Mwuahh, I have returned! After an agonizingly long time, I have truly returned! Writers block is awful…plus I have waaaaaay too much homework. It seems like the only thing I have time to do is eat and sleep. Meh…
Now, my minions…reviewers, sorry.
starlit moonshadow – Glad you liked it! Ah, the evil clown. I'm soooooo bad.
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Angel-Born-In-H3ll – PLEASE DON'T KILL ME! HAVE MERCY! (huddles in a corner and goes into the fetal position) I'm sorry I had to be so descriptive like that; I guess it's a curse. I hope I didn't scare you too badly. Haha, they woke the clown. I feel diabolical (hugs self). You're probably going to hate me so bad when you read this chapter. Everyone's going to hate me. A lot. Ah, it's always a pleasure to get your reviews. They're very long, and I like long reviews. Plus it makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside. Thank you! (Gives Terra plushie to destroy)
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Chapter 12 - The Arrival
"Miss Roth! Miss Roth!" called a voice, his knuckles pounding on the wide door of Raven's apartment. "Are you home? Miss Roth, please come out! If you don't arrive in New Jersey at the set time, Mr. Logan will have my hide! I like my hide where it is!"
Raven slid her bowl and spoon into the sink and stuck a hand in her pocket to make sure that she still had her fifty dollars that Rissa had loaned her. 'So, this is the perverted chauffer that Gar warned me about,' she thought to herself. 'He certainly sounds gay enough. His whining is pathetic.'
"I'm coming," she said, not bothering to raise her voice to make sure the chauffer had heard her. Apparently he had, however. "Um, okay! I'll wait here!"
Raven snorted to herself. "Yeah, you do that." Again, she hadn't bothered to raise her voice. She grabbed her Green Day hoodie off the couch and slipped it over her head. She checked her reflection in the mirror, and opened the door.
The chauffer that Gar had suggested was perverted had definitely sounded like an idiot from inside her apartment, but Raven came to realize that he didn't look like a perv at all.
He had dark brown eyes and sandy blond hair and slightly tanned complexion. His voice was slightly high and squeaky, so Raven had pictured this guy to be some sort of a midget (no offense to midgets), but on the contrary, he was quite tall. Taller than Raven had expected.
"You must be Raven," he said. "Obviously," she said sarcastically. "You wouldn't be calling my name if I wasn't Raven."
The chauffer 'eeped' slightly at Raven's witty remark. She was playing mind games with him. Logan must have told her he was perverted, or she wouldn't be so cautious.
"Well, my name is Jimmy," he said. "And uh, I-I think we'd better go now, you know, so we're not late." Raven nodded slowly. "I suppose we should," she said. Well this guy was certainly a piece of work.
Jimmy gestured shakily at the limo parked on the side of the road (Rae's driveway wasn't big enough). "Um, there's our- your ride," he said.
Raven leapt off the porch and walked the passenger end of the limo. She reached for the door, but Jimmy was quicker; his hand automatically lunged at the door and opened it. Raven's hand shot back immediately to its original position as she climbed into the limo, and as she did she felt the faint pressure of someone's hand on her waist, helping her inside.
Raven's head snapped around and she glared at Jimmy, whose hand was still on her waist.
"I can get in myself, thank you," she said coldly, swatting his hand away. Jimmy looked hurt a little and nursed his hand, but Raven didn't look the least bit sorry. 'Serves him right,' she thought. 'Idiot.'
She reached towards the door and slammed it shut, locking it just in case he decided to do something stupid and disgusting. Jimmy visibly stiffened at the gesture and got in the driver side, starting up the limo. He leaned back and gazed at her for a little, pretending to be looking for any other drivers as he pulled out, but there were no drivers of any such.
Raven rolled her eyes in disgust and looked for the button that would activate the divider.
"There's no divider," Jimmy said slyly, as if reading her mind. "I can see that," Raven retorted hotly. She didn't want the guy talking to her, and neither did Gar. 'But, said there would be a divider,' she thought. 'So I'll just have to make one myself.'
She raised her hand slightly and murmured a medley of words that Jimmy could not understand, and suddenly a huge black aura shot out and covered the entire area where the divider would be.
Jimmy let out a yelp of surprise and slammed on the brakes. He turned around frantically and pounded on the Raven's self-made divider.
"Jeepers, Rae!" he squealed. "Tell me when you're going to do something like that!" Raven glared and clenched her teeth.
"Don't call me 'Rae,'" she growled. "Get moving."
Jimmy spun around towards the wheel and obeyed the sorceress's command. As he pressed his foot against the pedal, only one thought went through his perverted mind, and he smiled just to himself. 'I almost touched her butt,' he thought.
"Oh Galfore, that is glorious!" Kori gushed into the phone, her face lit up with happiness. "Your presence at the wedding will be most pleasurable."
Dick grinned as he listened to his fiancé converse with her knorfka, biting into his cinnamon/sugar toast. Even though Kori was nearing twenty, like himself, she still held that child-like innocence that he had grown to love so much.
"I am happy for you, Koriand'r," said Galfore. Even though they were millions of miles away from Tamaran and Galfore, Dick could hear the nanny's booming voice through the receiver. Apparently, Kori could hear him pretty well, too, as she held her ear away from the phone ever-so-slightly when Galfore spoke.
Dick had asked Kori how she would manage to reach Galfore on her home planet, and Kori just smiled and said she had her ways. Dick didn't know exactly what that meant, but as long as they got in touch with her knorfka, that was all that really mattered.
Suddenly, Kori gasped in such a way that Dick turned around from his breakfast in alarm, his eyes wide and ready for any disturbing news that might follow.
"Galfore…" she whispered. "That is…" Dick readied himself for an explosion. "AMAZING! I am so happy for Ryand'r!"
Dick sweat dropped and sat back down to his toast. Kori had told him about a week ago that her brother Ryand'r would be attending their wedding with his wife Liliand'r, who was a princess from another colony on Tamaran. He had met her in the royal court one day when he was seventeen, and the two hit it off immediately.
Galfore continued to speak, this time in Tamaranian tongue, so Dick couldn't make out any of the words, but the knorfka's voice sounded very happy.
Kori beamed at Galfore's words, and as he spoke, she placed her hand over the receiver and whispered to Dick, "Lily had their baby last week!"
Dick's eyes widened at the news – he hadn't even known Liliand'r and Ryand'r were even having a baby! He gave Kori a thumbs up to show that he was happy for her brother and his family.
Dick went back to his toast, but he soon noticed that Kori had adopted a slightly fearful expression. "Alright," she said shakily. "Don't go too hard on him."
Dick cocked his head to the side as if to say 'What?', but Kori handed him the phone and whispered a soft 'good luck.'
Dick took the phone reluctantly.
"Uh, hello?" he said quizzically.
"RICHARD GRAYSON!" Galfore bellowed through the phone. Dick held the phone away from his ear and made a face that had OW written all over it.
"Yes sir?" Dick asked after his ear stopped throbbing.
"Why didn't you ask me if you could marry Koriand'r?" he asked, his voice lowering. Dick's face paled
"I-I didn't know I was supposed to, sir," he said shakily. Galfore made a small growling sound.
"I am sure you didn't," Galfore said curtly. "However, the past cannot be changed. Since you have already asked Koriand'r for her hand in marriage, I presume that you know what must be done."
Whatever color that was left on Dick's face was gone now. He gulped and said, "I must take care of her, I know that. We have jobs and we can raise a family and all that, and-"
"THAT IS NOT WHAT I MEANT!" Galfore bellowed again. Dick ignored the pain in his ear and though, This is it.
"Traditionally, there are things that must be done after the wedding," said Galfore.
Dick shuddered.
"On Tamaran, it is normally the father's job to tell their soon-to-be-son-in-laws this, but Kind Myand'r is currently unavailable, so now it is my job," Galfore explained. "After the wedding…"
Dick's eyes widened. Keep it cool, I'll be okay, he thought.
"After the wedding, it is tradition for the newlyweds to come to Tamaran for a blessing for their marriage and a feast of celebration."
Dick let out a loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong breath of relief. He was going to be okay.
"And there will also be an initiation into the royal family."
"Okay," said Dick, thoroughly relieved. "Okay, I'll be prepared for that."
He handed the phone to Kori, who gave him a small smile. Kori finished her call to home, bid goodbye to her knorfka, and hung up.
"He scared you," she said simply, sitting next to her fiancé. Dick nodded.
"Yeah. Just a bit. I didn't know I had to ask Galfore if I could marry you," he said.
Kori grinned sheepishly.
"I kind of knew about it, but I how strange would that sound?" she mimicked what it would sound like. "'Oh, by the way Dick, I know we're just getting started with our business with the detective agency, but if you're planning on proposing to me any time soon, you'd better ask Galfore first.'" She grinned. "I knew that Galfore would let you marry me, though. He's been impressed since I almost had to marry that giant phlegm wad thing."
Dick raised his eyebrows. "Speaking of which, what ever happened to Blackfire? Haven't heard from her in a while," he said.
Kori let out an amused sigh and sat back in her chair. "I actually talked to her a little bit," she said. "Apparently, she was committing some high crimes after she escaped from jail again, and the Centauri police caught her again, and gave her a memory wipe. She has no idea what she's done. It's kind of weird listening to her voice now. It's a lot like mine. It's also a bit frightening hearing her talk about her family."
Dick's mouth hung open and a bit of toast crust fell out.
"You've got to be KIDDING me!" he exclaimed. Kori nodded.
"I know! Apparently, after she got her memory wiped, which was like five years ago, she met this Centauri boy that was the son of one of the guards at the jail, and she married him a year later. Now she has a boy named Daniand'r. It translates to Crossfire. He's three now."
(A/N: seems like everyone is getting married and having kids, doesn't it?)
"That's a shocker," Dick said. "Why'd she get that memory wipe anyway?"
Kori was about to answer when the phone rang yet again. She picked it up and rolled her eyes at the thought of another call from someone at the agency or from Bruce.
"Hello?" she said.
"Starfire, how nice it is to here your voice," said an unfortunately familiar voice.
"No…" she whispered fearfully. "You're going to be executed. You can't…"
"The Penitentiary was very generous in allowing me to have one last call before my demise," said the unmistakable voice of Slade Wilson. "Of course, I had two particular people in mind. I said to myself, to bad they live in different places. But thanks to a very reliable source, I discovered that Starfire and Robin are engaged! No doubt you would move in with him."
All the while, Dick had been listening intently to the conversation. His eyes widened angrily as Kori murmured about the execution. "Slade…" he growled.
After a moment, Kori's eyes widened and she began to shake uncontrollably. Dick's instincts kicked in immediately and he rushed over to his fiancé. He pulled the phone out of her loose grip and wrapped his arms around her.
"What do you want, Slade?" Dick growled into the phone.
"Oh, nothing, nothing," Slade said casually. "I just wanted to wish you two a very happy life together." He let out a scary kind of maniacal scream, and the line went dead.
Dick sighed angrily and slammed the phone back onto the jack on the wall. Kori, who was still shaking, now had her face buried in Dick's shoulder with hot tears rolling down her cheeks.
Dick slid his arm underneath her knees and picked her up bridal style and carried her to the couch.
"What did he say to you?" he asked, his voice full of concern. Kori breathed slowly.
"He kept saying things that just made no sense at all…but he kept saying this one thing – you'll get yours.
Dick's eyes narrowed.
'You'll get yours…' he thought. 'What could it mean?'
"DIDN'T I SPECIFICALLY SAY THAT I WANTED MY VEIL A PALE SHADE OF IVORY! THIS IS WHITE!"
"IVORY IS WHITE!"
Gar sighed.
'There she goes again,' he thought. 'Terra complaining about anything and everything.' He tried his best to not roll his eyes and went back to his riveting sport of 'TV watching'.
All Terra did was complain. Lenny had assured everyone that her choosiness was just the product of a talented and sophisticated mind, but obviously, no one bought it. She was like a three-year-old child whining to her mother.
It was almost impossible for the other crew and cast members, Gar included, to tolerate Terra and her endless grievances. Only Lenny seemed to still believe that she was an angel sent from heaven.
The main thing that everyone was tired of was Terra's believe that she was always right. Her ongoing dumb blonde routine that had been funny at first was becoming really annoying. Twice Gar had asked for a gun (Gar: Nah, I wasn't gonna shoot her! Why would I? Me: I can think of a couple good reasons).
More shouting was heard and Gar could swear he heard someone slap someone else. He heard the noise again, and soon there was more.
He peered out the door to see two women witch-slapping each other. One of the women was unmistakably Terra Markov herself, with a big red hand print of her cheek.
The hand print was more noticeable now because, even thought the face paint had been mixed with super glue, Terra had managed to get her hands on $2,000,000 face wash, which had taken paint off. Her face was whiter than the snow now, and it wasn't the Raven-like paleness, either – it was still a solid, ugly, white.
The other person looked like the wardrobe specialist, Renee. Gar could tell it was Renee because she was the only one in the entire crew who would actually take Terra on in a cat fight.
Gar chuckled to himself. While other people working on the movie would ignore Terra completely, or at least try to, Renee would give the blonde dunce a piece of her mind. Full-scale shouting matches were normal feats a in that lone New Jersey warehouse.
Gar turned around and laid back in his recliner and picked up the controller (the following exchange is just random shows on the telly. I don't own any of them.).
Music Videos on VH1
WHAT'S THE WORST THAT I CAN SAY? THINGS ARE BETTER IF I STAY, SO LONG, AND GOODNIGHT! SO LONG AND GOODNIGHT!
'Hmm…My Chemical Romance,' Gar thought. 'Coolio.'
Click.
The Wedding Singer
Adam Sandler was screaming at the top of his lungs.
"SOMEBODY KILL ME PLEASE! SOMEBODY KILL ME PLEASE! I'M ON MY KNEES! PRETTY PRETTY PLEASE! KILL ME!
'Freaky.'
Click.
Seinfeld
"No, you couldn't get a regular salad, you had to get the BIG salad!"
'Heh, that was a good episode.'
Click.
Phantom of the Opera
Christine was about to get into a carriage to go to the cemetery.
"To my father's grave," she said. The driver turned his head slightly and nodded.
"DON'T GO, CHRISTINE!" Gar shrieked. He hopped onto the edge of his seat. "THE PHANTOM'S DRIVING THE CARRIAGE!"
"WOULD YOU SHUT UP IN THERE!" Terra screeched.
"I'LL SHUT YOU UP!" Renee cried.
Gar sighed and got up to shut the door of the newly-refurnished rehearsal room. How they managed to get that place cleaned, he would never know, but the point was that he finally a place to watch TV! His trailer didn't have these kind of conveniences.
"Back to my movie," he said.
You were once my one companion
You were all that mattered
You were once my friend and father
Then my world was shattered.
Sadly, Gar didn't here his door creak open. Sadly, he didn't hear the floorboards squeak. Sadly, he didn't hear Terra draw in her breath before she let out an off-key shriek. His poor hearing (which doesn't really make sense, because his ears are huge) would be his downfall.
"WISHING YOU WERE SOMEHOW HERE AGAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAIN! WISHING YOU WERE SOMEHOW NEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRR!"
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!...Oof…."
Gar jumped out of his seat and crashed to the floor, but Terra's terrible singing didn't cease.
"SOMETIMES IT SEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEMS, IF I JUST DREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAMED, SOMEHOW YOU WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOULD BE HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEERE! I should go to Broadway!"
"Terra!" Gar squeaked. "Do you mind?"
"Nope," Terra said. She opened her mouth again, and Gar shoved his fingers in his ears, and –
"DID AN ANIMAL DIE IN HERE AWGAIN?" Lenny yelled out, bursting through the door. "I HEARD IT'S DEATH CRY! CAWLL THE VET!"
"No, no, don't mind me and my shattered eardrums," Gar said sarcastically, pulling himself up from the ground. "But if you must know, Terra was singing again."
Lenny let out a long sigh of relief. "Oh, that was it? I thought we might to have the place a vaccinated again."
Gar flopped back onto the chair.
"Can we hurry this up?" he asked. "Raoul's about to fight the phantom, and I really don't want to miss this."
"Too bad Gawr," Lenny said, shaking his head in false pity. "We've gawt another scene to shoot, and we have less than six weeks to finished the movie."
"Our movie sucks," Gar grumbled, turning off the TV. "It won't last more than a week in the box office."
"Dat's where your wrong, my dear Gawr, for we have a secret weapon," Lenny corrected.
Terra put her hands on her hips and stood in a heroic pose. "Keys to Success, thy name is Terra!" she said.
Gar shrugged and trudged out the door. "Meh, success, Terra, right," he said ominously. "Let's shoot the frigging scene already."
"Go get your tux on, Gawr, this is the marriage scene," Lenny instructed.
"The MARRIAGE SCENE!" Gar shrieked. "SAY IT ISN'T SO!"
"Oh, come on Gar, it's not gonna be that bad," Terra said. She had a suspiciously flirtatious smile on her face. Gar gulped.
"Oh, trust me, it's that bad."
"I swear to God, this guy is a complete psycho. Two hours ago he just about grabbed my butt," Raven muttered darkly into the phone that was built in the limmo.
"Well, it takes four hours to get from New York to New Jersey, right?" Jen asked. She folded her legs beneath her and cradled the phone at the crook of her neck. "Then you only have two hours left."
"Might as well be an eternity, if you ask me," Raven said. She looked to see Jimmy watching her silently from the rear view mirror and scowled. "Every so often he glances back at me from the mirror. It's freaky."
"Sounds like another Adonis to me," Jen mused. "I bet you feel so special right now."
"Yeah, like a diamond," Raven laughed. "Would it make anyone at all suspicious if Jimmy went missing for three…eight months?"
Jen snorted. "I'd think you'd better stick to snide remarks, Raven," she said.
Finally, after two more hours of talking to Jen and ten cups of herbal tea, the limmo finally pulled to a stop in front of a huge old warehouse in what appeared to be Surf City, New Jersey.
"Talk to you later Jen, we just stopped," Raven said, and hung up the phone.
Jimmy took the keys out of the ignition and scrambled out of the limmo, and Raven wearily let her self-made divider down.
He opened Raven's door and held his hand out to her. Raven rolled her eyes and slid to the other side of the limmo and opened that door.
"Good bye and good riddance," Raven said.
Jimmy sighed and climbed back into the limmo and watched her approach the warehouse door.
"Hello, can I help you?" said a stressed voice. The woman who opened the door had strawberry blonde hair and blue-grey eyes with shadows underneath, and there were multiple red marks on her face as if she had just been in a cat fight. The woman wore black converse, jeans, and most notably, a black shirt with 'PREPPIES' written in white and a giant X through it.
Raven was surprised of how exhausted the woman sounded.
"Uh, yes, I'm looking for my boyfriend, Gar?"
The woman smiled as best as she could.
"Oh, you must be Raven!" she said. Raven nodded.
"Yes, but how did you -?"
"He talks about you all the time," she said, letting her inside. "It's almost like we know you already. By the way, I'm Renee."
"Oh. So…how's the movie coming along?" Raven asked, trying to make conversation.
Renee sighed. "Not very good. We have this new girl here who just came out of nowhere who plays Gar's love interest in the movie, and she is a real pain in the neck. She's a blonde, to top it all off."
"Ouch," Raven said. "What's her name?"
"Terra Markov," Renee spat. "If evil had a name, it would be hers."
"Terra?" Raven said spitefully. "Spelled T-e-r-r-a, not T-a-r-a?"
"You got that right," Renee said, fumbling for the keys. "I feel really bad for Gar. She's always hanging on him."
Raven started to seethe. If that ditz came back just to take Gar from her, Terra was in for a very rude awakening.
"Well here you are," Renee said, gesturing to one of the many doors. "I have to go back and re-order Miss-In-Her-Own-World's wedding dress."
'WEDDING DRESS!" Raven screamed in her mind.
"Awlright, let's try this ONE MORE TIME!" Lenny shouted. "Terra, stop picking at the dress!"
Terra, who was dressed in the non-ivory colored wedding dress, was picking at the little pearls that were sewn into the skirt, frowned. "Jeez, I can never get a break, can I?"
"You've been on break for five hours," Gar said scornfully. "You're practically royalty if you get breaks like that here."
"Well, as long as you're my king -"
"Yeah, you wish."
"ACTION!"
The man who was playing the minister opened his script that was disguised as a bible and began to read his lines, and I haven't been to a wedding since I was five, so I have no idea how they work…the minister man said his lines, whatever.
"…and do you, Justin Harolet, take Julia Charmont to be your lawfully wedded wife?"
Gar gulped. Once again, his hearing had failed him, for Raven opened the door of the set just as he said 'I do.'
Raven's breath caught in her throat as she saw everyone sitting in the pews and she felt tears rush to her eyes. She also felt someone's hand on her shoulder and she turned to see Jimmy standing beside her.
"You may now kiss the bride," said the minister.
Raven almost fainted from shock as she watched Gar take Terra's face and place his lips forcefully upon hers.
"You're not supposed to chew her face off," whispered a chubby man in the front row. Gar blushed and pulled away, and then noticed Raven in the back.
"Raven! I didn't know you were here, I just -"
"No," Raven said sadly. "I guess you didn't."
The violet-haired girl bolted from the room, closely followed by Gar, and as Terra watched them leave, she smiled in a most Slade-ish way.
Cliffie, but there you have it! Hoped you liked it a little bit, and please, don't hurt me! There is still more Terra bashing! (huddles in corner)