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JUMP CITY UNIVERSITY
STUDENT HOUSING AREA

Darkness and Iqbal were walking together slowly, towards Iqbal's small apartment he was living in. They had just had a wonderful dinner and didn't want the evening to end. Which was why they were walking so slowly.

"I really don't think everyone in the world has love in them," Darkness said playfully. She was having a friendly argument with Iqbal.

"Sure they do, someone always love something," Iqbal told her with a grin.

"What do you love?" Darkness asked, Iqbal had stopped her, holding her hand. Darkness turned to her man and he grinned at her.

"You," he said simply.

Darkness blushed, "Me?" not your family?" she was stiill playing with him. Iqbal some how was freeing her, making her act in a way she had never done before.

"I haven't seen my family for so long, I truly love you," he said as they neared ever closer to his apartment.

TITANS TOWER
GUARDIAN'S ROOM

At this point Guardian had flung the notebook against the wall, in shock, disgust, and anger. "He raped her? He raped her and put it in this notebook!" he thought in disgust. "Does Darkness even know? Or is she keeping this as a secret? Where is she right now," he glanced at his watch. "Its one thirty in the morning and she isn't home yet!" Guardian thought worried, although he suspected she was with Iqbal he wasn't sure. "She was also wearing a pretty revealing outfit, like her mother used to, and look where it got her," he thought worried. "I should go wait for her in the main room," Guardian thought as he exited his roomand entered the main room to wait nervously. "I swear if she gets hurt like Julie or my mother... what would I do?" he thought with sadness and anger both. However anger was starting to cloud his mind.

IQBAL'S APARTMENT

They were standing outside the apartment when Iqbal asked, "Want to come in?" with some hope in his tone.

Darkness looked at him hesitantly, her usual cold look back to her face. "Isn't that the line the girl gives in the movie before the guy comes in then they sleep together?" she thought. Before she opened her mouth to take him down, call him a pervert, ask him if he thought she was a slut who would sleep with him after one date or something like that.

However, Iqbal read her like a book and laughed, "Don't worry I am not asking you to have sex with me, I just want to carry the conversation inside, even though this is the safest part of town, it still is Jump City," Iqbal said with a very inviting smile.

Darkness still had her stern face, but relented, "Alright," she said as she entered the apartment.

MAIN ROOM TITANS TOWER

"You still up Guardian?" Robin asked as he entered for a glass of milk.

"I could be asking you the same question," Guardian replied, with a lot of hostility, he was in a bad mood.

"Had a wonderful evening, still can't sleep," Robin admitted as he filled the cup with the white liquid.

"Just had some coffee with Fireteen, don't know what the bid deal is," Guardian grumbled, still bitter.

"Fireteen! The girl of my dreams! That is a big deal!" Robin said very loudly.

"Just shutup and go to sleep," Guardian snapped at Robin who was taken back by the comment.

"So why are you up?" Robin asked, ignoring Guardian's attitude problem.

"I don't know, maybe because its two fifteen in the morning and she isn't home yet," Guardian said angrily.

"Why don't you just go find her?" Robin asked, still not growing worried, "She is a strong girl who can take care of herself," he thought.

"You think I haven't tried that, I just came back, I can't find her, Jump City is a large city," Guardian explained.

"Alright, don't stress yourself out, she is a powerful girl, I am sure she can take care of herself," Robin said as he went towards his bedroom.

"Where could she be?" Guardian thought aloud, to no one in particular, Robin was already out of earshot.

IQBAL'S APARTMENT

"I had a wonderful night," Iqbal said to Darkness as she began leaving the apartment. She was surprised to know how late it was, she had gotten so caught up in her conversations and stories that she hadn't realized how late it was.

"If I stayed any longer the other Titans might think the wrong thoughts," Darkness said, as an apology of sorts as to why she was leaving right when the conversations were getting even more intimate.

"Wouldn't want that to happen would we?" Iqbal said with a grin like a cat.

Before Darkness could respond his lips met her and the two of them began passionatly kissing each other for nearly five minutes. "Damn you taste so damn good," gasped Iqbal as the kisses got deeper and his hands as well as hers began exploring. Darkness too was caught up with the kissing and didn't realize what was happening until Iqbal stepped back chuckling. "Guess we got a little carried away huh?" he said.

Darkness blushed, gave one last kiss than flew to the Tower and to the wrath that would greet her there.

TITAN'S TOWER

Darkness arrived at about two thirty in the morning, she entered the main room to find Guardian waiting, mask off, with a look of shear anger on his face. He wasn't even wearing any disguise, this was the real man behind the mask greeting her, however, he had shown so many faces Darkness didn't realize that. "Why are you still up?" she cautiously greeted the hero.

"Where the hell were you?" Guardian responded very harshly.

"With Ismael, we had dinner," she responded quickly, getting scared of Guardian.

"Dinner till two thirty in the morning? Huh, you ate for that long?" Guardian continued his harsh interrogation.

"No, of course not, we were having such a good conversation we went to his apartment," she answered.

"What the hell were you doing in his apartment huh? Just "talking" I can only imagine what else you two were doing alone in his apartment," Guardian said, while speaking looking Darkness down with disgust and contempt.

"What is wrong with you? You my dad or something?" Darkness asked, hurt by Guardian's comment.

Guardian gave her a look which told her what he thought had happened.

"You son of a bitch! You would think that of me! I survive death and you think I slept with someone in just one meeting! What do you think of me!" Darkness yelled in anger, the conversation was getting louder and more heated.

"What did you call my mother!" Guardian screamed. Darkness had pushed his buttons.

"Bitch!" Darkness screamed back, rage and anger had taken over both of them, it was in their eyes, they really had no control.

Guardian chuckled, a chuckle with no humor or warmth in it. "Funny you would say that considering your the daughter of a little impure demon scamp!" Guardian shot back. The look in his eyes, and the way he implied impure told Darkness he knew about what happened to her mother.

"Monster!" Darkness spat.

"She might have even had it coming, just like you. Look at you, wearing that revealing dress, like how your mother wore her own revealing clothes, as if inviting one of the city's numerous creeps to come and get you. You actually trust Ismael, you don't even know a thing about him. Just like how your mother trusted Dick Grayson, history is going to repeat itself, yet I guess demons like you enjoy it or something since you all seem to put your self in these positions!" Guardian continued his attack.

"Are you suggesting I am some sort of whore or that my mother deserved to be raped!" Darkness yelled, now both of them were screaming at each other. Luckily the rooms were far way so none of the other Titans awoke to the screaming.

"YES I AM!" Guardian screamed, he instantly shut his mouth, regretting everything he had just said. "I don't mean that," he told himself.

"Go to hell," Darkness croaked as the tears began flowing and she rushed to her room, feeling dirty and angry all at the same time.

Guardian slammed his fist on the table in frustration, "You stupid idiot, what the hell were you thinking!" he yelled at himself.

THE NEXT MORNING

"Hello Fireteen," Guardian said quietly as he sat down to get some breakfast. Robin was sitting next to Darkness who was sipping tea glared at Guardian who looked away in shame, still kicking himself for over reacting last night.

"How did you sleep," Fireteen asked, trying to start small talk that morning.

"Didn't really sleep much," Guardian said as he poured himself some cereal.

There was tension in the room, everyone sensed it, however, only two of the Titans knew why there was any tension.

"We should go to the morning training session, we have a mission tomorrow night," Robin said as he jumped from his stool, breaking the eerie silence of several minutes earlier.

"A mission?" Guardian asked. Tommorow night he was supposed to do Iqbal's bidding and save the city.

"Yeah, Hartwell is having a huge meeting with all his croonies and crimelords, we can get enough evidence to finally bury him, but it wont be easy, we have no one on the inside. So it would be a very tough mission, we might even not be able to succede," Robin explained.

"Then why do it?" Darkness asked, she was in no mood to do any mission anytime soon, not after the scene last night.

"We have to try, I don't want to be fighting for years and years, I don't want to kill," Robin added.

"Lets go train then," Fireteen said with enthusiasm.

TRAINING SESSION

"Everybody for themselves!" Robin screamed. This was the best part, this was the part where all the Titans got to beat each other for a few hours.

However, usually it was playful, but this time it got very intense. Darkness used her powers and unleashed it on Guardian. Guardian responded with his own powers, bringing the two of them closer together. Now within inches apart, Darkness let up and pounced on Guardian pushing him hard against the wall. "A whore, that's what you think of me?" she growled menacingly at Guardian.

"I didn't mean it, I was just scared and frustrated," Guardian grunted as he pushed her back.

"Of what exactly!" Darkness hissed back as she shoved Guardian against the wall again. Fireteen and Robin just watched dumbfounded at how they were tearing at each other like arch enemies.

"OF DEATH!" he yelled, she stopped attacking and now Robin and Fireteen were staring.

"OF LOVE! OF PAIN! OF ALL THE SUFFERING I ALWAYS FIND MYSELF RELIVING!" Guardian yelled as he began backing away, tears forming. "My mother, Julie, you, Rani, Sanjay, all of them I loved, all of them are hurt or dead!" Guardian cried out as he walked out of the room, his hands ripping off his mask as he walked away in tears.

Darkness and the other three Titans just stared on in shock at the scene in front of them.

GUARDIAN'S ROOM

There was a knock on the door, Guardian answered and was confronted by the one person he really didn't want to see at that moment, Darkness. "Hello," she greeted.

"Hello," Guardian replied quietly.

"My name is Christine Logan, but call me Darkness, I am the daughter of Raven Logan and Garfield Logan," she said to Guardian, sticking her hand out.

"My name is Selim Khan, son of Agha Khan and Fatimah Khan, you can call me Guardian," he replied, clutching her hand in a firm handshake.

"Remember you said we should start over, how about now," Darkness said quietly.

"I would like that a lot," Guardian said, "About last night," Darkness silenced him with a hand motion.

"The past is the past, it doesn't count, we are starting over, as far as I am concerned none of that ever happened, nor will we mention what happened that night again, alright?" Darkness said in a monotone voice.

"Right," Guardian said as he continued shaking her hand.

NORTH SIDE
JUMP CITY

Guardian was in disguise when he met Iqbal at a small cafe in the slums. "How are you brother?" Iqbal asked in his native tongue.

"Well, and you," Guardian responded cooly.

"Had a wonderful night," Iqbal replied as he took a sip from the tea and then frowned. "Damn this South American tea, what I would give for some South Asian tea," Iqbal observed. He prefered the sweeter tea that could only be found in the motherland.

"What made last night so wonderful?" Guardian asked suspiciuosly, ignoring the tea comment although he completely agreed with him.

"Me and Darkness, had a wonderful dinner, then she came to my house and we had a very enlightning conversation, got a little gift before she left, and that is what made last night so special!" Iqbal said excitedly.

Guardian had no idea what the gift was but trusted Darkness, who said nothing happened. "Good for you," Guardian said defensively, not letting on he was jealous or anything.

"She is a really special girl, you know that brother?" Iqbal asked.

It was begining to annoy Guardian that Iqbal kept on calling him brother but he let him all the same, "I know that, I know that," Guardian said while he took his own sip from the tea.

"So, ready for tommorow night?" Iqbal asked, he had moved on to the biscuits he got with the tea, hoping that would make the taste better.

"We have a problem, Robin wants the Titans to try to get the black mail," Guardian explained the situation.

Iqbal raised an eyebrow, "Why the hell would he do that? I already have people on the inside, if Robin shows up he could ruin it all!" Iqbal said angrily.

"Sorry, no one knows of the plan," Guardian said, his anger slowly rising.

"I guess I am going to have to use some of my magic to fix this minor problem," Iqbal said simply.

"How are you going to do that?" Guardian asked, wondering why Iqbal was acting like it was no big deal.

"Trust me," Iqbal responded, giving a very large smile.

TITANS TOWER

Guardian brought Iqbal inside the Tower and Iqbal quickly got everyone in the main room. "Its time I tell you guys the truth, I have been dishonest to you guys for a while now," Iqbal began.

Darkness raised an eyebrow at the comment.

"I am not a med student, I am really an ISI agent and am here to help my cousin," he stated.

"What do you mean help him?" Robin asked, shocked with the news.

"I have men on the inside, and after I found out about your recent battle, I came here to help you guys and black mail Hartwell, then Guardian told me you guys were going to come in. So now here I am asking you not to. The reason is you have no gurantee for success, while I do, so please trust me and sit tight tomorrow night," Iqbal explained.

"Alright," Robin said after several minutes, he knew he had no chance so why not have a professional spy do it for them.

"They bought it," Iqbal said with a grin inside. He got the Titans to think he was doing this as a favor, not that he was doing this as part of a bargain, he didn't even tell them about his real mission.

Guardian was a little surprised and impressed by Iqbal's cleverness and ability to manipulate the Titans to his views very easily.

Darkness however walked up to Iqbal and slapped him hard. "You lied to me?" she growled angrily, betrayed that the man she had fallen for had lied to her.

"I only lied to you about my job, everything else is true," Iqbal quickly explained as he held his cheek with one hand. "Damn, that stung," he thought.

"No, you just said all those things to use me for a few minutes of making out, for your own entertainment," Darkness continued in her cold voice, little emotion, not loudly.

"That is a lie, you are so special, I don't want to hurt you, forgive me, I had to lie, for my family, for my country," Iqbal pleaded. "Please find it in your heart to forgive me, I love you, I love you with all my heart," Iqbal stammered as tears began forming. This was very strange for Iqbal, a normally cool and collected person, but he was so scared that he would lose her.

Darkness's enraged look quickly vanished as she stared into those brown eyes and saw the look of love and fear of losing that love in them. She couldn't hate him, she just whispered, "Sorry, I guess I lost it," she said quietly, feeling embarrased now.

Iqbal held her in a hug and said, "Don't be, you should be angry at me, I hurt you," he whispered to her.

"Dinner tonight?" she asked.

"You bet," he replied as they both smiled at each other.

This whole scene had transpired in front of all the Titans. Robin turned away red faced when they got into a hug, Fireteen, who had been silent the whole time stared in amazement at the scene before her and Guardian couldn't help it. He was just jealous, he actually hoped Darkness would hate Iqbal, but was left dissapointed. "Damn it, get her out of your system!" Guardian screamed at himself. He felt a terrible knot in his stomach and it bothered him.

HIVE HEADQUARTERS
NORTH SIDE

"What do you mean I am off the team?" the mistress of ice asked in anger and shock.

"Your off because you don't have any hands and your powers have no effect because of Fireteen," Jinx angrily explained.

"My hands will be back in two weeks and I am working on a way to deal with that bitch!" the ice girl yelled at Jinx. The other Hive members were finding the argument entertaining and were snickering every once in a while.

"We already got your replacement," Jinx said with a smile.

The woman of ice glared at Jinx and asked, "Who is replacing me?" suddenly a sonic blast sent the girl against the wall hard.

"I am," a new girl said as she picked up the unconscious girl and flung her out of the building, and into the dangerous street outside.

"Who are you?" Gizmo asked, Jinx hadn't told the other members who the new member was.

"Rocker, I have a sonic guitar, very deadly," the new girl answered. She wore a punk rock outfit and had the guitar painted with flames around it.

"She will be very helpful, none of the Titans will be able to stop sonic blasts and it could go through the force fields, we are a lot sronger than we were before," Jinx explained.

"Although the outfit is weird, if she helps us win that's all that matters," Mammoth said with a grin.

"Tommorow night, us and the Titans rumble for comand of this sector," Jinx said with a smile.

NEXT CHAPTER: TITANS VERSUS THE HIVE, HARTWELL VERSUS JIM, AND IQBAL VERSUS TAJ, the result will decide the future of the NORTH SIDE and possible of JUMP CITY!

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Allright, this chapter pretty much answered a lot of peoples questions about last chapter, but I have to give a little pep talk about Iqbal. He really shouldn't necessarily be seen as a good guy, more like neautral, no one really knows his agenda (honestly, I don't know it either, isn't THAT EXCITING!) So glad people love this story, and finally, I didn't throw a sick cliff hanger and I put a lot of drama in this chapter, hope you enjoyed it. Also, I know some reviewer will be happy with this chapter

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