Detective Dick Grayson and his partner Carlos Montoya sat quietly on the
plane they were taking to Gotham. Dick looked through the files for any
clues on the woman that he needed to finally stop the Valestras. He stopped
and looked at an image he knew well, a face he had seen in Bruce's photo
albums. Dick read the names of the woman and her father and an old memory
from college crept through his mind as Alfred voice seemed to call out
through a fog, "Master Dick, you need to come home right away. She's gone
again and this time he may never get her back. Master Bruce is
inconsolable, he hasn't gone out in nights and he just sits staring out a
window. I can't get him to eat and I don't know what else I can do to help
him. Please come home Master Dick, and hurry." Dick closed the file and sat
up straight in his chair. He remembered vividly the woman that had crushed
Bruce's heart and soul. Bruce had never recovered from her. He shut
himself off piece by piece after she left him, and it was only in the past
few years that Bruce had manage to climb out of that cavern. Dick knew that
this could wreck his father permanently, and he knew he couldn't stop it.
