DC owns all but Azreal and Night Shade, lets get started
Alright so it has been decided I guess only Joker will come with no new villain and there will be a love triangle-fun fun (note the sarcasm lol) and Az will get her own justice. This will be short like within 1,000 words due to me being busy and this being a bit of a filler
IMPORTANT- Az was in a coma for about four and a half months I know I said 3 last time but the dream sequence I did I am setting so that that was about a month in itself because dream time is a lot slower than wake time if that makes sense.
Chapter 11-Complications
APOV
Batman strode in quickly as soon as Alaster informed him that I was awake. I looked up at him and smiled He did not look happy. Dad followed quietly looking as if he had just heard bad news.
"Azreal." Batman said curtly, my smile disappeared.
"Batman." I said looking at him curiously.
"Azreal due to what has happened and the fact that we don't know what all has happened, I will have to treat you as I would any other suspected criminal." He said and I was shocked, suspected criminal? Despite my shock, some part of my mind was working and I nodded as I remembered the protocol for when a hero goes in any form of companion ship with a criminal and was convicted.
"I will turn in my costume as soon as I can." I mumbled looking at my hands that were now clenched into fists.
"You haven't been convicted just suspected." Dad said shocked as he tilted my head up.
"I-only suspected?" I asked looking to Bruce who had a slight upturn of his lips that only immediate family would notice and I relaxed a little. "I never read that part of the handbook what does that mean for me?" I asked as a joke to lighten the tension in the room. "Oh and how long have I been out exactly?" I asked as an after thought.
"To your first question you will be questioned and put under surveillance for a while and we will have Martian Manhunter or M'gan to pick your brain just in case you are lying about anything, if they come up clean then you get to keep the status of leader of your team if one thing is off however, we may need to kick you off the league or make you a bottom of the dog pile fighter." Dad said patting my shoulder. I nodded and bit my lip.
"And as to the second question, roughly four months." Batman said. I nodded and looked to Alaster and smiled at him liking that I knew his real name now.
"Right so lets get this questioning over with now." I said calmly and pulled back the sheets to show my pale gown covered legs. I blushed realizing that this wasn't the best of outfits to be in, especially in front of NS.
"First, though, I need clothes." I muttered blushing deeper when NS laughed, to which Bats and dad glared at. He gave a sheepish smile and ran from the room. I smirked as he ran and looked up when a breeze of air ruffled my hair. Dad stood calmly holding my clothes grinning.
"Your mom will be down in about an hour." He informed me. I nodded and went to stand up, however my legs crumpled and I fell to the floor with an 'oof.'
Dad frowned and stooped to pick me up. I bit my lip and looked to Batman who looked stone faced.
"Bats, I can't walk. Why can't I walk?" I demanded starting to panic as I thought of me never walking again. Dad sat me on the bed speechless and looked to Bats.
"Whats wrong with her?" He demanded Bats walked forward and then changed course to go to a set of cabinets and drawers. He opened a drawer and produced a reflex hammer thingy. I never really knew what they were called to I called them that.
He walked to stand in front of my dangling legs and tapped my knee. I felt the tap but my leg didn't react at all. I looked at dad then Bats and felt panic when the normally emotionless man of stone frowned.
"Wallace help your daughter get dressed." He muttered and hurried out of the room. I looked at dad and he was sheet pale.
"Dad?" I asked uncertainly. He didn't say anything just proceeded to help me get dressed in silence. A thousand thoughts were flying through my head at once, what Bats and dad's silence meant. The fact that I couldn't walk at present. The small nagging thought that I would never walk again, which I didn't want to accept. All of these thoughts scared the hell out of me, but the thought that gave me more courage than I would ever admit to was that I was going to kill SM for what he has done, he killed my uncle in front of me and intended to turn me villain.
Bats walked back in wheeling a wheel chair in front of himself and holding a few papers under his arm that looked like they had been printed off recently.
Dad picked me up and I felt my face flush as he put me in the wheel chair.
"Dad?" I asked again my voice shaking slightly. I couldn't seem to think of any other word to say. Dad simply placed a hand on my shoulder as Bats removed his cowl and looked at me with sad blue eyes.
"Azreal, I am so sorry that I had over looked this." He said, kneeling to look me in the eye. I looked at him steadily refusing to let any tears fall one good thing SM had taught me was the perfect poker face.
"What. Is. Wrong?" I demanded slowly, finally my brain thought of something besides 'Dad?'.
"Azreal!" Mom yelled as she rushed into the room to hug me where I sat. I hugged her back realizing with a pang how much I had missed them dad I had missed the entire time that I had been gone but I didn't realize that I had missed mom as well. She pulled back looking me square in the eyes.
"You are so grounded, don't you ever do that again, You have been away from me for nine months, for the record happy sixteenth, you slept through it." She said. I smiled and nodded.
"Thanks now I can legally drive my car." I joked trying to lighten the mood. Not a smile was given.
"Azreal, this isn't a joking matter, you could never walk again, and it is my fault." Bruce said as he pulled forth the papers. It turns out that when Sports Master hit your head on the floor, the concussion he gave you was more serious than we thought. He his a few nerve endings in the top of your spinal chord. They are the receptors that tell you legs to move. They are swollen and are blocking any conscious or unconscious thoughts for your legs to move that's why your reflexes didn't react when I tapped you knee. You can still feel because those are completely different nerve endings and receptors." He said looking me in the eyes and informing me the blunt truth. I nodded and bit my lip, demanding that my heart stop beating so fast.
"What does that mean for me? I mean I'm a speedster, what does this mean?" I demanded, he frowned deeper and looked to mom and dad, then back to me with a nod at them.
"That means you may have to leave the team or sty behind and work as a hacker and tech helper on the home fort, I mean your archery is excellent, but you would be useless in a wheel chair." Bats said. I nodded accepting that and stared down at my hands in my lap, biting my lip.
"Is there any chance that I will walk again?" I asked not looking up from my hands.
"There is a fifty-fifty chance of you recovering from this." Bats said and I looked up hopeful. He looked back calmly and nodded at me.
"Azreal, we will do all that we can to help you walk again but for now, we still need to interrogate you." Bats said as he slipped his cowl back on and became the man of stone again. I nodded having nothing to hide and not really worrying about that at the moment. I was still worried about the two questioning thoughst that kept buzzing around in my head.
What if this couldn't be fixed and I never walk again. What would I do then?
Okay so there is the next chapter, sorry it took so long I was busier than intended. Anyway I got my Mac air yesterday and it's like a little baby Mac its so tiny its the 11in so yeah but anyway hope you enjoyed reading the latest chapter next one should be up by next Friday
This is fangluv signing off reminding you to stay safe and stay asterous
