AN: Okay, I seriously don't know if I should make another chapter, but since everyone seems to want one, I did my best. This, my friends, is the end of Only human. I wish to thanks everyone that helped me just by writing a review. I love you interested, read my other fic in English about Harry Potter
Disclaimer: As said in the first chapter, I'm not working for DC comics, none of those heroes are mine. Gah, Why can't I have at least Batman!
Epilogue
Green Lantern and Hawkgirl had finally finished their mission and now, they were back to the tower. They wanted to have a discussion with J'onn, so they were now heading to the monitor room. They walked fast, almost running, so they could finally know what the hell was happening. Batman missing monitor duty because of Gotham was understandable. Superman that was tired? That was weird, but it could happen. It was possible that a mission had come in during the day and that the villains had used kryptonite after all. But the fact that he was still awake when J'onn had taken the monitor duty just to give him some information... that was pretty weird. First because the martian was a telepath so if Superman wanted to inform him, he just had to give the info by thinking about it. Superman couldn't be THAT tired so he would have forgotten that. Without talking, the two heroes were thinking exactly the same thing.
"Something is wrong, I wonder what happened when we weren't here." Said Shayera, breaking the silence.
"I don't know, but it sure concern Superman a lot. Tired as he looked, he should have been asleep as soon as he was off with monitor duty." Answered Green Lantern
"I wonder why they didn't want to tell us about it."
"They wanted us to stay focused on the mission Hawkgirl. If that event was enough to affect Superman and J'onn, it must have affected everyone else."
"I don't think it would have affected Batman though. The only time I saw him concerned by something as must as Superman seemed was when we all thought Supes was dead... and even at that time, Batman was able to hide it."
As she was saying that, they walked in front of the infirmary. All lights were closes except one. It was that light that caught Green Lantern attention. Why was there a light open? He stopped walking to look more closely. Was it... no, it couldn't be. Shayera finally stopped when she saw that GL wasn't following her anymore. She walked back at the side of the ex-marine and looked through the glass.
"Why is Batman sleeping with a light open?" was the first thing she said and then "Why... why is Batman here? Wasn't he supposed to be in Gotham?"
"Hawkgirl... he is sleeping, not only here, but in the infirmary. Batman got wounded on a mission."
"I... I see that!!!" she said, blushing a bit. She wasn't stupid! "But... if he was wounded, why the other just told us that he was in Gotham. It's not unusual to see Batman wounded GL, you know it as well as me."
"The thing that's unusual is the fact that he is here. When he's just wounded, he usually go to Gotham, you know it"
"Yeah.... it's weird."
"We should go ask J'onn."
"Yeah, we need answer."
And they went to the monitor room, demanding for explanation. The martian explained everything to the two heroes. Everything that had happened when they were gone. It was a shock for the two as they too realised that Batman was only human. Even when they saw him wounded and bleeding, he was still conscious and everything was right or when he was unconscious, it was usually due to poison or something like that... but a bullet... a kryptonite bullet through a lung that may have crushed the spine...
"We'll he be able to move again?"asked Green Lantern
"I do not know. I need to examine him more, but the first priority was to stabilise him and to stop the bleeding. Then, we needed him to regain consciousness before checking it more. First come survival..."
"So... that's not a yes, neither than a no" said Shayera slowly.
"Batman will get better" said Green Lantern, putting conviction in his words.
"I hope so" answered J'onn, looking at the stars outside. "Now you two, go to rest. Tomorrow is another day"
And that's what happened. Everyone went to sleep, except J'onn of course. He knew that no one wanted to sleep. He also knew that Flash and Wonder Women were sleeping, not knowing that Batman was awake. The dark knight didn't want Superman to wake them up and he was... right and wrong at the same time. Wonder Women was so tired that sleeping wasn't hard for her, but Flash, he was worried, even in his sleep. But the martian decided to do as the vigilante was saying. He was too tired to think about it anyway. He could only concentrate on his duty.
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The next morning, the new that Batman was awake made Wonder Women cry of joy. He wasn't going to die, it was so great! He was going to stay alive. She didn't try to stop her tears as she hugged Hawkgirl.
"It's great! He's going to live! He's awake!"
For Flash, he felt relieved and laughed nervously.
"I knew the Batman was too stubborn to die. It was just impossible. Come on, let's go! We so got to go see him now!"
"You should calm down Flash, you know he wouldn't want you running around. If we're going to see him, we should be calm. If he could, he would already be in Gotham right now." Said Superman to the scarlet speedster.
"Yeah, right, our Bats isn't exactly the friendly type, I almost forgot about that" said the redhead feeling uneasy.
"How could you forgot that Flash! Batman wouldn't like that, he try to keep his reputation"Said Green Lantern, laughing.
Then, everyone started to laugh as they were all walking to the infirmary to see their friend. They never thought that they had all been that nervous and that burst of laughter made them feel all better. Everything was going to be alright now... Everything? As they entered the room, they saw that Batman wasn't in his bed anymore... he actually wasn't here at all! Wonder Women started to worry, but Superman put a hand on her shoulder to calm her.
"Look, a batarang. There's a note." Said the Boy Scout pointing at the bed.
As soon as he said that, a red blur when to the bed and came back, holding the note in his hand. Flash read it in a blink and gave a loud, annoyed sound.
"Guess what, he went back to Gotham!" said the speedster
"What a reckless idiot! How? When?!"asked the man of steel, frustrated by the behaviour of his damned best friend
"It say that he had called Nightwing during the night to go and pick him up when J'onn would explain the whole situation." Answered Wonder Women that was reading the note at her turn
"He planned it! He told me not to tell you guys he was awake until tomorrow!" said Superman cursing himself for listening to that stupid bat.
"Well, that what we thought then... Batman would go back to Gotham no matter what" mumbled Hawkgirl
"Yeah, he's still Batman after all. Wounded or not" added Green Lantern.
Superman took the note from Wonder Women's hand and then read it... wait, there was a post scriptum written in an ink only he could see.
'Superman... no... Clark. You asked me why I did it. Well it's not only because of what I told you. When I first became Batman, it was in order to avenge my parents deaths and because, like my father, I loved Gotham. I also became Batman so never again a child would lose his family like I did... but now, Batman is also in order to protect those I love. Friends, family... you are both of them. And I would protect everyone in the league the same way I did for you. You would do the same thing. That's the thing that makes you human. And I'm only that. I'm only human. That was my only way of protecting you. Sorry if you don't like it, but I'm not going to change.
And I've been through worse than that. Don't worry about me that much. You know Batman, he is too stubborn to die just like that.'
END!!!(even if you want me to continue)
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So, that was my last chapter^^ Still love? Still Hate? Wanna Flame me? I don't care!!!! That's the way I write and like Bruce said: "I'm not gonna change.
By the way, I will write another JL fic called "You think you know who I am?"
