Chapter 28: First Encounter
Emily's POV-
I had just heard what had what had happened to Mr. Fitz. He had been taken to the hospital after a car had hit him with full speed.
Aria was devastated when she got the news. She ran to the girls bathroom and locked herself into a stall.
Hanna and I had spent the entire afternoon standing outside the stall to show Aria that we were there for her.
Once Aria had exited the stall, Hanna and I gave her a big comforting hug that lasted for a long time.
Paige had told me everything about Mr. Fitz knew who A was so I didn't have to think hard to know who had sent that car to kill him.
"Guys, I want to be at the hospital with Ezra." Aria said as she wiped away her tears.
"Of course Aria, I'll drive you there and..."
"No, I need to be there alone." Aria said. I wanted to protest but I couldn't bear to say anything that would make Aria more miserable.
She left the bathroom and neither one of us followed her since we both knew that she wanted to be alone even if she clearly shouldn't be by herself right now.
Hanna and I walked out of the bathroom and since all classes were dismissed we both went to the parking lot and I drove Hanna home.
"You're not coming with me?" Hanna said as she walked to the front door.
"No, I'll go to Paige. After what has happened today I just want to make sure she is alright." I said and Hanna nodded.
I drove to Paige's mansion and went through the front door. She was nowhere to be seen. She must be in the bat cave, I thought as I went to the secret entrance that Paige had showed me.
Once I entered the bat cave I saw that Spencer and Caleb were by the computers trying to get a view of the driver that had hit Mr. Fitz with the car.
"It's no use. The glass are toned so it's impossible to see anything inside the car." Caleb said and Spencer agreed.
"Hi guys, is Paige here?" I asked them.
"Yes, she is sparing with her dolls, it's her way of dealing with what had happened today." Spencer said.
"Good, I'll go talk to her and break her the bad news." I said as I headed to Paige's indoor gym.
As I stood outside I could hear Paige punching, from the sound of it she was not in a good mood, but I knew that no matter how mad she was, she'd never hurt me.
I opened the door and when I got inside I saw Paige in her training site and a sports bra, she was all sweaty and she was breathing heavily. It was probably weird for me to get turned on by looking at her.
"Hey Paige calm down or you'll kill yourself." I said as I walked up to Paige.
Paige turned to me and she seemed more relaxed already.
"How are you?" I said and walked up to Paige.
"I'm pissed, I was this close to find out who A was and then Mr. Fitz got hit by the car and got unconscious. I was this close to make sure A was going to be stopped but then that happened and now Mr. Fitz is in the hospital." Paige said as she sat down on the floor.
"Hey, don't worry, once Mr. Fitz regains his consciousness, he'll tell you everything he knows about A." I said as I sat down and started to stroke Paige's hair.
"Yeah, but it just feels like I let him down." Paige said.
"You didn't have a chance to do anything, no one was prepared for that to happen." I said comforting.
"And Paige there is more bad news. Caleb and Spencer couldn't get a clear view of the driver from the surveillance video." I said.
"Dammit." Paige said and moved her hands to her face.
"Hey don't worry. You're Batgirl, you'll get another chance to stop A." I said as I stood up.
"And Paige. Your smell is not so good, go get a shower." I said as Paige got back up.
She gave me a smirk and walked towards the shower.
"Care to join me?" She said as she grabbed her towel.
"No, with everything going on, I'm not in that mood today." I said and Paige understood what I meant.
"Tomorrow we'll visit the hospital and see if Mr. Fitz is awake." I said after Paige as she left her gym.
The next morning
Today Paige and I are going to visit Mr. Fitz at the hospital. I was waiting for Paige outside her mansion. I saw her exit, she walked slowly into my car and I drove to the hospital.
We didn't say anything during the entire drive, we just sat in silence during the entire drive.
Once we reached the hospital we walked inside. I didn't like the distant between us, so I grabbed Paige's hand, she looked down on her hand and then back to me giving me a small smile.
We entered the hospital and asked the receptionist for Fitz and she pointed us to the right direction to Mr. Fitz room.
Once we had entered the room we saw that Aria was sitting next to the bed. She was holding Mr. Fitz's hand and rubbed her thumb in circles over the back of his hand.
"Hi Aria." Emily said and put her hand on Aria's shoulder. "How long have you been here?" Emily asked.
"All night, I want to be right her when he wakes up." Aria answered.
A nurse entered and asked me Paige and Aria to sit down.
"I got some bad news for you. Mr. Fitz has suffered severe head injury and he's in a coma. We don't know when he'll wake up." The nurse said.
Aria fell down and cried loudly, it was really horrible to watch her in so much pain. Her eyes were covered in tears and she was sobbing uncontrollably and I didn't blame her, if it was Paige who was in a coma I would never stop crying.
I leaned down and hugged Aria letting her cry out on my shoulder.
Paige's Pov-
I was on my midnight patrol alone since Caleb and Hanna had their anniversary tonight so he got the night off.
"Oracle found something?" I asked over the Comm link.
"Yes A's men have just kidnaped a person of great importance and hide him or her in a van." Oracle said over the Comm link
"A person of great importance?" I asked.
"I taped into their radio and that's what they said." answered.
"Ok, better save whoever that person is. Send me the coordinates and I'll get there." I said and once I got the coordinates, I hurried to the location.
I was very lucky, it was only two henchmen guarding the van so it wouldn't get any hard saving the hostage.
I jumped down in front of both guards and they panicked as they saw me.
"It's Batgirl, why is she here?" one yelled in panic and the other one tried to attack me.
He ran towards me, trying to hit me with a right hook that I dodged and grabbed his arm throwing him over my shoulder so he landed onto his back on the hard ground and got knocked out.
I turned to face the other one, but he was running away. I let him go, there was no point in chasing him before I had made sure the hostage was alright.
I walked up to the vans back door, as I reached for the handle the doors flew up and hit me in my face so I almost fell to the ground.
A tall person walked out of the van, the person was wearing a ski mask and a black hood so I couldn't see the face.
"Well well well the famous Batgirl right into my trap. I expect you to be here sooner." The person in the hood had a twisted voice so I couldn't tell if it was a man or a woman. "I'm A and tonight I'll check for myself what's the big deal about you." A said as I got back up.
So it was a trap to make me face A, fine by me this meant that I didn't have to wait for Mr. Fitz to wake up from his coma to fight A.
We stood face to face and I charged A, I threw a hard punch to A's gut, but A blocked it and gave me three fast kicks to my stomach.
I took a few steps back from the pain but A was suddenly behind me and grabbed the back of my head and slammed my face into the side of the van. I had to do something to turn the fight to my advantage.
I put my hands to the van to prevent getting slammed against the van again, then I tried to kick A's right knee, but A jumped back so I missed.
I activated my power gloves to make sure if I hit I would have a better chance to defeat A.
I went on the offensive with an aggressive motivation, I threw punch after punch that A dodged, I got more and more frustrated as A kept dodging all of my punches. This was getting annoying I made one final punch that hit A in the jaw, but my power gloves were running out of energy so the punch didn't give the result that I hoped for.
"What's the matter girl? Out of power?" A asked mockingly "I have learned how you fight, so I know how to avoid getting defeated by you." A said as I reached for some batrangs.
I threw the batrangs towards A who dodged them, which I expected once A was focusing on my batrangs I charged at and punched A in the gut and then I threw another punch to A's head so it snapped back from the impact of my fist.
I threw a right hook to A's face to finish the fight, but A grabbed my wrist as I threw the punch and before I had any time to react A elbowed the left side of my face several times. I tried to fight back but A was still holding my wrist so I was stuck.
A let go of my wrist and starting hitting my sides, it went so fast I didn't have any time to react. As A kept hitting me I had it harder and I feel my legs are giving up as I feel the pain getting worse.
After a few seconds I fall to the ground from the punches, A walks around me as I try to muster the strength to get back up.
"It seems like I've bested you." A said and walked around me in circles. "I could tear your mask off right now since you're in no shape to defend yourself, but if I do that I'll be known for killing a girl and I want to be known for killing Batgirl." A said and then A reached down and grabbed my throat and started to strangle me. I put a transmitter on A as I got lifted.
I tried to fight A off but I was too weak and I got weaker by the second and I felt that I was about to faint from the lack of air.
"So you want to keep track with me, well I don't like it. If I want to you to find me I'll activate this." A said and turned off the transmitter and then she tightened her grip on my throat "Do you feel that. That's death only inches away" A said and then I was dropped. "Remember that feeling and know that I'm lurking around every corner" I hear A's voice, and once I looked up I saw that A was gone.
I tried to get back up but my entire body was too soar to get up.
"Oracle I need a way to get home. I... I can't go anywhere." I said over the Comm link and Spencer said she would get me a ride home.
I sat in the alley once Emily's car stopped and she ran out and helped me to go inside her car.
I saw that she was very concern about me, but she didn't say a word she just focused on the road.
Once we got to my mansion she helped me walk to my room and she put me down on my bed in my room. I sat there and Emily sat beside me and I saw that she was about to cry.
I removed my mask and looked at her. "I know what you are thinking, I was fighting A and I lost." I said, saying those words made it feel like I was swallowing fire. I couldn't believe that I was fighting A and lost, the biggest fight in my life that I had prepared to fight for years and I had lost.
Emily suddenly went from worrying to caring "Oh Paige, Thank god you survived" Emily said and hugged me tightly with hurt since I was still sore from the fight.
"Sorry" Emily said and quickly removed her hands from me.
"Its fine, you didn't know I'm still sore from the fight." I said
"You are not just sore you needed help to walk and I think you can have more serious injuries." Emily said as she started to take off my suit.
She was very gently to make sure that it wouldn't hurt me more but the suite was tight so when she pulled off the top half over my head it hurt, but not as much as it would if I had tried to remove my site myself.
Once the top was off she took of my boots and then I removed my belt and she helped me remove my pants.
Now I was sitting in from of Emily in only my bra and panties and she looked at me tracing her fingers over my sides.
"Are you trying to flirt with me?" I said and Emily looked at me.
"I'm checking if you have broken any ribs, you can't play hero if you are injured that bad." She said as she moved her hands to my other side, moving them up and down.
"Ok you have no broken ribs but you're badly bruised she said moving her hand gently over my side."
"Don't you feel a little over dressed?" I asked Emily as she moved her hand to my stomach.
Emily smiled and undressed slowly to tease me, once she was in her underwear, she moved in to kiss me passionately and as we deepened the kiss, her hand started to roam over my body, suddenly I felt a big pain. She flinched as I moan in pain.
"Oh, I'm so sorry Paige I didn't mean to hurt you." Emily said and removed her hands.
"It's ok Emily. Maybe we should just sleep tonight." I said and Emily pulled the blanket over us and we both leaned back on the bed.
"Goodnight nurse, Em. I love you." I said as I closed my eyes.
Emily kissed my temple and said "I love you too, my hero."
