-1Dick
Grayson
chapter 3-Boy Meets Girl
Three bodies sat in a police car. Traveling from Gotham General to a location that was just around the corner. After a short voyage down the road of darkness, the police vehicle plowed through a mist that filled the skies as the time was now 12 midnight. The vehicle parked in front of a small house that was lined with a large spiked fence. The officer that drove the police car stepped out with Commissioner Gordon exiting out of the vehicle around the same time. The driver opened Dicks door and waited outside until Dick slowly departed from his seat.
"Come on now Dick, it's late and we need to get you inside before you catch some kind of a cold. Officer Grey you may leave us now. I'll take Dick from this point on."
"Yes sir, mister commissioner sir, and shall I leave any messages to anyone back at the precinct?"
"No, that's alright Grey. Just let the lieutenant know that the ride went along pleasantly."
Officer Grey nodded and walked back to the drivers seat while the commissioner patted Dicks back. The officer drove off down the street into the darkness of the city. Gordon opened the fence while he gently pushed Dick in front of him and walked to the front steps of the small house that stood before the two. As soon as Gordon and Dick took their first steps to the porch of the house. The door opened swiftly as a girl that looked around the same age as dick came rushing out at Gordon.
"Yay! Daddy, your finally home!"
The little girl was about to hug Gordon when she halted at the sight of Dick, who was standing at the side of Gordon with a sad and depressed expression that filled his face.
"Hey there Barbie. What's the matter? Aren't you going to give your old man a hug."
Gordon's daughter shook her head from side to side and hurried back to the door, where a woman in a long red elegant night gown was standing. The woman swayed a few strands of her long dark brown hair that was covering her left eye to the far end of her left ear. She patted the young girls back gently with her other free hand. The daughter hid behind the woman and stared at Dick with a frightened look on her face.
"Oh yes the boy. Don't be afraid Barbara, this is Dick Grayson. Sweetie and honey, this fine boy here, will be spending a few days with us. Just until his mother improves."
The woman nodded her head once at Gordon as Dick and Gordon made their way to the door.
"Alright, I guess with that dealt with we can head on in, so that I can show you around and get you settled in for the night."
The boy and the man stepped into the house with the door closing just behind them. The lights in the porch of the house shut off outside once the door had closed. A long shredded black cape swayed from side to side in the air as an arm reached down and tugged on the cape, pulling it in the opposite direction. A cape was pulled and the person who whore the cape strolled through the darkness of the shadows, from place to place with another figure in his grasp.
"Now then back to the business at hand. WHAT! Were you doing stalking the commissioner and the boy? Answer me with the truth and I'll make certain to make this as simple and short as possible."
The caped man stood in the darkness as he held up a man, who was struggling to break free from the capped mans grasp.
"No way man, there's no way I'm telling the likes of you! I-I-I know exactly who you are and what your capable of! Your nothing but a pathetic do gooder, nothing more or less. There's nothing you can do or say to me that will make me say anything."
"Its not what I can do or say that should bother you scum. Are you certain that you know everything about me? The one and only Dark Knight, BATMAN! Tell me, since your still conscience and stable for the time being, do you really think I'll let someone like you hold in secrets of who killed that boys father and injured mother under my view. Yes I saw the whole incident. Which means that this situation between us two are going to be very personal. If I were you, I would start leaking fluids or info."
Batman slammed the man into the wall with the light that shinned over them, shut off instantly. The man began to scream in the darkness that now surrounded the two completely. Minutes passed and Batman threw the man on the ground who's face was now covered with blood and tears from the terror that was inflicted onto him. Batman shot out a line high above from a strange gadget from a belt that was wrapped around his waist. The end of the rope hooked onto a piece of a building high above in the sky and Batman pulled on the rope. Batman flew strait into the sky with his long black cape departing the ground, just after his feet touched the cold air.
"Hmp, you weren't tough at all. Nothing but talk. I hope you let your boss know that I'm coming for him next."
The mans body twitched as Batman's figure disappeared into the sky above.
The sun began to rise slowly with the light shinning all across the city. Dick laid under the covers of a warm and comfortable foam bed. Throughout the night, the commissioners daughter Barbara had slept on the ground all night to the side of the bed. Dick opened his eyes with the light burning brightly onto Dicks eyes. At the moment Dick unsealed his eyes, he jumped up a little at the sight of Barbara hovering over Dicks face. Barbara waved and giggled as she smiled with her eyes closed.
"Morning sleepy head. Did you know that your eyes twitch when your asleep? Anyways I'm glad that your finally awake. I was beginning to become quite bored in this room of mines. "
Dick sunk his head under the sheets and closed his eyes as the girl stretched her arms and hopped on the side of the bed.
"Come on, would you get up already. Its not everyday that I get to wake up with someone else with me, especially all alone with a boy like yourself."
The girl laughed and began to slowly pull the sheets off of Dick. Dick laid back and allowed the sheet to uncover his face which was still in a depressed state.
"Do you have a problem with talking or something? Dick right?….your name is Dick? I'm kind of confused. I heard my dad call you Dick last night when he brought you here, but sometime last night while you were sleeping, I heard my mom talking to my dad and I think he called you Richard, I think. So is your name Dick or Richard?"
Dick nodded and sat up with an annoyed look across his face.
"I thought you were afraid of me?"
The girl smiled with a surprised expression on her face to hear that Dick finally gave in and replied to her with a few words.
"Yeah, I guess I was last night, but I don't know. This morning when I woke up I just had this feeling that you were a nice boy. Unlike those other boys at school who tease because of my red raggedy Ann hair. Not to mention the whole commissioner's daughter thing."
Dick scanned the girls hair and turned his head to the wall slowly.
"Oh, I almost forgot. Just in case if your wondering, my names Barbara Gordon. Your roommate for the next few days I think."
Barbara presented her hand in front of Dick along with a bright smile that consumed her face. Dick sat up straight and spaced off for a moment. A few seconds later, Dick shook his head and grasped Barbara's hand, shaking it.
"Its nice to meet you, I guess…..and yes my name is Dick."
Just then the voice of Jim Gordon was heard throughout the household as he was yelling at someone on the other end of the phone. Barbara hopped off the bed and opened the door in a stealthy manner as Dick kept his position on the bed.
"I wonder what's wrong with daddy. Its too early for him to be yelling."
Gordon slammed the phone with the impact of the phone echoing in every nook and cranny of the house. Gordon rubbed his head and began to march to the room where Dick and Barbara were confined in. just as Gordon began to walk to the room, Barbara rushed to the ground and sat with her legs crossed. The door swung open with Gordon standing at the front of the door.
"I'm sorry Dick, but I have some rather bad news to bestow on you this morning. You see….how can I put this, well its regarding your mother. Son, she past away a few hours ago. The doctors at the hospital were about to check on her and she somehow died from loss of oxygen."
Dick gave out a cough and pounded his chest once with his eyes widening along with his pupils growing darker and colder.
"I'm sorry Dick…but there's more to this situation then you think. I would like to tell you, but I'm afraid I don't have the words to tell you that you'll understand. For now just know that you'll be spending a few days at the precinct instead of here with me."
Gordon walked over to Dick and lifted him out of the bed. Dick allowed the commissioner to lift him as he laid down in a motionless position in Gordon's arms. Dick had now became nothing but a lifeless shell. There was a mind and blood flowing through Dicks body, but both were becoming colder and darker as his heart sunk deeper into the abyss of his life that was breaking apart with each day passing.
"Barbara, tell your mother that I'm unsure of what time I'll return, so just let her know that she shouldn't wait up for me to return tonight. She's still asleep now, so wait until she starts cooking in a few hours. See you….sometime later Barbie."
"okay daddy….I'll let her know sometime today."
A daughter hugged her father for a quick second. Once Barbara released Gordon, he began to walk out of the room. Barbara waved at the two that left the room and tried to smile, but her face was stopping her from giving off a smile.
"Bye daddy and hey Dick, I hope you'll be fine so that we can meet again sometime soon."
The door closed and silence filled each and every room within the house that Dick slept in for the night.
The morning sun was now shinning all across the city with its warmth and bright light for everyone to feel and see. A new day had now begun, but one question floats within Dicks head. Will this day end with another life?
