**-{Hey guys}-**

Everyone seems confused about Nightmare. So this chapter is pretty much just Nightwing telling the Team and the League her backstory.

This chapter introduces Raven and Oracle. Yay!

BY THE WAY EVERYONE KNOWS THE BATFAMS SECRET IDENTITIES!

Pairings that have fluffiness: None

Pairings that have moments: Birdflash or WallyxDick, Hummingbird or BartxTim keep sitting next to each other.

DISCLAIMER- Wish I owned anything other then Nightmare. But I don't. Everything else belongs to DC.

**-{COMMENCE}-**

The halls were silent, except for two voices, but only one pair of footsteps, since one of the two was too nimble to make a noise. Dick had insisted he leave the med bay when he had finished talking to Jason, and demanded that Wally call the Team back to the main room. Eventually the speedster gave in, and the two currently found themselves on their way to meet them. 'Nightwing, you don't have to tell us if you don't want to.' Wally walked a little closer to Nightwing then normal, likely scared that he would faint again.

'It's okay, Flash. I'll just leave out the parts that I... can't think about.'

Wally frowned and bit his lip. Dick doesn't tell him why he can't think about them. 'You sure?'

'Wally. I'm doing this because I want to. Not because I have to. I'll just poker face through it.'

Wally nodded. 'Okay.'

They got into the meeting room, where everyone was already waiting. This time, instead of anger and distrust in their faces, it's sympathy and kindness. Oracle was on a laptop someone had brought in. The Team, plus Red Arrow, Batman and a couple other founding members of the League were seated at the long table. Nightwing took one of the empty seats, and Flash took the one next to him.

Tigress speaks to him first. 'Nightwing, you don't have to tell us if you don't want to.'

Nightwing smiled at her. 'Really, it's okay.'

She nodded at him, signaling for him to start.

'I was eight when my parents were murdered, and Nightmare would have been about two. The day they died, Bruce took me in, and she went to a orphanage. I wanted her to come with me, but there was a bunch of crap that wouldn't let us take her, no matter how hard we tried. A couple months later, I got a call saying she had been adopted by a family living in a different state. By then I was working as Robin, so I figured she was safer there. I had no clue what was actually happening to her. She was taken in, but not to a good home, like I thought she was. She was only three, and she was being trained to become an assassin.'

Batgirl seemed intrigued by this girl whose past seemed so similar to hers. 'Like me? Just to be hired to murder people?'

'Not exactly. Whoever took her in hated the League, all heroes in fact. So she was trained to kill us. The League. Everybody who fights crime. And she could do it, I have no doubt about it. She was trained well. Gun handling, archery, hand-to-hand combat, hacking, anything, she can do it. She was the perfect weapon. That's why they called her Nightmare, because she was something out of a hero's worst nightmares. But they tortured her too. It wasn't just whoever took her in, it's was tons of villains. Joker, Scarecrow, Deathstroke, Ra's Al Ghul, Black Mask, everybody knew who she was. She went through a lot, and being so young, her brain just couldn't it. She developed multiple personality disorder, an a lot of other stuff, making he extremely unstable. One is quiet, she hides in the shadows, takes everything seriously. She calls that one Lumi, because the name my parents gave her was Luminira. So the other one is Nira, who flips around and laughs and talks all the time and blows stuff up because she feels like it.'

Tigress leaned forward from across the table. 'So neither of her personalities know about the other?'

'That's the weird thing. Most people with MPD have blackouts when something triggers the other personality. But Nightmare's is different. Both know about the other. They're both always conscious in her mind, but at a time, only one is dominant. and can control her actions.'

'So what happened to her?' Bart was practically vibrating in his seat.

'Because of her MPD, she has panic attacks and blacks out whenever something triggers them. One of those times, she woke up to find she was being used as a sacrifice to Lucifer. But his son appeared instead. She killed him. The floor beneath her opened up, and she fell. I didn't hear from her for two years. She just disappeared one day. I had no way of knowing that happened to her.'

Red Robin raised an eyebrow from his place beside Kid Flash. 'But she's back now?'

'A few years ago. It was the anniversary of my parents death. We always used to visit their graves at exactly three in the morning,so no one else would see us. I knew she wasn't there to meet me, but I went anyway. The graveyard was empty, like I expected it to be. But then Luminira was there. At their graves. Waiting for me. She told me what happened. How she died. And that now she had Satan trying to get back at her for killing his son. So she hugged me goodbye, and said she had to leave. I wanted to help her, but there was nothing I could do. She left for me, for all of you, for Jai and Iris and everybody else. As long as he was after her, anybody around her was constantly at risk.'

'I don't get it,' Wally's cowl was down and the confused look on his face was visible. 'Doesn't Satan just kill bad people? And then bring them to burn in the fiery depths of Hell?'

Dick laughed. 'That's what I thought. But he's really more of a demon, like Trigon.' He looked over to Raven, who looked down, her eyes glazed over as if she was deep in thought. 'Rae? You okay?'

She stayed silent for a minute before speaking. 'I know her. When she died. Her spirit was banished to Azarath. She was a couple years older then me. She was the only person who seemed to care about me, and she became my only friend. She told me what happened to her in her life, and was all of what you just said. She helped me escape Azarath, but she was trapped there. I returned a while later to look for her, but she was gone, and I never saw her again.'

Dick smiled. 'Do you think she remembers you?'

Raven smiled softly. 'I wouldn't know. I hope so.'

**-{NARRATORCHANGE}-**

There's no spiderwebs. Weird.

It's probably because of all the traps you set up. If a spider came in here, it would probably be burnt to a crisp.

Damn it. I wanna see that!

Really.

Hell yeah! Hey, do you think there are any Lucky Charms here? I'm hungry.

I doubt it. Even if there are, they're stale.

FUCK. Can we go shopping? We need Lucky Charms, goddamnit!

Can we rest first? We just beat the crap out of Red Hood and sprinted through Gotham and back.

That was turbing, by the way. We beat up Jason Motherfuckin' Todd! Stabbed him in the leg like a boss!

It wasn't that great. I really didn't want to do that to him.

Meh, he'll be fine. He did die and crawl out of his coffin. Do you remember where the kitchen is?

Isn't the room next to where you keep your plans and blueprints?

GASP! MY BLUEPRINTS! MY BABIES! I HAVE TO SEE MY BABIES!

I thought you wanted to eat first.

...Food first. Then my babies. Then sleep. Then do something fun.

Why do we only have spaghetti?

Who cares. You think the water and stove work?

Of course they do. You spent days upgrading the stove and water lines. They'll probably work better then before, since nobody has used them in a while.

Right! I'm a genius.

We're a genius.

Bah, whatever. WHOA! Dude! Watch what you're doing! I like our eyebrows!

It's not my fault! You're the mad scientist who is always messing with stoves!

...Yeah, my bad. Whoa. That spaghetti's frickin' delicious.

Of course we think it is. We haven't eaten in days. We're not exactly the richest person in the world.

Yeah. That's Bruce Wayne. Hey, do you think we'll see anybody while we're down here?

No. Why would anybody be down here?

I dunno. They're waiting to see us?

...It's been years. Who would wait for years in a dark and creepy secret underground lair for a dead girl whose mind is made up of two personalities?

I would. Anytime. WAIT. ARE THOSE MY ZOMBIE PLANS?

God, these are all dusty. How long ago did you make these?

I think we were 7.

A seven year old making plans on how to bring people back to life as zombies.

Yeah. We went back to that when we were ten and improved them, remember?

And then we could bring people back from the dead as exactly the way they were before.

Where are those?

We'll look tomorrow. Gotta get some sleep.

I don't remember our room being this big.

That's because you slept in the lab.

Right. You sure this place will be safe?

For now. Nobody knows we're back except for Jason.

And maybe Dick. But if Dick knows then his Team knows, then the League knows.

But they don't know if we would go here.

True. But it's kinda obvious.

I set up your security system. If anybody comes in here, they'll be vaporized on the spot.

But what if it's Wing Nut and Friends?

You set it up to recognize him. If it recognizes him, it will let the others past too.

Oh. Right.

Anything else, or can we go to sleep?

That's it.

Good.

Hey Lumi?

What?

Goodnight.

Goodnight, Nira.

**-{FIN}-**

God this took forever! I feel like after this chapter people will stop following the story. I'm sorry if you're not liking it, but I'm trying to really free my writing.

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