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Chapter 3: Returning Relationships
"Rose! Get out now!" My mom said to me, I could hear the gunmen coming up the stairs, "Rose, you have to take Lily and you have to get to safety, now!" "But mommy, what about daddy? What about you?" I could see my mom blink back tears, "We'll be fine, trust me. You have to be strong, put on your brave face and don't let your sister see that you're scared." I looked at the window, then at my mom and nodded, "Mommy loves you both." she said to my younger sister and I, then hugged us, "Mommy... Don't weave." My three year old sister Lily said, "I won't, I promise." She opened the window, "Now go." I nodded and grabbed my sister. We jumped onto the tree branch next to the house, I heard glass shatter from inside the house, my mom screamed, "Mommy!" Lily shouted, "Shh." I whispered and climbed down from the tree. Flames flickered from the room we were in. There was the sound of gunfire and another scream from my mom, I was scared, but couldn't show it, I had to think of a place to hide. Lily whimpered next to me, "Wose... I'm scawed." "I know." I definitely was too, and if I couldn't find a place to hide then I'd have let my mom down. Across the road was a line of shrubs, "Okay Lily, we have to hide from the bad people, and the only place to go are the bushes over there, we might get poked and scratched, but we have to keep quiet so the bad people don't find us, okay?" I said, sounding more like an adult than a six year old. Lily nodded and we ran into the bushes, I peeked through the branches over at our house that was now burning down, the two gunmen ran out the front door. They said something to each other then got into their dark car and left.
I woke up startled, the nightmares were getting worse, except they weren't nightmares, they were flashbacks. I sat up in my bed that I had made from plants and listened to the waterfall on the back wall of my room, it was calming, but it would never make me forget. A commotion sounded in the hallway so I got up to see what it was.
Raven, Starfire, and Robin were standing outside of the bathroom, "Beast Boy you have been in there for an hour, other people need to use the bathroom too you know." Robin said,
"Seriously, you never take this long to shower and honestly, I don't think you've ever showered before in your life." Raven said,
"I'm busy, I'll come out when I am done."
Everyone sighed, "Don't worry guys, I've got this." I said and pounded on the bathroom door, "Beast Boy! I swear if you don't get out of the bathroom this instant I will break down this door and you will feel my wrath!" I shouted. I stepped back as the door opened and Beast Boy ran out and back into his room,
"How did you do that?" Robin asked,
"A couple of days ago he pulled the same stunt, so I broke the door down and pulled him out of the bathroom myself."
"Nice." Raven said,
I shrugged, "I'm pretty sure he goes into the bathroom to do nothing."
"Probably." Raven agreed,
"Well, I'll be in my room if anyone needs me." I said, heading back to my room.
I opened the curtains to let the morning light fill the room, the flowers opened up in their pots, I smiled, enjoying the nice sunny day and hoping that no villains would ruin it. I grabbed a book from my bookshelf and plopped back onto my bed to read. Hours had passed when the intruder alarm went off, I sighed, contemplating on if this was a real emergency or if I could just ignored it, but there was the fact that if I didn't show up Robin would triple my chore load for a month... Spikey haired jerk. I got up and ran down to the living room where I saw the others standing in a circle and Robin had someone pinned down, "What's going on guys?" I asked as I walked up to them,
"An intruder, but we've got him." Cyborg said.
From underneath Robin I noticed some blonde hair, "Wait a second." I shoved past Raven and Cyborg to get a better look at who Robin had pinned down. A familiar blonde hair, green eyed boy was lying face down on the floor, "Jericho?" I said, he looked at me, his eyes begging for help,
"Wait, Rose, you know this person?" Cyborg asked,
"Yes, Jericho is a friend, an old friend, of mine."
"Is he dangerous?" Robin asked,
"Puh-lease, does that innocent face look dangerous?" I knew that if he really wanted to, Jericho could have possessed everyone, but he didn't.
Robin got off of him, "Sorry about that."
I helped Jericho up, there had to be a reason he was here, I've been with the Titans for about six months now, and this entire time he hasn't come to see me, not even once! I grabbed his arm and led him to the couch, then grabbed a pen and a notepad and handed them to him, "Jericho, what are you doing here?" I asked, "And how did you find me?" He started scribbling on the notepad,
"Uhm, Rose, what are you doing?" Beast Boy asked,
"Yes, if you wish to talk privately we can leave the room." Starfire said,
"It's not a private conversation, Jericho doesn't talk, so he's writing down his response." I said,
"Ooh..." They all responded,
"Yeah." I said and watched patiently as Jericho would scribble on the notepad, stop to think for a second, then continue once again. We all sat in an awkward silence while he wrote,
"So... How did you meet Jericho?" Robin asked, to strike up some sort of conversation,
"We met while I was... travelling, I had gone down south and found a small village, at night I would steal food from the merchants out on the street, and one night he and I were thieving together, and we just kind of made a team of it, but then I left..." I said the last four words a little quieter,
"You left? Why?" Beast Boy asked,
"Because, things change." I said as Jericho finished up his last sentence then handed the notepad to me,
'Rose, it took a while to find you, but news got around that there were six super teens always saving Jump City, it wasn't that hard, but listen, the reason why I'm here is because a few days after you left a man and a blonde girl came to the village, he said he was looking for a red haired girl, no one had said they had seen her, so he got angry and destroyed the village. He was tracking you Rose, and I don't know what he wanted, but it didn't sound good. I set out after you too, hoping that I could get to you and warn you before he found you.' He wrote.
A man and a blonde girl? I handed the notepad back to him, "What did they look like?" I asked, afraid that what he was writing would be the exact people I don't want to see.
He handed the notepad back to me, 'Like I said, the girl was blonde, but she had light blue eyes and looked to be 12 or 13. The man was tall with dark brown hair and brown eye, he used the girl to destroy the village, she seemed to have fire powers, I went to stop them, but by the time I got to the village, they were gone.'
I stared at the notepad, clutching it in my hands as I fell to my knees. "Rose, what's going on?" Robin asked, I still couldn't believe what Jericho was saying (or writing),
"My father is after me..." I said shakily, still staring at the notepad, "And he's bringing my sister with him."