Sorry it's been so long. I've been busy and I've had some serious writers block. I'm hoping to get a bit more done now. I'll be starting another chapter of this the same night I'm posting. I'll also hopefully finish another chapter of "The Manor"! Hope you enjoy! Let me know what you think! Kind of a cliffhanger!

I OWN NOTHING!:(


DOWNTOWN GOTHAM- STEVENSBURG WAYNE TOWER

Dick was falling. He was falling and Bruce was just standing there. He turned his head to the side and saw his parent's bloodied bodies in the audience cheering as they watched him fall. Then he looked back up and Selina, Alfred, Gordon, and Bullock had joined Bruce on the high rise. They laughed as he fell. He never got the chance to hit the ground though, his eyes flew open and sat up quickly.

He looked wildly around the room for a second before locating Selina who was already walking over here, but she had faltered when she saw him wake up. Bruce was looking at him from behind his desk with Alfred by his side. Gordon and the other two were nowhere to be seen but the door was opened so Dick assumed they had left.

Selina reached him waited for him to look up at her, he was still looking over the room like at any moment they were going to be ambushed. Eventually Dick looked up at her and he still looked upset, she couldn't say she blamed him.

"You need to get up now." She told him, not unkindly.

"I am up." He said flatly and stood.

Bruce finished his discussion with Alfred and they both approached the teen.

"Alfred is going to take your stuff back home, Selina is going to stay here with the police for now. You and I have somewhere to go." Bruce's tone made Dick think he shouldn't ask about anything.

Dick raised and eyebrow then rolled his eyes, "Whatever you say."

Bruce's face darkened but he didn't say anything, he would take the boy's attitude right now, he was worried about this plan. For the moment he told himself he should just be glad that Dick was here. He didn't intend to lose him but anything could go wrong.

Alfred picked up Dick's bag and patted the boy's shoulder meaningfully before walking out the door. Dick gave the older man an odd look as he walked out but didn't say anything. Selina linked her arm with his and lead them out with Bruce following close behind. When they reached the elevator Selina pulled him into a hug and kissed the top of his head.

"I'll see you soon." She told him and took a step back.

Dick looked even more confused and now was beginning to be nervous.

"What?"

The elevator dinged and Bruce ushered them in, Selina stayed where she was and smiled at him.

Dick looked at Bruce who didn't say anything.

"Please, just tell me what's going on now." He reasoned, "I'm not gonna do anything, Bruce."

His guardian ran a hand over his face, "No, you'll eventually know, you will. Just, not yet."

Dick didn't say anything and it was a silent trip down to the car.

MIDTOWN GOTHAM- SOUTH CITY PARK


Bruce parked the car on the side of a street that ran through South City Park. Hardly anyone drove this way past five o'clock so Dick didn't expect to see anyone drive by. His nerves were through the roof right now and he was jumpy and irritated.

"I know this is weird, Dick. It will work out okay." Bruce said as he looked over at his ward. He could tell Dick was nervous and upset but he couldn't do anything about it right now.

"Look...I don't know why we're out here but it doesn't seem like anything good obviously. If you would just tell me it would make all of this a lot easier to handle, whatever all of this is." Dick sighed.

"You know I can't do that, Son." Bruce reached over and pushed Dick's hair back.

The teen looked over at him but didn't say anything.

They waited in a tense silence until a car pulled up.


MIDTOWN GOTHAM- SOUTH CITY PARK

Gordon and fifteen other men were stationed in a line about a mile away from where Bruce had parked with Dick.

The were tailing him in undercover cars and had lined up when bruce had notified him the Zucco arrived on the scene via a button the commissioner had given him. He was to push it twice once when Zucco arrived and then again when he got out of the car, then he and his men would come to the rescue. He really wished he had Batman tonight but it was too early for the caped crusader to be out yet.

He had Bullock in the passenger seat next to him and he was being uncharacteristically quiet. They waited in silence for the second notification.

"Messes up what the kid goes through." Bullock said suddenly.

Gordon nodded, "Yeah, he handles it surprisingly well."

Bullock opened his mouth to speak but didn't get a single word out before gunfire was heard.

Gorgon's head shot over to the direction it was coming from and he drew his gun. There were at least five men coming from the front and he wasn't sure how many in the back. Just then the signal went off for him to give the order to head to Bruce. They were a little busy now.
"Just drive!" Harvey yelled as bullets flew through the window.

"That's not as easy as it looks!" But he put the car in drive and pushed the pedal all the way down.

He hit one of the men directly as he sped off, "Give the order to follow if they cam."

Bullock grabbed his radio and gave the order.

He wasn't too far off and there was a loud pop. The car suddenly tilted and they both let out startled yells.

"Keep going!" Bullock hollard.

"I'm going! I'm going!"

They arrived to the meetup location but they were dismayed to find only one car, with no one inside. They cautiously got out of the car, weapons still drawn and walked towards the single parked vehicle. The Mercedes was still running and they still didn't see anyone inside, Jim became more worried by the second. They made their way around the car and Jim stopped dead when he saw a body.

He gathered himself before rushing to the man and putting his gun down. He turned Bruce over and checked his vitals. He was alive, but he was bleeding from his arm and there was a thin trickle going down the side of his head.

He heard Bullock behind him contacting Gotham General and asking for a few ambulances. Jim put pressure on Bruce's arm but it didn't seem like it was bleeding too bad. He heard more cars pull up behind him as most of his men arrived.

"Look for the kid." He told Bullock, but he knew there was no chance he would be around.

Bullock told the other men to start looking too, but no one looked very hopeful.