Boston's Dark Knight
Volume II
Chapter two
"Yes, yes, I understand, but the structure of the –"
"Mr Korsak, you have a visitor. They say they're an old friend." Korsak's receptionist spoke, his droning voice almost driving Korsak to the brink of annoyance. Would it kill the man to smile once in a while?
"Send them in please Rodger." Korsak replied "I'm going to have to call you back Sir" Korsak said again in the phone, placing the receiver back on the rest.
Watching the door open as a tall woman stepped in. Korsak's heart jumped into the air and did barrel rolls.
"Jane" he breathed out, getting out of the chair to hug the woman.
"Hi Korsak," Jane spoke in her normal husky voice as she wrapped her arms round her 'father in law.' Jane had been thrilled when she'd heard that her mother had married Korsak while she was gone, there was no other man Jane would have approved of for her mother to marry. It was a shame she had been in survival training when it had happened.
"I love what you've done with your hair, it's so…. Alpha!" Korsak exclaimed, noticing the long dark curls now reduced to a mere pixie cut.
"Yeah, I kinda had to. You know what cat fights are like. Grabbing whatever they can, but I kinda like it now." Jane smiled "how have you been?" Jane asked.
Korsak felt as though those four words had a much deeper meaning, mainly contributing to the great Doctor Isles.
"Oh god Jane, it's a long story… I think you better sit down for this one…" Korsak spoke sadly, pulling out a seat.
"Korsak I don't think I have time for that…I need you to look at these…" Jane replied sadly as she took out a couple of blueprints and put them on Korsak's desk. It was a concept of Jane's suit.
"Jane this is… great, did you design these yourself?"
"Yeah, why?" Jane asked curiously, not sure what was so amazing about the doodles.
"They're excellent, most of the guys I have downstairs couldn't produce this if they're lives depended on it. What are you working as?"
"Erm… since Cavanaugh got boosted up to commissioner I don't think the new guy in charge of homicide is going to give me my job back."
"How about you work for me?" Korsak offered. This did take Jane by surprise. It was a great idea, working with her old buddy all day once more.
"Korsak… I'd love too." Jane smiled.
"Great, you can get started later on but right now I think you have bigger fish to fry… like Boston's latest problem…"
"That was one of the main reasons I came back… the joker is it?" Jane asked.
"Yes, she's a complete maniac."
"Can't the police handle her? She seems like a normal insane criminal…" Jane replied as she sat down at a computer and started to research the madman terrorising her home town.
"You would think so Jane, but apparently she's a bit more… slippery."
As Korsak stood behind Jane, watching the website reports of the Joker come up on the screen, he couldn't help but notice the muscle definition on Jane. No longer the skinny lanky woman he'd seen before, but now… almost the body of a body builder.
This woman… her face… her voice… I recognise it…
"Jane?" Korsak asked, he could tell Jane was onto something.
"Korsak… she reminds me of someone…"
Jane opened a new tab to the google search page and searched up 'guard injured at chemical plant, Boston' a page of results came up on the screen, Jane clicked on the first one produced by the Boston Times. The head line stuck out in bold: "Boston Chemical Plant Guard Severely Injured after Experimental Skin Cream Injury, Batman At The Scene." The article went on about the injuries, but Korsak noticed Jane had stopped reading.
Flashback
"Doctor… what are her chances?" Batman asked the doctor who stood beside the woman in the bed. The woman underneath was a reminder of how batman had failed the simplest tasks she had set out to do. To protect people.
The doctor jumped at the sudden voice.
"Bat…. Batman?"
Batman grew closer to the doctor, allowing her to see at the vital screen.
Her pulse is almost nothing… her pigmentation is gone? How does a human's DNA of pigmentation simply vanish? What where they testing in there? Batman thought in her head.
"Doctor, I need to know…"
"You're a woman?" The doctor asked in even more surprise. He noticed how an eyebrow arched under the mask as the material arched at a certain point.
"Yes."
"I always thought you were a man… batman and all…"
"Yeah well sorry to disappoint. Now doctor I need to get a record of these vitals."
"I can't do that Batman… I could lose my job, it's against company policy, I-"
The doctor was now about two inches off the ground.
"Make an exception" batman growled. Dropping the doctor, he soon ran out of the room. She knew he wouldn't rat her out, or pull the fire alarm.
Batman approached the bedside table, taking her mask off her looked at the woman underneath. Her face was the colour of paper, her lips burnt bright red, and her hair bleached a vomit green.
Apart from that… the woman was so young. Twenty one. Never done a crime in her life that could hurt someone. And Jane had let her become burnt by a couple of mobsters.
She had failed her job as batman to protect people.
Bending over, Jane placed a kiss on the woman's forehead.
"I'm sorry." Jane whispered that the howling of the wind outside could still be heard.
Pulling her mask back on as she heard the doctor approach.
"It doesn't look good," the doctor said as he handed batman a file full of papers. "Her organs have been badly damaged and-"
"That will be enough doctor, thank you."
The doctor turned round to check the vitals once more.
"You know, you really should tell the press or someone that you're a woman, because-"
The doctor turned round only to be greeted with an empty room and an unconscious patient.
"Oh..."
"That was a few days after the court incident. My early days at 'batman'" Jane stated using air quotes. "Didn't do too much of a good job." Jane sighed.
"Hey…" Korsak came over, rubbing Jane's shoulder "what happened wasn't your fault."
"Vince, it was. I should have saved her instead of trying to take out thugs, I let the criminals take over the priority of innocent people. I failed her Vince. Batman failed her." Jane stated.
Korsak realised he wasn't going to get anywhere with Jane in this mood, to her if anyone gets hurt with her around, Jane would take the blame for it if it wasn't herself. That's just how Jane has always been.
"And what's she's doing now? Killing innocent people? Is that going to be your fault too? There is nothing you can do to stop it?" Korsak asked rhetorically.
"I started this whole thing Korsak."
"Then finish it." Korsak stated.
Jane blinked away the tears in her eyes, and simply nodded.
"Now tell me about this long story."
Other side of Boston.
Maura looked at herself in the mirror as she compared earrings against the dress she was wearing below. Tonight Frost was taking her out to dinner along with the rest of their case development staff.
"Hey babe, do you think you'll be ready soon?" Frost called up as he walked into the bathroom. Placing a kiss on Maura's cheek.
"Yes of course Barry, five minutes." The man chuckled as he walked back out "I'll be in the car…"
Maura looked at her phone as it buzzed next to her by the sink, taking it out she opened the email alert she'd set up for this "Joker" character.
"Is this video a hoax? Police begin investigation." Maura let out the heavy sigh. That maniac had called out for batman, but no one knew who batman was or where. But Maura did, so should she confess? That would put Jane-
Maura's heart sank like a ton of weights at even the mention of the name.
Jane.
Maura still loved Jane as much as she loved oxygen. What she was doing to Barry was cruel and horrible in her eyes, but in her heart it felt like it was the only way she could keep alive. Maura couldn't even bare to thing about retreating to a way similar to her childhood, all alone. That's why when Barry had proposed a romantic relationship, Maura had jumped at the chance. Her fear outweighed her common sense, and by the time Maura had realised, the damage had been done. Barry had fallen head over heels.
And that was it.
She could love him with her heart and soul, but he wasn't Jane.
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