Well, I am back, so now I will anounce the official updating schedule, every Saturday I will update, I am busy these days so it has to be every Saturday, next update will be this Saturday
I am happy with all the reviews and support and hits this story is getting! (I will finish responding to chapter four reviews and respond to chapter five reviews at the end of the chapter
Disclaimer: I don't own the Teen Titans or anything else in this story
NORTH SIDE
JUMP CITY
Fireteen had followed Guardian to an alley in the north side, she could listen to what was going on and she noticed Guardian just observing the parked car there at first.
From the car she saw Guardian observing while she heard cries from the car, "I said I wanted a job," a female voice said.
"This is your job," growled a man, sounded like a teenager too.
"A job like work, clean, get paid, not sell my body!" the girl said.
"Baby, I promise I will pay you well," the man said to her.
"Get off," the girl said and then there was a cry in pain as the man fell out of the car because the girl had kicked him.
"Why you litt-," he was cut off by Guardian who landed and gave him a good punch in the face.
Fireteen peered out to see a brunette girl, about Fireteen's age, wearing blue jeans and a green tank top, she had a pretty face and body but her hair was a mess and she looked very dirty. She returned to her spot, not wanting to be noticed and listened to the conversation.
"Once you would think you would learn your lesson, second time you get lucky, however, the third time is a miracle that you weren't hurt," Guardian said to the girl angrily.
"I didn't know he would do that!" the girl said innocently.
"I thought you would stop this street corner job thing?" Guardian said to her.
"I need food," she replied.
"Well promise me you will actually look for a job and then I promise I will take care of your food situation," Guardian said.
"Alright," she replied.
"Promise not to go on the street corner again," he said.
"Alright," she repeated.
Guardian pulled out six sandwiches, "I got you three tuna and three beef sandwiches," he said to her as he handed her the sandwiches.
"What about drinks?" she asked.
"Here is five dollars Julie, make good use of it," Guardian said as he handed her the bill.
"You really hit him good you know?" Julie said as she indicated to the unconscious man leaning against the wall.
"He deserved it, nine out of ten times you get a job, but it's always the one time, in your case three times when you risk losing the only thing you have left," Guardian said.
"Which is?" Julie asked.
"Your dignity and honor, it should never be taken away," Guardian said.
"Yeah, that is true," Julie sounding amazed that she even possessed something.
"Now let me teach you some moves incase you run into trouble again," Guardian said. For fifteen minutes he taught the fifteen year old girl some fighting moves, simple moves when in a confined space, moves to hurt someone for enough time to run, he taught her all the cheap shots he knew. When he was done he told the tired girl, "Meet me here tomorrow and I will give you some more food, and make sure you get a job soon," Guardian said as he walked away.
"You know I have to be sixteen?" she called to him.
"Lie, believe me, you don't look fourteen years old, besides, they never check," Guardian said as he flew on to continue his patrol.
Fireteen was filled with jealousy as she flew and followed her crush, "So he goes to homeless girls and gives them food on his free time?" she thought with anger.
Meanwhile, from the other side, a small time street thug picked up his cell phone and dialed a number. "Yeah boss?" he said.
From the phone came the cold reply, "What do you want? This better be important, I have a lot of work to do," the boss said.
"I just saw the Titan Guardian talk to some street girl," the thug said in the phone, smiling, knowing his master would be pleased.
"Really? Did you hear anything?" the boss asked now interested. "Mayor Hartwell will go nuts when he finds out the Titans have friends, better yet, maybe family," the boss thought.
"No, couldn't get close enough, but I think if I stay here the same time and he shows up again with the same girl, then we finally have someone," the thug said.
"Good, good, check tomorrow, if she is still there get two more boys and deal with her and then kill the guy, like we did with Steel Man," the boss said.
"Alright boss," the thug replied as he looked at Julie hungrily, "I would love to deal with her," the sick thug thought.
TITANS TOWER
Darkness had been watching TV with Robin for two hours and neither had Fireteen or Guardian had come back, now bored she decided it would be time to get some information on her parents.
"I am going out," Darkness said as she got up and prepared to teleport to the city.
"Where to?" Robin asked, he hated being by himself in the Tower.
"I have some acquaintances to check on," Darkness said.
"Alright, maybe I will go on my own patrol to kill time," Robin said as he too got up and left to his room to get his stuff. He didn't wear his mask all the time, or the cape, or the belt, he left that in his room and got it whenever he needed it.
"Alright, good bye," Darkness said as a black globe enveloped her and transported her to the city.
HEADQUARTERS
JUMP CITY TIMES
Darkness reappeared in front of the newspaper building and entered it. She reached a huge lobby and asked the clerk if she could see the reporter James Johansen.
"Yes, and you are who?" the clerk asked after she called the man.
"Tell him I am one of the new Teen Titans," Darkness replied.
The clerk relayed the information, smiled, said goodbye and told Darkness to go to the fifth floor, he would be waiting.
Darkness entered the elevator and felt out of place, her uniform didn't really blend well with the suites and ties, neither did her age, "All these people are like ten or thirty years older then me," she thought.
She reached the fifth floor, surprised that she was the only one in the huge elevator to leave and she saw Johansen waiting with a smile. Johansen wore an old fashion suite, a white beard, and sparkling blue eyes. He walked up to her and shook her hand, "You must be one of the new Titans, no doubt the daughter of Raven!" Johansen said in a grandfatherly way.
"Yeah, can we talk in your office?" Darkness asked.
"Certainly," Johansen said as he led her to his tiny office. "What can I do for you?" he asked as he sat back, his office was small, and a mess.
"I need every single paper that has to do with any of the original Teen Titans, every single issue which evens mentions one of there names," Darkness said.
"We have it on a disk which you put on the computer and sift through it all in order, but it has a cost," Johansen explained.
"Mr. Johansen, you were the main reporter on my parents and there friends for years, you were friends with my father, couldn't you do one favor for me?" Darkness asked. She remembered her father always mentioning about how Johansen always stood by the team, even when things weren't going good.
Johansen laughed, "I am not asking for much," he assured her.
"Alright, what do you want?" Darkness asked suspicious of the answer.
"An interview, if I get your interview, and information on this team, they will definitely reopen the Teen Titans section in the paper, I could get my old job back," Johansen said. This was his ticket to going back to the golden age, superhero reporting.
"Alright, I will do the interview," Darkness said reluctantly.
Johansen smiled and began…
TITANS TOWER
Robin was gone when Guardian returned, so was Fireteen and Darkness, Guardian had finished his patrol early and decided to look around his room. He noticed his room had a lot of stuff the first Robin, Dick Grayson had. Dick Grayson had always fascinated Guardian, the symbol of justice, a simple human on the team of superheroes with God like powers, a simple human with a will and belief in justice. His death had been very tragic, but it always bothered Guardian that no one knew the details; the only people that knew were the original four Titans. It was rumored in the superhero community, that his replacement, Tim Drake, now the new Batman doesn't even know how Dick Grayson died.
As Guardian walked around the room he thought, "What did he think? What did he feel? Was he really so great as the media and people make him? Or was he just a twisted soul who collapsed under the weight? Or was he just a human? Those thoughts were in Guardian's mind as he opened the drawer. He hadn't used any of the drawers in the room and nothing had been taken out when Cyborg fixed the Tower. Guardian had a suite case which had his bathroom supplies and spare uniforms. Since he didn't really use the room he hadn't looked around or checked it out, now that he had time he figured he mind as well see if he found something interesting. He saw old clothes, some old gadgets and some pictures. They were pictures of Dick Grayson in his Robin uniform and his famous spiked hair with all the Titans as a group. Their were individual ones with him and Star, or him and Cy, or him and Rae, or even him and BB, but most of those were him and Star.
He then looked in the next drawer and found it filled with newspaper clippings, mostly Slade but also Mumbo, the Hive, Brother Blood, and other Titan villains. He went to the next drawer and was surprised that it was locked very tightly. "Lets see, how to op-" his thought was cut off by a call.
"Hey Guardian, dinner!" Robin yelled.
Guardian went to the panel in his room, turned on the intercom and said, "You could page me next time besides yelling," then he walked to the kitchen. "Curiosity can wait," he thought as he entered to eat.
DARKNESS'S ROOM (RAVEN'S OLD ROOM)
Darkness had setup a computer where the old dresser was, she didn't need it, it was a waste of space to her. She had just finished a quiet dinner with the other Titans and went to her room to check on the disk. "Who used to sleep in this room, there are some books scattered around, and some weird looking dolls, but who was here. Maybe after I check this data disk I can explore this place, heck, I haven't even used the closet and I have been here for several weeks! I haven't even looked in it," Darkness said to herself as she put the disk in the computer.
She was shocked by the thousands upon thousands of articles dedicated to the Titans or certain members, she stared dumbfounded, "This will take me months, maybe even years to read all this!" she thought. "Luckily it is in chronological order," she said noticing it divided up by years.
She clicked on the first article and it was a front page picture of all five teens, thirteen years old at the time, except Cy who was a couple of years older, they were standing together and all smiling except Raven. "Typical of her to do, not smile or show emotion," Darkness thought bitterly as she looked into the eyes of the young girl in the photograph. The headline was FIVE TEENAGE SUPERHEROES VOW TO PROTECT CITY FROM EVIL. It still made Darkness laugh inside when she saw Raven's old uniform, the leotard and the legs showing.
FLASHBACK
WATCHTOWER
5 YEARS AGO
"Well, this is a picture of your mother, me, Uncle Cyborg, Uncle Robin, (Dick Grayson was Uncle Robin, Tim Drake is Uncle Batman) and Aunt Starfire. This was taken when we were fourteen years old, about a year and a half after we formed the team, right Raven?" Beast Boy called to his wife who was in the kitchen reading a book while drinking tea. Darkness, a young girl of nine was sitting in her father's lap while holding a photo album that Beast Boy explained to her.
Raven wasn't in the main room because she was in the seventh month of her pregnancy, the child would eventually be a daughter named Nagi (no relation to my story Can't Live Without Her, that Nagi isn't in this). Raven typically had mood swings and would get easily irritated, like when a reporter asked if it was the right message to get pregnant with another child when still a teenager. Raven had yelled at the reporter, and explained she was 31 years old and because she was half demon she didn't age or look like normal human beings.
"Why does mother wear those clothes? I thought she said she never liked boys until she was sixteen?" Christine asked her father.
Beast Boy couldn't help it, he burst out laughing, he abruptly stopped when he glanced and saw a glaring Raven at the doorway to the kitchen.
"What's so funny?" she asked Beast Boy.
"Nothing beautiful," Beast Boy said with his trademark smile.
"You see Christine, fashion on Azarath is different than on earth, it took me several years to realize that," Raven explained gently to her daughter. But their was something in her eyes, a look of shame mixed with sadness, and that face was still was fresh in Darkness's mind.
DARKNESS'S ROOM
PRESENT TIME
Darkness got through the first two years of Titans history when she decided to call it quits for the night. She was exhausted and realized why Johansen was loved by her father; his articles were always pro-Titan and always well written. Darkness turned off the computer and decided to actually see what was in the closet.
She opened the closet door to see what was inside, she froze when she realized, "I am in mother's room!" she thought in anger.
She looked through the closet and found several cloaks and leotards hanging in there, "She still has some of those clothes in the Tower," she thought that so much of her mother's old stuff was still in the room. She reached to the top shelf in the closet and found a fabric there; she pulled it down and then immediately dropped it in shock as she backed away from it in fear.
Little cliffhanger, next chapter will solve the cliff hanger, give some info on Julie, and will be another watchtower chapter. Each watchtower chapter will focus on a specific ex-Titan, the first one was Beast Boy, the next one will be Raven
Until Saturday, PLEASE REVIEW!
CHAPTER FOUR REVIEW RESPONSE:
BlackGothFaerie- Darkness is BB and Raven's daughter, the reason being Robin had been dead for several years when Christine was born so it would have been impossible for him to be the father, and Darkness has a little green in her skin color, hope you continue to reviews, I enjoy responding to your reviews
GreenMartian777- my style is a lot more advanced than I have done previously, this story is a thriller, a mystery, just about everything, the characters I like to think are easy to picture and are very human and easy to relate too. Guardian is my favorite one I made and yes, his past will be unraveled. Fireteen is a little bit like Star but a lot more street smart, you have analyzed the characters pretty well. I am glad you like the story, glad you like the FOR series too, thanks for the support and hope more reviews come!
CHAPTER FIVE REVIEW RESPONSE:
BlackGothFaerie- I did have a lot of fun on my vacation, thanks for asking, yeah, that was my favorite line in the chapter, I figure I should lighten the mood so I will throw some jokes here and there hope the great reviews continue
ravenwithemotion- I like that "keep going" makes me write faster, loved the review, short and sweet, hope it continues
ttinuhpfanforever- the pairings will be very interesting and things will twist even more in upcoming chapters, I am sure you will enjoy it, hope the reviews continue! I love reading them!
AnimationWickedRaven- I like to go original and throw some radical ideas, like in the FOR series I threw in a possibleBatmanxRaven, that is pretty original and extreme, I love doing that, thanks for the compliment and hope you review and enjoy this story which is built on original ideas
StickLad- Sorry it took a little longer that August 4th, anyways, here is the update, can't wait for a review!
GreenMartian777- This story has a lot of stuff going on at once, it is probably going to get a little anoying, because next chapter a new mystery will come, but I promise all will be solved and it will be very entertaining to the reader, thanks for these wonderful reviews! I love them
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