I DO NOT OWN
Kori's POV
"Dick Grayson, it is so good to see you!" Barbra Gordon squealed with no one other than Kitten Moth walking along her side.
Of course Barbra was just as gorgeous as ever. She was about 5'9 and had the body of a runway model. She had pale skin that contrasted wonderfully with her grayish blue eyes, her orange red hair was pin straight and was a little longer than her shoulders. She had a lip filler injected mauve smile, very tight pulled back skin on her face… she had the money of course she had all of those plastic surgeries, and the white Gucci dress and heals she wore.
Kitten Moth was a plastic Pamela Anderson look alike. Her hair was so blonde it was practically white. She definitely had a nose and boob job from high school as well as Botox. She wore a cut out pink dress with pink high stilettos.
"Barbra." Richard mumbled in acknowledgment before throwing his shot back.
"Oh Dick, call me Babs you always used to." Barbra purred cocking out her small hip.
"That was a long time ago." Richard says keeping his hands on me.
"So Dicky poo, who's your friend?" Kitten interrupts glaring at me.
"After all of these years she still calls you poo?" I question making the gang laugh and Richard to groan in annoyance.
"No way… its freak show! Finally grew out of the glasses and braces I see." Kitten sneered eyeing me.
"To bad you didn't outgrow the frizzy hair, orange skin, crooked nose, and those huge alien eyes. It's a shame you always were the ugly duckling." Babs spoke giggling while Richard was practically growling.
Damn, she has not changed at all, but I am older now and I do not deserve her rudeness even though she may be right.
"My hair is not the frizzy it is curly, I am not orange I am tan from my culture, yes my eyes are big but I do not think they are the alienish. My nose is the crooked because I broke it twice and I do not want to look like the plastic bunny of the boy play, and what exactly does a duck have to do with me?" I spat crossing my arms over my chest. Richard's arm wrapped around my waist as he pulled me into his chuckling form.
"Baby, it's called a playboy bunny, and don't worry about the duckling thing we will go over it when we go home, and then I can show you how gorgeous you really are." Richard growled before nibbling gently on my earlobe causing me to gasp.
"Richard!" I squealed before I attempted to playfully smack him only for Richard to catch my hand and lace our fingers together.
"Save that for the bedroom baby." Richard spoke giving me that sexy side smirk.
"Hey! I don't care if you two are dating. I don't want to hear what you're gonna do with my little sister!" Victor huffed giving us his stern look.
Well this was his idea; we are just putting on the show.
"Wait… you and her?" Kitten screeched while Bab's jaw looked like it would touch the floor.
"Yup, we were going to wait a while to make ourselves public, but we figured what a better time than having everyone we know in the same room." Richard answered before kissing the back of my hand.
He is getting too far into this! People are going to start the talking and think that we are actually an item. Jeez, it is getting hot in here.
"She's quite the upgrade." Rachael chimed in giving a tiny smile.
"Oh shut the fuck up goth girl!" Babs hollered as I noticed that I was starting to sweat from the heat.
"Woah, hey now that is not necessary." Gar defended putting his arm around his girlfriend.
"Everything is going to burn!" I heard a man's voice yell.
The return of the smell of burning flesh was back and there he was the man on fire standing right next me.
"What do you want?" I questioned the ghost quietly as my breathing got heavy.
"He just left me." The ghost spoke getting more agitated.
"Wh…who…l…left…you?" I mumbled as my vision started to spin.
"Kori, are you alright?" Karen questioned, but I could not turn to look for her in fear I would fall over.
"I…I…" I tried to speak but the heat was getting so intense that I could hear my heart pounding in my ears.
"Kori, baby, hey look at me. You're sweating pretty badly." Richard tells me putting his hands on my face. "Jesus, you burning up!"
"Oh Richard, she's faking it!" Babs sneers.
I would do anything to be able to punch that bitch in the face!
"Kori, hold on I'm gonna go get mom!" Victor spoke as he ran to get the experienced nurse.
"Stay out of my way!" the ghost yelled as while the flames on his body intensified making the heat unbearable.
"And if I do the refusing?" I murmured as dark spots clouded my vision, and my voice was hoarse.
"Then you'll have to endure a fate worse than mine. I've seen things my dear, and there are people all around very interested in you." The ghost spoke his mouth to my ear burning the soft skin of the shell of it, before his evil cackling was the only thing I could hear.
"Rich…" I mumbled before everything went black.
Richard's POV
"Rich." She spoke so quietly before her beautiful green eyes rolled back into her head, and I immediately knew she was going to go down. I quickly grabbed her tiny waist just as her body went limp.
Shit! Was she sick? If she was why the hell, why wouldn't she tell me? Who was she talking to earlier? Obviously no one else was paying attention since the bar was so loud, but I did. Oh god, do I sound like some kind of creep?
"Kori!" I heard Amelia yell as she and Leroy ran over.
"What the fuck happened?" Leroy demanded as Amelia started to check Kori over.
"I don't know sir. One minute she was fine laughing and talking, then the next she's whispering and sweating profusely before she passed out." I explained as my fingers traced patterns on her skin.
"Kori, angel, I need you to wake up." Amelia spoke as Kori's eyelids began to flutter.
"Ima." Kori said, but her voice sounded hoarse.
"Are you ok?" Leroy asked.
Kori's reply was in what I assumed was either Arabic or Hebrew.
She's hiding something. She only speaks in another language when she wants to keep things a secret.
"I wish you would be more careful." Amelia sighed taking Kori's hand in her own.
"So… is she going to be alright?" I asked causing Kori's eyes to widen and shoot up towards me in embarrassment.
"She's going to be just fine. She was just dehydrated." Leroy answered. "Maybe we should take you home. You shouldn't be alone."
"No!" Kori yelled jumping out of my embrace. "This night is for you guys, and you should enjoy it. I can catch the cab home, and I will not be alone Silkie is there." Kori argued crossing her arms over her chest causing the top she was to rise up showing more of her toned body.
"I can stay with her sir. I mean we are neighbors, so it won't cause any trouble." I offer knowing full well I'd get Kori home with me.
What can I say Leroy loved me. Well that's a huge lie, his wife loved me anyway. Leroy thought I was a trouble maker, but I knew he cared about the well fair of his daughter more than anything.
"Listen Dick, I don't really…" Leroy started only to be elbowed in the gut by his wife.
"Thank you Dick, I think that is a great idea!" Amelia beamed. "We will see you both at lunch tomorrow."
"Ima, we did not have lunch plans." Kori states just as confused as I was.
"Well we all do now, Bruce invited us to the manor since he could not be here tonight." Leroy answered clearly happy to see Bruce.
Bruce and Leroy go way back to when Bruce traveled to Kenya years ago, and Leroy got his tourists ass out of some crazy shit that they refuse to talk about.
"Oh that will be… nice." Kori mumbles from beside me, for she never truly felt comfortable at Bruce's house due to all the people being there all the time.
"You don't have to go if you don't want to." Leroy insists putting his hand on Kori's shoulder, and pulling her toward him causing mine to fall off of her low hip that I was adamantly without knowledge rubbing random patterns on her soft bare skin. "I get this is a fake relationship, but watch your hands son."
"Leroy! You need to relax; Richard didn't mean any harm." Amelia scolded only to shoot me a slight wink in the process.
"Of course not sir, I'd never disrespect the chief of police." I mutter feeling my face heat up.
"Not in front of his face anyway." Kori scoffed with a laugh as she gently shoved me.
"Excuse me? Kori, do you think this is funny?" Leroy questioned his daughter sternly glaring at her in the process.
I know I am a grown ass man, but Leroy Stone is a scary S.O.B. there are only two people I know who don't practically shit their pants when he's pissed off and that's his wife, and the little thing standing next to me.
"Abba, you need to do the lighting of the upward. I was merely joking." Kori teased making us all laugh. "What is so funny?"
"Kor, It's lighten up. Not lightened upward, god your English is so bad!" I laughed earning a pretty hard punch in the stomach that knocked a little wind out of me.
"Do not do the laughing at me Grayson." Kori spoke grabbing my chin in her hand and brining me down to her eye level. "I may be a woman, but I can still do the kicking of your ass." Kori warned arching a brow at me.
"I have no doubt in your capabilities Stone. If you wanna leave with me we better get a move on, because I need to stop at the grocery store and get some popcorn so we can watch that movie we talked about earlier." I answered sticking my arm out for her to latch onto which to my delight she did rather eagerly.
"Can we also get ice-cream as well?" Kori questioned batting her long dark lashes my way.
"I haven't had ice-cream in so long. Yes, we can get some." I responded while my mouth while practically salivating.
"I thought you had to eat clean, for the upcoming fight Mr. I have to remain in my weight class?" Rachael mocked walking toward us.
"Awe, come on Rach, one night of eating reckless won't kill me." I replied bumping her small frame with my massive one. "I want tell Vic if you don't."
"I'm not gonna say a damn thing, but you know ever since you hired him to be your fitness trainer he finds everything out." Rachael deadpanned. "Remember when you ate Taco Bell five months ago? Vic made you train for nearly eight hours to burn that shit out of your system."
"Yea, Yea, I remember, but this time he won't find out cause all the evidence will be at Kori's place." I answered but Rachael merely rolled her eyes.
"That's not what I came over here to discuss with you. Kori, do you mind if I borrow Dick for a quick minute before you guys head out?" Rachael asked practically already pulling me away.
"Uh of course not, that way I can say goodbye to everyone while you guys do the chatting." Kori spoke seeming rather confused by Rachael's quick urgency.
"Great, thanks!" Rachael rushed out before she began to pull me into a secluded corner of the bar.
"Rachael, what the hell is your problem? Could you have been anymore short with her?" I questioned only to get a pretty harsh smack to the arm.
"Shut up and just listen to me! We have a major fucking problem." Rachael hissed at me making me stiffen.
"What kind of problem?"
"Around the time Kori was acting weird and passed out, I sensed something." Rachael tells me making the hair on the back of my neck stand up.
"What kind of something?" I questioned running my hand over my face in pure agitation.
"I'm not sure, but there was more than one spiritual entity lurking around her. The one I got the best read on is full of pure rage and hatred. It seems to like to toy with her." Rachael explains.
"So what does this mean?" I ask looking over to Kori who is patiently waiting for me with my black leather jacket in hand.
"I think Kori is being haunted for a certain reason, and whatever this thing is wants her out of the picture… for good."
Well guys there is chapter three! Sorry it took so long I'm currently going through a lot right now, and I can't promise when the next chapter will be up. Just know that I am not giving up on this story! Please review, follow, favorite, or you know all 3