Hey guys this is my first fanfic, so bear with me, this is AU, no one has superpowers and I pretty sure I will try my best to explore all kinds of dark themes, anyway this is mostly Traught, I love that shipping so much, no offense to Spitfire fans, I just really don't like Wally and Artemis. And please send me reviews I want to see how I am doing, I suck at summaries. Read and Review.

Artemis POV

Gotham City

December 19, 2022

22:44:56

It was a cold night in Gotham, the streets were filled with banks of snow, the lights were shining brightly against the skyscrapers, and me, after all these years crawls back to this hellhole of a place you call home. Six years, six freaking years I've wasted my life with that Red-headed bastard, and I walk to his house as usual and I just find him in the room, clothes scattered on the floor breathing rapidly while sweating under the sheets with a girl naked from his school. I can't believe he would do this to me, after all we've been through. We both met at a bar a few years back, after my dad sent me out on the job again to look for money from guys, when we saw each other, we both feel in love, sure it was probably the tequila talking, still it wasn't just the job that was taking its toll on me, my crippled mom had recently died and my sister left with another red-head after she got pregnant, my life was hell just pure hell right there, I was vulnerable, once I found him I thought he was my knight in shining armor to save me from this place I call home, turns out he was just another one of those people. I walked the streets of Gotham and passed my old apartment, I could never go back to my dad, he would always make me go out at night if I hadn't paid him his share, let alone eat for weeks if I forgot my money, I couldn't go back to that, to the job that basically screws me up on the inside, I can't go back to my jackass-of-a-father, I can't keep living like this, so far my whole life has been pure hell, I lost my mom after she was killed in an alleyway, I lost my sister when she left, I was stuck with my father, one of the big mob bosses in Gotham City, yet he always makes me work my ass off as a prostitute for his money, I can't go back to that, ever. As I walked the cold Gotham streets with nothing but a short skirt and and a tank top, I quickly started to cry, cry myself to death, I sat on the curb thinking what my life could have been, then I realized I don't have a life after this, I didn't care about the cold, I don't care what happens to me anymore. I couldn't take it anymore, all the pain, the suffering, the agony that just rests in my bones, screaming to get out. I just want to die, die and finally be at pure peace. I quickly got off the curb as I was crying softly and headed for the one of the tallest buildings in Gotham City, with only one thing going through my mind. I just wanted to fucking die and be at peace.

I quickly got to one of the few higher buildings in the financial district, not caring on whether or not someone saw me, it was pretty crowded with people coming in and out of shops for Christmas. I quickly went to a building marked Wayne Enterprises, and I broke into the door and used the stairs to get to the top off the roof. Once I finally made it to the top of the snowy roof, I stood on top of the ledge as I waited for the right time to fall, soon I heard a scream as someone looked up and saw on top of the balcony, I didn't care that all of a sudden everyone started to pile around to see what I'll do, I didn't care anymore, all I knew was that after this I will be at peace.

-BREAKLINE-

Normal POV

At the Gotham Police Department in downtown Gotham

As the people started to pile up around Wayne Enterprises, news quickly spread throughout Gotham. "This is Marc Jones of Gotham tonight with breaking news, apparently there has been reports of an unidentified woman atop the Wayne Enterprises building, and despite the Mr. Wayne and the employee's best efforts, the woman threatened to jump should anyone interfere, this is Marc Jones of Gotham Tonight, we will keep you informed of the coming details back to you Eric" as the TV sounded, in the main room, soon cops were ordered to Wayne Enterprises, all of them started to pile up into their police cars and started to head for Downtown Gotham. Once the cops reached the building through the crowd, police started to push people away from the building

"We need to set a perimeter around the building, evacuate all the employees, where is that DWP guy?" Commissioner Barbara Gordon said as the police began to block off the area.

"Commissioner Gordon! Commissioner, do you have any comment on tonight's predicaments?" one of the news people arrived on the scene. The Commissioner just shrugged them off.

"No, I need you to be at the back of this police line, no one goes in there go it?" She ordered over the radio. She turned to one of the cops. "You, come here"

"Yes Commish?" the cop said.

"I need you to get up there and talk some sense into girl got it?" She said as she pointed to the girl on top of the ledge.

"Yes"

Soon the cop headed the nearest entrance for the stairway trying his best to reach the rooftop, once there he tried his best to get the door open, finally he kicked it down and emerged out to the rooftop, he took out his gun he assumed this place would be where he thought a psychopath was about to jump, instead he found an angel in distress, the Gotham light shimmering in her, he could tell by the way she looked she hasn't eaten, nor slept, she was once beautiful, but this city and time has not been good to her. She quickly noticed him and turned back.

"Stay back! I-I'm warning you, I'll jump!" she said frantically, almost crying.

"Please hear me out" the Cop said as he dropped his gun back into his holster.

"I told them to leave me alone" she said as he tried to step closer.

"Miss, do not jump please"

"Why should you care?" she said as she took off her shoe and dropped it down.

"I care because that's who I am, don't jump"

"Why, this world's been cruel, why should I listen to you?" she said as her eyes started to tear up.

"Why has the world been cruel?" he asked softly, hands in the air.

"Why do you have to care? You don't get what it feels like, to live like this, l-like me" she said with venom in her voice as she pointed to herself, remembering all the horrible things that she had to do just to eat, live under a roof and survive.

"Please, don't do this, you have your whole life ahead of you"

"No! No I never did, I lost my life a long time ago, I don't deserve to live, I'm just a pathetic excuse for life, my mom's gone, my boyfriend cheated on me and my dad's an ass" she said as she looked down.

"Miss, I know how you feel" He said trying to calm her down.

"No! No you don't know, you don't know what it feels like, one cares about me, I live off the streets, my dad abuses me and my mom's 10 feet under" she shouted, hands in the air, her eyes were starting to redden, he could tell by the way she has lived that her life has been a living hell.

"Miss please I'm begging you don't do this!" he said as he took another step closer to her causing her to slightly retreat closer to the edge of the ledge.

"Take one step closer and I'll jump" she threatened.

"Miss, don't jump" he said as he tried to get closer.

"Stay back" she said, and he finally stopped his tracks against the snow covered rooftop.

"Come on, let's just talk this out please, I know it feels like to lose a family, to be angry, to be on the edge. I know what the feels like, now listen to me, if you jump you will regret it"

"I-I just want to be left alone, please" She pleaded with her steel grey eyes.

"Dying won't solve your problems; dealing with them is an entirely different way of solving them, Miss"

"Who are you to talk, you don't spend your life on the streets, fucking guys senseless just so that you could nibble on food, you don't know what it feel like to be slapped by my asshole of a father just because you forgot to pay for the damn day, and you certainly don't know what it feels like to be me!" she shouted, her tears slowly falling from her once perfect face, onto the ground.

"I know who you are though, I'll help anyway I can miss, just don't jump" he said as he stared at her with his eyes.

"Why do you give a crap?" She said channeling her anger through her words.

"I give a crap because I spent my whole life saving people, people I don't even know, saving anyone I can because I couldn't save my parents myself, I may not know what it feels like to be you, but I'm willing to try Miss, if you'll let me" She finally looked at him directly, she looked at his eyes, which were such an intense hue of blue, that it was unreal as it shimmered with his emotions, backing up his words.

"Who do you think you are?" she asked as her husky voice toned down, she looked at him, waiting for an answer.

"My name is Dick, Dick Grayson 'Miss"

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