Okay first off, I wanted to thank JadedFoxFire for being the first reviewer!! And here's the second chapter!
The doors to the tower slid open and the five heroes dragged their feet in, groaning as they went. They had just taken down Mammoth, Gizmo's friend. He had been trying to free Gizmo from prison. Normally he'd have been an easy job, but this time he had help from some new HIVE members. The Titans hadn't been expecting that.
"Okay guys, good job today. I don't think we need to have training today," Alex said as she fell onto the couch.
"Sounds good to me," Derek panted.
"Yay," Tyler said with as much enthusiasm as he could.
"Thank God," Desiree said as she prepared herself for meditation. Thalia was the only one who didn't respond, she was working on changing her hair from green to the streaks again.
"They've been getting better," Tyler said from his position of draping himself over the kitchen table. "The Hive I mean. Mammoth is still just as, ooh what's the word, and I just learned it today too!!" Tyler said his face filled with frustration.
"Bumbling, Tyler you're looking for bumbling," Derek said.
"Oh yeah, that's it!" Tyler responded more excitingly this time, he actually lifted his head up.
"That may be, but as long as Derek still has this cold thing going on, he can take out anything," Alex joked. Derek's sneezing had won their fight over all; he took out about half of their attackers all thanks to his suffering.
"Glad to be of some help, ACHOO!!" a starbolt flew out and almost hit the monitor, but Desiree contained it before it connected.
"Sorry, do we have any Benadryl or something?" Derek asked.
"No, I'll pick some up after school tomorrow. Or better yet just let Thalia or Desiree heal you," Alex said.
"I don't want to waste their powers on a little cold," Derek said.
"Okay, as long as you don't destroy the place," Alex muttered. Then the answering machine started to beep. Alex got up to see who the calls were from.
"Derek we've got mom and dad checking up, Thalia Jinx called for you, Valerie, Mr. Logan, Mrs. Roth, Titans East. Damn when was the last time we checked this thing?" Alex said.
"Yesterday," Thalia said simply already dialing her mother.
Alex froze when she saw who the last call was from 'Jared.' Jared had been calling a lot lately much to Tyler's discomfort. His dad had ungrounded him and was now trying living with the Titans East.
Alex knew Tyler didn't like Jared, he was her ex after all and not only that, Jared had worked for Fahrenheit when Alex was captured. Jared didn't like Tyler all too much either though. So in order to keep both sides happy, Alex had told Jared to call her cell, so Tyler wouldn't be hurt by her talking to Jared. And Alex could still talk to Jared.
'I shouldn't be talking to him though. He's just a friend. Who used to be my ex...maybe he's found somebody at the tower, Monica maybe. Tyler would probably have a stroke if he ended up liking Skylar.' Alex laughed to herself a bit, imagining Tyler chasing Jared around the world mad as hell.
"What's up Alex?" Derek asked concerned, a phone in his hand.
"Oh nothing, I thought I left a book at school," Alex recovered. "I didn't."
"Mom's on the phone she wants to talk to you," he said handing the phone to her. Their mom had been a bit over-worried ever since Alex was captured and freaked out if she hadn't heard from the both of them for longer than two days.
Alex took the phone, "Hi mom I'm alive…No we were out fighting earlier…We're good…um yeah I've heard from him," Tyler's head snapped up at this point knowing exactly who Starfire was wondering about. "He's fine I guess…Well here's Derek again." Alex said avoiding Tyler's stare that followed her across the room as she returned the phone to her brother.
Alex turned to walk out the door and to her room, Tyler followed. "So when did he call last?"
Alex spun around to face him, "Today actually."
"And how many times in the last week?" Tyler said stopping in the hallway.
Alex shrugged, "I don't know."
"Alex, come on I know you talk to him on your cell. Now how many times?" Tyler said his voice raising a bit now.
"About five, or ten," Alex answered sounding ashamed.
Tyler was quiet for awhile and then walked off in the direction to his room. Alex heard something crash against the wall as she rushed into the room. Tyler had his fist in the wall of the white room.
"Tyler I'm sorry. I should have told you, the conversations don't last long about five minutes at most," Alex said trying to calm him down.
"Hells yeah you should have! Alex that's keeping stuff from me, stuff I should know about!" Tyler yelled.
"I'm sorry, he doesn't think of me that way Ty, he doesn't I know," Alex said getting quiet.
"I know that! On some level I do know that Alex, I'm just—It's just going to take me awhile to fully trust him. He was there when you were getting abused, and didn't do anything to stop it," Tyler said as he sat down on the floor.
Alex sat down next to him and laid her head on his shoulder, "I know, listen I'll just see what he wants tonight and then not talk to him for awhile okay? I don't want him to be the ruin of something good here."
"Okay, y'know I don't want you to force him out of your life. He's your friend and I'll just have to deal with that, just let me know when he calls and don't keep it from me next time please?" Tyler said, calmer now.
Alex nodded, "I'll talk to him in a bit. We don't get enough alone time." She adjusted herself so Tyler's arm was around her now.
"Yeah, how have the dreams been? I didn't hear you last night," Tyler asked worry in his voice.
Alex was silent, "I slept through it didn't I?" Tyler said, it was more of a statement than a question.
"It's alright, you needed sleep. I feel bad waking you up all the time," Alex said.
"I don't mind it. Now what was last night's horror?" he asked.
Alex sighed and said, "The same as usual, he cut down my back, and then moved on to my wrists. You guys weren't there yet. Then it was dark, I knew you weren't there but I could hear you screaming, and after awhile you stopped and his laughing started up again."
"Well he's not around anymore, I'm fine and you're fine. Fahrenheit can't get any of us anymore," Tyler said rubbing her arm.
"I know, but it doesn't stop the dreams from coming," Alex said.
"Give it time, they'll go away," Tyler assured her. Alex smiled and gave him a kiss on the cheek and stood up.
"Well I better go call Jared, I'll keep it short I promise," Alex said.
"Take your time, but not too long," Tyler shouted as she left.
Alex reappeared in the doorway and said, "By the way, thanks for listening." And then disappeared into her room.
Alex flopped down onto her bed and dialed Jared's number, "Jared?"
"Hey Allie what's up?" came the ghost-boy's voice. Alex grimaced, she had asked him to stop calling her that, it was the name he had used to call her when they were together.
"Not much Jared, why'd you call?" she asked.
"Can't I just call to see how you're doing? Or does Water-boy not like that?" Jared said mockingly.
"He has every right not to like it Jared, I'm his girlfriend now remember?" Alex snapped.
"I know, I know it's just fun to make him mad sometimes," Jared laughed.
"It's not nice though either," Alex said started to play with a strand of hair.
"I'm sorry I'll be nice stormy from now on," Jared promised.
"Well I was going to talk to you about that. Can you not call for awhile, it's creating problems between me and him and I don't like fighting with him at all," Alex said.
"It doesn't sound like I really have a choice. Fine I'll step out of your life Alex, you won't hear from me anymore," click Jared had hung up before Alex could respond.
Alex rolled over onto her back, and stared at the ceiling, 'I don't care what people say, boys definitely have P.M.S. from time to time. I just have to deal with two at the same time.'
There was a knock on her door, "Come in."
Thalia walked through, "Hi um, I heard yelling and just wanted to see if everything was alright," she said quietly. Thalia was way more outspoken now than she had been when they had first met but still got a bit timid when people were angry.
"Ugh, fine. Boys are just being their usual stupid selves," Alex said and moved over so Thalia could sit on the bed.
"Tyler's upset about Jared again?" Thalia asked knowingly as she sat down.
"And vice versa. Tyler seems okay about it, but Jared was fuming when I told him I didn't want to talk to him for a few days," Alex said.
"Well I'm proud of Tyler, give Jared time he'll get over it," Thalia said.
Ale groaned, "Everybody's been telling me that lately. Give it time and the dreams will go away, Jared will get over it. I just wish they'd be done now."
"I know. Oh! I have something that might be interesting,' Thalia said straightening up a bit.
Alex sat upright now, "What is it?"
"You know how I said I sensed something in the tower last night and you thought it was a dream?" Alex nodded. "Well today when I picked up Jude's jacket, it was giving off an aura of some sort. I don't know if the two are connected but it might be something to check out."
"Hm, do you think it was Jude who was in here?" Alex pondered.
"I don't think so, he might not even be magical. He could have just had a brush with some form of unseen magic by accident. I only saw it on his jacket, not him," Thalia said.
"Still that is something, we'll think more about it tomorrow. I think I'm going to take a shower and turn in early," Ale said getting off the bed.
"Okay, what should I do with the jacket?" Thalia asked following the raven haired girl out the door.
"Give it back but keep an out for him to see if he does anything weird," Alex said as she walked into the bathroom.
Thalia nodded, "Alright, see ya."
"Bye," Alex said as the sorceress turned and walked down the hall to her own room.
'That's very interesting, could Jude be a sorcerer too? If he is, is he dangerous? I'm probably getting ahead of myself, we'll find out 'Just give it time'' Alex thought in her head as she turned on the shower. She was too preoccupied to notice the mist outside of the shower, had turned a light green color.
Cliffy! I know you guys hate it when I do that but I couldn't resist! And one of the genres is suspense, so what did we think? I had to throw a little bit of drama with Tyler and Alex there, did you all think things were going to go swimmingly now that they're together? Of course not, Jared's definitely going to want to screw with things! Lol well I've babbled long enough! Review please!!