Date: 9/11/06
AN: I'm going to start giving author notes at the ends of my stories. This is going to be one of the rare beginning ANs. Also I'm going to give the date I wrote the chapter you are reading. When I come in on a story that has a lot of chapters in it, I tend to want to know how often the author updates. I'm thinking that this will help. I also might go back and change the Chapters to have names besides Chapter 1, Chapter 2, ect. The current genre is general because I don't know how to label it. I will give Action/Adventure, a tad Romance, some Mystery, and so on. My story doesn't have one genre. When I get farther in that might change to though. If you did not notice I changed my summary.
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It was dark in Jump City now. Kerri was in Terra's old room sleeping, as far as the other Titans knew. The group was sitting at the table in the living room, trying to figure out what to do with her. So far, she had been their for two days since her first arrival.
"How munch longer is she staying?" Raven asked, "I thought that this was temporary..."
"What do you expect me to do? Walk in there and kick her out?" Beast Boy asked. He and Raven weren't on good terms for the past few days. Raven didn't enjoy Kerri company at all so far and as for Beast Boy, it was much different.
"We aren't going to kick her out, Beast Boy. But, are you sure she hasn't mentioned anything about leaving?" Cyborg asked.
"No." Beast Boy replied. There was a silence.. Beast Boy spoke up again, "Guys, I think Kerri would be a good addition to the team." The team stayed silent, exchanging glances. Robin finally decided to speak up since most of the eyes were on him now.
"Beast Boy, we don't even know what she's capable of." He mentioned. Beast Boy was about to argue when he was interrupted.
"That's not even the start of it." Raven mentioned, "There is one thing that bothers me about Kerri. She's too much like Terra for me to handle."
"So they have a few similarities. That doesn't mean-" Beast Boy Started to argue.
"She not only enjoys your jokes, but enjoys Starfire's cooking. Terra is the only person I met who could stand even one of them." Raven interrupted. Beast Boy tried to speak up but Raven started again, "All of Terra's likes and dislikes equal up with what I know of Kerri. Her personality seems to be too familiar as well. You told us that Kerri felt as if the room she's staying in was made especially for her. Well, it wasn't. It was made for Terra, who turned on us. I can not except this as a coincidence. I cannot trust someone that seems to be exactly the same as a girl that betrayed us." Raven had stayed calm saying all this, but she did sound a tad bit tense.
"Kerri isn't Terra though. She's Kerri. I realize that they are similar, but that doesn't mean that the results will be similar too. If you just gave her a chance, maybe you would understand better." Beast Boy said, finally having a chance to say something. The other three had stayed silent while these two argued. They didn't really want to interrupt them seeing how both reacted to the other.
"I gave Terra a chance and then it was too late." Raven said still trying to stay calm. The sound of the door opening broke the silence that followed Raven's comment. In the doorway stood Kerri.
"Kerri, hi! I thought you were-" Starfire started, but didn't finish.
"I was just leaving." Kerri replied softly. Before any of the Titans could stop her she was soon running down the hall.
"Something tells me she's been listening the entire time." Cyborg broke the third silence that accompanied the group that night. Beast Boy shot Raven a look as he started to chase her.
"Kerri wait!"
Starfire looked at Raven, "Why do you say such things about our new friend while she is just outside the door." She was quite mad.
"If I had known I wouldn't have-" Raven tried to respond.
"Well she was there, and you have what you wanted. She's gone." Cyborg replied. He had enjoyed her company almost as much as Beast Boy. She played some video games with them and she was good. He enjoyed the new challenge. Raven felt the feeling of guilt starting to consume any dislike she had for Kerri before.
"We should give her at least one chance and then we'll decide if she joins the team." Robin suggested. Everyone agreed.
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Beast Boy was at the entrance to Teen Tower trying figure out where Kerri had gone. He was there for quite a while since she ran off. He finally decided to go back up and give Raven a piece of his mind, that is, if he could. He started to turn around when he saw Kerri behind him.
"I thought you were... gone." He replied.
"I had to get my stuff." She answered gesturing to the small pack hanging over her shoulder.
"You don't have to go. She didn't mean any of that stuff. Anyways, if she did, that was only one persons opinion." He smiled hoping she would change her mind.
"No, I'm sure all of you are starting to get tired of me by now." She walk through the exit when Beast Boy but his hand on her shoulder.
"I'm not. In fact, I want you to stay."
"No. It would be better if I just get lost now." She continued walking off.
"You don't know that." Robin's voice showed up. Kerri turned around again to see the other four titans were behind Beast Boy now.
"Look. I'm sorry for what I said. I didn't mean to imply that you were unwanted. In fact all of us would be happy if you stayed." Raven said feeling a bit uncomfortable. Beast Boy smiled. Kerri looked at the moon realizing it was late. She looked at the titans.
"I guess I could stay for one more night." She told them, with a hit of a smile.
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Kerri silently closed the door to Terra's room. The time was 4:30 AM. She made her way slowly and silently down the hall. She didn't want a whole party sending her off, or persuading her to stay longer. She made it to the front door when she heard Robin's voice.
"Not planning on saying 'bye' to anyone?" He asked. Kerri turned around to see the Boy Wonder was right behind her, "Listen. I know this may sound a bit crazy to you, but when you said you'd stay for one more night, I think the others expected you to stay for breakfast too." He joked. Kerri smiled.
"How did you know?" She asked.
"I just had a hunch." He smiled. Kerri looked at the door and then at Robin.
"I suppose you aren't planning on just letting me leave are you?" She said hoping for the words "go ahead" but knowing they wouldn't come. He shook his head "no."
"Starfire wanted to make you a special breakfast to send you off. She would get mad if she knew I let you just leave when I could have stopped you." Kerri sighed and headed back to Terra's room. She stopped before she turned the corner.
"Thanks." She mentioned before leaving his sight.
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AN: I'm sorry it wasn't especially exciting this time. It just got so long. I was planning on ending when she said she would stay for one night, but then I got that last idea. OK, well, so far I haven't gotten many reviews which is putting a bit of a damper on my want to write. So far I have three reviews. Two from my friend, spinningisfun, whom I have met in the world outside the internet before this, so her reviews don't count as much as people I've never met before. Sorry spinningisfun, but it's true. Can't explain why though. I would like to give a wonderful thank you to Fargoth for giving me some encouragement. Anyways my point is to please review some critique (not flames) or just encourage cause the less reviews I get, the less I'll update. I know, it's cruel, but I know that it will eventually happen.
Next Time: Kerri is about to leave Jump City for good this time, but is interrupted when the alarms go off. She ends up joining them on the mission. See the ending next time.