Chapter 1
The world looks so small in the eyes of the dark knight as he peers from the watchtower's observation deck. He wonder's how the hell it can be filled with such danger and hatred. He drifts into a well deserved sleep, but surprisingly enough it is not a peaceful nap..............
"Mommy may we watch the movie again sometime?"
"Perhaps Bruce, but we have to wait another day, certainly not tonight. You must get some sleep,"
"Now Martha let the boy stay up a while when we get home. It is a Saturday, perhaps a good game of billiards?"
"Sure father, that sounds like fun!"
"We'll have Alfred whip us up a few cookies and some hot choc......"
"Alright, no funny business back up in the alley, and we'll start with the pearls 'round the pretty ladies neck.
And so the childhood dream morphs itself into the hellish nightmare of gunfire and orphaning.
"BANG BANG"The sirens rise and the murderer runs away leaving a crying child in a cold wet alley clinging to his mothers body for dear life. He does not know that he has just been the spark of a fire that will rage forever.
He sits in a police station in downtown Gotham City, eyes red, throat sore he see his beloved family butler walk in to the police station and run to the boy and say....
"Thought you never slept?"
Batman jumps awakes in a cold sweat his costume sticking to his body. The Flash standing at the door holding two cups of coffee "Boy you're jumpy. Ahh, forget it, that feature comes with the job..." The Flash was outgoing and energetic, the mirror of Batman.
"HOW LONG WERE YOU JUST STANDING THERE?!?!"
"I just came in, thought I'd bring you some coffee, a little caffeine for our main night shift worker. Are you alright?"
"Yes, just a little edgy I guess. Haven't slept in weeks sorry for being so rude."
"Are you kidding, I'd expect a rouse from a person who hasn't slept in so long, I just came and woke you up. I apologize."
"Don't id expect you to wake me up if I were falling asleep on nightshift. That's the criminal's workday. Any way I was hav... I was just snoozing."
"Really, cause people don't usually scream if they are just snoozing, but I don't want to know what happened. I'll be going now, unless..."
"Unless what?"
"Unless you'd like me to stay....."
"Go ahead it's quiet tonight and I might fall asleep and a war start under my nose." And so Bruce sits in the uncomfortable chair and does the unthinkable. Asks if Flash would like to bring up the subject.
"Do you believe in destiny?"
"What the hell does that mean!"
"Well, do you believe everything in life is predetermined or that we make our own destinies in life? Do you believe in fate?"
"How do I answer that?"