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Rachel was back in the Tower. The lights were still off, but it was colder than it was before. Like last time, the entire was a mess. It was like someone had shot the place up and took a sledgehammer to the furniture. However, there was no one in sight.
"Hello?" She called out, even though she was terrified of what she would hear, and find.
"Rachel." The sound of Dick's choked up and broken voice led her into the living room. When she got there, she froze.
On the ground near the fireplace, laid Dick. He was practically drenched in blood. She gasped and moved forward to help him, but then Deathstroke appeared to stand by Dick's feet. Instinctively, she stopped, wondering what she should do. She knew the assassin had powers, but could she summon her own powers and take him down before he did something. Before she could decide, Deathstroke wordlessly pulled out a small handgun, pointed it at Dick's head and fired.
"NO!" Rachel screamed as she shot up in the bed in Donna's guest bedroom. Her skin was soaked with sweat, making her hair stick to her face and her pajama shirt cling to her body.
"Rachel!" Donna shouted as she ran into the room. Seeing that there was no danger like her instincts told her, she rushed to the bed and sat down beside the clearly freaked out teenager. Gently placing a hand on her shoulder, she asked, "Are you okay?"
"I was, I was at the Tower. And it was a wreck. And then, I heard Dick, call out to me. I went to the living room and he was on the ground, bleeding. He couldn't breathe. Then, Deathstroke was there, and he fired a gun. He shot Dick right in the head." Rachel explained through her pants as tears ran down her cheeks. Though she knew she was breathing, her lungs didn't seem to realize that.
"It was just a nightmare Rach. Everyone's fine." Donna comforted, moving her hand to brush her dark, bluish hair away from the girl's face. A tiny bit of anger flared up at the mention of Dick, but it quickly disappeared when Rachel told her the details of the dream. As upset as she was, she didn't want one of her best friends dead, especially like that. That nightmare sounded horrific.
"How do you know? How do you know that Dick's okay?" Rachel wondered, sounding completely desperate for any kind of assurance she could get.
"Well," Donna paused, realizing that since she hadn't been in contact with Dick since they left, she couldn't say that unless she wanted to lie. Not wanting to lie but wanting to keep the girl in her care calm, she said, "I'm sure everything's okay."
"But Slade's still out there." Rachel reminded her. When Donna stayed silent, not having really thought about that, Rachel grabbed her phone and looked for Gar's contact info.
"What are you doing?" Donna asked, a little confused at the sudden act.
Clicking on Gar's name and holding the phone up to her ear, she said, "I'm calling Gar."
Donna waited quietly as Rachel waited for the shapeshifter to answer. As much as she didn't want anything to do with Dick right now, she would like to know for sure that everything was okay. She didn't know much about Rachel's powers, but she knew many heroes who seemed to be able to predict terrible things happening and learned to listen when they spoke of it.
When about a minute passed, Rachel paled and revealed, "There's no answer."
"Maybe he's busy." Donna suggested, but Rachel was already dialing another number.
"Dick's not answering either." Rachel told her when she heard the beginning of Dick's answering machine, hanging up the phone.
"Maybe he's busy too. With Gar." Donna responded, frustration bleeding into her voice to hide the tiny bit of worry that was starting to grow in her stomach.
"He would've answered." Rachel replied, gripping her phone tightly in her hand.
"Rachel, maybe he just doesn't want to talk to you." Donna said. Seeing the sudden hurt expression on her face, the photographer quickly clarified, "To us."
"Dick's not like that. Even if he's mad or upset, he'd still answer in case something happened." Rachel protested. Donna didn't have an argument for that. She knew that no matter how badly they fought, how badly they hurt each other, if you called Dick, he'd still answer and come to help. That's just how he is.
"I'll try him." Donna finally said, then stood up and went back to her own room to get her phone.
Quickly dialing his number, Donna walked back over to Rachel so she could tell her whether or not Dick answered. Even as she did it, she wondered what the odds were that Dick would pick up the phone for her and not Rachel. That didn't seem likely. As Dick's answering machine kicked in, Donna said to the young girl, "No answer."
"Donna, something's wrong." Rachel insisted with a pleading tone, letting the Wonder Girl know exactly what she wanted.
"Guess it's a good thing we didn't unpack our bags." Donna responded, somewhat annoyed with the situation. They had only been home for about six to eight hours and she was still exhausted and not in the mood to hop in a plane based on a nightmare, but the fact that Dick didn't answer worried her.
"Thank you." Rachel whispered, relief clear in her voice. Donna simply nodded and went back to her room to change.
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Like the flight to Chicago, the flight to San Francisco was pretty much silent. Donna hardly said a single word and Rachel couldn't tell if it was because she was too worried about Dick and Gar like she was, or if she was mad that Rachel was making her come back to the Tower when she was still furious and upset with Dick. Not wanting to start a fight, Rachel didn't bring it up. Besides, not only did Donna not have to come with her, the teenager could've traveled by herself, Rachel was too wound up with worry about what they were going to find.
Though she had been awake now for hours, every single time she closed her eyes, even just to blink, she saw Dick lying on the floor, covered in blood. She still didn't know how her powers worked and struggled to control them, but she knew the importance of her dreams. It was her dreams that led her to Dick in the first place. These nightmares had to be telling her something. Warning her about something terrible happening to Dick. She wasn't just going to ignore it.
"For the record, I still think you're freaking out over nothing." Donna informed her as they got out of the taxi when it reached their destination. As the yellow car drove away, Rachel stared at the building where the Titans' apartment was and mumbled, "That doesn't look like nothing."
Donna looked up and felt the blood rush from her face. At the top of the building, was a noticeable hole in the windows. Where they lived as the Titans. Suddenly, Rachel darted across the street, not caring at all about the traffic.
"Rachel!" Donna yelled as she followed after her. By the time she caught up to her, she was already standing in the elevator. With the two of them filled with worry, they didn't say anything the ride up. When the doors opened, they immediately saw the furniture was wrecked, pictures were on the floor and glass around the broken window.
"Oh my G*d." The words were out of Rachel's mouth before she even realized it.
"Dick! Gar!" Donna shouted as she ran out of the elevator and started searching the place. Rachel slowly followed, terrified that she would find Dick's dead body near the fireplace, just like in her dream.
Thankfully, there was no dead body, but from what she could hear, there wasn't anyone else in the apartment. Donna was still calling out for their friends and there was no answer. It was then that Rachel noticed the bullet holes in the walls. In a scared daze, Rachel walked through the place until she got to the living room. There, she saw blood splatted on the wall near a bullet hole, as though someone had been shot.
"There's no one here." Donna said, coming back into the room, now appearing extremely worried though Rachel didn't notice. Her focus was on the bloodied wall.
"Whose blood is that?" Rachel asked, pointing at the wall. Donna, only now noticing it, paled even more than she already was.
"I don't know." Donna answered.
"What do we do?" Rachel questioned. It as clear that there was no one in the apartment, but neither of them knew what happened or where their friends now were or how badly they were injured.
"I'm calling Hank and Dawn. We need to find out what happened." Donna decided, pulling her phone out and dialing Dawn's number. The former ballerina was far more calm and level-headed than her boyfriend, who was more likely to start yelling or hang up at the mention of Dick before she was able to explain everything.
"I'm going to call Jason, and Kory. Maybe they can help." Rachel said, taking her own phone out as well. As she did that, she walked away so that they wouldn't interrupt each other's conversations.
"Dawn? I'm back at the Tower with Rachel. It's a long story, but it's been attacked. The place is a mess, and there's no sign of Dick or Gar, or that other kid." Donna immediately said as soon as she heard Dawn answer.
"What?" Dawn exclaimed, struggling to process everything that she had just been told.
"Dawn, there's blood, and a bullet hole." Donna then added. She wasn't sure if she had been able to hide just how freaked out and terrified she was from Rachel, but she didn't bother trying to hide it from Dawn.
"We'll be right there." Dawn told her.
"Okay, see you soon." Donna said, then hung up the phone. Needing to do something, and desperate to know what had occurred in the hours they were gone, she decided to head to the computer room. With any luck, the security cameras had caught everything.
Walking past Rachel, the brunette said, "Hank and Dawn are coming."
"Good. Jason's coming too. And I'm going to call Kory." Rachel updated her as she dialed the redheaded alien's number.
"What about Rose?" Donna questioned, remembering that Rose had left with Jason.
"I don't know." The young girl said, putting her cell phone back against her ear.
"Okay. I'm going to take a look at the cameras. Hopefully they caught something." Donna informed her. Rachel gave her a nod of acknowledgement, then turned her attention back to her task when she heard Kory's voice say, "Hello?"
"Hey Kory. Something bad happened and I need you to come back to the Tower."
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Rose wandered around the house aimlessly, not really paying any attention to anything. After she and Jason left the Tower, they took a taxi to a bus station. Rose wasn't sure where they ended up. She was too lost in her thoughts to notice or care. Apparently sensing that, Jason didn't say anything to her. He just led her to the bus, and when it stopped, he led her off and to another taxi which took them to this house.
She didn't know who the house belonged to. Since Jason knew the security code, she assumed that it was one of Batman's houses or something. He did have to pick the lock though so she wasn't sure. But again, she didn't care. The only thing she really wanted was some peace and quiet to think. To start out all the rambling thoughts in her head. To make sense of what Dick told her, told them, and what her Dad had. Despite the hours that had passed, it was still all so confusing.
Walking into the living room which was right by the front door, she saw Jason packing up one of his bags even though they had arrived just yesterday. Taking a few steps towards him, she asked, "What's going on?"
"Rachel called. Someone attacked the Tower. Dick, Gar and Conner are gone. I'm going to go and see if I can help." Jason answered. He wondered if he should ask if she wanted to come with him, but considering that she had just learned how her brother died and the part Dick and the others played in it, he couldn't really see her wanting to help. Turning to look at her though, he saw that she seemed scared or something.
"Rose?"
Taking a deep breath, Rose said, "I need to tell you something."
Jason had no idea what was going on, but he had a strong feeling that whatever it was, it wasn't good. Still, he waited patiently for Rose to continue, which she soon did.
AN – Like in my other AU's, Kory's storyline with Faddei stays the same. Hope you all liked this chapter! See you all next time!
