(A/N): Yay the weekend is finally upon us and now that my classes are over, I can spend more time writing which is good because this was my last chapter that I had stock piled haha. I hope you enjoy it and as always please leave a review! -Darkrubie
5 days had passed since Kori got to Rachel's house; it felt so nice catching up but Kori knew it was time to go home. She had so much work to catch up on and she was worried that Richard never returned any of her calls or texts. The two girls hugged each other at the airport, Kori with tears in her eyes.
"I'll miss you so much, I promise to visit more" Kori said.
Rachel nodded and smiled "You better." She replied.
With one final hug Kori went through security and went to board her plane. Once Kori arrived in Gotham she went straight to Richard's house. She walked up to the front door and as always, Alfred's warm embrace awaited her.
Kori pulled her head back and asked "Is Richard here? It's important I speak with him"
Alfred hesitated and said "Yes although he has been in a sour mood lately but if it's important I shall tell him that you request his presence in the library."
Kori hugged the old man again and said "Thank you!" She began walking towards the library and once she arrived she picked a nice chair and sat down. It felt like an hour before Richard finally showed up and by that time Kori was kind of annoyed.
"How nice of you to grace me with your presence" she said in an annoyed tone.
"I could say the same to you." He said with a bored expression.
She gave him a questioning look but decided to change the topic before things got out of hand.
"I came to talk about "that night"" Kori said with a slightly hushed tone.
"I'm glad. I have been thinking and I have decided we should both just forget about it. I don't want to lose you as a friend." Richard replied with the same bored tone not looking at Kori.
If he had looked at her, he would have seen the crushed look on her face. Kori started to panic. She thought that night was special and that everything would change.
"We'll I guess it was only special for me and now everything has changed although not for the better." Kori thought to herself. It took her a minute before she cleared her voice and finally said with no emotion in her voice "Well if that's the way you feel than so be it. Good night Mr. Grayson and I will see you at the office on Monday." She turned and stomped out of the office, not even giving him a chance to say anything. Kori was amazing that she was able to keep it together but as soon as she shut her front door, she collapsed and started crying her eyes out.
"Why can't he just love me?" She screamed.
Kori dragged herself to her room and collapsed in her bed, crying herself to sleep.
Kori's alarm went off and she groaned.
"I don't want to face him today but I have no choice." She said out loud. She rolled out of bed, her permanent spot all weekend, and went to take her shower. Doing her usual thinking time she decided that if he wanted to just be friends than so be it. In fact at work she would be more professional than ever. Once Kori was dressed in a tight black skirt that reached her knees, an aqua green shirt, and her heels she left for the office. Richard was a grown man, he could wake himself and even if he couldn't, Alfred would make sure he got up. Kori rode the elevator up to her floor and sat down at her desk. She started catching up on all the work she had missed and didn't even notice when the elevator dinged at someone's arrival. A hand reached down and set a cup of coffee on the desk in front of her. Kori jumped when she saw the hand and quickly whipped around, coming face to face with Richard.
"Oh I'm sorry Mr. Grayson, you startled me." She said with a friendly and polite tone.
Richard questionably looked at her and said "It's ok; I thought you would like some coffee when I was grabbing some so I got you one too. Almond joy mocha, your favourite."
Kori smiled back and said "Thank you Mr. Grayson. I have written down your meetings for the day and updated you calendar. You have a conference call in 10 minutes in your office."
With that she turned back to her desk and got back to work. Richard huffed and went into his office slamming his door on the way in. Kori sighed when he was gone and laid her head on the desk. Willing herself not to cry.
Richard stared at his desk with a frown. This felt like the longest 5 weeks of his life and it was all because of Kori. She kept up the politeness and spoke to him unless it was about work for over a month now and it was killing Richard. "I thought this what she wanted. She is the one he left me, what gives her the right to be all formal with me?" Richard thought out loud. He decided that it was time to settle this once and for all settle this. He walked to his office door and wrenched it open, expecting to see Kori there only to be surprised when he saw Kitten there waging there for him instead.
"Katherine. What are you doing here?" He questioned.
"We need to talk." Kitten said with a wicked look in her eyes which made Richard nervous. She pushed him into the office and shut the door.
-2hours earlier-
Kori sat at her desk, regretting going to work today. Every smell seemed to make her stomach churn and she even had to bolt for the bathroom a few times. She looked at her calendar to look at what meeting Richard had next and that's when she realized, her period was late. Kori panicked and grabbed her purse and keys and bolted for the elevator. Kori needed to get to a drug store and get a test to help ease her mind. She got the test and quickly went back to work, locking herself in a bathroom stall. She did as the instructions told her and set a timer on her phone. Kori sat there for what seemed like the longest 5 minutes of her life, when her timer went off causing her to jump. Kori took the test in her hands with her eyes closed, working up the nerve to look down. She finally took a deep breath and looked down. Tears instantly came to her eyes and she threw the test away. Reaching for her phone she dialed the only person in the world who could comfort her at this moment.
"Hey Kori, I thought you were at work." Rachel said.
Kori sobbed which caused Rachel to become alarmed and asked "What's wrong? What happened?" It took Kori a minute before she could choke out
"I'm pregnant with Richard's baby." Rachel gasped and was stunned to silence.
Kori sobbed and said "What am I supposed to do? I know he will take responsibility for the baby but he said he only wanted to be friends, I don't know if I can tell him!"
Rachel snapped out of it and said "Kori, it's his baby too. He has a right to know, talk to him, I'm sure everything will work out the way you want it to."
Kori half smiled and said "Maybe your right, I will tell him during lunch." As Kori and Rachel were talking, a sneaky Kitten quietly made her way out of her stall and out the bathroom door. She practically ran to Richard's office with a wicked look in her eyes.
"This will be the last I see of Kori Anders." She said with a smile.
-Back to now-
Richard sat in his chair stunned.
"You seriously want me to believe that Kori had sex with Xavier at the Wayne ball in the bathroom, got pregnant and since Xavier refuses to step up, she is going to say the baby is mine?" He asked, his voice shaking.
Kitten sniffled and said "Oh Richie-poo, I wish it wasn't true but I heard her talking about it in the bathroom. I was also there when she was having sex with Xavier."
Richard couldn't say anything, he was speechless. It did make sense on why she suddenly left now though. Richard became angry.
"Get out of my office." He said with a rage filled voice.
Kitten shrunk back at the anger and quickly left. Richard sat there seething and slammed his fist down on his desk.
Kori came in and asked "Are you ok? You look pretty upset."
Richard glared at her and said "I'm fine" throught clenched teeth.
"Umm ok, well I really need to talk to you so would you like to go somewhere for lunch." Richard knew what she was going to say.
"We can talk here." He said with authority.
"Ok here it is than." She said nervously.
She stood there trying to work out how to say it and eeped when Richard yelled "Well? Out with it already!"
She cringed and closed her eyes and quickly said "Richard I'm pregnant with your baby."
She stood there with her eyes closed and after a couple of minutes she opened them, shocked at the anger on his face.
"So you're trying to pass someone else's baby off as mine? Are you that stupid, I've dealt with these kinds of stories before and the whore telling the story is always lying. I never thought you were one of the whores Kori." Richard spat out.
Kori stood there with tears in her eyes, feeling as if he had stabbed her in the chest.
Soon anger took hold of her and she screamed "Do you really think of me like that?"
Richard just sat there looking at her. Every second that he stared just made her angrier, she finally snapped and slapped him across the face and screamed "If you think that little of me than fine! I quit! Don't call me again, don't stop by my house or anything, I hate you!" She turns on her heel and stomped out of the office with tears streaming down her face.
Next chapter: moving on