The left half of the guard's face was illuminated by the yellow-ish glow of the emergency lights and it gave the shaking gun a long shadow across the floor. He had either never drawn his weapon before, or he feared the tests that Dr. Strange performed on the older woman made her as dangerous as his other test subjects like Firefly and Mr. Freeze, or perhaps it was both. But whatever the reason, it did not matter to the two women standing across from him in the dimly lit hallway, he had a gun and they did not. The older woman raised her hands to show that she had no readily available weapons and made a cautious, half-step forward.
"Let us go." she said in a non threatening but commanding voice. She held out her right hand and looked at the gun and back at the guard. "Give me gun, and let us go. We aren't here to cause trouble, we just want to get out." she assured him. But the guard was unconvinced and pulled away sharply, he could not let her touch him if she had powers like Fish Mooney.
"Get back to your cell." he told them breathing heavily. The older woman took another step forward still holding out her right hand and had her left arm extended in a protective gesture in front of Selina.
"It's okay, I promise we aren't here to-" the older woman was cut off by the guard firing his gun three times at the woman and Selina. The first bullet pierced the older woman's chest and lodged itself in her shoulder blade, the second passed through her abdomen and into Selina, and the final one struck Selina just below her left lung and rib cage. The young guard, still fearful of the older woman, fled down the hallway to get himself out of Indian Hill. Selina and the woman doubled over in pain almost immediately and the two collapsed onto the cold floor facing each other. The older woman's uniform was soaked in blood around her chest and her abdomen as the blood steadily oozed out of her body, she moved one hand to her chest to slow the bleeding and grasped the other one tightly on Selina's shoulder who was curling her body around her bullet wounds.
"Oh, I'm so sorry Cat." the older woman said breathlessly. Selina raised her eyes to meet the other woman's.
"Why did you call me that?" Selina asked. The woman didn't say anything but looked at Selina sadly. "Mom?" Selina said.
"I love you baby. You're so strong." Selina's mother told her, her voice fading.
"Please...please don't leave me." Selina pleaded.
"I'm trying...I am...my little Cat." she said to Selina, moving her hand from Selina's shoulder to the side of her face as blood rose to her lips. Their vision blurred and the two of them slipped into unconsciousness.
Harvey and Lucius moved quickly but carefully down the stairs leading into Indian Hill, making sure to dodge the debris that was strewn around the the dark hallway. They did not intend to be slowed down by anything, but their plans were changed when they came across two curled up bodies facing each other. The older woman in an Arkham uniform had her hand and arm draped across the younger woman's face. Harvey may even have kept moving when he saw that one woman was wearing an Arkham uniform and was probably another one of Stange's monsters, but there was also a much younger woman who was wearing street clothes. She doesn't belong here Harvey thought to himself and got down on his knees beside the two women, Lucius joined him and pressed two fingers against the neck of the older woman and shook his head.
"This one's dead Harvey." he said and placed his fingers against the neck of the younger one. "But the kid's alive." he said. He was surprised she was alive based on the amount of blood on the floor, but he knew much of it was probably from the dead woman who a thin trail of blood coming out of the side of her mouth and blood stained teeth. Harvey did not recognize that the girl was Selina Kyle until Lucius removed his jacket and pressed it Selina's bullet wounds to keep her from losing anymore blood.
"My God, that's Selina Kyle." Harvey said looking down at the pale-faced teenager.
"The witness to the Wayne murders?" Lucius asked, Harvey nodded.
"What the hell is she doing here?" Harvey asked, not expecting an answer. The sound of the elevator from Arkham Asylum opening came from above them and Harvey turned his head around sharply when he heard Gordon calling out Harvey's name.
"Jim! Jim! We're going to need you down here." Harvey called. Gordon came rushing down the stairs and almost tripped over a cart that was laying sideways on the ground.
"Harvey, what hap-" he began but cut himself off when he saw Selina Kyle curled up on the floor across from another woman, both of them surrounded by a pool of blood.
"It' a miracle the kid's alive, but she needs to get treated fast." Lucius said with deep meaning to Gordon. "She probably won't make it to Gotham General, I'll take her to one of the medical stations in Arkham Asylum, you two go after Strange." Lucius said, lifting Selina in his arms, her body still covered with his jacket that was now covered in the blood from the floor, and from Selina's. Gordon kept his eyes on the limp teenager for a moment before he and Harvey proceeded to move down the hallway, their guns drawn.
"Hey, partner. You alright?" Harvey asked, he knew how much time and energy Gordon and spent trying to keep Selina alive and safe during the Wayne murder investigation.
"Yeah." Gordon said unconvincingly. "Let's go get Strange."