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Chapter four Jason P.O.V.
The last two days in Gotham had not been the best, I mean we stepped out of the train and the next thing I knew Alex had a gun pointed at her. Then she's in the hospital over night and as soon as we get to Wayne Manor we go on patrol and John gets shot and Alex goes missing for four hours and we find her in an alley with two really badly bruised ribs, a stab wound on her leg and her cheek bruised. And I did nothing to stop her from going out. And we still don't know who attacked Alex or John. And right now both of them are down in the batcave getting patched up, an I'm just sitting here eating breakfast. "You okay Todd," I spin around and look at Damian.
"What do you care?" I ask.
"Your lot different when Alex isn't around." He say as he sits next to me.
"What do mean?" I ask.
"When she's around you sit there happy as can be, but when she's not your a bit like the old Todd." He says.
"You still didn't answer the first question." I say, really wanting to get back to Alex.
"I may not like you much, but your still my brother." He said as he walked off.
"Dick would you just come in here all ready." I say getting a bit frustrated.
"I'm not Dick." I freeze. Man Bruce and Dick were to much alike.
"Sorry Bruce." I mumble turning to the man.
"We never did get to finish that conversion." He says sitting next to me.
"She only looks like me," I say for the second time that day.
"The rest is all her mother."
"Who is her mother?" Bruce asks.
"Her name is Elizabeth Baker, she worked with Cadmus." I started.
"When you were helping me with the Cadmus case and I told you to-" He started to say.
"To get close to her. I may have got a little to close." I finished.
"Oh..." Was all Bruce just sat there in silence for a few minutes.
"She a lot more like you think," He said.
"And..." I start to say.
"And maybe your afraid of that. That she'll become just like how..." He trails off.
"Like how I was back then." I finish.
"Yeah maybe I am."
"What does she like to do?" he asked a few minutes later.
"Draw, she likes to draw though she doesn't know that I know." I say chuckling.
"Is she good?" Bruce asks, smiling at me.
"She better than anybody I know. And I'm not just saying that because she's my daughter." I say.
"She likes to get in trouble." I said smiling at the the last time she did something bad.
"Oh no, what did she do?" Bruce asks smiling.
"She has a friend named Sophia in New York, who happens to be her twin they just doesn't know... yet. They were out having some fun and Alex went to go get their drinks. When Alex came back some boy was pushing Sophia around. So Alex drop the drinks and dislocated the guy's arm. Alex and the guy were arrested. And I had to bail both of them out.
"Why did you have to bail the guy out?" Bruce asked. "It was that or get sued." I laughed.
"Go check on her Jason, we'll talk later." Bruce tells me.
As I walk down I start to think when I'll go set up at the new apartment, Probable next week, let Alex rest up. I think to myself. I get down to the batcave only to hear fighting.
"Oh, of course you would pick Uncle Damian, Uncle Dick and him are so close their practically... um.. Never mind you know what I mean. " I hear Alex shout, I smile Glad to hear she's up.
"Of course you would pick Uncle Jason, just cuz he's your dad." I hear John yell back at her.
"What are they fighting about?" I ask Damian.
"Who's the better hero of the family," Damian says a slight smirk on his face.
"Well that and he's the only hero I've seen fight." She yells back.
"Why do you even look up to Jason? He tried to kill Batman!"
"But he didn't, he's changed and you know it. Your just to much like Damian to notice. Why do you look up to Damian he's killed people to!" Alex shouted.
"Why do you look up to me Alex?" I ask, wanting to know the answer.
"You took on some of the worst guys in Gotham... And I look up to you because I would like to be able to do that some day. Be able to stand up to the worst of the worst... But some part of me knows that I will never be able to that. Because I only look like you... I-I'm to much like my mother I mean I don't know what she was like but... I-I can barely fight even after years of training. I mean I didn't even hear or see the guy who attack me." She said looking me in the eye.
"I'm sorry Dad." She said as she got up and walked over to me.
"It's okay little wing." I say as I wrap her in a hug.
"It's okay little wing." I said, we sat there on the floor in silence for a couple minutes. Till I notice that she had fallen asleep, I picked her up and took her to her new room in the manor. I laid her down in bed and started to leave but stopped at the door.
"Maybe Bruce is right maybe we're a lot more a like than we think... Night little wing." I say step out and shut the door.
Alex P.O.V.
Please I'll stop trying to get out please... I promise... Please." I kept pleading, but they weren't about to listen to me. As they dragged me to my pod."Please..." I cried. but I was back in the pod. I looked across the pod room, as I called it. There were four other pods in the room. Three of them had boys in them and the other one had a girl in it."Maybe you should stop trying to get out." The boy closest to her said. He had green skin and he was wearing a mask, his shirt had an red x on it, he was kind at times but he had never tried to get out. His mother was Miss M. so we just called him M, we don't even know who she is."Oh... M your awake," I said."It's kind of hard to sleep with you screaming RH." The girl next to her said. I looked over to the girl, she was black with blond hair and gills. She could be clam and rude it was a mix of the two. Her father was a guy named Aquaman, so we just call her AG."Sorry if I want to get out of here." I say to AG."Hey you probable the only one of us that can get out of here." The boy across from me said. I looked him in the eye, he had tan skin, brown hair, and hawk wings. We call him HB because his mother was Hawkwoman. He was the only who actually believe I could get out."Thanks HB." I say feeling myself start to blush."He's right you know." The boy next to HB said. He had red hair, green eyes, and could run at... lets just say really high speeds. His dad was the flash. We call him KF"Yeah I know." I say. All of the sudden the little claw things come out of nowhere and go into our chest and start electrocuting us, we all start screaming and it all starts going black...
"Alex, wake up." I hear someone shout, my eyes fly open and land on my dad, he looks at me with concern.
"Dad," I say confused.
"You where having another nightmare," He said. I look around the room, there was a desk, a dresser the bed, a bath room, and seven guys in the room looking at me with concern.
"Alex do you have nightmares like that offended," Tim asked as he came and sat next to me.
"Why?" I asked.
"We think the man who stuck the syringe in your arm might have put some scarecrow venom in it." Dick said.
"Yes I do have the nightmares a lot." I say.
"How many times a week?" Damian asked.
"Oh... just twice a week at the most," I say pretending to shake it off.
"Alex." Dad said in a warning tone.
"Fine... I've had them every night since I was seven. And each time I get father into it." I say.
"Wait you've been having nightmares since you were seven?" Dad asked shocked.
"Yes." I say simply.
"Can you tell us about the nightmares?" Tim asked me softly. I nod and close my eyes.
"It starts with me being dragged into a room with lab equipment and five pods, and begging them to stop and that I wouldn't try to get out again. But they don't listen to me and they throw me into the pod, then I start talking to four people. One has green skin we call him M. The second one, AG, she is black with blond and she has gills dad is Aquaman. The third we call him HB, He has brown hair, blue eyes, and hawk wings, he's also the only one who believes I can get out." I say finding myself smiling. " Then there is KF, he has red hair and green eyes. Then after we finish talking these claw things come out of-" I start to say.
"And they start to electrocute you." Dick finishes for me, and I just nod.
"And then I wake up." I say.
"Screaming like a-" John starts to say but I'm off the bed, I push him against the wall and put one of my many knives to his throat, my ribs and leg scream in protest.
"You think it's funny boy wonder? To see people you care about get hurt...?" I ask knowing the answer.
"N-no," He say shaking.
"No you don't. You also don't know what it's like in those dr- nightmares. You can feel everything they feel." I say getting angry. Everyone is looking at me, I sit down on my bed.
"Why didn't you ever tell me Alex?" Dad asks.
"Because... You were never there... When I needed you. You were out saving people's lives." I say, not even trying to hide the hurt in my voice.
"Now would you all please get out." I say, quietly looking down at my knife. They nod and walk out. Why do the nightmare never stop?