Within the walls.
Jonathan was pacing back and forth. He didn't know quite what had possessed him to suddenly care for the girl, for Luna so much. Was it simply out of instinct? Even so, she was stunning to look at, in her own unique way.
Suddenly the door opened and the Doctor came through, holding a file in his hands.
"Is she okay?" Jonathan questioned him walking right up to him, his father following closely behind him.
The doctor nodded his head. "She's fine. Luna… I'm sorry to say, is a regular here."
"What? Why?"
The doctor gave another sigh. "It seems her parents are highly religious… you've seen her looks presumably, could you imagine what they would think of her?"
Jonathan felt his eyes widen. No… no they wouldn't surly.
Jonathan's father placed a hand on his shoulder for comfort.
"Why is her skin like that?" he suddenly questioned.
The doctor sighed and pocketed his notes and hands. "She has a very rare condition called tenbrissomniatis or inmediamnoctem. But it is more commonly know as Midnight or Nightmare syndrome. Her eyes let more light in then most, she can see in the dark most likely. But her cells are not like yours or mine, they contain the hormone that makes your hair grey but in this case it's gotten mixed up and it's gone to her skin genes instead of her hair. It doesn't happen very often but.. there is no cure for it. Somehow the genes just get muddled and they can enhance her."
"Why is her blood black?"
The doctor shook his head. "That's something even we don't know. We assume it's to do with the fact her skin is grey but we can't be sure."
Jonathan nodded before he looked up at them. "Can I see her?"
"She's asking for you," the doctor smiled. "It's good that she finally has a friend."
Jonathan smiled and walked inside to see Luna sitting in the bed, badges wrapped firmly around her cuts and bruises.
She smiled when she saw him and showed some of her pointed teeth.
"Jonnythan!"
"Hello Luna. How are you feeling?" he questioned as he sat next to her on the bed.
She smiled. "I feel much better Jonnythan, thank you."
"Anything for my best friend."
Luna giggled before cuddled him and Jonathan laughed, stroking her hair. "You're a very special person you know."
"Mummy and Daddy don't think so… they hate me."
"Well, that's because they can't see how special you are. Trust me Luna, you're going to be someone in this town I can tell."
Suddenly there was a commotion outside and then two people came in, the woman was dressed in very bland clothing as was the man. They seemed to glaring at Luna and Luna shrank back into Jonathan's side.
"Luna Fright," the woman snapped, her voice almost high pitched. "Put your jacket on, we're leaving!"
Luna nodded dumbly before she slowly got out of bed and picked her jacket up.
"She can't leave," Jonathan protested, standing up and glaring slightly at the two people who had just come in. "She needs to rest."
They narrowed their eyes at him before the woman turned to Jonathan's father. "Is he your son?" she snarled.
"Yes."
"Then I suggest you tell him to worry about himself and not our daughter!"
Jonathan stood his ground however. "I won't let you take her! I know what you do to her!"
"You know nothing!"
"I know more then you think!"
The woman growled and shoved Jonathan to the side, being light and thin it was very easy for her and she grabbed Luna's hand pulling her off the bed towards the exit.
Luna cried out in pain as her mother tugged a little too hard on her arm and Jonathan charged forward only to be stopped by his father. "She's hurting Luna, dad!"
"I know son, I know," his father sighed and shook his head. "But there's nothing we can do… we can't help her, I'm sorry."
Jonathan turned away and sighed before he shoved his father away and stormed out of the hospital his father followed closely behind him.
When they got back to the van Jonathan slammed the door shut and glared out of the window, keeping his arms firmly crossed as his father drove through the city.
"Jonathan, I'm sure she will be okay," his father tried to assure him.
Jonathan shook his head. "You should of seen how scared she was dad, she was terrified of her parents."
His father sighed and looked over at his son who was still staring out of the window. "Son…"
Jonathan suddenly saw Luna walking up to a house with her parents.
"Dad, stop the car, stop the car!"
Jonathan's father suddenly stopped and turned to see where Jonathan was looking, the little girl, Luna looked back at the van and her and Jonathan's eyes locked.
But Luna was dragged away and pulled into the house, her parents glared at Jonathan before they slammed the door and presumably locked it.
Jonathan sighed and looked down at his hands, before his father placed a hand on his shoulder and shook it slightly. "She'll be alright, Jonny. Trust me."
"She was so scared…"
"I'm sure she has every right to be within those walls," his father sighed and drove off. "But there is nothing we can do about it."
Jonathan took one last look at the house before they turned a corner and he lost sight of it.
He hoped his father was right, but he knew, deep down, he was wrong.
Luna stared up at her parents in fear as they locked the door.
One of them, her father grabbed her roughly by the arm and pulled her towards the cellar door.
"Oh, no, Daddy don't please don't! It's so dark down their and it's cold! It's so scary please, Daddy, please don't!"
"Lord have mercy on our souls," her father muttered before he pushed Luna down the stairs to the bottom of the cellar then the door was slammed shut and locked.
Luna lay on the floor crying slightly before a little voice from the corner drew her attention.
"L- Luna?"
Luna's head snapped up and she stared into the darkness to see her brother curled up staring at her. "Lui! Oh you're okay!" she cried as she ran over to him pulling him into a hug.
"I'm not alright, Luna… I'm not alright…"
"What's wrong?"
"Luna they won't be quiet," he sobbed as he clutched his head. "They won't shut up! Make them shut up, make them go away!"
"No one else is here," Luna whispered as she stroked his hair and pulled him closer to her. "There's no one else here but you and me, like always."
"But they're so loud…" he cried as he pulled at his hair. "And they won't stay quiet! They're all talking all at once I can't… I can't…" he sobbed louder and clutched his head. "Luna make them stop!"
"Keep it down you demons!" came the shout from above and the two clung together closer in fear of what they would do to them.
"Shh… Lui… shhh…" she whispered as she ran her fingers through his hair. "It's okay, it's okay. We'll be safe here together. No one can get you and when we leave I promise you I'll find a nice old house far away from Gotham and you and me can live there and they'll be no one else around."
"No one else?" her brother whispered.
"No one else," Luna agreed and smiled at him. "Just you and me and the corn fields and the animals."
"Animals?"
"Yeah," Luna smiled and held her palm out in front of him. "Which animal would you like?"
He smiled and rested his head against her shoulder. "I'd like a puppy."
Luna smiled and twirled her fingers and slowly the shadows formed together in her palm to create a puppy as he sat in her palm wagging it's tale with it's tongue sticking out.
Her brother giggled in delight and gently stroked the puppy's head as it sat wagging it's tale and lolling it's tongue out at them.
"He's so cute," he whispered.
"Anything for you Lucifer," she whispered back as she placed a kiss on his forehead. "Anything for you."
Jonathan woke with a start at the loud noise from the kitchen.
He quickly got out of bed and wondered down to the kitchen to find his father coming in through door.
Jonathan glanced up at the time on the clock. It was almost one in the morning.
"Dad?"
His father turned around and stared at him in shock. "Jonathan, what are you doing up?"
"I was going to ask you the same thing," Jonathan whispered back.
His father looked at him gravely before he opened the fridge and placed a plastic bag in it, the bag was red and Jonathan looked closely he saw…
His eyes winded and he took a few uncertain steps away from his father. "Dad… what did you do?!"
"It's for the good of mankind, Jonathan. I'm going to cure fear," his father cried.
"But… you.. oh god what did you do?!" Jonathan cried backing away from him towards the hall.
"Jonathan, Jonny, it's to save both of us, the cure us of fear."
"But… it doesn't… we don't need to be cured! I'm not afraid-."
"We're all afraid, Jonathan!" his father cried. "All of us we're all paralysed by fear and what it could do to us! All of us! This cure will help us it will help humanity!"
Jonathan shook his head and ran down the hall but his father followed him.
"Jonny, stop! Jonny! We have to do something about fear, this will save you! I've done the research and I know it will work you have to believe me!"
He took Jonathan's hands. "You have to believe me son, you have to trust me," Jonathan looked away but his father made him look back at him. "Jonny are you with me? Are you with me son?"
Jonathan sighed and turned away. "Alright… alright…"
"Good," his father smiled and walked back to the kitchen leaving Jonathan standing dumbly in the corridor staring after him before he sighed and turned away.
He just needed to save someone else and he knew exactly where they would be.
Jonathan walked back to the back door and slowly opened it before he ran and grabbed his bike, wheeling it over to the main road far away from the house.
He zipped his coat up and got on his bike and quickly began to cycle off towards Gotham city.
He just needed to save one last person before he helped his father fully.
He hoped he wouldn't be too late, he hoped he could save her.
He would save his best friend.
Jonathan pushed the peddles around quicker and he cycled down the road, the lights were almost insight of Gotham.
He would save Luna Fright.
T.B.C:
Note: Yeah they're we go! :D I hope you guys like this chapter! :D I just had to post it! :) Don't worry more will come and if you are enjoying this Gotham story then check out my other one, Ankh if you like this then I think you will like that one :D