I'm updating ! I know it's been a while, and I enjoy this story, but I was getting more reviews for my other story, so I'd figured I'd humor them :). This is dedicated to Jess, because without her, where would I be? Not writing this chapter.
Gar opened his eyes slowly, the only light coming from the bright white lights, with the three foot long cylinder like bulbs. He just sat there, staring at the dirty concrete ceiling. His mind kept running over the night before, seeing her face. He meant what he said, she really was beautiful.
"Gar, you need to stop." He whispered to himself, sitting up and swinging his legs over the side of the cot. He leaned forward, putting his elbows on his knees and shifting his weight to his elbows.
His mind kept thinking back to his old girlfriend, Terra. He thought that he loved her. She cheated on him with some guy named Slade Wilson. Turned out he got arrested for Domestic Violence, First Degree Murder, and numerous other charges four days after Terra left him. She had come crawling back, a week after he was taken into custody, begging for him to take her back. It turned out Rich was with him, and well, Terra would be feeling those bruises for a while. She was found dead a week after that. Rich said that she had a price on her head, most likely from being so close to Slade, and that she would've most likely testified against him. He said that Kori heard about one of the cheaper organizations taking the job.
He missed her. He wouldn't wish death upon anybody, but at the same time there was a satisfying feeling in the back of his mind. He stood up and walked a circle around the cold, cracked, dirty concrete floor. He was surprised at the feelings he had towards Raven. He liked her more than Terra already, and it was like, thirteen hours since he met her. He either didn't like Terra much at all, or he was head over heels for Raven. he had a feeling it was a mixture of the two. Also, the dream he had last night didn't help things any. It was pretty weird, it had to do with him not being green, and going to school, but anyway, it ended with her giving him a kiss on the cheek, and then kissing some other guy on the lips. It made him realize, he really liked her. With the feeling he had, even in his dream, when she kissed him on the cheek in his mind, and then the jealousy when she kissed somebody else. He chuckled, and morphed into a mouse, scurrying through the bars. He was going to do a little exploring, and hopefully, find Raven.
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Raven sat in her office chair, next to Trigon's desk. There was a man in the middle of the room, with a sack over his head, two guards holding his arms. Apparently, he had tried to hold out on Trigon on some stolen goods. Trigon was still trying to figure out what to do with him.
'I really need to come up with a legal system. That way, I don't have to spend time issuing punishments to people.' Trigon thought, mentally chuckling. He swiveled his chair to face his daughter.
"Daughter, you will be taking over the business soon, you issue his punishment." Trigon spoke firmly. Raven nodded, still staring at the man. After two excruciating minutes of staring at the man, with her father staring holes into the side of her head, and the guards staring at her, waiting for an answer, she spoke up.
"Break his fingers and let him go." Raven spoke sternly. She inwardly winced as the man shouted, "No please, I was just trying to provide for my wife and kids!"
"I like your choice, daughter, you will be an excellent successor." Trigon said, swiveling his chair back to facing forward.
"It is time to feed the prisoner." Trigon spoke out of nowhere. One of his goons nodded, and began to walk towards the door.
"Wait" Raven spoke out. The guard stopped and turned around looking at her, as Trigon did the same thing, looking at her with a slightly angered expression, and a raised eyebrow.
"I uhh... I got some interesting information out of him last time. Let me take it to him." Raven said, standing up. Trigon nodded and motioned for the guard to get the door for her. He did as he was told and Raven walked out the double large metal doors. Raven took a left out of the doors, heading towards the cafeteria. Trigon had a lot of goons, and they needed to eat. Thus, they were given free meals of sandwiches and water. It wasn't exactly a gourmet feast, but it was enough for the mindless fools.
She reached the cafeteria, after about two minutes of walking. She looked at the various people waiting in line, and walked in between them, grabbing a tray, ham and cheese sandwich, and a cup of water, she turned around, heading back the way she came. She passed the large double doors, and took a left, heading towards his cell.
Raven had been thinking about his offer. If she accepted, she'd have to go with a complete stranger, put her trust in him that he wasn't some murderer or rapist, and if he couldn't protect her, which she doubted he could, she'd probably get the sense knocked into her by Trigon. He was handsome, despite being green, and the way his one tooth hung out of his mouth was pretty cute. What?... she may have been cold hearted, and closed off, but she was human, and noticed the opposite sex.
The real reason she had offered to bring him his food, was because she wanted to talk to him more. She wasn't going to go off with him if she didn't get to know him better.
Raven turned the corner, tray still in hand. She walked down the slim twenty foot hallway, ending in his cell. Raven looked around... HE WASN'T THERE! Gar said he was going to wait for her. She took in a quick breath, dropping the tray and spilling water all over the floor, along with his sandwich. She could feel tears burning at the back of her eyes, trying to come out. She closed her eyes and blinked them back. Was she crazy? She hand known him for like fourteen hours, and she was next to tears that he left without her. If only he wouldn't have left! She would've gone with him, and everything would've been ok. She let one tear fall down her cheek, and turned around, ready to spring back to her room. Instead, she found herself running straight into something soft and warm. Whatever it was, she knocked it down with her.
She opened her eyes, after closing them when she was falling. She was aware that she was on top of something warm, and it was breathing, and it had a heartbeat. If it was one of those stupid smelly idiots, she was going to murder him. She looked down to see a green face, and emerald eyes, staring straight into hers. It was Gar! He didn't leave!
"Hey Rae, why're you crying?" Gar asked, sincerely. He sat up, pulling her up with him. She let a few more tears fall on his should before realizing how big of an idiot he was. She was crying over nothing!
"Why you little idiot. I thought you left! Don't scare me like that." Raven practically yelled, leaning back from his half hug.
Gar smiled, his fang protruding from his mouth. "Why Rae, I didn't know you cared. Plus, I was only gone for eleven minutes." Gar said, looking at his watch. Raven stood up, kicking him in his calf and shin area. He responded by rolling around on the ground and muttering, "Ow ow ow" over and over again.
"Shut up. And my name is Ra-ven. Two syllables. You're going to have to learn it if I'm going to be staying with you for a while." Raven said, starting out angrily and finishing with a small smile. He immediately stopped rolling around on the ground and jumped into the air, punching it as he jumped and giving a small laugh of glee.
"Woohoo Raven, I'm glad you made your decision quickly!" Gar said excitedly. "Ok now, we're going to be getting out of here in two days. I've got nothing here to get, but you have to start packing, and pack light. I've got plenty of money to buy you new stuff. Only take any sentimental stuff." Gar explained. Raven nodded.
"So, where were you anyway?" Raven asked, sitting down against the wall, away from the spilled tray. He walked over and sat down next to her.
"Well, I was exploring a little, and primarily looking for you." Gar replied, his smile still on his face. Raven's faced turned a light scarlet as he said that.
"So, because I'm not going to run off with a complete stranger, tell me about... well... you." Raven said, feeling a little weird about asking somebody to tell her about themselves.
"Ok, well, I'm a 'professional' magician. I perform at Jump City Theatre, mostly. I'm single, I don't have any living relatives I'll tell you why I'm green in a few minutes. My best friend is Richard Grayson, he's arguably Jump's best hit man. I'm twenty-four years old. My favorite color is green. I could probably be described as 'The Class Clown', I suppose. And finally, I'm a vegetarian." Gar said. Raven took everything in, nodding slowly.
"So... why are you green?" She asked, raising an eyebrow. He let out a sigh, before he began speaking.
"I was born in Africa, in the middle of the wilderness. My dad was a zoologist, and my mom was a geneticist. They were researching the local wildlife; looking for certain DNA strands to make an advanced genetic replacement device, to give people animal traits while they are still alive, rather than in the womb of a mother. If it worked it would have allowed people to regrow limbs, there wouldn't be anymore disease!
When I was three years old, I was playing outside of our mud hut that we lived in, in the local village. My mom and dad were studying some more DNA strands, on the equipment that was hooked up to a generator on the back of our pickup truck. I was pretty comfortable with the local wildlife, haven spent all my life interacting with it. I remember, I played with a pair of lion cubs once, tackling each other and seeing who could stay on top of one another.
Anyway, a green monkey came up to me, being unusually brave, out of the brush, studying me. Me, being the curious three year old I was, reached out to touch it. It pulled back from my touch, like I had hurt it, and bit me before running off into the brush once again. I started to cry, and my parents immediately rushed over to me, just in time to see the green monkey run off.
It turned out that the green monkey had a rare disease called Sakutia. It was fatal to humans, but animals were recorded to have survived. I started to feel the side effects of the disease. I was extremely nauseous, my immune system was practically non existent, and my skin, hair, and eyes started to turn green."
"So that's how your skin turned green?" Raven asked.
"Yes, but you shouldn't interrupt somebody when they're on a roll." Gar said, smirking again.
"As I was saying, my hair, skin, and eyes, started to turn green. My parents didn't want me to die, so they made a last effort to keep me from death. They built the machine that they had been working on, hastily. They didn't know what would cure me, so they dumped every DNA strand they had into the machine, which in turn, was injected into me. I survived, but there were side effects.
Four years later my mom and one of the local village women were talking, and doing laundry in a watering hole. I was playing beside them, in the water. All of the sudden, a snake slithered up to us. It was a black mamba. Did you know one injection of black mamba venom can take down an elephant, or one hundred humans?
Anyway, the black mamba was going to attack. I had a natural reaction, and I turned into a mongoose and ate the snake. The new genes and strands of DNA my parents had placed into me made my genetic code unstable, and I could switch different strands into their respective place in my genetic makeup. I could morph into animals, basically."
"Excuse me?" Raven asked, raising an eyebrow, hardly believing the crap he was telling her. Garfield sighed, and suddenly morphed into a green mouse. Raven's eyes widened as she gasped.
"Yeah, I know, I'm a freak." Gar said, after morphing back.
"No you're not, you're just different." Raven said, calmly, focusing on the wall as if she wasn't talking about Gar at all, before looking back at him, and giving him a ghost of a smile.
"Thanks" Gar said, smiling widely.
"So..." Gar muttered, trying to strike up a different topic.
Hope you guys liked it. Sorry this took so long to get to you guys. And now off to start my 'Falling For You' chapter!