I know I haven't updated in a long time, but things in my family have been rough, and I haven't had time to write. I am so very sorry, and I want to thank all of you for the reviews. All of you are awesome, and I hope you like this chapter.
Warnings: A little bit of blood, and not very bad language. Enjoy~
That night, Dany and Red Hood tried to get back to their normal routines, go out and kill some rapers and pedophiles, joke around with Angelina and Deshawn, maybe even go to the diner with the gang and just laugh around. Red Hood didn't get the usual and normal satisfaction he usually got when he shot the people that tried to hurt Carmen. Dany didn't even try to acknowledge the people that got too close, because she only knocked them out for Red Hood to kill. She didn't get the adrenaline rush she usually got, and it was starting to worry her a little, but not as much as the other things on her mind.
"Wally, are you absolutely sure that she has been acting like this?" Dany asked, eyes wide and hopeful, hoping what Wally had told her wasn't true. He only glared at her, cradling his broken arm, which he had recently aggravated by hitting Dany upside the head.
"Dany, I don't know in what world you've been living in, but mom has been depressed to the umpth degree, ignoring me and dad, and I'm pretty sure I would be starving if I didn't know how to cook, dad has become an alcoholic, and the kids from the street are just being bullies." He said, explaining for what he felt was the millionth time.
Dany's eyes were wide, filled with unshed tears, but she wouldn't let them. She closed them as tight as she could, along with her fists, breathing deeply and reciting her favorite sayings so she wouldn't do anything stupid. After she was done, she sighed and looked at Wally with sad eyes. "God, Walls. Speedy only told me the nice version of things."
Wally smiled at her, then shook his head and looked at her with sad and sincere eyes. "Hey, Dany, don't worry about it. I've found you, I know you're alive and well, and if I've been able to put up with it for this long, a few more weeks will be okay with me." He said.
Dany sighed, passing a hand through her short hair, then shook her head. "Wally, I-I can't go back..." She said, now positive that she would start crying any minute. "Of what you've told me, I wouldn't want to go back." Then, she exhaled a shaky breath. "Plus, I don't think they would want me back. With the things I've done..." She drifted off, letting the sentence hang.
Wally's eyes narrowed, then he slowly wrapped his fingers around her own. "Dany, what happened? What did you see? What did you do?" He asked.
She gasped at how he knew that something from that life was bothering her, especially because she hadn't told him anything. She looked down at her lap, her hand lying limp in Wally's own, thinking about everything she had had to do. The things she had done, people she had hurt, everything that had happened was horrible. She raised her hand to her face, choking back a sob. Wally reacted fast, and ignoring the pain that exploded from his back, he sat up on the bed and hugged his sister, comforting her.
"Dany, come on, whatever you've done... I don't care." He said, raising his broken arm to stroke her hair. "You're actually one of the best things that ever happened to our family. Mom and dad weren't communicating, Uncle B and Aunt Iris weren't listening, and I was just acting like it was normal. When you came, you brought life in. Mom and dad were the happiest I ever saw them when you were around, and I actually loved the feeling of having a sister." He comforted her, wanting her to feel better.
"Hey, Carmen, what're you thinking about?" Red Hood asked, killing off the last round of low lives, turning only to see Carmen sitting down on the steps of the back of an apartment, her head in her hands, seeming like she was pulling her hair out.
He sighed, put his gun in it's holster, then walked over to her. He sat down next to her, leaning on his elbows, which he put on the steps behind him. He waited for a good two minutes in complete silence, being patient so as to not let Dany feel like he was smothering her. He knew who she was, but he just didn't want to admit it. If you found out the first person you actually let close to you after your heart was broken was actually a run away, who had a good life that she belonged in, would you want to admit it? Even if he didn't want to acknowledge her as Danielle West, he really wanted to ignore the constricting feeling from his chest from just thinking about her leaving.
"If you found out that your little sister was basically a prostitute, who had a best friend that killed all the guys that tried to touch her, and that she was happy in the life of a gangster, what would you do?" Dany finally asked, looking up at Red Hood's mask, eyes cold and steely.
His eyes went wide at the question, which completely caught him off guard, then turned away from her gaze to think of an answer. What would he do? He didn't have a sister, and the closest he felt to anybody was with Carmen, even if it was stupid. Now that he thought about it, she was kind of like a little sister to him. He clearly demonstrated that on the field, by killing anybody that even touched her.
"I guess I'd try to get her back and out of that life. How did she even get in the life?" He asked, lookind down at Dany, who was looking back up at him with questioning eyes.
She frowned slightly at his question, then turned away from his gaze to think. Even if she had wanted it to sound as something that just popped in her mind, but she should've known better. This was Red Hood she was talking to. He catched on to any little thing that you ever did, and would analyze it to manage to profile you.
"You do know that I was talking about myself, right?" She asked, even though she already knew that he did.
"Yes. Now, I don't know if you're ready to talk about it, but I want to know just how you came to be in this life." Red Hood answered,
Dany sighed, then let her head hang. "I-I'm not ready to talk about it." She mumbled, then looked up at Red Hood with such sad eyes that it made a feeling that he hadn't felt in a long time spring up in Red Hood's body.
He sat up straight, right next to Dany, and wrapped an arm around her shoulders. She leaned her head on his shoulder, sniffling and trying her best to not let the tears fall. "I just asked you what you would do. It's so that I can have some reassurance for when I tell Wally the truth." She said, looking up at him with big eyes.
Red Hood nodded, then sighed while he rubbed her arm. "I should have waited to ask you." He said, then stopped rubbing her arm to check the time. '9:46' the little watch read. "Come on, we should get going back." He said, then waited for Dany to nod.
When they were in the car, Dany turned on the radio on the rock channel, listening to a song with a strong guitar riff, and returned to her mind. Red Hood sighed, seeing that she wasn't going to be talking for a while, and started heading back in the direction of his warehouse. Benny had asked him to take her there, seeing that he was going to have to have a meeting with some men that were pretty rowdy, and he didn't want Carmen close to any of them. Virginia still hadn't said anything to him about Wally, having had decided with Red Hood that it was best for him to not know.
When they were only about eight minutes from the warehouse, meaning they were in the darkest parts of town, something dark landed in the middle of the street, making Red Hood yell out a not very nice word and swerve to the side, narrowly missing it. Dany exclaimed in surprise, hitting her head against the door when Red went to the left. She wasn't expecting it to happen, and was too busy moping and feeling sorry for herself to actually analyze what was happening.
The car hit a post head on, making Red Hood's air bag activate, but not Dany's because it wasn't on. Unfortunately, she banged her head against the dashboard, then against her seat. She moaned in pain, raising her hand to her forehead, to hiss at the sting she got when she touched it. She lowered her hand, to find blood.
Red Hood wasn't paying attention to her though, more to getting out of the car so the airbag wouldn't suffocate him. Once out, he coughed a little, then got up to check on Dany. She was looking at her hand, which he didn't understand, until he saw the difference of color on her hand. Then, he heard it. It virtually sounded like someone taking a piss, but it was too close.
"Dany, get out now!" He yelled, sliding over the hood of the car and running to open the door.
She got out of the car, almost falling if he didn't catch her, moving clumsily as he moved her away from the car. He should've been expecting this. With all the enemies he and Benny had, it would only be normal for one of them to be ballsy enough to atack Dany. He felt so stupid for not noticing it before. He ran with Dany, then jumped behind a car on the other side of the street, putting his right arm over both of them, waiting for the inevitable explosion.
And when it happened, the normal movie things also did. The car alarms went off, dogs started to bark, and a lot of debris flew every which way, some of it hitting Red Hood's hand, and Dany's leg, which wasn't completely tucked in. Once everything was done, and Red Hood had counted a full minute, he finally got up, looking at the cars' remains. It was an old model of a jaguar, and a beauty in their eyes, but now it was only charred remains, and little fires.
Red Hood sighed, then offered Dany his hand, who took it and got up. He looked at her injury, then without warning picked her up by the waist and sat her down on the car's hood. She yelped in surprise, and the jostling of her leg, but only glared at him and crossed her arms. He chuckled at her face, then took out some bandages he always had with him and started wrapping her head.
Catching her awed gaze, he said, "What, are you really that surprised I carry bandages with me? Have you not see my line of work?" He asked, smiling at her glare.
He shook his head when she stuck her tongue out, then took out his phone. He had to call someone, there was no way he was going to risk Dany right. He didn't know, but she might have a concussion, seeing she hit her head two times; even if it was really three; and he wanted to be sure. As he called a Angelina, he felt a change in the temperature, making it feel colder. He had only felt that very few times, and the most was with...
He turned around to see Dany off of the car's hood, slowly walking towards him backwards, with a very tall shadow in front of her. Red Hood's eyes narrowed, then closed the phone and put it in his pocket, and walked towards the two. He moved Dany behind his back, and glared up at the figure.
"What the hell are you doing here?" He growled, already thinking up ways to attack the man and manage to get away along with Dany.
"What are you doing with Danielle West?" The figure asked, finally letting his face be seen.
Dany's eyes went wide with fright, seeing the angry and dissapointed face of Batman.
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