Home coming

By

Xxhanzyxx

Will Nightwing be able to help others before helping himself?

The second instalment based after Old wounds.

After his sudden departure from Gotham, Nightwing finds himself in Bludahaven, 'Gotham's dirty little sister', but can he even call this place his home?

Nightwing, yet in turmoil after his break-up with Barbara and his relationship with Bruce in more disrepair, he continues his vigilante mission cleaning up the streets more brutally than before, yet fearing that he is slowly becoming the one man that he has been fighting against for long, he wonders if being a vigilante is the only way of helping people?

But all is put on hold as a devastating event forces him back to Gotham!…

I am not basing this story on either the comic, film or animation and am not protesting that what I am saying is correct because I am not, this is just how I would have done things if I had my dream job so don't sue!!!

Now onto the story… enjoy…

Home coming

Chapter One

"And in other news, after the breakout by the Joker, the crime in Gotham has increased by over seventy percent" The TV reporter announces in the background of the large lounge.

"Still no sigh of the Joker then Master Bruce" Alfred sighs as he enters the pitch-black room to where Bruce Wayne is sat

"As soon as I get to any of the crime scenes, he has already vanished, he leaves no calling card… nothing" Bruce's deep voice enters from the darkness of the room

"Quite peculiar I'd say"

"For the Joker very"

"Maybe he is not as insane as we once thought"

"I doubt that Alfred… Will you call Barbara for me, see if she can find anything about his whereabouts "

"Certainly Sir, shall I tell her that you will be working"

"Tell her she can contact me on the COM" Bruce replies half heartedly, he hates getting anyone else bar himself involved with the Joker as he knows all too well what he is capable of doing

"Very well" He nods politely and continues with his day to day jobs

Bruce enters the cave through a small doorway behind the old grandfather clock and walks down the cold stone steps to where the infamous Bat mobile proudly awaits and the many different Bat suits aligned neatly next to each other, it is also where the large glass memorial case stands with the Robin suit assigned to Jason Todd in.

Batman sits down at the Bat computer and looks at the large Gotham map on the screen, he looks down the side of the screen to see the whereabouts of Barbara who has just come online and also looks at the emblem of Nightwing which is still immobilized. Bruce pauses for a moment pondering over what happened between him and Nightwing before the intercom turns on.

"Batman are you there?"

"Yes, what have you found?"

"Just what you're looking for, two ice crème lorries pulled up to the Northern Bank, I don't think they'll be selling any ice crème at twelve at night"

"I'm on my way"

"Do you need me?"

"I'll call you"

"You could just say no" Barbara mutters to herself as Batman's face disappears off the screen and logs off.

"Never mind, I can do some finding for my self," She says to herself as she takes hold of her Batgirl suit

Taking hold of her firing gun, Batgirl aims it out of her apartment window and drops five stories before swinging back up and through Gotham.

When she finally reaches her destination she hides behind the roof top wall and peers through the window of an apartment in the next block, she waits there for a moment or two as still and quiet as the buildings themselves, seeing no activity she fires her grapple gun to the opposite block and lands silently on the roof. She then quickly gets to the edge of the building and absales down the side and through a partly opened window. Once inside she quietly moves around the room, adjusting her eyes to the dark and unfamiliar surroundings. She thoroughly looks around the bedroom before silently opening the door and moving into a large lounge area, she again carefully searches the room and notices a file on the coffee table, which she picks up, and silently flips the pages open.

Barbara felt an uncomfortable feeling of being watched, something she brushed off as being paranoid from knowing that she shouldn't be there, she continues to wearily flip the pages, stopping every so often to check over her shoulder, finding nothing of any interest, she decides to continue her search through the apartment, but before she had chance to place the file back in its place she was suddenly overpowered as her arms were held behind her, throwing the file in the air and its contents across the floor. She yelps in suprisement and terror, as she couldn't break free from the grasp.

"You know you could just knock" The voice casually replies from behind her but Batgirl ignores the remark as she finds her opportunity to break free, releasing herself from the grip she drops to floor and balancing herself on one hand, she sweeps his feet from underneath him, he goes over backwards, but before any part of him could touch the floor, he turns his fall into a back flip and lands in a crouch behind her. He immediately pounces on her, pinning her to the ground.

"That wasn't a nice way to greet me, after all it was you who broke into my house" He sarcastically remarks, something that aggravate Barbara, she then realised that something's never changed

Batgirl knew that she could not get out of his grip, every time she struggled, he would apply more pressure, so much to her frustration she begins to relax and accept defeat, as he felt her tense muscles beginning to loosens, he began to relax his hold on her.

"I…. I didn't think you were in" she replied as she gets up off the ground and wipes down her suit embarrassingly blushing by her defeat.

"So that gave you the right to come here does it… Batgirl," He impatiently questions her as he stared at the masked woman in his home

"I didn't know what I was thinking, I'm sorry" She grumbles

"I suppose Batman sent you to check on me is that it?" He irritably asks

"No… he doesn't even know I'm here… you wont tell him will you?" She pleads with him

"I don't think you'll have to worry about that will you, besides what's with the costume, I haven't seen you for months and you come dressed as Batgirl!" dissatisfied by the cape and cowl which brings his blood to the boil

"I didn't think it was suitable for Barbara to go abseiling down the sides of buildings, do you?"

"Not really, but then again that's why man invented doors"

Barbara awkwardly laughs, unsure on whether laughing at this point was a bad idea. But it must have been as she looks to meet these beautiful steel blue eyes unemotionally looking at her.

"You didn't answer my question?" His voice becoming all the more impatient.

Barbara stands hesitantly for a moment and appreciates the effect this man has on her when she is with him, effects that until now she had forgot and missed

"Its… just that well you have been gone a long time that's all"