DISCLAIMER: I do not own any of the Teen Titans characters, or the DC Comic Characters.
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ELEVEN
True to his words, when I woke up Richard was at my side. He watched me intently as I slept, and I felt a small blush come to my cheeks. Blinking my eyes a bit Richard was woken out of his trance and looked at me. His serious face came to a smile as he whispered the words, "Good morning love."
As the words came out of his mouth I felt a bit of confidence. I reached up placing my lips on his and gave his a chaste kiss. Pulling away the smile on my face was bigger than ever before as I cuddled closer into his cold arms. He was no longer that cold to me. I could feel myself becoming hot in his arms.
"We have to take blood today." I groaned out of nowhere. He smirked at me and gave a light eye roll.
"Way to make the quiet morning loud." He murmured in my hair. I looked up lazily at his blue eyes and they twinkled.
"Well you know…I like my job then."
Getting out of bed I was in large sweatpants and a tee shirt. The clothes were old clothes of Victor. I had to remind myself to talk to Bruce about letting me shop online, or even out in public, I couldn't keep wearing old clothes from the people around me.
I walked over to the door where I stood waiting for Richard. He rose an eye brow at me and I gave a slight eye roll. In a second's time he was right next to me and breathing in my ear. His hot breath shot tingles down my spine.
"Are you hungry, because I know I am…" I looked up into the crystal blue eyes again to see they were darker. I bit my lip while looking at him.
"When was the last time you fed?" I felt a little disgusted saying the words but this was part of my life now. He shook his head a few times and his eyes went back to his normal blue hue.
"I apologize, Kori. I haven't gone since early yesterday and let me saying being with you last night was tempting." A slight bloodlust grin came to his face and I slapped his chest. It may have not hurt him but It hurt me. I shook my hands a little.
"That hurt," He shrugged his shoulders.
We opened my door and walked down the hall way. We found ourselves walking into the main room where the rest of the vampires were. It almost felt strange to me to see them, for I hadn't been around them in days.
"Well finally we see the human. Richard's got you under a tight lock ay?" I remembered the boy known as Allen said. He sat on the couch with the girl Argent in his lap. She played with his long black locks as he looked at me.
I looked up to see Richard gritting together his teeth. I blushed a little while pulling away from his grasp. I hadn't even noticed he had, had his arm around my lower back until then. I walked a bit away from him and over to the kitchen area. The living room and kitchen both opened into each other. I took a seat at the bar stool next to Rachel. A book was in her hands, her fingers marking the closed pages.
"Who's the most recently hunted?" Richard asked. Everyone looked around and then back at Rachel who gave Richard a glare.
"Why do you ask?" She cocked an eye brow towards Richard.
"I have to go out to hunt, and as much as I do trust all of you I want Kori to hang around with the people who have most recently hunted. I know she can be a bit of a tempt." The small eye contact Richard gave went unnoticed by everyone else. His eyes were ridden with bloodlust and yet, pure lust. I looked away quickly before I could blush. I always seemed to do that when I was around him.
"Well then that leaves us out…" I heard Argent's chuckle as her and Allen stood up and walked over to Richard. "We are rather hungry though." They stood next to Richard.
"Did someone say hunting?" The laugh of Wally echoed in the room as I finally saw him stop in front of Richard a big smile on his face. I loved his happy personality. It gave me a sense of joy.
"Rachel if you see Bruce tell him I need to talk to him later. In the meantime, Wally, Argent, Allen, and I will be going hunting. Keep her safe." Richard gave me a small wink and the butterflies in my stomach went soaring.
I saw Rachel nod, and the four vampires disappeared from sight. I looked around to see Gar, Vic, Karen, and Rachel look at me. Gar and Vic sat on the couch, a video game controller in hand. Karen was across the room painting her nails. Rachel was next to me.
"Hello," I nervously rubbed the back of my neck and I saw Karen smirk.
"Don't worry Kori. We're not as bad as we seem." Karen said. She looked down, a yellow nail polish bottle in hand. She did nice strokes on her long finer nails.
"Yeah, and we have barley gotten to see you or get to know you little lady." Vic's smile gave me a sense of warmth and protection, the kind of smile that would make you think of an older brother.
"Richard likes to keep her all to himself," Gar chuckled and elbowed Vic who began laughing a bit as well.
I looked away a bit awkwardly. I felt the need to go to the bathroom then. The only bathroom I knew of was down the hall all the way to where my room was. I looked around and at Rachel. She was now continuing her book.
"Where's the bathroom?" I asked her.
She looked at me before closing her book, marking the page with something. She stood up and soothed out her black jeans. "Follow me," I stood up as well and followed Rachel.
She led me past the living room, and past where Karen was sitting. There was another hallway and we began to walk down it. I almost felt as if Rachel was floating as she went down the hallway, her feet never making a sound.
"You're rather calm." She looked at me and shook her head.
"What do you mean?"
"You seem to be very calm in a house full of vampires. This is unheard of." She just looked at me, up and down and I nodded my head.
"How can you tell?" She just gave a slight shrug.
"I can read people. I'm good with emotions, though not my own, I find it easy to tell what other people are thinking." We stopped in front of a door.
"I thought vampires didn't have powers." My face scrunched up slightly in confusion.
"We don't, now go to the bathroom. We can talk after."
I nodded my head and walked into the bathroom, shutting the door behind me. The light was flicked on, and after relieving myself I washed my hands. I stared in the mirror after. My red hair was knotted, and my eyes were tired. I sighed and dried my hands and walked out to the Rachel there.
"So…you can sense things?" We walked back down the hallway from where we once came.
"I've always been able to do that, even when I was human. I'm good at reading people like I said. I study emotions, people's actions. Back when I was human I wanted to be a physiologist."
"I could see you doing that." She gave me a small smile and I smiled back.
"How are you so calm though? I don't understand it. You feel so at ease with all of us. You just met us." She shook her head again, her raven locks moving around slightly.
"All my life, I didn't have much family. I had Galfore and Terra that was it. My older sister hated me and my friends at school were never real friends. I come into a world full of people who have known me sense birth. All my life I had felt a source of protection, I called my feeling my guardian angel. You guys are it…you guys are my guardian angel. If I can't be myself around that sort of people, if I can't feel safe, then I guess I will never know these feelings."
She took in my words nodding. We came back out into the living room area. Karen still painted her nails, now with black stripes on the yellow polish. Gar and Victor were doing intense gaming. Rachel walked back over to her seat at the counter after giving me another friendly smile. I walked over to the couch and stared at the game in question.
"Gar just give up already! This is the fifth time in a row I have beaten you!" Vic's laugh was heard as Gar stuck his tongue out like a small child would. I walked around and took a seat on the couch.
"Want to play Kori?" Gar asked. He looked up at me his green eyes shining with childish glee. I shrugged.
"I do not know how to play." I admitted sheepishly.
"It's easy. This is a racing game. Basically just press forward with the control stick. The green button is to accelerate. The red button is to stop. The blue button is to shoot things, and the yellow button is to check your stats." He handed me his controller and I nodded taking in all of this information.
"Do you think you're ready Kori?" Vic had a playful edge to his tone, excited for a new challenger. I nodded and looked up at the giant TV.
The game started and Vic was ahead of me. I felt myself panic a little inside as the natural competitor in me came out. I pressed the green button and accelerated. I was now in fifth out of the ten racers. I looked quickly over to Vic's screen to see he was in the lead, first.
Cubes appeared every now and then and I ran into one of them. I got a bonus as the cube accelerated me even farther, leading me to third place. Vic grunted as he struggled to keep in first with the second computer racer on his tail. Another cube came into place and I got a blaster.
"What do I do with it?" I asked Gar. I quickly looked at him out of my peripheral vision.
"Shoot it! Kori shoot it now!" He hopped and down on the seat cushions in excitement.
"Okay!" I was happy to see it shoot the computer in second place. I was now neck and neck with Victor as we went into the third and final lap.
"Kori…I need you to win. Get a power booster and win!" Gar shook me gently and I gave him a glare as I feel behind Victor. He looked down chuckling a little before moving away from me. He was now on the floor staring at the TV in amazement.
With luck I found myself hitting a block and I got a power booster. I automatically shot ahead and past Vic to the finish line. The TV now flashed that Player 2 won. Gar began laughing at Victor sticking his pink tongue in his face.
"Watch it Gar or that tongue may go somewhere else." Vic's threat made Gar quit laughing and walked away from Victor, he went over to Rachel and she rolled her eyes at him.
"Looks like someone finally beat you Sparky." Karen walked over gently rubbing her hands on Vic's shoulders.
"Yeah...I'm not too angry about it either. I rather it be Kori then Gar." My laugh was heard and Gar mumbled something incoherent towards Victor. "Good job little lady," Victor patted me on the back and I smiled and thanked him happy to feel a bit more accepted into the house.
Just then I heard a door open and close. Richard was back. I peered over the couch to see him walk in. He looked happier then the last time I saw him, and more refreshed. He looked around looking for me, and caught my eyes. His blue eyes were brighter and twinkled as he smiled at me.
"So what happened when we were gone?" Richard came over to the couch. I felt his fingers twirl my hair lightly.
"Kori here beat Victor in that new racing game we got!" Gar said. Richard cocked and eye brow when I looked up at him and I blushed slightly nodding my head.
"Is that so?" Richard looked at Gar who nodded excitedly.
"She could probably beat you too Rich," Victor defended himself laughing.
"How much you want to bet?" Richard removed his fingers from my hair as he jumped over the couch and took the controller then Victor was previously using in his hands.
"I'll bet you a kiss you can't beat me," his hot breath whispered in my ear. I nodded my head as the game started and he was on.
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AUTHOR'S COMMENT
*SO SHORT! SORRY! GRRR I barely had time to write and I didn't want to keep you guys waiting any longer! Just noting quickly if you don't remember character descriptions go to Chapter 6!
I hope everyone had a great Christmas! I hope you all got what you asked for! My day was uneventful, family being annoying and crazy…the usual. My favorite gift had to be my Teen Titans movie and All 5 complete seasons. What about you guys?
So this chapter I wanted Kori to become more familiar with everyone else…after all she is always with Richard it seems! Sorry if it was boring! I feel so bad for not updating in awhile forgive me I'm busy with family and everything. I also have at least four more ideas for new stories! Gosh they have me soooooo excited! I can't wait to start writing them! Also, I was asked if this story is prewritten. To answer the question, no not at all! I just go on and write the chapters out every night rather than going to bed. None of my stories are prewritten except maybe when I just begin a story. I always have an extra chapter for awhile. Thanks for all the amazing feedback! You guys just keep me going!