Barbara knew the scene so very well, she didn't just have photographic memory, she remembered everything. Everything that had ever happened to her, she remembered, everything she read, she remembered. Everything she saw, heard, read, just everything.
She remembered the sound of her childhood friends bones snapping as she was hit by a truck, she could remember the exact injuries she sustained and what killed her, she remembered the exact moment she died.
She remembered her mothers screams as her father killed her, then the sound of the bullet as her father shot himself in the head. She remembered moving in with her uncle Jim and aunt Barbara, she remembered the explosion that killed her aunt.
Her best friend, her mother, her father, and her aunt.
Dead.
She had nightmares, that Bruce Wayne would join that list, that he would just become another death, another ghost haunting her.
So she pushed people away, she hated them for dying, for leaving her alone.
As she had grown the hatred has intensified to the point where she wanted to kill them all for leaving her, for ignoring her.
In reality though, she just wanted to be loved.
Batman hated this, so many deaths, so many corpses. First, the agony of watching her best friend die. She was six years old. At seven, her father had beaten her mother to death and then a week later he shot himself and she had to watch it. He wasn't sure what hurt him most, that she had been hiding so much pain from him or the immaculate detail in which she remembered these events.
All the while she stood, watching the three of them with hateful and pained eyes.
But that wasn't even the worst part, the worst part was listening to himself hurt her with words, tell her things that he would never even think about.
He hated it, and he wished he could stop it but he was routed to the spot, unable to move even thought he was trying to.
He couldn't even talk, he just had to watch these people tear her apart.
He hated it, he hated that she thought these things about herself because he knew that he would never say things like that.
He was frozen, watching Batgirl's worst nightmares unfold before him and he was helpless to stop it.
At least, he was, until J'onn ended the link.
Roy leapt up and crashed his fist into Cheshire's face without warning and she stumbled backwards out of the door and away from Batgirl.
He was not under any circumstances going to let Cheshire get anywhere near Batgirl.
Cheshire snarled and came forwards with a chop aimed at the neck but he just swatted it lazily away and punched her on the nose and he was satisfied when he heard the break.
He continued pushing her, further and further away from Batgirl and closer towards the stairs. He spun on his left leg and swept her legs away with his right, and she began to fall down the stairs but she twisted and managed to flip herself so she slid down the banister.
Not without twisting her wrist but Roy wasn't bothered about that, he wanted to make her hurt.
"Your in a bad mood sweetheart" She chuckled, blood trickling down her face and she didn't bother to wipe it away.
"You tried to kill Batgirl, that pisses me off" He informed her and she shrugged her shoulders.
"If that's what it takes to get a reaction out of you, then I'll gladly do it again" She smirked flicking her hair back behind her ears so it wasn't in her face.
"You touch her, and I will kill you" He assured her kicking at her face but she dodged backwards and managed to catch him in the guy with a light kick.
"She wouldn't be too happy if you fought her battles for her now would she?" She asked in a whisper in his ear and he head butted her on the nose making her snarl in pain.
"This is my battle, and I will finish it"
Yeah it's short again I know and I'm sorry but I've got to revise for an exam and Tuesday, religion and citizenship, blegh.
Lionfire, I am very glad that you can, I plan to be an author one day. Oh and I barely juggle them, in fact I wouldn't even call it juggling.
Knightmare, well it was raining, then it was raining, and then it was raining and then we had a day of sunshine and more bloody rain. She will be having flashbacks later as things get a biiiit worse for her, let's just say she doesn't like to sit still when she's conscious.
Highlander, of course he will try! He will never give up!
Ravenmore, Nooo certain images wont hurt them, they're just events that Batgirl recalls and how she recalls them but there weren't really any here, but there will be in later chapters.
Aaah not so many reviews today but oh well, oh and the internet isn't fixed yet so the next update will be late again. SORRY!
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Tulip Out.