CHAPTER ONE

"Kori darling come here," a female voice came.

A little girl about the age of three with bright red hair and bright green eyes turned around on a swing and looked back at the female, she gave a soft smile, stopping the swing with her feet and heading over to the woman. Once she approached the woman, the woman wrapped the little girl in her arms, "Oh I love you so much Kori," the female said.

"Kori wake up time to get going," a male voice came bringing Kori out of the dream she was having.

Kori opened her eyes and lifted her head up slightly looking around the dark room she was in before placing her head back down on the pillow and closing her eyes for a few seconds. She had this dream about a woman calling her name every other month it seemed she never told her father about it. Well she had once when she was younger but he had gotten mad at her and told her too never mention it again, that her mother abandoned them and that was it. Kori was now eighteen years old and they had just recently moved to Gotham City well the outer part of the city and moved back was more like it. From what she was told by her father, they lived there while she was younger but they moved so much she didn't remember half the places they lived. Course she didn't want to remember either. Kori wasn't the typically teen she wasn't even the typically child. They moved a lot because her father and her where thieves they stole things, usually expensive things. She was raised that way and when she was thirteen to fifteen they spent that whole time in a remote place and her father trained her in fighting, stealing, and a few other things as well. When she was younger like six to eleven she tried to make friends at the new schools she went to but after a while when she realized they never stayed in a single spot for long she gave up there was no point in making friends when you weren't going to be there long. They had moved to Gotham for a new heist her father wanted to commit. Kori knew what they were doing was wrong but he was her father why would she not do what he asked of her. He was the only person she knew that loved her and this was the only life she knew. They had never been caught, not yet anyways; Kori was always waiting for that day.

"Kori I'm not going to repeat myself again," her father's voice came.

"I'm coming," Kori said as she made herself get out of the bed. She went over to the suitcase she had by her desk and opened it, grabbing a black tank top, blue jeans and placed them on, afterwards she grabbed her black boots and pulled them on zipping them shut and put her jeans over them. After she was finished getting dressed she left the room and was tying her hair back when she approached her father who was waiting for her, "Where too?" she asked her father.

"You're getting enrolled in Gotham College," he said as he grabbed a jacket and headed out the door. Kori followed her father outside and watched him as he got into the car, she then walked over to the passenger side of the car, got in, and placed her seatbelt on, "Why?"

"You need the knowledge," he said plainly, as he pulled the car out of the drive and headed towards the city.

Kori looked at her father and rolled her eyes at him, it wasn't true, "Is the next mark there?"

"The son of the next mark is attending there."

"You going to tell me who?" Kori asked

"No, I think you can figure it out for yourself," he said. There was no more talking after that and Kori just looked out the window at the city that was passing them by. She was looking up at a building an hour later as her father pulled into a parking lot. She got out of the car after he turned the car off. They walked into the college and walked down to the admissions room. The lady behind the desk looked up and gave a smile, "Hello how can I help you?"

"My daughter is enrolling," Kori's father said.

"Name?" the lady said

"Kori Wilson."

The lady typed on her computer, "Ah I have her right here, just in time to enroll in some classes. What classes will you be taking?" the lady asked Kori

Kori didn't answer but her father did, "Business class, economics, criminology, and juvenile delinquency."

"Okay," the lady said as she typed the classes in, "You're in luck there is one opening in each of those classes," she stated as she printed something up. She grabbed a paper and handed it to Kori, "Here you go, this is your classes, with the building and room number. As well as the day and time."

"Thanks," Kori said as she took the paper from the lady.

"Now can I have some emergency information?" the lady asked

"You can list me," Kori's father said.

"Name?" the lady asked

"Slade Wilson."

She put it in and a few other things but Kori tuned them out and looked around the place. They soon finished and Kori was left to walk around the campus for a few while her father left to go do something's. She walked around the outside of the buildings and looked at the names along with her schedule so she knew which buildings her classes where in. It seemed that she only needed two of the buildings for her four classes. She then put her schedule away and just walked on the campus grounds. She soon found there library and headed inside the building. She walked around the library to see what was in there. There was a lot in the library and she soon found a plaque that listed the founders and people who donated to the college. One name came up a lot Bruce Wayne. "I wonder who he is?" she stated lightly to herself.

Kori soon left the library and headed back outside and was heading to the parking lot when she heard someone yell, "Heads up."

She looked and saw a football coming towards her; she caught the ball in her arms easily, and turned it in her hands a bit, as she watched as people came up to her.

"Sorry about that," a male said as he approached her. She handed the ball back to him, "Thanks."

"You're welcome," she said to him.

"You're not from here are you," another guy asked.

Kori looked at him for a few seconds before she answered, "No I'm not just moved here."

"Sorry, there being rude. That's Vic, Garfield, Wally, and that's Rachel and Richard, and I'm Karen," the girl said.

"Kori," Kori said to them.

"You enrolled here?" Karen asked

"As of today yes," Kori said.

"Cool," Karen said. There was a car the pulled up behind them and Kori looked back at it and then back at the people that where in front of them, "I gotta go, have a good day," she said and turned around and headed towards the car. Once she got to the car, she opened the door and got in. Her father pulled out and they headed off.

After a few moments of silence in the car Kori spoke, "How long are we going to be here?"

"Possibly longer than the other times."

Kori sighed lightly as she leaned against the door of the car.

"I'll give you a hint," her father spoke as they pulled up to their house.

"A hint for what?" she asked

"Who you're going to be getting close to, it's a male."

She looked at him for a second before she got out of the car and headed towards the house. Once she got into the house, she headed to her room and shut the door behind her. She laid on her bed and looked at the ceiling just staring at it. She was just laying there thinking about some of the heists that they did but her thoughts soon were interrupted.

"Kori come on get your shoes on and grab your jacket," her father's voice came and she heard his footsteps walk away.

She placed tennis shoes on and grabbed her jacket after putting some more comfortable pants on. She was leaving her room while she put the jacket on she walked outside and got into the car. Her father drove for a while and parked the car on the side of the rode she looked at him as she got out.

"I'll be back in an hour or two," he said and then was off.

She watched as the car disappeared and headed down to the trail that was at the bottom. She zipped the jacket up, started walking down the path, and looked around her surroundings it was dark outside and she had no light to guide her really except for the occasionally street lamp but besides that, she had the moon. She didn't know what he wanted her to do here for an hour to two hours. She didn't see many people as she walked the trails. She watched as a young male it looked like was running along the trails by himself. She watched him as he passed her, he looked slightly familiar to her and it took her a second she had seen him at the college but she couldn't recall his name. She sighed lightly as she started running in the opposite direction he was going. If it was a loop, she would hopeful run into him again. She was right she did run into him again well more so she ran pass him. This happened a few more times before she stopped near the parking lot when she saw him walk up to the parking area. She was pretending to stretch her leg on a bench as she watched him get on a motorcycle and then take off. She tilted her head slightly to the side, "Mh I wonder if he's it?" she said lightly to herself. She soon took off again and headed back to where her father dropped her off. She was standing there for a few moments before a car pulled up beside her, she got in.

"How was the fresh air?" her father asked

"Fine, do I get the car tomorrow?" she asked

"No, I got you a car to drive," he said and they headed back to the house.

Once they got back to the house Kori grabbed some clothes and took a shower before she went to bed.