On the twelfth day of ficmas...

Oh, right. I should post this to my journal.

I was assigned to write for wanderlustlover Amanda in 2004's first annual Jingle Bells, Batman Smells challenge (jbbs). She had requested Troia (Donna Troy), Nightwing (Dick Grayson), Robin (Tim Drake) and/or Starfire (Koriand'r) for characters. Now since I've written Dick and Tim* -- more than once -- I thought I'd at least give writing the gals a try.

Te kindly let me read her copies of the last several issues of THE TITANS (I only own the beginning of the run), and I saw that Kory and Donna were getting chummier by the end of issue #50... which was the last issue before TITANS and YOUNG JUSTICE rebooted as TEEN TITANS (v. 3) and OUTSIDERS (v. 2). I couldn't find any explanation in canon for where Kory was during the GRADUATION DAY miniseries or at the funeral service on Themyscira, much less what she was really doing when Cassie discovered her in Donna's bedroom, so I came up with my own explanations.

( Once I Had a Sadness )

Title from "This Was Pompeii" by Dar Williams.

*I'd intended to add a final scene to the story, touching on Dick and Tim and their reactions to the events of GRADUATION DAY. That wound up not happening, but I may yet write their scene as a coda to this story...


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