Just finished playing Gotham Knights and got inspired to write a fic on Dick and Babs as I really liked their chemistry! The game was pretty vague on the details of some events so I'm going to try and fill in some blanks with what I think could have happened. Hope you enjoy!

Arkham Asylum. . .

"Just stay down!" Barbara found herself shouting in frustration as she lashed out at the Man Bat with her tonfa, hitting it square in the face as it let out an unearthly shriek and stumbled backwards. How many hits could this thing take?! They'd been fighting for what felt like hours as it just kept coming.

Her body was aching in pain from being slammed into the tank, thrown through the window, clawed at, bitten, hit with a sonic screech, but she wasn't going to stop. She couldn't. There was no way she was letting this thing escape into the city and wreck havoc on Gotham. The damage it would cause, people it would kill? No. No. She needed to stop it here and now.

Gritting her teeth, she got into a defensive stance once more as she prepared for another incoming attack. She watched as the Man Bat staggered to the left and then to the right, clearly feeling the effects of their fight as well, but just as she was hoping that it would go down it suddenly sped straight at her.

Before she had time to react it had grabbed her around the waist and was lifting her high into the air, her tonfa getting knocked out of her hand in the process as it fell to the ground.

"Shit, shit, shit." she cursed as she struggled to break free from its grasp but it only held on tighter, slowly squeezing her until she heard a small *crack* and searing pain erupted from her ribs. Black dots danced in front of her vision as she fought to stay conscious, knowing if she passed out here that would be the end of it.

The end of her.

"Da. .mn. . it. . ." she managed to get out as she reached for her utility belt, getting her hands on her grappling gun as she brought it up and smashed it into the side of the Man Bat's head, hoping that it would let her go. It had the desired effect as it screeched in pain and released her from its grasp, sending her plummeting towards the ground at an alarming rate.

She cursed once more before aiming her grappling gun at the Man Bat and fired it in desperation. The hook went straight through one of its wings and latched on as it screeched in pain again and flapped furiously, trying to shake her off.

Her arm holding the gun was yanked sharply forward as it immediately sent pain shooting through her right side as she clutched at her ribs with her left hand. She'd broken at least a few of them, the pain wouldn't be this excruciating if she hadn't. Once again darkness danced at the edges of her vision but she refused to give in.

Finally after what seemed an eternity the Man Bat let out one last screech before taking a sharp nose dive, smashing hard into the ground with a sickening crunch as it finally died, its eyes staring lifeless ahead.

The momentum of this sent her flying over top of it as she lost her grip on the grappling gun and slammed hard into the ground herself, rolling a few times before coming to a rest on her back.

"Batgirl are you there? Batgirl report in." She heard Alfred call out over the comms but his voice seemed to be coming from far away as she found herself fading in and out of consciousness, the pain overwhelming.

". . .Lucius . . .drone. . .NOW. . ." his words came in in bits and pieces as she closed her eyes, tears sliding down her face as she lay there unable to move. Unable to feel her...

Her legs.

Forcing her eyes open she lifted her head up off the ground, ignoring the pain of that motion, as she looked down at her feet. She willed them to move, to do anything, but they wouldn't respond and she let out a strangled sob. Not again. Not again.

Letting her head fall back against the ground, she closed her eyes and prepared to let the darkness take her when. . .

"Babs, Babs. I'm on my way. I'm so close, just hang on!"

Dick's voice rang out in her ears as she clung on to the sound of his voice, hearing the desperation and fear in his tone. She could picture his face so clearly in her mind now. That black hair with the little whisp that stubbornly refused to cooperate and was always hanging in front of his bright blue eyes, that boyish grin he still had whenever he was messing with Tim. . .

There was so much they'd left unsaid. So much she wish she'd had time to. . .

"Babs come on, talk to me." Dick's voice pleaded over the comms, snapping her out of her thoughts as she tried to respond.

"Di. . ck. . ." she managed to rasp out as he responded immediately.

"Yeah, yeah. I'm here. I'm here." he said as she could hear the fear and anguish in his voice.

". . .I can't. . . I can't move my legs. . ." her voice broke at the end of the sentence as the tears were falling faster now.

"We'll get through this together okay? Just. . .I need you to stay with me." he pleaded as she could feel the darkness coming and this time, she could no longer keep it at bay.

". . .can . . 't. . .sor. . .ry. . ."

And with that she finally gave into unconsciousness as the pain receded. The last thing she heard before everything went black was Dick shouting her name over and over again. . .