Okay so normally I do my authors note at the end but Comic-surge pointed out that Barry Allen is in fact blonde, sorry about that! The reason I get muddled is because I am a major fan of the original justice league and Wally West was Flash and he is ginger. Sorry for the mix up! Can we just pretend for a little while that Barry is ginger? Oh and I know that Thelma Gordon and her husband die in a crash but I wanted to traumatise Batgirl further so for the sake of this fic they don't.
Comic-surge, thank you for pointing that out to me, I am very thankful.
WinterRain, ooh my bad! Of course you can't fly, that would be ridiculous! He might not fix everything, but some things he will fix.
Ravenmore, Well I'm the youngest of three but my brothers tend to pick on me…so I guess I can kind of relate, and I'm not ginger no, I'm a mix of dirty blonde and pale brown! And no, it doesn't make sense, in my head I have an explanation for it but it doesn't work so I'll just let it roll.
Lionfire, I kind of had it planned, I thought it would be a bit unexpected so I threw it in there.
Knightmare, She'll listen!…Eventually, but she has a lot of issues that need to be bumped out (and I have an AWESOME scene in my head for when she does listen)
Read and Review guys!
Tulip Out.
Flash hadn't realised that Batgirl was gone, he'd left her with the phone and presumed she had fallen asleep and gone about making her something to eat. So when Roy came in through the front door carrying an unconscious Batgirl he was more than a bit shocked.
"Roy? When did she?" He asked aloud and Roy shook his head.
"I don't know, but she's got blood poisoning, collapsed not long after I found her" Roy explained and Flash took hold of Batgirl before shooting up the stairs and laying her down on the bed with Roy running up behind him to try and help.
"What can we do?" He asked the older hero and he sighed before reaching to the phone.
"Keep her fever down and make sure she has plenty of liquids, other than that? I don't know, I'm not a doctor Roy, I'm a scientist…but someone on the watchtower will know" He informed the archer before dialling the necessary number to reach the league.
Roy sat beside Batgirl and glared gently at her, why couldn't she just sit tight? Where had she even planned on going? He sighed and watched her for a moment, before going to find a flannel to try and tame her raging fever.
Batgirl wanted to run, she wanted to run and run and never stop. After all, running was all she could do, and it was all she had ever done.
"You run from me? You stupid child!" Her father screams at her with the bottle in hand as her mother lays bloody and torn on the floor.
Barbara couldn't escape from him, she couldn't escape from the stench of death that surrounded her entire life.
"Why don't you just go? Your not wanted with them! Your not a hero!" He screamed at her and the shadowy images of Batman and Robin joined him.
"I never wanted you as a partner or a sidekick, why do you think I found Robin? But you just wouldn't take the hint" Batman growled at her and Robin stood in front of her with his usual pompous idiocy.
"At least Bruce cares about me! He only pretends to care about you! Why do you think he never helps you and always helps me?" He asked her with a cruel laughter that frightened her.
It was as if the brave and indestructible front she had been building for all these years had just crumbled away and all that remained was the frightened six year old that had watched her father murder her mother in a drunken rage.
"Because I can handle myself!" She practically screamed at them, tears that she hadn't even known were building let loose like a damn, and she cursed herself for being so weak.
"Even your god damn uncle hates your guts! He knows it was your fault your aunt died! Yet you had the nerve to call her your mother!" Thelma Gordon screamed, her neck twisting around the wrong way to glare at her daughter with those glassy eyes, those dead, haunted eyes.
"She was! But…so were you…I just…" She whimpered and slid down to the ground, drawing up her knees and burying her face in her hands.
"I just want to be loved"
Batman stood stoic in front of Zatana and Fate as they tried to explain to him how the magic-theory and magic-science part of the spell worked.
"The theory is that it only affects the people she hated. The magic fact is that it doesn't, as far as we can tell, affect gingers, do you follow?" Zatana asked him and he nodded stiffly and Fate continued her stream of speech.
"So if we can find out why she hated everyone and resolve that issue then the spell should, just dissipate" He informed Batman who nodded slowly.
"How can we figure out why she hated everyone?" Batman asked them and Zatana shifted uncomfortably on her feet but Fate remained as stern as ever.
"We were going to consider asking M'gann" He informed the dark knight who frowned beneath his cowl.
"I know the form she has chosen has ginger hair, but that doesn't mean that the spell wont affect her" He pointed out and Fate nodded and turned to J'onn who had been standing silently behind him.
"With my instruction and your permission, she and the team were going to access her mind from a distance. As I said before her mind is more powerful than any I have ever encountered with so much potential, and with myself and of course you, keeping her calm and her thoughts collected we can access her mind without being close enough for the spell to work" He told him and Batman nodded in thought.
"Myself, you and M'gann will go, alone" He decided but heard a snort from Hawkgirl, she seemed to do it a lot, as if she had forgotten to bring a tissue.
"Like hell you are, were all going so we can all help" Hawkgirl growled at him, still annoyed that her previous point hadn't gotten through the dark knights surprisingly thick skull.
"I am afraid that that is not possible, despite her natural talent M'gann could not possibly take more than two people with her, myself and Batman" J'onn told them saving Batman from another angry rant that was bubbling up inside.
"Fine, but the moment you get out you tell us how we can fix this" Superman ordered in his rarely used 'don't-even-think-of-arguing-with-me' voice.
"Deal" Batman replied, and went with J'onn to find M'gann.
However, that might take them a while…