Rising Hero: Chapter Two
It had been about three weeks since the one-sided shootout at the gas station happened and Barbra Gordon was still at a lost for how it turned out.
Her Father, James Gordon, had been after the S.O.B. for six months now, and suddenly this stranger from out of town comes in and kills him in a deadly-defensive-encounter?
She may have been sixteen, but she was also the batgirl, and she was glad the convict was dead. One less nutcase running around trying to claim other's hard earned keep just to strike fear in the populace that much was clearly appraised by the people of Gotham!
Although needless to say, the guy who pulled the trigger knew what he was doing, she only wanted know if he was a good guy, a bad guy.
She was positive that Bruce was over looking the image trying to see if he could get a face. With no luck, this guy knew where the cameras were, the only 'name' anyone got out of him was the police getting 'Harry' from him.
No last name, no origin, no phone number, no nothing, he asked for the reward money in cash, and left before anyone else could question him.
And no one bothered running the licenses plate number either, granted he parked away from the building, but still…
The Clerk said he couldn't have been older than 20, but he gunned down a man that knew no remorse as if though he had been doing it a long time, which begged the addressing of the elephant in the room…
If this guy was really younger than twenty-one, and he was able to kill a man with little to no hesitance, how was he going to react to the batman and his crime fighting team?
Was he a protector like the Bats and the Birds? Was he an anti-hero like the Red Hood?
These questions where giving her a headache. she didn't understand! she could only hope that Bruce would find something and fast because her father had even said he was on the edge with this one…
Speaking of her father, she was making supper for tonight, lasagna and garlic bread, a simple and delicious meal; that she would have get started on making now if she wanted her father to come home take a shower, change into something comfortable, sit down and eat with his only child, and only family in state.
As much as she loved her father, she wouldn't deny, there may be a night that he doesn't return, and as much as thought sadden her, it reminded her, you have to be strong, to carry on what the strong will teach you.
She knew she was attractive to many boys and some girls (she shivered at that thought) and her father teaching her how to protect herself with everything, from a baton, to a shotgun (like the 590 shockwave that her father bought her for her birthday a few weeks ago and something she was considering adding to her crime fighting gear)
As she fired up the oven, another thought accrued to her: what if this "Harry" was a kid running away from a past that he didn't want finding him, that in its self would have explained why he was avoiding the cameras in the first place, someone wanted him dead, and that reward money that he collected would be used to help him further his run…
Or help him established a place for rest while he waited for this shoot out news story to blow over.
In Gotham he would blend right in that get-up, heck even her father wore something like that on a daily basis! And with winter time around the corner… HA! Screw the chances of finding him! you'd be better off calling a truce with the Joker, Penguin, and The Riddler in one go and being successful at it as well!
Why would he run any farther when he could stick around in a big city?
The oven beeped letting Barbra know that it was ready for the food that was to be prepared for this evening.
Barbra was hugely underestimated when it came to detective work.
She pulled out her phone and called Bruce.
A few seconds later, "Hello?'
"Bruce, I have a few thoughts about our new guest in town…"
*coughs awkwardly* So, Jack has one kill to his name, and will have many more to his name come a few more episodes but the idea is that Jack/Dirty Harry is a Bounty Hunter slash Guardian of Gotham (and yes he knows the Batman is in Gotham) But Jack won't be found unless he wants to be, which will be explained in one of the next chapters.
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