Who am I kidding, I am not as busy as I thought, so expect updates every three to four days, since people have been patient I am updating again
Oh yeah, changed the summery of the story, tell me if you like this better than the old one
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Enjoy Guardian uncovering Julie's past and the Titans reaction...
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NORTH SIDE SLUMS
JULIE'S APARTMENT
Guardian sighed as he pushed open the door; he was greeted by a voice. "Julie? You stupid bitch, where the hell have you been! For God sakes it's not even my baby and it is waking me up!" a woman yelled as she entered the living room. She stared at Guardian and said, "Who the hell are you, you aren't Julie?" she said.
Guardian growled angrily, "I am not Julie, I am Guardian, a member of the New Teen Titans and have the sad news that your daughter was attacked on her way home from work and killed," Guardian let out the bombshell right away.
Julie's mother didn't respond with anguish or sadness, but with anger, "Then who the hell will raise that bitch's daughter! I sure as hell am not!" she screamed as she lit herself a cigarette.
"Luckily, her last command was for me to take the baby and raise it," Guardian said as he looked on in disgust at the woman in front of him.
"Good, good, parents around here ditch their children all the time, if you take this one no one will figure out who the child is or where it is from, its clean, just go to the whore's room, get the baby and get the hell out so no one knows and I can finally be alone again," the mother said excitedly.
"Don't insult a dead woman, that is wrong," Guardian said coldly.
"Screw you! I can call her whate-" she was cutoff by Guardian covering her mouth with his hand.
"I swear, if I hear you talk again or insult a dead woman's name again, I will call the police and lock you up for child abuse meant, do you here me?" Guardian threatened.
The shocked woman just nodded her head and quietly sat down on the couch.
Guardian walked into the first room to the right and saw where Julie lived. It was a very small room, with a very small closet and a small bed. The room was cluttered with baby stuff and next to the bed was an old crib with a baby inside. Guardian walked up to the crib and looked at the sleeping child inside. He lifted the child, with a smile and said, "Peace be upon you little Maryam," and with that comment the baby stopped crying. "I am going to be your Papa," Guardian continued in a soothing voice, tears were forming, not tears of sadness, but tears of joy of saving this child. He softly put the child down and inspected the rest of the room.
The small closet had three pairs of street cloths and one pink dress, a worn dress which was probably bought at a garage sale. Guardian then saw the top of the dresser and saw five letters with ripped envelopes near by. "This may help me find the father, who else would she write too," Guardian thought as he reached the stack. He unfolded the first letter and it read: (none of the letters are in a chronological order)
Dear my dearest Julie,
Ever since we first met those two weeks ago I have been going out of my mind. It's been like I have been walking around in a haze, I can't think straight, and heaven knows I can't concentrate. What you are doing to me is screwing up things inside my head, you should know better than to play with a little boy's heart like that. Let's get together again sometime, I really miss you.
Love,
James
"So James is Julie's boyfriend, now lets see what this letter says," Guardian thought as he took out a second letter. This one said:
Dear my dearest Julie,
Julie, I have your picture in my head, and I have your number on a paper, at my disposal at anytime. I write you to ask if it is true, if it is true that you are saving yourself for someone who loves you for you, would you give it away to someone who would cherish your name?
So many times we just give it away to someone who you meet in a bar, the back of a car, and for those moments you feel important but not in your heart, no not in your heart. I want to learn how to save myself for someone who would love me for me, can you help me? Because my self esteem, it's been lower than low, check it really is lower than low.
Julie, can you save yourself for someone who will cherish your name, and can I save myself for someone who will love me for me? And Julie, are you that someone?
Love,
James
"Quite a poet this James seems to be," Guardian thought to himself after he put that letter to the side. Guardian picked up the third letter.
Dear my dearest Julie,
We had the afternoon booked; I had gotten us a room for two. Our bed was litterly on fire with passionate love, you know we had a call that the neighbors complained about the noises we made? But baby, it hurts, you look so damn good that it hurts sometimes and I feel frustrated. I am asking you for a date on the twelfth, how does that sound; give me a time and place.
Love and kisses,
James
Guardian felt hot after reading that letter, "A bit too personal, should skip those letters," he thought as he picked up the next one. "This James seems like some Romeo," Guardian thought as he opened the fourth letter.
Dear my Dearest James,
If it weren't for your maturity none of this would have happened. If you weren't so wise for your age I would've been able to control myself. Just do me a favor and don't go telling anybody and overlook this sin we committed that day. We will look back a few years latter and no one will know except the two of us. We will honor our requests of silence; none of this will leak out.
Please, make sure you don't tell on me, especially to members of your family, and please don't tell your friends. I wish I could tell the whole world of our love but we can't we mustn't. If things get better one day we might get married, but right now we can't do anything.
James, it pains me to say this but I must, we are finished, my mother wont let me see you again, but remember me, and when you get a job, when you finish school, come get your scum girl. I realize we can't stay together because our behavior was unacceptable and the only way for you to move forward would be if no one knew about me.
Good bye love,
You're Juliet
"So this was the letter she wrote him to get him away so that he wouldn't find out about Maryam, interesting. But who is James, none of these addresses are legible on the envelopes, I will have to take the baby to the Tower and check the DNA. But why is this letter here if it was for James? Those questions can be answered latter, now to read the last letter," Guardian thought as he slowly opened the last letter.
Dear my dearest Julie,
Are you saying it is over? Our love or day of passion was nothing? How dare you say our behavior was unacceptable, I love you with all my heart. I beg you, don't leave, I will find you, I will search far and wide when I get my job as you requested, I will respect your request for silence, and when I get my job, baby I will run down and get you and take you to my paradise. Away from your mother, away from the slums, we will leave Jump City and go to a far away place to raise children and grow old together.
Until we meet again, your love,
James (I am crying so much love, please write and say you were joking)
"Damn, poor guy, how am I going to tell him what happened?" Guardian thought as he put the letter down and walked back to the crib. He picked up the sleeping baby and whispered, "Dearest Maryam, we will go to the Tower, find out whose your real Papa and then take you to a family that will love and cherish you," Guardian smiled. As he slowly flew towards the Tower he vowed in his head, "I promise to give the child a happy, healthy life, and promise she will be successful and happy her entire life, I vow it," he told himself.
TITAN'S TOWER
"Where the hell is he?" Robin said irritated and worried.
"I know, he couldn't have disappeared," Darkness said, she lost contact with him awhile ago and he was last spotted in the North Side.
"Maybe he came back to the Tower?" Fireteen said as they opened the main door and entered the Tower.
"Sad thing is, you probably are right. Fireteen, check his room and Darkness and I will check the infirmary," Robin ordered.
"Why do you two need to check the infirmary?" Fireteen asked suspiciously.
"Me and Darkness are doing some investigations and need to see the results, and who knows if Guardian got hurt and was getting medical attention, their was a lot of blood at the crime scene," Robin said as he led Darkness to the other side of the Tower which held the infirmary.
Fireteen shivered as she recalled the blood and violence at the scene, "Okay, call me if you find him," she said as he headed to check his room.
"Same to you," Darkness said as she followed Robin.
"Do you think the results are in?" Robin asked Darkness.
"How should I know, you're the one who was on the computer and all that," Darkness replied as they continued down the dark hallway, lightning lit it up every few seconds.
"Yeah, but damn this storm is terrible," Robin observed.
"I think it has to do with Guardian," Raven put in her theory.
"Yeah, probably, his powers are based on electricity," Robin said in agreement.
They reached the door, Robin opened it for Darkness who smiled a little when she walked through, "What a gentleman you have become Robin!" she said in mock surprise at his act of kindness.
"Why thank you dear," Robin replied with his own mock voice and a smile.
However when they looked into the room, their smiles vanished. Standing at the main table, next to the DNA Database computer stood Guardian, and in front of Guardian was a baby.
"Guardian?" Robin asked hesitantly.
"Whose baby is that?" Darkness also said cautiously, not knowing how emotionally stable Guardian was.
"It's my daughter, Maryam," Guardian said simply, his voice showing no emotion as he continued checking her DNA. He didn't turn around or acknowledge Robin and Darkness.
"When did you have a child with a girl?" Darkness asked finding it almost impossible to believe Guardian, such a dedicated, no nonsense, morally strong boy would succumb to lust and a woman.
"I didn't have the child with a girl, the mother has given the child to me for safe keeping, so since the baby has no family, I am the baby's family and am her father," Guardian explained, still not looking back.
"Oh, the girl was the mo-," Robin was cut off by Guardian.
"Yes, she was Maryam's mother," Guardian said, but this time his voice croaked a little and he sighed deeply.
"Was her name always Maryam?" Darkness asked, still interrogating Guardian for information about the child.
"No, her name was Mary, but I changed it to Maryam, she is my daughter and should have a more cultured version of the name," Guardian said as he turned to the child and smiled.
"You know you can't keep the child here right? Its too dangerous," Robin said to Guardian, one of the rules Robin had made with his father was no family or friends living in the Tower without any powers.
"Yes, tomorrow I will give her a home, take her to her grandparents house, and then find her father," Guardian said as he printed out a sheet of paper.
"So you found out the father's name?" Darkness asked.
"Yes I did, I found out," Guardian said as he tucked the paper in his suit.
"Alright, but Guardian, when you settle the baby down, meet us in the main room, we have a lot to discuss," Robin said.
"That we do, that we do," Guardian said as he lifted the baby up lovingly and slowly took it to a crib in the infirmary. Cyborg put it their incase the Titans found an orphaned baby and needed to take care of it for the night. Guardian placed the baby, stroked her hair, lifted his mask and gave her a gently kiss on the forehead. He flinched back and his heart rate went up, the feel of her skin was the exact same as her mother's and it brought back the last kiss Guardian gave Julie when she finally died.
"Dear Maryam, forgive me for flinching, I just remembered something unpleasant," Guardian apologized to the baby and bent down and gave her another small kiss on the forehead, this time not flinching. Tears were in his eyes when he finally left the infirmary. However, as he approached the main room, he lifted his mask and wiped them away.
MAIN ROOM
TITAN'S TOWER
"Guardian, please sit down," Robin said formally as he led Guardian to a chair which faced the couch where the other three Titans sat. It looked like an interrogation.
Guardian sat down and faced his three teammates, who faced him, both showed no emotions, especially Guardian since he wore a mask.
"Guardian, what the hell happened today?" Fireteen asked, the images of the dead gangsters were fresh in her mind.
"I made the mistake of being followed, of trying to help someone, that was my mistake, I made things personal," Guardian said.
"What does that mean?" Robin asked not really understanding Guardian, Darkness just observed the man in front of her, the man who a few hours ago had completely collapsed, now he was in control again.
"Julie, the girl who was assaulted and murdered, was a girl I saved three times before, after the third time I found out she had no food for herself. I then began to give her some food, and then I caught her again out late at night and this time she was desperate for money. The reason being she had a baby daughter who she wanted to raise completely healthy, however, at that point she told me it was her sister, so I gave her some cash. She did get a job as a waitress, and then tonight, the Specialist got her, and, and he then killed her in cold blood," Guardian said the last part very bitterly as he turned away.
"So you then killed his two cronies and then beat him to death?" Robin continued.
"Yes, they deserved it," Guardian said in a voice which scared Fireteen.
"Yes, they did," Darkness spoke for the first time in the interrogation and nodded agreeing with Guardian.
"So how did you get the baby?" Robin asked, still pushing and interrogating Guardian.
"I got her, because Julie told me to raise her as the father of the baby, she doesn't want to put this much pressure or embarrassment on the real father, who she loves and he loves," Guardian explained.
"Who is the real father?" Fireteen asked.
"I can't tell you, it is a personal matter and once I get the baby a home, I will contact the father and explain my rules to him," Guardian explained.
"So after dealing with the thugs you went and attacked boss Isaac, why?" Robin asked, wanting to get all the facts.
"Before Specialist died he told me boss Isaac spotted me with her and then Hartwell signed the death warrant," Guardian said.
"Why did you let him live then? You had him right?" Darkness asked, curious, she knew she would have killed him for what those goons did to the poor girl.
"I am going to bring him down, nice and slowly, his entire operation will be destroyed, and once I annihilate him, humiliate him, shame him in front of his children, I will watch him get hauled to jail. Not a state prison, a federal prison so he can't get out, then I will get Hartwell," Guardian explained.
"No, you won't," Robin said.
"What?" Guardian asked in anger as he stared at Robin.
"We will bring Isaac and Hartwell down; the Titans will have their first campaign, against boss Isaac and his goons. It is time we clean out the North Side of Hartwell's influence," Robin said.
Guardian nodded, "Yes, the Titans will destroy him," said Guardian.
All the Titans smiled nodded and actually shook each others hands in congratulations, the Titans were going to war, and they had never been happier, not realizing the long battles, the tears, the arguments, the fighting, and blood that would have to be spilled to clean up the city.
NEXT MORNING
KHAN RESIDENCE
SUBURBS
Jemal Khan woke up to the sound of the front door bell at seven in the morning, it was Saturday and Khan wanted to relax today, he had a busy week and really wanted to relax. However, he got out of bed and walked to the door. He didn't dare wake up his wife Leila, she hated waking up right after she went to sleep, she had woken up two hours earlier with Jemal to say their morning prayers.
Jemal went down the staircase, to the front door, the sun was already up, being summer, and Jemal took in the rays. "That was a terrible storm last night," Jemal thought as he opened the door and was surprised to find a basket with a letter on top. In the basket was a beautiful baby who was fast asleep. Jemal knew things like this happened constantly, after giving birth to a child, woman and in many cases girls would journey to the suburbs to drop the baby at people's porches, hoping they would be taken and have a better life than what they would be offered in the city. The reason being, everyone knew the city's orphanages weren't founded properly and abuse was common.
Jemal knew two of his neighbors had taken in babies and he had just lost his nephew. His nephew, Selim had left home leaving a letter saying he was going on a journey and begged not to be found and promised to return home once his duty was complete. He said he had to do this for his aunt and uncle who raised him, and for his slain parents. Leila had been devastated, she felt as if her son was gone, and she had been depressed, sometimes crying when she saw a baby boy. Jemal and Leila loved each other but Leila was incapable of bearing children so their only child was Selim who came to them after his parents, Jemal's brother were killed thirteen years ago. Jemal picked up the letter after smiling at the baby, how ever his smile vanished and switched to a serious face when he saw the cover of the letter. One word was written, Chacha, which meant uncle and only Selim called him that. Jemal quickly opened the letter and it read:
Dear Aunti and Chacha,
During my journey I have come across this child, before the mother passed away she told me to raise and take care of the child. I couldn't refuse a dying woman's last request so I took the child. However, the child would be in danger if she stayed with me so I have given her to you. I know you will raise little Maryam just as you have raised me, you are the best parents I know and I would trust my daughter to you. You may come in contact with the baby's real father, and when he comes he will explain his role in raising the child. I cannot stay, or show up near home until my mission is complete, sadly, I don't know how long I will be away, however, I will send my precious child a letter once a month and I request that you and Aunti read it to her, God willing I will return home again with my mission completed.
Love,
Selim Khan
(P.s: please do not tell the police about this letter or even show it to anyone, this will be our secret, I cannot be discovered or else everyone's life will be in danger)
Jemal had tears, he had finally heard from his nephew, he looked at the baby again and brought the basket inside, he knew he wouldn't tell the police and he would keep his silence for Selim, but he looked at Maryam and thought, "Dear child, you have no idea how great of a man your father is nor how much he loves you," Jemal then stroked the baby's hair.
From a large tree in the backyard, through the window, Guardian watched his father figure care for the child and he smiled. "God, how I long to go there and give Aunti a hug, shake Chacha's hand, go to a party, dance with Rani, and hang out with Omar and Prem, how I wish to go back to my past life. But I have this power, and a cause, I have to do this mission," Guardian thought as he flew back to Jump City. Jemal thought he heard something in the backyard but just saw the trees shake, "Probably from the wind," Jemal thought as he continued to care for Maryam.
This chapter hints a bit on Guardian's past and his personality, I did this especially for those reviewers who asked for back ground on Guardian, you know who you are!
Next chapter will be called: The War Begins, thats all I am going to say, so sit tight and review for quicker updates!
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