Symphony of Agony

Impatience

“New information has been received just recently upon the mysterious disappearances of nine of Jump City’s citizens,” the reporter said, “Apparently just yesterday a woman had received the hands of her daughter in a box. Her daughter had been missing for the shortest time of those missing, but now fear for the safety of the others has arisen.”

“SEE CYBORG! I TOLD YOU THEY WEREN’T RUN-AWAYS!” Robin yelled almost directly in Cyborg’s ear as the reporter finished.

“THAT WAS MY EAR THANK YOU VERY MUCH!” Cyborg yelled in retaliation against Robin now in his face.

“Jesus what’s all the yelling about?” Raven asked as she walked into the living room rubbing her eyes.

“I told you there was something to worry about with the missing persons,” Robin explained, “One of them is suspected dead, and the others are feared to have met the same fate.”

“And why is that?” Raven asked uncaringly.

“Well, Sarah, the clerk from the bank, had her hands sent in a box to her parents’ home,” Robin told her.

“That’s, umm, disturbing,” she replied.

“Look guys, I don’t know who this guy is, what his motive is, or where he is, but we have to take his ass down,” Robin said strongly. “Where the hell are Beastboy and Star?”

“I think they’re up on the roof,” Cyborg told him.

“I’m going to go check on them.”

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“You said there was something you wanted to talk about. What was it?” Beastboy asked.

“Well, friend, it was that, well, my feelings around you are different than around the others, and I felt the need to tell you that,” Starfire responded.

“Whoa, hold up, run that by me again,” Beastboy said stunned and not believing what he just heard.

“How would you say it on Earth, I love you?” Starfire said.

“Yea probabl…. WAIT WHAT!? NO, NO, NO, NO, NO!” Beastboy said pacing back and forth.

“But Beastboy why not? I do feel that way in respect to you,” Starfire told him.

“WE CAN’T! It’s just… NO!”

“But, I… I… I cannot hold this back anymore I needed to tell you or else I would have driven myself beyond sanity,” Starfire said grabbing hold of him to look straight into his eyes as she said it.

“NO, NO PLEASE DON’T,” he begged as she drew in closer and finally locked lips with him. Shit! Robin’s gonna kill me, Beastboy thought.

“BEASTBOY WHAT THE FUCK!” Robin said as he emerged upon the roof of the tower.

“Robin, it’s not what it looks like I swear. She came on to me!” Beastboy attempted to explain as he pressed Starfire off him.

‘YOU LYING SON OF A…”

“It is true friend Robin. It was me that began this situation,” she told Robin shamefully.

“But Star why?” Robin asked as Beastboy attempted to sneak away. “Stay right there you little green bastard.”

“Okay,” he said as he sat down.

“Star I thought we had something, what happened?” Robin asked her.

“We had something yes, but you were not the one who I longed to have that something with,” Starfire explained.

“But why him, why not Cyborg, or even Raven for that matter?”

“You are all too unrelaxed; Beastboy is almost never like that.”

“I loved you Starfire, how could you do this without at least saying something first?”

“I feared you might not want me as a friend anymore if I had,” she explained.

“Star, doing it this way is more likely to kill anything we ever had than if you had just said something to me,” Robin said as he headed back down to his room.

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“Hey Rob, everything okay?” Cyborg asked as he walked by.

“Leave me the fuck alone,” was all that Robin could think of to say after the incident that he had just witnessed.

“Damn, and I thought you were antisocial, Raven.”

“Shut up Cyborg something is wrong. He never acts likes this. It’s even got me worried,” Raven stated.

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“Am I safe yet?” Beastboy asked.

“You are fine, but it is now Robin I am worried for,” Starfire told him as she flew off to attempt to straighten things out.

“And the blame for friend Robin’s sadness is mine to take,” she said aloud now landing.

“Don’t be so hard on yourself Starfire you can’t control what you feel in relation to different people,” came a voice from a shadowed alleyway.

“And what would you know?” she said clearly becoming angry.

“I’ve seen what happens to people when they feel that all the blame is for them alone. It’s not healthy, you should learn that what you feel is not controllable. You feel what you feel,” the voice said.

“Maybe you are correct in what you say,” she considered.

“I know I am that’s why I can properly do my job.”

“What else is there that you may be able to teach me about the strange things that this planet has upon it?” she asked him.

“Follow me and I shall teach you all I know,” he said. I was becoming impatient while waiting for the proper time to capture Raven, but her friend will do nicely to fuck with her head when I finally do capture her, he thought.