WOW!!!! It's been a while. Sorry for such a long wait, but finals were a royal pain. Anywho, here is the next chapter. Thanks to all my reviewers. I would love to extend my thanks individually, but sadly, they wont come until the next chapter. :( Hope you enjoy and I welcome your thoughts. Oh, yeah, almost forgot: the italics are their thoughts. Not sure I how I feel about them, but it some cases I think they are fun. ENJOY!!

DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN THE TEEN TITANS!!!!!!

"The Jump City Theatre is the old building in the city. It was built to resemble the Chatelet Theatre in Paris, France back when the city was first established. When founders started building Jump City they had planned for it to be a small town with a supreme college of arts but within 50 years the population was so large they decided to build a city. The Jump City College was moved in 1976 from its place next to the Theatre to the northern part of town outside the city limits. Does that answer your question Gar?" Rachel looked over at Gar.

"Yea, thanks. I didn't know you learned the entire history of the Theatre through the Art Gallery."

"I didn't." Rachel reached over and took the program from Gar's lap and flipped it over to the back, holding it up for him to read.

"Ha, look at that:The History of the Jump City Theatre."

Rachel dropped the program back in his lap and turned towards the stage. Front and center. Kori had always taken care of her friends by making sure they had some of the best seats in the house. Rachel remembered when they had gotten box seats for the Cleopatre performance and it took a lot of her will power to not slug Gar for screaming it out to the entire audience. Tonight was just a recital that allowed the studio members (mainly consisting of students) to be exposed to theatre production companies and art colleges, including Jump City's College of Arts. While the younger studies enjoyed their performance, the older students took it very seriously. It was one of two opportunities for them to show their talent. Their main goal was to be offered one of 28 spots in the Jump City College of Arts. Kori had been offered a spot and had accepted. She attended the school for 3 years and had been offered a lead spot in the acclaimedIMAGINE Ballet, but she refused and decided to stay in Jump City.

Rachel smirked. While the high school students would be sweating bullets Kori would be dancing to the song "Hiding Away" by Hilary Duff, just to entertain.

Rachel knew why she had chosen that song. It wasn't long after she had woken up with Robin's mask in her hand that she had scrapped her old song and routine and started choreographing the dance.

Too bad Richard doesn't have a clue. He has no idea what he is doing to her. I'm sure Vic will try to talk some sense into him and even if he does I still plan on exchanging some words of my own.

She glanced over to look at Vic, two seats over, and saw that he was seriously thinking. She didn't have to read his mind to know he was thinking about the same thing. Before focusing back on the stage she noticed the look of extreme anticipation on Gar's face.

Shaking her head she thought, still acts like a kid. But then again, that's one of the reasons she liked him.

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They had left an hour ago to go to Kori's recital and he hadn't even gotten one-fourth of his work done.

He shook his head and sipped some of Rachel's green tea, trying to keep himself focused. How much data did I collect? There were stacks of papers everywhere, ranging from profiles to strange events. Hopefully it'll get us some quicker answers.

He inwardly cursed Bruce for not being able to quickly upload the data from the Bat cave to the Titan computer, but then again, Cyborg was the smartest, fastest person when it came to computers. Barbara had tried numerous times but it just wasn't the same. Now that he thought about it, his team consisted some of the greatest people he had ever known. Only someone really stupid would ever leave a group of friends like that.

But I did.

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"Dude, when is it Kori's turn?" Gar turned to Rachel.

"You have the program, why don't you use your brain and LOOK AT IT!!!" Her words were a mix of excitement and agitation.

Gar looked down and smiled. He had gotten so excited he forgot he had the program. When he opened it up he realized Kori was the first performer of the second act, and they were about to go into a short recess. He turned back to Rachel and froze. There was a blue light shining on the dance floor but the reflection of it lighted Rachel's face.

I keep forgetting how beautiful she is. He turned his attention back to the show, knowing that if she caught him staring at her, she'd probably slap him. Dude, I wish I could just tell her how I feel. DANG IT!!!! I sound just like Richard. With that, he shank in his seat as the recess began and starting counting down until Kori's performance.

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Backstage, Kori start began pacing and fidgeting with her hands. She was getting really nervous, but she always got nervous before a performance. She knew as soon as the music started she would get lost in it and knowing her friends were right in front calmed her spirits.

Too bad Richard couldn't make it. She had wanted to be selfish and tell him that he needs to stop working, but she couldn't bring herself to do it. As she watched the announcer walk out front she knew it was time. Perhaps he will come to another one. She heard the applause and walked to her spot behind the curtain. As much as she didn't want to admit it, she really wanted him to be sitting beside the others.

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Where are they? They should be back by now. Richard watched as the clock rolled around to 1a.m. He knew he shouldn't get worried but he was, and it was distracting him from his work, not that there was much left to do, he had almost completed everything, and was attempting to put in the last personal file before noticing the time.

Then, he heard the door opening and the sound of laughter. Apparently they had gone out to celebrate. He kept forgetting they were older. The thought made him smirk.

"So…..Richard, how'd the working go?" Vic shot him a look.

He turned back to the computer, typed for about 5 minutes, pressed enter, turned around and said, "As of right now, I'm done."

He got out of the chair and Kori ran over, giving him a big bear hug. He welcomed it by wrapping his arms around her waist. "Richard that is wonderful." He smiled.

"Yea, perhaps I can join your celebration." She pulled away and Richard saw the tiredness in her eyes.

"I would love to stay up, but I am very tired. Please don't let me discourage you all from enjoying the night." With that she moved out of the hug and made her way toward her room. "Thank you all for a fantastic day." She said before disappearing down the hallway.

"I'm with Kor, I'm exhausted." Gar followed soon behind her.

Rachel looked at Vic and he nodded towards the door. She knew he had it under control

Try and get the point across Vic. I don't know how much longer I can take this back-and-forth nonsense.

What like the 'nonsense' between you and Gar?

Don't change the subject. For tonight focus on Richard. Me and whatever you think is going on with Gar can wait.

Vic nodded and Rachel left the room.

"Rich?"

He looked up, "Vic?"

"You know I hate to pry," he said with a comical look on his face, "but is there anything going on with you and Kori?"

Richard smiled; Vic was still writing his and Kori's love story, "No. You know how I feel about her. She and I are only friends."

While Richard had expected Victor to crack a joke he watched his face suddenly grow serious, "Look man, she hasn't stopped thinking about you, even after 10 years. Out of all of us, she took it harder than anyone. I won't lie when I say we weren't worried about her well-being, and when she started dancing it defiantly took away some of her bottled-up emotions. Now that you're back..."

"What? You want me to go and express my love for her like all those movies you and Gar had us watch." Richard stated sarcastically.

"Naw man. All I'm saying is that you can't keep sending her on these emotional roller-coasters. She can't handle it." Richard's face grew still, and then he nodded.

Vic headed for the door, "Oh, one more thing, if anything does happen, don't tell Gar. I bet him $200 bucks nothing would happen for another week."

"Dude, get out of here!!!" Richard said throwing a pillow towards Vic.

Hands up in the air in defeat, Vic walked out of the room, "Alright, alright."

Again, I welcome any and all thoughts--good or bad. This is not something I do all the time, but since I started this story I am determined to finish it!!! PLEASE REVIEW and thanks to all of the avid readers who just read my story...that means a lot too. THANKS AGAIN!!!!