She wants a place to call home

“Not exactly easing into it huh?” Blackfire asks with a sardonic smirk.

“With all the racket Jinx and Raven were making I’m sure it won’t be long before the rest of the Titans realize I’m M.I.A.” you reply with a shrug. “And as soon as they get the two of them under control you can bet Robins’ going to want to ask me why Jinx is crashing in one of the guest rooms instead of being locked away in a containment cell.”

“Awww, someone’s going to be in trouble” Blackfire teases as she takes another sip of her drink.

“Yeah and that probably means we don’t have a lot of time before he tracks me down so….”

“Alright, I see your point” she replies and takes another deep breath before beginning. “Do remember the Brotherhood of Evils' plane to get rid off all the Titans?”

“Yeah I read the file, it’s one of the main reasons the Titans decided to increase the active roster.”

“Well I was one of the few bad guys to escape at the end” Blackfire begins as she stares into her drink. “I spent a short time here on Earth after that, plotting ****. I was so angry at the Titans, especially my sister.” She stops and I see her eyes well up with emotion for just a second before she regains her composure. After taking another sip of her drink she continues. “Once again she was happy and safe with friends and a place to call home, and I had nothing. All I could think about was going after Kori, but I knew if I did I’d have to fight all the Titans, and for once it just didn’t seem worth it. In the end I left and wandered around the galaxy, doing whatever it took to survive. Yet no matter how far I ran, I couldn’t stop thinking about how even though she was so far from Tamera and just as much an orphan as I was my little sister still had a place to call home and people who genuinely cared about her and I didn’t even know where I was going to sleep that night.”

Blackfire blinks her eyes while staring at her lap before going on. “Then one day I was sitting in a run down boarding house out in some backwater system, halfheartedly working on a plan to rob the local treasury, when the planetary garrison came bursting in. Now when I say the planetary garrison I mean the WHOLE garrison” she grins with amusement at the memory. “Apparently they thought I might give them some trouble.”

“A delicate little thing like you,” I say in mock astonishment, “I can’t imagine why.”

“Smart ass”, she grins slightly as my comment seems to lighten her mood just a bit. “Anyway much to everyone’s surprise I surrendered without a fight.”

“Wait a minuet,” you say sitting forward, “you mean to tell me you surrendered to a bunch of local cops without so much as throwing a single punch?”

“Not a one” she confirms with a shrug. “I honestly don’t know who was more surprised, the garrison commander or myself. The truth be told, I was tired. Tired of running, tired of having to stay in shit holes like that boarding house, tired of hiding, most of all I was tired of always having to look over my shoulder. When you’re a fugitive it’s not just the law you have to worry about; there’s bounty hunters, heroes, crazy vigilantes, hell some of the other criminals will sell you down the river if there’s enough credits involved or it will save there own ass. So I let them place the inhibitor cuffs on and cart me off to the stockade. It was the first good night’s sleep that I had since being exiled form my home planet.”

"I knew being an intergalactic fugitive wouldn't exactly be glamorous, but damn," you say setting your drink down. In truth, you hadn't really ever thought about it before. Going from Empress of entire civilization to fugitive **** to stay in whatever boardinghouse she could find that didn't ask too many questions would've broken just about anybody else. The fact that through it all she managed to remain standing said more about how tough she was than anything in the Titans file on her.

"It's wasn't all bad," she says with a bit of a sardonic grin, "I got to see the galaxy on someone else's credits and I didn't have to answer to anyone." Her smile falters as she sighs dramatically, "But after a while I was so busy planning **** against people and waiting for someone to stick a knife in my back that I wasn’t having fun anymore.”

"And you think joining the Titans will be fun?" You ask raising an eyebrow.

"Hey I figure I'll still get to travel and kick a little ass," she says as her eyes begin to glow that dusky purple again as she slides across the couch so that she's practically in your lap. "Besides, just because I'm trying to be a good girl now doesn't mean I can't be a little naughty," as she says this she closes the distance between you and you feel her nails gently run up the back of your neck and through the hair on the back of your head and that dusky purple glow gets more intense as her face inches closer to yours.

"Something tells me that weather your good or bad, you'd be more than a little naughty." You say and give into the urge and run one of your hands up her thigh and gently give it a squeeze running your thumb along the inside just below the hem of her skirt causing her to gasp. To your surprise the armor on her leg is very flexible and you can feel the heat of her skin against your palm.

She blushes slightly but the glow in her eyes is so intense that they look like two burning sapphires as she bites her bottom lip coyly. "Something tells me I'm not the only one with a bit of a naughty side" she says in a husky voice.

"Darling you have no idea" you assure her as you run your other hand across her cheek and behind her head, feeling all that thick dark hair sliding through your fingers like silk as you pull her in that last couple inches.

But just before your lips meet there's a loud explosion from the main area of the club as people begin to shout someone bellows "All right nobody move!!!"

"Seriously?!" Blackfire growls in frustration.

"What the fuck?" You mutter as the two of you head for the door leading to the dance floor to see who's responsible for this interruption.