Hi people! Here's chapter 21. Thanks to the two new followers and anyone who is following favorited or reviewed this story. And to the guest reviewer 'blah', oh well you didn't like my story read a diffrent one then. Anyways hope you like this chapter and please review.
ps. sorry if Damian acts OOCish and there is a year time skip
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Time went by. A year to be precise. During that year Bruce disappeared, and Dick moved into Wayne manor taking the role of Batman, and had finally married Babs. Dolly turned sixteen as well as Damian. Aj moved to star city and Tyler couldn't keep up his scholar ship and was sent to public school. Dolly and Damian basically became best friends. Dolly was the only person Damian called by their first name and didn't insult on a regular basis. Dolly still didn't tell anybody about being kidnapped, killed then put in the Lazarus pit by Ras Al Ghul, and still hadn't of heard from Klarion about whether she killed anyone or not. Dolly was also studding psychology. Damian was still swarmed by girls at school all the time, and Dolly was still always being threatened by them. One of the girls actually tried to attach Dolly but it ended funny. Dolly ended up cutting her hair six inches shorter. Dolly had also met Collin, Damian's friend, which she was surprised by, since she found it impossible for anyone other than herself to be able to deal with his obnoxiousness. But apparently it was possible. Dolly was also taller, but Damian was now taller then her. Her hair was longer, elbow length, and instead of just purple highlights, there was also light blue and neon pink. Dolly was still a complete tomboy and had joined the acrobatics team, but it only lasted a year, because a kid broke their nose when they fell on the net funny.
It was winter break and Dolly was laying on her bed with headphones in. Jethro was asleep next to her, now to big to lay on her. Dolly was listening to 'Say It Ain't So' by Weezer, when a black portal appeared at the foot of her bed, and out stepped Klarion looking exactly the same, as the last time she saw him. She pulled out her headphones and sat up.
"And I was starting to think you had forgotten about me" Dolly said. He didn't roll his eyes, smirk, or give a come back. Dolly saw that he wasn't here with good news or just to say hi. He handed her a thick file loaded with paper. She looked at him questioningly.
"Those are all the people you killed in those two years you forgot. Ras had you under mind control though" Klarion said. Dolly file was at least an inch thick. "Some criminals some not" Klarion continued. Dolly stared blankly at the file. She opened the file and looked through the names. There was at least a hundred people in the file if not more.
"..."
"I think you should tell the rest of the bat clan" Klarion said.
"They'll hate me" Dolly said emotionlessly.
"I doubt that" Klarion said "It's not you who killed them it was Ras just he did it indirectly so don't start mopping cause you think your a murderer cause you're not"
Dolly sighed "Ok" Was all she said and she stood up.
"Well I got to get going. Have other places to be" Klarion said Dolly waved and he stepped through a portal and was gone. She went down stairs and went into the Batcave. She sat down in the rolling chair in front of the huge computer. She opened the file and looked through the names. It was arranged by age. Youngest first oldest last. The first name was a boy, age 17, he killed his class mates and a whole fourth grade class, and his mother who was a teacher for the fourth graders. Dolly went down the files looking up information about each name on the bat-computer. In total there were 96 names, people, mother's, father's, sisters, brothers, sons, and daughters. Dolly couldn't get over that she killed people.
She didn't even realize she was being watched. Stephanie walked out from behind her.
"Ras killed that guy" Steph said pointing to the picture facing upwards on the file. She snagged the file and started flipping through pictures.
"If your looking for a relation to all these murders Ras slaughtered them all" Steph said and Dolly flinched at the word 'slaughter' "He's a monster. I can't understand how someone can kill so many people like him. People like that should be locked up" Dolly flinched again.
"Kay thanks" Dolly mumbled. Steph smiled and handed her the file.
"Why are you looking at these anyway's? Bruce already figured out Ras killed them all" Steph said. Dolly shrugged. Steph left the Batcave and Dolly closed the file and went back to her room. She tossed the file on the ground and pulled on a jacket and combat boots. She went down stairs and shouted she was going out for a while.
She walked around the snow covered park for a while just doing nothing, when she felt a pair of eyes on her. She turned to where she thought the person was and saw a boy about her age with messy brown hair and one blue eye and one green eye. There was something familiar about him but Dolly couldn't place it. He started walking over to her.
"Can I help you?" Dolly asked not in the mood to deal with people.
"What don't remember me Dolly?" He asked with a smirk. Dolly glared at him.
"Who the hell are you and how do you know my name?" Dolly growled.
"Come on doll face, you really don't remember me?" He said. Dolly looked at him for a minute, then it clicked.
"Will?" She asked quietly.
"See you do remember me! You left me to die" He said.
"I'm sorry but-" Dolly started but he cut her off.
"Please you're not sorry. You can't die and you left me for dead! I died and it's all your fault." Will said. Dolly looked regretful.
"How are you alive if you died?" She asked almost silently. He smirked.
"Well just a bath in the old Lazarus. You know all about that don't cha. You were the lucky one. The one who got super strength super speed super smarts and can't die! Amazing huh. Can't die but you'll leave others to die. Leave your only friend to blow up." He said "But don't worry I forgive ya cause I like you" Will took a step closer and Dolly took a step back. He smiled and she glared.
"What's the matter? You scared?" He asked "It's just me"
"Your not the same, the Lazarus pit screwed your brain up." Dolly said
"It didn't screw me, it saved me. Something you wouldn't put the effort in to do" He said glaring at her. Dolly frowned sadly. She had started to get over that guilt now he was piling it back on along with the guilt of killing all those people. Dolly turned around and ran back to the manor. When she got back she bolted to her room shut and locked the door, put her Iphone on the speakers and blared the music on the first thing that came on. 'Novocaine For The Soul' by the Eels. Dolly fell onto her bed and buried her face in her pillow and, for the first time in her life, cried.
Life is hard, and so am I,
You'd better give me something, so I don't die
Novocaine for the soul
Before I sputter out.
Life is white and I am black
Jesus and his lawyer are coming back
Oh my darling will you be here
Before I sputter out
Guess whose living here with the great undead
The paint-by-numbers life is fucking with my head
Once again
Life is good and I feel great
Cause mother says I was, a great mistake
Novocaine for the soul
You'd better give me something
To fill the whole
Before I sputter out
Dolly quietly sobbed into her pillow trying to muffle her crying and use the music to drown it out. She heard a loud knocking on her bedroom door.
"Turn that-" Damian started shouting.
"GO SCREW YOURSELF DAMIAN!" Dolly screamed at him. She felt bad for snapping at him but didn't want him to here her cry. The song changed to 'Sorrow' by Bad Religion. She didn't even hear her door open then close. The music stopped but Dolly didn't stop crying.
"What happened" Damian asked, in that 'I'll murder whoever made you cry' voice.
"Nothing you can fix. It's my screw up I have to deal with it" Dolly said quietly once she was able to stop sobbing. She sat up on the edge of her bed. Damian sat next to her.
"
You know I'll kill whoever upset you" Damian said. Dolly laughed lightly and Damian smiled wiping a tear of her cheek (Yeah I know totally cliche). It was one of those rare smiles Damian barley ever gave. Dolly smiled back. The two started to lean in closer to each other then BAM, there was a knock at the door sending the two jumping three feet apart.
"U-uh yeah, come in" Dolly said. Alfred walked in.
"Miss Dolly you have a visitor, and Master Damian I believe mister Collin is waiting for you to play video games" Alfred said. Dolly nodded and stood up going downstairs. Leaning against the door was Will.
"What the hell do you want" Dolly growled.
"We never got to finish our conversation" Will said coolly.
"I'm pretty sure the conversation was over when I walked away" Dolly retorted. She could feel different pairs of eyes on her.
"Well we didn't even get to the offer yet" Will said.
"I'm not interested in any offer from you" Dolly stated plainly.
"Not from me. From Ras Al Ghul" He said. Well Ras obviously didn't bring Will back from the dead just for the sake of it. He needed someone close to me Dolly thought. "Ras wants you to come back as an assassin again" Will added.
"Why would I do that?" Dolly questioned annoyed. Will shrugged.
"You killed uncountable numbers of people before, once the rest of your little bat family knows they'll obviously reject you" Will answered.
"Ok for one, even if I do get shunned I will never, even if hell freezes over, go to Ras for help and two it's not uncountable numbers it's 96 and don't make me change it to 97." Dolly hissed. Will frowned.
"You won't even do it for me?" Will asked "I mean you do owe me for letting me die and all"
"I didn't let you die I tried to get you out and I wouldn't have gotten out either if it weren't for Deadshot. You were already bleeding to death, the explosion would have killed you whether you were in it or you were in my position' Dolly said
"Don't try to make yourself feel better. It's your fault and you know it. Don't bother denying it" Will said "And to think I liked you... still do" He said and before she could say anything he grabbed her shoulders and pulled her into a kiss. Dolly's instincts kicked in to over drive, and she pushed him off, kicked him in the crotch and literally threw him out the door. She raised her fist and punched the wall as hard as she could. Her fist went right through the wall leaving a small whole.
"I know you're all watching" She said and turned around to see Damian and Collin standing at the top of the stairs, and Dick and Tim standing in the kitchen door way.
"I'm going to kill that son of a bitch for touching you" Tim growled walking out the front door.
"I'll help" Dick said following Tim. Dolly sighed tiredly and ran her fingers through her hair. She went upstairs and to her room. She grabbed the file of the floor and went back down stairs where the guys were all standing most likely talking about what just happened. Collin was gone and Alfred wasn't there either so he probably drove Collin back to the orphanage. Dolly walked down stairs and dropped the file on the coffee table. Everyone looked at her. She sat down on the couch and Dick picked up the file. He flipped through a few pictures then looked back up at Dolly.
"Who are they?" Dick asked. Dolly buried her face in her hands.
"People I killed" Dolly said. She didn't need to look up to see their expression. They were all confused or disbelieving.
"What?" Tim asked
"Did I stutter?" Dolly said looking up. She sighed and ran her fingers through her hair. "When I was seven I was kidnapped by Ras Al Ghul. He killed me and stuck me in the Lazarus pit making me all super strong, fast, and smart and not allowing me to die permanently. He trained me for two years to be an assassin and I was under mind control. In those two years I killed 96 people. Those are the people." Everyone was silent so Dolly continued " And that was Will"
"I thought Will was killed" Tim said
"He was, but Ras brought him back. It's a guilt trap" Dolly said
"But you didn't kill him" Tim said.
"But I didn't save him when I should have" Dolly said. "I just watched as he was shot by a psychopath and then exploded."
"Don't you dare blame yourself for that" Tim said sternly. Dolly just looked at her shoes. There was a long silence between the four.
"Whatever I'm going on patrol" Dolly said getting up and walking through the grandfather clock she went and suited up and walked to where the batmobile was and saw Damian, in costume, leaning against it.
"Let me guess, Tim is making you go with me." Dolly said
"No, I have decided to go with you" Damian said
"Alrighty but I'm warning you now, I'm driving." Dolly said hopping in the drivers seat. Damian sat in the passengers seat and she took off.
"I'm not actually going on patrol" Dolly admitted.
"Then where are you going?" He asked
"Baskin Robins" Dolly said. She drove to the drive through (They actually do have a drive through) and ordered the two ice cream. She pulled over and turned to Robin.
"You going on patrol cause if you are I'll let you out now, cause I'm heading back to the cave" Dolly said
"No Grayson told me tonight was my ' night off'" Damian said
"Oki doki" Dolly said driving back. When she got back Dick was waiting in costume.
"You do know you can't just take the batmobile without asking and where did you go?" He asked.
"Baskin Robins" Dolly replied
"And you didn't get me anything?" Dick said.
"Nope" Dolly said popping the 'p'.
"Well... g'night" Dolly said heading out of the batcave and going to her room. She finished her ice cream and went to bed.
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