-CHAPTER FOUR-
Dinah fell to the ground as if all the energy had been sapped away from her and cried. Just then, she saw a knife lying next to her and not really knowing or caring where it came from; she picked it up…
"Just leave me alone…! I know, I know, Its all my fault!" Dinah yelled throwing the knife at one of the gravestones. "This can't be real, it can't!"
"Oh… but it is, Dinah… everything is real!" Replied a voice from behind her.
Dinah turned around at the voice and jumped off of the ground she was sitting on, screaming. Dinah stared at her mother getting out of a hole in the ground, which was not there before. Carolyn's face was all bloody and burn.
"Look at what you have done…!" Carolyn said angrily.
Carolyn pointed her hand at Dinah, indicating her to turn around.
Dinah continued staring at her mother, not wanting to turn around knowing that something bad was going to happen if she did. She was already a failure so why do they have to torture her more than she deserved.
"I can't…" whispered Dinah to herself.
She just keep looking in front of her, watching Carolyn inching slowly towards her.
"Leave me alone!" Dinah yelled as she collapsed to the ground in tears.
Carolyn walked up to her child and grabbed her, pulling her up off the ground. Dinah found herself looking at her mom's bloody face.
"Look!" She yelled turning Dinah around.
Dinah looked up behind Carolyn and saw some people gathering around one of the gravestones… The people… they looked happy.
Carolyn pulled Dinah towards the people who were gathered around the gravestone. "Look… at them… they're happy… it's you who is in that grave! They are happy… that you are dead! You had only given them nothing but pain!" Carolyn said.
A knife appeared in one of the teenager's hands.
Dinah missed the knife that appeared in front of her. She was still staring ahead of her. Just then, Dinah caught sight of Helena coming up to her grave. Dinah started moving towards Helena, while Carolyn let her go. When Dinah reached the grave, she heard Helena talking.
"My life is good now… I just wish you had died sooner so I could have a better life then."
Dinah looked up at Helena, with tears in her eyes.
Barbara appeared beside Helena and give her a hug. "All of our lives would have been better."
"All… my… fault… it's all… my… fault…" Dinah whispered, breaking down.
She fell to the ground again, crying. Carolyn gave a smile that could send chills down the spine and disappeared.
Dinah looked down at the knife in her hands.
"Barbara's right… everyone would be better without me in the world." Dinah said as she raised it up towards her. But she threw it to the ground.
"I just can't." Dinah cried in anguish, huddling into a ball next to her gravestone, which bore her name.
Destiny opened her eyes to find herself back in the real world. Destiny looks down at the teenager. "So close, just a bit more…" Destiny said as an evil smile formed on her face.
She put her hand on the teenager's face, stroking it. "Until you die!"
Destiny got up from the ground and looked at Dinah one more time, before leaving the room.
"Helena Kyle?" one of the doctors called.
"Yes, it's me! Is she okay? Is Barbara okay?" Helena said getting up and walking over to the doctor.
"Right now she is in a coma. We don't know when she will wake up. She could wake up anytime or maybe not. The longer she's asleep, there's a less chance that she will wake up."
"Can I go see her?" Helena asked anxiously.
"They're getting her settled in room 134 right now, but, yes you can go see her. Her room is just down this hallway and to the left."
"Thanks." Helena thanked the doctor and hurried down the hallway to the room.
When Helena reached the room, there was a man sitting down on a chair next to Barbara, with a hand on Barbara's arm. He did not look like any of the hospital staff here. Helena reached over behind the man, yanked him off the chair he was sitting on and slammed him into wall.
"Who the hell are you? What are you doing in here?" Helena yelled angrily, letting the man fall to the ground.
Helena looked at the man, whose back was facing her. She was ready to hurt him if he tried anything funny.
"Well, it's nice to see you too." Said the man as he picked himself up from the ground. He turned around to face Helena.
Helena looked at him in shock. "Dad?"
"Bruce." Said a woman coming into the room, with coffee in both her hands.
Helena turned around coming face to face with the woman who called him Bruce. "Carolyn?"
"Hello, Helena." Carolyn said, coming over to Bruce and handing him a cup of coffee.
"Thanks." He said while he locked his eyes on Helena.
"You're suppose to be dead! What the hell are you doing here?" Helena said, as she could feel her fury bursting forth.
"You need all the help you can get, ...to defeat Destiny."
"I can defeat her by myself! I don't need your stupid help! And how the hell do you know about Destiny!" Helena demanded, not really knowing why they were here.
"Alfred called us and told me what's going on, what happened to Barbara, and Dinah. Carolyn and I came here to help."
"Why now! Why don't before? Where were you before, when Barbara got shot by the Joker… and my mother… you bastard!" Helena retorted, leaving the room.
"I don't need anyone's help… especially yours! I'll find her myself!" Helena warned before running down the hallway and out of the front doors of the hospital.
"I think that went well." Carolyn said sarcastically, turning back around to face Bruce.
"We have to get to her before she get to Destiny. She's extremely dangerous, Helena won't stand a chance against her." He said, his brows furrowing together.
"Is there something you're… not" Before she could say anything else, a loud beeping sound was heard coming from the equipment beside Barbara's bed.
Doctors and nurses came running into the room and over to Barbara, both Carolyn and Bruce started going towards them, but was stop by a doctor. "Sorry, but you have to leave the room!" he said urgently, then turned back to attend to his patient.
Bruce and Carolyn left the room and anyone could see how worried they were. They went to the waiting room to wait for any news.
Sitting on the swing, Barbara looked around at her surroundings. The waves crashed against the shore. There was nobody to be seen in all directions. It was so peaceful, as the waves seemed to sooth her. Barbara stood up and walked to the shoreline. She was surprised that she could walk at all. She just stood in the water looking out to the sea. She tried to recall how she got there but there was nothing. No memory of how or why. She was... just there. Looking down the beach, she started towards the afternoon sun.
"It's beautiful, isn't it?" a voice said from behind her.
Barbara turned around to come face to face with Selena.
"Selena… what are you doing here? What is this place and why am I doing here?"
"This is the place between life and death. Right now you are in a coma." Selena said, putting an arm around Barbara. "It's your time…"
"My time for what?"
"For you to cross over to the land of the dead." Selena said pointing her hand up, where a door appeared out of nowhere and opened, beckoning her in. "It's time for you to cross over."
Barbara looked at Selena. "It can't be my time, the girls need me."
"Things happen for a reason, Barbara…" Selena said starting to guide Barbara to the door between the worlds.
They both stood right in front of the door.
"It's your time…"
Barbara looked up into Selena's eyes. They did not look like they belong to her at all… the eyes, they looked… angry.
"You're not her!"
"You're right… I'm not!" Selena said, laughing. But before Barbara could do anything, she was pushed through the door.
"Nooo!" Barbara yelled.
"Bye, bye… Batgirl!"
"Paddles!" One of the doctors yelled. A doctor brought over the paddle machine.
The doctor picked up the paddles. "Gel."
The nurse squirted some gel on a paddle and he rubbed the two together.
"Clear!" He used the paddles on Barbara, giving a mighty jolt which send her body arching up from the bed. It didn't work as the beeping of the machine continued.
"Recharge."
"Recharging."
"Clear!"
He used them again but he still couldn't bring back her heartbeat. He looked at Barbara and sighed. "Time of death."
The doctor turned to the attending nurse.
"4:50pm."