Chapter 9: Returning to School

2 days after the incident, Lynn was returning to school, not sure what would happen, all she knew is, she was board out of her mine staying in the manor. She wanted to see her friends again and just go back to school. She has never missed a of school in her life until now. Bruce also went back to work today, knowing that he would have a pile of paperwork. He missed like 6 phone calls two days ago about something wrong with the computer system at Wayne Enterprises and he spent half the day yesterday returning those calls and the workers finally getting the system fixed; Lynn thought that Bruce was going to go off his rocker, he was getting mad at the workers. The rest of the calls missed the past two days were media trying to get information about the Joker incident at the fundraiser.

Lynn walked outside Wayne manor to he car, after she put her bag in the back, she took off the jacket she was wearing to cover up her bandaged arm; but it was just too hot outside for a jacket and she didn't like long sleeves shirts unless it was winter out. She threw her jacket in the back and got into the driver seat, closed the door, and started the car engine before driving off.

Once Lynn saw that Gotham High School was in site, she saw a group of reporters.

'Oh great…' Lynn thought to herself as she pulled into the parking lot. She would have to go through the media mob seeing as there is no back way into the school that isn't blocked by a fence. She knew that if she was having media trouble at school, that Bruce was having media trouble at work; since the media can't get close to the manor and no one answered the media calls.

At Wayne Enterprise, Bruce stepped out of her car to a group of media surrounding him, but they couldn't get close due to the security guards keeping them at bay, telling them that he has not comment and that they need to leave the premises or the police will be contacted. Bruce could see flashing lights from cameras and recorders, but kept walking without looking at any of them. The media finally left him alone after he almost ran into the building to get away from the media. He sighed and started to walk to his office.

After parking her car into a slot, she grabbed her school things, put her little wallet into her blue jean pocket, shut the door, locked it, and walked off, really not ready to face the media, had 5 minutes to get to her first class. She stopped at the end of the parking lot, not wanting to go any farther. She decided to take out her phone to call Amy, Jamie, or Max to meet her outside, but someone from the media spotted her and they all started to run up to her.

"Oh crap…" Lynn murmured to herself and the media mob came up to her before she could move.

"Miss Wayne!"

"Miss Wayne!" Reporters kept calling her name, hoping she would answer.

"As Gotham's Angel, and Mr. Wayne as the richest billionaire, the both of you must have been a prime target for The Joker right? He tried to get to you like he did before at your birthday dinner right?"

"What happened at the fundraiser!"

"How did you feel having your life in danger like that?"

The reporters wouldn't leave her alone, but Lynn was able to walk forward to the building.

"I need to get to class…" Lynn spoke to the cameras and recorders.

"Did The Joker cause that injury to your arm?"

"Do you think this will affect Harvey Dent as the District Attorney? What about Rachel Dawes as Assistant District Attorney? "

"How does Mr. Wayne and yourself feel knowing the Joker is still on the loose?" The reporters would not leave her alone.

"Please leave me alone.." Some reporters tried to get a closer look at Lynn's arm by grabbing it, by Lynn slapped the hands away and pulled her arm to her chest.

"We heard that Batman was there to save the day and he saved Miss. Dawes, who the Joker threw out a window?"

"Care to comment on what happened with Batman?"

"No comment." Lynn said as she got closer to the school steps. "Leave me alone!" Lynn just about yelled and ran off the rest of the way to the building, leaving the media mob in the dust.

When inside, Lynn stopped to just turn around, some reporters tried to get it. Students looked at the door or walked out of classrooms, while others outside couldn't even get in; for example, Ashley Greenwood, but she didn't seem to mind. She usually like to be "fashionable" late. Her idea of late is 2 seconds before the first bell. Ashley made her way through the crowd of reporters, but stopped in front of the door and posed. (A/N: Haha…I just feel like I have to add a character who acts the way Ashley Greenwood does. Someone who is the total opposite of Lynn.)

"Gag me…"

Lynn looked to her right and saw Amy and smiled at her. "Can you believe this?" Amy asked, watching the double doors.

"Not really, Ashley does love being the center of attention and doesn't really care how she gets it."

"I'm not talking about that…I'm talking about your family and the media. Because the Wayne family is so rich and well known, the media think that every little thing about your family is there business. If this happened to anyone else besides your family or the DA, no one would really care."

"I guess so…" Lynn said, then she and Amy got quite to listen to what was going on outside the doors. They could hear the reporters since the doors were somewhat opened.

"What's your name?"

"How well do you know the Wayne family?"

"Are you friends with Miss Wayne?" Reporters were asking questions and taking pictures left and right.

"I'm great friends with Lynn and Bruce Wayne." Ashley lied. "We do everything together and we are almost like sisters. Bruce thinks of me as family." Ashley lied again.

"What the-?" Max said as he and Jamie walked up to Amy and Lynn.

"That is gross…" Jamie spoke up.

"What? You mean the fact that the camera are all over her; let's see how she likes them when she finds out the camera adds ten pounds." Amy snickered.

"…Not that…who would want to be friends with someone like Ashley Greenwood?" The group laughed a little.

"Miss Wayne!"

"Miss Wayne!"

"Please give us a comment!" Reporters moved away from Ashley and started shouting questions from the door and taking pictures and recording.

"Crap…" Jamie spoke.

"Hey…" Lynn said as Max took his school book and hid Lynn's face from view. Then Amy pushed Lynn into the closest room, which was the office as faculty walked out of the office and to the front double doors.

"HEY!" One of the teachers grabbed Ashley by the arm and pulled her inside the building.

"You need to leave! School is in session and the media is disturbing the students and you are blocking the entrance, keeping other students from entering the building!" Some of the faculty and school security, that, for some reason, didn't bother to show up earlier, got the media to leave.

"I hate living with a billionaire… and get your book out of my face, the reporters are gone." Lynn grabbed Max's book away from her face, out of his hand and gently whacked him with it, all with her bandaged arm.

"Hey…" Lynn then gave back his book and Amy, Jamie, and Max got a good look at the bandage.

"Did that freak cut you?" Amy grabbed Lynn's arm.

"Ow…careful Amy…"

"Sorry…but Joker did this right?" Amy asked.

"Yeah…" Lynn said as the four of them walked out of the office and to their first class. "But better this than a permanent smile or getting shot."

"You got shot at?" Max asked, surprised.

"No, but The Joker pointed a gun at me and put a knife in my mouth." Lynn said as they walked into the first class. Jamie, Max, and Amy looked at each other, worried about their friend, and didn't ask Lynn anymore questions. \

"You know, math is the worst thing ever invented…" Max says once they are outside of the classroom and stretches his hands above his head.

"No Max…School is THE worst thing ever invented." Amy started walking a head of the group.

"Right, right." Max started walking.

"Well…Max and I have computers…" Lynn said as she and Max went one way while Amy and Jamie went another.

"See you two later." Said Amy as she and Jamie walked into a classroom. Max and Lynn then walked into a computer room and started walking past the teacher at his desk.

"Oh, Lynn…" the teacher spoke up.

"Yes sir?" Lynn and Max stopped and looked at him.

"This DVD was delivered to the school for you." The teacher grabbed a DVD he had on his desk and handed it to Lynn.

"Thanks." Lynn said, taking the DVD and she and Max went to their seats. She looked at the DVD, thinking that something sent to her school, maybe it was something from Emily, her mothers friend, whom Lynn and known since she was born. Emily used to send DVDs' to Lynn for the first 2 ½ years she lived in Gotham; but something in the back of her mind was thinking that it had to do with The Joker, but she hoped it didn't.

"You know who it's from?" Max asked, leaning from his computer area to hers.

"No clue, I think maybe my Mom's friend Emily. She used to do stuff like this for me." Lynn look the DVD from the little envelop and plopped into the CD/DVD player.

"Hello there!"

"Ah!" Lynn pushed back, making the chairr fall, as well as herself, but she grabbed Max's arm, taking him with her. "Ow..." They both yelled out.

"I hope you enjoyed your time at the fundraiser brown eyes!"

The class walked over to see what was going on.

"It's the Joker!" Someone said.

"I have a surprise for you sweetheart." The Joker was talking on the DVD, then the scene switched to something else. Lynn quickly realized that it was the fundraiser.

"What the-?" Max was wide eyed. Most of the scenes were where Joker had a gun and Lynn, Rachel coming in, Joker throwing Rachel out the window, and everything after that.

One of Joker's men and recorded the fundraiser. Lynn was scared. Then the image changed back to Joker.

"We had so much fun didn't we? Too bad that old geezer got in the way and Batman just didn't want to die. I wish I could have given you that smile, then you would be able to see the bright side of everything; but best of all, you could be as good looking as I am!" As The Joker said this, he pushed back his hair and fixed the top part of his jacket (the part that can be seen on camera) and licked his lips, and ran a finger along one of his scars.

"The party has already started…" Then he started laughing. "...and it's gonna be great!"Then the camera got real close to his face. "Gotham is going to go mad and be in chaos and under my control….and so will you." Joker laughed, then the DVD went blank.

Lynn was crying and hugging Max. Now Joker was toying with her, trying to mess her up; the heart and video, the roses, the email, messing with her at the fundraiser, now this. The teacher knelt down to Lynn and Max and rubbed her back. "Call the police, get them down here and contact Mr. Wayne!" He said to a student who took his phone from his pocket and called 911.

15 minutes later, commissioner Gordon arrived with the police; and Bruce arrived a couple minutes after that.

"What's going on?" Bruce jogged into the office to see Lynn crying and her friends with her. She saw Bruce and jumped up to hug him.

"The Joker sent this DVD to the school for Lynn. It seems some of the fundraiser was recorded by one of the Joker's guys." Gordon said, holding up the DVD. "He has something up his sleeves and really wants Miss Wayne to be apart of it. He's trying to mess with her, see how much she can take. He wants her for something. What he wants with a young girl, I don't know, but I do attend to find out what his plans are."

A/N: I hope this part is good, I'm starting to get writers block, so the next part may take me a long while. Please review…the very little reviews I receive make me sad, and I've had a lot of readers, but small amount of reviews.

A/N 2: For my readers, please look at my profile. I have ideas for a Disney Gargoyles story. Please read the ideas and send me an email about what you think if you are a Gargoyles fan.