Alas, the last bit of this story... but it lends food for thought. I will be working on a sequel to my Trials for a Shaman story, and it will kinda be a sequel to this one too. The song I used is "Right Here Waiting" by Richard Marx

I heard her voice again. It was haunting, and wrenched my heart. I told her I'd never forget her, and I hadn't yet. I had tried so many times in the beginning to forget her, to bury my love for her. It was hard though. Everyone seemed to have forgotten she existed, but I had proof that she had been there once, and I never was without it. I felt her pain through it as time passed, she felt so hurt and torn, having to choose her people over me. I didn't want her to feel like she had abandoned me. But I felt like I had abandoned her. I sighed, looking at the pendant in my hand.

We had been apart for about four years, and although I tried to forget how I felt about her, I couldn't, no matter who I tried to date or fall in love with. Now that I had graduated, and been accepted to college, I felt the distance even more. And through that distance I could feel her heart. I wondered if she had forgotten me.

I watched an old friend of hers sitting on the beach, it was about sunset. She was making baby noises at her son, Kahoku. I thought he was very cute, as most babies were. She seemed to be smiling a lot more. Hot Streak had gotten what he deserved, and with the birth of her son, Kailie seemed much happier. Virgil had been a big help to her ever since we appeared in Kauai. I was still trying to figure out how we had managed to come with Kailie when she had been called back. I watched her and her son as the sun began to set. It was a beautiful place. This was a privately owned beach, owned by her family for many generations. The village wasn't too far away, and they were setting up for a final night of festivities. I never knew that there was so much good food in the world.

"Hey, Kailie. I was just watching you think. Are you alright?" Virgil asked.

"I'm fine. Just wondering what's in store for me." She said.

"You'll always have us. No matter what, we will stand by you." I replied. She had said something similar when she handed me the pendant... that she would always be right by my side if I beleived.

"Yeah. I hoped you would. We start college soon. I don't think that I can manage with Kahoku. But I can't bear to leave him here. I want to bring him with me. How am I going to afford college and raising him?" She asked.

"We've got a few connections. My pops can help, though it would be one hell of a day trying to explain it to him how you got a baby so fast. But our best bet is Bruce Wayne. He'll help you out. Especially if you're on our side." Virgil said.

"Yeah. I think he'd understand a lot. You might even manage a free baby sitter. A lot of the Justice League doesn't have time for creating a family. They would probably enjoy helping you out if they don't have something to do. Then there are the titans. And us. We can always help you out." I said.

"Don't rule out Alfred. That man is great. He may be old, but I get the feeling he's as sharp as ever. You'll be able to manage." Virgil said.

"I'm glad." She said, tears in her eyes.

"Hey, can I hold him?" I asked, seeing that Virgil really wanted to spend some time alone with Kailie.

I was glad that he had found someone to really care about. Daisy and Frieda were ok girls and all, but they were more like sisters to us than anything. Kailie looked at me for a moment, then smiled, handing me Kahoku gently. I took him and smiled at him, he was a good baby, he hardly ever cried, and seemed to contemplate and think in a much more advanced way than babies ever did. I pulled out a toy for him that I had made, and he started laughing, and I laughed with him, it was funny. I watched Virgil and Kailie walk off, hand in hand. I sighed, remembering her hands, her soft skin. Kahoku cooed, catching my attention again, and I smiled.

Oceans apart day after day

"I've never forgotten you Richie. Through the oceans of time and space, you're always in my heart."

And I slowly go insane

I started, keeping Kahoku tightly in my arms. The pendant was glowing now. I thought I was going nuts. How could it be glowing? What kind of a powersource could it have that would make it light up? Was it a chemical reaction, or just something the baby was doing?

I hear your voice on the line

The baby giggled in my arms as the pendant swung slowly around his hands. I began to settle back and forget that I thought I was hearing her voice again. I remembered using the phone to talk to her, the shock vox. The bell like laughter as I said something that seemed to catch her off guard as hilarious. And always afterwards she would kiss my forehead and tell me to stop thinking so much with my head, and more with my heart.

But it doesn't stop the pain

I didn't want the hope to flare up again, because it hurt too much to think that she was still in love with me after all this time. I knew how things went with royal families. As soon as one is old enough to get married off, they make an arranged marriage and that would be the end of it. But somewhere deep down, I knew that she probably had never loved me, that I was just some passing craze with her. But my heart told me I was fooling myself, and that she would always love me, and that was what hurt the most, knowing I loved her, and she loved me, and we would never see each other again.

If I see you next to never
How can we say forever

In my mind we had promised to be with each other forever, and now we were never going to see each other again. It was painful, but I knew that she had no choice, her people needed her there. At least until things had stabilized on that planet. Even then I was sure that she would have found someone else to give her heart to.

Wherever you go
Whatever you do
I will be right here waiting for you
Whatever it takes
Or how my heart breaks

I knew I would be waiting for her for a long time. Whatever she did and where she decided to go was up to her, but I would wait until forever for her, no matter how much my heart broke. I felt betrayed that I couldn't love someone else, that my heart wouldn't allow me to let go of her face, her voice, or the way she smelled or fit into my arms. It was as if we were pieces to a puzzle, and she was the piece that would be lost forever. But none the less, we fit so well together. I would find her, no matter what it took, and tell her that I still loved her. Tell her that I wanted my heart back, even if it was broken, if she didn't love me anymore.

I will be right here waiting for you

I took for granted, all the times
That I thought would last somehow

Kahoku looked at me, and I smiled again, thinking of the times when we just sat in the gas station talking to one another about what we were planning to do in our future, my future as a superhero, and her future with me. We had thought nothing of her strange past, and that we would have all the time in the world together. I had thought that we would always be together.

I hear the laughter, I taste the tears

I remembered her silver bell like laughter that first time we met in the junkyard, when I had kissed her. I remembered the tears she shed when she was laying on the infirmary bed at Titan Tower. Tears she had shed in fear of what would have happened, that she might have died, shed my tears. She cried for me when I couldn't anymore, when I thought that I had killed her, it was my fault, my ignorance that had gotten her hurt, and she cried for me, and told me it wasn't my fault. I tasted the tears of that night, when I thought for sure she would die without me being able to tell her I loved her.

But I can't get near you now

I remembered how I felt that I shouldn't be allowed near her, that I had almost gotten her killed with my stupidity. And we were at least a solar system apart; I couldn't begin to get close to her. I wanted so bad to wrap her in my arms and never let her go, but it was as if we were two magnets that were pushing one another away. We wouldn't be able to touch one another now.

Oh, can't you see it baby
You've got me goin' crazy

I felt fresh tears in my eyes as I became more and more frustrated with what had happened to the two of us.

Wherever you go
Whatever you do
I will be right here waiting for you
Whatever it takes
Or how my heart breaks
I will be right here waiting for you

I knew that whatever happened, I would do what I could to make sure she was always smiling. Even if it meant that I let her find another person. I was willing to let my heart ache forever if it would allow her a lifetime of happiness. I would wait for her, yes. But I would only wait for word of her happiness, of her life. If she wanted nothing more to do with me, I would only wait for the word.

I wonder how we can survive
This romance
But in the end if I'm with you
I'll take the chance

I wasn't sure how our love could survive, could have survived, the four years and such a distance as the one we faced. But I was sure that given the chance, we would be together again. Through the pendant I felt that our love had grown stronger, but I wanted to fool myself, to make myself think that perhaps it was all my imagination because I wanted it to be that way.

Oh, can't you see it baby
You've got me goin' crazy

Kahoku giggled as the pendant glowed again, and I lifted it up to eye level. I smiled slightly at the images I saw within it. My memories, her memories, placed within this crystal, the evidence of our love for one another. Slade had said that her people chose their partners early, at her age.

Wherever you go
Whatever you do
I will be right here waiting for you
Whatever it takes
Or how my heart breaks
I will be right here waiting for you

I wondered if her choice in me had altered my mind somehow, making it so that I loved no one else. I held it close to my heart and looked up at the stars as they came out.

"I'll be right here, waiting for you." I whispered. "I'll be waiting for you."

waiting for you . . .

Ta daaaaa!

I hope ya'll like this little bit... Kinda makes you misty eyed doesn't it?

It doesn't? Damn... well... It's not the end of my trial and error with song fics, I'll probably post another somewhere along the lines. Look for my next Static fic. I don't know when it'll be around, let alone if it'll be in English. Lets just say if I get an acceptance letter... I might be forced to write in German.

The title of my next fic may be something like "Lady of the Stars" Since Reiko will be making a return.