Chapter 9

Okay, I'm so sorry. I've just been so busy training, and healing, because of the show we're doing in October, so yeah, I finally got some time! Yes! Okay this chapter is going to be very emotional. Bye!

Wayne Manor

It was night in Gotham, the news of the fire had spread through the state, and Wayne inc. had taken over the job to find out who or what did the crime. Bruce threw down the newspaper, with the News heading on the front of the page saying, 'House fire case gone cold! No trace of evidence what so ever!' A large thud came when the paper hit the desk, where Richard was sitting opposite of Bruce.

"I can't believe this!" Bruce scowled. He put his hand on his forehead, he was thinking as to what to do next.

"Something wrong master Bruce?" Alfred asked as he placed a cup of coffee on the desk, next to Bruce.

"I don't under stand this." Bruce's voice be came harsh. "This case was going so well! Then we come to this dead end!" Bruce thrashed his hands out in front of him, referring to the newspaper. "I just don't under stand." he put is chin on his fist. "There has to be something missing. Some thing we've missed."

"All the evidence was gathered at the scene, tested and scanned, for any trace to who, or what, started that mysterious fire." Richard stated, he was in his Robin custom, but he had his mask off. "And if there was any other evidence, it's probably buried under the new foundation they put up."

"Or..." Bruce said in a thinking tone. "Some one hasn't told us the whole story." Bruce sat up and pointed to the girl's name. "This girl, here. Rachel." Richard looked up. "Did you get her full story?"

"She didn't really have that much-" Richard was interrupted.

"I don't care!" Bruce stood up and shouted, bagging his fists in to the desk, knocking the cup of coffee over. "Get all the information you can out of that little rat! Beat her! Abuse her! Threaten her! Do something that will make her tell you the whole story!" Bruce ragged.

"Already on it." Robin put his mask on quickly and opened the window and jumped out.

"Sigh" Bruce laid back in his chair. "We need to teach that kid some manners."

"Yes, sir." Alfred agreed.

Rachel's House

Tap Tap Tap

Rachel had her nose in a book. She turned to her window to see Robin out side. Rachel put the book down and stood up, her white shirt she had on was big on her, her silk pajama bottoms went down to her feet, dragging along behind her as she walked, she had white socks on, too. She walked over to the window, unlocked it and opened it up. Robin slid in quietly.

"What are you doing here?" Rachel whispered. "My mother's home! If she hears us we'll both be in-" Robin put two fingers to her lips.

"Shh." He shushed her. "We need to talk." He removed his hand from her mouth.

"About what?" Rachel asked. Robin ushered to the bed, as to sit down. Rachel moved her book aside before sitting down, Robin sat down beside her.

"It's about the case." Robin explained. "It's gone cold." Rachel looked down. "We're thinking that some one hasn't told us everything they know." Robin put his hands on top of Rachel's, which were on her lap. "And I know it's not you." Rachel looked up into his masked eyes.

"I told you everything I know." Rachel had to look away, she couldn't bare to lie to his face, well, looking at it at least.

"Well, do you know some one who might have not told everything?" Robin asked.

"I don't know!" Rachel whispered harshly, she stood up and walked to the other side of the room, she hugged herself. "Maybe, the others, my neighbors, might know something."

"Thanks Rae, I could always count on you." Robin said as he was about to hop out of the window.

"Wait!" Rachel said as she ran over and hugged him. He was caught off guard. He lightly placed his arms around her. "What if, I said I was the one lying to you?"

"What?" Robin's eyes went wide.

"What if I said, I knew who started the fire?" Robin's eyes went even wider, if they could go any wider.

Jump city High Gymnasium

Rachel, had decided, to work on her gymnastics skills. She was wearing her black leotard, but not the one she fights in, similar but not the same. Rachel had her hair back in a nice long braid, to her shoulder blades, you could see the scar on her leg clearly, she was wearing gymnast shoes, which are flexible and very comfortable. She was next to the balance beam, she was actually on the exercise mat. She started to stretch her legs. The cheerleaders had come in from the out side, they were chatting loudly, Kori was one of them. Rachel happened to be in their spot, they so called it. Rachel moved to her left leg, ignoring the fact the team was literally on top of her right side.

"Uh, Hello!" The team leader said in a valley girl accent. Rachel moved her legs into the Chinese splits, that's side to side. The girl looked paranoid, she looked back at the other girls, who looked mad. "Hello? I'm talking to you! Your in our spot!" the girl said.

Rachel stood up and pulled her leg up into a Scorpio position. "Does it look like I care?" Rachel said emotionlessly. The team leader grunted and copied Rachel's position. Rachel glanced over at the obsessive teen leader. Rachel put her leg down and pulled her right leg straight up, over her head. The cheerleader copied.

"Come on, Nikki show her who's the boss." the cheerleaders cheered off of the side lines.

Rachel put her leg down and did the American splits, that's front to back, Nikki copied. Kori looked suspiciously at Rachel. Rachel stood up and looked at Nikki face to face. Some body turned on the music, with a nice beat. Rachel looked up then back at Nikki, a serious look on her face, Rachel just smiled, with a little evil idea behind it.

"You think you're all that?" Nikki said as her and Rachel started to pace around each other looking at each other, deadly.

"Try me." Rachel said.

"Dude! Come on hurry up! We're going to miss the girls in the gym!" Gar said as he briskly walked down the hallway.

"Don't worry, Gar! We'll get there soon, they aren't going to disappear." Alex, Aqualad but not in his hero form, said.

"Dude! You're missing the action here!" Gar shouted from down the other end of the hall way, about 15 meters down the hall, that's 45 feet. "There's a show off between the captain and this girl you like Richard!"

"What?" Richard shouted and burst into a full sprint, everyone followed. Once Richard got there, the girls were death staring each other. "Oh, no. This won't end well."

"Well, might as well do my home work while we're waiting." Victor sat down and started doing his homework, while the others watched.

The two girls walked to the opposite sides of the mats, the rest of the team backed off, giving them space. Once there Rachel turned around to look at Nikki across the mat.

Richard saw the scar on her upper thigh, "Huh?" he raised an eyebrow. "That's strange."

Nikki was the first to move, she did a perfect cartwheel. She gave a wicked smile to Rachel, once she was done. Rachel did a graceful one handed cartwheel. Rachel smiled mockingly, while Nikki's mouth dropped. Nikki shook off the surprise and did a one handed cartwheel too, not as graceful. Rachel walked back to the edge of her mat and made sure there was enough room to do her next stunt. Nikki smirked as Rachel walked away, Rachel then turned back and did a no handed cartwheel, with ease. The boys' mouths' dropped. Nikki picked some fuzz off of her white and green cheerleading outfit. Nikki did a round off with one flip flop at the end. Rachel and Nikki kept this up for a while, Rachel always came up bettering Nikki's moves. But that was soon going to be over. Rachel did a no handed cartwheel with 3 flip flops and one no handed flip flop. Nikki tried to copy her but, on her 4th flip flop her hand went down wrong, and she fell.

"Nikki!" the girls all ran to her side. Rachel stood triumphant.

"Ow, You'll pay for this!" Nikki shook her fist, she then winced and pulled it back, nursing it. The girls helped escort her out of the gym. Rachel went back to stretching. The boys in the hall way watched as the cheerleaders went by, Kori gave Rachel one last glare.

"Dude! Did you just see that!" Gar shouted.

"That's no ordinary girl." Alex stated.

"That's what worries me." Richard said suspiciously.

Rachel knew the boys were there, watching her, so she decided to put a little show on for them. Rachel Stepped up to the beam and got on it. She, first, bent down and did a slow cartwheel, to show she had complete balance, control and strength. She landed gracefully, without a sound. She then did the American splits, then sat to one side on the beam, having one leg tucked in under her. She then straddled the beam and did 3 somersaults, carefully balancing each one. Then one the 3rd one at the end, she forced hr hands out and went from straddling the beam to doing a hand stand, and doing the splits in the air.

"Woah! Dude, did you see that?" Gar asked. All the boys nodded in surprise.

Rachel slowly closed her legs and walked, on her hands, a couple feet. Her face was sweating, that last move pulled a lot of energy out of her.

"She's gonna fall!" Roy warned.

Rachel's arms were wobbly, but she managed to lower her self down enough and did a somersault, to relieve the stress on her arms. She straightened out her right leg to keep her from falling over, on the beam. She wiped the sweat off of her forehead, she stood up on the beam and continued her routine. She did back wards somersaults, back bends, etc. She finally was done in less then 30 minutes. She went into the locker room and changed into her regular clothes. She had blue jeans and a purple t-shirt. She walked out of the locker room and found the boys chatting.

"Richard!" Rachel walked over to him and hugged him.

"Hey, how are you?" Richard asked.

"I'm fine." Rachel whispered, "Oh, yeah, I want to be your girl friend, so I accept." A Grin spread across Richard's face. He hugged her, and swung her around, laughing.

"I want to be your boy friend, so I accept, too." Richard whispered with delight. The boys all smiled, Rachel was so happy, yet some part of her said she shouldn't have done that.