Yay, chapter 2!... I expected editing to take longer than than this, but it didn't so… Yay! Chapter 2! I expect ch. 3 to be up soon, plus I'm almost done writing ch. 6!
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Chapter 2
As Richard Grayson walked into school, he favored his right leg. There was nothing wrong with his left one, it wasn't broken or anything. But it was supposed to be.
When he'd returned to Wayne Manor last night, only 40 minutes after being crushed under slabs of concrete, he'd gone to the gym and trained for two hours straight. He managed everything perfectly, as usual. He had nothing to show from the fight earlier except a long white scar on his torso.
He passed Artemis in the hallway and pointedly ignored her, though he did glance at her forehead. No gash, no scab. Just a faint white line.
Dick moved on to his locker. He spun the combination and put his backpack inside. As he pulled out his math and science books he heard a loud rattling nearby. Turning, he saw someone new 3 lockers down. The girl wore a white sundress and sandals, and her blonde-streaked brown hair fell just above her shoulders. She was repeatedly trying, and failing, to get her locker open.
"Come on," she was saying. "Please, I'm begging you. Open just this once and I promise I will love you forever."
Dick stifled a laugh at the girl groveling to an inanimate object. She jumped when she saw him standing there.
"Oh, I'm sorry. Don't mind me, talking to a locker." Dick didn't say anything. He was too busy staring at her.
She looked almost exactly like Ella.
The girl the team had spent nearly an hour tracking the night before. The search was useless; all traces of her had vanished the second she did. And here she (or a very near clone of her) was, in Dick's school, though it seemed she could see fine now since her bright blue eyes were giving Dick a funny look.
"Are you alright?" She asked slowly, and Dick suddenly started nodding.
"Oh, yeah. I'm fine. What did you say again?"
"Could you please open my locker? It doesn't seem to like me."
"Sure. What's the com?" She handed him a slip of paper with her locker number, combination and partner on it. He dialed the numbers and swung open the door.
"Thanks," she said, dumping her stuff inside. "And I'm Yeira, by the way. Yeira Falls."
"Richard Grayson. You can call me Dick."
"Nice to meet you Dick." She shut her locker. "Oh, by the way, do you know where Mrs. Johnston's room is? My sister thought it would be funny to rip up my map on my first day of school, so I'm kind of lost."
"I'm headed that way, too. I can take you over there."
His first class wasn't actually anywhere near Mrs. Johnston's room.
"Thanks."
Dick began to lead the way, Yeira calmly following.
"So this sister of yours doesn't seem really nice," he began.
"Oh no, Ella's great. She can just be a bit… mean, sometimes. She doesn't like losing." She didn't sound like an annoyed sibling, more like a worried friend. In fact, the more Dick talked to her, the more he noticed that she acted very mature for a teenager.
"Is she going here, too?" He asked, almost hopefully.
"Oh no, she has certain… special needs-"
Yeah, like being blind, Dick thought.
"-So she's going to a private school a few cities over."
"Oh," he said, disappointed. But he didn't want to pry about Ella anymore; he'd just sound weird. "How long have you guys been in town for?"
Only five days, it turned out. During the walk to Mrs. Johnston's room, he also learned the sisters were from Nevada, were freshmen, and loved music. Yeira did ask Dick about himself a few times, and he easily steered the conversation back to her.
When they reached the classroom Yeira thanked him and he promised to meet her after first block and help her find Mr. LeFrane's science lab. Then he turned and sprinted off for his math room, on the other side of the building.
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After school, Robin went right over to Mount Justice. No one was there besides him, everyone being in school except Artemis, who he assumed went home first or something. He grabbed a bag of chips from the kitchen and sat on the couch to watch some TV.
Over the next hour the rest of the team trickled into the Mountain, some starting homework, others watching TV. When Wally arrived, finally, he went immediately to the pantry and emptied its supply of caramel corn, proceeding to join Robin, Artemis and Kaldur on the couch.
"Hey guys!" He spoke between mouthfuls. Artemis rolled her eyes and left. "Rob, you ready to continue our search for Ella the Elusive?"
"She's not elusive anymore. I found her."
"Aw, come on. I spent all of English class coming up with a cool nickname for her."
Robin laughed and said, "Come on, I'll show you."
He and a caramel-covered Wally went to his room. Once the door was securely shut, Robin pulled up the holographic computer on his glove.
"Her sister started school at Gotham today, but she said that Ella is going to the Halton School for the Blind."
"She told you this the first day you met her?"
"Not exactly. She talked about a sister named Ella who has special needs and is going to a private school a few cities over (and I think those were her exact words), and Halton's the only blind school in a hundred mile radius. I just gotta search the name Falls at Halton and… Voila!"
Her student profile appeared on the screen, alongside a headshot and Wally shouted, "That's her!"
Name: Eleanor Falls
Age: 14
Grade: 9
When Robin scrolled down, it went on to list Ella's address, phone number, primary guardian (not parent), emergency contact (why was it Yeira?), and a special note saying she was completely blind and couldn't read Braille.
"Great, we found her! What do we do now?"
"What do you mean?" Robin asked, looking at Wally over his sunglasses.
"Well, we can't just go run over there and drag her to Mount Justice. If she doesn't recognize us, she might freak out. And what if her sister recognizes you from school?"
Since when did Wally make logical arguments?
But he was right; there really wasn't anything they could do except wait for her to show up in a battle again.
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