Chapter 11:
"The girl is way too smart for her own good." Barbara Gordon sat down on the old couch, next to Bruce Wayne. "She knows what's going on, but she won't tell me."
"She has every reason not to." He replied.
"Meaning?" She asked, glaring at him.
"She was attacked in broad daylight. That wouldn't worry you?" He looked right back at her. The tension was obviously heavy.
Barbara finally sighed. "Just don't pick up another wayward orphan Bruce!"
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I looked at the picture in disbelief! There were the trees from school and running in front of it was Terry McGinnis, putting on his mask.
I looked at again, trying to convince myself it was all a joke. I mean, Terry? Batman? Honestly? But there was the evidence right in front of me.
It made sense, too. Terry wasn't at school when I was attacked.
But, then, Terry couldn't be the old Batman. He was too young. Okay, so we have a rookie. It explained why the old Batman's fighting skill were supposedly phenomenal and Terry's, well…They were…not!
That left another unanswered question: who was the real Batman?
I sighed and closed my laptop. Obviously, Terry hadn't given me the Robin costume. There was just no way. He had just met me a few days ago. Why would he trust me with this? He wouldn't, that was the ONLY answer.
Moreover, there was no way he could have met my father. Dad had left Gotham 10 years before Terry was born. I laid my head down and thought. Who would Terry know that was old enough to be the original Batman?
I decided I would do some research.
I'm not a bad hacker, I am such a computer nerd that my skills are good enough that I can hack into a police station (did that only once, by the way!). So hacking into a couple of phone companies was going to be easy.
I reopened my laptop. I was gonna get some damn answers if it killed me!
I hacked my way into the phone companies, trying to find which one Terry used. Jackpot! Apparently, he used a cellular phone branch. I went into there, and began looking up all his phone calls from the month.
Dana Tan…17 times this month. Okay, she can't be Batman…Unless she can change her sex and age, in which case, GROSS!
Mary McGinnis…8 times. I'm assuming this is his mother. Again, I don't think so!
I began to have my doubts that I'd ever find who Batman was. Maybe he was already dead, I mean, forty years have passed! Maybe Terry didn't get the Batman costume from Batman, maybe he got it elsewhere. I was about to give up, when I spotted one last name. It had the most calls and the most recent calls!
Bruce Wayne!
My first thought was no freakin' way! I mean, Bruce Wayne is Batman? Come on! But it all made sense. Dad lived in Gotham around that time. He worked for a newspaper, the Gotham Herald. He'd have to have met Mr. Wayne at some point, right?
Had my father stumbled onto the same secret I had?
I quickly covered my hacking up, not wanting the phone companies to know what I had done. I then went into the newspaper's website. I wanted to find out more about Mr. Wayne over the past few years!
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I awoke hours later at my computer, I had fallen asleep doing my Wayne research. I don't know what had woken me up. All I knew was Wayne was the perfect profile for Batman. He had lost his mother and father during a mugging. He had taken in two boys over the years, Richard Grayson and Timothy Drake. It made sense. In some of the earlier photos, the Robin looked older than he did when he was in the ones from like 2000.
It also accounted for Nightwing because Richard had moved to Bludhaven when the Nightwing sightings first started. The first Robin, I surmised, became the Bludhaven vigilante and passed the Robin costume to Tim. Then when Timothy Drake was kidnapped, Robin disappeared directly after. I figured that Bruce was worried about his safety.
I shut my computer off. It gave me something to work on. I now had answers, but not enough!
I quickly got up from the table. I was going to start getting my damn results! I picked up my laptop from the table and my bag from the floor. I raced upstairs to my room. I quickly packed up the Robin costume and all the accessories inside my bag and was running back downstairs to get my coat and shoes, when I glanced at the clock and laughed.
It was 1 in the morning! Oh yeah, Jase, you're just going to walk up to Mr. Wayne's house at 1 A.M., with a Robin costume, and demand some answers in nothing save a nightgown.
Uh huh…yeah, right!
I sighed and sat down on the couch and looked out the window. Something was very, very wrong!
The Lars weren't home, and yeah, they got back late before, but they were only going to the station to sign some papers. How long could that take?
Their car wasn't parked in the driveway, and John would have definitely waken me!
What was going on?
I stood up, my bag still in hand and went upstairs back to my room, when something hit me. That terrible feeling I had gotten all those times it seemed someone was after me. I shivered, the coldness sliding down my spine and neck. I went upstairs slowly, with each step the feeling getting stronger.
~ Please, God, don't let the Lars be dead! Don't let them be dead! Please GOD! ~ I prayed. I didn't want to see blood, death, and those horrible eyes again!
I reached the final stair, the feeling making me feel as if I were going to vomit. I felt faint, but went on. The feeling came from Nelly's and my room, where I had been only a few minutes ago. I swallowed hard, something stuck to my throat. I reached the door, the feeling screaming at me to stay out, to run downstairs, to call for police.
But I couldn't!
My hand slowly went for the door, but it took both of them to open it, they were shaking so badly.
I opened it slowly, peered inside, and screamed!
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Terry heard the scream, it came from Jasyne's apartment. He darted towrds it, but by the time he reached it, it would be two seconds too late!
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Moon: Ack! I can't watch! It's too horrible!
Arte: Yeah, cause…
Selina: DON'T TELL THEM! *slaps hand over Arte's mouth*
Arte: *tries to bite Selly's hand*
Nut: *watches the display*
Selina: *starts swearing like a drunken pirate and smacks Arte repeatedly*
Arte: *hits Selly with a bat*
Moon: Stoppit both of you! Don't make me come back there!!!
Nut:* shakes head* But it was getting good!
Luna: *wearing her I LURVE JONNY DEPP AND ORLANDO BLOOM T-shirt* Anyways, to Name Changer, the picture was taken when Jase's camera fell out of her bag. That happened to Nut here once.
Selina: *sporting a black eye* To Hectate, THANK YOU! I LUV COMPLIMENTS!
Moon: To Baevie, we're getting there!
Nut: PLEASE REVIEW MORE! PLEASE
