This fic is a
combination of BB fics I read and liked by Selena
Kyle and OrangeGirlExplosion.
It's not stealing if you credit the source :)
Batman Beyond and
related characters are owned by DC comics (yay!).
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Twelve months ago, Maxine Gibson disappeared from the face of the Earth. No clues, no witnesses, not even a hint of warning. She just vanished. The police had questioned friends and family – "was she happy at home?" "did she have any enemies?" "an angry boyfriend?" But the answers, "of course she was!" "I don't think so" "Max? No…well, maybe…" were unhelpful to say the least. More unhelpful was how long it took for someone to report the recent college graduate missing.
Gibson had graduated on Saturday, May 8 from Metropolis University. She was supposed to return to her home in Gotham two weeks later with her new boyfriend – one Jason Thomas. When Thomas was questioned, he said he and Max had an argument about their relationship and Max's tendency to stay out late at night. Thomas claims to not know where Gibson went or what she did, but he thought she might be having an affair. The two broke up on May 11, after arguing for three days. Thomas had not heard from her since. He cried during the interview – seems an unlikely kidnapper.
Metro-Air has records indicating that Gibson boarded a flight from Metropolis to Gotham at 11:00pm on May 11. There were no problems with the flight and her baggage was not found in claims nor lost and found. Gibson had arrived in Gotham, but where she went next is a mystery.
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"Terry, you can't keep doing this to yourself," Dana stars down at the ominous figure of her boyfriend or at least it used to be her boyfriend. The two rarely spent time together, and it had been eight months since the two were intimate together, but that wasn't important now -- she was just happy to be albe to speak with him. He had brought work home, again. Hunched over at the computer desk, he scans through newspaper articles, police reports, and surveillance footage from Gotham International Airport looking for any sign of his lost friend.
"She was gone and safe for four years. Now she comes back to my city and she's disappears on my watch," sadness, desperation, and shame crept into his voice.
"I'm worried about her, too. But Max can handle herself. I'm sure she can hang in there until-"
"Until the sick bastard is finish toying with her and kills her? Do you really expect me to wait that long?" He never bothers to look up from his work.
"No, but-"
"She's probably already dead."
The sudden emission from him shocked her; she had given up of Max being alive after three months, it had just seemed impossible then. But she didn't want Terry to lose himself to grief, "She's not dead. Max is a tough girl, she knows some martial art."
At one time, just listening to Dana's voice gave him strength, but now it only annoyed him. He knew she didn't believe Max was safe and she was only trying to make him feel good. It wasn't working, it just made he sound stupid. He needed her to be straight with him. He needed her to believe in him. He needed her to leave him alone. "I gotta go."
He leaves Dana alone, again. Dana slumps down into the desk chair, and thinking about her life with Terry realizes that playing the nurturing doormat was not her style, "Yea, me too." She slowly stands and searches for a suitcase, "I gotta go, too."
I know this is a sloppy way to break Dana and Terry up, but I really didn't want to waste time developing her. R&R please, if its really bad, I might go back and enhance it.
