Chapter 11: Ease Up on Starfire…when fighting
"What was that all about?" Red X whispered to Nightblade. They were back in their room, the one place they knew Slade didn't have cameras.
"What was what about?" she responded, "I am taking a shower, I feel…unclean." She walked into the bathroom.
"Okay."
Nightblade stripped of her clothes and walked into the shower. She turned on the water, turning it up to hot. In minutes, the bathroom was steaming. She quickly washed her hair and her body. After a quick wash, she slowly sat down on the hard floor, letting the hot water hit her body. She sat there for what seemed like minutes when she heard a knock.
"Nightblade?" she heard Red X.
"Yes?"
"Are you okay?"
"I am fine, why do you ask?"
"Because, you have been in there for a half hour." He walked inside, taking off his clothes. "Mind if I join you?" he pulled back the curtain to reveal a little girl sitting on the floor of the shower. He could tell she was crying.
"What's wrong?" he asked, stepping in and grabbing her wrists. He pulled her up, close to himself.
"I-I…I don't want to talk about it…"
"Come on, sweetie…what's wrong?" he turned the shower down so it wasn't coming down on them so hard.
"I don't want to talk about it." She said a little firmer this time.
"Nightblade…you can talk to me about anything. You know that." He said, pushing her gently against the wall, pressing his naked, wet body against hers.
She reached in, kissing him lightly on the lips. "Maybe later."
"No…Nightblade. Later, we will be in Slade's presence. We will be training. You have to tell me now. What happened between you and Robin back there? I am not stupid. You two went into a room that wasn't rigged with videos. Then, on top of that, your communication device with Slade broke! Don't tell me that was all Robin."
"He loves me…"
"What? How can he love you?" he sat down on the hard floor, pulling her down on top of him. She sat in his lap, head on his chest.
"He let me win every time because he didn't want Slade to beat me for failure. He took out the earpiece for be because he knows what it's like to have Slade in your ear."
"Then he kissed you, huh?"
"Yes…he did…"
"You love him, don't you?"
"I do…"
"Then leave, Nightblade, go, I want you to be happy."
"I can't. If I wanted to, I would've left a while ago. After the day Slade beat me."
"Why didn't you? I would've left too."
"You don't want to be with Slade either?"
"It was fun at first, but it is getting old. It is nice learning all this new stuff, the money is good, but if I wanted a lot of money, I would've stolen it without his help."
"Why did you stay?" Nightblade still stared at the ground, but her head rested on his chest, tears streaming down her face.
"You…I love you Nightblade, and if that means dealing with Slade, then I will put up with it."
"Really?"
"Yes."
"Why are we still here, Red X? I hate it here, just as much as you do."
"Why did you stay?"
"You…I can't leave you."
"But you would leave me for Robin…"
"Red X…I have something I must tell you…" she sighed.
"What?"
She gave him a smile. "X, you are going to be a father, and I a mother."
"No…"
"X?"
"No…"he stood up, picking her up with him. "I am going to be a father?"
"Yes…"
"I'm not ready for that."
"But you have to be."
"We are getting you an abortion."
"But…"
"abortion, I am going to tell Slade that we are going for a walk."
"We have training."
"You are pregnant! You can't fight while you have a baby inside you!"
"I don't want an abortion."
"I don't want a child!"
"But…"
"NO!" Red X stood up, stepping out of the shower, leaving the girl, crying.
"Adoption?"
"Abortion!" he walked out, putting on his clothes, "Get dressed."
"Can we not go now?"
"Why?"
"Because, I would prefer to go as Kori, not Nightblade, and you as Kevin, not Red X. May we get an appointment like normal people?"
"No, they will make us give names, give medical information we don't have as regular people. If we go now, we can get it over with and..."
"I won't have to fight as a pregnant girlfriend, without you worrying?" she finished.
"Get dressed."
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"She's a menace!" Cyborg said
"She tried to kill us!" Raven answered
"She didn't succeed…" Robin responded.
"We treat her like a villain…She left X to kill us!" Beastboy yelled.
"But we aren't dead…" Robin said.
"We should kill her!"
"NO!"
"What? Take her to prison?" BB asked.
"No…don't hit her hard…don't hurt her. And if any of you hits her stomach, I will kill you!" Robin said, walking to his room.
"What got into him?" Beastboy asked.
"He had a good talk with her. He'll tell us soon." Cyborg sighed.
"I'll go talk to him." Raven walked after him.
"Robin?" she knocked on his door. He never is in his room, but he was in there now.
"Go away!" Robin yelled from his bed where he sat with his head in his hands.
"No…I will not go away until you tell me what's up!" she walked inside.
"I promised I wouldn't tell."
"You talked to her, huh?"
"Yeah." Robin sighed, "She loves me."
"Why doesn't she come back."
"She can't…she has to stay with Red X." Robin stared at the floor.
Raven sat down next to him. "She…she…" he stuttered.
"She what? Why doesn't she leave them…if she loves you so much, why doesn't she leave him for you?"
"She can't."
"Slade stopping her?"
"No…something else…something she can't control. She hates being with Slade, she stays with Red X…she does what he says. She has to…she feels obligated to stay with her child's father." Robin sighed and Raven gasped.
"She's pregnant?" Robin nodded, "She's pregnant with his child and is still fighting!"
"She didn't tell them yet…I was the first to know." He lay back on his bed.
"I'm sorry, Robin." She sat there in silence for a long time…next to Robin.
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"I don't want to do this…please!" Nightblade pulled back on X's hand as he dragged her to the hospital.
"You can't fight with a child. You need an abortion."
"No…PLEASE! It is a child…my child."
"And my child too, don't forget that! We are only teenagers! We can't have a kid!"
"Put it up for adoption!"
"But you will still have to go for a year with a child in your stomach." He sighed, "I can't allow that…not to mention, Slade will NOT be happy."
"I know…" she stared at the ground.
"I'll be there for you, holding your hand the whole time." X smiled as they walked through the sliding doors. He walked right up to the front of the line, "She needs an abortion, where do we go?"
"Please, sir, wait in the line." The woman behind the desk said.
"Where do we go? She needs it now!"
"Sir…you don't have an appointment, we need you to sit down."
"NO! She needs it NOW!" he held up a knife. "Deal with it now!"
"Okay…yes sir…" she said and called onto the intercom, "Nurse to waiting room."
"Good…she needs an abortion now, and you better not hurt her."
"We take good care of our patients, sir, even if they are criminals." She took a look at the girl sitting in a chair, in the corner, tears streaming down her cheeks, "That your girlfriend?" the woman behind the counter asked.
"Yes! Now get her a room!" he said, holding the knife closer to the woman.
"Yes sir, a nurse is on her way." The woman knew this man…he was a hard fast criminal known throughout the whole city. This man was known as Red X and would stop at nothing to get his way…working for Slade and even trying to kill the Teen Titans. She had better just do what he says and get it over with. She knew that if this man got what he wanted, no one would get hurt.
Another woman walked inside, carrying a rolling bed. Red X picked up Nightblade, placing her on the rolling table and they walked out.
