Sigh. I deserve being hit with pink rubber duckies for not updating in almost 7 months. I feel so bad. But, I have come back, and so has the next chapter.
Author's Note- For those of you who haven't read the other story, and even those who have, you can figure out that Kori is a very OOC character in my stories. Being OOC makes her a good character and good villain in them. So, you have been warned.
Raven finished placing her items in the suitcase before clasping it. She sat down on the couch next to it, staring at it. Why did she have to do this?
She loved Richard more than anything in the world. She couldn't leave him! He had always been there for her. He even risked his life to save her many, many times. And now she was leaving him with nothing.
What Raven hadn't thought about until today was that leaving Richard might not be good for his health. Richard was one of the most unstable people she had ever met, and when things changed abruptly, he didn't handle it too well.
As a teen, Richard managed to uphold a tough, unmoved façade, but Raven was always able to see through it and see the young, tortured boy that truly lay inside. Richard probably had more problems as a teen than she did, and that was saying a lot.
'You can't change the fact that this is your duty to look over your home planet until Larika is eighteen. Once she is, you can come back and pick up where you and Richard left off' a voice said in her head.
"What if he doesn't want to pick up from there?" she answered herself out loud. She was so confused. She grabbed the pillow that was lying next to her and screamed into it as loud as she could.
She decided after when she realized that she was angrier now than before she did that, that screaming into pillows isn't a good idea.
She pushed the suitcase off the couch where it crashed on the ground. She then grabbed her keys and headed to her car.
As she sat in the driver's seat of her black Lexus, she knew she needed to talk to someone. So, she pulled up in front of Richard's apartment building, but, of course, she wasn't planning on talking to him.
"Hey Raven," Vic said as he answered the door. She sauntered in, hoping that talking to normally calm Victor would help her out.
Meanwhile, Richard wasn't having the best of luck. He woke from his state of his unconsciousness with no idea where he was and an extremely stiff neck. He began to hear things rustling around him, but he didn't open his eyes.
"Open your eyes already," a voice commanded. Richard obeyed, forgetting who his captor was, and did the best he could to get them open. But once he saw her, he was wide awake.
She stood there smirking. She was wearing a sleek black leather cat suit and her red hair was pulled up, reminding Richard of flames. Around her voluptuous hips was a belt that held many things, including a gun.
He was sitting on the ground. His feet were bound with an electronic mechanism that was unbreakable and his arms were in handcuffs that were hanging from a higher point on the wall. His wife beater was slightly torn around the abdomen area, and his sweatpants were tattered.
"You looked so sweet, so innocent when you weren't conscious. What ever happened to you?" she said sarcastically before rolling her eyes and turning around to a small table.
"What do you want?" Richard asked, slowly clearing his throat.
"Isn't it obvious Richard? I mean, come on, how thick are you?" Kori answered facing him. She walked over to him. She then straddled him and kneeled down.
"What are you talking about?" he replied, more confused than he had ever been.
She traced her fingers over his chest. "All I've ever wanted is you, Rich. How could you not realize?" Her voice dripped with seductiveness. She then slammed her lips against Richard's and passionately kissed him. He couldn't get her off him, so all he could do was sit there and endure. She then backed away and looked at him with an almost happy look on her face. Then she recoiled and surprised him by slapping him so hard his vision swam.
"But you never thought about me. All you thought about was yourself and that backstabbing skank," she spat bitterly as she jumped to her feet.
Richard went to say something but decided not to. "How did you manage to live?" he asked.
She shrugged. "Someone helped me and brought me back to life," she responded simply.
"Who?" Richard asked, feeling like he was in some 13 year old boy's science fiction books now.
"Say hello to Richard," she beckoned to a silhouette in the shadows that Richard hadn't seen until now.
He stepped out of the shadows. "You've got to be kidding me. Is this some sort of sick joke?" Richard asked as Slade walked out. "Who's next, the gangsters that killed my parents?"
Kori snickered. "No, they were on vacation. We could've used them, though."
Richard frowned and rolled his eyes. He took a deep breath. Until now, he hadn't realized the severity of this. He was basically incapacitated with two extremely psychotic people. No one knew he was gone. And Raven…
Raven. He wouldn't even get to say good-bye to her, to apologize for yelling at her, to say that he loved her more than anything in the world. She would never find out what actually happened. Richard sighed. It didn't matter. He had ruined it with her. He should have just understood that she had to leave and dealt with it without yelling at her. He would be surprised if she ever spoke to him again. Now, with this, he would be lucky if she even remembered he wasn't there when she returned from Azerath…
'I'm not going to think like that. I will not. I'm going to get out of this' Richard scolded himself.
"Can we start this yet?" Slade asked Kori, trying to imagine Richard wasn't in the room.
"Yeah, everything's set, and he can't do anything," Kori answered simply, shrugging.
"What are you planning?" Richard shouting, trying to hold some amount of authority in his voice, but he failed miserably.
Kori tilted her head slightly. "Well, since we can't be together, I figured there is only one way we can share a bond. And, of course, you would never agree to it," she laughed. Slade snickered behind her.
She began to walk over him, a short syringe in her hand. "What is that for?" he asked, wondering why villains always had to be so general when they spoke. They could never just tell you what was going on. "Kori, what are you going to do?" he asked quietly.
She stopped. "You have no other friends. Your girlfriend is leaving for another planet and won't return for two years. No one will miss you, which means that no one will realize what happened," she said to him, but it was almost as if she was assuring herself.
"Please, just tell what the hell is happening here," Richard begged.
Kori stared into his eyes for a moment, almost as if she was remorseful. Then, it went away. "I plan to impregnate myself and have your child," she stated as if it were absolutely nothing.
Richard was floored. These two were nuts. If there was a prize for creating to sickest (and not in a good way) plans in the world, Kori and Slade would win hands down.
Richard was brought out of his thoughts by the jabbing of the needle into his arm. Kori was about to push the fluid into his arm when a loud crash rang out through the building as a figure dove through the high window. The showering glass bounced onto the ground.
"KORI!" a voice ran out.
Her head whipped around. Slade perked up, walking to see who it was. The mysterious person walked out. It was her. Richard went to say something.
"…Ebony," he said. She smiled sultrilyat him as she raised her eyebrows.
She then turned back to Kori and said, "Drop that thing now."
"Who in the world are you?" Kori asked confused as she withdrew the needle from Richard's arm.
Slade walked up from behind. "Can't you tell? Purple hair. Who has purple hair?" he mocked.
Richard froze as he saw Raven become extremely uneasy. In one fluid motion slade whipped the red and black mask off Raven's eyes. In the quickest moment, Kori's facial expression changed from bewilderment to utmost rage.
Raven started to back up as Kori made her towards her, but Slade slammed a hand over her mouth, making her powerless and held her arms above her head with the other hand.
"Finsh what you started," he commanded motioning to Richard. Kori shook herself out of it and grabbed the needle once more. There was no way out of this.