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He slowly opened his eyes...
He was still alive...
Everything was blurry...
His entire body seared with pain...
But he did not mind...
He welcomed the pain...
It was an old familiar friend...
He heard people cheering in the distance...
They had failed...
He closed his eyes again as pain overwhelmed him. Not physical pain that a normal person might feel after being blasted with a rocket. The pain of one who had failed someone he loved. The only person he had ever loved. But he would have his revenge. A small smile that went unseen by any other being appeared under his mask, as he slipped into the sweet dark abyss...sweet revenge...
He slipped in an out of consciousness several times. He was vaguely aware of being carried out of the rubble of the building where he was shot, and put into a van, then darkness. He opened his eyes again when he felt the van stop. Three dark figures gently picked him and carried him out of the van. He thought he heard the engines of an airplane start, but fell unconscious again due to his injuries...
As Bane lay unconscious in the plane, a tall, lanky, well toned man with short spikey light blonde hair and blue grey eyes came to stand over him. His name was Adrien. He was faithful follower of Bane, and had been for the longest time. When he was a boy, he had been saved by Bane and taken into his ranks. Bane had been his savior, mentor, and brother. So when the bottom dropped out and Bane had been shot by the rocket fired by the devil Cat as she was known among the men. He had quickly hidden himself, and his brother.
Two other of Bane's followers, Reuben and Disoto, who had also escaped arrest, helped to smuggle their master out of Gotham. The four men had been lucky to find one of their former contacts to help them get out of the due to the massive manhunt of Bane and any of his men. A great bounty had been placed on his head and the head of any of his men, who were found dead or alive. An order of shoot to kill had been placed on all of them, should they be seen by any law enforcement, and the United States was working with the United Nations in order to get as many other countries of the world to do the same.
Thankfully they had made it out of the country to France. But they needed to find a doctor for him soon or they would lose him.
"Where are we going to go? What are we going to do?" Disoto asked his brothers as they hid in the basement of a country hostel.
Disoto was a large dark man from Africa. He had entered Bane's ranks as an invisible child warrior by revealing a traitor who had been leaking information to Bane's enemies. He was proven in battle and relentless in his attacks. His loyalty to his master was unshaken.
"We have to find somewhere safe to hide until he can be healed. We have to find a doctor." Reuben said glancing over to the bed where their master lay wrapped in bloody bandages and burning with a fever.
Reuben was the most recent recruit of Bane. He was a young man with olive skin, dark eyes and hair. He had been homeless, an orphan on the streets of Gotham before the reckoning. He had yet to prove his mettle. But he hoped that by helping to rescue Bane he would finally prove himself.
Adrien sat with his hands upon his face, trying to think. After several moments, he finally looked up at his brothers.
"I know where we can go.."
A fist flew at Adrien's face and hit him square in the nose. He heard and felt it crack, and yelped in pain, as his sister reared back to punch him again.
"HOW DARE YOU SHOW YOUR FACE AROUND HERE AGAIN! HOW DARE YOU STEP INTO MY TRAILER AND SPEAK TO ME!" his older sister Heather roared as she flew at him again.
Adrien quickly threw up his hands to protect himself. He had known this was coming when he sought out his family. His elder sister was now the matriarch of the family and had become the ring leader of the family business, A famous Cirque that travelled the world particularly the eastern hemisphere through Europe, Asia, and Africa, and occasionally journeying to America. His sister was a tall beautiful Norwegian looking woman. She was muscular, and fast, with light blonde curly hair falling just past her shoulders, and bright icy blue eyes that could freeze a person in an instant.
"Heather, you don't understand! I was being abused! You have no idea what they were doing to me!" He cried as she walloped him over and over.
Suddenly a hand caught Heather's and the blows momentarily stopped. Adrien uncovered his face to see his younger sister standing in front of him, shielding him from his older sisters wrath.
"Sister," Joanna whispered in a calm voice, "You forget yourself. He is still our brother."
Heather glared down her little sister, her eyes burning. "He does not deserve your kindness, sister...not after he abandoned us." She said as she turned around to walk back to her desk.
Joanna still stood protectively in front of her brother. Where her brother and sister both stood at six feet, she barely stood at five foot four. Like her brother and sister, she had the same blonde hair. But hers was a bright golden sunshine color, that fell down her back in long wavy cascades. She turned to look at him revealing deep blue azure eyes. Adrien was surprised at how beautiful she had grown from a child. She wrapped her arms around him with tears in her eyes.
"I have missed you brother." she said smiling at him.
"I missed you too," he said squeezing her tightly.
"What are you doing here?" Why did you come back? I heard you had become a terrorist and gone to America." she asked pulling away to look at him.
He did not want to discuss his recent activities to his sister, especially in front of Heather. He was afraid she might shoot him, and he still needed to get Bane and the others to safety.
"I need your help. My friend is hurt, Please," he begged with pleading eyes.
"NO, ABSOLUTELY NOT!" Heather roared jumping up from her desk and charging towards Adrien and Joanna.
"If you think that I am going to let you bring some of your pieces of filth friends here. You have another thing coming." she growled. "I'll bet he's on the run from the police. I will not allow him to just come back into our lives and put us into danger. We are having enough problems as it is."
"Then at least let me clean him up from where you beat him half to death and then send him on his way." Joanna said.
Heather looked suspicious but nodded. Joanna smiled and quickly took Adrien's arm and left the tent. They walked through a field of trailers and large transfer trucks not speaking until they reached a large sea green RV. The inside was large and cozy with a couch, chairs, a plush rug, a kitchen, shower, and even a fireplace and a large plasma tv. Joanna walked into the kitchen to get her first aid kit, and then returned and set him down on the couch and began cleaning his bloody nose.
"I don't know where you have been or what you have been doing, and I have a sneaking suspicion that I don't want to know. But, you are my brother and I want to help you. So go and get your friend and bring him here. I will go and talk to Heather. You can stay here for the night. But you need to be gone by morning. We are leaving to travel to the south of France." she said as she finished bandaging.
Adrien smiled, "Joanna you are as kind as you are beautiful. I don't deserve you as my sister."
Joanna laughed, "No you don't now go get your friend and let me go talk to Heather."
Over an hour later found Adrien, Disoto, Reuben, and Bane in Joanna's RV. Bane had been laid on her pull out couch.
"I'm warning you both. My sister Joanna is risking a lot by letting us stay here. DO NOT say anything about Gotham, or who Bane really is, and if you don't treat her with respect I will shoot both of you. I don't care if he kills me when he is able."
"What the hell is this!" Joanna cried from the door of the RV. "You said 'my friend is hurt and needs help' not my FRIENDS need help! Who are these people!"
Adrien stepped forward, "Joanna, please calm down. This is Disoto, and Reuben, and that," he said pointing to Bane, "Is Tom."
Joanna finally noticed the large man on her couch and froze.
"What happened to him?" She asked slowly walking over to him.
"Joanna, you really don't want to know, believe me. Is there anything you can do for him?"
Joanna wasn't sure...but she would try. She thought to herself as she rolled up the sleeves of her blue sweater.
Several hours later, Bane lay on the couch sleeping peacefully. His fever had dropped, and his wounds were cleaned and sewn up. Joanna sat beside him on the bed watching over him. She had sent the other three men over to the mess tent where dinner was being served. At first the other two men had hesitated not sure whether it was ok for them to leave their master with this stranger. But Adrien assured them there was no place safer for their master than with his little sister. She had never harmed another soul in her life, and she would never allow another to be harmed in her presence. So here she sat alone with this monster of a man. Gently, she took a cold cloth and caressed it across his brow to clean where he had sweated out his fever. Suddenly, his eyes opened and Joanna found herself being stared at by deep chocolate brown eyes. She leaned in.
"Are you alright?" she whispered.
Bane mumbled something through his mask that sounded like a name.
"T-ali-a,"
He closed his eyes again and fell back into a deep sleep. Joanna wondered who Talia was. She wondered a lot of things about this man. What had happened to him for him to wear the mask and have such wounds? How did he know her brother? What had they been doing? She wasn't sure, but one thing she did know was that he could not leave, he was still injured and she could not allow him to just go off before she was sure he was well enough. That and she wanted more than anything for her brother to be united with her family again. She had missed him so terribly. She would simply have to find a way to keep them here.
The next morning found Disoto and Reuben asleep in the overhead sleeping compartments and Adrien on a pallet on the floor. All three awoke with a jolt when the RV suddenly began to move.
"WHAT THE HELL!" Disoto shouted as he quickly jumped down from the compartment followed by Reuben.
"Joanna whats going on." asked Adrien getting up and going to stand by Joanna's driving seat.
"Well, your friend isn't well enough to leave, and you boys seem like you need a place to stay. So I talked to Heather and she has agreed to let you stay with us. No records no questions asked as long as you work. " she said with a smile.
All three men looked at one another and smiled. This was exactly what they were hoping for, a safe place off the record where they could hide until Bane healed and they could get his orders or find any of their allies if there were any.
"Joanna, you are incredible.."
"Why thank you, I try...now there is breakfast for you in the fridge. You boys will need to rest up. You will have a lot of work to do when we reach camp."
Later that day Adrien, Reuben, and Disoto were hard at work under the watchful, and armed eye of Heather as they set up the big top.
Joanna was in the RV changing Bane's bandages. She had to admit he was an impressive specimen, even if he was covered in scars. He was all muscle. She couldn't help herself, and lightly ran her fingers down his chest and abs. Suddenly a large hand wrapped around her throat as Bane sat up on the bed Joanna found herself staring into a pair of furious deep brown eyes.