DarkPriestess66: I'm not sure where I'm going with this, but I decided to range out of my comfort zone and write a Young Justice Fanfic. I got the idea from Batman: The Animated Series. So any mention of characters from that is just an accident. In other words, I don't own anything.

Pacing around a cage wasn't the idea of returning to the States as Alicia thought but it wasn't her fault that she was stupid enough to get caught in a trap. It was just too damn unlikely to be in the same area as those blasted hunters.

She laid with a boneless grace that only a feline could possess, upon an artificial tree branch, staring at the onlookers of this circus that she was 'sold' too. She didn't let these morons know she was slowly gaining back her humanity as they walked passed and gasped and gawked at the Cat-Woman.

She kept thinking about her brother in soul and how much agony he must be in, Poor Tygrus. He found her on the island after their father was killed, but during the years spent in each other company they developed a sibling-like relationship. 'I should be glad that he wasn't captured as well.'

She rolled over and heard the children giggle and call her cute, and then she heard the mothers call her a freak, an abnormality. Which she wasn't an abnormality, she chose to be turned into a cat-creature. But the fathers and single males with female attachments, she could smell the potent arousal that only she could entice with her own body,

'Doesn't help that these morons think I'm only a cat with a human base, they don't even allow me to have clothes!' Alicia thought in a growl,

As the day went by and the crowds of people lessened then finally stopped for the night, her 'keepers' finally arrived to change her hay bedding and give her a meal,

She watched them from her lofty perch, they learned a lesson about her a few times when they treated her like a common animal. She nearly gutted a former employee of the Ringmaster. So now they kept a careful eye on her as they opened the cage door and entered. She liked this human, he was just a boy.

"I wish you could understand me, you're my only friend here." the boy states,

Alicia bit her lip as she uttered a mew sound from her throat. She didn't like that they sent a child into her cage like the other thought she would snap and kill the child. 'oh no, I'm going for the others. When I do get out of here.'

The boy put down her meal of steak raw as always, then backed away from her perch. He went to work replacing the soiled hay, she used to hold it in but she decided that they would think something was wrong and decide to put her to sleep. So she slept in the tree branch and used the box that was to be her bed as a restroom.

As the boy left she carefully made her way over to the food and sighed she hated raw meat, rare she could handle but completely raw made her want to hurl. But she ate it anyway then went back to her branch and dozed for awhile.

Late a night, Alicia woke with a start as she caught the scent of coppery blood then she hear the sound of footsteps of the child as he made his way to her cage,

With her excellent night vision she saw that he had a split lip and a black eye.

"They hit me again," the boy states as he sat on the ground by her cage, "I wish someone could take me away from here,"

Alicia's blood boiled as she watched the boy, "I will."

"Who said that?" the boy asks frighten,

"Please don't be frighten of me, after all you are the only one nice to me," Alicia answers,

the boy stood and turned wide blue eyes at Alicia, "You can talk?"

Alicia jumped from the branch and crouched by the bars where the boy was, "Little one, I can do more then just talk,"

"What's your name? I can't call you Lady-Cat." the boy asks, his injuries forgotten,

"It's Alicia," she answers, "What's yours, I call you boy which is your gender but not who are you,"

"Dennis," the boy replies, "How can you help me?"

"it's a fair trade for what I want. I help you if you help me escape this cage and the circus" Alicia answers,

Dennis nods eagerly, "Yes, but how the Ringmaster keeps the keys, and has his wagon locked at night."

"I just need a piece of wire or something like that," Alicia replies, "the lock on my cage is a the cheapest thing, I have seen in my entire life."

Dennis started to laugh, but it was very quiet. "Okay, I can find something like that."

"Alright," Alicia agrees,

Dennis ran off and Alicia began to pace back and forth again, this was her chance but not as she would have pictured it.

He came back as soon as possible, and handed the wire to Alicia,

Alicia reached out and picked the lock and smiled showing a pointed fang as she heard the parts click and the lock came undone, she eased the door open and slide out and landed on the ground. She locked the cage back up.

"Now what?" Dennis asks,

"Now for some payback," Alicia purred, "Go get whatever you have, and meet me by the trash cans at the entrance of the circus."

the two went off in separate directions, Alicia using the stealth of her mutated genes to sneak up the fools who had blood on their hands, she tapped one on the shoulder.

"Hello guys," she purred

"What the?" one exclaims

"Child abusers should die," Alicia states, "But I am not a murderer,"

she began to torture them in every way possible until she had the pleasure of seeing the sane look leave their eyes. She left them and made her way to where the Ringmaster was at, She used her claws and traced a circle around the glass in the door above the handle.

The Ringmaster awoke as he heard the sound of the lock clicking, and his eyes widen in fright as his main attraction walked right in upright and were fury on her beautiful cat-like face,

"do say anything, I want the money you would owe me if I worked for you, and not as captive." Alicia snarls, "or else." she held up her clawed hands and flexed her fingers,

"Take it." the Ringmaster squeaked unable to comprehend how the creature could talk or be intelligent.

Alicia took the cash box and picked the lock and took at the cash left the change. She then grabbed the Ringmaster by his throat pressing her claws into the flesh there, "You will leave this place and never come looking for me, because if you do, I will kill you."

she released him, and left meeting Dennis she had him put in the stolen cash into his pack and she knelt down.

"What?" Dennis asks confused

"I can run faster if you were carried." Alicia answers,

Dennis climbed on her back and but his arms around her neck,

Alicia started to run and was far away from the circus before she felt safe enough to stop.