I am so sorry for the long wait, but like most of you I have school and all the other things I do. Anyway, I'm finally on vacation so I have time to update. Once again sorry for the long wait.
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Chapter 6: The Pain Love Causes
Raven felt relaxed, like all her troubles had disappeared. She loved the feeling that he gave her when he was around, when he kissed her; she felt so at peace…until she realized what was really happening.
'After what he did to you, he could have killed you and your KISSING the man., the MONSTER,' Raven shut her eyes tighter to try and push the though out of her head, but she couldn't. She knew she shouldn't feel this way, but she did.
The memories flashed back into her head and her heart was suddenly filled with anger. She quickly whipped her hands out of his hair and from around his neck. She placed her hands on his chest and roughly pushed him away.
Garfield stumbled back and looked up to be greeted once again by Raven's hand slapping him across the face. She leaned back against the wall and used the back of her hand to wipe her mouth in disgust.
"Who the hell do you think you are?"
Richard opened his eyes to be greeted with bleach white walls and the smell of medicine and cleaning supplies. He groaned in pain as he tried to sit up. He shut his eyed tightly at the pain that pulsated through his spine. He lay back down in defeat and looked around the room. The room was quite large and very private. There was only his bed with two nightstands on either side and by the opposite wall three tables holding various tools and equipment.
Richard turned his head slightly to the right nightstand and looked at the alarm clock, the green digits read 6:17 A.M. Richard sigh and closed his eyes.
Suddenly the door creaked open and a nurse with her dark brown hair held up in a tight bun and glasses walked in. She was probably in her mid-twenties and was quite attractive. Richard's eyes shot open at the sound of the door and he turned to the nurse. She gave him a reassuring smile and turned her attention to her clipboard.
"What happened?" The nurse's head shot up at the question. She stuttered and blinked rapidly, a bit star-struck. After all it was 'The Richard Grayson' she had the pleasure of taking care of. Richard Grayson without a doubt was the hottest man alive, at least in most women's opinions.
"Y-y-you were i-in a c-car accident Mr. Grayson." Richard rubbed his head and then remembered driving on the road and feeling the impact. That was about it however.
The nurse turned back to her clip board and then walked over to one of the tables and grabbed gloves and a syringe. She walked over to Richard and grabbed his arm.
"This will relieve the pain," she gently plunged the syringe into his skin and let the clear liquid empty from the device, "temporarily at least."
The nurse then disposed of the syringe in the garbage and left the room.
Suddenly Richard felt very tired and closed his eyes again.
"Kori? You feeling okay, you look a bit pale?" Kori staggered into her run down apartment and leaned against the wall as she made her way into the kitchen. She rested her hands against the counter and breathed in and out deeply. She looked down at the scars on her wrist and fresh tears stung her eyes.
She took a napkin and ran in under the hot water and then applied it to her face and then to her stomach where the knives had sliced through her. Soon the napkin was soaked in blood. She was in so much pain, he was torturing her, but what was she to do?
She squeezed her eyes shut and grabbed her stomach. "Raven help please" Kori screamed from the kitchen before she passed out on the cold hard floor from the pain.
Kori's eyes shot open at the sound of the phone. She was breathing heavily and sweating slightly, why was this happening, she hadn't dreamed about the loss of her child for years, yet she remembered every detail. She looked at her alarm clock on the nightstand, 7:22 A.M. Kori picked up the black phone and rubbed the sleep from her eyes.
"Hello?" she asked in a tired voice. "I'm sorry Kor, did I wake ya up honey?" Kori smiled at the voice of her friend. "No Karen, I've been up a little while." She lied. "How are ya feelin'?" "Better," she said with a heavy sigh. "How is Victor doing Bee?" She hadn't seen him in a while and she missed him so much. He was always like her big brother.
"He's fine sweetie, don't worry, that reminds me he wanted to talk to you. Let me get him, one sec Kori." Roy walked in at that time and sat at the edge of the bed playing with the ends of Kori's hair.
She could hear Bee scream for Victor to pick up the phone and she giggled. "What's so funny?" Roy whispered in her ear. Kori was about to answer when she heard a familiar voice. "Victor! Oh, how I've missed hearing you're voice."
"I've missed you too Star, sorry I couldn't come see you at the hospital Karen told me she talked to Roy and you were okay so I thought I'd call you. Sorry to call so early though, I told Karen to wait but the woman won't listen to anything anyone says."
Kori giggled again she loved them both so much. "Oh, before I forget, I don't know the whole story but for some reason Bee wants you to turn on the news. She says it has something to do with something Raven told her and a Richard Grayson, I don't know,"
Kori's eyes widened and she reached for the remote. "What channel?" she asked frantically, "I think she said channel 7."
Kori starred at the screen, a news reporter was standing outside of Jump City Hospital,
'According to sources Richard Grayson was in what is said to be a full on collision, the other driver seems to be fine. However Richard Grayson's condition is still unknown.'
"Victor, thank Karen for me and I'll call you back later alright?" "Sure thing Kor," after hearing the dial tone ring in her ear for the last five minutes Kori hung up the phone and rushed out of bed to change.
Garfield looked at Raven in shock. "What? I though that-you, I"
"I don't care what you thought, you STAY AWAY FROM ME," She began to run out of the alleyway and into the street. Splashing through puddles she headed for a place she figured he didn't know about, Kori's house.
'She still can't be mad at me right?'
"Where are you going?" Roy asked standing up from the edge of the bed. Kori ran her hair brush through her straight red hair and looked in the mirror. Her hair was shorter now; maybe three or four inches past her shoulders, she had also grown her bangs out as well. She tried her hair in a ponytail letting a few loose strands fall out of the front and frame her face. She had on a long red skirt that went an inch or two past her knees. She also wore a black silk long-sleeve shirt and black flats.
Kori didn't know why but she wanted to look at least half way decent. She thought she did pretty good after all she'd been through within the past week anyway. She turned around and looked at Roy. She rested her hands on his shoulder and lifted her head slightly to kiss him on the lips tenderly. She looked up into his eyes, "I have to go."
By 8:45 A.M she was outside the hospital doors. She took a deep breathe and stepped inside. She walked right past the receptionist desk considering whoever was supposed to be there was probably out for a break or something like that.
She headed down the hall and bumped into a nurse with thin-framed glasses and wavy brown hair.
"Excuse me Miss." Kori looked at the nurses name tag, "Miss Blake, but I need to find the room where Richard Grayson is staying."
The nurse didn't look up from her clip board, "do you have any personal relationship with the man? I mean we can't just have fan girls come in and-" The nurse looked up and squealed with delight.
"Oh My G-d! You're Korina Anders, the model, I've seen you on so many billboards all over the city and in like every fashion magazine ever invented. You're even more beautiful in person, wow it's an honor to meet you Miss. Anders."
Kori smiled politely, "Thank you that is very kind of you Miss. Blake." "Please call me Michelle,"
"Michelle, I assure you I am not a fan girl, but-" "Say no more, Miss Anders this way,"
Michelle led her to Richard's door, "You're lucky you bumped into me, I just happen to be his nurse. Lucky me I also, cause he is so hot." Kori looked at the nurse she couldn't have been much older than Kori, she was 22, so Michelle had to be maybe 24 or 25.
Michelle peeked into Richard's room and then turned to Kori, "Mr. Grayson is asleep right now, I gave him medication to relieve the pain and that always knocks em' out."
Kori looked down, "Oh, well-" "You can go in if you like Miss. Anders," "Please call me Kori, Michelle" "Kori, you can go in if you like he should wake up soon, I'm sure."
Kori hesitated. 'I should maybe right? No, absolutely not I just need to know that he is okay and then I can leave. I -'
"I-I'd like to see him pl-please."
Michelle opened the door and followed Kori in, "can you give me sometime alone with him please?" "Sure," Michelle turned to leave but stopped at the door she turned to look at the worried look on Kori's face, "he'll be fine Miss Anders."
Kori looked up surprised, was she that easy to read, even by total strangers? "Th-thank you."
Raven, having a key to Kori's residence let herself in. Still shaken up from what had just happen Raven leaned against the wall and tried to regulate her breathing. She heard commotion upstairs and headed up the long wooden staircase. "Kori? Kori?"
"Roy?" Raven looked around the room, some papers lay on the floor and the desk in the corner of the spacious room was toppled over. "What happened here, where's Kori, I figured she'd be home by now. Is she still at the hospital?"
"She still went running, Raven. Still completely loyal to someone she said she never wanted to see again." Raven raised an eyebrow, "what are you talking about?"
Roy pointed to the television where they kept flashing back to the hospital, trying to find out any news on Richard Grayson's condition.
Raven starred at the television and then joined Roy on the large bed. Raven put a hand on his back in reassurance, "she loves you Roy, but they have a long and bumpy history and old habits die hard."
Kori slowly walked into the large hospital room. Richard was asleep and the room was silent with the exception of the birds chirping outside the window. Kori silently walked over to the chair next to his bed careful not to wake him.
Kori looked at his face so content yet she could tell that he was troubled, she just knew. Standing up from the chair Kori went and sat at the edge of his bed. She caressed his cheek with the back of her hand. She could feel tears sting her eyes as she looked at him. "Wh-What h-happened between us, why d-did you do this to me?" Kori closed her eyes and bowed her head, this time allowing the memories to flood in.
Downtown Jump City was a horrible place, crime everywhere and nothing but old decrepit buildings and homeless people on the streets. It seemed almost as if this part of town had been forgotten and all its residents were left to drown in the sewage and disappear.
That's just how Kori Anders felt. Her and Raven lived in am apartment here in this wasteland. The Titans had just split up and they didn't have much to start and didn't really know where to go yet. They couldn't take shelter in the now vacant tower, to many memories and it was already hard to let go. Kori worked in a bar as a waitress and sometimes she even danced a little for the men for some extra money. Considering you keep what you earn dancing at the bar and that was a pretty good deal.
Kori was walking home after work around midnight; they were late on the rent and needed some money so Kori and Raven both worked extra late. Raven worked at diners and restaurants as a waitress everyday and night. Kori made $200 dollars that night enough to pay the rent. Walking down the alley way she heard a voice. Whipping her head around she saw a man, he was quite handsome muscular with dark brown eyes and matching brown hair that hung in his face. "C-can I help you?" Kori asked backing away slowly. "Yes, yes you can sexy," he said stepping toward her knife in hand.
Kori walked shakily into the apartment still in shock and eyes wide. Her red dress was torn almost to shreds and in winter even she was cold. After stepping into the apartment she fell to the floor instantly dripping blood onto the hardwood dinning room floor. She was in so much pain. Her stomach, her legs, her head all racked with pain. Before Kori closed her eyes the last thing she heard was the door unlock and Raven's panicked voice, "Kori!"
Kori opened her eyes and looked at Richard. Her hand still caressing his cheek, "He waited for me a lot, almost every night and I had no choice but to do whatever he asked. He said he'd kill me if I told." She sigh and wiped the tears from her eyes with her free hand. "Where were you," she asked him anger rising, "you said you'd always be there to protect me, where-why weren't you there." She said her voice rising to a slight yell. "The doctor told me that all the stress on my body caused me to loose my baby. When she told me that I knew immediately that it was what that horrible man did to me that made me loose my baby-our baby." She looked down at Richard's sleeping form and removed her hand.
"I-I can't love you anymore, I cannot." She slowly got up and turned to leave. Stopping at the door she hesitated and turned around.
Kori walked up to Richard and laid one final kiss onto his lips. "Goodbye…Robin."
Richard woke up to the spring sun shinning through his hospital window. He looked around the room and his eyes landed on the clock, 1:23 P.M. Hearing shuffling next to him he slowly turned his head as to not hurt his neck and looked at the nurse.
"Great you're awake. I didn't get a chance to introduce myself earlier, I'm Michelle Blake. Are you hungry I'll get you something to eat if you'd like?" "Sure," Richard said slowly still registering what happened.
Richard looked at his left hand in a sling, 'good thing I use my right.' Michelle came in with an array of fruits and scrambled eggs. "Only the best sir," she said putting the tray aside and helping him sit up.
She rested the tray on table in front of Richard and continued looking at her clipboard.
"You can go home tonight if you like, though its doctor's orders that you wear that sling for a week and a half then come back in just for a final exam. You can make an appointment at the front desk before you leave."
"Oh," suddenly her head shot up and Richard looked up as well. "How do you know Kori Anders?" Richard's eyes went wide and he began to choke. "Wh-what?" "She came in this morning around eight maybe nine and asked to see you. I told her you were sleeping but I told her she could see you anyway, she asked me to leave for a little while so I don't know what happened but I had to come into get something and when I came in she seemed to be crying. I don't know why though, I left really quickly so I don't really know what happened. I was just wondering how you knew her, I see her in all the magazines, she's really beautiful." Michelle began to ramble to herself.
"Yeah she is," Richard whispered to himself as he looked out the window. 'I have to find out what happened to her, why d she had a miscarriage; I have to know what happened. But how am I going to find all that out if she won't even look at me.'
A knock at the door jarred Raven and Roy from their thoughts. Roy looked at Raven, "It's the door, let me get it you can wait here if you want." Raven simply nodded her head and stayed seated on the edge of the bed. Raven heard voices and wondered who was at the door. She silently got up and crept to the top of the stairs.
"What are you doing here? Kori's not here right now." "I know, I saw Raven come here though, I need to see her, Kori told me she comes here sometimes, I need to see her."
Raven stood at the top of the stairs wide-eyed, 'how did he know-Kori?' Realization hit Raven and she knew, 'Kori is-is helping him!'
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