Greetings readers! If any of you are familiar with Yu Yu Hakusho you may
remember my fic Forbidden Bastard which I will most likely not finish.
(Sorry if you were reading it!) It's been awhile since I wrote really
anything but the nagging idea I had for a TT fic was too annoying to
ignore. ^-^ This fic is going to have most everything Romance, dark themes,
comedy action, hell even Fedoras!
Several years have passed since our beloved Teen Titans formed. Members have come, some have gone. Our heroes (and heroines) have grown older and become wiser. However not all is well. The smallest of fractures too small to be seen by the naked eye...can eventually shatter a wall. Years have gone and some of them carrying very harsh lessons for the once teenaged meta- humans. The cracks have aged and grown vast some becoming vast chasms of memories and ghosts of a world long gone...they have driven some of our precious titans apart.
Not to say they all have lost touch of course. Eighteen months since the departure of the first and six since the disbanding of the team in itself many of the members still held true to the bonds they forged when they were young and innocent...in a time being a super hero was still a golden prize to obtain...not a burden or a curse to carry. Where then you ask are our titans? What has happened? If you look out into the bay of Jump City citizens can gaze fondly upon a building...a building that was once a sign (and perhaps still is) of safety and security. Oddly enough this building is shaped in a massive "T" and as we all know was once the home and base to the band of super teen known as the Teen Titans. Now while no longer a base it is still indeed a home.
Here lives Timothy Drake.
Don't recognize the name?
Perhaps then Kory Anders...should I refer to her now as Drake though?
No bells ringing eh? Maybe it would just be easier to call them Robin and Starfire for the time being. Yes everyone's favorite pair are still together recently married and expecting their first babe this summer. The wedding had been spectacular of course as Tim would have nothing but the best for his blushing bride. Beautiful white flowers rained down upon Princess Koriand'r of Tamaran as she slowly made her way up that aisle, her friends...no...her family smiling and some even weeping with happiness. It had seemed perfect. She remembered it flawlessly of course. Her maid of honor, Mrs. Tara Logan (Better known as the rock wielding Terra) stood beside her almost vibrating with excitement as her own husband (Garfield Logan...Beast Boy and later Changeling) was trying to balance himself between calming down the groom to be and stopping his infant daughter from her game of "pull out massive chunks of daddy's fur." Watching with an amused eye (since he only had one organic one left) Victor Stone better known perhaps and Cyborg took up the job of keeping poor Timothy from either collapsing or dying of the small heart attack occurring at that moment. It has been quite a large wedding as it was not just the former Teen Titans present. Many of the members of the Justice League themselves had shown up. Most of them in costume so as not to reveal identities best kept secret. Superman, The Flash, Impulse, Wonder Woman Batman (of course)...Gods...it seemed that everyone was there.
...seems... it is such a horrible word...
It seemed that everyone was there...it seemed as if it were perfect.
But it wasn't...it was anything but. Kory never spoke of it of course, never complained. But deep down, she couldn't ignore it completely. The sorrow that hung over them all, always out of sight...but everyone knew it was there...they could feel it. The maid of honor especially...because she knew. She knew that she did not belong next to Starfire on this day. She was a replacement a mere stand in for Kory's true best friend. But that was done and sad thoughts cannot bring back the dead.
But they still felt it. Dead in every sense the woman was to them. One does not need a body to prove this. She was lost to them perhaps quite nearly forgotten in this happiness that they all sought and found. Except for one. For behind that single brown eye and in the dull red glowing of its cybernetic twin across from it the amusement was only a façade. A block to hide the pain and loneliness. For some reason...the pain would just not leave him. Even if it had been nearly a year since she left them. There had been no note...no signs at least that they could see. They simply awoke one rainy morning to find her gone. A young woman who he had become close enough with to call his sister...but that was done and gone disappearing into those vast chasms that had come all too quickly to shatter their world.
But that nagging voice in the back of Victor Stone's mind would not let up...would not keep whispering. Because just as it seemed to be perfect...everyone seemed to be at that wedding. His Dark Girl seemed to be dead...
...and I think by now...we all know what Mr. Victor "Cyborg" Stone thought of that word...
Several years have passed since our beloved Teen Titans formed. Members have come, some have gone. Our heroes (and heroines) have grown older and become wiser. However not all is well. The smallest of fractures too small to be seen by the naked eye...can eventually shatter a wall. Years have gone and some of them carrying very harsh lessons for the once teenaged meta- humans. The cracks have aged and grown vast some becoming vast chasms of memories and ghosts of a world long gone...they have driven some of our precious titans apart.
Not to say they all have lost touch of course. Eighteen months since the departure of the first and six since the disbanding of the team in itself many of the members still held true to the bonds they forged when they were young and innocent...in a time being a super hero was still a golden prize to obtain...not a burden or a curse to carry. Where then you ask are our titans? What has happened? If you look out into the bay of Jump City citizens can gaze fondly upon a building...a building that was once a sign (and perhaps still is) of safety and security. Oddly enough this building is shaped in a massive "T" and as we all know was once the home and base to the band of super teen known as the Teen Titans. Now while no longer a base it is still indeed a home.
Here lives Timothy Drake.
Don't recognize the name?
Perhaps then Kory Anders...should I refer to her now as Drake though?
No bells ringing eh? Maybe it would just be easier to call them Robin and Starfire for the time being. Yes everyone's favorite pair are still together recently married and expecting their first babe this summer. The wedding had been spectacular of course as Tim would have nothing but the best for his blushing bride. Beautiful white flowers rained down upon Princess Koriand'r of Tamaran as she slowly made her way up that aisle, her friends...no...her family smiling and some even weeping with happiness. It had seemed perfect. She remembered it flawlessly of course. Her maid of honor, Mrs. Tara Logan (Better known as the rock wielding Terra) stood beside her almost vibrating with excitement as her own husband (Garfield Logan...Beast Boy and later Changeling) was trying to balance himself between calming down the groom to be and stopping his infant daughter from her game of "pull out massive chunks of daddy's fur." Watching with an amused eye (since he only had one organic one left) Victor Stone better known perhaps and Cyborg took up the job of keeping poor Timothy from either collapsing or dying of the small heart attack occurring at that moment. It has been quite a large wedding as it was not just the former Teen Titans present. Many of the members of the Justice League themselves had shown up. Most of them in costume so as not to reveal identities best kept secret. Superman, The Flash, Impulse, Wonder Woman Batman (of course)...Gods...it seemed that everyone was there.
...seems... it is such a horrible word...
It seemed that everyone was there...it seemed as if it were perfect.
But it wasn't...it was anything but. Kory never spoke of it of course, never complained. But deep down, she couldn't ignore it completely. The sorrow that hung over them all, always out of sight...but everyone knew it was there...they could feel it. The maid of honor especially...because she knew. She knew that she did not belong next to Starfire on this day. She was a replacement a mere stand in for Kory's true best friend. But that was done and sad thoughts cannot bring back the dead.
But they still felt it. Dead in every sense the woman was to them. One does not need a body to prove this. She was lost to them perhaps quite nearly forgotten in this happiness that they all sought and found. Except for one. For behind that single brown eye and in the dull red glowing of its cybernetic twin across from it the amusement was only a façade. A block to hide the pain and loneliness. For some reason...the pain would just not leave him. Even if it had been nearly a year since she left them. There had been no note...no signs at least that they could see. They simply awoke one rainy morning to find her gone. A young woman who he had become close enough with to call his sister...but that was done and gone disappearing into those vast chasms that had come all too quickly to shatter their world.
But that nagging voice in the back of Victor Stone's mind would not let up...would not keep whispering. Because just as it seemed to be perfect...everyone seemed to be at that wedding. His Dark Girl seemed to be dead...
...and I think by now...we all know what Mr. Victor "Cyborg" Stone thought of that word...