Here I am again. I just finished writing the chapter before this, so I decided I would start a new one all over again. I have absolutely nothing to do, so I think I'll just start now.
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Thea was upstairs in the room, when Richard came up again. She was walking around. "What's wrong?" Richard said.
"I now have no idea who it is. I thought it had been Kali, but I guess not." She said.
"All of this talk about suspects, and witnesses, and murder is going to make my brain explode," Richard said as he sat onto his bed and placed his head into his hands.
"Okay, so, let's talk about something else," Thea said as she sat across from him on her bed.
"Like what? What interesting things do you have to say?" Richard said smiling.
"Are you making fun of me? You better not be. I have a question for you actually. You don't have to answer it if you don't want to…but I really want to know," she said.
"And what would that question be?" he said.
"…What happened after I left Earth? What happened to the titans that made you guys break up?" she said softly.
Richard froze still. He wasn't expecting a question like this. "Well, I guess what happened is that with only three people, we began to fall apart. Beast Boy never did anything. He would just lock himself in his room. I would rarely talk. Star-well star kind of thought that this was some sort of a game. She didn't fully understand that we were falling apart because of your leaving, and Cyborg's death. She thought it would all be better once you returned. But Beast Boy and I knew you weren't coming back. So, Star and I began having huge arguments until we broke up. She said I was never happy, and I would say why should I, we had just lost probably our strongest member," he said before he stopped.
"You mean Cyborg, I know," she said looking down at the ground.
"No, I knew that probably Raven or I were the strongest on the team. I knew we weren't going to succeed as many times. The things was-was that I missed Raven. And-and I still do," he said, referring to the girl he had known before Thea.
Thea stopped, and frowned. "What do you mean? I'm right here." She said.
Richard shook his head with a smile on his face. "nah, I miss the old Raven. The one who wanted you to think she was unfeeling, when she was very emotional. The one that made very dry jokes without even trying. The-the raven I fell in love with," he said softly.
Thea couldn't handle it anymore. "I'm sorry, I have to go," she said before she ran out of the room.
Richard took a deep breath. "Stupid, stupid, stupid. How could you let all of that out?" he said to himself.
He laid on his bed thinking about his old life, when times had been so much easier for him. When he could just be…free to do as he wanted.
A few moments later, there was a knock on the dorr. He got up slowly. "I'm coming, I'm coming," he said before he got to the door.
When he opened it, he saw Thea standing there, looking very frazzled.
"What's wrong?" he said.
"You know how you thought Kitten was the murderer? Well, you better change your accusation, because she's dead," Thea said, motioning to the blood splatters on her arms and dress.
"She, she was standing sitting right next to me, when a bullet came flying out of nowhere, and hit her," Thea said before she began to cry.
Richard wrapped his arms around her and stroked her hair. "It'll be okay," he said softly in her ear.
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Later that night, Kitten's body was removed from the living area. Thea had washed her dress, and taken a shower to get the blood off of her.
After she had done that, she apologized to Richard. "I'm sorry; I shouldn't have acted like that. I just couldn't handle what you were telling me. I also want to say…that I miss the old Raven too," she said before she got into bed.
Richard couldn't believe she thought that it had been her fault that she ran out of the room. She had run out of the room on her own, but he could understand why, and he knew he would have done the same thing as well. He shrugged, and then turned out the light.
The next morning, he woke up, thinking he was back in his old room, in his old home. He had had a nightmare that night. It was about that horrible day of Slade's explosion, but Raven had died as well.
He shook himself out of it. "Morning," came from the other side of the room. He looked over and saw Thea sitting on her bed reading a magazine.
"What time do you get up?" he said amazed looking at the clock. It was only 9:00, and she sounded as if she had been up for a while.
"I can't sleep late. I feel groggy for the entire day," she said with a small shrug followed by a smile. He groaned, and fell back against his pillows.
When he did get up, he walked into the bathroom. He turned on the shower water, and began to wash his clothes in the sink. After he was done, he used the blow dryer to dry his clothes.
He walked out and saw a very aggravated looking Thea. "are you done yet?" she said with a scowl on her face.
He grinned, happy to know it ticked her off. He turned around to open the door. Once he did, he turned around to talk to her. All of the sudden, a pillow came flying out of no where.
After it hit him, he turned to Thea. "Did you do that?"
All she did was grin. "Are you coming?" Richard said angrily. She stood up quickly.
Richard began to walk out the door, when he saw Mark at the door. "You guys had better come. There's been another murder."
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Ahh, the wonders of a good cliffhanger. I leave you there, dangling in knowing you has been murdered, who is the murderer, and will the relationship between Thea and Richard ever blossom. G2G! BYE!
