Chapter 2: Meeting the rescuer
He woke up to the feeling of something warm on the side of his face. It felt like someone was washing his face with a wet cloth.
For a moment he felt very relaxed until memories of what happened started to come back to him.
He had been excommunicated from the league of shadows and they had broken his mask.
His mask?! Where was it? It was supposed to be on his face all the time to stop his chronic pain.
The warmth touched his face again and he grabbed onto the person. His eyes flew open as he was about to strike at the person.
"Whoa easy there! I'm only trying to help you"
He stopped just before his hand grabbed the neck of the person and he took a moment to look at the person.
Beside him was a woman kneeling on the floor, and in one of her hands she had wet cloth which was near his face. Her other hand moved up to his outstretched hand at her neck and moved it back down to the couch he was laying on.
"I found you out in the river and since I'm not a bad person I decided to help you out" she said as she moved away from him.
When she moved away from him he could see that she was very slim build, even though she had on baggy cloth. Her hair was black as the night and fell down her back. Her eyes had been a deep dark brown as he saw them when he woke up.
"Where is my mask?" he heard himself ask in a kind of rasping voice.
She sat down in the chair beside the fireplace and looked at him for a moment, as if she was thinking about if she should tell him or not.
"It's in my dad's study since it needs to be repaired" she answered.
He sat up more on the couch and he felt a sharp pain in his leg. Right they had shot him to before they had pushed him into the water.
"I want it back now" he said as he looked straight at her.
"Didn't you hear what I said?! It's broken so you can't use it at the moment" she answered as she rolled her eyes at him.
He could feel the anger start to rise inside of him. The mask meant everything to him and he knew that the pain would be back soon, since he only was able to take it off for a short time each day.
"Where is your dad's study?" he asked determent to get the mask back.
The woman looked at him and a smile spread on her face.
"I'm not going to tell you since I will not allow you to enter that room"
He started to get up since he had had enough of this woman, and he would search the whole house to find the mask by himself if he had to.
Just as he got up in his full height she moved to get in front of him.
"If I were you I would sit back down again before I make you" she said and her voice sounded more threatening now.
"And how do you intend to do that?" he said as he looked down at her.
Before he could even blink he felt his good leg being swept away from under him, and he felt himself fall heavily back unto the couch.
He felt the couch give away a little bit under his weight and he was a little bit surprised at how quick she had moved.
"There. Now you better stay there or I might have to bet you up some more" the woman said in a teasing voice as she walked away from him.
He looked at her with anger in his eyes and he could feel that he was getting very annoyed with this woman.
After a few moments she came back with a bottle of pills and a glass of water.
"These pills will help you with keeping the pain away while I take a look at your mask" she said as she threw them into his lap.
"Take two of them every two hours and you will be fine"
"How do you know about my mask? And how do you know how to fix it?" he asked her.
He heard her sigh and she turned around to face him again.
"It's a long story but my dad used to work for the league of shadows, and he was the man who created your mask when they saved you from the pit. I was helping him some times when he was tending to you so I know exactly who you are. You are Bane the man who gave his life to save Talia from the pit." She said and he was trying hard to remember her but everything seemed very blurry from when he was taken out of the pit.
He only remembered all the pain and the next thing he knew he had on the mask.
"I don't like the league of shadows, in fact I hate them, and nothing would please me more if they all died" she said as she turned around again.
"And why is that?" he heard himself ask and he could see her stop out of the corner of his eye.
"They killed my dad because he was making those pills for you. He was trying to help you with the pain and he was trying to free you from the mask. Ra's al Ghoul didn't want that and when my dad didn't follow his orders he had him executed"
For a moment Bane felt a little confused, as one part of him didn't want to believe any of the things she said and the other was telling him that everything was true.
"What is your name?" he asked just before she got out of sight.
For a moment he thought she wasn't going to answer.
"Angelina" he heard her say and then she disappeared into the back of the house.
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