Batman slowed the batmobile down at the side of the road, he pressed a button and the passenger side door slid open, the girl got inside.
"Elena." He said gently, she looked over at him, she looked tired, hot and exhausted.
"She went that way, and she's got Flash." El said pointing straight ahead, Batman nodded and hit the acelerator hard, flames shot out of the exhaust and they sped off into the distance.
Flash clenched his fists angry with himself, in his panic to rush to the door to see if El had landed safely Kara had gotten her gun pressed against the side of his head, he might be faster than a speeding bullet normally but right now he wouldn't have bet his life on it. He was tired and stressed from his failed rescue attempt, if he moved away from the gun, he might be able to dodge before Kara reacted and shot him in the head. But that wasn't to say that she wouldn't be able to shoot him elsewhere...
"You won't be able to keep me here you know." Flash murmured standing remarkably still.
"And why is that then?" Kara growled tightening her finger on the trigger suspecting Flash was planning something.
"I'm the fastest man alive baby, you'll get distracted sooner or later and I'll be gone before you know it." Flash smirked devilishly.
"Well now I know how Elena felt, do you ever do anything but run away?" Kara said coldly, her words cutting deep into Flash.
"You don't know what you're talking about, I stayed away from El for her own good, so monsters like you wouldn't get your hands on her." He growled back turning to face her so her gun was pointed right between his eyes.
"Does it make you feel better saying that? Like no one else in the Justice League is seeing anyone, have you never noticed how often Superman rescues that one woman in metropolis? Tell me that's just coincidence. Face it, you're just too fast to love anyone; I bet you got bored with her pretty quickly with how fast you move." Kara laughed cruelly as she herded Flash over to Elena's chair and shoved him back into it.
"That's not true!" He shouted back as he hit the chair.
"Sure." She nodded sarcastically keeping her gun trained on his head.
"Here's one thing I have to ask you, the whole dual identity thing, does that lead to some kind of schizophrenia thing? You've got to be this invulnerable man that wears the mask, who's the hero, who can attack people who do wrong, and then… underneath all that, what is there? A completely different person? Or is there no one at all, does that superhero ego that you put on just eat away at the person you were until there's nothing left? Or do you switch when the mask comes off?" Kara asked reaching a hand towards Flash's face.
"Get away from me." Flash hissed angrily.
"I'm sorry you have to go through all this." Batman said breaking the silence in his car.
"Why? Kara's out to get me, apparently the vendetta that there was between us was real on her part, I thought I was all just hype for the audience. Turns out she really would kill me, she's only after Flash because he's a bigger bargaining chip than some half assed athlete and a mediocre artist." El shrugged careful not to open up the wound on her arm where her ransom t-shirt wound had come from.
"But if Flash hadn't had put you in danger-" Batman began again but was interrupted.
"I'd probably just have been murdered in an alleyway somewhere not ransomed." El interjected angrily.
Batman sat in silence.
"You're the one who's been telling Flash that he can't see me aren't you? That it'd put me in too much danger. Nice that none of you bothered to ask me if I wanted to take that risk huh?" El snapped angrily as she twisted in her seat to glare at Batman.
"You don't know what some people are capable of!" Batman shot back.
"Considering as I was just caught as a hostage and nearly crippled for life, I think I do! And anyway, that's not your decision to make for me!" El yelled.
"You're not informed enough to make a decision on how being involved with superheroes can put you in danger!" Batman retorted, his hands gripping the steering wheel tightly.
"What? Like you driving to my flat every few months you mean?" El muttered sensing the debate was going nowhere, she jumped slightly as something appeared on the horizon.
"It's them!" El yelped pointing at the caravan that they were inching closer to.
"Uh oh boss… we've got company… again." The driver shouted back to Kara.
"What?! Argh… damnit." She muttered backing towards the closed caravan door keeping her gun trained on the glowering Flash, she shoved the door open to see the Batmobile drawing parallel with them. In an instant Flash was behind her struggling with her for control of the gun, El slammed her hand on the controls in the car popping the door in the batmobile open.
"What-?!" Batman exclaimed as El pulled herself up onto the roof of the car, her bare feet slipped a little on the slick metal and carbon fiber. She steadied herself preparing the jump towards the caravan, Flash looked up.
"El?" He breathed in shock. Kara took the advantage of flash's distraction to yank the gun forward and train it once again on Elena.
"No!" Flash yelped pulling backwards on the gun, in the ensuing struggle the gun fired three times into the air. The unnerving sound of ricocheting bullets filled the caravan and Flash staggered backwards in shock holding the side of his neck.
"Flash!" El screamed before hurling herself at the caravan, her toes curled as she hit the edge of the floor trying to maintain her balance. With some effort she hauled herself inside the caravan.
"Fine, now I can get y-" Kara began smugly as she pointed the gun at El, surprisingly El lunged towards her punching her in the side of the jaw at unbelievable speed and making a unbelievably sickening crack as her head spun further than it looked like it should have.
"Shut up!" El screamed, after a moment she ran towards Flash who was slumped against the wall of the caravan with a shocking amount of blood spilling down his uniform. He slid to the floor as she wrenched her shirt off, sliding her arm under his neck she pulled Flash into her lap and attempted to hold the shirt over the bleeding wound.
"Stupid uniform!" El screamed in frustration as she tugged at Flash's uniform the annoyingly covered his neck. She slid her fingers under his mask and pulled it back off of his head, tugging it down further revealed the bare and bleeding skin of his neck. El pressed her shirt against the bleeding wound that seemed to be in no sign of slowing down.
"Why does your heart have to beat so damn fast? You're gonna make yourself bleed to death at this rate!" El sobbed angrily. Flash's hand slowly rose up to his face, he brushed his fingers against his skin and felt his mask was gone, lethargically he spread his fingers to cover the top half of his face leaving one eye to stare up sleepily at El.
"I'm sorry… I had to take it off." El whispered feeling Flash's blue eyes penetrate her soul and fill her with guilt. Slowly his eyes slid closed and his breathing slowed.
"We've got to get him back to the base." Batman said from behind her, El suddenly realised that the caravan had stopped, she looked up at him with her face wet with tears. J'ohn appeared at the doors of the caravan and walked towards the unmasked Flash and Elena, he lifted him up, holding onto his neck carefully. El's hand slid down Flash's arm until her fingers briefly linked with Flash's before the martian man hunter flew up through the caravan roof and presumably towards the Justice league's space base.
"I'll take you home." Batman said simply as he pulled Elena to her feet and led her to the car as the other members of the justice league arrived, the green lantern and hawkgirl stared at the shirtless Elena as she walked past into batman's car. She sat expressionless and silent all the way back to her flat.
"Batman." El said quietly as she reached her front door.
"Yes?" Batman asked.
"I know you're not going to let him see me ever again, but at least let me know if he's okay? Your car needs tuning up soon anyway, tell me then… please?" El pleaded, batman nodded before disappearing off into the shadows. Elena let herself into her flat and closed the door.