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Finding Light in The Dark

Chapter One

I was bored. So very bored.

I had finished the case I was working on yesterday and so far no new cases had been assigned.

So here I was stuck in my office feet on my desk staring at the ceiling waiting for something to happen.

It was almost time to knock off work, only a couple more hours but it didn't matter, I was working a late shift tonight so I couldn't really do anything fun except maybe a nightclub, but I was trying to put those days behind him.

Once I had finally gotten my dream job as a detective I figured I better clean up my act and change my image to a more responsible in control type figure.

I was no longer Dick Grayson party playboy son of playboy billionaire Bruce Wayne. I was Dick Grayson, one of the best detectives on the Jump City Police force.

It had taken quite a while to convince my bosses that I wasn't just some pretty boy who was to be guarded and used as model for the force. After a lot of hard work I proved that I was actually good at detective work and that I could be useful then I got promoted to the job I have now, which I absolutely love. Well except for now; At this moment in time I hate it because I am bored and I want to work but there is no work. Absolutely none.

I was going over what I had been through to get where I currently was when Rachel Roth, my partner came into my office. Actually we shared it so I guess she came into our office.

She held two coffees and sat one down on my desk then headed to her own deck that was on the opposite wall.

I sighed. She didn't seem to her me so I sighed again loudly. She ignored me so I sighed again even louder.

She snorted, "I know your bored Dick, so am I but can you please knock that off."

I sat up grabbed my coffee and took a few sips "Anything for us?"

She shook her head "No, Not even Vic and Gar have anything, there in the same boat as us."

Well that was a downer; whenever they got bored they helped those two guys with their cases and when they got bored vice versa.

What was it like national villains day off?

Rachel pulled up a page on her computer and started typing away. Probably working on one of her poems. She actually wasn't that bad, they were always just… um…. Well, depressing.

I listened to the keys clicking as she typed, I just stayed silent knowing that if I bugged her while she was writing I would get beat up. Had that experience before and don't want to have it again; Rachel could be very scary when she wanted to be.

After a bit I threw my hands in the air and groaned, "I am so bored, can't we do something, anything rather than sit around here?"

Rachel pulled away from her computer "We could just aimlessly drive around in the car."

She was being sarcastic but I was just so bored and driving around town sounded better than just siting here "I call driving, come on Rachel."

Rachel crossed her arms and raised and eyebrow "Dick, you know I was only kidding."

I nodded "Of course but driving around sounds better than siting."

She shrugged and stood up stretching "Lets get going then."

I stood up as well and grabbed my jacket and the keys on the way out. We started walking through the office to the garage, Rachel Following closely behind me.

When we passed by the main desk I winked at the girl behind the desk. She was the gorgeous Barbra Gordon.

Daughter of the Commissioner, and not to brag or anything but also MY GIRLFRIEND! She was great, we actually had been friends back when they lived in Gotham but in middle school they moved to Jump. It was cool when I moved to Jump and started working on the force because it meant we could catch up and then well over time we became more than just friends.

She sometimes hung around the office doing odd jobs when she didn't have anything to do so we got to see each other a lot, which was great.

When we finally made it to our car in the garage we pulled out and came to the street.

Rachel sat back and sighed "Where to partner?"

Dick shrugged "warehouse district, almost always something going on there."

He turned to Rachel for the go ahead and she nodded.

The drove all around the warehouse district and there was nothing, Dick thought it was to quiet and Rachel said that he was just mad nothing was going on.

They had been driving for around 45 minutes when the police radio finally came to life.

"All available units, block 1700 of warehouse district, paramedics, firefighters, patrols, detective, everyone available. Hurry."

Dick recognized the voice to be Wally, a good friend he made on the force.

Someone else came on the radio "What's going on?"

He recognized the voice as Jenifer, who happened to be Wally's fiancé and a paramedic.

"I don't know how to explain it, you just have to see it. Its bad thought, very bad."

Wall's voice seemed a cross between disbelief and alertness. Whatever it was it must have been bad to have Wally all worked up.

Rachel picked up the mic to the radio "Wally, we are in the warehouse district now and heading your direction."

Wally nodded "Good, get here as soon as you can."

Rachel put up the mic and Dick turned on the sirens and changed their course to the 1700 block.

When they pulled up Dick understood why Wally acted the way he did, there were warehouses on fire, red lettering covering the side of one and in the middle hanging over the street and person handcuffed over the side of the building.

Dick studied the person closer, they were bleeding from multiple places and attached around the person's neck was a piece of paper.

Dick had seen some pretty interesting and disturbing things since he had joined the force but this had climbed to the top of his list.

Sirens became louder as more cars and trucks entered the area.

Firefighters started work on the fires as people hustled around trying to find out if anyone was inside the buildings.

Dick stared at the person and Rachel came to stand beside him.

He shook his head "We drove by this part 20 minutes ago, how could we miss it?"

"It wasn't here 20 minutes ago, looks like we wont be bored for a while Dick. We just found ourselves a new case."

Dick nodded "I have a feeling this one is going to be quite a different case then what we are use to."

To Be continued…

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