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I know I haven't updated in forever and I'm sorry to those of you who still find this story entertaining.

Wally dragged his feet through the front door of his house and made his way to the kitchen. The speedster was tired and that was plain to see. Of course you would be too if you had just run around the world about fifty times and then went to go see your would-have –been wife and chickened out of talking to her.

Something about the house was different, it was quiet. The house was never quiet. Someone was always having an argument, or watching television. Gavin's music wasn't blaring from upstairs either, Kole wasn't chatting away on her phone. Something was up. "Kole?" Wally called. "Is anybody home?" No answer.

'They must have gone out or something,' Wally thought. He opened the sub-zero refrigerator and pulled out a Gatorade, he need to re-fuel. He leaned against the kitchen counter and that's when he saw the note. It was written in Kole's curly handwriting and in her favorite blue pen.

Wally,

I think I owe you an apology. I should have seen that you still love Jinx. I guess I was just lying to myself this whole time. I wanted you to love me really badly but I see now that that just can't be. What I guess I'm trying to say is that I'm leaving, well by the time you read this will have left. I've gone back to my world to live with Gnaark again. Gavin's still there though. I only told him that you and I aren't with each other any more; the rest is your job. Good luck and I do love you Wally, but I don't think it's in that way anymore.

Goodbye,

Kole

"So you cheated on mom or something?" an accusing voice said from behind Wally. He turned around to see Gavin sitting at the kitchen table looking down. Anger dripping from his words and clearly in his eyes.

Wally ran a hand through his own hair, "You read her note huh." He walked over and took a seat next to his son. Gavin moved his chair away from his father.

Gavin replied gruffly, "Yeah I did, now answer the question: did you cheat on mom?" He was glaring at Wally now and it almost seemed as if an aura of hate was radiating off of him.

Wally sighed, "Gavin I have to explain something to you."

His son snorted, "Damn right you do!" His arms were folded against his chest, but it almost seemed as if Gavin were ready for a fight.

"Hey! Don't take that tone with me alright!?" Gavin rolled his eyes. "Okay now, I never cheated on your mother. I cheated on someone else with her."

"Oh really? Who?" Gavin snapped.

"Her name is Jinx, I had been living with her for awhile," and the sad story began. Gavin waited patiently until the end, but he never looked at Wally.

"And that's about it now," Wally finished. Gavin remained silent. Wally looked at the boy with concern, "Gavin? What's going through your head now?"

"I guess I kinda knew, but is Thalia really my sister then?" Gavin wrinkled his nose.

Wally laughed, "yes Thalia's your sister, deal with it. It could be worse." The older red-head leaned back in his chair and took a gulp from his Gatorade.

"Oh yeah? How?" Gavin challenged.

Wally took a gulp of his Gatorade and said, "You could be related to Alex" smirking at the disgusted look his son had on his face. Wally West hadn't worn that smirk in a very long time.

The Titans were all awake the next day, the news finally sinking in. Tyler walked into the room yawning, "Hey where are Jude and Xander?" He said while making his way to the pancakes Derek had made. "MMM chocolate chip!"

"I believe they're still asleep," said Desiree who was meditating in front of the window.

"Who's still asleep?" Jude said walking through the door, dressed in his usual colors of black. He looked around and saw that a Titan was missing, "Where's Alex?" His left eyebrow was raised.

Thalia with her mouth full of chocolate chip pancakes said, "Oh she's with Dr. Grey at the moment she should be back soon."

Jude strolled over to the counter and grabbed an orange and started peeling, "Who's Dr. Grey?" The four titans looked at each other, silently deciding who would be the one to explain.

Derek took the responsibility of answering, "My sister's psychiatrist. Alex was tortured almost to death last year and she's working through it."

Tyler sat down with his plate and said, "I haven't heard her scream in a few days. That's a new record."

"The therapy must be helping then," Jude said, "Who almost killed her?"

The Titans all wore different expressions, Thalia: sadness; Derek: a somewhat angry look; Desiree had her usual expression of apathy but with a hint of sad, and Tyler's head was down but his knuckles were turning white from gripping his fork. He whispered, "Fahrenheit."

Jude was saved by making any further questions by none other than Alex herself walking, make that bounding, in with a large shopping bag with her complete with a grin on her face. Derek sensed trouble.

"What's in the bag?" Tyler asked with a confused look.

The raven-haired girl shot him a glare, "Well wouldn't you like to know?" Tyler was taken aback, hadn't things been going somewhat well recently?

"S'just a question, ya don't have to answer it if you don't want to," he mumbled.

"Alex how many credit cards did you max out?" Derek groaned

"Ha-ha none actually, I paid for this myself," she said with a satisfied grin.

"Well what is it then?" Thalia asked, truly interested.

"My dress for the dance, which if you'll excuse me I have to go call my date and let him know what time he has to be here," by the time she said date Tyler's eyes grew wide and his orange juice was now all over Desiree.

"You have a date?" he said after wiping off the juice from around his mouth and shooting Desiree an apologetic look who just glared back at him.

"Oh don't sound so surprised, you're taking Cassie aren't you?" Alex said as she started to walk out of the room. Tyler followed behind her fuming, muttering something not very nice about Miss Moth.

The remaining few just stared at the closed doors, Desiree was the first to speak, "Well I'm going to go shower…again!" She walked off dripping orange through the doors.

Derek was laughing to himself, Thalia was confused, "What's so funny?"

"Nothing, nothing at all," a wide grin on his face however contradicted his words. Thalia smirked. "Oh come on, what is it?"

"Well, it's obvious to see that those two are absolutely miserable without each other but sadly they won't get back together," he said shoveling the remains of his pancakes into his mouth.

"Oh yeah and what makes you say that?" Thalia asked in disbelief as she took her empty plate to the sink to rinse it off.

"'Cause I know my sister. Even though it's technically her fault she's miserable she's stubborn and she's going to want Ty, to apologize first before she does. Until then she'll be masochistic."

Thalia's face was sad, "Alex doesn't seem that way."

Derek shrugged, "Yeah maybe you're right, she could just be trying to figure out how to say sorry, but something tells me inviting another guy to the dance isn't the way to do it."

Thalia had no words for that but shrugged as well. Derek stretched and then said, "Well enough of that drama I'm going to go practice in the gym. See ya," and he disappeared through the doors.

That left Jude and Thalia in an awkward silence. The two were both contemplating on what to say. This time Jude spoke first, "So lovely weather we're having isn't it?" He gestured out to the gray morning, the ground covered in snow. Thalia giggled a little.

Jude looked at her, "Are you nervous?" The platinum blonde looked down and nodded slowly. Jude walked over and put an arm around her, "It's okay, we'll get you out alive don't worry. Xander and I have been in this business for a long time, it's our specialty."

"How can you talk about it so casually? Doesn't it scare you?" Thalia asked her voice barely above a whisper, her blonde bangs hiding her glasses-framed eyes.

Jude stared off into space, "I dunno, I guess I'm just used to it I guess. After 'bout what, thirty plus years I think anyone would be." She looked up at the jet-black spiky-haired boy, how could he be so nonchalant about this? Then a thought occurred to her:

"Jude?" "Mmh?" "What do you think you would have wanted to be if you had been, y'know normal?"

"Define normal," the boy said earning himself a punch in the ribs from the girl.

"C'mon now I'm being serious! What would you have wanted to be?"

Jude stopped laughing and a contemplative look came over his face, "Ah jeez, I dunno I've never really thought about it before. I guess I'd want to be an investigator, work for the CIA or something."

"You'd make a good spy," Thalia said with a small smile. She leaned her head on his shoulder. They just sat that way for awhile, thinking about the huge challenge they were about to take on.

It was dark, Alex didn't know where she was but there was music, loud blaring music. Bodies surrounded her dancing to the beat. Slowly she began to recognize that she was in the school gym. Her fellow Titans jumping up and down and acting crazy as normal teenagers should. They looked so carefree, but it was short-lived.

A bunch of dark figures invaded the room, the Titans sprang into action but it wasn't enough, there were too many of them. Derek had stepped in front of Desiree to shield her from a deadly blow. She watched as her brother's limp body hit the floor. Desiree's eyes glowed black and she took out the boy's attacker, and herself as well. Then Alex heard a scream, Thalia was in something that looked like black fire, Jude scrambling beneath two of the large black figures to get to her. She spun around despratley looking for Tyler but she couldn't find him. Tears began to fill her eyes, when was the last time she had cried from fear.

Silence. And then a voice whispered in her ear, "Did you really think I was gone?"

Screams filled her ears, and she was somewhat aware of someone shaking her. "Alex! Alex! Alex wake up!" Alex's eyes snapped open only to meet another pair of deep blue ones. Tyler. Worry was plastered all over his face.

She was gasping for air as her fellow Titans entered the room, "What happened?" a voice asked, she didn't know who it belonged to, she was awared of a pair of arms that were locked around her.

"I-I don't know! She's not responding! It took me ten minutes to wake her up and she's got scratches on her arms."

"Alex, it's me Thalia. You're all right, it was just a nightmare calm down. You're safe now." The leader of the team shook her her vigorously.

"I-I saw something. The way I used to see Fahrenheit." She watched as she saw her team mates stiffen vaguely.

"What did you see Alex?" Desiree said, her monotone voice somehow calming Alex, her breathing returned to normal anyway. Then they were joined by two more bodies.

"Is anyone hurt?" "No we're fine Jude!" WE ARE NOT FINE! DO YOU SEE HER ARMS!? The scars from him are back!"

"Calm down Tyler, okay Alex now, what exactly did you see?" came the calm voice of her brother. She could see all of their worried but tired expressions, but that didn't matter, they had to know.

"H-He's back!" she stuttered, grasping her arms which she hadn't noticed till now that they felt like the were burning. Thalia reached for the scared girls face to wipe something away, was she crying?

"Who's back Alex?" Thalia asked calmly, staring straight into Alex's eyes.

"Fahrenheit."

Again another cliffehanger! I'm so sorry but that's just how it goes. Anyway I'm hoping to wrap this up in a few more chapters, three is my goal but we'll see. Reviews are very much appreciated! Virtual cookies to those who do! Also I know the song kind of only applies to Wally but if you squint there are lines that are related to Thalia and Jude