Yes I know it has been a long time since I have updated this story and most of you are probably fed up with me. I'm sorry it has been hectic and there has been the issue of a writer's block. If you can forgive me then I would greatly appreciate it. Please read and review with uttermost joy. For the time being I do not believe that there will be a lemon but no one knows the future not even I.
Coping With Loss
Cyborg had watched Angel go through the hole over ten minutes a go and he was still staring into the hole hoping she would pop back out. He sighed and said "Well I better go tell the other's so we can start working on something to do". He walked into the main room where Robin and Beast Boy were playing a video game as usual and Starfire was looking into the distance with her eyes closed.
"So where is she Cyborg?" Starfire asked him as she turned around.
"How do you know what has happened to her"? Cyborg asked out of curiosity.
"I felt it when she left here I decided there was nothing I could do so I waited for you to come tell us if nothing else to confirm my fears for me instead of me having to confirm them myself". Starfire said as Robin and Beast Boy put down their controllers and start really listening to the conversation.
"What has happened and who had gone missing"? Robin asked even though he was fairly certain he knew and had heard correctly he had to make sure. So Cyborg sat down and told everybody what happened from when the noise started to the point where Angel had been sucked into the hole.
"So now we need to start working on the machine with all our spare time and find a way to get Angel back to us before anything really bad starts happening like the past changing or something along those lines". Cyborg said as he pulled himself out of the chair and started heading back toward the machine.
"Starfire are you going to be okay"? Robin asked as he noticed Starfire staring into space almost like a zombie. Starfire shook out of the spell, nodded her head yes, and started heading toward the room with the machine. For the rest of the day and night they toiled endlessly with only one goal in mind making it fully functional. However what they didn't know was that it wasn't a different time they were wanting to get to it was a different universe altogether.
Somewhere around 2:00 in the morning Robin finally said "All right guys that is enough for tonight you never know if we will have to fight a villain in the morning or not so lets get some rest".
As Starfire floated into her room she picked up a picture of her and Angel one of the few she had where Angel had consented to smile and said "I hope we can find you soon Angel I can't even feel your presence anywhere and I don't know how I'll live without you". During the night Starfire's dreams were haunted by images of a world without Angel beside her and when Starfire woke in the morning the images still haunted her.
For a few weeks following the incident the Titans were able to keep a lid on the fact that they didn't have Angel with them but the second the news got out every criminal in town had to try something and so for a few weeks after that they were having to fight a tough battle every day and getting no work on the time machine done. When the fighting finally ceased they all spent a day of relaxing for the days to come of rigorous work on the time machine. As Starfire meditated to calm the images in her mind and the pain she was having in her heart a very brief mental image and two words with it. It showed all the Titan's including two Angels but one was like when Angel was Raven and it said "Different universe".
She rushed and found everyone and conveyed to them what she had seen. Cyborg just groaned and said "Great if that's true we're going to have to completely recalibrate the entire machine and find a couple of rare parts and even then I have no idea if it will work but we will have to try".
Starfire floated up and said "I will try to contact Angel if I can not contact her then we will keep building the time machine." For two days Starfire sat in Angel's room and meditated and tried with all her might to send a message a very short one brief and to the point all it said was "Hi". Just as Starfire was preparing to give up and tell everybody to proceed with the time machine she got a response in her mind also short and to the point it said "Hi". Starfire could tell it was Angel who sent it just from all the conveyed emotions under the hi and rushed to tell everyone to proceed with the plans to build a machine for transporting to a whole new universe.
Hope you enjoyed that folks I'm sorry if it seems a bit corny or too much romantic I'm a sappy person at heart. With luck the next part will be out by Wednesday of next week if not the latest will be Saturday of next week but who knows right. Well keep reading folks.
