Rise of the Prophet

By: Thowell3

Disclaimer: I won nothing unless stated otherwise

Chapter 2

It had been hard to calm Garfield down after he realised he couldn't feel his legs. They doctors wanted to wait till more "Family" was present before telling them him how bad the damage was, But he knew. He knew it was bad. The doctors gave him a sedative to calm him down make it easier on him to rest.

When the sedative wore off he didn't know what time it was. All he could tell that it was night time. All the lights were dimmed and looking outside through the window near his bed it was black with only a bit of light coming in from the night lights of the city.

He looked around the room and noticed that Alfred wasn't in the room any more, He figured Visiting time was over, but he knew Alfred he was probably still in the hospital somewhere or at least close by . After a few moments he felt a chill and noticed the window was open slightly, he was a bit more alert.

The first thing he thought was that someone would try taking him out, like Slade or Dead Shot.

But then he noticed the person in the corner, He knew who it was and relaxed.

"Bruce?" he asked just to be sure he wasn't seeing things

"Yes Garfield, It's me" He said stepping into the dimmed light near the hospital bed.

Garfield had a hard time holding back tears but failing "Bruce" he just couldn't get past saying his name.

Bruce removed the cowl of his costume and pulled Garfield in for a hug, something he has rarely ever done "I know, It will be okay" he said as he felt Garfield starting to cry on his shoulder

Garfield finally got to move away from Bruce a bit although both their arms were still on each other's shoulders but he could now look Bruce in the eye "Did you get him? Did you save Barbra?"Gar asked quickly.

Bruce calmed him down again "Yes, we found her. She was in an old amusement park "

Gar looked serious "Did you kill him?"

Bruce was silent, "No" he paused "I almost ...but no, I knew there would be no coming back from that"

Gar leaned back in to his bed "Is Barbra okay?"

"She'll need a bit Physiatric help but no physical damage done," he paused as he stood up again "She is just finishing getting checked out down stairs, she wants to see you when it's possible."

Gar looked down to his legs "I don't really want anyone to see me like this" he said sadly

Bruce had a sadden look on his face "I'm sorry Gar, but since you are part of my family in a roundabout way the media has been on this ever since they found out."

Gar looked up at Bruce "How did they find out?" he seemed angry and sad at the same time

Bruce sighed "One of the nurses was talking about it, A journalist that was here looking for stories heard and ran with the story got as much information so you and the whole Joker assault has been a big story."

Gar covered his face with his hands "Great, Just great." He sighed

Bruce pulled his cowl up "Gar I will make sure that the finest doctors are contacted about this, I will make sure I search every avenue of possibility, I promise I will try my best to help you walk again"

Gar looked at him with a tear running down his cheek "Thank you, Bruce"

Bruce nodded and left out the window he had come in a few moments ago.

It had been quite a while, Gar had been sleeping a fair bit in the last few hours. Mostly due to the fact that the medication he had been given caused him to sleep.

It had been fairly quiet, the Commissioner made sure two of his finest officers were guarding his door so only medical staff and family were allowed in. He wanted to make sure that no one would bother him.

Gar had turned the TV on during one of his more lucid moments where he wasn't sleeping and the medication was still doing its job of numbing the pain of the surgery he had to have. It was quite a hole he had, had put in him. Figures the Joker wouldn't use a small calibre hand gun.

Currently he was watching an old movie that was on TV, He didn't really like the movie he was watching but anything to try and keep his mind off of what was going on. It took him a while to find something on, Almost any major channel that had a news program was reporting about him or what the Joker had done. Frankly he was sick of it.

He was so into focusing on the TV he didn't hear the door open.

He didn't realize till he heard a soft voice saying "Garfield"

He glanced over to see it was Barbra she had a few bandages on her arms and one on her forehead but her eyes told a story all its own. He knew what The Joker had done to her was much worse than what he had done to him.

Gar felt a tightness in his throat but managed to choke out "Barbra"

Barbra came closer to Gar slowly almost frightened she would hurt him if she got to close.

She had gotten right next to his bed and sat down on the chair next to him, She opened her mouth to start talking but Gar stopped her.

" I am so sorry Barbra, I should have been able to stop him, I should have checked through the Peep hole to see who it was, I am so sorry what he put you through." He looked down feeling bad that he should have been able to do more

Barbra got closer to Gar and hugged him softly, he could feel the tears on his shoulders. She pulled back and brought Gar's eyes to meet hers

"This is not your fault, I shouldn't have let those goons grab me, I should have fought them off and Taken the Joker down but when I saw what he did to you I was in shock, I was so worried you would die." She paused "no one knows this but Batman and my father but.." she took a breath to steady her self "When he had me captured he showed me pictures of you, laying there with a hole in you, he showed so much, he even had a bit of video as well of him making the wound worse by poking and prodding it, I was so scared, I am sorry, I am so so sorry" Barbra began to weep

Gar pulled her back into a hug "It's okay Barbra, everything will be okay. "He said trying to sooth her " I am still alive and so are you. Even big bad ass super heroes are afraid, Hell I was afraid, I still am" he pulled back again. "We have been through a lot in the last 24 hours, but I know we can show people we aren't victims we are strong and we won't let people bring us down."

She smiled and held tightly to his arms "And here I should be the one cheering you up. I mean Gar you will probably never walk again, that could have been me, it should have been me"

Gar held on to her and smoothed out her hair, He knew The Joker had been planning to take her out but he got in the way. Part of him deep down inside glad she didn't have to go through this but another part of him was angry this had happened to him.

What would he do now? What will he do next?