Okay, here I go! I saw TDKR almos two weeks ago and has been stuck in my head ever since. it was so amazing that I can't get it out of my mind! I especially love Bane (is that weird?) and Tom Hardy's performance. I really wanted to make a Bane/OC fic, so here it is! Please read and tell me what you think!


What do you do when you loose your only reason to live? What do you do when that reason is ripped away from you and you have no idea how, why, or when?

How do you move on from that?

Do you try to forget?

No, that's impossible.

Do you try to find another one?

No, it's not impossible, but highly improbable.

Would I become lost?

Probably.

Would I become someone's reason?

No one has ever cared enough.

Or, would I just die?

They seem such simple questions, yet all the answers evade me in the form of an unconscious man lying in the bed before me. He is the only one left who can answer these questions, and I don't even know if he will make it through the night.

How could he, with a huge hole in the middle of his chest?

Looking down at his sedated form, I realize with a clenching heart that he has now become my reason for living, even if for a short time. I don't know if he has all the answers to my questions, but what he does have to say may determine my own answers to them. Of what may become of my life, like he holds my life in his hands.

Fuck. That's a terrible thought.

But I need these answers. If I never get them, then I may never forgive myself.

I can't believe it. It kills me to think of him like that, as my only way to the truth, my only way to find out what happened. Him of all people. The man who has ruined my life, the man who attempted to destroy a whole city and almost succeeded. The man who I hate more than anything.

Bane.

Will he feel the same pain as I am? Is he capable of such a human emotion? He must be. I know he loved her. He hid it well, but I could see it in his eyes, the only feature on his face he ever let anyone see. I had loved her once too, though not in the same way. She was my best friend, my only friend and sister in some ways, but that friendship broke years ago with her betrayal. I loved her, but Talia had become too much like her father, and in the end, she ended up dying like her father and maybe I will die like my own. I will miss her, and it breaks my heart that I could never convince her to change, to become the Talia I once knew, but there is no way I could ever defend her actions. I feel like a failure. I feel stupid for thinking that she would ever change. Between the two of us, she was always the more stubborn one.

I realize too late that tears were escaping my eyes when I feel the little drops of salt and water land on my hands and chest, stinging the cuts and gashes that I have yet to clean. I quickly wipe them away and bury my sadness and anguish deep inside me, replacing them with anger at both him and myself. At him for ruining what little life I had, and at me for letting the tears fall.

No. I will not cry at his bedside, I will not pity him for suffering like I am, and I will NOT show vulnerability in his presence, even though he is not awake to see it. Not again. I promise myself. He may be the one who took away my reason for living, and I will not pity a man like him for loosing one of his.

I need my answers. I need to know what happened while I was in captivity. I will never forgive myself if I don't. I need to ensure that Bane lives through this, even if just for a little while longer. I need him to. I hate saying it, I hate admitting it, but the truth is, he holds the truth.

I never thought I would say this. I the old me would have died before so much as whispering these three words. I almost laugh at the sick irony, but...

I need him.

I need Bane.


So here is my extremely nervous, nerve wracking, and excited first part. I know it's a bit short, but it is only a prologue after all. Did you like it? Did you hate it? Did I make any mistakes? Please, Please, Please tell me what you think and I will post another chapter soon! :)

Oh, and I also decided to have a sort of question at the end of each chapter for you guys to answer! So! The question for this chapter is:

If you're reading this, I'm assuming that you also enjoyed Banes character. If so, what was your favorite part about his character? Mine is his ability to still have a bit if human emotion inside of him despite his upbringing and chalanges. That tear that he shed at the end of the movie made my heart melt!

-IAmTheStars