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The Daughter's Diary
Chapter 3: It's A Match
Maris didn't know what to do in these situations. She quickly looked around her surroundings and saw that nothing or no one could protect her right now. Her little 10 year old legs bolted to the door. The ebony haired girl thought the door knobs would be locked, but it wasn't. She looked outside the hall way and the sirens were blazing in her small ear. The noise started to fade down as she parted her palm away slowly from her ear. She turned her feet to the right to walk to that certain direction, but a fast haze of red and yellow flashed through her. It came back as it spun around her diminutive little body.
Flash looked back at her, "What's a little girl doing in Cadmus?"
Maris stared at his green eyes, "Who're you?"
"The Flash," Wally gave her a cocky smile.
She wasn't in any bit exuberant, "Who?"
"Flash; you know, hero of Central City?"
"C-central City?"
Flash got really suspicious and narrowed his eyes at her, "Ar-are you made in Cadmus or," he caresses his chin, "or something else?"
Artemis came running fast behind while her arrow were still held out and ready to shoot, "Flash!"
Maris jumped from the disturbance, "Tcetorp em!"
Swirls of wind came out of her hands and blew Wally intensely to the wall. She runs straight back to the room and slammed the door shut. Artemis came by her husband's side, "Did a little girl just beat you?"
Wally moaned while he held his head, "I don't even know what happened."
She lets go of the speedster and slowly knocks on the door. Artemis knows that they should be in a hurry, but having a little girl in a secret laboratory is just abstruse. Her voice was soft when she communicated, "Hi, are you okay in there?"
Maris opened the door slightly, "Who're you?"
The archer smiled when she saw her, "A friend that can help you," she tried to see if she was paying attention through the little opening, "what's your name?"
The ebony haired girl opened the door wider, "Maris."
Flash was already up on his feet and stood near Artemis, "We need to go now, or Nightwing's going to get our heads."
"Well we can't just leave her here." Artemis scowled at him.
"Well," he scratched the back of his head, "I guess it would be okay."
The green heroin looked back at Maris with a smile, "Do you want to come with us? It'll be fun."
"Where are you taking me?" She scoots back a little.
Artemis leans down so they could be at eye level with each other, "Somewhere safer."
Her mind boggled. This was the only time she could be free. It meant no more testing, no more daily examinations, and no more pain from all the lies that surrounded her every single minute of the day. Maris's eyes were swelling up with tears, "Okay," she smiles, "I'll go."
She grabs her hand and Flash immediately takes both of them while he ran as fast as he could. Maris was terrified, because she didn't know what was going to happen. The little girl can only hope that she chose the right path.
...
The three of them made it to the bioship with ease. Conner was on the opening waiting for their arrival, "Who is she?"
Artemis puts her down from Wally's shoulder, "A girl that needed help."
Conner heard the footsteps of running guards advancing towards them, "We don't have anymore time! They're coming!"
Artemis sat on the controls chair. She closed the bioship opening and turned it into camouflage mode, after that they departed off. Maris stayed at the very corner of the bioship while she overlooked the scenery. She's never seen the outside city before, so this was a unique and astonishing view.
Flash came by Artemis's side, "Nightwing wants to know if you got it."
She held out the flashdrive to give to him, "I got it."
...
Maris's heartbeat went faster as she kept glancing around her surrounding. She's currently at the Watch Tower. She didn't know how big of an honor it was to actually set foot in it. The 10 year old was ordered to sit on one of the chairs while 4 of the heroes were discussing about her.
At first, she tried to listen to what they were saying since their conversation sometimes echoed, but it was too hard to decipher. She finally gave up and just tried to look around with her bare eyes.
Nightwing gave them a glare, "You weren't suppose to bring anyone else."
Wally stepped in, "The girl was confused and in Cadmus territory."
"She doesn't belong as their lab rat." Artemis added.
Conner took one look at the girl, "They're right, but we can't just bring in anyone. Even if she looked innocent."
Flash raised his eyebrow, "We let you out. You didn't seem innocent, but we let you out."
"What Conner's saying is," Nightwing inferred, "that she might be a metahuman."
Flash rubbed the back of his head, "I'm pretty sure she is."
"I remember Wally being thrown back by something she said, but I didn't know what it was." Artemis explained.
Nightwing narrowed his eyes at Maris, "I'd have to do some tests on her."
Everyone just agreed to him. Conner, Artemis, and Wally went to their questers to take a shower. While Nightwing stayed back to wait for Batman to come already.
...
Nightwing kept typing on his holo-glove computer while he kept having glances at the girl. She was completely and utterly in a deep sleep on the couch because exhaustion already depleted her body. It took a couple minutes more until Batman finally came to the watch tower.
His footsteps were silent, but stealthy. Nightwing brought up the holographic screen up to view, "Nice to see you again."
"How long has she been here without a Belle Reve collar?"
Nightwing kept typing on without taking his eyes off of it, "Since she's been here."
"Were there any signs that she is a possible metahuman, other than what happened to Flash?"
"No, by the looks of it, she's just a normal little girl."
Bruce took one look of her and softened his eyes, "I know this must be a hard time of the year, Richard. You can just go home and I'll take care of the case."
Dick went dead silent and even stopped his typing, "And do what? I don't have anything to go home to."
Batman sighed and brought up another tab from the holo computer, "You're still trying to find her?"
"I always have." He still looked up from his computer, "I'll stop when I die."
His old man instantly understands. They went back to work. It was a little bit hard trying to find out who she was, since Cadmus was always this "secretive" lab that's always abstruse. Sometimes, they don't know what happens in that place anymore. Even the flash drive that was retrieved from the mission didn't help, but that was for a different problem.
"I'll just get some blood sample for her, so I can see who she really is."
Bruce didn't mind. Nightwing got his essentials and tried to not wake her up. He gets her finger daintily and gets a sample of her blood. Her nose scrunched and then her eyes finally opened to tears swelling out. Her mouth bellowed to a cry.
Dick held her with his arms. The nightmares were itching her mind as if she was still in an unsafe territory. Her screams echoes around. Batman called for reinforcement, and that's when M'gann came in the room and helped Nightwing with the appalling situation.
Both of their strength tranquilized her back to sleep. They didn't know if the little shot triggered her nightmare to go delirious, but they were mostly scared for her well being.
Nightwing came back to Batman's side as he wiped away some part of his hair to the side. They were the only ones in the room, so he took off his mask as his bright blue eyes were visible, "Did you find who she is?"
"In a minute."
They waited for a match from her blood sample. After countless times of contemplation towards the holo computer, they finally found what they were looking for.
Dick's eyes were wide open, "It's a match."
Cliffy again! Yes, I love cliffys to death! Well, anyways I have to go graduate now XD Wish me luck! I hope to hear what you think of this chapter :D Oh and on 5/19 I've officially been on FF for a year now! woohho!
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