At the mansion they sat on the couch watching a movie. Rachel laid on Richard drifting in and out of sleep. Richard looked down at the sleeping beauty with awe. He was worried about her. The way she reacted today was so strange. When the movie was finally over, Richard got up to put a blanket over Rachel and he quietly left the living room to sit at the kitchen counter. Richard put his head down on the cold granite counter.

"You should get some rest too. There is only few days left of your break, you should use the days like Rachel is.. Sleeping." Bruce said entering the room. Richard picked up his head from the counter and looked at Bruce with tired eyes.

"Rachel stole today." Richard stated.

"What?" Bruce said confused.

"She wanted to get me something nice for Christmas, but she couldn't afford anything so she stole." Richard let out a sigh. "I don't know what I'm going to do with her. She always finds a way to get into trouble, and then the problems at home haven been getting worse." Richard began to rub his temples. "I don't know what to do."

"Are you giving up on her?" Bruce inquired.

"No, I'm not giving up on her! How can you say that. I love her!" Richard said standing up from his seat. Bruce gave Richard a look and he calmed down and took a seat.

"You love her?"

"I know love is a strong word, but I don't want to lose her, I don't want anyone else to have her, and I want to protect her from her father and anyone else who tries to hurt her."

"She is still having problems with her father?"

"Yes, and I'm afraid they have gotten worse." Richard admitted. The two boys kept talking of possible solutions until they heard a scream from Rachel in the living room. Richard ran to her side to see Rachel tossing and turning on the couch with her eyes still closed. She was having a nightmare. Richard tired to wake her gently not wanting to scare her more. Finally Rachel woke up, and there was panic in her eyes. "Rachel, it's Richard you were having a nightmare, It okay, you're safe." He saw sweat dripping down her face and he moved a tendril of hair from her forehead to behind her ear. Rachel just stared at Richard blankly like she didn't know who he was. She closed her eyes hard and opened them back up again. "Rachel, you're awake now. What was your dream about?" Richard asked keeping his hand on her cheek. Rachel stood from the couch.

"I have to go." Rachel ran out of the house to fast for Richard to react and process what just happend. Bruce entered the room and saw his adopted saw look hurt, sad, and confused. It was the same look he had when he was young, and his parents died.

"Richard..."

"Forget it." Richard said leaving the room and walked up the stairs.

When Rachel arrived at home everything was gone. No couch, no tv, nothing. Rachel walked up stairs not knowing what to expect, but when she was there her dad's room was empty except the bed. Rachel began to worry, she ran to her room and all that remained was a bed and an empty closet and the picture of her mom. All her new clothes, and her dress that Diana bought her were gone. Rachel fell to the floor and began to cry. After a few minutes of crying Rachel heard a door open and close. Rachel went to the stairs.

"Dad?" Rachel called.

"What?" He stated rudely.

"Where is everything? All my clothes are gone."

"Well so are mine, so don't make this all about you."

"I'm not! Where is everything?" Rachel demanded and Trigon slapped Rachel across the face.

"Don't raise your voice at me. You think I'm happy about this... well I'm not. And Lacy took everything, she was a con." Trigon said angrily. Rachel held her burning cheek.

"How could you let this happen?"

"Excuse me?" Trigon said and that was when Rachel knew she messed up bad. Her eyes got wide and was scared for the next course of action.

"I'm sorry. I'm sorry please don't hurt me."

"Get out of here. I don't want to see your face." Trigon said and Rachel went to the front door and looked back one more time.

"Tomorrow's Christmas eve..."

"So..."

"Well if I don't see you I just wanted to say Merry Christmas." Rachel said and left. Rachel walked across the street knowing exactly what she was doing. She didn't want to go to a friends house because she knew they would tell Richard, and she didn't want to got to Richard's because she felt like she has caused enough trouble for him. Rachel arrived at her destination being closed to her use to be home. She rang the doorbell and waited a few seconds untill he answered the door.

"Hey, babe?" He smiled at Rachel like she was something to eat. Rachel took her breath and closed her eyes and looked up at him.

"Hi, I need to play to stay for the night..."

"Say no more sweet thang. You can stay here as long as you like." He grinned at Rachel as she stepped into Roy's apartment, and he closed the door behind her.

Richard called Rachel three times and no answer, he was getting worried. Richard decided to go to her house and see if she was okay, on the way there he called Jinx who hasn't heard from Rachel ethier, and then he called victor who hasn't spoken to rachel since the morning. Once at rachel's house her drunk father answered.

"Where's Rachel?" Richard said getting right to the point.

"I don't know." Trigon answered. Richard rolled his eyes at the man who helped create so a beautiful person. Richard turned and left. Before getting in his car he got a missed call from Jinx.

"Hey Richard, it's Jinx I got a text from Rachel and she said that she is fine and don't worry, and she told me to tell you sorry." Richard hung up the phone frustrated and he leaned against his car to think of where she could of gone. The words "Sorry" echoed through his head. Richard herd a screen door close a few houses down and across the street. The boy who exited looked familiar and he put his hands in his pockets and looked around like he was about to do something bad. Once the boy got closer he realized it was Roy.

"Shit." Richard said underneath his breath and once Roy walked passed him not recognizing who he was, Richard walked fast to the door he came out of. He stood before the door and rang the doorbell.

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