A/N: Thank you everyone for the new reviews :)
Teroth – hehe, thank you :) I wanted to make a twist in there somewhere...I want to read your fanfic once you are done.
Starfirelover – Glad you stuck around too! Your story is really good, I love it so much! Anyway, here is the next chapter :)
Shadw – Ohh you'll see in this chapter :) lol killer monkeys...ahheeeeee runs away hahaha
Starfire fan – your welcome! And thank you for the comment! I've been drawing anime for quite a few years now, so I hope this turned out well :P
Winged-Raccoon-the-Dragon – Aww thank you so much :) lol I really hate terra to, the little brat. I never would have expected Raven and her to get along much, but maybe things will change in the future. Blah :P
Theme song: Akino Arai – Tsuki No Ie (this really fits this chapter, Akino Arai is my new favorite singer!!!)
"Julian, come here."
A small little girl about 8 years old came up to an old man covered in lying in a hospital bed, staring at him with wide blue eyes. "Yes, daddy?"
"I just wanted to tell you darling, that I'm leaving soon...be a good girl for mommy, please."
"W-what?" A simple tear trickled down the little girl's eye and landed on the man's hand. "Daddy, what are you talking about?"
"Honey, it's time for me to go."
"Where are you going?" The young Julian grasped her father's wrist tightly. "I want to go with you."
"Julian..." The man said with sympathy. "This time you can't come with me, sport."
Julian had always gone with her father everywhere on missions...fighting crime when she was just a little girl. She had learned how to use weapons, use martial arts and even drive a motorcycle.
"It's time you take over my place."
"Daddy, I'm too young to do anything!" Julian was crying harder now. "I can't do it! You have to be here with me!"
"Julian..." The man's expression softened, but his eyes drooped more. "My Julian...you can do it...I know you can." His hand went limp and his eyes closed completely...for the last time.
"Dad?" Julian's blubbery blue eyes opened up even more. "Dad!" She cried. She tried shaking him. "Dad!"
It was no use. Her father had died. The legendary Batman...had died.
"Dad!" Julian sobbed into her father's limp hand.
"Julian...?"
Julian turned around to discover her beautiful, caring mother in the doorway. "Mom...daddy isn't moving anymore." Julian managed to spit out.
"What?" The woman fled to her husband's side, taking up his hand. "Bruce..." She said in a shaky voice. "Bruce...Why me?" She started sobbing. "Bruce!"
Julian cried with her mother...and from that day on everything seemed to go black.
1: 00 AM – BATCAVE
Julian stood over her father's old workplace silently. This had always been familiar to her, and now it was so silent. Not even Alfred was there anymore.
"What are you doing in here?" Julian turned around to discover her mother, standing in the doorway with a bottle of beer in her shaken hand. It had always been like that...ever since dad died, her mother became an alcoholic that was always drinking...and always depressed. She would bring home a new man every day and then make Julian do all the chores around the house. She would beat Julian without mercy, causing permanent scares on her body.
"I'm...just looking around." Julian said, backing away from her dangerous mother.
"This was Bruce's office." Her mother said, crazily. "Nobody's supposed to be in here but BRUCE. Not even you, you good for nothing brat." She said, taking another drink of beer. "So GET OUT. Get outta here."
"Can I just stay a little longer?" Julian said, her voice shaking. "Please?"
"What did I say?" Julian's mom yelled, getting mad. She approached her daughter and grasped her arm tightly. "Huh?"
"Y-you said to get out." Julian said, scared. She tried to break away but her mom grasped her arm tighter. "OW! Mom, you're hurting me!" She struggled in her mom's hand. "You're drunk!" She screamed.
"I don't care if you died right now." Her mother screamed in her face. "All I cared about was Bruce. And now he's gone...and YOU'RE still here...I wish it had been the other way around!" Her mother was screaming hysterically. "I wish you'd die, you useless thing. DIE!" Her mother started punching her daughter. Julian landed on the floor, hurting badly. Her mother kicked her. "Die, you stupid...useless..thing." Tears were streaming down both of their eyes. Julian got up and started to run out the door into Gotham City...her only comfort for those times.
She heard her mother's voice in the distance. "Good! Get out of here, and never come back!"
As she ran out farther and farther away from the mansion, she began to cry harder. She had no friends at school. She didn't have...anything.
Julian ran into an alleyway, deserted and worn out. She had escaped the evil clutches of her drunken mother, but now she had to face the cold world in return.
As Julian cried softly, a man walked by carrying a black briefcase. He stopped walking when he got to the alleyway and looked in.
Julian saw his wondering face and clasped her hand over her mouth, crouching up tighter into a ball.
"Hello?" He called in politely. He walked in. "Hello?"
Beneath the shadows of the worn out alleyway, the man saw a little 8 year old girl, clutching her knees tightly. "Go away." A raspy voice answered.
"Don't be afraid." The man bent down, looking very kind. "I want to help you."
"How can I trust you?" Julian tested, leaning away from him.
"You're just going to HAVE to trust me." He held out his hand.
Reluctantly, Julian stood up and took the man's hand. In the name "W-what's your name?" She asked quietly. As his face...or rather his two faces... appeared from the shadows, Julian seemed to shy away from this man a little. He was an kind of scary, with two sides to his face. One was threatening...the other, normal. He looked so familiar...like she had seen him before somewhere. But her father never had exposed her to any of his cases.
"My name is Harvey Dent." He said, smiling softly down on her, just like another father....except for the fact that he had two sides to his face. Harvey rang a bell somewhere in Julian's head. "And what is yours?"
"Julian Dallemete Wayne. But everybody calls me Julian." Julian said shyly.
"Julian Dallemete." The man smiled still. "You were Bruce's girl?"
Julian nodded quietly.
"I see." The man said, quietly. His attitude towards her seemed to shift, but Julian didn't know how. "Julian Dallemete." He repeated. "I like JD better."
From that moment on she was known to the world as JD.
"Let's go back to my place." He seemed a little colder towards her now. "Come."
JD followed him quietly.
When JD entered the office place, it was cold and icy. There was something about it that was the same as her father's mansion...but it was different for a strange reason JD couldn't explain. But she didn't like it.
"Sit down." Harvey ordered sternly. JD now felt afraid of him. She sat down in an empty chair in front of the office table. "JD. I want you to forget your father."
"But why?"
"He is a figment of the past. You cannot let him linger around." Harvey walked around. "You will obey me and only me." He looked at her, resting his hand on the table. "I will be your father."
"You can't make me forget him." JD said boldly. She started to get up. "Thanks for your offer of hospitality, but I don't think I'll be needing it." JD began to walk out.
The doors closed.
"I don't think you have a choice."
JD leaned against the wall in horror.
"I think you've seen me before...JD." He looked at her.
"Two face..." JD whispered furiously.
"That's right."
"I am not working for my father's enemy." She hissed. "You can't make me."
"Oh, but I think I can." He took out a gun and loaded it. Instantly JD knew she couldn't beat this man. He was so much more mature and older than her. She held her ground.
"You will become my assistant. You will obey me. RIGHT?" His finger was so close to the trigger JD thought he might pull it any minute.
JD began to tremble. "What have I gotten myself into?" She asked herself. A tear dripped down from her eye and off her chin again.
"You will..." He walked closer to her, a mad gleam in his eyes. "I am your leader. And you will obey me! Now answer me!"
JD didn't speak a word, but the gun got closer and closer to her head, brushing against her dark black hair. "Stubborn." He replied. "Just like your father."
"You're the stubborn one." JD said under her breath.
"What did you say?" The gun jerked against her head.
"Nothing." JD said with fright in her voice. "Nothing at all."
"You will follow me. Only ME. Now tell me, will you follow ONLY me?"
"Yes." JD whispered, ashamed.
Two face put down the gun, more relaxed. "It's time for you to learn my ways. Come, my apprentice."
JD slapped on an arm pad and two leg shields. She strapped a pair of goggles to the top of her head and put on a black jacket. She was now 13 years old, and much more mature.
"I think you know what you're doing now." Two face said, coming from the mists of the shadows. "Go out and bring the city back into my hands, before Slade does."
She walked out of the room angrily, not having a choice.
Outside in Gotham city, JD kneeled quietly on top of the Slade Headquarters building. She crept around quietly and discovered a window on top of the sturdy building. She made a hole in it with a laser and quietly took out the glass, setting it aside. She jumped in, landing on the ground with barely a scratch.
"What do we have here?"
JD whirled around to discover Slade standing behind her. Many of his men stood behind him, holding guns.
"Slade." She said with clenched teeth. "I thought you were-"
Slade laughed coldly. "You probably saw one of my replicas." He said smoothly. "No surprise in that." He smiled.
JD began to run out of the room.
"Not so fast."
The dozens of Slade's workers surrounded her, their machine guns fully loaded. JD backed into a wall.
"Tell me your plan." Slade demanded.
JD glared at him. "I don't follow your orders."
"Oh, I think you don't have a choice."
Those words. They hit JD hard... she shook her head. "No." She whispered. "This isn't happening. Not...again."
"But it is." Slade smiled sleekly.
"I'm tired of this..." JD thought in her head. "I'm tired of working for my father's enemies..." She leaned against the wall and slid down.
"Tell me." Slade said, getting angry.
"If only you were here, dad..." JD whispered to herself. "I wish you'd come back...come back and save me..."
"If the girl won't speak, kill her." Slade sneered.
JD heard the guns click. She got on her hands and knees. "I surrender." She croaked. Her voice broke...and so did she. The light shone down on her gleaming hair. Silence broke out in the room, and only her helpless sobs could be heard.
Slade motioned for his slaves to put their weapons down. "I wasn't expecting this..." He said curiously. "The daughter of the legendary Batman?"
"Batman..." JD murmured. "A figment of my past." She looked up. "My past does not matter anymore."
"Oh, but child, it does." Slade spoke. He lifted up her chin, but she pulled away. "You were missing for years." He kneeled down. "The daughter of Batman, working for me." He laughed. "Priceless."
She looked at him. "Who says I'm going to work for you?"
"Again." He stood up. "You don't have a choice."
Those familiar words. But this time, JD was stronger.
Wiping the sweat from her face slowly, she stood up and punched Slade in the face, causing him to stumble back. The machine guns began to roar, and JD began to sprint to the door.
"Get her!" Slade screamed.
JD pushed open the double doors, running for her life. The men followed her, firing their guns. It was impossible to miss all the hits...one of them hit her hard, causing her to lunge forward, eventually landing on her stomach. She could taste the blood in her own mouth as she landed. The pain was enormous.
Slade walked forward and held out his hand for the men to stop. "Useless thing." He sputtered. "Can't you see? Slade cannot be defeated." He walked around her. "Join me." He ordered calmly. "Together... we can be successful."
JD tried to get up, but she couldn't. She lay on the ground, motionless, thinking about what would happen if she went back to Two Face. He would probably punish her...or worse...whatever. Either way, she would disappoint him. Good. But what about Slade? He was just as bad...
With all of these thoughts in mind, a miracle happened. JD stood crouched down on her knees, using a bench for support to get up. She angrily rise shaking, with her head cast to the ground. She turned around, lurching towards Slade with a brute force. She fought him with all her remaining strength, but he was too much stronger. JD ended up landing on her back, scratching against the hard, concrete ground.
All she could here was her own breath. Something deep red started to flow out of her right arm...more blood. She felt numb. Lost. Alone.
"Do we have a deal?" Slade held out his hand once more.
The lies. The pain. The betrayal. Was Slade lying? How could he be trusted? He was a villain, and villains could never be trusted.
JD looked up at Slade with her big blue eyes. They were full of tears once more. Sadly, she took his hand and he helped her up.
"Wonderful." Slade smiled icily. "Come...my apprentice."
Wow...Loooooong chapter Oo hopefully that will be the longest...this took forever to write!! Okie well tell me what you think! :)
Teroth – hehe, thank you :) I wanted to make a twist in there somewhere...I want to read your fanfic once you are done.
Starfirelover – Glad you stuck around too! Your story is really good, I love it so much! Anyway, here is the next chapter :)
Shadw – Ohh you'll see in this chapter :) lol killer monkeys...ahheeeeee runs away hahaha
Starfire fan – your welcome! And thank you for the comment! I've been drawing anime for quite a few years now, so I hope this turned out well :P
Winged-Raccoon-the-Dragon – Aww thank you so much :) lol I really hate terra to, the little brat. I never would have expected Raven and her to get along much, but maybe things will change in the future. Blah :P
Theme song: Akino Arai – Tsuki No Ie (this really fits this chapter, Akino Arai is my new favorite singer!!!)
"Julian, come here."
A small little girl about 8 years old came up to an old man covered in lying in a hospital bed, staring at him with wide blue eyes. "Yes, daddy?"
"I just wanted to tell you darling, that I'm leaving soon...be a good girl for mommy, please."
"W-what?" A simple tear trickled down the little girl's eye and landed on the man's hand. "Daddy, what are you talking about?"
"Honey, it's time for me to go."
"Where are you going?" The young Julian grasped her father's wrist tightly. "I want to go with you."
"Julian..." The man said with sympathy. "This time you can't come with me, sport."
Julian had always gone with her father everywhere on missions...fighting crime when she was just a little girl. She had learned how to use weapons, use martial arts and even drive a motorcycle.
"It's time you take over my place."
"Daddy, I'm too young to do anything!" Julian was crying harder now. "I can't do it! You have to be here with me!"
"Julian..." The man's expression softened, but his eyes drooped more. "My Julian...you can do it...I know you can." His hand went limp and his eyes closed completely...for the last time.
"Dad?" Julian's blubbery blue eyes opened up even more. "Dad!" She cried. She tried shaking him. "Dad!"
It was no use. Her father had died. The legendary Batman...had died.
"Dad!" Julian sobbed into her father's limp hand.
"Julian...?"
Julian turned around to discover her beautiful, caring mother in the doorway. "Mom...daddy isn't moving anymore." Julian managed to spit out.
"What?" The woman fled to her husband's side, taking up his hand. "Bruce..." She said in a shaky voice. "Bruce...Why me?" She started sobbing. "Bruce!"
Julian cried with her mother...and from that day on everything seemed to go black.
1: 00 AM – BATCAVE
Julian stood over her father's old workplace silently. This had always been familiar to her, and now it was so silent. Not even Alfred was there anymore.
"What are you doing in here?" Julian turned around to discover her mother, standing in the doorway with a bottle of beer in her shaken hand. It had always been like that...ever since dad died, her mother became an alcoholic that was always drinking...and always depressed. She would bring home a new man every day and then make Julian do all the chores around the house. She would beat Julian without mercy, causing permanent scares on her body.
"I'm...just looking around." Julian said, backing away from her dangerous mother.
"This was Bruce's office." Her mother said, crazily. "Nobody's supposed to be in here but BRUCE. Not even you, you good for nothing brat." She said, taking another drink of beer. "So GET OUT. Get outta here."
"Can I just stay a little longer?" Julian said, her voice shaking. "Please?"
"What did I say?" Julian's mom yelled, getting mad. She approached her daughter and grasped her arm tightly. "Huh?"
"Y-you said to get out." Julian said, scared. She tried to break away but her mom grasped her arm tighter. "OW! Mom, you're hurting me!" She struggled in her mom's hand. "You're drunk!" She screamed.
"I don't care if you died right now." Her mother screamed in her face. "All I cared about was Bruce. And now he's gone...and YOU'RE still here...I wish it had been the other way around!" Her mother was screaming hysterically. "I wish you'd die, you useless thing. DIE!" Her mother started punching her daughter. Julian landed on the floor, hurting badly. Her mother kicked her. "Die, you stupid...useless..thing." Tears were streaming down both of their eyes. Julian got up and started to run out the door into Gotham City...her only comfort for those times.
She heard her mother's voice in the distance. "Good! Get out of here, and never come back!"
As she ran out farther and farther away from the mansion, she began to cry harder. She had no friends at school. She didn't have...anything.
Julian ran into an alleyway, deserted and worn out. She had escaped the evil clutches of her drunken mother, but now she had to face the cold world in return.
As Julian cried softly, a man walked by carrying a black briefcase. He stopped walking when he got to the alleyway and looked in.
Julian saw his wondering face and clasped her hand over her mouth, crouching up tighter into a ball.
"Hello?" He called in politely. He walked in. "Hello?"
Beneath the shadows of the worn out alleyway, the man saw a little 8 year old girl, clutching her knees tightly. "Go away." A raspy voice answered.
"Don't be afraid." The man bent down, looking very kind. "I want to help you."
"How can I trust you?" Julian tested, leaning away from him.
"You're just going to HAVE to trust me." He held out his hand.
Reluctantly, Julian stood up and took the man's hand. In the name "W-what's your name?" She asked quietly. As his face...or rather his two faces... appeared from the shadows, Julian seemed to shy away from this man a little. He was an kind of scary, with two sides to his face. One was threatening...the other, normal. He looked so familiar...like she had seen him before somewhere. But her father never had exposed her to any of his cases.
"My name is Harvey Dent." He said, smiling softly down on her, just like another father....except for the fact that he had two sides to his face. Harvey rang a bell somewhere in Julian's head. "And what is yours?"
"Julian Dallemete Wayne. But everybody calls me Julian." Julian said shyly.
"Julian Dallemete." The man smiled still. "You were Bruce's girl?"
Julian nodded quietly.
"I see." The man said, quietly. His attitude towards her seemed to shift, but Julian didn't know how. "Julian Dallemete." He repeated. "I like JD better."
From that moment on she was known to the world as JD.
"Let's go back to my place." He seemed a little colder towards her now. "Come."
JD followed him quietly.
When JD entered the office place, it was cold and icy. There was something about it that was the same as her father's mansion...but it was different for a strange reason JD couldn't explain. But she didn't like it.
"Sit down." Harvey ordered sternly. JD now felt afraid of him. She sat down in an empty chair in front of the office table. "JD. I want you to forget your father."
"But why?"
"He is a figment of the past. You cannot let him linger around." Harvey walked around. "You will obey me and only me." He looked at her, resting his hand on the table. "I will be your father."
"You can't make me forget him." JD said boldly. She started to get up. "Thanks for your offer of hospitality, but I don't think I'll be needing it." JD began to walk out.
The doors closed.
"I don't think you have a choice."
JD leaned against the wall in horror.
"I think you've seen me before...JD." He looked at her.
"Two face..." JD whispered furiously.
"That's right."
"I am not working for my father's enemy." She hissed. "You can't make me."
"Oh, but I think I can." He took out a gun and loaded it. Instantly JD knew she couldn't beat this man. He was so much more mature and older than her. She held her ground.
"You will become my assistant. You will obey me. RIGHT?" His finger was so close to the trigger JD thought he might pull it any minute.
JD began to tremble. "What have I gotten myself into?" She asked herself. A tear dripped down from her eye and off her chin again.
"You will..." He walked closer to her, a mad gleam in his eyes. "I am your leader. And you will obey me! Now answer me!"
JD didn't speak a word, but the gun got closer and closer to her head, brushing against her dark black hair. "Stubborn." He replied. "Just like your father."
"You're the stubborn one." JD said under her breath.
"What did you say?" The gun jerked against her head.
"Nothing." JD said with fright in her voice. "Nothing at all."
"You will follow me. Only ME. Now tell me, will you follow ONLY me?"
"Yes." JD whispered, ashamed.
Two face put down the gun, more relaxed. "It's time for you to learn my ways. Come, my apprentice."
JD slapped on an arm pad and two leg shields. She strapped a pair of goggles to the top of her head and put on a black jacket. She was now 13 years old, and much more mature.
"I think you know what you're doing now." Two face said, coming from the mists of the shadows. "Go out and bring the city back into my hands, before Slade does."
She walked out of the room angrily, not having a choice.
Outside in Gotham city, JD kneeled quietly on top of the Slade Headquarters building. She crept around quietly and discovered a window on top of the sturdy building. She made a hole in it with a laser and quietly took out the glass, setting it aside. She jumped in, landing on the ground with barely a scratch.
"What do we have here?"
JD whirled around to discover Slade standing behind her. Many of his men stood behind him, holding guns.
"Slade." She said with clenched teeth. "I thought you were-"
Slade laughed coldly. "You probably saw one of my replicas." He said smoothly. "No surprise in that." He smiled.
JD began to run out of the room.
"Not so fast."
The dozens of Slade's workers surrounded her, their machine guns fully loaded. JD backed into a wall.
"Tell me your plan." Slade demanded.
JD glared at him. "I don't follow your orders."
"Oh, I think you don't have a choice."
Those words. They hit JD hard... she shook her head. "No." She whispered. "This isn't happening. Not...again."
"But it is." Slade smiled sleekly.
"I'm tired of this..." JD thought in her head. "I'm tired of working for my father's enemies..." She leaned against the wall and slid down.
"Tell me." Slade said, getting angry.
"If only you were here, dad..." JD whispered to herself. "I wish you'd come back...come back and save me..."
"If the girl won't speak, kill her." Slade sneered.
JD heard the guns click. She got on her hands and knees. "I surrender." She croaked. Her voice broke...and so did she. The light shone down on her gleaming hair. Silence broke out in the room, and only her helpless sobs could be heard.
Slade motioned for his slaves to put their weapons down. "I wasn't expecting this..." He said curiously. "The daughter of the legendary Batman?"
"Batman..." JD murmured. "A figment of my past." She looked up. "My past does not matter anymore."
"Oh, but child, it does." Slade spoke. He lifted up her chin, but she pulled away. "You were missing for years." He kneeled down. "The daughter of Batman, working for me." He laughed. "Priceless."
She looked at him. "Who says I'm going to work for you?"
"Again." He stood up. "You don't have a choice."
Those familiar words. But this time, JD was stronger.
Wiping the sweat from her face slowly, she stood up and punched Slade in the face, causing him to stumble back. The machine guns began to roar, and JD began to sprint to the door.
"Get her!" Slade screamed.
JD pushed open the double doors, running for her life. The men followed her, firing their guns. It was impossible to miss all the hits...one of them hit her hard, causing her to lunge forward, eventually landing on her stomach. She could taste the blood in her own mouth as she landed. The pain was enormous.
Slade walked forward and held out his hand for the men to stop. "Useless thing." He sputtered. "Can't you see? Slade cannot be defeated." He walked around her. "Join me." He ordered calmly. "Together... we can be successful."
JD tried to get up, but she couldn't. She lay on the ground, motionless, thinking about what would happen if she went back to Two Face. He would probably punish her...or worse...whatever. Either way, she would disappoint him. Good. But what about Slade? He was just as bad...
With all of these thoughts in mind, a miracle happened. JD stood crouched down on her knees, using a bench for support to get up. She angrily rise shaking, with her head cast to the ground. She turned around, lurching towards Slade with a brute force. She fought him with all her remaining strength, but he was too much stronger. JD ended up landing on her back, scratching against the hard, concrete ground.
All she could here was her own breath. Something deep red started to flow out of her right arm...more blood. She felt numb. Lost. Alone.
"Do we have a deal?" Slade held out his hand once more.
The lies. The pain. The betrayal. Was Slade lying? How could he be trusted? He was a villain, and villains could never be trusted.
JD looked up at Slade with her big blue eyes. They were full of tears once more. Sadly, she took his hand and he helped her up.
"Wonderful." Slade smiled icily. "Come...my apprentice."
Wow...Loooooong chapter Oo hopefully that will be the longest...this took forever to write!! Okie well tell me what you think! :)