A/N: So...yea, you're all going to hate me. I'm sorry, but it had to be done. Next chapter will hopefully be up soon, and if any of you are Harry Potter (DracoGinny) fans, I have a new story coming out soon. Keep an eye out for it!

Disclaimer: Pfft. I wish it was mine.

TT2

Friday October 30, 2019 (early morning)

Richard fell asleep by Kori's bed side for the umpteenth time in a month. It was hard to believe that much time had passed, but he had been without her for almost two months now. He was beginning to lose faith, and he knew it wasn't for the best if he did.

He was surrounded by white clouds, or white smoke, or something of the like. Everything was hazy. He felt dizzy as he stood from the lone chair within sight. All he saw was white for what seemed liked miles.

And then something dropped from the middle of nowhere and landed on their rear. It was Kori.

"Kori!" He called, but she did not seem to notice him.

"I am sorry, Richard," she began softly, and then began to cry with her face in her hands.

Another figure appeared, a person dressed in all white with an inhuman appearance. This person seemed to glow with absolute energy, but she also seemed very simplistic. Her white sundress complimented her pale skin and fair hair, but hung loosely as if she was nothing underneath.

"Kori, are you sure you're doing the right thing?" this girl asked. She couldn't be any older than Kimi.

"No, but I am never sure. I am naive, and that is one of my many flaws."

"Kori, no you're not!" Richard protested, but she seemed not to hear him. "Kori, come back to me!"

"Kori, do you understand the effects this will have on everyone around you? You understand repercussions?" the girl asked.

"I do, and I still want to do this. Everyone deserves it. They deserve to be happy, and if I do this they will be happy, or so it is said," Kori responded.

"Give me your hand," the girl requested.

Kori laid in her palm in the girl's hand, and their bodies began to glow. Richard finally understood what he was saying.

"KORI, NO!" he shouted, but it was useless. "Kori, don't do this to me! Kori, I love you!" he shouted desperately.

He jolted forward and tried to snatch her, but he snatched air. He was falling towards the ground and braced for impact, but none came. He opened his eyes and realized he was falling through space, through darkness, past stars and planets and moons. Kimi's face stared back at him from all the moons and Kori's face stared from the stars, and they watched him fall. Neither made any move to stop him.

"There's nothing we can do. Nothing..." Kimi started, but her voice sounded different.

Richard jerked awake to see doctors standing above Kori, and that he was now in an armchair in the corner. They were talking in hushed tones, something that is never a good sign no matter what hospital you are in.

"There's nothing we can do. She's gone," one of them began.

"What?!" Richard exclaimed.

His tired eyes were now alert as he looked at the circle of doctors standing above his fiancee. He jumped up from the armchair and pushed through them to see indeed Kori was now sickly pale, and not breathing. He looked at the clock, which read 5:03 a.m.

"When did this happen?" he demanded. "Why can't you save her?" he snarled. "WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO HELP HER?" he screamed, looking at her laying there, motionless. "HELP HER!!"

"Mr. Grayson," one doctor started calmly. "We need you to know we did all we could. We did everything in our power to keep your wife alive."

One doctor was pulling a sheet over her head as the other spoke.

"NO, you obviously didn't or she'd be alive right now!" Richard yelled. "You can save her! Do something, anything!"

Richard stomped to her bedside, ripped back the sheet, and felt her face.

"She's still warm! There's got to be something you can do! CPR, AED, some sort of fucking transplant, I DON'T CARE! SAVE HER!"

"Mr. Grayson..." one doctor started. "We're going to need to give you tranquilizers to calm you down. When you wake up, I request you do not go searching for you wife. She will be in the morgue."

"No...NO!" he protested, but felt the needle inject into his arm. "Oh God NO! Let me help her! Call my...daughter! She'll know...what...to...do!" he heard his speech slurring and felt his body shutting down. "Call...Moonfire! Don't...take...Kor...i...away..."

He trailed off as his body finally shut down on him, and he collapsed to the floor. The last thing he heard was the murmuring of the cynical doctors who had taken his Kori away from him.

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Richard woke up several hours later. It was light out, and judging by the sun maybe about eleven in the afternoon. He jumped out of the bed he was in and ran out into the hallway. He recognized his location as just a few doors down from Kori's room, or, more to the point, her old room. Richard ran down the hallway and into Kori's room, where Kimi was crying by her bed side. Danny was standing next to her, patting her back, while Vic was letting Raven cry into his shoulder on the other side of her bed. Her pale face was exposed, only so they could take their last looks at their beloved, mother, wife, friend, and Titan.

"Dad," Kimi moaned.

She looked up at him, her eyes red and puffy and her cheeks swollen. She looked as if she had been crying since the time she arrived here, which Richard supposed was shortly after he had been tranquilized.

"Kimi," he breathed and let her run into his arms, crying into his body. "It's not fair. I know, I know, it's not fair," he told her, tears beginning to well in his own eyes. Danny was standing only a few feet away, tears in his gray eyes and streaming down his tanned cheeks, his arms crossed tight about his chest.

The seriousness of the situation just began to hit Richard full force. He would never wake up next to Kori ever again. No more quaint breakfasts with his fiancee. No more walking outside his office and seeing her shining face. So many firsts would be missed out on, and so many things they would never do again.

"Kori, I love you," he whispered looking towards the sky.

"You'll always be loved, mom," Kimi cried into her father's shirt.

"Kori, you'll always have us. In life or in death," Raven added. "Be Skylar's guardian." Her hand traveled to her swollen stomach.

Richard handed Kimi off to Danny so he could take a seat next to Kori. He smoothed back her hair and watched the gentle curves of her pale, lifeless face. He still couldn't believe that she was really gone. This would be the last time he would see her face. She would be taken away after their few last moments with her.

"Dad, she knows we love her. She knows she's loved. But she still didn't come back. What went wrong?" Kimi asked.

"I don't know, Kimi," he responded, still watching her porcelain face. "I don't understand what went wrong. What we did wrong."

"We didn't do anything wrong, Dad," Kimi assured him, although she wasn't so sure herself.

"I wish I could believe you, Kim."

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Richard stayed with her well into the day and into the night, until the doctors came to take her to the morgue. He sat there, talking to her, knowing she could hear him from a bigger place. He talked about anything and everything. He talked about random things like cheese and candles, and more relevant things like all the things she would miss out on. But he assured her that he knew she was watching him from a better place.

"Don't forget I love you," he would repeat consistently. "Don't ever ever forget that."

Richard was still watching her as the doctors came in. He didn't listen as they talked, but merely continued to watch his one and only love. He memorized every curve of her face so he would never forget her. He would never forget any part of her.

"Say your last goodbyes, Mr. Grayson," one of the doctors requested.

They all left, saying they would be back in two minutes. Richard sat up and leaned over, setting a soft kiss on her warm lips. Wait, warm?

"DOCTOR CARSON!!" Richard screamed, feeling her cheeks. "Doctor Carson!!"

Said doctor came rushing into the room with his medical posse in tow. Richard kept feeling her warm cheeks, which were somewhat beginning to turn pink. Could she possibly be alive? Could she have come back from the dead?

"What is it Mr. Grayson?"

"She's warm! And she's regaining color! Look, look! It's a miracle!" he yelled, stepping aside to let the doctors take a look at her.

The doctor put his ear to her mouth and his fingers to her wrist. "It's amazing! She has a heartbeat!" He put his head to her chest, watching the gentle rhythm of her breathing restart. "She's breathing! It's a medical marv-" but the doctor stopped short, his hand still feeling her wrist. "Oh dear God."

He snapped up and searched around frantically. He reached under the hospital bed and pulled out an AED.

"Her pulse stopped. Her heartbeat has stopped as well."

Richard couldn't look as they hooked her up to the AED machine and tried to shock her heart back to life again. "Dear Lord Kori," he mumbled to himself. "Please live. Kori, I love you so much...please live."

They were shocking her for at least a few minutes when Richard turned around. They had hooked her up to a heart rate monitor which was at a steady "beeep". He prayed for the short "beep, beep, beep" to start any second now. They gave her another shock.

His prayers had come true.

"Beep, beep, beep," filled the air and the doctors rejoiced.

Richard pushed his way through them to see his wife breathing, color rising to her cheeks, her limbs twitching every so often. He whispered her name so gently that not even the doctors heard it, but somehow she did. Her eyes blinked open and she examined her surroundings.

"Richard?" she asked in her normal sugar sweet voice. "Oh, Richard."

He reached forward and engulfed her in a hug, kissing her hair and neck. "Kori, I can't believe it's really you. Finally, it's really you. Oh God Kori you don't know how much you put me through but I'm just so glad you're back!"

"Richard?" she asked softly, her voice raspy from lack of use.

"Yea Star?" he returned, pulling back to look her in the eye.

"Can we go home now?" she hoped naively.

He smiled. "Of course."

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It was only after a few tests the doctors performed that they could go home, but Richard and Kori were both content with that. The drive home was quiet, the both of them trying to soak in how much this single moment meant to them. Richard moved his hand to cover hers, and out of the corner of his eye he could see her smiling at him.

"I love you, Kori."

"And I love you, Richard."

His cell phone rang and he picked it up out of the center console. He kept his eyes on the road which meant he didn't have time to look at the caller ID before opening it up and placing it on his ear.

"Hello?"

"Dad?!" Kimi's excited voice came over the phone. "Is it true? I just got your voicemail," she had worn her voice out wailing and now was speaking in rasps. "Did her heart really start up again? Is she alive?"

"It's true, Kimi. I'm taking her home right now. I'm expecting you to be there when we get there," Richard told his daughter with a smile on his face. "She's excited to see you."

"May I talk to her?" Kori requested.

"Of course, Kor. Your mom wants to talk to you. I love you, Kimi," he ended before handing the phone off.

"I love you too, dad."

Kori took the phone and pressed it to her ear. "Kimi?" she asked. "Kimi, are you there?"

"I'm here mom," Kimi responded, sniffling slightly. "Oh mom I thought you were gone."

"Kimi I am very sorry. I did not mean to put you through that. But I am back now and I promise I am not going anywhere for a very long time," Kori told her. "I cannot wait to see you soon. I missed you, my little moon."

Kimi had always been embarrassed by that name, but at the moment she didn't care. "Mom, I love you. I'll see you soon."

"I will see you soon."

The line went dead as Kori was shutting it. She set it back in the center console and returned her hand to its rightful place beneath Richard's. He slowly intertwined his fingers with hers and gently stroked the side of her hand with his thumb. They came to a stop sign just before their house, in the nice upper district of Jump City. It had always been a dream of Kori's to live here, and Richard had fulfilled that dream for her.

"Home sweet home," Richard started as he pulled into the driveway and let the car's engine die.

Both Vic and Raven's cars were there. Raven had still been staying at their house while Richard had been at the hospital, but some nights she would go back to the apartment and sleep, maybe hang around for a while in the morning before coming back.

"They're all here just to see you, Kor," Richard informed her.

"It feels good to be loved," she responded.

Richard got out of his side of the car and jogged around to open the door for Kori. She smiled gently up at him, before stepping out and into the cool October air. Richard let her door shut with a soft click, taking her hand in his. They slowly walked towards the front door, both expecting to be greeted by a love parade when they entered the entry hall.

And their expectations were correct.

"KORI!" Raven squealed like a little girl (which is an amazing feat for her) then jumping on her in a hug. "OH KORI!! I thought you were dead. You don't know how happy I am to see you again!"

Raven stepped away and looked at her best friend. Victor pushed her aside (gently, though) to engulf Kori in one of his bone-crushing hugs. Her hug back, though, was just as strong and possibly damaged his machinery.

"Kori! Girl, I knew you were tough, but I didn't think you were tough enough to come back from the dead," he joked, pulling back to look at her. "It's like some sort of miracle."

Vic kissed her forehead.

"Kori, it's good to know you're ok," Jenna started from behind Vic. He stepped aside to let her talk to Kori. "I know we've never really been that great of friends, but I have to admit it'd be depressing if you were..." Jenna let out a shaky smile. "It'd be hard to let you go."

Kori stepped forward and engulfed Jenna in a hug. "That is great to hear, new good friend of mine. Any friend of Victor is a friend of mine."

Kori stepped back to smile at her. Jenna smiled in return. There was a faint pop in the middle of the hallway and Kimi appeared, looking somewhat dazed. Then she realized where she was and who was merely ten feet away from her.

"MOMMY!" Kimi screeched and launched herself at her.

Kori hugged her so hard that her daughter was lifted off the ground Kimi buried her head in her neck and began to cry tears of joy.

"Little bungorf, it is so good to see you," Kori cried in delight.

"Mom, you don't know how worried I was," Kimi told her. "I thought nothing would ever be the same. I thought it would all just end for me right there. I couldn't imagine living life without you there with me."

"Kimiand'r, I love you," her mother spoke softly, relinquishing her daughter.

"I love you, too, mom."

They shared a gaze for a few moments, just smiling at each other.

"I don't know what I'd do without you and Richard," Kori murmured softly. "And all my friends," she directed this towards Raven, Jenna, and Victor.

"Aww," Vic started. "Group hug, y'all!"

And so, they commenced in a group hug which none of them would ever forget.

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