Disclaimer: If I owned the Teen Titans, I would not have retconned much of Dick and Kory's history away...

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EQUINOX

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"But Kori, how am I going to take care of you now?"

"As I recall, you promised to take care of me Richard, yes, but did you ever expect for us to have anything less than a partnership?"

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Chapter 2

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Dearest Richard,

We will be together in only 7 ½ months! Time is passing by somewhat quickly, but not fast enough. I miss you so.

Many of my friends graduate in May, and I will miss them but I am glad I will be staying on for the music composition concentration in the semester. I appreciate your encouragement with that. With the first summer session classes and the fall semester, I was able to secure a spot in the composition concentration, so I will complete that Masters as well as Music Education! The spot will have me finish up right before your tour of duty is completed so we will be together after.

Finding a living situation is proving a bit awkward. I was able to sublet a room on campus at one of the 'fraternity houses'. The brothers, as they are called, are mostly gone for the summer, and the few that are on campus were anxious to have a few extra people stay in their fraternity. There were two other women, both undergraduates, but soon I realized that situation was unwise, for reasons I won't bother you with.

Luckily, I found a job doing the the house sitting for one of the professors for the summer while he is in Sweden. Because you have kindly left me your car, I was able to take it because it is out a bit near the valley in a lovely suburb. He has a cat named Ginger who is most friendly and the next door neighbors are nice. It should work out most nicely until my move into graduate housing for the fall semester.

I'll write tomorrow, better get back to studying. I love you.

Yours faithfully, Kori

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Dear Kori,

I'm so sorry again about not writing. Things are heating up a bit again because of the good weather, which means more phone contact with command and less time to myself. I miss you so much it hurts. All your letters are amazing. I am so happy every time I get one (or eight!). But, the busier I am, the faster the time goes by.

I am glad that you are house sitting. I got jealous there for a moment when you mentioned living in the frat house for the summer. It's not at all that I don't trust you, it's just the thought of you living in a house with other men in it... Sorry sweetheart, but I have to be honest...

God I miss you – I'm repeating myself. Thanks for writing so often. It means more than I could describe. I'll do my best to write soon, sorry this is so short, I have a bunch of reports to file tonight while things are calm.

I can't believe the depth of my feelings,

Love always,

Richard

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Dear Richard,

Richard My Love,

I am still on the Nine of Clouds that you were able to call on the day of my birth! I have not stopped smiling and Donna has told me that I am the unbearable to live with. The locket your gave me is just so lovely and I refuse to take it off except when I do the bathing. I am so touched to have something of your Grandmother's and now that I am able to have your picture with me (well, I admit I always carry one, but now in the locket, it is next my heart). I must thank Alfred and your Father again for getting that to me!

I did finally get your letter and I am happy to move to where ever you will be when you return in December of course. You were nervous asking me? I cannot imagine why. I thought that I would be with you after you returned home was understood. I think you did too, perhaps just you are too the stressed out?

Please never doubt how much I love you and look forward to being with you. Yes, you are correct: even if the option would be my own suite in your father's home (which is large, no?), I would prefer my own apartment to living in your father's home although it was a nice offer... I am not sure I feel comfortable about the living together, even if it is in your father's home in separate bedroon. I will have my own funds from my savings and from teaching and I am already contacting schools in the Connecticut suburbs of New York for the Spring semester after you return...

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Dear Kori,

I still can't get over that I'm getting a furlough and that I'm going to see you in Germany - and that it worked out with both of our schedules. Germany should be fun in late summer, but I'd be happy to see you anywhere, even for a minute. I had never even let myself hope that I could see you before Christmas, and now we'll have two weeks. I love you so much and I'm counting the days; no the hours.

What have you done to me? I've never been this enthusiastic, this happy... I can't wait to thank you.

I'm actually writing this about three hours after we spoke. It has been a rare free night for a bunch of us. Everyone is rowdy from the good news.

Roy did got in my stuff again, this time with Joe, and they snagged your pictures. At least I had Vic and Gar to back me up, so they were returned without much of a fight! I have to find a new place for them now.

I'm going to get some rest, remember how much I love you and can't wait to see you in case we don't get a chance to talk to each other before I meet you in Germany.

Love, Richard

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Richard My Love,

If I was on the nine of clouds after you gave me the locket (and I still am!), I am on the tenth if there is one of those! It has worked out so well to meet you in Germany, I can't believe it. I won't have to be back for classes until the 8th of September and as you know, I was planning to be over in Europe in August already to see my roommate Rachel when I was at Geneva University in Switzerland.

I have been so excited to see you that I have been the 'unbearable' to live with. Donna has removed all of the coffee and tea with the caffeine. She is threatening to leave if I do not stop doing the constant smiling for it is doing the outing of the creeps from her. She also says I am almost doing the floating – it feels like it!

When I tell Donna that she was very happy about Terry when she first fell in love, she states that she was not as happy as I am now. I agree and have said so. (I think when Terry proposed she was not as happy, but I would not say a thing about that!) I believe no one in the history of the world is as happy as I am! As you said in your first letter, since I met you, I now do the understanding of all the things that the poets and the authors and the people doing the song lyrics have written about.

The summer semester is quickly wrapping up and I am glad that I have the house to sit and worry about and the cat to take care of along with my school work. I still do the daydreaming however.

I shall write again tomorrow.

All my love, Kori

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Dear Kori,

I hope this letter gets to you before you leave, it's been the only chance I've had to write. Things were heated lately but we are on schedule for being pulled out for our time in Germany.

It goes without saying that I can't wait to see you. The guys are giving me so much grief that it's getting to the point that I'm having to crack down on them. I don't mind really, it's just they aren't getting everything done or paying attention enough because they are harrassing me. Of course, I'm acting like a lovesick teenager.

Enjoy your time with Rachel and be careful... sorry, I'm being over-protective... I just worry about something happening to you and I can't bear the thought.

Oh Kori, your letters have gotten me through some difficult times these last 7 months... I can't thank you enough for your letters, your love, or for getting caught in that storm with me last Christmas...

Dear Richard,

As I mail this from the Los Angeles Airport, I realize that it might be the last letter I might be able to get to you given I have to go through the APO...

I did get your last letter and silly Richard, remember, I was the most unable to handle myself that day we met than I have been in years. I promise you I will be fine. I have traveled quite a bit and have been on my own a lot. Remember I went to school in Switzerland and have been on my own for a number of years.

Also remember, I will do nothing to risk not being with you in just ten days (less by the time you receive this letter). I am beyond excited. Poor Rachel, she does not handle me well when my emotions run high, but she knows our situation and insists it is fine so we did not change our plans.

I am about to board my flight for Geneva. I love you and can't wait to tell you in person and to spend time with you again.

Until we meet again,

Love always, Kori

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To be continued...

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