Kori woke up to meet the beaming sun; its rays blinding her as she groggily opened her eyes. She nuzzled against something soft and warm, and her eyes widened as she found out that it was Nightwing. But despite her surprise, she continued to breath in the open air as his chest would rise and fall continuously. Oh, how she loved this so much.
They were still outside from the previous escapade last night out in the rain, with her head still resting on his steel-toned chest. She had waited for that moment for so long, and yet she denied her love for him whenever it was the obvious thing in the world to her friends. But did he love her just as much as she loved him?
She wanted to think so, but all the evidence of his heart belonging to Supergirl was so clear. Whenever she watched him and her snuggle against each other pangs of jealousy always accompanied the watchful eyes she would keep on them. She knew it was wrong and disgusting to watch another couple make out in front of you, but she couldn't help but notice that whenever Richard kissed Supergirl, it was almost like they were both in their own world. That was the way she had felt last night while they were both backed into that tiny corner getting soaked in the rain. But their little make out session only seemed to complicate things even more. He had Supergirl, she had Roy, and it was both a-
'Oh my God…Roy. How am I going to explain this to him when he wakes up?'
"Or if he wakes up," she whispered to herself. She sighed. Maybe she and Richard really weren't meant to be together if things kept getting in the way-
"Roy WILL wake up, Kori. Some day he will."
She jumped at the sound of Richard's voice. "O-oh, I…didn't realize you were awake."
An awkward silence was forced between them, and it lasted like that for a few more minutes until Kori broke the silence.
"What am I supposed to tell him?" she whispered worriedly as she pried herself from Richard's grasp. "I mean, this whole thing that's been going on between us, his accident…" She paused for a minute as she stood up brushing her dirty coat and then added softly, "and last night…"
"We'll visit him today, okay?" She gazed at him as he said that and thought she saw a spark of sadness run through his eyes for a split second.
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Richard on the other hand, had his attire consist of dark-stained jean slacks and a loose navy blue polo. Though his outfit was not as dressy like Kori's, it attracted the many eyes of passing females, who received a death glare from a certain redhead in return.
They chased each other playfully as they played Tag along the bustling streets, running down the road whenever there was a red light or racing each other towards the direction of the hospital.
A numerous swarm of people were crowded in front of the New York Hospital. Normally things weren't this mind-boggling, but to Kori and even Richard, who hadn't been to New York in a long time, both knew that whatever the incident was wasn't a small matter.
"Err…Kori? Are hospitals always this crowded?"
"Not really. I wonder what's going on- OW!" She hopped on one foot as she clutched the other stepped on one in her hands and tried to massage it as gently as she could.
"What the hell is going on here?"
Richard took her hand in his and pulled through the mounds of people, pushing his way to the front of the hospital. He walked up cautiously to a bustling reporter who was talking dramatically with a stern voice, not realizing that she was being filmed on live coverage.
"Um, Miss? I was just wondering-"
"You're Kori Anders, yes?" she interrupted rudely as she both she and the cameraman focused their attention on her.
The poor bewildered young woman meekly nodded her head in agreement, but then after a minute of observing the brunette, she didn't feel so timid after all.
The reporter had gone too far over the fashion line and went into the fashion "don't" area when she had tied her hair up high in a sideways ponytail and a hot pink sash around it, with a brightly striped pinstripe suit and some very, very, VERY colorful jewelry. Kori and Richard had to squint their eyes just to get a glimpse of her rainbow colored heels.
"Well, here I am standing with Kori Anders, girlfriend of Roy Harper. So tell me," the fame obsessed reporter said, smiling with her gap-toothed grin, "why aren't you reacting with sorrow and grief?"
Kori's brows furrowed together as she turned to Richard and tilted her head slightly, who in turn just shrugged. "Um," she replied with a nervous laugh. "Is there some sort of reason I should be?"
As obnoxiously as she could, the reporter simply raised her eyes and stared at Kori as though she was retarded.
Just as Kori started to back away from the camera from intimidation, Richard gently pushed her forward and whispered in her ear. "It's okay, I'm right beside you." Chills went down her spine as she shuddered at how his breath tickled her ear.
"Well, aren't you going to tell me? I mean, I kind of wanna know NOW instead of-"
"Roy's life support was unplugged last night. Your boyfriend, I'm afraid, is dead."
Horror struck Kori's face as Richard glared at the reporter disgustedly. That stupid reporter didn't even sound the least bit sorry as she bluntly let it all out, and a hush fell over the huge crowd as they all waited for Kori's response.
"I-I…"
She ran into the hospital as fast as he long slender legs could carry her, and as she stumbled up the flight of steps as she pushed through door to door, each one leading to a different staircase, she tried to convince herself that the bitch was lying. As she progressed to Roy's floor, she thought to herself. He wasn't dead, no he couldn't be! She couldn't even handle seeing him hooked up to all the machines that filled his stuffy room.
But when she reached his room, the tears she had been holding in flowed down her cheeks. Because there was nothing there. The bed was empty, the floor was cleaned, and none of the flowers and presents she and the Titans had left for him were there anymore.
"What?"
She turned swiftly towards the nurse with a teary glare in her eyes.
"Where is he?" she asked in a hurt and pained voice as she tried to hold her anger inside her already fragile heart.
The plump, teary-eyed nurse tried to look her in the eye, but her will to refuse to look at the desperate young woman in front of her was stronger and overpowered her conscience.
Kori plopped to the ground in tears. "He's…gone, isn't he?"
"Y-yes, miss. And I'm d-dearly sorry-"
"You're lying!" she shrieked, clenching her fists and pounding on the floor as hard as she could, shaking half of the building. "Liar!"
The frightened nurse wanted so bad to calm the poor girl down. But as she inched closer and closer to her, Kori only shook her head and soon a small puddle of tears was formed around her as she continued to weep.
Suddenly, a panting Richard came into view as he stopped in the doorway, and once he caught sight of Kori's pain stricken face, he neared toward her cautiously. He tried to calm her down by putting his arm on her shoulder comfortingly, but as soon as he was just an inch away from her she flung herself towards his chest and clung on to him for dear life.
"Kori, I-"
She touched a finger to his mouth to silence him, and with such a simple motion overpowering him even the nurse on the side was amazed at how she could subdue the young man so easily.
"Please…" Her voice trailed off as she dug her head back into the crook of his neck. "I don't want to talk…"
Rubbing her back soothingly he asked, "What can I do then?"
"Just…stay here with me…and please…please don't leave."
And he didn't.
"Okay…close your eyes…"
Cyborg squinted his eyes shut until they began to ache furiously. "Man, are you sure this is gonna bring Terra back? I mean, you haven't even told us HOW you're gonna get her back to life."
Raven closed her eyes deeply and clenched her fists, pulling over her hood as she did so to hide the second pair of eyes that just mysteriously appeared on her face. "You never even told me we were GOING to Terra back," she said glaring as Jealousy played wildly inside her mind, making her eyes VERY close to pooping from boiling point and causing Beastboy to chuckle nervously.
"Yo, BB! Can we please open our eyes now? Where's the freakin surprise cure or whatever?" Bumblebee asked impatiently. "I'm gonna open my eyes, even if that means I'm gonna ruin your stupid surprise for all I care! One…two…"
Beastboy waved his hands wildly. "Okay! Now…OPEN!"
But the sight the three Titans saw was nothing even close to amusing. All they saw was a familiar rosy-cheeked lady of whom they recognized by the name of-
"Mother May-eye? This," Bumblebee said as she shook her head in disbelief, "Is-"
"Your surprise cure?" Raven interrupted in her monotone voice as Cyborg burst out into laughter in the background.
Beastboy's face instantly lit up, as he assumed that Raven understood his whole point of busting a chubby-waisted grandma with a bad hair day hidden under her huge hat.
"Well, yeah! I mean, she could bake pies, and-"
"How is pie going to help you BRING TERRA BACK?" Raven roared furiously as five light bulbs shattered into pieces of glass.
Why was she so mad? This meant that Terra had no plans of barging into her love life! She should have been happy for herself…but in truth…all she wanted was for Beastboy to be happy.
Meanwhile as she deep in her thoughts, the rest of the titans stood bewildered as Beastboy stood back up from his crouched down position.
Finally, Raven came back to her senses and looked at the Titans with a confessional expression.
"I-I…"
Bumblebee walked up to the white-cloaked girl and hugged her sympathetically. "It's okay," she whispered as they both pulled away from each other. "I'm here for you."
She smiled gratefully and Bumblebee stepped back beside Cyborg as a tear ran down Raven's cheek.
Should she say it? Say to Beastboy that all this time, she could have brought Terra's body and soul back to life within the second she became a rock-like statue? He would hate her so much; it interfered with the promise each of them made when they had shared their first kiss, their first date, and their first night together. She sighed and tried to let out all the weight she carried on her shoulders; it felt more like it was the world she was carrying. He would hate her more if she didn't tell him, and more or less, she would hate herself.
"I…I know how to bring Terra back."
A month had passed since Roy's death. News and captions of him and Kori still lingered and found its way on the news and newspapers.
Things had been awkward between Kori and Richard as well. The whole month they spent their time sneaking looks at one another, trying to decipher what mood each one was in. Kori's eyes couldn't help but roam freely for a split second on his well-toned abs, and Richard would end up slapping himself mentally more than he wanted to to punish himself for letting his eyes linger on the tiny shorts Kori would wear to sleep.
Things were not even CLOSE to getting back to normal.
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"So tell me again, WHY couldn't we just stay here the since the time we arrived in New York instead of that crunched up hotel?" Richard asked as he dropped his bags in the amazingly huge penthouse. Not like he wasn't used to these things already though.
He heard her respond with her childish laughter filled the air as she said, " This was the apartment Roy and I lived in…well, used to, I guess." As she said that last line she lowered her eyes to the ground and soon they began to well up with tears again.
Richard walked towards her. "Roy- he's-…" he started, but he stopped himself short. He didn't know what he could say to her that was comforting about her boyfriend's death.
"…I know, he's in a better place now," Kori said repulsively, anger now firing up inside her system. She was so sick of everyone telling her that!
"Do you know how many people have told me that? Raven must have called me at LEAST a hundred times just to tell me that he's happier now, that he's in a better world up there. I want everyone to JUST SHUTUP! They know nothing about my life! I've lost everything I've ever wanted! And I-"
"Kori, would you just quit with all your drama? Stop yelling and give someone else a freakin chance to talk for once! God, Kori! You're-"
But he soon cut himself short when she flung herself onto his chest, sobbing softly as she trembled in a whimpering motion.
"It's just the thought of him being gone that bugs me," she wept quietly, "And even though he was never there for me and always on those stupid business trips…I-I-"
Richard rubbed her back intimately with sympathy but couldn't help but feel envious of Roy. He instantly scolded himself for getting jealous over a dead guy and continued to swell with rage as he thought of Kori and Roy…in the same bed…doing-
"Richard? Are you okay? You seem…angry…"
He looked down at the sniffling girl and wiped a tear off her face with his thumb lightly. Kori looked at him. And they just stared at each other; it was all so mesmerizing…
Kori broke their spellbinding gaze and looked away, and while she stole a glance toward Richard, she couldn't help but notice disappointment begin to cloud suddenly in his eyes.
"You must think I stupid acting this way," she said as she sat on the large bed, lowering her eyes in shame. "Not to mention desperate…" she muttered to herself.
Richard looked at her absurdly. "What? What do you mean by that?"
"Well, sometimes…I mean, this has never happened around Roy or any of the other guys I dated," she said as she smirked fondly at Richard, noticing how his jaw hardened. "I just…never know what to say around you…"
Richard felt his heart leap. The night before they learned of Speedy's death was something they had agreed to forget about. He had tried to forget, he really had. But somehow he couldn't. He gazed at her beautiful face, her eyes twinkling nervously as they waited for something other than rejection. And it was only then when he noticed how fast his heart was beating.
He tucked a curtain of her hair gently behind her ear and stared into her emerald orbs.
"Sometimes you don't need to say anything…"
She leaned in closer to him as he brushed his lips gently against hers. Richard sighed a hot breath onto Kori's lips and she moaned softly in delight as he teased every single bit of her mouth. Kori moved so that she was seated on the king-sized bed and Richard took it as his cue to position himself on top of her. She ran her fingers through his thick, disheveled hair pulling it away from his face so that she could kiss him more easily.
He began to pull her shirt above her head as they continued to kiss each other even more passionate than the last time they had kissed on the roof….
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A/N: So? How was it? I tried to make Kori seem devastated about Roy's death, since portraying her as a selfish girlfriend in love with her dead boyfriend's best friend was NOT the best thing to do for this story and her image, and many of you agreed with that when you reviewed.
Well, if you got confused about Speedy/Roy's death, he died because his life support was unplugged by a mysterious but surprisingly recognizable criminal/thief. I'm sorry for my lack of detail in this area of the story; I'm not very experienced about all this medical stuff.
Please review! If there are some of you that feel annoyed whenever an author writes this at the end or beginning of a chapter, then please understand that the only reason we insist on you doing this for us is for us to know that you're reading our stories, and extra critique plus your thoughts about the story helps the author much more than you know. I'm seriously not going to lie when I say that some authors take their review issues a little too far. But nevertheless, please review!
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Another thing, lemon or nolemon in the next chapter? I won't write the next chapter until I get enough people telling me what they want!
Another thing, lemon or no lemon in the next chapter? I won't write the next chapter until I get enough people telling me what they want!