Here it is, the second to last instalment of Ridged Start, this will be the longest, and i think most pivital part of the story, enjoy and remember to review and view.

Being part of the Teen titans meant many things: always saving the world, risking your life day by day, prestige among all those that you protect, and working with members of your team daily. But despite working and sometimes spending days at a time with them, chances are that you'll probably not see many others of your team mates and friends for long stretches of time. In that time, who's to say what can and can't happen? Someone may go missing, a relationship may be born, a life could end, or a relationship could end.

He just lay quietly on the stone launching pad on the roof of Titans Tower. Watching carefully in the sky anxiety twitching behind his emerald eyes, he waited. Though the bustle and over all activity of the field and to a point the water below was over active at times in the mid day, he paid it as much mind as he would if it where morning or night. But his peace and watching was cut off as the sweeping sound of the metal staircase door opening took his eyes away for a brief moment. "No one uses the door…" Jericho pondered as his head fell back looking to the opening door.

His eyes were met by the familiar blonde haired geomancer. "Jeri!" She yelled over to him with a vigueres hand wave in his direction.

His lips curled to a polite and friendly grin as he flipped himself over so he wouldn't be looking at her upside down. "Sorry, I knew you were up here so I used the door this time," She explained as she ran over to him and looked down at the top of his head.

With a light head raise, he looked eye to eye with her, emeralds to sapphire, and perked up one of his eye brows. "Well because I startled you when I fly up here on the rock last time, so this time there was a warning for me coming," She added quickly with a nervous grin and eye gesture.

He perked his lips out a little in thought then looked at her again. "Well its better then tying a bell to my neck, right?" She joked as she crouched down to eye level with him. He laughed emptily in response and Terra tilted her head to the side a tad, dropping a few strands of her gold hair over her face.

"Besides, you're the one that should where a bell since you're so quite." Jericho tapped a finger under his chin in playful response to her words. She quickly dropped herself down onto her bottom and looked up at the sky that Jericho was so fixated on not too long ago.

"So what where you looking at, the stars?" She asked him with a glance over at him, only to see that he also went back to looking up at the sky. Jericho shook his head and smiled knowing that she was joking, or at least half joking.

"Then what?" Jericho guided her gaze with a direction of his index finger. She followed his finger and saw it was pointing at one of the docked ships that belonged to one of the honorary Titans. "A ship?" he answered with a soft nod.

"Enemy ship?" This time she was responded with shake of the head.

"So a friend ship…" her finger tips tapped lightly on the tips of her lips as she thought. "You don't have many friends, no offence," He shrugged as if saying that he knew and he wasn't offended. "And I'm here, your best friend in the entire world," He looked at her with a light empty laugh. "So… Kole?" Jericho's pursed slightly and he nodded solemnly as he sat back up. Terra quickly took that in and then playfully hit him in the arm.

"Hey come on Jeri, she'll be fine, it's only been –what- a week? Her mission said it would take at least a week, calm down," Terra reassured him as she patted his right shoulder and leaned near him with a caring and friendly smile.

With a responding pseudo-sigh his lips curved wryly and he locked eyes with her with a tilt of his head. For a moment, there gem colored eyes held each other while the two of them sat there quietly. Terra wasn't sure how long she was entranced by looking into the emerald pools of Jericho's kind eyes, and for a moment she didn't care. As Jericho's eyes narrowed slightly and he brushed his shirt off from laying down, Terra's eyes widened and an over acceded face crossed her lips. "I got it!" She yelled directly in his ear. He quickly staggered back and fell flat onto his back in surprise.

"Last time I saw you –the first time I saw you- I thought I saw your eyes before, right?" She reminded him as she leapt up to her feet and pulled him up onto his vigorously.

His head bobbed in reply as he recovered from his daze slowly. "Well I got it now, from when you where squinting and brushing your clothes off!" Her eyes where exploding with enthusiasm as she looked at him.

His eye brow cocked up slightly as to ask: "That is?". Right as she was about to blurt it out, her mouth became dry and her heart chilled to a halt. "Slade…" she thought to herself with a shrinking pain deep in her stomach.

"All those fights, all that training, how his eyes watched me like I was some hope for him… it's the same as Jericho's kind eyes… only more twisted…" she continued to think a explanation to herself. "But, then does that mean, that…" She was quickly snapped to reality as Jericho tapped her shoulder.

Her eyes blinked a few times to snap herself out then looked at him again. He gave her a hand gesture to tell her to go on. "Oh right well," her lips curled upward slightly and she laughed solemnly to herself. "…they look like this one guy who worked at a pie shop I stopped at a long time ago," Jericho smiled a little and gave an empty laugh in return.

Terra joined him with her own life filled chuckle and sat down with him soon following. They watched the sky together without a sound or a word, much to Jericho's enjoyment. And as much to her surprise, Terra enjoyed it as well. "Some things are better left unsaid they say, so I guess I'll keep quiet for now," She looked over at Jericho, who was lazily closing his eyes as the son shined down on the two of them. "It might be fun actually," She mused to herself as she scooted herself closer to him.

His careing emrald eyes finaly shut and he drifted off into thought, but to his dismay only one thing could come to his mind. "Jeri?"

AHAHAH, oh i crack myself up. Anyway, i hope to see you all in the final and importent instalment of this story. See you in the big times.