Please Don't
I've always loved him as a brother, but I've never known how much I needed him until now. I yell, bruise and sometimes really hate him, but I love him so much.
My right arm is searing with pain. My warm blood is tricking down me surrounding me in a small pool of blood. Not too much though, not enough to kill me. The slash across my chest is worse than torture and my left foot is indescribably sore, I think it's shattered.
The cool, moist air is a slight relief for my burning lungs. I'm not the only one damaged though. He has a deep cut in his shoulder, a slash just below his left eye and a split lip that's still wet with blood. I managed to remove his mask but I hated seeing what was below.
"I don't want to do this Dick!" I yelled tears flowing freely down my helmet covered face. My gun weighed a tonne in my hand. It was aimed directly at his head.
"The court will have your head!" He yelled back "They call for your blood and it will flow for them!" He continued.
I left him with them for too long 'He's not in there anymore' I tried telling myself, but I didn't believe it "Please Dick, please. I don't want to this and I know deep down you don't either!" I screamed but it was chocked near the end.
"The Talon has come for you, Jason. Accept your fate at my hands!" He said then burst into laughter. The weight of his foot on my chest increased with each demon like laugh. For a split second, it wasn't him anymore, it was the Joker. I don't want to think that he is a maniac, but the thought keeps running through my head.
"What have they done to you?" I begged him. I need to know. I have to know.
"What have they done? They, my masters, have guided me to my full potential. Now I must prove what they have done for me will be repaid in full" He said, I couldn't believe it. They'd changed him into a killing machine. The thing he despised the most. I don't want to believe it, but he's rightthere. Staring down at me with a wild look poisoning his once vibrant blue eyes that are now a clouded grey. They look as if they belong to someone else, but they're his.
"I love you, Dick. I love you" I whispered to myself, but in this echoey alley I was sure he could hear back and fell holding his head like he was in pain. "No!" He screamed, curling into a ball.
I dragged myself over to him, sending pain through my battered body. I need to get to him. "Dick," I manage to say through my flaming throat "what's wrong?".
The silence continued with only slight twitches out of him.
"Please tell me!" I pleaded shaking him hoping to get something out of him. He opened his blue eyes bloodshot and puffy from tears.
"Go, please. Be safe from me, be safe from Talon. He's stronger than me." He broke into tears "Please help" I heard him whisper.
"What do you mean? What's going on?" I asked, my voice strained with tears.
"He won't leave me. Be safe, run. He's too strong. You won't win. Nobody can beat him" he told me, sounding more broken than I thought he could ever be.
I don't believe it. I don't want to. He is fighting with himself. I turned on my com link "Oracle, it's about Dick. He's Talon, I need Bruce. Please" I begged.
A crackling sound came through and then "He's on his way".
I hugged Dick, he flinched at my touch but I only hugged him tighter. "Don't leave me" I heard his weak voice say, and I couldn't stop the soft smile that spread across my lips.
My eyes started to sting "Never" and I hugged him even tighter.