Hello everyone. Here is chapter 5 of Lark. Please leave a review so I can make this story better so you enjoy it.
Disclaimer: Once again I don't own Catherine and Kin Woods, my friend Larkofitaly does. I also don't own DC comics, I know it's a shocker. :) I only own Lily/Nightingale and for this chapter I own the three nameless bank robbers.
Without farther ado, here is chapter 5 of Lark!
Chapter 5
Late Night
~Third Person POV~
It was quiet that night in Gotham. There was the usual noises of cars from the businessmen that were late from leaving work and the night guards that were heading to work. The quiet noises of the night were interrupted by the high shrill of a bank alarm.
It was a simple robbery; the three men had planned the job for months, and they thought they had planned for everything including the Bat. There were no windows on the roof leaving only the reasonable choice of the front door. The door where there were two machine guns pointed at.
On a rooftop across the street Batman and Robin were watching the bank; the hacked Security Camera's showing the weak attempt at a trap. Robin frowned thoughtfully, "We could try to go through the side windows but they're too small for you to get through without them turning the machine guns on you.". Batman nodded and frowned as a shadow passed across one of the side windows. In a lowered voice Batman half-growled, "She didn't". Robin saw the shadow as it stopped in front of a window behind one of the men holding a gun. Giving a small smile Robin said, "She did".
Nightingale was slowly cutting through the glass on the window. A small hole was cut and the window was unlocked as her gloved hand slipped through the hole and moved the latch. The window silently was slid upward and she slipped in. Grabbing a bola rope and tossing it around one of the men holding a gun, she created minimal noise. The man falling made more noise as he hit the ground.
The other two grown men turned and one let out a string of colorful language along with the words, "The Bat's brat". The one holding the gun pointed it at the slim figure but didn't have the chance to pull the trigger. Batman and Robin then crashed through the door and the gun holding maniac turned to shoot at them. A bat-a-rang thrown by Nightingale crashed into the gun knocking it out of the hands holding it. A pistol was pulled out and pointed at the slim girl as the guy who had been holding the machine gun was tied up from a bola rope thrown by Robin.
The leader of the three robbers had walked within five feet of the girl his pistol was now pointing at while the attention had been on one of his companions. Everyone in the room heard the gun get cocked and turned the attention to the leader of the robbers. He said in a lowered voice, "Nobody move or Anonymous Girl gets a bullet through her". Unfortunately for him, he didn't see the smoke bomb get pulled out of her belt as he was talking.
Nightingale dropped the smoke bomb and the robber blindly shot towards where she had been a moment before. She had been too slow moving out of the way so the bullet hit Nightingale in the arm, which was in the location that her heart had been seconds before. The person who had just shot the gun had heard the impact but didn't get a chance to see the result as Batman punched him in the side of the face; knocking him out cold.
~Robin's POV~
I heard the sickening sound of a bullet hitting flesh, and knew my sister had just been hit. As Batman tied up the three criminals I ran to where Nightingale had been. The smoke was beginning to clear and I saw my sister trying to stop the bleeding and tear her cape to create a bandage at the same time. With relief I noticed that the bullet had just hit her arm and missed the vital organs and arteries.
I ran up to her and helped her create a bandage out of her cape. While I was tying it tightly around her upper left arm; Batman appeared. He was glaring at Nightingale, his normal mask of no emotion was replaced by an angry scowl. Batman growled in a lower tone, "What were you thinking? You weren't even allowed on patrol tonight. You need to stop sneaking out!".
This time Nightingale scowled, "No 'Thanks for taking out one of the guys with a gun'. I snuck out because I'm tired of being left behind. You don't know what it's like worrying about your dad and your brother every time they leave you behind. That's why I sneak out, so I don't have to worry as much.". Batman glared more giving Nightingale the full bat-glare, "Look where sneaking out got you tonight, you were shot because of it".
Nightingale returned the glare and said, "The bullet barely hit me, I'm fine". I faked a cough to get their attention. When they were both looking at me I said, "Can you continue this conversation when we get to the Batcave?". They both nodded and I just managed to hold back a sigh of relief.
We made sure the criminals were tightly secured and the three of us jumped into the Batmobile; Batman exiling Nightingale to the back seat. We quickly got the the Batcave and the three of us pulled off our masks. While Alfred was pulling the bullet out of Lil's arm, Bruce and Lily continued to argue.
I stood there awkwardly while the two most stubborn people I knew argued. Neither of them were willing to admit they were wrong or that the other one was right. Things were quickly becoming out of hand especially once Bruce grounded Lily; meaning he pulled her off patrol for a while.
Lily scowled, "That's not a big surprise, it's your punishment for everything. I sneak out, I get grounded. I get shot, you ground me. Joker or someone else manages to capture me, not only do I have to stay off patrol while I heal, you ground me." she was barely managing to not shout. Bruce looked her in the eyes, "This is the end of discussion, you are grounded until I decide otherwise and if you keep this up it will be a long time until you get to go on patrol again". I watched Lily give Bruce a batglare, but she stopped arguing with him, because he would keep her off patrol for a long time. Once Alfred managed to finish cleaning the wound, Lily thanked him and went upstairs. I sighed and followed my sister; knowing that she would calm down soon.
~Catherine's POV~
It had been a late night, later for me than I usually stayed awake. I had finished my homework and had spent most of the night finding out what was so different about my fellow twelve year old classmates. I knew how Dick had lost his family but it was surprising how Lily lost her family. It didn't take much to find out about the explosion and it did put some of the pieces together.
I had been most surprised when I found out they held a world record and have kept hold of it for three years. I had told Kin and he wanted to ask Dick to continue teaching us gymnastics, but I told him to wait a while.
Now I was laying in bed and trying to get to sleep. Tomorrow would be an interesting day, I was sure of it. Rolling onto my side I closed my eyes and fell into a heavy sleep, oblivious to the noises of the night.
I know there was a short section from our main character and a long 3rd person POV. I won't be doing this often but it will happen every once in a while.
Thanks to those who are reading my writing, I know I'm not the best writer but I enjoy writing this for everyone.
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