Each of them sped to work, except for Nora, who sat silently staring into space. Katt took some industrial gray tape roll from the box were the communicators were and cut a large piece, trying to cover up some kitchen sockets. The tape got pasted to each other piece and it was screwed up.
"Ugh screw this, I'm going for a smoke." She said as she took her purse from the kitchen counter.
"No, it's not safe out there." Cyborg said as he put each knife into the pantry's so that it wouldn't hurt anyone.
"So, Nora's gotta die before I do you know." She said, nudging him playfully and letting out a small chuckle. Cyborg wasn't amused though. She put a straight face.
"Wow, you teenage superheroes have no sense of humor." She said as she walked out of the door and leaned onto a metal bar outside of Titan's East tower.
"Amen." Beastboy said as he shook his head. His team looked at him, they weren't amused either.
Terra noticed Nora sitting alone, and although she wasn't the best shoulder to cry on, she just wanted to help. She walk towards her, and as if on cue, Nora stood up, ready to leave. This made Terra speed a bit up.
"Nora." She said. Nora was avoiding her gaze, she was broken. "You okay?"
Nora gave her a rude stare. No she wasn't okay.
"Four years ago my husband died. Now Tim, I have nothing left." She spoke. Her voice was raspy and came out with a lot of effort.
"Don't say that." Terra said feeling slight sadness for her.
"If it is my time to go to heaven with my family I can accept that." Nora said.
"You have to trust us okay, we can fight this. If we just stick together to find out what happened to Isabella and her baby we can.."
"If you excuse me, I have a funeral to plan." Nora cut the blonde off and moved towards the door. Her cellphone ringed.
"Hello?" Nora spoke up softly.
Mumbling was heard from the other side of the line. Terra looked at her trying to read her expression.
"Wheres the elevator to the roof?" Nora asked Terra covering the phone's screen.
Terra, confused pointed to her right side.
"Just beside the kitchen, theres a Big "T" on it, can't miss it." She said bringing down her finger.
Nora expressionless moved over to the elevator and pushed the Up button. After a moment she moved inside and the doors closed.
The titans saw her enter the elevator and looked at Terra questioning her.
"She just wants some time alone." She finally said. The titans looked at each other and shrugged, getting back to work.
Eugene moved next to Terra and took his leather jacket, helmet, and keys once again, departing.
"Where do you think your'e going?" Terra told him.
"That's it I'm leaving." Eugene said.
"Eugene don't go." Terra told him pleadingly
"Look, I control my life, not some crazy list death has put together." He said and moved towards the door.
"I'll be sure to carve that on your tombstone." Starfire said as she picked up the garbage bag full of glass debris from the floor.
"Whatever, you may fool the others, but I'm not buying this bullshit." Eugene said.
Robin overheard the situation and stood up from the kitchen.
"Be carefull man" Rory said as Eugene stepped out of the door.
"Hey!" Robin called out. "Even if you don't believe. Give this to Nora." He said bringing Nora's communicator out of his pocket and throwing it to him.
Eugene caught it and looked at Robin, then at Starfire. Finally he gave in and went upstairs on the elevator to find Nora.
In the roof, Nora looked over the city. Steel city was beautiful at night. She looked to her right and saw a billboard with the titans picture on it. Robin was in the middle smiling, Starfire to his right side with her mouth in a sassy smirk. Beast boy to his other side with an open mouth smile. Cyborg was next to Starfire with a thumbs up and Raven, to Beast boy's side was surprisingly smirking simply with her arms crossed. Nora sighed. She knew how Tim was a big fan of Starfire. And she didn't even let him talk to her at the police station. She felt over all guilty. He remembered his last words buzzing in her head. Mom look, it's Starfire! His smile spreading across his lips.
She shook off all the thoughts about him, and felt a hand on his shoulder. She gasped, and saw Eugene's face.
"Hey, sorry." Eugene said softly placing the communicator on her hand.
"It's ok. I need to go." Nora said, and moved towards the elevator, Eugene followed.
Back in the common room Rory opened a closet door near the kitchen table.
"I'll just put this in the.. closet." He fell silent when he noticed that Starfire couldn't listen because she was busy and Beast boy was in his animal form trying to find any little dangerous thing like a mouse.
He took the rope in his hands and placed it over a counter. A bowling ball came over him and boxes and jackets did too. The sound made Starfire turn around. Robin came and peeped over the closet door. Rory was spread over the floor smiling innocently.
"Sorry." He managed to say.
Robin and Starfire exchanged glances and looked at Rory. He was looking at the floor, a shadow was being formed.
"A motorcyclist." He muttered under his breath. The shadow was a prototype of Speedy's mobile. It was in an angle where the light bulb touched it and made a giant shadow over the floor
"Guys I.. I see a motorcyclist." He said, this time aloud
"Oh no." Robin said leaving Starfire's said and reaching for his communicator.
"Is that a, sign?" He asked looking at Starfire.
In the background you could hear Raven pushing the elevator button and Robin dialing Nora from his communicator.
"Shit." Starfire said under her breath and raced over to the stairs and up the roof.
On the background you could hear Robin talking to Nora: "A motorcyclist is going to kill you!"
When she got to the roof It was already alone, so she knew Nora was down already. She heard Cyborg screaming. "Pull!" Something bad had happened, and knew exactly what it was. She raced backed down and found the most troubling scene she had ever seen on earth.
Nora's body and head were being separated by the elevator's door almost cutting her throat. The part of her neck that could be seen was already swollen and drips of blood were falling out of her neck.
"Starfire help us!" Cyborg screamed.
Starfire snapped back to reality and tried to open the elevator's doors Sparks came out flying burning her hands.
"Fuck!" She screamed in pain as she headed to Raven.
"I can't open it! It's stuck!" She told her.
Robin and Cyborg fell silent, and Raven didn't look at Star, but her gaze fell over to the elevator. Starfire turned around and Saw Nora's body sprawled across the floor, no head.
Three down.
Terra fell to the floor sobbing loudly and Beast boy came close to sooth her.
Starfire knew Eugene was inside the elevator too. Nora's decapitated body was surrounded in a black aura and scooted over to give Starfire space. She flew to the door and opened it forcing each door to it's side. Eugene was found in front of Nora's head sobbing and screaming. Starfire looked at Nora's head disgusted, Eugene's jacket clinged to her braid. When he caught sight of Starfire he stood up and walked past her, shaking and crying. Cyborg ran to the phone, which was ringing. He took it over to the hall, because Eugene's screams were getting louder by second.
"I CONTROL MY LIFE! YO HEAR YOU FUCKING DEATH LISTERS?" He moved his arms uncontrollably as he screamed all over the room
"What happened Eugene?" Robin said calmly in an attempt to calm him down too.
"Eugene tell us what happened" Beastboy said.
In a swift move he took hold of a pistol in Robin's utility belt and aimed it to everyone in the room.
"WHOA, Man just calm down and tell us what happened" Terra said as she cover herself from the pistol.
"Give me the gun Eugene." Robin said putting his hand in front of him asking for the dangerous weapon
"NO!" He said putting a finger on the trigger and pushing it further onto his skin.
"NO, NO! DON'T DO IT!" Starfire begged from behind him.
"I AIN'T GONNA DIE LIKE THEM!" Eugene started letting his tears fall freely.
"Eugene please." Robin was loosing his patienece, but his expression showed that he was also scared of what might happen.
"I'LL DO IT MY WAY! YOU HEAR ME?" Eugene screamed to the air.
Then, he pulled the trigger.
