Titans Fans Go!

A Teen Titans Fanfic

Across the river of New York City, Marcus Keller sat on his couch flipping channels. All that was on were news stories captivating the viewers to be more and more interested in the world events. From the collapsed Space Needle in Seattle, to the crumbled Mount Rushmore, to the Electro Magnetic Pulse in Detroit, to the odd chase in the Holland Tunnel, and then finally to the strange phenomenon in New York City… it was all too good for them to resist talking about for weeks.

Mark got up to use the bathroom, and unknown to him, Charles's girlfriend used her key to unlock the door and come in.

"Everyone else in the world would be calling themselves crazy or thinking it's all a dream… " Mark muttered, talking about the Titans, as he went over to wash his hands.

"I mean, who would believe what really caused the New York dust cloud phenomena?" he asked a bit louder, as Charles's girlfriend overheard and stood near the doorway.

"Does somebody really need to answer that?" she muttered, as Mark's eyes widened a bit.

"Raven?" he asked, as Charles's girlfriend laughed.

"No! Mark, it's me, Kathy," she replied, and then looked at him strangely as he left the bathroom, "… and who's Raven?"

"Nothing. Just… nevermind. I confused you with someone else," Mark replied, heading for the couch, avoiding eye contact with her.

"Are there any Ravens I should know about? I mean, if you're seeing someone, that's ok, as long as Charlie isn't seeing her too," she joked, as Mark took a breath and turned on the TV, adjusting the couch cushion under him.

"Mark… what's going o-… oh… wait!" she said, and then jumped into a computer chair expecting to find a laptop that she could do something on.

"Where's his laptop?" she asked, referring to Charles's laptop.

"What? No, it was just there yesterday. It can't be gone… It's probably under his desk," he replied, as she bent down under the desk and found a note.

"Ok, seriously Mark, who is this Raven girl?" she asked, handling the note.

"There is no Raven girl, Katherine. I'm not seeing anyone right now… not after the last relationship I had," he muttered in a serious tone, as Katherine turned around and held up a yellow sticky note.

"Then who is this?" she went on, as Mark turned around with a disgruntled sigh and grabbed it.

As soon as he read it, his eyes widened in surprise. It read…

"I'll return it later. I just had to do some research. -Raven"

"What the…" Mark whispered, as Kathy smirked and nudged his shoulder.

"I got ya, Mark, now tell me her name," Kathy insisted playfully, as Mark shook his head a bit.

"That is her name," he muttered, as Kathy laughed in disbelief.

"Come on, whose real name is Raven?" she asked, as Mark smirked and then laughed silently.

"You wouldn't believe me if I told you," Mark said, looking over his shoulder and flipping the TV channel with the remote control, leaving her staring at him in confusion.

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"You know, we're kinda in an alternate reality here, with no way of getting back… so maybe you should worry about personal problems after we're back home," Cyborg told Beast Boy, who was sitting on the bathroom counter, swinging his legs back and forth.

"I know but… you saw what Raven did, right?" Beast Boy said softly, as Cyborg shrugged.

"Hey, I don't know, man. You two can work it out, but just try it after we don't have this entire country on edge," Cyborg insisted, as Beast Boy sighed.

Starfire had already delivered Charles back to his friends in the suburban Seattle warehouse, and she was now staring out the window of the hotel, as Robin took his left glove off, sitting on the bed.

Starfire was staring, her hands clasped together in front of her chest. Her already large eyes widened more as she said loudly, "Robin!"

Robin got up in alert and looked out the window. Suddenly, the Motel 6 room began to rattle.

Down below, a military tank was moving across the parking lot, and turning its turret.

Cyborg and Beast Boy ran up next, staring at the tank in shock.

"No…" Beast Boy gasped, as Cyborg turned to Robin.

"They wouldn't blow this hotel up, would they? I mean, they just wouldn't damage public property like this, right?" Cyborg asked, as Robin stared at the tank as its main gun lined up with the window.

"I'd… say they don't care," Robin mumbled, as Cyborg and Beast Boy headed for the exit, and Starfire began to float off, but noticed Robin not moving a muscle.

She flew back, grabbed his left upper arm, and shook him, "Robin, we must go!"

Robin shook his head, as he muttered, "You go, I've got a plan."

"It makes no sense to be staying here!" Starfire shouted pleadingly, as Robin turned to her.

"Starfire… trust me. I won't let myself get hurt, not with you-…" he began, but she nodded and flew out.

"I'll call you," Robin said loudly so that she would hear as she flew out the doorway, and then got in a ready position.

Robin then grabbed his staff and hit the bottom windowpane with the end of the staff, knocking it out and causing it to splatter on the sidewalk around the hotel. He then jumped out, as several Humvees came down the avenue and turned off into the hotel parking lot.

As Robin looked up, several military helicopters flew overhead blocking out the blaring sun for a few moments.

As the Humvees stopped on the other side of the tank, Robin stared, and walked around the back end of the tank, as several troops came out of 3 of the 4 Humvees, all of their guns loaded and ready. One of the troops near the back of them all waved up at the helicopters signaling they were there.

Out of the forth Humvee, however, stepped out a man with shades, an officer hat, and dozens of buttons on his uniform. It was a high ranking army official, whose driver stepped out and aimed his sights on Robin as well, all of them behind the doors for cover.

And yet, the one man with all the dozens of buttons on his uniform walked calmly over to the sidewalk, and then turned towards Robin. Robin simply stared, as the soldier came to a stop a few feet away.

"Are you Dick Grayson?" he asked, as Robin gritted his teeth upon hearing his real name.

"Yeah… Now why don't you leave me and my friends alone?" Robin muttered, as the man shrugged quite unnaturally.

"I dunno, 'cept, you and your friends are part of a National Security Threat that we feel can be negotiated… without anybody else knowing," he said, as Robin narrowed his eyes.

"Only after you found out we were still alive," Robin grumbled, as the commander shook his head.

"We didn't make that call, Mr. Grayson, that was the Seattle Police Depart-" he began, but Robin abruptly cut him off.

"Call me Robin."

The man nodded, and replied, "Fair enough… so Robin… how about we make peace? I mean, we don't want to kill you, and as far as we know, you're really the good guys."

Robin nodded hesitantly, as the commander added, "Plus… we already looked through everyone your team has ever faced, so we'll be able to tell you apart from the criminals now."

"Sir!" one of the soldiers in the back shouted in a freaked out tone, as the commander turned around and asked, "What is it, Private?", a bit annoyed by the interruption.

In the distance, a giant purple fireball was rushing towards them in the sky, over the roofs of several businesses along the road.

The fireball was dipping down, knocking over the sign of a Pizza Hut as it nose-dived over a gray-colored bank, the only building between them and it.

The commander's eyes widened, as he realized who it was.

"Get down!" the commander shouted, as three or four purple bolts hit the ground, trashing two Humvees and hitting the gas tank on the back of the tank, causing it to explode.

Robin jumped back through the Motel 6's scenery and hit the wall, as the fireball went back around for around run.

Suddenly, all 4 of the helicopters spun downward making a huge buzzing sound, crashing on the road a few buildings away from Robin.

Next, two of the uninjured troops fired their weapons crazily, before bolts hit them and they fell over, fingers still hot on the trigger.

Robin walked carefully around the blazing tank, as suddenly a person landed in the smoldered parking lot, putting boot prints in the asphalt.

It was Blackfire, who was smirking, as Robin readied his staff.

"Hey, no worries, I saw you were trapped and decided to… drop in," Blackfire told him, as Robin relaxed a bit and raised an eyebrow.

Upon realizing that Blackfire just attacked the commander and his troops who were posing no real threat to them at all, Robin smacked his head in frustration.

"… Just go somewhere else right now. We're kinda trying to do our own thing here, and you should do your own too," Robin told her sternly, as she huffed.

"Fine, you don't want to repay me for doing this? I see how it is. Well, when I found a way out of here, I won't tell any of you, how's that?" she snarled, and then rose up into the air and flew off immediately going the speed of a military jet.

Robin waited for her to leave, and then got out his communicator.

Unfortunately, it wasn't over. A large rumble came next, the unmistakable sound of a jet engine. It roared through the air, and Robin could see it in the distance.

Two missiles were fired as it rocketed over the motel.

One hit the Motel 6 logo on the building, causing the front entrance to be buried under the rumble of the extended roof going over the entrance doors. The other hit about 6 feet below the window of the room they were staying in, causing debris from the wall to land on Robin's head, as he tried to dive out of the way.

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Next, he woke up on the ground, in the middle of a deserted road.

He looked up to see tall skyscrapers around him. He stood up and looked around, as the city of Los Angeles was without a sound. No traffic, no cars, nothing.

The sun was close to setting, as it started to grow darker. Traffic signals were still going, streetlights were turning on, and yet nobody was there.

Then suddenly, a sound in the distance behind him. He turned around to see a single Humvee coming down the road. Robin reached down to grab some devices from his utility belt, but found he had been disarmed of those. All he had was his staff.

As the car came to a stop in front of him, a man that seemed lower in rank than the last man he faced stepped out of the driver's seat. He closed the door and then faced Robin, and got straight to the point.

"We've evacuated the entire west coast."

Robin stood there, trying to figure out what was going on. After a brief moment, he asked, "Why?"

"Because," the man began, as a large light-blue wave began going through the thin clouds, coming from the Pacific Ocean, "You're going home."

As it covered the sky over Los Angeles, the lights went dead around the street, the "Don't walk" logos went dead. Robin peered up at the sky as the blue wave flew over the gap between the skyscrapers

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Charles had been flown back to the suburban Seattle warehouse by Starfire, back to where Chris and the two scientists were.

Nobody was in the cluttered warehouse, however. The computer screens were just sitting on idle, as if they hadn't been used for a while. He walked outside to see that the banged up GT500 was still parked where they left it, but it was unusually quiet.

Then he noticed, the whoosh of cars going by on the highway nearby had ceased. He then looked around for anyone, but nobody was there. He got in the GT500, started it up, and then sped off towards downtown Seattle.

Lights were already on the roads, but a 10-story apartment was unusually dark. At a 3-way intersection that Charles was coming up to, the nearby urban park was about as desolate as the rest of the city.

As Charles was coming up on where the Seattle Space Needle used to stand with several buildings nearby, suddenly the GT500's engine died. As it drifted to a stop, he tried the engine several times before jumping out of the car in frustration.

"Where is everyo-!" he began to shout, but stopped mid-sentence as he looked up in the sky.

A blue wave was going across the sky, about where planes fly.

"What the…" he whispered, staring up at it.

Suddenly, a whooshing sound came from nearby.

A Helicopter that was somehow unfazed by the EMP landed near him, and out jumped the co-pilot, hurriedly grabbing Charles and shouting at him in order to talk over the whishing of the blades.

"I've been ordered to take you to Seattle International Airport, were you'll be on a flight back to New York," he said bluntly, as hurried Charles to the Helicopter.

"I thought commercial airliners wouldn't work with the EMP's?" Charles shouted as they boarded the Helicopter.

The co-pilot, now back in the front seats, handed him a brown paper bag.

"Here's your barfbag," he said, smirking. Charles took it, confused, and asked, "Why?"

"You're taking a jet," he replied, and turned back around, as the helicopter ascended into the blue sky.

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The blue wave finally stopped after going hundreds of miles inland, as Robin looked around.

The man held up Robin's communicator, causing Robin to glare at him.

The man then pressed a button on the side, causing Robin's communicator to be on 'emergency' status.

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"Yo, where's your communicator?" Cyborg asked Beast Boy, who was walking to his right. Beast Boy replied, "I dunno, I guess Raven still has it."

They were walking around aimlessly, waiting to hear from Robin.

Starfire was a bit further from Cyborg than Beast Boy was, as she was simply holding her communicator, staring at it, waiting for him to call.

It started buzzed, and she gasped. The two boys turned to her after she gasped, and she exclaimed, "He is in trouble! In Lost Angeles!"

Cyborg immediately replied, "Alternate reality or not, I know where that is. Let's go."

Beast Boy turned into a pterodactyl and carried Cyborg, and Starfire flew forward, as they headed for Los Angeles.

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Raven was sitting in the bar she landed on the roof of in the beginning of all of this, in New Jersey. She wasn't drinking or eating, but instead, on Charles's laptop, using nearby wireless to search online.

"So… I'm not the only one…" she muttered, as suddenly Beast Boy's communicator went off beside the laptop.

"Hey, you know, I could use that table for other customers," the bartender told her, as she closed the laptop and grabbed Beast Boy's communicator, checking where the distress call was from.

She grabbed the laptop and winged it under her left arm, and glanced at the bartender.

"I was just leaving," she said, and then opened a portal in front of her, and went through it, leaving the entire room staring in shock.

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Back at Mark and Charles's apartment, suddenly a portal opened, causing Charles's girlfriend to shriek in surprise.

Mark asked quickly, "What is it?" and jumped up, seeing the portal now.

Raven stepped out of it, glancing at Charles's girlfriend, then setting the laptop back down on the desk.

"OH MY GOD!" Charles's girlfriend shouted, as Raven glanced at Mark for a moment with a 'What is she on about?' look, and then created another portal, as the other one faded.

She then stepped through it, but not before hearing Charles's girlfriend scream, "WHAT IS THAT THING?"

Mark then stood up to explain it to her, as Raven stepped through the portal and it closed, heading to Los Angeles.

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Across the world, the 'characters' who didn't find out already were getting the news. Slade was approached by someone from the CIA and told where to go, Blackfire was told to ground by a jet fighter pilot who gave her the signal to drop, and then she was forced to ground and then told where to go.

Terra, just getting out of a hospital, with a bitter look on her face after being shot, was approached by the FBI and told where to go.

As Starfire, Beast Boy, and Cyborg flew in and landed to one side of Robin, Cyborg ran forward after landing and immediately asked, "Yo, what's up?"

Then on Robin's other side, a portal opened and Raven stepped through it, glaring at Robin, who didn't seem to be hurt or in danger.

Then she turned to the man, and her eyes burned with rage. She cast her hand out and made him levitate, also choking him.

"Raven, stop!" Beast Boy shouted, and went over and grabbed her arm, forcing it down.

The man landed on two feet, coughing, as Raven muttered, "I don't trust any of these scoundrels."

"Nice to see there's no hard feelings after what happened here last," the man said, referring to the rampage Raven had went on in this very city.

Robin nodded, and pointed up. "That's our way out of here," he told them, as Starfire looked up too.

Starfire said loudly, in relief, "We can go home!"

She was about to bounce up and beckon the others on, but the man said abruptly, "You might want this."

He then walked back to the Humvee, and got out something.

Starfire gasped, and flew down to get it. Or, well, him.

Silkie.

"Oh thank you, you wonderful yet mysterious man!" Starfire exclaimed, hugging the man and lifting him off his feet.

As he was set back down and backed up suddenly, he laughed a bit and smirked.

"Don't thank me yet…" he mumbled, as suddenly the blue aura in the sky went away.

The Titans looked around in confusion for a few seconds, then all turned back to the man, who was still stepping backwards towards his Humvee.

"We didn't evacuate the city so you could go home… we evacuated the city… so we could bomb it to Hell," he told them, apparently the bone-crushing hug by Starfire had injured his back, making it harder for him to walk.

As Slade sped up in a stolen Ford Explorer and Terra flew over on a red clay rock and then landed on the ground, it became clear this wasn't going to end well.

Raven furiously cast her hand out again, causing the parked Humvee that the man was falling back towards to fly forcefully through the air. Several hundred feet away it hit the pavement, rolling sideways until it was totaled by the damage.

The man simply laughed, and yelled, "It's fine you did that! I didn't even have enough gas to get out of the area. My life's already gone to Hell… I decided I might as well die here!"

Slade hit the brakes on the SUV and got out, as suddenly the ground began to shake immensely.

Up above them, the skyscrapers of Los Angeles suddenly began to rattle, dust and debris flying off them as they did it.

"Terra?" Cyborg immediately asked, as Terra shook her head.

"I'm not doing anything!" Terra shouted, as glass windows suddenly started busting apart on the road nearby, causing Starfire to shriek. Apparently the windows in the skyscrapers were falling out under the stress.

The man then looked around, and shouted, "Well, if we started bombing this place, we'd already be dead! This is something else!"

But all the way down the road behind them, sat the mangled Humvee, tuned into a radio news station.

There was immense static at times, but it cleared just enough to send parts of a news report.

"… have found the reason why Los… was evacuated… reports of a very large-scale earthqu… been reported in the Los Angeles Metro area… safe to say that this evacuation was a succ…and was very well pla… We also have reports now that this earthquake is… felt as fair east as… Chicago and even in Washington D… And this evacuation really did come right on time, because this definitely would have caused massive loss of life, and, I guess, is still going to cause a lot of property dama…"

Terra spoke out again, directed towards the Titans, "Uh… guys… I know about earthquakes… and this is a really bad one."

Suddenly Slade fell over, and his head and right arm fell off, sparks flying everywhere. It was a robot Slade, not really him.

Nobody really took notice though, preoccupied by the dense shaking and the whole situation. Beast Boy morphed into a hawk and flew up to see above the rooftops, as the others looked around quickly to find a place to take cover.

"Where do we go?" Cyborg asked, as Raven closed her eyes calmly and focused, as the rest of the team twisted and turned looking for a sturdy place.

Suddenly, she turned into her soul self, and swooped under the ground with Robin, Starfire, Beast Boy, Cyborg, and Terra all going with her.

The army man left behind stared in horror at their easy get-away, as the buildings around him began to crumble.

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Back at the home of Charles Bradshaw and Mark Keller, Mark had just done his best to explain to Charles' girlfriend Kate the entire thing that had happened to them.

"So," Kate began, sitting on the couch, her voice sounding fascinated and shocked at the same time, "You're saying these Teen Titans are real?"

Before Mark, who was standing up near the TV trying to explain, could get a chance to answer, suddenly a whoosh of air and dust flew towards them, causing Kate to flinch and start coughing, and Mark to put his hands up over his face and turn to the side.

As the floor shook and the dust settled, there stood the Teen Titans and Terra, starting to realize that they just ended up somewhere else.

Beast Boy said softly, "Here again?" and Raven nodded.

"Where is this?" Starfire asked, as Mark backed up, eyes wide, and Kate jumped up and stood behind Mark, freaked out.

"Uh… it's a safe house we used once." Beast Boy stammered.

Robin's eyes narrowed, as he looked back in the guest room Beast Boy and Raven once used, and then in the other main bedroom.

"Well, we'll have to make use of this place while we can. Cyborg, you might want to go outside in the hall to make sure nobody tries to storm in here," Robin began, as Cyborg replied 'On it' and rushed out, cannon primed.

"Beast Boy, fly up to the roof and keep watch up there. If you see any black vans or black expensive looking cars… or police cars… that look like they're coming to the house, call us," Robin continued, as Beast Boy nodded and flew out the window as a regular bird and made way to the roof.

"Terra, watch out the front window and tell us if there's any cars pulling in the driveway," Robin went on, as Terra nodded slowly and replied, "You got it," then slumped over at the bottom of the window, obviously not too thrilled.

"Starfire, Raven… Come with me," Robin said at last, and they both nodded and followed him into the main bedroom, but not before Starfire laid Silkie on the couch gently and covered him with one of the couch pillows.

Right before Robin was about to shut the door, Terra shouted out, "Guys, someone's pulling in!"

Robin rushed over immediately, Raven and Starfire close by.

"Does that say 'Rent-A-Car'?" Terra asked, pointing at the hood with the words "RENT-A-CAR" imprinted on it.

Out stepped Charles, staring up at the window. He immediately noticed Robin and Terra staring out at him, and walked up into the house, using his key to unlock the door.

"Star, get ready at the door," Robin told her, as she hurried up and leaned up against the side of the door.

Mark and Kate both stared at the door, waiting for something to happen.

Suddenly they heard Cyborg's voice outside the door.

"Hey, it's you! Did you get back to Seattle ok? Ok, sure. Go on in." Cyborg said, as Starfire relaxed, looking at Robin in confusion, and Raven raised a brow.

"Alright… well, false alarm, guys? I mean, if Cy let him in, it's ok," Terra said, and the door opened.

In came Charles, and Kate immediately ran up and hugged him.

"Charlie! All these weird people are in our house, and they're all on the run, and I missed you! … What have you gotten us into?" she told him all at once, as Charles hesitated.

"Uh… funny you should ask…" Charles muttered, as Mark spoke up.

"So, how was your trip to Saint Louis? Oh, wait, or was it Seattle?" Mark began, as Charles sighed and shook his head.

"I had to go alone," Charles began, as Mark asked next, remembering they said it was a rental car.

"And where's the car?" He asked, as Charles didn't answer.

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The next few hours passed without any real action. Beast Boy finally came back inside through the window after it got dark, and they went to sleep.

Kate decided to go back home, and Charles made his bed on the floor but decided not to sack out yet.

Mark slept on the couch, but not before handing Silkie to Starfire before he laid on him accidentally.

Beast Boy and Raven took the guest room again, Robin and Starfire took the main bedroom, Cyborg went into sleep mode leaning against the wall, and Terra just slept in a chair near the window they had been watching the driveway through.

As Charles sat there on the bed he made on the floor, and he looked around the room silently.

"This all feels like a dream…" Charles thought. Police sirens suddenly rang through the window, and police lights flashed on the windowsill. But the police car drove past the house quickly, apparently responding to a crime somewhere. It was not like it mattered anyhow, as everyone was fast asleep. Except for him, of course.

The fact he was there in a house with a bunch of people he used to watch on TV and random YouTube videos amazed him, but the realism of it all had sunken in enough to creep him out a little bit.

He remembered replying to a forum topic about 'What would you do if you met the Teen Titans in real life?', and now his reply seemed more enthusiastic than realistic.

"I'd probably ask for an autograph, then sell it on eBay for a couple hundred dollars" he had written. Others in the topic were also starting to seem ridiculous to him. The truth is, if anyone really spotted the Teen Titans in real life… They'd be shocked, fearful, amazed, excited, or a combination of all. But for him… he was excited at first. When Raven entered the arcade and proved she had powered right in front of them, he was excited and Mark was amazed. When the door got busted down, both him and Mark were treating it like another day at the beach. When they were arrested and being driven around, sitting near a man with a killer machine gun, as much as he could deny it, he was fearful. When Beast Boy was shot and Raven rushed over to his side, they were shocked. And during the fight with the National Guard, Army, or whoever had tried to stop them in that Washington State field, it was a combination of all for him.

Nowhere in all of this did he stop and ask for an autograph, nor did he sell anything on eBay when he could have. He did, in fact, put the video of Raven and Beast Boy on YouTube, but even that got removed, even though he didn't know Mark reuploaded it.

The truth is, he liked it better when the Teen Titans were still fiction, a TV Show. His sense of reality and imagination were balanced. The line between real and fake was drawn. He wasn't questioning his sanity, or wondering if this part of his life was a dream.

He wasn't sitting in a room full of people who were once cartoon characters to him, in the dark, waiting for a police siren or a SWAT Team to come kicking the door in. When he watched the TV Show, he had felt that to have a Teen Titan near him would make him feel and be safe. And yet, now, all they brought was fear, fear of whoever was after them coming after him now.

He had expected him and his friend Mark to joke about it more if the Teen Titans did become real, but they only joked once or twice before reality set in and there was no more room for humor.

In all his time reviewing and rating Fan-Fictions, inserted characters that the author put there to mirror themselves… he always thought that it might be 'cool' to really be a part of their universe, a person in the plot. It certainly did ruin a story, but it seemed like a cool idea.

… Well, after all of this, he realized no matter what anyone would try to make of what was happening to him…

The truth is… Reality had begun to cause everything unrealistic he saw in them before to fade. The imagination was being lost. The wonder was being lost. The mystery was being lost.

Everything that animated series reinforced in him was being lost, all because they were real now.

So all of those facts sinking in, all of the feelings he felt and the thoughts he was thinking, he stood up, looking around at everyone else sleeping, and staring off into the space between the door to the main bedroom and the guest bedroom.

He walked slowly to that space. He yawned, and stood in the middle of the kitchen area.

Charles whispered quietly, looking at the refrigerator…

"I wonder if there's anything to eat…"

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