Yeah, Yeah, so I said I wouldn't update until my other two stories were done. I lied. Ha. School's started, it sucks and I've only been there three days. The only good thing is I'm an eighth grader, and I rule all other students. We have a new principal. She sucks too. I mean, now that she's taken over, four teachers have left. And she has a whole bunch of stupid rules, too. If you arrive before 8:20, if you're not there to eat breakfast, you have to stand outside. And you can't bring any music or electronic devices to school. And you have to call the teachers "Mr." or "Ms." (insert teacher's first name here) when before we were allowed to call everyone by their first name. Plus she's making us pay four freaking dollars for a stupid school T-shirt for Gym, which is idiotic because we only have Gym once a week. I'm not paying. She can get dropkicked in the head for all I care.
This chapter is dedicated to HamHamDude. Love tha' name.
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The bag of Cheese doodles lay empty on the floor, along with the can of soda. The entire ham sandwich, minus a small bite at the top, lay wrapped up and on the ground next to it. Her flower was clutched tightly in her hand, not wanting anyone to take it while she went exploring. She stepped through the doorway. Two other paths were on opposite sides of the spring, but only the one on the right was lit up. She decided to go that way.
The hall was somewhat damp. There were no pictures, no windows or anything like that. Just a few torches here and there. It was seemingly brighter at the end of the hall.
Blackfire ran her finger along the wall as she walked. Why was she here, exactly? She was supposed to be dead. Her punishment for all of the sins she had committed. Then all of a sudden, she was here. Someone had actually saved her, actually cared if she died. And now she was here. Not even acting like herself, because of some idiot "AquaLad". She would have to get out of here quickly, before she did something stupid.
She came to the end of the hall, where there were two doors. She knocked on the one on the left this time, and then leaned against the wall. Her guess was correct when AquaLad opened the door and smiled at her. "Hey. How are you feeling?"
"Good enough. Do you happen to have any clothes I could borrow?" Blackfire asked, looking behind him into his room.
He flushed a bit. "I don't know, I'll have to look for some. You can come in if you like."
She nodded and stepped inside of the room. It was a bit like the one she woke up in, except somewhat smaller and more crowded. A bed was at one corner of the room, with another mirror across from it, next to a closet AquaLad was now digging through. A bed table with a lamp was next to a mahogany desk covered with papers.
She sat down on the bed. "AquaLad?"
"What?" He asked, pausing.
"What type of flower is this?" She held out the rose in one hand.
He turned red again. "It's a rose. I though you might like it, since normally people send other people flowers when they're sick..." AquaLad trailed off and looked up at her, then began laughing. "Hey, could you do me a favor and cut the Starfire act? I know she's famous and all, but..." He turned back to going through the closet again. Blackfire resisted the urge to fly across the room and shove a blackbolt down his throat.
"Here!" He said, finally pulling something out of the closet. She blinked. It appeared to be an oversized t-shirt and a pair of jeans.
"You expect me to wear that?"
"Well, yeah. It's not like you have a choice." He shrugged. She stood up and grabbed it from his hands. "But this is so.... common." It wasn't the right thing to say to someone who had offered her so much hospitality, but she didn't care.
He frowned. "Well, if you're up to it, we could go over to the city and buy you some clothes..."
"Alright."
"...But only if you tell me your name."
"Damn. "
"Well, what is it?" AquaLad crossed his arms.
"It's Kory."
He raised an eyebrow. "Kory? What's that short for?"
"Nothing. Its just Kory."
He smiled. "Oh. Well, hurry up and get dressed so we can go shopping."
Blackfire nodded, a smirk appearing on her lips. Well, at least she had given a good alias.
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To Blackfire, there was only one word to describe the mall. Wonderous. There were so many things to see. She had been halfway around the galaxy and she had never seen a sight so awesome. But, to prevent herself from saying something Starfire would say, she held her tongue and just stared around in amazement. It made her forget about the lingering pain in her stomach from her injuries, forget about the baggy clothes that hung off her medium-sized frame, forget that was stuck on planet earth with no way of leaving. AquaLad didn't notice.
"So, where do you want to go first?" He asked, nudging her in the side. She blinked and shrugged. "You may decide." Shops littered every side of the mall. And the people! There were so many of them, each of them different then the last. From young infants to elderly people nearing ninety, it seemed as everyone was there. She hadn't seen that much people since the time she tried to force her sister into marriage.
He pointed to the first clothing store on the right. "How about there?" Blackfire shrugged again, still looking around the mall. Wonderous.
"Well, come on!" He pushed her foreword, and she stepped into the store.
Her eyes widened. There were so many clothes. Different sizes, colors, styles. How was she supposed to choose?
She stepped over to the nearest rack. Leafing through the clothes, she glanced over at AquaLad. He was leaning against the doorframe, looking around nervously. She didn't want him to be bored.
"AquaLad." She said softly. "Would you like to help me shop?"
His head snapped to her direction. "Um...I'm not really good at that sort of thing.... but I will, if you trust my judgment..."
She smiled. "I do."
"Okay then." He walked over to the rack she was looking at. "Um, how about this?" He held up a bright yellow tank top. "Uh.. Too bright." She wrinkled her nose.
"This?" It was a blue skirt with gaudy looking flowers sown onto the front. "No."
His eyebrows lowered as he dug through the rack. "Here. This."
She closed her eyes at the sight of the pink leather tube top." You're not serious, are you?"
"Heh. Of course not." He shoved the shirt back into the rack. Pulling out another one, he asked. "Is this okay?"
She opened her eyes. It was a dark red tank top with thin black stripes on the front, over a long sleeved black shirt. "It's a start." He handed it to her, and she draped it over her arm.
The next half hour was full of searching through clothing racks, trying on foolish-looking outfits and cracking up at each other for even touching such a stupid looking article of clothing. Blackfire couldn't remember a time when she had so much fun, without causing harm to another person. In just thirty minutes, her arms were loaded with clothes. As they stood in line at the counter, Blackfire looked over at a glass display case. "AquaLad, what are those?"
AquaLad looked over. "Those are earrings."
She blushed. "Of course."
He studied her. "You don't have your ears pierced. Do you want them?"
"Um..." What did he mean by "pierced'? Perhaps another earthly custom she didn't know about. Well, to spare her from listening to him refer to Starfire again, she nodded her head.
"Cool." He smiled at her. "You'd look pretty with your ears pierced." She flushed, deciding not to say anything about how she was pretty already.
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There's the end of chapter two. This is my main fanfic that I'm working on now, even though my other two only have one chapter left .;;
Anyway, I've decided I will respond to all of my reviewers at the end of each chapter. In previous fanfics, I felt I wasn't the people who actually took the time out to write a comment about this story enough credit. Plus, I really want to know what people think about this one. Am I doing okay? Am I moving too fast or slow? Are the characters acting as they should?
Setsumi-san Originality? Me? Really? IT was just an idea that came to me one day, because they both seem slightly older than the Teen Titans group. And I have yet to see a fanfic not focused around Raven, Robin, Starfire, Cyborg, and BeastBoy.
Felicia Marvolo Riddle Whoot! My fanfic is loved. There was your update.
Dizzy-no-Tanuki Jinx? I might be writing an upcoming fic with her in it, but I'm not sure. Gotta get the plot down.
J.Zink ) Awww. Thanks. I hope my updates will be frequent too, provided that schoolwork and evil parents don't get in the way.
Velvet Death Heh. Like I mentioned before, just a random Idea that came into my head a while ago, actually. Before school let out for summer vacation. I finally posted it up.
HamHamDude Fluffs? I wouldn't know. But yeah, I think they make a nice couple too.
Chocohip2000 Hehe. Thank you.
Riyo Shiban I know it is. :)
Happy-Raven Thanks. I might be writing more Blackfire/AquaLad fanfics, but not necessarily sequels to this.
Scorpio Serpent I have. :)
cha-11 Yeah, well, Starfire's a Teen Titan, y'know, helping the city and stuff, and Blackfire's only visited earth a couple of times. I had to fit that in somewhere.
AprilKisses Kawaii? You're the first Teen Titans fan I've ever heard use that word. . I'm not complaining! I'd like to take Japanese myself.
Story Weaver1 You and about thirteen other people. :)
DarkShadowGryphon I shall, I shall.
Well, that's it. Thank you all for leaving a review, and I hope you enjoyed this chapter.
