Chapter 52
Last chapter was probably a little shocking for some people. Jordana?! Trying to patch things up with Lita?! What's she up to? What's her angle on all this? Well I'm not gonna tell ya it may or may not just be another plot whole. Sowy. Also I'll be explaining a bit about Hatter since I mentioned she wasn't a normal cat, just an FYI. It's sort of out there; but I didn't have time to rough out the edges on her. Oh and I also decided to scrap the whole 'Lita gone rogue' idea—I ended up forgetting where I was going with it. Sorry. Anyway ONWARD TO THE BATTLE FIELD!
At lunch Lita followed Jordana to the little restaurant she talked about. Where they sat down, ordered and began talking. Lita looked down at the floor where Cherie sat while Hatter sat on her shoulders giving Jordana the evil eye.
"So, your, uh cats…they follow you everywhere?" Jordana asked, Lita shook her head.
"Not usually; I tend to leave them at home during the day. Today they were quit stubborn." She said, "Why do you ask?"
"I'm curious." Jordana said, Hatter growled.
'I don't trust her.' She hissed. Lita shushed her, making Jordana give her a look.
"Hatter says she doesn't trust you." She explained placing a hand on Hatter's head, while Cherie jumped up on her lap and mewed, "Cherie Curie shares in that opinion."
"I guess I can't really blame them. I haven't been the best person in the world to you." Jordana said, "But after yesterday's fiasco with the girls; I realized that you must really hate Gotham High."
"Hate it? No. if I hadn't come to Gotham High I'd never would have met Roger." Lita said blushing a bit. Jordana smirked.
"So you and uh...Roger. you're dating huh?" she asked, Lita nodded.
"Yes. for a while now—well actually more like only a few days, I suppose. He asked me out before I left for two years." She said, Hatter growled making the young witch-girl turn to her. "Telling her the dynamic of our relationship isn't giving away anything important Hatter. Relax."
"Oh yeah that's right you were gone for two years. Why is that anyway? I hope it wasn't because of all that Witch-girl stuff." Jordana said. Lita shook her head.
"Not entirely. There were more complicated reasons than that." She said, looking down at her lap where Cherie mewed up at her.
"Litsen, Lita; I really am sorry for what I did to you." Jordana said placing her hand on Lita's, "And I really do want to make it up to you."
"We could start by showing you you're worst nightmares." Hatter growled aloud, Lita went wide eyed and grabbed her black scarred familiar by her snout to shut her up. Jordana stared.
"She…she cat talk like us?" she asked in disbelief. Lita bit her lip but nodded.
"Yes….H-hatter's not like normal cats, she's not entirely a cat actually." She said, Cherie growled at Hatter.
'What was that about secrets?' he growled, Hatter hissed but said nothing.
"If she's not a cat…what is she?" Jordana asked staring at the muzzled cat.
"I can't really say much, she's a Goddess of sort." She said, "or more rather the daughter of a Goddess. Isis."
"Isis?" Jordana asked, Lita nodded.
"The Egyptian Goddess of Life and Magic." She said. Jordana looked at the cat who stared at her with piercing green eyes, "However unlike her mother she's a bit of a trouble maker; she causes nightmares. She goes deep into your mind and pulls out your deepest fears which allows me to give them life."
Jordana gulped; there was something familiar about the power Lita was describing. She couldn't quite put her finger on it however.
"Miss Jordana—I owe you an apology." Lita said, "Before I left I did something to you. After you caught me in the bathroom. You said something that made me snap and I…I used my magic on you."
Jordana gave her a look, not quite following what Lita was trying to explain to her.
"I brought your fear to life, I felt so terrible after I did though; so I asked Hatter to make you forget about it," Lita went on, "But I swear that was the only spell I ever cast on you. I would never use magic to hurt a civilian."
Jordana went wide eyed, now she remembered; it was when she confronted Lita about her trip in happy harbor. She had revealed to Lita that she pushed her into the water, and had unintentionally insulted her mother. She shook her head and looked to the young Witch-girl who looked as though she was about to burst into tears.
"if you did all that; why are you telling me now?" she asked, and sure enough Lita's eyes began flowing with raven colored tears.
"Y-you're being so nice to me now…and I…I hate m-myself for what I did. I…I-I couldn't bear to…to keep the truth from y-you after you're being so kind." She cried, Hatter and Cherie nuzzled the girl as she cried. Jordana gave her a look of sympathy and placed a hand on Lita's shoulder.
"Lita you're a sweet girl you know that? I can't believe you'd tell me that after all I did to you, and you'd feel guilty about it all." She said, "It's ok, don't cry."
Lita looked up at Jordana and smiled in relief, while Jordana noticed a peculiar trait about Lita.
"Black tears?" she questioned. Lita dried her eyes.
"I inherited that from my mother." She said sniffling, "When she learned magic her tears turned black, my father isn't sure why, but they did. I guess it got passed down to me."
"Neat." Jordana said, "Except it looks like your mascara's running."
Lita giggled, "I wouldn't know, my father forbids me from wearing make-up."
"Yikes, well you've got a good complexion, even without make up." Jordana said with a smile. Lita smiled back.
"You wouldn't say that if you saw what I really look like." She said, Jordana frowned, "I also got my father's natural blue skin. This," she said gesturing to herself, "Is just a spell I learned when I was a little kid."
"I'd like to see that." Jordana said, Lita shook her head.
"No, I can't. My father would kill me if I showed you." She said. Jordana nodded her understanding then spoke;
"Yeah about you're old man, does he know that you were…"
"Jinx? He does now." Lita said.
"And he was ok with that? I mean he is…well you know." Jordana pointed out. Lita nodded.
"He wasn't at first; but he got over it not long after finding out, and he's not like that anymore." She said, "R-really."
"And Jinx, is she back?" Jordana asked. Lita shook her head
"No, I won't be donning the costume for a long time." She said then paused, "Also you can't tell anyone about Hatter, not even my father knows about her."
"Then how do you know?" Jordana asked, Lita shrugged.
"Hatter told me," she said narrowing her eyes at her cat, "After a whole lot of digging."
Jordana nodded and then looked down at her watch and gasped.
"Oh crap; we should really get back fifth period is about to start. Sorry about that." She said, then the two girls stood and walked out, back to school.
"So, uhm. Miss Jordana…this get together; does this mean we're friends?" Lita asked, Jordana looked down at the girl whose cats were on her shoulders.
"Depends, you wanna be friends?" she asked, Lita nodded, "Then yeah we're friends."
"What about the school and the girls?"
"Puh-lease, my mom's a famous actress with a lot of money; there's no way in hell I'm going to fall of my throne because of this." Jordana said.
~0~
"Man I hate long missions away." Garfield said as he and Impulse walked to school Wednesday morning. They had been trying to track a shipment of Cobra Venom that was headed towards Mexico, and they ended up having to fight Bane. Impulse popped his shoulder and nodded.
"Yeah; kinda feel bad that I didn't tell Lita though." He said, "Think she'll be mad?"
"You know she's not the type to get mad; she'll probably just be happy to see you back safe." Garfield said.
"Hope so; I really missed 'er." Impulse said.
"Garfield, Roger!" shouted a voice the two looked up and saw Lita who was smiling happily at them. Impulse smiled and nudged Garfield who rolled his eyes. He then sped off for her and glomped her. (I've been wanting to use that word…SO bad.)
"I missed you Roger." Lita said sweetly, Impulse gave Lita a kiss and smiled.
"I missed you too cutie." He said.
"You're awfully fast." Jordana's voice said, as Garfield caught up to them. The boys turned and looked to see Jordana standing over them. Impulse looked to Lita who was smiling nervously.
"Yo dwebs." Jordana then said giving the peace sign to the two. "Hey Lita you wanna go back to that restaurant at lunch?"
"No thank you; if you want you can sit with us today." Lita said, the two stared.
"I'll explain later." She whispered, "In the meantime I believe the bell already rang for class."
~0~
"I HATE sitting around like this!" Raven shouted, trying to move but her limbs were still useless. Mariko leered.
"Oh shut up! You'll get your chance when our spy comes back with something useful to use against them." She growled, "Maybe I should have replaced your vocal chords with that of a dog."
"Let me use my arms at least—this nerve shutdown is ticking me the heck off!" Raven growled back. Mariko turned back to her work bench.
"Baka Shojo! If I did that then Savage-sama will take away my stuff." She huffed, "and I don't want to end up like you."
Raven glared at the little asian girl as she had her back turned to her.
"Brat."
"Hag."
"Geek."
"Science project."
Raven glared, she really hated the little brat. Even more so when she had better come backs then her. Suddenly there was a loud beeping noise that sounded through the lab, Mariko pushed a button as a silhouette of a person appeared on a screen above her.
"Well if it isn't my favorite little creation." Mariko said with a twisted grin. "You're in luck Project Raven; our spy has news."
~0~
"You're friends now?" Impulse asked, Lita nodded, the two were walking to study hall together which was at the library; it was one of the few classes where the teacher didn't keep an extra two eyes on Lita and where the couple could sit next to each other. Impulse scowled.
"You don't find that just a little bit suspicious?" he asked.
"I did, but then we really got to know each other; she was really sorry about what happened the first day of practice." Lita said, "she's really not as mean as you guys thought."
"Right; she's just the cause of the whole school going against you." Impulse said, Lita frowned.
"Keep an open mind, ok Roger? She's really not that bad. She apologized and everything." She said, "Besides; you weren't much help while you went off on a mission without telling me."
"Yeah about that; I'm sorry I didn't tell you. I meant to tell you before I left—but I couldn't get a hold of you." Impulse said.
"I know that, and I'm not mad; and you shouldn't be mad at me for being friends with Jordana." Lita said, Impulse stopped and grabbed Lita's hand.
"I'm not mad at you; I just don't trust her." He said. Lita smiled at him and place her hand on his cheek.
"But you trust me yes?"
"Of course I do."
"Then you don't have to trust Jordana; just trust me." She said, "The worst that could happen is that she tell the school some rumor about Witches. Or says I put a spell on her."
"You could get kicked out for that." Impulse said, "I think?"
"It is fine; I only came here for the experience of a normal life; the curriculum I already know." Lita said sweetly, "Father and Uncle Abra did teach me that much."
"Would explain a lot. Oh yeah, and about that; you're uncle and dad I mean; is everything ok?" Impulse asked. Lita nodded.
"It's rocky, Father still looks at Uncle Abra with a bit of venom, and I'm not as close with my Uncle as I used to be, but I'm glad he's still around." She said. Impulse smiled.
"Well that's goo—" he was cut off by a low beeping noise coming from the both of them.
"It's Batman." He said, "There's trouble at Gotham Square, he wants the three of us to check it out."
"Looks like we're ditching class then." Lita said with a smile, then looked around to make sure no one was watching and opened a portal, "Let's go; we'll meet Beast-boy there."
Impulse nodded and he two stepped through.
When the two arrived at Gotham Square—in full costume—the area was in total disarray. Beast-boy had just arrived as Jinx and Impulse noticed that there was no one around and it was quiet.
"That's odd." Beast-boy said, Hatter and Cherie yowled as Jinx threw up a barrier around them as suddenly a large chuck of debris came hurling at them..
"Well hello kiddies!" Shouted a familiar voice above them, the trio looked up. Jinx hissed instantly when she saw who was behind the wreckage.
"Long time no see. ." Raven said as she sat on a totaled car and grinned at the trio. "Now that you're here I get to really let loose."
BUM BUM BUM! Haha I hope you liked this chapter put my heart and (lack of) soul into it XD. The beginning was sobby and choppy—sorry. But if you notice it also sorta (very vaguely) references towards Lita's death in the last story. I hope you enjoyed this chapter. 'Don't get pouty; I invented pouty.' Ima make that my sign off phrase from now on XD. REVIEW!
