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Chapter: 14

"You said what?" Commissioner Gordon exclaimed, glaring at Bullock. Sure he was one of his most trusted detectives in the GCPD but what he had done was stupid. Jim was disappointed in his trusted friend,

"I didn't think she'd take off," Bullock said, glaring at the newcomer, Tim Drake as he hurried through the tape and to his girlfriend (according to Barbara) demanding answers,

"You don't blame the death of an innocent family on their child," Jim said, "Especially if that child had just been supposedly kidnapped a year ago only to return with absolutely no memory of that family at all,"

"I guess you're right," Bullock agreed, looking down ashamed,

"You need to find her!" Liam, Jim thought the kid's name was said,

"Yeah…whoever did this could still be out there," Ali said,

"She couldn't have gotten far,"

"Oh yes she could've," Stephanie Brown said, "She knows Gotham like the back of her hand, even with no memory,"

"Sir we found an area that's been disturbed…a tree had been split in half. There seems to be…skid marks near the base of the stump left over. I don't think—," one of the cops started to say,

"That's her," Tim said immediately, "Don't ask how I know, but I know that's her," Jim looked at the boy, who seemed so certain his friend was there. Tim also looked worse for wear. His arm was in a sling and he walked with a slight limp on his left leg,

"Very well, let's check it out," Jim said, "Half of the people here head there, the others…finish up," Turning to the kids he said,

"Stay here…Brown and Drake, you're free to go home. You look like you're going to drop," with that said, the Commissioner and part of his force headed out to the park.

Once at the scene though, Jim was scratching his head. He had no idea what to make of the broken tree, skid marks and a splot of blood on the ground. there wasn't enough blood for it to be a murder. The skid marks didn't look like tire skid marks and…and what can split a tree in half? He had no clue, sure…he was supposed to know everything, but CSI definitely had their work cut out for them. Or rather Batman, when he showed up. The shadows to his right suddenly thickened,

"Evening, what took you so long to get out of your cave," Jim said neutrally, trying to show that he wasn't spooked at his partner's sudden appearance,

"Angry teenagers," Batman replied, shooting a pointed look at Red Robin who stood a few feet away. He was rewarded a small glare from the boy,

"Glad my years of that are through," Jim replied, "To be honest, I have no clue what to make of this," gesturing to the crime scene…or what little of one they had,

"It is unusual, but based on certain information we just required it's a lead on wherever Tori Crowne went," Red Robin spoke up,

"Information from who?" Jim asked,

"Someone from Batman Inc," Batman said, he basically meant that it wasn't important who gave him the information, but it was valid information,

"So then what happened here,"

"Tori was taken," Batman said, "Most likely from the same people who nabbed her the first time,"

"We still don't know who did that,"

"Neither do we," Batman said grimly, "But we intend to find who took her and bring her back home safe and sound,"

"I don't know about her, but home doesn't really seem to be familiar to a amnesic,"

"She regained some of her memories," Red Robin said,

"How do you know that?" Jim asked, Red Robin frowned as if he said to much, "You know what, never mind, I don't need to know. But what I do need to know is where this girl is. I'll give you a few hours to find her yourselves, then we get involved,"

"At least twenty-four should be suffice," Batman said,

"Usually you take less," Jim pointed out,

"We don't know who took her in the first place or why. We need to regroup and gather information before we try and locate her. Whoever these people are took her, they were able to remain incognito for a whole year. Not only that but they kidnapped other children before her and managed to fake Tori's death using another poor girl," Batman deadpanned, "We need all the time we can get,"

"Wait? Kidnappings? Faked her death?" Jim mused,

"How else could she be standing?" Red stated, seeming to roll his eyes,

"Why weren't the police informed?" he demanded,

"Consider you and the police informed. Do with it what you will. I'll give you anything else we find," Batman said, quickly taking a sample of the blood before disappearing into the night. Red Robin a shadow behind him.

. . .

"What do we know?" Bruce asked once he and Red Robin arrived at the cave. His adopted son had been antsy since they found out Tori had ran away, then taken again by the very people she was taken by before,

"These men had been kidnapping kids since before Tori. Victims were found with their hair shaved to the ears with a scar on the back of their neck. Each were found within a week after they appeared to be missing…all street kids or kids picked up at random…no specific type," Stephanie said glumly, reading information from the batcomputer which had hacked into Tori's files. Everyone else was out patrolling. Robin had stayed in and so had Red Robin because of the Arkham breakout a few nights ago. Tim wasn't supposed to come with him to the scene. He understood why Tim did it though, it was his sister, the only blood relative he had left, but he was injured and shouldn't be out,

"They kept her," Bruce said,

"Yeah, because she survived whatever the hell they did," Robin said, hanging upside down from a bar on the ceiling,

"They implanted a microchip that fused to her nervous system," Stephanie said, "Dr. Leslie said so and I asked her about it as well,"

"If it's a chip, it'll probably have GPS," Bruce stated, "How come they didn't locate her sooner?"

"Maybe they just let her go, like a field test?" Robin suggested,

"Or maybe she got away but something briefly fried the chip which is why the…abilities she apparently has didn't show until later. It would prevent any GPS. It also might explain the amnesia," Tim said,

"How did it get fixed?" Batman asked,

"It's fused to her nervous system, it can heal itself while the body's asleep. Maybe it's the same with the chip," Bruce knew Tim was angry. Those monsters experimented on his sister. Cut her open and stuck a piece of metal in her neck. They don't know why and he wants to find her and kick some sense into her attackers…but first they have to find her,

"That's an awful lot of 'maybes'," Damian mused,

"Maybe," Bruce said, ignoring Stephanie's snort and muttered, 'no kidding' "But it's worth a shot…if we find her chip, we find her and the people who did this."

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