When Emilisa next opened her eyes, Ra's al Ghul and his daughter were long gone, and two people she had studied, but never met, stood in front of her. She pulled up her hood and scrambled backwards, reaching for her bow. Discovering it was gone, she reached for the next best thing: the sword strapped to her waist.

Drawing the blade, she held the edge towards the masked figures in a defensive position, feigning ignorance. "Who are you?"

"I am called Batman." The taller of the two spoke, stepping out of the shadows. "This is Robin. I think the better question is, what is the pupil of Talia al Ghul doing in Gotham?"

"I do not know why I am still here." The girl continued to flick her eyes between the two males, Batman and Robin, her blade's edge still held up defensively. "I was given the choice between remaining here and returning to infinity island. I chose to return, then fell unconscious. Where am I?"

Emilisa finally voiced the change in location. She was no longer on the rooftop where she had been sedated in order for both her mentor and leader to be able to abandon her in this strange city. She had woken up on a proper bed, in a windowless room with two doors.

"Safe." The smaller of the two spoke, and she assessed his voice. He doesn't sound like he's lying. If they wanted me dead, I would be. I'm probably not free to just walk out, but I don't seem to be in any danger.

"How do I know I can trust you?" She looked warily between the two, studying their posture.

"You don't." Batman narrowed his eyes, as if questioning why she was asking if she could trust them in the first place.

"We found these beside you when we were patrolling." Robin held out a box, a bag, and – after a brief hesitation – a dagger. When she didn't take them, he stepped forward and placed them in front of her.

Emilisa picked up the box. As she inspected the wrapping, he frowned. "We didn't open it."

She slowly started to peel away the wrapping, and opens the box. Inside she found the documents and files required to make her appear again, along with a small pile of money and a card taped to a paper with the PIN number. In the bag were some of her clothes, specifically her civilian clothes for when she was doing a reconnaissance mission. As she read the letter that had been placed at the very bottom of the bag, she shook her head and started muttering to herself in one of the many languages she had learned in the past thirteen years, switching back to English periodically. "It was my choice! — I wanted to go back! — Why did you make me stay?"

The sound of metal clattering against stone could be heard as she collapsed to the ground, sobbing. She wrapped one arm around her knees, the other reaching blindly for her sword.

"They left me behind..." She whimpered quietly, tears clouding her vision. "I can't believe they left me behind."

Robin looked to his mentor, who gave a short nod, before moving to Zahrat's side. He crouched beside her and placed a hand on the sobbing girl's shoulder, making her jump. "Hey, it's going to be fine. You don't have to cry."

The boy wonder moved so he was in front of her, and slowly lowered her hood. She looked up at him through her midnight hair, trying to see through his mask. He smiles at her, wiping away a fresh tear. "Do you think you can trust me?"

"You're with Bruce Wayne." The mention of his mentor's secret identity startled the boy, and he looked back to his guardian for help. "I've been taught not to trust him, or anyone around him. But if it comes down to either trusting Bruce wayne, or starving on the streets and trying to avoid any members of the League of Shadows who think I deserted, I guess I really have no choice."

"I hope you like Gotham, Zahrat." Robin smiled gently at Emilisa, trying to comfort her. "Dunno how long you're going to be here."

"Emilisa." She wiped furiously at her tears. "we're supposed to be building trust, So I might as well tell you who I am. My name is Emilisa McKnight. Zahrat Alssum is my professional name."

"That box contains my new life. I have been forced to leave the place I've lived in, people I've known, and life I've led for as long as I can remember, because my leader decided that it was not the life for me anymore. You can't force nine years of training out of a person's body. That just isn't how it works."

"Where did you used to live?" Robin looked at Emilisa carefully, the first name she had given them starting to become familiar.

"Your mentor knows it well.." She shook her head slightly. "It's called Infinity Island. As far as I know, it isn't marked on any map. At least none that Talia showed me. I want to go back, but I can't. I have no idea where it is."

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Aura's AN: This, plus a bit of a later chapter, is all I have on Google Docs. I am waiting to get the rest of it from Song, and working on transferring parts from my phone's "Notes" to the "Docs" but before anyone asks, yes, this chapter IS complete, and I'm sorry about the cliffhanger, I hate writing them, I hate reading them. I know they're annoying, I try to avoid them as much as possible.

If Robin and Bats seem OOC, I apologize, I tried my best to fix it, but they might still be OOC in this bit. As for Ra's seeming OOC in the prologue… wait and see.

Sunflower - The reason Song and I write mainly Dick Grayson fanfics when we do YJ is because he's the easiest for us to write. Not to say that he's the only one we write - we also have a couple KF ones in the works - but when we try to write… Superboy (as an example) we get insane writers' block only a couple paragraphs in. However, with our Dick Grayson fics, we can write for hours on end, sometimes getting several chapters within a day.

Advising Guest (and first review on the repost) - We do thank you for your advice on when it would be good to ship with Dick, and would gladly take it, if it were not already in the works as a second book. I thank you for not getting mad and flaming over the fact that Ra's seemed OOC, and I promise that everything will be revealed eventually.

Guest who will not lie - Honestly, I had not made that connection, and I really need to rewatch YJ. I had just been trying to make a blurb that fit the stupid character restriction, and playing on the whole shadows/evil vs. light/good came to mind. But, since we don't have the whole thing written yet, it does give us something to think about for the future.