Prolouge
Silence: An unbearable, deafening silence that could drive the most sane person mad if they sat in it for too long. It was the kind of silence that you'd expect if you were walking through a graveyard in the middle of the night. That is it would be that type of silence if you'd worn earplugs to the graveyard. Usually the city known as Gotham would be full of activity on a late Saturday night. Usually there would be crimes going on. Usually there would be cars going by. Usually there would be noise.
Apparently that night wasn't usual.
Apparently that night was the opposite of usual.
On this particular, unusual night a lone stood on the roof of city hall, staring down at the street below. "It's over." She whispered. "I'm finished." She took another step towards the edge. It was a long way down. The fall alone wouldn't kill her. No, the solid concrete beneath would though. For some reason that didn't bother her. It would be fast. Easy. Simple. Over before she would have time to think about it…right?
"Hurry it up." A husky, horrible voice growled from behind her. No she wasn't alone. She wanted to be. She wanted the psycopath behind her to disappear. She wanted to be back in his arms. She wanted to be safe with him again. She wanted to hug him one last time and apologize for being stupid. She wanted to kiss him goodbye. "Just go or were you all talk when you said you weren't afraid?" The maniac laughed and the girl shuddered again.
She stood on the ledge of the building, staring down. This was it. It was over. She was a goner. In a matter of minutes she'd be dead. "One more thing," She turned to face the man. He glared at her as if she were an insect--An insect that could sting and kill, but an insect none the less. She returned the glare, equally hostile.
"What is it child?" The man shouted, hand still grasping the gun that was the only reason she didn't take him down then and there, "A dying wish to make me change my ways?"
"No," She smiled grimly, even though she had no reason to smile. "When you see him, let Batman know I said hello." With an enraged scream the man surged forwards and shoved the masked girl off of the building. As she fell the brown haired girl closed her was not afraid.
"Goodbye." She whispered to him. Where ever he was.
She knew he couldn't hear her. She knew he wasn't going to be able to save her. She knew he wasn't there to catch her this time. And for that, she cried silently as she fell. Tears streamed from her eyes as the ground came up to meet her. Her cape whipped around from behind her like a black wing. Her life seemed to flash before her. Not in the way like it supposedly does in the movies. No, she saw every detail. Every. Single. One.
So instead of seeing the ground rushing towards her, the young woman saw the past two years of her life play out before her.
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Okay, I know it's a corny start, but give it a chance. This was just the prolouge so it's like a quarter as long as future chapters will be. I don't own Batman or any of DC's characters, but I invented one of the characters you will be meeting next chapter and the storyline behind her.
Lots of Lazers,
RITS7
