AN: I was going to add these in, but then I realized how late it was and that I had church in the morning. I still got up in time though. ^_^

Disclaimer: I don't own the Titans.

Family

"Why are your eyes all red?" a sniffling Jericho signed to his wife. He had just come home from the Russia mission and was burning up with a fever, and seeing Kole on the verge of tears wasn't lightening his mood at all.

"It's nothing."

"You were crying."

"What do you care? We've been so far apart lately that sometimes I forget that I'm married, Joey." Kole stated sadly.

Jericho narrowed his eyes. "Well, you have not been very friendly to me either, but I still come home."

Kole's temper shot up. "Oh, so now I'm supposed to treat you coming home as a privilege? a special event?" Jericho let out an exaggerated, silent sigh and turned back to the TV.

Kole huffed and set down a bowl of soup on the table with a vengeance. "Dinner's ready." she informed him coldly. She stalked up to their room and slammed the door.

Jericho rolled his eyes. Sometimes this girl could be impossible.

He got up off the couch and walked over to his chair, but didn't sit down immediately. Instead, he picked up a previously opened letter of sympathy and studied it curiously.

A letter of sympathy? Jericho wondered to himself, Why would Kole have a letter like this?

He opened it and read of Dr. Weathers' death. He had died in his sleep, the writer was sorry for Kole's loss and thinking of her, and so on.

This must be why she's in such a bad mood. he deduced.

The letter went on to list the time and date of the doctor's funeral, which Jericho was certain Kole would attend.

Or not.

Once he brought up the funeral, Kole automatically went on the defensive.

"I don't want to go to his funeral."

"I remember saying the same thing about Slade's funeral, but you made me go, Kole." Jericho reminded her angrily. Who did she think she was, making him go to Deathstroke the Terminator's funeral, and not a month before blowing off her own father's funeral?

"This is different. Your father didn't hurt you-"

Jericho couldn't believe his ears. "What do you mean he didn't hurt me?" he interrupted. "I lost everything because of him! Mom died, Grant died, my voice died, everyone I loved died!"

Kole wiped her eyes with her sleeve. "The same thing happened to me too."

That statement confused her husband, because he had never heard her say that before. "What do you mean?"

"Well, I didn't have a father who cared about me like Slade cared about you. My dad did...bad things to me, and-" she noticed the look of pure horror on Jericho's face. "Oh no, not like those bad things! Just...torture."

She gently rubbed her wrists. "He had me tied down on an operating table, and he would give me these shots every day. I don't think even he knew exactly what was in them, but they changed me completely, inside and out."

She could tell that Jericho wasn't really following, so she described what she looked like before experimentation. "I used to have green eyes like yours, well, like my dad did, and I had dark brown hair like him too. I don't really know what my mom looked like, because she left us when I was really little, so I have no idea whether I look like her or not."

Kole shook her head. "Apparently lesbians can only find out that they're lesbians after they make a lifetime commitment like, oh, I dunno marriage." Jericho winced at her tone, as she seemed more angry than anything else. "And then she abandoned her newborn with no one to take care of her but a madman."

"I guess we both had awful parents."

"That's why I ran away in the first place. Dad found out about my powers during one of my "vaccinations" and decided that it was a good business opportunity, so I became a model for a year."

Jericho's eyebrows raised in interest.

"I was ten, Joey. And I ran away during one of the shows in Alaska anyway." Jericho nodded, telling her to go on. "One of the pilots at the airport flew me out after I showed him what Dad was doing to me."

"Then you ended up with Gnarrk?"

Kole sighed. "Not right away. I stayed in a far away village until I fell through the ice and found the underground jungle. Then I lived there with Gnarrk for a few years."

She smiled. "Those years were the best years of my life."

Jericho nodded in understanding. "It was the same for me when I was adopted." he smiled. "Looks like we both ended up with good families in the end."

"The best." she giggled. "Then again, anything would have been an improvement."

Jericho's smile widened. "You are probably right."

Kole looked down at her feet as she brought up what was plainly the elephant in the room. "What about our lives now?"

Jericho pondered this for a moment, before shrugging. "I don't know. Our marriage is not going too well right now."

Kole's bottom lip began to quiver, so he pulled her into his embrace to calm her down. She immediately responded by wrapping her arms around him and burying her face in his chest.

He tapped her. "This probably happens in every marriage, Kole. I have heard Wally and Jinx complain about each other, and Beast Boy and Raven fight a lot still." he tucked a strand of pink hair behind her ear. "This will not last forever, OK?"

"Okay."

"We just need to learn as we go with this."

Kole hummed in agreement as she slipped out of his arms. "I want to actually sleep with my husband sometime soon."

"The feeling is mutual."

"No, all I want to do is sleep, but I'm not so sure about you."

Illusion

Nickole couldn't believe that his glasses had hidden such deep, piercing eyes behind their lenses, but couldn't deny it after Joe came in to work with his contacts in.

AN: This has really long paragraphs in it. 0_0

Family - Yes, I know that I changed their backstories, and I do realize that not all women leave their husbands if they're lesbian. I just wanted to put in one, just ONE, gay or lesbian person on fanfiction who isn't a saint. Anyway, this is really long, like, longer than anything else I've uploaded as of now. And that is the reason why it has its own chapter. :P Sorry if Jer and Kole are OOC! It was the best that I could do! DX

Illusion - PC Pink AU. This is pretty much self-explanatory. :D