Story A Little Piece of Heaven

Chapter 2/?

Genre: Teen Titans/Justice League/X-Men Crossover

Disclaimer I don't own Teen Titans…or The Justice League…sniff…or…tear… X-Men. I am not making any money off this fic. I am just a broke ass Otaku.

Author's Note: Ok, the update on this story took a loooong time, and I'd like to apologize to my lone reviewer Silent Ravencroft. I got a little OCD about my Dir en Grey fic and, somewhere along the line, lost the fire for this one. Then I stumbled across a BBC broadcast about human trafficking in Vietnam. It showed a 15 year old girl being broken out of a Brothel, along with 7 other girls. The traffickers go into some of the poorest parts of Vietnam and tell the girl's parents she is going to get a high paying job, then give them some money up front. The girls are told the same lie and are then taken, beaten, rapped, threatened, and sold into sexual slavery.

Needless to say, the fire was stoked and the boiler was lit.

AN2: To my Beta, The Mad Scientist, merci bo coup! (oO Did I spell that right? lol)

AN 3: "Lalala" Means talking.

'Lalala' Means thinking.

oooooooooo Means a scene change.

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October 1, 2007

"Well then where the hell is she!?"

The shorter of the two men ducked as a large crystal vase was hurled across the room.

"W…well…s…sir we're trying to find her, but ya know she ca'n be held if she don't want o' be."

The priest stopped pacing to stare at the small thief.

"Boogie, perhaps you are not fully comprehending the gravity of this situation," he said with a polite little smile.

His blood red robes swept the floor as he stalked toward the cowardly little man.

"This child is more important than you...or me…or anyone else in this whole bleeding city!" He stopped directly in front of Boogie and glared down at him.

"Her 'imprisonment', as she calls it, is a necessary evil." The priest grabbed the bandit by the scruff of his shirt and began dragging him towards the door. "In time she will come to see this…but she cannot do that if she is not here." He held Boogie close to his face and spoke in a deep angry voice. "I don't care what you have to do, or who you have to kill. I want her back by sundown."

The priest literally threw Boogie out of his office, and the man tumbled and slid across the sparsely covered marble floor before quickly standing and running off down the stairs.

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A tiny pair of red suede shoes stopped in front of a television repair shop. A little girl stared at the world in the windows tinted reflection. The sky was clear and bright as fluffy white clouds cast their long shadows on the world. The remnant's of an early morning rain pooled in the streets and dampened the color of her shoes.

For a moment she stared at her reflection. Those eternal golden brown curls, wide brown eyes, and soft olive skin…a hauntingly angelic face, she thought. She looked at her bright red baby doll cut dress and frowned. It reminded her of freshly spilled blood, a sight that seemed to follow her through her long years.

"Why do they dress me like a doll? They know what I am." She paused. "They know what I am and yet they insist on dressing me like a doll." She raised her eyes to the reflection of the posh looking man standing behind her. "I'm not a doll…and, contrary to how I look, I'm not a child."

"Allegra…you of all people should understand how the human mind works. People need to believe their eyes. Even now, it's hard for me to look at you and believe what you are," the man spoke calmly with a sad smile.

Allegra looked at the reflections of the people passing by them in the street. By visible count there were twenty agents watching her. They'd begun following her the moment she stepped foot outside the cathedral.

This group was American, and the man behind her was Thomas, husband and father of two. She knew every detail about him on sight, and she wished with all her heart that he would turn around and go home.

Allegra spoke slowly. "Look at them, Thomas. Look around you. These people have no idea who you are. They have no idea who I am. But, there are three people who do know you." She could smell the sleep agent in the syringe hidden inside his suit, and she could feel the eyes of the three hidden snipers. "Maggie, Tim, and Thomas Jr. don't deserve to have their family destroyed."

Thomas's eyes widened. "Go home. Send your team home. Be with your families while you can."

Thomas quickly gathered his thoughts. "Our families will be destroyed anyway if I don't stop you," he said, petulant and bitter.

Allegra looked slowly up towards the reflected sky, and Thomas followed her eyes. The other team members followed her eyes as well, and only the passing civilians heard her speak.

"You know…. When this body was five winters old, men, just like you, righteous to a fault, broke into my house and murdered my parents in their beds." She watched a gull fly overhead. "They entered my room with their guns drawn…." Another gull cried out in the distance.

"I couldn't help but stare at all those unmoving bodies…. All human bodies die the same."

She was quiet for a moment. "I burned that house to the ground," she said in a small voice, "and later I decided to travel this world. It had been such a long time since I traveled, and I wanted to see what man had made of it."

Allegra shifted her eyes back down to Thomas, but his eyes stayed fixed on the sky.

"You can not even begin to imagine my…disappointment, in your species."

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When the Police arrived on the scene, witnesses claimed that all twenty of the people being loaded into the coroner's vans had suddenly dropped dead in the street. One woman claimed that she had seen them all look up, and that she also looked up, but didn't see anything in the sky.

Another woman said that she remembered a little girl, around ten or so, in a red dress, talking to the man who died in front of the television repair shop.

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Allegra sat quietly on a random swing in a random park. She pushed herself back and forth with her feet every now and then, giving her dampened red shoes a thin layer of dust. She loved London this time of year, and she watched enviously as mothers chased their children around large piles of leaves. The sun had begun to set and Boogie, short as he was, cast a long shadow on the dusty grass beside her.

"I never got to do that Boogie…," she said sadly. "…with any of my children," she added a moment later.

"Father Ambrós is real upset wit' you." His thick British accent almost made her laugh. Sometimes she couldn't understand a word he said.

"Did you ever play like that with your mother, Boogie?"

"Me mum was a drug addic'."

"I'm sorry Boogie." She was quiet for a moment. "I never got to do that." The tears began falling before she could stop them, and Boogie came to kneel in front of her. He offered her his old ragged stained handkerchief, and she took it to dab delicately at her tears.

"I never got to do that, Boogie," she said almost pleadingly. "I miss them. I want to see them. I want to hold them," she sobbed.

Boogie looked into those large amber eyes and his heart broke. It was hard to remember their situation looking in to a child's eyes.

He shook his head and looked away. "Come on lil' one," he said taking her hand and gently pulling her from the swing.

"No," she yelled when she was on her feet. She snatched her hand away, gaining the attention of the other mothers in the park. "I want to see them! I deserve to see them!"

Boogie looked around nervously and spoke in a harsh whisper. "You know you ca'n go see 'em. It's safer for 'em if you don't…an' you know that. Think 'bout 'em for a minute."

Allegra's face went rigid with pain. "I am," she said.

Boogie blinked. "Allegra?! Allegra! Allegra," Boogie shouted, but she was gone.

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OO Dear God it took a long time to get this out! The problem was that this chapter just kept going and going like the damn energizer bunny! Then I got struck by lightning and decided to cut it in half. The good news is that the third chapter shouldn't take half as long to get out. lol