for just the honeymoon.”
“I see.”
There was more awkward silence. The silence stayed like that until Dick started moaning and turning his head. That was a sign that he will be soon awakening.
Bruce took a step back. He starred at Kory who had part of her attention towards Dick, and the other half trying to focus on what Bruce was about to do.
He gave her a half smile, not one to show that he was happy, but the one people gave to another person to show them that everything will be okay.
“When this wedding thing is over. I want you two to take a whole month off.” Bruce said as he started walking towards the door. “Make him give you his undivided attention the whole time.”
The door shut.
Three minutes later, Dick Grayson had slowly awakened and Kory could not stop herself from almost smothering him with a giant bear hug. “Honey! You’re up!”
Dick did not say anything back, but the weak smile he gave her was enough for Kory. She moved her head slightly so that she could kiss both of his cheeks.
The day of their wedding, Bruce walked up to her to remind her that he was serious on what he said. He told Kory that he wanted to them to spend as much time together as possible, not as Starfire or Nightwing, but as Koriand’r and Dick Grayson.
Kory only nodded in return before Dick pulled her away.
Maybe having Bruce Wayne as an In-Law was not going to be so bad.
