Darcy Wayne slumped in her chair as she silently waited for study hall to end. It was seventh period and Darcy was itching to get out of school to plan her night as Batgirl.
Tension was high between her and Bruce ever since she was caught sneaking in at two-thirty A.M. from her late night to early morning prowl.
Just then, her Sidekick vibrated in the pocket of her dark wash jeans. She waited until her teacher, Mrs. McKinnon, wasn't looking her direction.
Darcy pulled it out of under her desk and the desk as quickly as possible.
Bryan: Hey Darc! How r u?
Darcy: Look who finly dcided 2 tlk 2 me!
Bryan: I can xplain… let me take u out 2 dinner 2night & we can tlk.
Bryan: Darcy?
Darcy: Look Bryan, I don't think it will wrk out between me & you
Bryan: What?
Darcy: I g2g, bye.
Darcy turned off her phone quietly after that just so he couldn't persuade her otherwise.
BRINGGG!!
The school bell rang; signaling that class was over and so was school. Darcy pulled her tote over her shoulder, picked up her purse, and then walked out of the classroom. Only, she was soon to be stopped by a redhead that was in her AP History class and gym class. She was a nice girl that Darcy talked to often.
"Hey, Darcy!" the redhead approached her carefully, Darcy smiled weakly and stopped to meet her.
"Hey, Savannah, what's up?" Savannah looked at her DC shoes awkwardly and then meet Darcy's dark brown eyes with her hazel ones.
"Ummmm… I was just wondering if you were doing okay? Because you've been kind of distant lately like you've been concentrating on something else a lot lately," Savannah's innocent eyes were filled with concern and worry.
The question took Darcy by surprise causing her mind to go blank for a short while.
"Well… ahhh…."
"You don't have to tell me what's going on," Savannah told her quickly.
"Well, I don't know, home stuff," she confessed and sighed, looking away from her, daydreaming.
"It's okay, Darc… I'm just kind of worried for you," she put her hand on Darcy's shoulder, Darcy smiled weakly.
"You're a good friend, Savannah, thanks for caring about me."
"No probs, Wayne," she told her with a sly smile making Darcy giggle.
They told each other 'goodbye', then Darcy left the school, and she rode away in Bruce's Lamborghini.
"Sooo… what' going on with you and Bryan?" Bruce asked Darcy after five minutes of awkward silence.
"I told him that it wouldn't work out between us," she sighed and looked out the window at the trees that looked like a blur because of the speed Bruce was going at.
"Good," Bruce nodded with approval.
"Why are you happy about that?"
"He's too wimpy for you," Bruce replied simply turning into the driveway of Wayne Manor, "you seem like someone who needs a guy who's strong and respectful of you," he parked the car in the garage and they sat their talking, "and quit frankly, I always got the feeling that Bryan wanting something more from you… not just your love and faithfulness."
"I got that feeling too Bruce… that's part of the reason I broke up with him."
"What's the other part?" he asked, she sighed then answered.
"I don't know… I just… it didn't feel right, being with him I mean. It didn't seem like it would be going somewhere," Bruce nodded then opened the car door and so did Darcy. They both got out of the sports car.
"Well I'm going upstairs, oh wait," Darcy stopped at the side entrance that led into the kitchen.
"Can Sophia and Audrey sleepover tomorrow? PLEASE!?" Bruce thought about it then shrugged.
"Sure, that'd be okay," Darcy, squealed with delight then wrapped her arms around Bruce for a quick 'thank-you' hug then darted up the stairs. And she also thanked God that Bruce forgot that she was grounded.
"Omigosh, Darcy, I cannot wait to see your house!" Sophia smiled as all three girls were waiting on the sidewalk for Bruce to pull up in one of his many cars.
"Here he is," Darcy told them as Bruce pulled up in his Ferrari Spider M430 Convertible.
"I love his cars," Audrey smiled at the shiny black car pulling up next to the girls with the top and windows down.
"I'll sit in the front," Darcy told them as she hopped into the passenger seat, jumping over the door.
"Hello girls," Bruce turned his neck around and told smiled at Audrey and Sophia. They both smiled politely, but when Bruce faced the front the two girls looked star struck.
"Omigosh, Darc, did you see what Mariah Jacobs was wearing today?" Audrey asked her with an astonished tone.
"No what?" she sighed… she hated it when Audrey and Sophia got into their gossiping mode.
"It was waaay… gothic/rock star chic! To ugly for words!!" she made a gagging motion making Sophia laugh.
All of a sudden Darcy felt her cell phone vibrate and she quickly pulled it out of her jean skirt pocket and looked at the text.
Bruce: Did you enjoy that pizza today, Audrey?
Darcy looked in the rear view mirror and noticed a pizza stain at the bottom of her PINK prep shirt. She bit her lower lip trying to hide a wide grin playing at the edges at her lips.
"And did you hear that Carly broke up with Jake today? It was a HUGE fight! Then Carly found out that he was cheating on her with that skank Amanda! And then she totally clawed Amanda!" Sophia told her.
"Omigosh really?" Audrey gasped. Darcy's cell phone vibrated again.
Bruce: Were you in the fight too Sophia?
Darcy coughed, trying to hide a laugh; she agreed with Bruce about Sophia's shirt. Ripped t-shirts were for the summer in Darcy's opinion.
Bruce: Because I see that you're shirt didn't make it!
Just then, Darcy burst out laughing. Bruce smiled at her then pulled into the driveway.
"What?" Audrey and Sophia asked in unison. Darcy was laughing so hard that tears were going down her cheeks. The two girls decided to ignore her and talk about what they would do that evening.
Darcy's alarm buzzed while she scrambled to wake up and shut it off before her friends would hear the annoying sound. Her mind was still drowsy but she forced herself off her bed that they were all sharing and crept out her room and down the stairs. She made her way to the Batcave and into her own secret cave she found three days beforehand. Batgirl put on her bulletproof suit and cowl then raced off on her motorcycle.
Batman slowly walked towards the edge of the rooftop to overlook the city of Gotham. Then, he heard a banging of trashcans and the scuffing of feet from the alley below.
And then the Joker's gruff voice slithered out into the cold night.
"Hey Batgirl… where's the Batman?" he asked, enunciating each word. The bat heard a struggle and low whimper.
"I don't know," a female voice stated flatly, but he and Joker could tell that she was afraid.
"You're afraid aren't yea? It's the scars isn't it? Wanna know how I got them?" he asked hopefully. Batman walked towards where the noise was coming from and looked down and saw Joker's knife gleaming in the moonlight against her mouth.
"Not in your lifetime!" she told him sternly then, in one fast and swift motion, kneed him in the groin. He bent down and moaned in pain, she brought down her elbow and slammed it into his back making him fall to the cold ground.
Once he saw the move he decided that she would be fine by herself… until the villain's cronies came out from nowhere and surrounded her. Then he knew he had to do something.
Sweat was starting to form on Darcy's palms from the raging nerves screaming in her head to run away.
GO, GO, GO, RUN AWAY!! It was screaming to her.
No, she told it, I've already ran away from him once… he won't get the better of me this time! She took a moment to rebuild her confidence then she looked at the six men surrounding her.
"So… who's first?" she asked with a sly smile then a man ran towards her with a knife in hand. She kicked it away then punched him square in the nose, and then the stomach and karate kicked the man attacking from behind.
Right when she was about to knock out the third man running towards her, a dark figure already did.
"What the-" Darcy started to say but stopped when she saw the Batman step into the moonlight, "Batman?" she unexpectedly.
He chuckled then quickly knocked out another man charging towards them stupidly.
"You have good fighting skills, Batgirl," he commented. Frightened she started to run away.
"No come back!" he rough voice pleaded but she kept on racing towards the Batpod. He was about to ask her to stop again but stopped short once he saw the motorcycle she was riding.
Darcy, he thought, and it was the only word he could think of at that moment.
