Chapter 4

The cackle of his laugh rips through my ears as I try to hide my face. All I need is for him to recognize me. The men follow his direction of gathering all the children up in the middle of the food court. They shake in fear and mothers scream as their children are ripped out of their arms. Slowly I slide over to a woman who sobs as her newborn is taken in his carseat to the circle. The children cry and beg for their moms as the gunned men circle. "Everythings going to be okay." I whisper to her. "The Titans will be here soon."

She looks over at me with tears in her eyes realizing who I was. "You have to get my son, he needs fed." She sobs.

"I'm going to try to do something, just looking for a window." I sigh feeling her pain.

"We want some titans." The joker yells, "anybody knows when they'll be here?" he laughs. "I am short on patience.

"What do you want them for." An old man chokes out trying to get his attention off of the children.

"I have a favor" he laughs. "I need some assistance finding my dear old friend Harvey. Hes been missing for quite sometime."

"Why would they help you find a vilian?"

"Because for every hour hes not in front of me, im going to kill one of these kids." He laughs. Mothers scream as they realize the horror. They're taking too long, I have to help. I close my eyes and slowly sink into the floor. I appear in the center of the children throwing up a black force field shoving all the gunman away. The joker turns to my black field in anger as Nightwing busts through the ceiling. The team joins as the gunman begin open fire into the crowd. My forcefield is weak with the small use over the years and my pregnancy. As I see the men taken out, I slump to the floor with my weak body. Parents rush in taking their children as Nightwing continues taking men out.

"Mommy!" the girls yell from across the room. No, they cant be here. A gunman turns noticing the great targets. I sink to the floor once more appearing in front of the girls as the bullet hits my shoulder. The girls scream as blood spews and I fall to my knees.

"Amelia put a shield up." I order her through my teeth.

"Mommy, I don't know If I can." She cries.

The gun rings out again but the bullet bounces off my daughters' shield. I smile as amelia and alexa hold their hands in unison protecting us. "That's my girls" I smile as I look at my shoulder. Im weaker now and feel like falling asleep. I look at Nightwing tieing up the Joker along with some gunman. "Keep the shield up until daddy gets here." I lay my head on the cool floor as the blood flows from the wound. "alexa, I need you to put pressure on it." I rip my shirt giving her a shred. I close my eyes as she presses her small hand to the wound. I smile before I fall asleep as she uses her powers healing me.

My body is weak as and I fight in and out of sleep as Nightwing gets to me. "Raven stay with me." he quickly takes a shirt out of a bag nerby from a woman pressing it to my shoulder.

"Nigh-" I finally give in to sleep. Its nice and warm. My breath hitches and my eyes fly open as the oxygen hose puffs in my nose. Nightwing smiles above me and Cyborg stands on the other side of me. "Nightwing." I grab for him.

"Im here Rae." He brushes my hair back. "Your okay, your at the tower."

"the girls? The baby?" I look around.

"The girls are okay." He smiles.

"the baby?"

"Is a healthy boy." He smiles.

"boy?" I smile

"yes." He smiles.

"kiss me." I order. He leans down pressing his smooth lips to mine. I kiss hard attacking his lips. He presses softly back. This is the first time we've kissed in months and it sends sparks through both of us. Maybe we will be okay now. Not perfect but okay.

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