Ruby

Disclaimer: Birds of Prey belong to DC comics and the WB. I own nothing from them. I just write fanfics for a living and for my entertainment.

A/N: The character Ruby, Liz, Drake, and Moon belongs to me. This will set in 2004, a year after The Predator: The Aftermath

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New Gotham High (Morning)

One morning, Dinah, walks down the school halls, she is examining at the other students, she feels great, being the big kid at the school and she can't wait to graduate. She is wondering what classes she might have for this year, right now she is heading to her homeroom, to receive her schedule, a paper that tells her what classes she has, an agenda book, and some notices about changes or news about the school.

Dinah walks to her homeroom and she enters it, there are few kids in the classroom and the teacher is talking to few students. "Hey, Mr. George"

"Hey, Dinah, how was your summer?"

"Good, it was a blast"

"That's good," Mr. George, notices a new girl walking into the classroom, "May I help you?"

"This is Mr. George room correct?"

"Yes"

Dinah turns to the girl, she has shoulder length brown hair with red streaks, green eyes, 5ft.4", slim, she is wearing a green sleeveless shirt, black jeans, and sneakers, "I'm the new girl, Ruby Sampson"

"Nice to meet you Ruby, welcome to New Gotham High, since your new, you can talk to Dinah if you want"

"Okay" Ruby walks away and she sits down on this chair/desk all in one.

Dinah walks down the isles and she sits right across from Ruby, "Hi, Ruby where did you move from?"

Ruby didn't know what to say, "Well, I don't exactly remember"

"Oh, are you from New Gotham?"

"Nope, my father and mother"

"What did they do to you?"

"I can't talk about this" she hurries out of her seat and she runs out of the classroom, Mr. George is trying to figure out, why she takes off.

"Is she ok?"

"I don't know, I think something is bothering her, I will ask her what is wrong"

"Can you do that for me? Because the bell is going to ring in ten minutes" Dinah nods and she grabs her bag and she gets out of the chair and she walks out of the classroom and she doesn't see Ruby in sight. "Great" she walks down the halls and she begins to search for Ruby, down the halls, Dinah sees Liz talking to couple students, she runs up to her, "Liz"

"Yeah?" she turns to Dinah, Liz sense something from Dinah, she turns to the other students, "I'll catch ya later" the students nod and they walk away, "What is it Dinah?"

"Have you see a girl name Ruby Sampson?"

"No why?"

"Because I was talking to her and she mention something about her parents, then I ask what they did to her, I think she freak out and took off, and I can't find her"

"I will help you, go to your homeroom and I will find her"

"Okay, thanks Liz"

"No problem" Liz walks away and she begins to search for this girl Ruby.

Dinah nods and she heads back to her homeroom, as she enters it, the bell rang, that was the first bell, the next two bells coming up is like a warning bell, like hurry up or your tardy. Dinah told the teacher, that Liz will find Ruby, the teacher nods and Dinah sits down at the desk.

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Liz walks down the halls, searching for this "Ruby", she walks into the girl's bathroom and she checked through every stall, that is avaible, nothing. She walks out of the girl's bathroom and heads to few more girl's bathrooms. Each girl's bathroom, she found no Ruby. She thinks for a second, "Girl's Locker room, maybe she could be there" Liz heads to the girl's locker room, she walks down the stairs, near the gymnasium and she walks down the locker room, "Ruby? If your name is Ruby, please come out". Silence. "Crap" Liz has no clue where she might could be. Liz exits the locker room and she heads outside of the school, maybe she is outside somewhere, smoking a bud. She exits the school and she walks around school campus, searching for Ruby, on top of the building she sees a shadow and its moving, "Found her" Liz walks up to the building and Liz looks around, making sure no one isn't around and she sprang into the air and lands on top of the building, she sees the girl, sitting down, she is crying, "Ruby Sampson?"

Ruby stops crying and she wipes her eyes and she turns to Liz, "I'm her"

"What's wrong?" Liz walks over to the steps, where Ruby is sitting at, she sits down right beside her, her eyes is meeting at hers.

"Nothing, its no one's concern"

"It's my concern, what is your parents doing to you?"

"You won't understand" she stands up, "No one won't understand"

Liz stands up and she walks up to her, face to face, "I would understand, you almost sound like me, when I was at your age, but for parents to me, is another story"

"Really?" she looks at Liz, Liz nods her head, "I was hiding in the shadows, ever since I was little, my parents were hiding me, making sure, I don't enter the light"

"Why?"

"Because, people will hate me, because I'm different"

"You're a metahuman?"

She shakes her head, "I'm Meta" she looks around, "My parents are humans, but my grandma and grandpa on both sides are metahumans"

"Sounds like metahuman thingy kinda of skipped a generation, but you Meta" Liz thinks for a minute, "Meta, meaning full fledge mutant"

"No human in me, that is why they locked me down the basement, but I don't get it, why are you talking to me about Metas or Metahuman?"

"I'm a Metahuman" she thinks for a moment, she isn't really a metahuman, its like a cover-up, she can't tell the girl she is this goddess or whatever, that would be giving off too much information.

"Oh, my parents said that Metahumans are just as bad as Metas"

"Nope, most are good, most are bad, where you came from, sounds like humans don't appricate Metahumans or Metas, because they are different, but being different is a good thing, because Metahumans or Metas can do about the same thing as humans, we are just basically gifted, we are partial humans, but you are still human, humans sometimes don't understand what is different, that is all, they are just scared and afraid what is truly different."

"You think, that is why they lock me down the basement?"

"Yeah" she thinks for a moment, "I think I should get to class"

"Yeah, I will take you down, so you will get a schedule"

"Okay, are you a student here?"

"Nope, its kind of funny, how people mistakenly think I'm a student here, I help the trouble teenagers and break up fights"

"Sounds like fun"

"Yea, sometime it is, like me, when I break up fights, I can't use my metahuman powers, plus the metahumans or Metas, since you're the first Meta I ever seen, you can't use your powers/ablities, you can get into like trouble and its not cool, also before I take you back to class, what is your powers?"

"Teleporting and some powers/abitlies I think I'm still developing"

"That probably explains, how you got on the roof so quickly, anyways let get back to class, before anyone gets suspicious"

"Okay" she takes Liz's hands and they teleport into the halls, and luckly no one was around, "Sorry"

"That was ok, but next time, don't use it" She nods and Ruby heads to her class, Ruby walks into her homeroom and she sees Mr. George handing out the schedules, Mr. George sees Ruby and then looks at Liz, "She was with me" He nods and Ruby takes a seat. Liz walks away from the homeroom classroom and she walks down the halls, searching for any misbehaving students.

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Ruby looks at Dinah, "Sorry"

"You ok?" concerning Dinah

"Yeah, she kind of knock sense into me"

"Oh, Liz, she is cool and the perfect person to talk anything to her, she would like understand it and she helps the person to resolve their issues, she can like easily get into the person and easily find out what is the problem"

"Few minutes ago, I mistaken her for a student"

"Everyone does, including the teachers," as Dinah laughs for a second, "Sorry"

"It's ok" Mr. George hands her schedule and he hands one to Dinah, "Let's compare our schedule"

"Okay" Dinah looks at her schedule and at Ruby's schedule and Ruby does the same thing as well, "Cool, we have the same classes"

"That's really cool, your like my first friend, we have the same classes, what next?"

"Having the same lunch as me"

"That's cool, maybe at lunch, we can talk stuff, okay?"

"Okay"

(Chapter 2 coming up soon)