I've been reading a lot of Batman comics recently and came across the comic Heart of Hush. So, of course, after reading it my plot bunnies instantly felt the need to write this. I suppose this is somewhat AU considering...? Eh, I don't know. I'll leave it up to you to decide.
Mild swearing, so you have been warned.
Hush
Hot, angry tears stung his eyes but he refused to let them fall.
A few hours ago he had returned from a heist only to find his associates deathly silent; Moth's expression of pity, Firefly's grim. And suddenly he knew that something was wrong.
Firefly was the one to break it to him.
Although the occurrence happened a few hours ago bits of it was already traveling through the grapevine. Hush had made his strike—he found Batman's weakness and used it for his own gain. He remembered, vaguely, Firefly walking past him and saying how he'd help him find Hush—and anyone else who may have been involved before taking off.
Now, here he stood, staring at the unconscious woman lying in the hospital bed. Why did it have to be her? The bastard had cut her heart out. And it was still hard to believe that she was still alive. He heard the doctors' whispers, read her chart. A miracle, they were calling it, a miracle that she had stayed alive for that long without her heart; attached to those machines he had hooked her up to. Peter clenched his mask tightly in his hand, jaw clenched and a muscle twitching. Her skin was unusually pale, sickly like, and it made him feel sicker because if he hadn't cancelled their date—hadn't taken that job—maybe she wouldn't have ended up like this…
He swore, not only to her but to himself, that he would track down the bastard and kill him with his own bare hands.
Bah, I tried to make it exactly a hundred words but it simply wouldn't work, so please forgive me.
Note: By the time Ragdoll visits her (going through the vents instead of the front door) her heart has been recovered and placed back in her. I just wanted to clear that up incase it caused some confusion.
