"Rachel do you know how do number six?" Her friend Jason asked.
"No I'm stuck as well, its getting late maybe we should stop and meet up before class and work on the problems."
"Yeah sure." Jason replied while packing up his stuff. He gave Rachel a peck on the lips. Rachel was taken back by the kiss. Her and Jason were just friends. "Sorry. I don't know what I was thinking." And with that said he hurriedly left her apartment. When he left Rachel sighed and put a hand to her head she was over whelmed with school work and confused about Jason. She went to the kitchen to make some herbal tea before bed. As she walked to her room she turned off all the lights but when she entered her room the window was open which she didn't remember leaving open. She walked over and closed it as two hands covered her eyes.
"Guess who?" The intruder said. Rachel screamed and drop her hot tea on the hard wood floors. "Shhhh Rachel its me." The intruder spun Rachel around and she squinted her eyes trying to get a good look at the guy. Her face soften and she began to recognize the jaw line of the masked man. She stepped out of his grasp and looked him up and down and once she made her way back up she grinned.
"Richard!" She jumped into his arms and he spun her around. "I have missed you so much" She whispered in the crook of her neck, her legs wrapped around his waist and her arms wrapped around his neck. He put a hand to her head and played with her long black silky hair as she was in his arms. "Where have you been?"
"I had a mission in Jump City, it took longer then I planned. I missed you so much." He leaned in for a kiss and Rachel backed out of his grasp and blushed a little looking down at her feet. Richard gave her a worried look and walked up to her and picked up her chin to make her look at him. "What's wrong?"
"Nothing." She said trying to avoid eye contact. "I have a big test tomorrow and need to go to sleep. She said stepping farther away from him and walking towards the window signaling him leave.
"I can't stay?" Richard asked hurt. She shook her head, and with that Richard left out the window to protect the streets of Gorham.
In the morning Rachel met Jason for coffee.
"Did you see the paper Rachel? Richard is back and is working with Bruce Wayne. I bet Mr. Wayne is happy."
"Yeah... I bet he's happy... can we get back to the homework now?"
"Oh look at this article a new masked vigilante fighting along side with Batman." Rachel rolled her eyes as Jason read more knowing all about the masked vigilante already.
Back at the apartment Rachel and Jason watched a movie and right before Jason could pull the old yawn trick the doorbell rang. Rachel got up to get the door.
"Who was that?"
"There was no one there." She answered him.
"That's strange. I have to get going anyway."
"Alright I'll see you later Jason." Jason leaned in for a kiss but she moved her head away. Rachel was getting frustrated, why was everyone trying to kiss her.
"Are you okay?"
"I think I might be getting sick my throat hurts... I don't want to get you sick."
"I see... Well I will talk to you later then." As he headed out the door. Rachel let out a deep breath and turned around to see Richard standing in her apartment. She jumped out of fright.
"What are you doing here Dick?" She said walking past him, but he grabbed her arm.
"You know I don't like it when you call me that." He looked down at her sternly and noticed she still hadn't grown from the last time he saw her.
"Okay then what do you want, Nightwing?" She emphasized his superhero identity.
"I want to know what wrong with you, and who the Jason guy is? You are not seeing him right?" His face tensed scared of her answer.
"So what if I am seeing him, it is none of your concern, and what's wrong is that I haven't seen you in forever and you just expect me to let you stay the night? No Richard no. Now you tell me why are you here?" She poked a finger to his chest and finally got his grasp on her arm free.
"I'm here cause... cause when I was in Jump City away from you I realized..." He scratched the back of his head getting nervous. "I realized that I love you." Richard admitted looking straight into Rachel's violet eyes. Rachel gasped and looked away from his eyes and turned to sit on the couch. He followed right behind her. They were silent for awhile. Finally Richard took her hand signally for her too make some kind of comment but she stayed silent.
"Richard." She whispered turning to finally look at him. "I love you too." She said while laughing a little and tackling Richard on the couch. She straddled him and leaned down to kiss him. In a quick movement Richard used his strong arms to flip their positions so he was ontop of her. He grinned and planted little kisses from her neck to her mouth. She broke the kiss gasping for air. Richard stared now at Rachel.
"You are beautiful." He said to her and she giggled and looked away. "Do you not like it when I say that to you?"
"No I do." She replied trying to sit up but Richard pulled her to his lap. "You are so strong now." She said memorized by his toned muscles. She traced them with her slim fingers remembering as kids he would always play the hero and trying to be all tough and strong, and now her really is. She snapped out of her trance. "Richard what are we doing?"
"I will tell you right now. We are falling in love, and I want you to be my girl friend and we will go from there." She laughed at his response and put her forehead to his. and they smiled at each other.
"Okay I guess we can give this a shot." she said and with that said Richard lifted Rachel up from the waist and carried her to the bedroom. He dropped her on the bed and he plopped down next her and with one hand he wrapped around her waist and pulled her into him. Together they laid there in each others arms and Richard watched Rachel sleep until his communicator buzzed alerting him it was time to patrol the streets of Gotham.
In the morning Rachel awoke with no one beside her, she knew Richard had a night patrol but she thought he would come back. She went to the loving room to see if he was there and he was there knocked out on the couch. She leaned against her door frame and cleaned her throat. Richard awoke and jumped up off the couch.
"Huh? What?" Rachel giggled.
"It's time to get up, I have class and don't you have work you need to be getting ready for? And you know you didn't have sleep on the couch." She said.
"Well I didn't want to wake you up." Richard got up to take a shower and kissed Rachel on the forehead. While he was in the shower she got ready for class and ate some cereal and tea. She was interrupted by the doorbell.
"Jason." She gasped.
"Hey I was wondering if you wanted to a ride to school." Before Rachel could answer Jason mouth dropped opened. Rachel turned around to see Richard just wrapped in a towel. Rachel was too distracted by Richard's chiseled body, six pack, and all to notice the stare down between the two men that was going on.
"Oh no that's okay I will be taking Rachel to school." Richard finally said while pulling Rachel to his side showing that Rachel was his and he needed to back off.
"I'm sorry Jason, I should of told you earlier but..." Jason put a hand up to stop her.
"Its okay Rachel, as long as you are happy, I'm happy." Jason said smiling even though on the inside her was really hurt. He turned and left, and Richard closed the door.
"You could of been a little nicer about it." Rachel suggested looking at Richard crossing her arms over her chest. Richard just shrugged.
Richard being the adopted son of Bruce Wayne he had a lot of money and owned a lot of cars so when he took Rachel to the University it was in style. He sped through Gorham a in a silver porshe and everyone was looking to see who was driving and none were surprised it was Bruce Wayne's son.
"What time does your class end?" he asked Rachel as she got out of the car.
"12."
"Perfect, Ill pick you up then and we can go get lunch."
"Okay." She smiled and Richard captured her lips in a passionate kiss. Rachel broke away and smiled at him and turned to walk to class. Richard put his hands in his suit pockets and looked down at the street and laughed and shook his head thinking of Rachel.
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