Soooo, this story has been sitting on my computer for a while so I desided to start posting it! Jericho was my favorite character in the whole show! So this is a story about him. This is NOT a story with a JerichoXRobin pairing. It's a story about both of them!
Argent! Disclaimer!
Aregnet: Why...?
Me: Because I want you to.
Argent: Fine. Dianna Phantom27 doesn't not own Teen Titans. DC comics does.
Me: Thank you. Now on with the story!
Secrets
Jericho sat alone on the couch in Titans Tower feeling completely out of place. Sure, he was in a tower shaped like a giant T that was full of super heroes mostly his age or a little older. Sure, all these kids had secrets too, but it just wasn't right. And he was mute on top of all of that.
"It was great to see you again Wonder Girl." Robin said walking over, "Hey, Jericho, right? You mind if I sit here?"
Jericho shook his head and Robin sat down.
'Green Lantern told me about you.' Jericho signed, hoping to make conversation.
"Really? Which one?"
'There's more than one?'
Robin laughed, "Yeah, there's four. What'd he look like?"
'Black hair, green mask that covered most of his face.'
"Yep, that's Kyle, shoulda guessed. Hey, you seem kinda tense is everything OK?"
'I just feel a little out of place, that's all.'
"I can't help you much with that." Robin sighed, "Maybe you should talk to Raven."
"Robin!" Speedy yelled from across the room, "Get over here! Jinx and Argent are in a cat fight!"
Robin sighed and stood up, "Raven's in her room. Last door down the hall on the left don't worry, you'll find it. Now, if you excuse me… What the flip is going on!"
Jericho found Raven's room, (It did say "Raven" on it.) He stood there for a second, and then knocked on the door.
"For the last time Beast Boy, I have no intention of coming out just to watch two of the other girls get into a fight, again." Raven's voice came through the door.
Jericho knocked again. This time Raven opened the door.
"Oh, sorry, Jericho, right? I thought you were Beast Boy. Do you need something?"
'Robin told me to come talk to you about being out of place.'
Raven raised an eyebrow, "Sorry Jericho, I don't know sign language."
Jericho pulled out a pad and pencil and wrote down what he had signed.
"Oh, You'd better come in, this is going to be a long talk." Raven opened the door a little more. "But tell anyone you were in here and you won't be seeing the light of day again.
Can't be any worse than that time I was locked in my room for a week without food. Jericho thought. He slipped into Raven's room and only glanced around at the decorations before shrugging.
"You don't find this creepy?" Raven asked, surprised.
Jericho shook his head, he was glad just to have a roof over his head and working plumbing. He'd learned to appreciate the little things after being confined to a mountain for years. The only reason that he had gotten off was because Fang had broken the device that kept him up there during the fight between Fang, Private HIVE, and himself. But as soon as Herald takes me back, Dad will be there to fix the device and make sure I stay in check.
"OK, I'm just going to come out and ask you if it's OK for me to read your mind, Jericho. It will make it easier for the both of us."
Jericho nodded again.
"So why do you feel out of place?"
I've only worked with a few other heroes in my life, so I just feel a little weird.
"That's not it."
How can you tell?
"You're thinking what you want to be true, not what really is. Jericho, whatever is going on, I probably have a million things to top it. Whatever you're feeling can't be any worse than having a demon for a father." Raven sighed before continuing, "So, just tell me what's going on."
My father is evil too.
"OK, didn't expect that." Raven muttered, "Show me."
Um, what?
"Let me see your memories. I'll let you choose first, but get me anything about your father, I need to know."
Jericho nodded. He remembered every beating, slowly he picked through those. The accident and being dumped on that mountaintop, he chose those. More recent ones he chose more carefully, picking out anything that involved Robin or Terra, leaving out some of his more gruesome beatings. He added in his mother and brother's death, his sister beating him even though she was younger, and one sentence that he had heard to many times to count.
"You're weak, Joseph, a disgrace to me, you'll never be good enough to do anything that matters in the world you want to live in."
Jericho nodded at Raven and he felt her in his mind.
Raven
I don't know why I was doing this; maybe it was because we both had bad pasts, I really don't know. But I felt like I had to help him.
Suddenly, I felt the first punch, I heard Jericho scream.
"DADDY! STOP!"
With every memory the beatings got worse and worse. Soon I came to memories were the boy couldn't speak. I felt every hit, every need to cry out in pain, but the inability to.
Then I came to a completely different memory.
A younger Jericho sat in the middle of a small room, tied to a chair. Two men walked into the room. One of the men started to untie Jericho.
"Who are you? Why won't you let me go back to my mom?"
"We're business partners of your Dad, kid. And hopefully he'll be willing to trade you for something that we need."
"He won't. Dad doesn't care about me. You should have kidnapped Rose." Jericho said as the first man forced him up.
"We'll see about that." The second man said. He motioned to the first man, who started to drag the younger Jericho out of the room. Jericho was forced out a door that led to an alely way.
"Joey!" a woman yelled. The woman had long brown hair. She was wearing a trench coat, and black boots.
"Mom!" Jericho exclaimed. Then his eyes fell on the man. A look of confusion came over his face. "Dad?"
I recognized the man.
"Let him go, Jackal." Slade said.
"Not until you give me the information."
"Never."
Jackal smirked, "I thought that would be your answer. But I think your son and wife would disagree." He made a motion with his finger and the other man raised a knife to Jericho's throat. "It's your choice, Slade. Either you give me the files or I take your son's life."
"Oh, God!" The woman gasped, "Give the man what he wants, Slade! It's not worth it!"
"Adeline… Stay out of this…" Slade, turned back to the Jackal, "I won't give you the files, just let my son go."
"Your choice, Slade. Kill the boy." Jackal hissed at his henchman. I felt the knife slit Jericho's throat. The boy screamed in pain suddenly the screaming stopped. He was in so much pain, but he couldn't make a noise. Then he fainted.
I pulled myself out of Jericho's mind. I didn't need to see anything else.
"Oh, sweet Azar." I whispered. "Slade's your dad."
Jericho nodded. Please, don't be mad at me. I hate him; I hate him so much.
"I see why. But Jericho…"
You can't tell anyone. Please, I'm begging you.
"Alright, I understand. But I need to talk to Robin about something. And no, he won't know when we're done." Raven assured Jericho.
-3 Hours later-
"Now, you better not do anything with my girlfriend, speedster, or I will hunt you down and make you suffer." Cyborg warned Kid Flash.
"Noted." Kid Flash answered, fearfully.
"Don't worry about me, Cyborg." Jinx said before kissing him on the cheek. "I won't let him try anything." She turned to Kid Flash. "I'm ready to go."
"Alright, let's go babe… I mean Jinx." Kid Flash said, picking her up bridal style. He ran off before Cyborg could hurt him.
"YOU BETTER!"
"We'll see you around, Cyborg." Herald said, walking up and giving Cyborg a high five.
"You two going too?" Cyborg asked.
"Yep, I've got to take Jericho home, then I'm going back to my dimension. You ready to go, Jer?"
Jericho nodded.
"Hold on a second." Robin said from behind the two. "Jericho, can we talk to you for a second?"
Jericho shrugged and walked over to the group, followed by Cyborg.
"Jericho, we did some talking…" Robin started.
"And Beast Boy and Raven vouched for you and we decided…" Cyborg continued.
"That we would like it if you stayed here with us!" Starfire exclaimed.
Jericho's eyebrows rose in surprise. 'Really?'
"Really." Robin answered.
"So…" Beast Boy said, "What do you say?"
Jericho looked around at the others. Starfire, Beast Boy, and Cyborg were eagerly waiting for his reply, while Robin and Raven had both managed half smiles. A smile spread across the mute's face as he nodded.
"Glorious!" Starfire yelled.
"May I ask what's so 'Glorious'?" Herald asked.
Jericho turned to his friend, still beaming. 'Herald, I'm going to be staying here. They asked me to join the team!'
"Really? That's great, bro!" Herald exclaimed, punching his friend lightly in the arm, "Of all the others, you got in! I'm happy for you, but I've got to get going. See you around." Herald waved to the others as he stepped through a portal he made.
"Starfire, do you want to show Jericho around town?" Robin asked the alien.
"I would be most glad!" She kissed Robin on the cheek; "I will be seeing you the later. Come Jericho! I must show you the place of pizza and the mall of shopping and…" Starfire trailed off as they left the room.
Robin immedidtely turned to the rest of the Titans. "Alright, we have 6, 7 and ½ hours top! Let's get to it!"
Oooohhhh What are the Titans Doing?
OK Because some people care the pairsing in this story are...
RobinXStarfire
Slight CyborgXJinx
RavenXJericho friendship that you can take any way you want.
And Friendship relations:
Jericho and Raven
Jericho and Robin
and maybe a little Jericho and Starfire. I haven't desided yet.
Now push the blue review button. You know I liked it better when it was green...