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"This" means that they're speaking in Tamaran and is used for whispering; you'll know the difference, and this is when they're thinking.
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Your Reason Why
Chapter 5 – Impatience
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"I don't have time for this." said Richard as he gave out an irritated sigh. "Do I wake her up?" he asked himself sitting down at the end side of his bed. Bruce had left him after he got called to the office and Richard had to be there once their alien guest wakes up. He glimpsed back at the bear…he was missing a boot. Can't even take care of a damn bear…
"Did he have to put her on my bed?" said Richard annoyingly and murmured something about alien germs. But then again, alien germs didn't stop him from taking a certain redheaded alien to bed. He looked back at the sleeping alien girl. Why would she have it?
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"Nothing?" asked a worried emperor, he saw a bleak Komand'r walking in through the big metal doors, who only shook her 'no'. The old man gave a hopeless sigh. "Where do you suppose…" he asked letting the question trail behind.
"What about the guards?" asked the young princess.
"They couldn't find her anywhere…"
"Oh, Kori is going to kill me…" murmured Komand'r half joking. She then cursed at herself after understanding what she had said. After all, Kori was the one dying. A tall handsome man entered through the two tall doors. His black hair and his dark green eyes seemed tired. He turned to Galfore.
"Emperor Galfore, Komand'r, Ryand'r sent a transmission. He requests that Komand'r goes to Earth immediately. He may found evidence that Mariand'r has gone in that direction; something about a bear that Koriand'r had. Ryand'r found its shoe floating along the Milky Way." The man turned to Komand'r.
Komand'r nodded at Galfore, meaning she'll go. "Maybe I should come with you." suggested Galfore.
"It's best if I go alone. You need to stay here…for Kori. I'll bring Mariand'r back." Galfore also gave a nod and excused himself out of the room. Komand'r turned to the man in front of her, she walked over to him and he held her.
"Maybe I should go. You can stay her with your sister and our son." He whispered to her. They stood there in silence; hugging. Since the war they hadn't be able to be together. He didn't want her to leave.
When the war in Tamaran had ended, she and Koriand'r had been captured and taken in as prisoners for almost half a year; since then Mariand'r had been lied to about her mother. Komand'r and Koriand'r stayed there until that planet went into war against itself; they were then able to escape during a violent battle that destroyed the building where they were held captive. They had to fight and hide for three months to finally leave the planet. Once they went back to Tamaran they found out that someone had declared war. The war was cut short because the opposing army had surrender; it had lasted four months and the last battle, which was not too long ago, left Koriand'r in a coma.
"I've missed you." he said,Komand'r looked up at her husband; her eyes threatening to water. He leaned in to kiss her. The kiss started out tender, shy. His hands moved slowly around her waist bringing her in closer; her hands played around with his soft hair. The kiss deepened and it became longing; passionate. Her gripped on his hair tighten and he held her even tighter; both using their Tamaran strength. They pulled away for air and he whipped away some tears from his wife's dark violet eyes.
"I have to go." He smiled and released her. "I'm going to say good bye to our son." Komand'r exited the room with her husband following close behind.
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Victor, Raven, and Garfield were all sitting on Victor's couch. The lights were off and all sorts of junk food were all over the place. They were watching the movie Under the same Moon and it was just about to be over. Emotional music was being played in the background the credits started to appear.
Garfield started to whimper, while Victor started to get teary, and Raven was trying to blink back her tears. Victor and Raven were able to successfully cover up theirwhimpers but Garfield's didn't go unnoticed.
"Garfield, are you crying?" Raven teased.
"Man, it's just a movie." said Victor as he grabbed several tissues.
"No! You are, shut up..." said Garfield wiping his stained cheeks. Victor mumbled something about having something in his eye and went to the bathroom. Raven grabbed some tissues and wiped the tears that had escaped her eyes. Garfield stood up and ran to the kitchen 'to get more junk food', taking the box of tissues with him…
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"Hello?" Richard answered his cell phone. He had been waiting for half an hour and the alien girl still hadn't awakened.
"Did she wake up yet?" asked Bruce at the other end of the line.
"No! Should I just wake her up?"
"I already told you, it's best if she wakes up on her own; she has a head injury." Richard rolled his eyes. "Anyway, if she wakes up, make sure she doesn't make any noise. I'm scheduled for an interview at the mansion, with the press, in five."
"Today? But I have to leave with the girl to take the paternity test."
"Go out of one of the back doors. Just make sure she's not seen…with you."
"Ugh…got it." He hung up the phone. "Just wake up already…" he murmured.
Mariand'r stirred on Richard's bed. She opened her green emerald eyes and saw a tall man with dark black hair and blue eyes that stood in front of her; he looked just like in the picture. She stared at him. Richard stared back, he was somewhat startled that she had woken up so sudden, but his stared was distant and cold. Mariand'r didn't notice.
She sat up on the bed clutching Robin; she was nervous and exited at the same time. Her eyes started to get teary and all her anxiety went away; she gave a small happy cry, hoped out of bed, and ran to her father. He didn't even felt like a stranger to her.
A year and half without her mother, and six years without her father, had made her sometimes feel like she was defected in some sort of way that made her wonderful mother and absent father not want her anymore or at all, in her father's case.
Richard was taken aback that this girl was hugging him, well, his leg anyway; he almost pulled away.
"Daddy…" Mariand'r finally had a dad. She had always wondered about it but never had the chance to ask her mother. She finally had someone to give her piggy back rides anytime she wanted! Her little cousin didn't have to share his dad anymore.
Richard really wanted to push this thing off of him. Nevertheless, it wasn't her fault she was the daughter of a bastard, who slept with her mother, and apparently abandoned them as well. He felt awkward.
"Uh, it's not for sure that I'm your father–!" he blurter out. Mariand'r let go. Oh, Richard felt much better.
She was about to hug him again. "But mommy–"
Richard backed away out of Mari's reach; she almost fell flat on the face. "Your mother could be wrong and…" Richard noticed and stared into her eyes. Green emerald eyes. Sad green emerald eyes. The same eyes he had hated to see this way, especially if he was the cause of it. Her mother's eyes. He looked away. Silence.
"Mommy said you were my dad…" her mother didn't say that per say but she did wrote the letter, so it wasn't a complete lie. She could give her father the letter but…she didn't want to. Mariand'r felt that it was her mother's choice to give it to him or not; and going against it was like being against her own mother! She would surely be angry with her. Besides she could get grounded. "…you do not like me?" This girl was at the brink of tears; she was being neglected.
Richard was freaking, "No! It's not that–" he lied; she was starting to whimper, he was panicking, she was going to yell, and the press was so going to hear her. They were going to ask questions. And he was pretty sure they were going to come up here. Damn stalkers…
"Don't cry!" Mariand'r held back her tears but they were still a threat.
Idiot, calm her down...
"So, you like…pie?" Hey, at least it was something.
Mariand'r wiped away her teary eyes. "What is a pie?"
Ok, this is good. She's distracted.
"It's something you eat, its round, and it's food…" Well, that was a stupid description of pie… He used to be good at explaining things, well, he used to do ok.
"Oh." responded Mari, still confused. Her watery eyes were now dry; but now she really wanted to see what a pie looked like.
Well that was easy… He felt relieved. Now, all he had to do was send her back to Tamaran. Oh… yeah, after he took the test.
"Well, what color is it?" Talk about moody… Richard thought. Apparently, she got this curiosity 'thing' from her mother.
"Uh, you know, brown."
"How does pie taste like?" Mariand'r was suddenly feeling very hungry. Having inherited nine stomachs didn't help either.
"Well. There's cherry, blueberry, there's meat ones too, and…uh, apple pies. There's more but that's just some…"
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They had already watched four movies, had gone through many bags of junk food, and still no sign of Richard. "Dudes! Sweeney Todd is awesome!" said Garfield as he did an air guitar solo, no one knows why though. Raven just raised an eyebrow at Garfield's childish, but humorous, tactics; she almost wanted to giggle…almost. After his imaginary guitar solo Garfield began to sing. "We all deserved to die! Even you Mrs. Lovett, even I–!"
"Man, you cannot sing." interrupted Victor, shoving more popcorn inside his mouth.
"Dude, can too! Don't you know I'm like a superstar in Tokyo? I'm a singing legend."
"Right. Anyway, what is taking Richard so long?" complained Vic, who seriously needed more popcorn right now.
"Maybe he had–" The doorbell rang interrupting Raven. "Never mind…"
"I'll get!" yelled Garfield as walked over towards the door to open it. To their disappointment, it was just the pizza guy. "Vic! It's for you." said Garfield as he took the veggie pizza away from the dorky pizza guy; who needed to pull up his pants up and cover up his 'Barman' boxers. Garfield snickered and went back to the living room. Good thing he decided not to wear his 'Batman' boxers today.
"I didn't order any pizza." sated Victor. He turned towards Raven who only shook her head. They both turned towards Garfield.
"What?" he said while chewing his pizza.
"You ordered it, you pay for it."
"Dude! I'm the guest, you're the host. It's your duty!" whined Garfield. Victor took a twenty dollar bill from the wallet under the coffee table and paid the now irritated, dorky, Batman fan, pizza boy.
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"Where does pie come from?" asked Mariand'r innocently.
"Ok, how about if I let you try pie? Then would you not ask so many questions?!" asked Richard in frustration. He had answered 43 questions about nothing but pie for the alien girl. Frankly, he was starting to get sick of pie.
"Really?" At least she didn't notice the harshness in her father's voice. Richard raised his hand to his forehead.
"Really." he answered dully and annoyed. Silence. Mariand'r started kicking her feet. Happy. She wondered what her father had planned for the two of them. Maybe it involved piggy back rides.
Richard never felt so relieve to see the alien girl silent. Maybe now he could send her back to Tamaran and blow the test. He already knew the answer anyway.
"Where's your mother?" he ask causally or at least trying to. Mari turned her head towards him and then lowered her gaze to the ground.
"I don't…know." Richard noticed her gripped on the bear tighten. He narrowed his eyes.
"What do you mean you don't know?" Mari started to snivel.
"She's gone…" He felt disgusted that Kori would just dump her daughter on him. "Daddy–"
"Did your mother send you to find me?" Richard interrupted lowering his voice, but with the same harshness remaining.
"No…" At least, that wasn't the case. "Daddy–" she tried again, it came out as a whisper.
"Does anyone know you're here?" His voice started to grow impatient.
"No…" she choked out. He forgot he was interrogating a six year old. "Daddy–"
"Look, I'm not your dad! How did you know where to find me? Is Kori sure I'm your father? Is she sure that it's not somebody else? Why did she send you?" He meant that as in why Kori didn't come but it was taken the wrong way by Mariand'r.
She was now completely ignoring him; she was trying to tune him out. Clearly he did not want her there.
"I want my mommy…" she yelled, it was a quite yell.
He stood up and was about to yell that he wanted answers. He wanted to tell her that she wasn't his daughter; he wasn't her father, her mother is wrong, if not lying.
Richard noticed her eyes again. She was silently crying and saying something he couldn't quite understand. His tempered somewhat subsided.
"Look–" he began.
"I want to go home!" she yelled standing up, tears streaming down her face. Regretting that she had come looking for him.
"Don't yell. I want you to go home but–"
"I want to go home!" she yelled once more reaching for her stuff on the bed. "I'll find mommy on my own!"
"I told you not to scream! I'll get you home. Where's Kori at?" Even if he did wanted her to go he wasn't irresponsible to let a six year old girl take off by herself. Especially for what had happened to her yesterday. Besides, the press was downstairs with Bruce.
"I want to…go home…" Mari dropped her stuff and ran to Richard, who was now kneeling down, she hugged him and quietly sobbed. He didn't hugged back, he just stared. "Mommy is gone…" she said between sobs. "I missed…her…since a…year ago…" It took a minute for Richard to understand what was being said. He stayed still and let the alien girl cry on his shirt, which happened to be clean, and listened to her story…
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"Mr. Wayne! Mr. Wayne! Is it true that your ward, Richard John Grayson, went out with your personal secretary?" asked a young brunet woman with anticipation. Other paparazzi and news reporters shouted with agreement.
"Actually that's none of my business…or yours…" he said whispering the last part, "but yes, he did. It doesn't matter thought because she got fired yesterday."
"Mr. Wayne! Mr. Wayne! Now that we talked about your life, we want to know more about your adoptive son. Do you think he'll ever settle down? We thought it was for sure when he was with Kori Anders and again with Barbara Gordon, but he didn't. Is there someone special in his life right now?"
"Yes, is he gay?" asked somebody in the back, clearly not wanting to be recognized. Laughter spread the room. Clearly this was not the 'ask you about your work and accomplishments' kind of press anymore.
"No, he is not gay." Here we go again…
"Mr. Wayne! Do you think he's fit to run your company and inherit your billions?" asked a news reporter, getting back on topic, but asking the same question he had heard for a billion times.
"Actually, yes I do." He answered confidently. Of course, this was on the basis of some days more than others but he meant it.
"Mr. Wayne! Bruce Wayne! Getting back on topic. Who did you liked more: the beautiful, charming Kori Anders or the wonderful, attractive Barbara Gordon?" asked a young man with black hair. Like this was being back on topic…
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"Ok, no more Disney movies!" stated Raven as they finished watching The Little Mermaid. They had also watched Cinderella, Hercules, and Beauty and the Beast. The song I won't say I'm in Love was currently stuck in her head. Scary part was that they all enjoyed them…one way or another.
"Well, I don't have other movies. We already watch all the ones we rented."
"Uh. Vic, just a question. Why do even have Disney movies?" asked Garfield with curiosity.
"Actually, they're Starfire's…I think I accidently packed them when I was packing up all the videogames."
"We'll order something from Par-Per-View then. My treat." said Raven interrupting the incoming silence. She reached for the remote and went through all the movies they were offering.
"I'll go get more popcorn." declared Victor. They were all going to be sick in the morning with all the junk food they had eaten. The door bell rang.
"And I'll get it." said Garfield standing up.
"Gar, did you order more pizza?" asked Victor from the kitchen. Clearly, they were not expecting Richard anymore.
"No, dude." yelled Garfield opening the door.
"Richard, you're here–!" said a surprised Garfield. "Uh, do you know you have something on your…shoulder?" asked Garfield once he saw a little girl asleep over Richard's shoulder.
"I've noticed…" said Richard entering Vic's apartment with a sleeping Mariand'r.
"So, who's the chick?" he asked Richard as they walked into the living room. He didn't answer. Raven stood up from the couch and Victor came out of the kitchen with more popcorn.
"Hey, Rich, who's the–"
"Victor. I need a paternity test. Now." said Richard as he headed towards Vic's lab. His three confused friends followed him.
"What's going on?" asked Victor.
"Dude! Don't tell me she's your daughter!"
"Richard, what happened to her?" stated Raven referring to the bandages on the girls head.
"I think I saw her on the news." said Vic.
"I'll explain later. Vic, I need a paternity test." He said motioning towards the door. His friends stared at the girl and then at Richard. Victor stepped up and entered a code for his door to open. Victor, Mariand'r, and Richard entered the lab closing the door on Garfield and Raven.
Garfield turned Raven. "Bet you twenty bucks that the test says that there's a 100 chance that she's his."
Raven smiled. "Deal. No way is Richard that stupid to get a girl pregnant; it's going to say 0 chance that he's the father. But make it one hundred."
"Deal." They shook hands and they press themselves against the door trying to hear what was being said at the other side of the door.
So, how was it? I think it went well. Anyway, is Mari Richard's daughter? Who does Bruce likes best? And who will win the bet? What about Kori and the search party?
Well, we know the answer is yes. As for Bruce, we will never know. And as for the rest? Review to find out! XD BTW, are the chapters to long? I don't want to bore you to death. xD SUMMER! :DDD
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