The Gotham part is coming to an end soon, and the more I write to get to the YJL part so that Ren and Wally can meet the more my brain tries to find a way of turning Wally to his side so that they can have a HEA. Well I hope its good and that you guys continue to read, and don't worry the smut is coming. Also HAPPY NEW YEAR! Or new years eve which ever you are in when you read this.
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Chapter 4
The soft beeping of the heart monitor was all that told me that Jason was still alive, "The sedative in his system is unknown to me but it does seem that it will wear off some time tomorrow afternoon master Bruce" Alfred said as he looked over the kid but all I can think about is how I found him on that roof. He was covered in his blood and beaten so badly that he had to wonder how outnumbered the young boy must have been to be beaten that badly. "How long for a full recovery?" Clarke asked from behind me but I didn't turn to face him because I knew that this was my failure and I had to deal with it myself and he would offer help where it wasn't needed.
"Who ever did this made sure that nothing but his pride would be wounded long term, he won't be the same after such a defeat" Alfred said as he stroked the kids hair looking as broken as he did the day we heard that Richard had died in that warehouse. "Was it really the Joker?" Clarke asked yet another question, and I could already see where he was going with this so I wanted to shut him down. "I think it's a new player hired by him. This is my mess to clean up and I'll get it done before Jason wakes up" I turned to leave but a hand on my shoulder stopped me, "You don't have to go this alone Bruce, let me help" Clarke pleaded knowing that it wouldn't help, "If you want to help then stay here and keep him safe while I go deal with the Joker and whomever he hired for this game of his" I shrugged his hand off and headed down to the bat cave.
When the elevator dinged bringing me to the cave I had been to so many times before I felt that same dread I had felt yesterday, but it was more then just dread this time around because it felt like I was being watched here where I was supposed to feel safest. Shrugging off the feeling after a quick once over of my surroundings I sat down in front of my computer and saw I had a message from Gordon about an informant saying they heard that the Joker was meeting some new merc at a warehouse not far from where I had found Jason.
It sounded like a trap, but oddly it didn't feel like I was the only one walking into it, whatever was happening in Gotham was about to come to an end with me as the ending to this nightmare. Sitting back I read the message again and saw nothing wrong with it so I took a breath to steady myself, "Why can't I shake this feeling of dread" I asked into the silence of the cave. Alfred's face popped up on one of the screens, "Master Bruce, Miss Kyle is here to see you. She said it's important" I frowned at his words and gave him a nod before getting up to go and hear what Selina has to tell me.
A few minutes later I walked into the office I rarely used and saw Selina sitting in my chair like she was used to doing, "What brings you here Selina, I thought you said we were done" she gave me a pitying smile, one I got one too many times from her over the years. "I came to say goodbye Bruce… and to deliver a warning from someone close to me" she got my attention now and she knew it as she rose from the chair. "I am leaving Gotham and retiring from my lifestyle" she stood before me now, her left hand coming to my face, "Someone came to Gotham a few days ago, and they are after you Bruce… they know all your secrets Batman, and all those close to you as well" she seemed sad as she told this to me.
"Who is it Selina, who is after me?" she blinked back a few tears as she stared into my eyes, "I won't betray them Bruce, they mean so much more to me then we ever meant to each other. But they wanted me to telling you two things before I left Gotham; the first one is, "Jason Todd wasn't meant to die but let you know who I work for, so try and catch me" and the second one was, "I lost a friend because of you and I will collect by taking what you hold dear from you little by little". If I didn't know them well enough to know that this was all the truth I would have told you more Bruce, but this will have to be enough for you" she let go of my face and placed a quick soft kiss to my cheek her hand had occupied just now. She walked by me but whispered as she did, "You can't beat them Bruce" and with that she had gone.
I was left with more questions then before and now I knew that that feeling of dread wasn't a lie, now I knew that this really was all a big trap that was created for some purpose. Clarke chose that moment to walk into the room, "So someone is after you" of course he would listen in after everything that has happened, "I'll handle it on my own, I just need you here to keep an eye on both Jason and Alfred" I said looking at him, and I was glad when he nodded, now all I had to worry about was whatever trap I was going to walk into.
Selina POV
Getting into the car Ren gave me I connected my phone to it and dialled his number, "I delivered your message… just please tell me your not going to kill him Richard" he was silent for a while, he was probably thinking about if it would be worth it to kill Bruce, "I won't kill him tonight sis, but when someone pays me the right amount for either of his two head I won't hold back" his voice was cold which meant that he had his mask on, he was a completely different person from the little brother I adored when he wore that damned mask, he was a cold blooded killer who cared only about his job.
"I'll drive around for about an hour before heading to the pickup location" I changed the subject so that I didn't have to think about the death that voice promised, "Harley and Ivy will meet you there. The helicopter will wait until each of you arrive and then you all just have to give your codes over to the pilot before they are allowed to get you three out of Gotham" he had told me before coming here that me, Harley and Ivy were his escort mission and that the Joker was his last kill here, but that he would use Batman to kill him, to frame him for it so that Batman would be put under fire from the press. I had a feeling though that Bruce was also in his sights in that regard.
"Are you going to tell me where we're being taken at least?" I asked hoping he would tell us where we would call home, since he won't tell us why he wanted us out of Gotham except that the city wouldn't be safe soon. "How about I ask you a question as a clue?" he was still my sweet little brother when he talked like that even if the voice that mask gave him didn't sound like it, "Sure" he chuckled at my own amused tone before he asked me his question, "You speak French right?" and yet again I could just smile at his scheming, because he had remembered that I had always wanted to see France and maybe even live there someday.
Richard/Renegade POV
Hanging up after my question I saw Ivy leaning against the wall to my side, "France huh?" she seemed as amused as Selina sounded, "I bought some land there with a house that puts Wayne Manor to shame, and I made sure it would have something for each of us to have our own spaces" she gave me that smile she always wore when she taught me about plants. "You looking for more lessons once we get there?" her tone was almost mocking but that was just how she always used to joke with me, "If you have any left to teach I'm game" and like I always did I accepted her underlying challenge.
"Oh I have loads to teach you, and most of it will be very useful for your new line of work" her expression changed then, "You going to tell me what this Master of yours did to you then?" with her background in bio chemistry I wouldn't have been able to hide it from her even if I wanted to. "He gave me a serum derived from the one in his blood, he had perfected it and gave me a choice to continue to take it or not after he used it to save my life back then" I could see the gears turning as I locked eyes with her, "And the red eyes, is that part of it?" she was asking the right questions which I expected from her, so with a smile behind my mask I shared with her my deepest secrets, the truth behind Renegades power.
"The red eyes are nanoprobes me and my Master created together which serve several purposes. Firstly they allow me to change the colour of my eyes to any of the programmed colours. Second they make it so that I can open any iris scanner so that I don't have to hack it. Third they let me see in the dark or even see heat outlines if I need to. Fourth is the main reason we created them for, they destroy my DNA as soon as it isn't connected to the sensor in my body which is a small nanoprobe that acts like the queen of a bee hive. We made it this way so that no one could steal the secret my DNA now holds because if anyone but me and my Master got their hands on this serum then they would have the key to creating the perfect soldier that even Superman would have trouble fighting" I let that sink in and saw her shocked face. "The serum enhanced me to the point where I have photographic memory, it helps me learn things faster too. Which is why I am very thankful for online courses" I joked trying to lighten the mood a little but with the way she was looking at me it wasn't working.
"What did this serum enhance exactly?" she narrowed her eyes as she looked at me, "And are you still taking it?" the question that held the secret behind the serum. "I am taking it once a year until I turn twenty, then I will have one dose left for when I turn twenty five. As for what it enhances, that's an easy one to answer, it enhances everything from my brain to my body and even in some sense my soul" She kept watching me so I continued since she wasn't asking any questions yet.
"I already heal about five times faster then a normal human and will live to about 500 years if I stopped taking the serum today, but I won't so that will keep going up until I stop aging altogether and heal instantly from any wound" and the shock was back because to her knowledge this shouldn't be possible. "When I turn twenty Master says that something will happen to me, he calls it my inheritance; when it happens he says that I will become the most feared person on earth because it will further enhance what the serum enhanced by so much that I will be able go toe to toe with Superman and walk away the winner… the thought scares me sometimes, or it used to because that's something else the serum enhances, my control over my emotions have come to the point that I can shut down what I don't need as I'm sure you guys have noticed when I put on my mask" like with Selina I now saw a small spark of fear in her eyes and if I didn't shut off my empathy when I put on my mask earlier then I would have felt sad, but as it stood I was just a little disappointed that it was there at all.
I let out a breath, "I might become someone, or rather something that you guys might not like or even fear someday but I will always be your little brother, and I will always love you guys even when I wear this or another mask because you guys will always be my family and nothing and no one will ever change that" that spark of fear left and tears replaced it, "I am just worried about you, call it me just wanting to protect you from something I don't understand and probably never will because I will never ask you to study the serum and you will never tell me because I don't want to know. All I need, all we three need to know is that this is your choice and that you are happy with it, that's all we need to know about what is happening with you because as your sisters your happiness is all that matters to us" I was thankful for the mask then because I would have been crying out my eyes just then. "She's right, we'll stick with you till the end because we're a family and you brought us together. So don't you worry about us because we're the older siblings so that's our job" Harley said walking out from behind the tree on the roof.
"We'll keep teaching you what we know and be there so you don't lose yourself to whatever that freaky serum will do to you, but more then that we will be there to tease you about boys or girls, hell we can tease you about both either way because we're your sisters and its like our job to butt into your life little brother" she walked over to hug me at this point and take off my mask which recognised all three of them as having permission to do it. When my mask was off I fell into habit and let my emotions come back and with them the tears came like a battering ram falling from my now blue eyes, "It'll be boys" I got out as I started crying now, happy that I came out to them.
Ivy walked over to hug me too, "Oh we know, we've seen the way you used to look at some of the guys before and then that waiter at the diner yesterday too. We pay attention when it comes to you" she said with a smile which got her one tear filled one from me too, "You guys really are the best" I said and hugged them tighter which made Harley start acting like she couldn't breath but I knew that it was just her fun loving antics.
We stayed that way for maybe ten minutes or so before Ivy broke the hug, "We should head out" she said as she pried Harley from my arms, or rather me from her tight grip, "Don't let it hurt too much later ok, you jus do it quick and get back to us" I was the one shocked this time as I caught onto what Harley meant, she knew who I was going to kill tonight and didn't worry about them other then wanting it to be quick and painless, she was always the one with the biggest heart. "I promise" I said taking a step back and taking my mask and put it back on after drying my tears. "Go put the past behind you little brother" Harley said with a sad smile before leaving with Ivy who gave me a comforting smile.
I turn back to look out at the city for one last time because it will be years before I might come back here again, "Mama, Tata. Pentru tine voi lasa sangele sa curga pentru a-mi curata mainile de trecutul meu (Mother, Father. For you I will let blood flow to clean my hands of the past)" I said aloud before walking to the edge and aiming my grappling hook at the building across from me, it landed securely and carried me towards the building. Using the skills from my upbringing I landed perfectly because under my Masters guiding hand I had continued to perfect my acrobatics. After landing I walk over to the fire escape that led into the alley I parked my bike in and made my way down it quickly and quietly.
I might not have or need a license like other kids because I have an awesome Master who gets me toys because I love tinkering with them, but I still had to learn how to ride this beautiful beast and I had the scars and broken bones to prove that for a week afterward. "Zeta, begin mission bat-trap" a beep told me it was done as I slide my gloved hand across the slick armoured bike before me painted black and navy blue matte, I smiled as a habit as I got onto it and felt Zeta connect to it and start it up because of it sensing my queen probe through my heartbeat, "Zeta, begin mission Home" another beep sounded before I pulled out of the alley and onto the streets knowing that even if people saw me that there would be no proof because Zeta looped every camera along my route so that I can remain the ghost for awhile longer.
I don't really know bikes or cars but I guess if I were to give you an image about what I thought about when I gave him a bike then I would say something between Tron and the Final Fantasy 7 movie. Hope I did a convincing Bruce and Alfred in this, and also Clarke… but I already know that most characters will be very OC so I apologise for that to the die hard fans.
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