Chapter 2: A Night with Nightwing: Nightwing POV
Resting on a gargoyle as still as the building behind him. He watches over the city. His city. He looks down scanning for trouble, for anything from a bank robbery to a purse snatcher. The great Nightwing knew what he needed to be done, he needed to protect his city. Yet, things seemed quite in his city tonight. All noise came from car horns and club music. He examined the streets and then the sidewalk. Not seeing anything suspicious he jumped to another building.
After a double twist front handspring, he landed backwards on the oppisite facing building. He strode to the backside of the building with a stern face of consontration. While he was on the ledge of the building, he had a perfect veiw of an alley that he knew too well. Nightwing had more fights, caught more crooks, and stopped more killers in that alley than the rest of the city. He gazed downward, somehow knowing, that something would occur.
Nightwing was right, something did happen. Of curse, he was always right when it came to trouble. Though, this time the only thing that happened, was a young women walking down the dark alley. She was quite beautiful, even from a far. Her hair was a dark color black possibly, but it was too dark and hard to tell. He was positive she must have been an out-of-towner.
Most people who lived in the city knew to stear clear that alley. Police and Detectives (like himself) called it Crimes Back Road. As he observed the woman, he noticed a man dressed in all black heading towars her. Nightwing prepared himself to pounce, knowing the man was most likely a mugger or purse snatcher. He allowed the man to near her more. Just when he was prepared to spring, it happened.
It had happened so quickly, he almost didn't notice it. When the mugger/purse snatcher pulled out a pocket knife, the young women turned around and pushed her hands foreward as if bench pressing barbells. While doing this, a sort of black sheet slammed the man into the buildings brick wall. She seemed surprised from what happened and ran away before the man could stand back up.
'Damn' was all that came to Dick's mind. Nightwing was never surprised, but Dick was. When he finally was able to actually form a sentence he thought ' I haven't seen a meta' like that since... Raven'. Dick had sudden flashbacks with a sight of the young women which had him realize her hair was violet not black. Next, he had flashbacks of Raven making him notice the other simalarities between her before and the women he just saw.
Dick couldn't believe his own thoughts. Raven, the one women he ever loved, was back? No, she was in some small town in the south side of California. Why would she be in Bludhaven? As he watched her runaway, with these thoughts swirling in his head he decided he needed to follow her. He needed reashuance that she was the one who left him 7 years ago, with a broken heart and a hotel bill.
He chased after her keeping his distance by watching her from the building, Losing her when she entered a condo building. Seeing as how each level was a seperate condo, he could just look through the windows of the condo until he found her. With that in mind he started playing "Peeping Tom" on all the residents, searching for the one he loved.