Authors note: OKAY! Heres the second chapter for New Years, I cant think of much right now but I'll just with the flow to make the story before the 1st of 2005. Enjoy!
----------------------------------------------Titans Tower 2:00 PM--------------------------------------------------------------
"Are you sure we need all of this snow stuff? I mean, the snow ain't THAT deep" Beast Boy muttered trying to put his boots on. If its one thing he had learned that day, its NEVER put your boots on after all of your other stuff is on. It just won't happen.
"Yea, but its cold smart head" Robin said zipping his coat up.
"But you forgot something," Said Raven "Hes Beast Boy, His head is full of enough hot air to keep him warm for a couple of days in the north pole with nothing on but his birthday suit" Robin and Cyborg laughed and the funniness that Raven was able to make out from her sarcasm.
"Whats a birthday suit?" Starfire said
"I'll tell you later Star" Robin said "But why didn't you put your snow clothes on, its below zero out there"
"Why are we even going out if its that cold?" Beast Boy asked.
"Its New Years eve, DUH" Cyborg said "We're gonna watch the ball drop at midnight"
"Robin, I don't have any snow clothes" Starfire said
"Yea you do, I gave you some this morning remember?" Reminded Robin
"Oh yes, well, I forgot to tell you that they dont fit" Robin did an anime fall
"Where didn't they fit?" He asked
"Well the pants were too big around the waist, the zipper on them was WAY to long, and the legs were so short. And the coat sleeves were too long and there was no place to put my head in." She explained. Everyone did an anime faint this time. Raven got up from her compfy spot on the couch and pulled Starfires arm along with her. "Yes, Raven?" Starfire aksed her while they were walking away.
"You put them on the wrong way" Raven went to help Starfire put her clothes on while the boys finished up in the living room. Tonite they were going to watch the ball drop after dinner and a snow boarding and sledding. There hadn't been any attacks or bad guys lately so they planned to have a day on the streets.
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"Hold up the sled like this, get a running start, jump and then wooosh your at the bottom of the hill" BB explained to Starfire. Starfire did as she was told but never landed. "No, like this" Beast Boy held up his sled and got a tight grip on it. He started off slow and then got fast until he was at the edge of the hill, jumped but just landed on his butt in the cold snow while his sled slid down the hill.
"Oh, genious" Raven said "Why dont you show us how to do that again?" You gotta love the sarcasm. "Its better to just sit down in it and push yourself down. But you dont have to do that, me and the boys are going snow boarding"
"Except Beast Boy, he doesn't know how" Robin has to be so mean!
"I do too!" Beast Boy picked up some snow and threw a snow ball at Robin, who dodged it.
"I would like to try the wonderful sled first" Starfire said
"Suit yourself" Raven said, taking off on her super cool snowboard she bought with the 40 bucks she got for Christmas. Keeping balance she sped down faster and faster, jumping over a couple of piles of snow and swerving left and right. You'd think she would be cold, because all she had on was her regular costume and snow boots. The boys followed her and Beast Boy and Starfire stayed behind.
"Race ya down" BB challenged her
"Okay" Starfire said
"1.....2...5....3.....6...um..GO!" Beast Boy and Star took off. BB layed back and put his hands behind his head and rested them there. He figured he would win, after all, Starfire was just an alien, what would she know about sledding besides what she had already seen. Yep, he had it made, who cares if he couldn't snowboard anyway. He glanced up and saw Starfire speed by him.
"NO FAIR!" He shouted "YOUR USING YOUR POWERS!!!!" With that he took on the form of a penguin, threw his sled outta the way, slid on his cute green tummy and got closer to Starfire, and closer to the bottom of the hill. Sadly, they didnt get to the bottom because they missed seeing a giant rock covered in snow and they both ended up on top of eachother.
"Owwwwwww" They both moaned as they stood up and Beast Boys sled came sliding down the hill after them and getly landed at their feet.
"Okay, now I'm bored" BB said "Its really cold out" He picked up his communicater and got Robin up. He saw snow, some cool moves by his fellow team mates and then Robins big head.
"What?" He asked
"Its cold, and we're hungry" Beast Boy complained. Starfire just nodded her head.
"Well, we were on our way back anyway, meet us at the Chinese place" His face disapeared
------------------------------------A Chinese eating place 4:00 PM-----------------------------------------------------------
"Do we have to eat chinese for lunch?" Starfire asked, poking her shrimp noodles.
"Yea...do we really have to?" Beast Boy said pushing his plate of little green trees aside. He wasn't feeling so hungry anymore. Robin just glared at him..
"Where do you propose we eat?" He asked
"How bout the pizza place we always eat at, huh?" Beast Boy crosses his arms like a toddler and glared back
"Their closed"
"Taco place?"
"Closed"
"Chiken place?"
"Closed"
"WHY IS THIS THE ONLY PLACE OPEN!"
"Simple," Said Raven "They have a different New Year than we do"
"They do?" Cyborg asked
"Yea..I think.." Raven said
"OKAy" Robin interupted "How about we just go to that one amusment park until midnight?" He suggested. The Titans nodded, threw their food away, and went out to the park.
-----------------------------------------Amusement park 5:00 PM------------------------------------------------------------
(In case someone is wondering, its still cold and there is snow on the ground, just not as much where they are because its cleaned up, duh)
"Okay, go do what you want, we'll meet back here at six got it?" Robin said
"Yep" They answered. Robin and Star took off together and Beast Boy and Cyborg went to the rides. Leaving Raven. She siged and sat down on a near by bench and rested her chin on her hand.
"Excuse me" She heard a voice and when she turned her head she saw a little girl. Around the age of 10 or 11, she had black hair in a pony tail and two strands of bangs hang down just above each eye. The Girls eyes were a dark brown and seem to glitter along with the snow. She had on a thin coat, more like a jacket, and a pair of jeans that had a few holes in them. It took Raven a few second to realize the coat and jeans were hanging off of her and she was rather thin. And she had a littl ebit of dirt on her face and on the bottom of her jeans.
"Yes?" She asked, straightening up. The girl looked at her for a couple of seconds and then spoke up
"I was sitting there but you can sit there I guess" She threw away a dirty fry carton and started to walk away.
"Wait" Raven went after the girl. "You can sit with me if you want" She gave the girl a friendly smile.
"Okay" said the girl sitting back down a moment of awkward silence went by and then Raven said
"Whats your name?"
"My name is Carly but you can call me Kate" She said "Whats yours?"
"Raven" She said
"Thats a really pretty name" Kate said, smiling
"Thanks" Said Raven she saw Kate yawn "Wheres your parents, Its pretty cold for someone your age to be out here in this mess alone"
"Um..." Kate hesitated and looked to the ground. Her feelings and thoughts were so heavy and fullof emotion they flooded Ravens mind, she couldn't help it. I have to tell her the truth, I cant lie again.. Raven heard her thoughts.
"Well?" Raven asked
"I don't have any" Kate confessed
"Grandparents then?" Raven asked
"No" Kates eyes found a place in the snow to study.
"Aunts, uncles, cousins, brothers sisters?" Raven asked, again, more concerned
"No, no, no, no, no" The girl answered.
"Where do you stay?" Raven asked, again her mind was flooded with the girls thoughts. You've gon an' done it again! Great job, she;ll probably just go away like all the others.
"I usually stay here, or at the other park in the slides or something" Raven got up and said:
"I'll be right back" She got behind a ticket booth, eyes still on the girl to make sure she didnt run away. Luckly the girl stayed put. She pulled out her communicater.
"What is it?" Robin asked. He could tell something was wrong by the look on Ravens face.
"Everyone needs to get down here, I met this girl, Kate, she barely has anything on, she must be starving and she has no family or home. I'm worried" Raven explained
"We're coming" he said Raven went back to where the Kate was.
"You hungry?" She asked her. Kate just nodded her head. "Want a hot dog or something?" Raven let her motherly instincts take over and she grabbed Kates hand and took her over to the food stand. "One hot dog please" She took the hot dog and gave it to Kate when they sat back down. For a second, the girl stared at it then she took big bites. When the team got there a few minutes later, Kate was sucking on a king size Mountain Dew (yum) while they talked.
"She has no home?" Robin made sure
"No" Raven answered
"We're going to have to tell the police you know" Cyborg said
"Can't she stay with us?" Beast Boy asked staring at Kate. It seemed like she finished her drink so Starfire went over to entertain her.
"She's not a dog, that if she follows you home you can just keep her" Raven said "But it would be nice just to have her until tommorow" Starfire and Kate started to laugh behind them.
"Yea, besides we'd be doing her a favor to hang with superheroes. I bet she'd have the time of her life" BB said
"Yea but what if an attack happens what will we do then?" Cyborg said
"What are the odds of an attack after we haven't had any trouble in a few weeks?"BB tried to persuade them
"Cyborgs right, it wouldn't be fair, shed have nothing to do or she'd get hurt" Robin still objected.
"But what if-" Robin cut BB off
"No, we're taking her to the police and thats final" He walked over to the girl and grabbed her hand, but she pulled back and stared him in the eye (or mask?). Raven marched over and pulled him back to where they were just standing.
"You don't just go and grab her arm like a little rag doll" Raven said "Look, put yourself in her place-" Robin got mad and shouted at her..
"I WAS IN HER PLACE!"
"Oh, so you want to see what would happen if you hadn't met a hero, is that it!?" Raven said back, her eyes glowed that cool shade of white untill Cyborg butted in.
"Look, lets just go explain what we're going to do. Then see what the police can do" He said. They took Kate to the police station. When they got there, no luck.
"What do you mean theres nothing you can do" Robin asked
"I said, theres nothing that we can do right now, the shelters are full and the only place for her to sleep tonite is the prison, and I am NOT staying here over night" The police officer crossed his arms and Starfire smiled. Raven raised and eyebrow and Beast Boy grinned. Kate looked at them like they were all nuts.(maybe she was right..) "And I'm not sure when a new family will pop up or when the shelters will get cleared out, could take weeks"
"YEAH! Our new friend is staying with us!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Starfire jumped in joy
"Only until they can find her a home, I guess" Robin said
"You mean I can't stay with you guys forever?" Kate looked up at them. She wasn't, like, 2 feet shorter than them, more like a foot and a half. But her big, glittering eyes made your heart just melt. And in this case, it did the same to Robins. But instead of answering her, he just walked out the door.
"Come on... lets just go home" Robin walked out the door.
"Your coming with us" Raven said. Once they were outside they all took off.
"WAIT!!! I can't fly!" Kate shouted. Beast Boy flew down and got into his human form.
"Wanna hop on my back?" He asked Kate stared at him
"Um... " Before she could answer Starfire grabbed her hand and she was lifted up into the sky. She never knew what it felt like to fly, not many people did. The wind flew all around her. It was cold, but she didn't feel it, all she felt was the warmth of Stars hand in hers. It was a nice cozy feeling, all she wanted to do was close her eyes and feel the air all around her. When the landed she opened her eyes and for the first time, saw Titans Tower, up close that is.
"I'm the luckiest girl on earth" She said to herself, in a whisper.
"Uh-oh" Starfire said, as they walked in to the living room "You dont have any clothes do you?"
"No" She answered, looking around the room.
"We must go to the mall of shopping!" Starfire said
"Better hurry" Said BB "They close at 8 today and its 6:45 now"
"I can take care of that" A black aura swirled around the three of them and Raven transported them to the mall.(Why doesn't she always do that?) and left the boys at the Tower.
"Your really against her staying here aren't you?" Beast Boy asked Robin
"No," He said "I just don't want her getting hurt"
"We can fix that you know" Cyborg said "Double the security, teach her some sk-" Robin cut him off
"Shes not a test subject, and shes not staying here forever, you heard the guy it will just be a few weeks" he said. And then he started to walk to the hall. "Come on, we gotta get her room ready before the girls get back"
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"Well, how do I look?" Kate asked modling. She had on a pair of jeams with a little pink butterfly at the bottoms of the pant legs. The knees were faded and around the pockets there were little sparkles. She had on a long sleeved shirt with the same kind of butterfly design in the middle of it. And she had a pair a white and black Sohos for shoes. He hair was in the same style, but clipped with a cute butterfly clip(butterfly girl) and she was much cleaner, that because of a bath Yea bath time!(ahem...back to the story)
"You look nice" Robin said turning from the Gamestation
"Thanks" She said
"Yea, much better" Cyborg elbowed BB on his side "Ow, what'd I say?"
"Ya look good kid" Cyborg said
"Really, you look great" Raven said
"Wonderful" Starfire said
"Thanks everyone" She said. There was a moment to silence until Kates stomach broke it.
"Food!" Starfire flew into the kitchen
"You are not making your alien food and getting her sick" Beast Boy ran after her. So did Robin and Cyborg
"You ok?" Raven asked, after the boys left
"Yea" Kate answered
"I mean with everything happning, it must be hard" Said Raven
"I guess, I'm just glad to be with people that want me" Kate answered looking Raven straight in the eye.
"Wanna see your room while they make dinner?"Raven asked
"Sure" They walked into a room not far from Beast Boys room, right next to Terras. When tey walked in, Kate gasped. The room was light blue with dark blue designs that went left to right and curved around. Above the bed and onto the floor to the ceiling, it all went perfectly together. The bed matched too. And on a plaque, on the wall behind the bed it said 'Kates Room' She went up to it and picked it up, on the back it had a picture of all the Titans on it with 'Love you' written in black marker and then all the Titans signatures. She hung it back on the wall.
"This is the best thing anyone has ever done for me" Tears filled her eyes and she wiped them away
"Come on, lets get some food"
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"Starfire, thanks for all the stuff and everything, but I cant hold all of it" Starfire had piled cookies, dolls, and toys for Kate to use while she was staying with them. Starfire wanted to make sure she was happy all the time. She got so much she had to get some bags to hold them in untill Robin pulled out a table form who knows where so she put them on there. They all sat down on some chairs that Robin found, from who knows where again and ate some donuts and cookies(yum).
"I've never been in this part of New York before, or seen the ball drop." She crammed a cookie in her mouth.
"Its cool, first everyone counts down and then that ball up there falls down..." Beast Boy explained
"Wow" Kate took a sip of her water and then yawned, causeing all the others around her to yawn. But she wasn't going to fall asleep. She heard the crowd count down from ten.
"10.....9.....8....7.....6.....5.....4.....3.....2......
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Well, the end. Kate wont be turning up in anymore of my chapters for this story, but if you want me to, i can continue another story starting from here if you want. Thanks for reading my story!
