Life As We Think We Know It Chapter 6, a teen titans fanfic

Disclaimer: I don't own Teen Titans. But I'm thinking if I did I'd still write Fanfiction just for the fun of it.

Title: Life As We Think We Know It

Summary: Strange visions have been haunting Dick Grayson's sleep, and they've only gotten worse since he met the new girl Kori. He's friend Vic thinks he's just stressed out but could it be that there's more to these dreams then everyone thinks...

Author: Silverflare07

Dedication: To the little voices in my head who will stay awake with me late at night and listen to me as I write this in my head. Cheers to you guys!

Author's Notes: This is going to seem like an AU fic but at the end you'll realize that it's not.

Stuff you need to know:

"Speech"

Thoughts or Dreams

Dick tapped his pencil against his desk boredom clearly written on his face. Beside him Kori scribbled something on her math homework before quickly punching some numbers into her calculator. They were both currently serving their detention and Kori was making the best of her time. Dick really didn't want to do his homework but it looked like there wasn't much else for him to do. Sighing dejectedly he pulled out his notebook and began to work on his English assignment.

After a few minutes of total silence, apart from the scratch of pencil on paper, something hit Dick square in the head. He looked up and Kori smiled at him. He looked back down to see that the thing that had hit him was a folded note. He chuckled quietly to himself and unfolded it to see Kori's (apparently) very tidy handwriting.

Thank you for helping me this morning. I'm sorry I got you in trouble.

Dick smiled and wrote back. Taking careful aim he tossed it lightly onto her desk. She read it and her eyes lit up. Just then the teacher who'd been put in charge of watching them gave a light snore.

Kori giggled quietly before turning to Dick. "Really, thank you very much for stopping her. I was off guard and she might have hurt me."

"It's not a problem. I won't let anyone hurt you." He patted her hand. "After all, you're royalty." Kori blushed. "But mostly because you're my friend and I care about you."

The two sat in embarrassed silence for a few minutes until the teacher coughed and jerked the two teens back into reality. Dick withdrew his hand and gave her a nervous smile. "If Kitten tries anything, I'll be there. We all will."

Kori smiled pleasantly. "Thank you very much. For everything." And as the two teens smiled at each other the world seemed to fall away around them until it was just the two of them.

"You two may go now." Both teens whipped their heads around to see the teacher looking at them. "Detention's over; go on get on with your lives so that I can get on with mine."

They nodded and gathered their things before hurrying out the classroom. As Kori placed her papers in her backpack she failed to notice as a lone piece of paper fluttered to the floor.

Thank you for helping me this morning. I'm sorry I got you in trouble.

No problem Kor, absolutely anything for you.

Kitten watched Kori and Dick through one of the windows. She wasn't concealed very well but the teacher was asleep at the desk and Kori and Dick were so wrapped up in each other that even if she had jumped in front of them wearing a spider head they wouldn't have been noticed.

She grinned and grabbed her phone. Flipping it open she punched in some numbers and brought it to her ear. She grinned as a voice picked up on the other line. "Roy! Hi!"

Her smile turned nasty, she had just found the perfect job for Roy 'Speedy' Harper.

Kori and Dick were making their way down the hallway but Kori stopped and put her hands on her hips. "Just admit it! I beat you in volleyball again!"

"No way, I don't do defeat. I just suffer temporary set backs."

Kori rolled her eyes. "No you suffer from denial."

Dick pretended to look offended. "Hey! I'm offended." He gave her a playful shove and she disappeared into an open janitor's closet. When she didn't come right back out he began to get worried. He hadn't heard a thunk but...what if she had hit her head.

Slowly he approached the janitor's closet. Before he got close enough to see anything a hand shot out of the darkness and grabbed his shirt, yanking him into the darkness. He barely stopped himself from falling flat on his face when his attacker giggled.

"That was for shoving me. Now come on I'm sure we're both needed at ho-"

BAM!

She was cut of as a strong gust of wind slammed the door. The two teens were completely enveloped in darkness. Her giggled turned to full blown laughter at the strangeness of the whole situation.

Dick didn't find the situation quite as amusing as Kori did. He reached out and, after a few minutes of blindly groping, found the doorknob. He turned it and to his horror it didn't open. Already he could feel the familiar panics of claustrophobia sinking in. He began to bang on the door. "HEY! CAN ANYONE HEAR ME! HELP, WE'RE STUCK IN HERE!" He continued his frantic banging.

Kori looked at him worriedly. She placed a hand on his arm and tried to quiet him. "There is no need to yell like that, I'm sure someone will find us soon."

Dick whipped around to face her. "You don't understand! We're trapped in here! In this small...dark...cramped...closet."

Suddenly a light went off in Kori's mind and she smiled gently. "You are afraid of enclosed spaces aren't you?"

"Claustrophobic, yeah?" Dick nodded and began to sweat. "And if we don't get out of here, like, NOW I'm going to have an anxiety attack."

Kori nodded and slowly pushed him down. "Relax. You must relax and think about something else." She sat down next to him. "Perhaps you can try to sleep. There is no telling how long we'll be in here."

He took a deep breath and nodded. She was right. If he could fall asleep then it would be much better. But... "What about you? Won't you be bored?"

Kori shook her head even though he couldn't see her. "No I will be fine. Now go to sleep." She clumsily searched for his face and removed his sunglasses. "You won't be needing these in here."

Dick nodded and closed his eyes. Kori placed his head on her should (not an easy task considering that, even when they were seated, he was taller then her). She ran her hand through his hair like her mother had done for her when she was little.

Often a palace can be a scary place at night for young children and whenever Kori had a nightmare her mother was always there when she called out. She would smile a gentle smile and sing her to sleep. Perhaps that would help Dick as well. Softly she began to sing a song from her home.

Dick couldn't understand the words that Kori was singing, it must have been in her native language but the effects of her soothing voice and gentle ministrations were making it all to easy to fall asleep. He sighed contentedly once before slipping into dreamland.

Dick was standing in the center of a dark, slightly foggy room. He had the strangest notion that he had been there before. The infinite blackness beyond his light was familiar. Almost comfortingly so. A single spotlight shone down on him, encasing him in a perfect sphere of light. And it did just that, encase him. He found that when he tried to move beyond the light an invisible barrier stopped him. Not being a big fan of enclosed spaces Dick decided to try and push through whatever was blocking him. He placed his hands against the barrier and pushed...

"I'm glad...be ... staying with ... long time... not... married."

Immediately Dick withdrew his hands. Where had that voice come from? It had sounded just like him but...he hadn't said anything. Shaking off the strange feeling that was creeping into his gut Dick continued to push against the barrier.

"... not trust ... you did... trust us." This time the voice was feminine and sounded hurt and betrayed.

"Man... comes to... you got issues." The voice was masculine but at least it wasn't his.

"... ... best friend... truly evil...go ahead ...you must." It was that same girl's voice and she sounded more betrayed then the last time. It tore Dick's heart out to hear her sound like that but...who was she?

"... ... are unwrinkled!" At least the girl sounded happy this time. Relieved too.

"...think...did this to myself!" It was his voice again and he sounded angry, furious actually.

"I'll annihilate them... ... make you watch..."

The last voice, which was also masculine, made Dick's skin crawl and he suddenly became furious. Throwing his whole weight into it he finally felt his hands slipping through the barrier. His head and upper chest slipped through as well. It was strange to go from the light to the sudden vast darkness. What was stranger still was that his hands, on the dark side of the barrier, were green. Thinking it must have been a trick of his eyes he brought his hands up to rub his eyes. He stopped in surprise as his hands touched his face.

...Instead of his normal sunglasses his eyes, on this side of the barrier, were covered in a cloth mask...

Dick awoke with a start to a sudden stream of light. He blinked and realized that he was sitting on the floor and that Kori was sitting next to him beaming happily at the janitor standing bewildered above them. "What in the world are you two doing in here?"

Kori stood up and helped a shaky Dick to his feet. She smiled kindly at the janitor. "We're most sorry for the inconvenience but I tripped and landed in the closet. When my friend tried to help me up the door shut on us both. We tried to leave but it was locked. Thank you so much for saving us!"

The janitor nodded and accepted her story. He stepped back to let them out. "Alright, just be careful this door gets jammed all the time."

Kori nodded and began to lead a still dazed Dick out of the school building. As soon as they were out Kori turned to Dick and laughed. "Well that was certainly an adventure."

Dick nodded, his head still groggy from sleep. "How did the janitor know we where in there?"

Kori shrugged. "He must have needed something from in there. After all it is a janitor's closet.

Dick nodded again. "Okay...how long was I out."

Kori looked at her watch. "Only about 2 hours."

Dick just rubbed his head. Kori laughed and they continued the walk home in silence. They had decided that since they both had practices after school, and Dick's car was getting a tune up and would be undrivable for about 2 weeks, that they would walk home together everyday.

They reached Dick's street first and Kori waved good-bye enthusiastically before turning and skipping, yes skipping, off towards her own street. Dick just shook his head and smiled. Kori was one of a kind that much was certain. He noted that as she skipped away her hair swished back and forth shinning in late afternoon sunlight. She looked almost angelic as she turned one last time to wave good-bye again, the fading sun framing her in an orange and pink light.

He waved back and turned around to go home. He was already looking forward to tomorrow when he could see Kori again. The feelings coursing through him when he thought of her were new but not unwelcome.

And they defiantly weren't hormones.

The shrill ring of the phone rang throughout the Logan household. After a few minutes, when it became apparent that no one was going to pick up, the answering machine did its job.

"Hey Gar, it's Raven. Could you call me? I really need to talk to someone...and I can't talk to Dick..."

Gar cursed as he struggled with his keys. There were days when they didn't want to fit in the lock and let him in the house. Today was one of those days. He could hear Raven's voice coming from inside the house as his answering machine took her message. "Hold on Rae, I'm coming."

Aha! Finally the key slid into the lock and turned smoothly opening the door with a small click. From the doorway he could hear the phone ringing. It couldn't be Raven again. She'd obviously just called a few minutes ago.

He tore off down the hallway to get to the phone before the answering machine decided to get it for him. His hand was inches away from the phone when the blasted machine clicked and came to life.

"Hi! This is the Logan residence," His own voice echoed through the house. "We're not here right now but leave your name and number and we'll call you back. At least I will, can't speak for my parents... 'GARFIELD!'" He chuckled as his mom's voice over lapped his own. "Just do what you're supposed to. We'll take care of the rest."

"Hi...Garfield...It's Terra. I just called to talk and see if maybe you wanted to go to Dick's party with me on Saturday...call me back at 375.9241. Bye."

Gar's hand froze, hovering over the phone as he replayed the message in his head. Terra wanted to go to Dick's party...with him. She'd given him her phone number. He had Terra's phone number. He grinned and picked up the phone. He clicked the talk button. His hand hovered over the buttons when his grinned faltered. He looked over at the answering machine as he remembered Raven's message.

...and I can't talk to Dick...

Raven wanted to talk. But so did Terra. He bit his lip and debated for a few moments on what to do. Finally he decided and began to punch in the numbers.

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There's chapter 7. Terra's phone number isn't a real phone number. At least it isn't to the best of my knowledge. And don't worry BB isn't getting with Terra. He's just made a serious Beast Boy lapse in judgment.

He will get with Raven. Just like Robin will get with Starfire. I swear it on my life and on my Busbuddy, and that's something I don't swear on normally. Well I hope you guys liked this chapter.

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