Author's Note:

Oh my gosh guys... its been like FOUR MONTHS or something CRAZY like that! So sorry its been a while since the last chapter update and thank you all for casting your votes in! Just to let you know, the poll/PM/reviewing for your favorite character that you ship Kat with is still open! You may vote once a day (I'll be nice, once every 12 hours) until I close the voting! Keep them votes coming!

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The First Female Scarlet Speedster

APAD Travler

Dick

He knew that this isn't the same Katherine, she must be from a different dimension, world, or maybe even a different time. She wasn't just any ordinary AP traveler. But where ever she was from, this isn't just any Katherine Summers. He had come to the conclusion a while ago with Roy that she was an AP traveler, however, he couldn't help but feel this was different. This isn't just anyone.

He dumped the comics along with the small AP vile in her black backpack. As he was running to his destination, he knew that this is what the was hiding from him, what Bruce and the rest of the League was hiding from him and his team. There was a disturbance in the APDP, he had concluded that's what was keeping Bruce out of the mansion for the past few days.

Either way, this Katherine Summers from a different world was connected to everything, his world was crumbling around him because another Katherine had come into his life and screwed around with it. He doesn't even know what Harper has to do with anything, if he plays a role in this extensive game, or if he even has any clue about whats going on.

That new villain, Whisperer, he must be connected this Katherine too. He wanted to face plant into a wall, but that would be very unprofessional of him.

He reached Katherine's room with the pack slung on his shoulder, he slammed his hand against the palm reader, it opened quickly and revealed a half dressed Katherine.

If that's even her name.

"We have shit to talk about." He was almost out of breath, but he dropped the open bag on the ground as it's contents spilled out, the comics, and lastly, the AP vile. He looked up at the girl in front of him, she had brown leggings on and just a sports bra, she had a guilty look on her face.

He couldn't tell what kind of look he had on his face, was it hurt? Was it anger? Was it pity? Maybe it was frustration and a glimpse of alienation towards the girl he thought he knew.

No.

The girl he knew was six feet under buried beneath her favorite tree at her old home where she didn't even have a headstone to mark her final resting place.

"What do you want to know, Dick Grayson..." She sighed and pulled a tank over her head. He assumed that it was the fact that she could not evade the ever elusive Nightwing, oh now he was just drowning in his own pride.

"What world are you from?" He questioned her, he made sure that his position was to insure the information he needed, he blocked the doorway incase she thought of anything. "I'm from world 111, Katherine Danielle Summers, seventeen years old, born and raised in a small town called Avrill located in Washington state. Parents dead, drug addicts." She found a place on the edge of the bed, holding a brush to her tangled locks. 'Her beautiful tangled locks.' He raised an eyebrow at his subconscious.

"I have a question for you," she started slowly, he noticed her muscles twitch a few times, signs that she had her guard up for anything unusual.

He didn't respond to her.

"I heard from a little birdie that there was another Katherine Summers on this world..." She let her voice drift, and his eyebrows knitted in frustration. How did she know so much? How could she evade the ever elusive Dick Grayson? "So, why did you pretend not to know me?" He could feel his eye twitch, if he lied to her, everything might slip back into place, but if he told the truth, would she really believe what he was trying to tell her? Would she believe that he had a pretty steamy affair with her counter part?

For some reason, he couldn't bring himself to tell the girl in front of what shame he had done to her alternate self.

"I assumed you went through the Lazarus Pits." It was a pretty decent counterfeit on his part. "I do believe you know of those too..." Of course she had, she read the Batman comics, no doubt there were some Red Hood ones.

She got up from where she just sat down and slowly approached him, he could feel every nerve in his system stand up on edge, he always felt that way around her, no matter where he was or what she was doing, and it irritated him to no end. She had stopped a few inches in front of him and she looked him in the eyes, he swore she could see his soul. "You're lying to me, Grayson."

He could feel his body double take at her words, he doubted his mind for a moment, he thought—albeit for a moment—that the girl standing only inches in front of him was his Katherine.

"No, I'm not." She seems to take the hint and drop it, pulling back a few feet. "Fine, I'll humor you." There was brief silence, "Does Roy know?" He was curious to what the Red Arrow knows. "What are you talking about? Of course he knows, he was there with us after I woke up from my AP traveling." She really didn't understand the extent of what was happening... "Do you know what you are?" She crossed her arms in a way that made her look unreasonably stubborn, something he liked in women.

He shook his head, hoping that the thoughts would disperse. "What do you mean?" She raised an eyebrow. He sighed, "You think you're an AP traveler, I guess Bruce didn't explain to you to what extent the term 'AP traveler' stretched to." He had successfully caught her attention this time, "You're an Apocalypse Alter-Universe Traveler." She started to laugh in his face... A frown formed on his as she laughed hysterically.

"I'm sorry, Richard, but that was the most hilarious thing I've ever hear! Especially coming from your voice and it was all serious and, oh my god!" She continued to laugh while his temper began to flare, what's up with Katherines and their effect on him? "Enough! This is serious shit here, Kat." She turned his direction, "I'll humor you, again." She smirked at him.

"Regular AP travelers can travel between dimensions and time, however APAU travelers travel between dimensions, time, space, and, with you apparently, different lives."

Katherine

She wanted to laugh, it's was probably the most sci-fi-ish thing she's ever heard! She was a scientist, she had no time for the dreams of a boy, even when she was running formulas through her mind, there was no possible way that one person could live between dimensions, time, space, and different lives. She assumed he was saying that the life she was living is being lived in multiple ways in not only different worlds and universes, but also in different times and spaces. It has never been proven that one life has lived before, there was no real scientific proof of exact reincarnations of the same person. The closest she's ever gotten to find a reincarnation of any person was an alternate self, different name, different genes, different life route, but same personality and end. But never had she found exact replicas of a person until now.

Until herself.

There was no way she was a... Apocalypse Alternate-Universe traveler...

"So you're telling me that Roy thinks I'm just a "standard" AP traveler, when I'm really something more complicated?" She liked Richard and all, it's just that at this moment, he sounded... Dare she say it, crazy.

He didn't answer her, but instead pursed his lips. "I'm sorry, Richard, but just for this moment, can I forget that I'm not from this dimension? I just want everything complicated to go away and disappear..." She suddenly felt drained from their quite intense conversation and just wanted to forget. "Shits hitting the fan—while it's on high nonetheless—and things are just getting too complicated for my complicated brain..." She sighed and stood up next to Dick.

She knew that she'd have to face Whisperer and figure out who he was, where he came from, and what his intentions were.

But just not now.

Roy

He knew something was definitely wrong, things weren't falling into place, that's how it felt to him. He rubbed his temples feeling a possible migraine coming on. He was still doing Wally's MD time, even though the stupid speedster was out of hospitalization and ICU. Where was he that little bastard sometimes...

He let his mind drift to the Katherine who was no longer in his life. He didn't know if the Katherine Summers he buried a few months ago is the one that is standing in this building right now. He wasn't sure, but he did know one thing, she was an AP traveler... His heart broke, it sounded pretty lovesick, but it was true, when people say they're heartbroken, he can now relate to how hard it was to move on. He thought he really lost Kat that faithful night four months ago, but when she showed up not knowing him, he thought that it was some sort of fucking miracle or something.

But then he found out she was an AP traveler, the chances of her being his Kat was still pretty high, but there was no guarantee. He wasn't very knowledgeable in the field of Alternate Dimensions or whatever, but he had held on hope that it was her.

He decided that he needed to go to her grave, to tell himself that the girl he buried was the girl standing in the same building as him. He wanted to be sure that he could get her to fall for him again. That stubborn, pigheaded, loudmouthed girl, the love of his life to fall for him again. He'd do it a thousand more times in a thousand more lives if it mean that she'd see him like she used to four months ago.

He shook his thoughts off and decided to think about dinner instated. He didn't want that topic to swallow him whole.

Sorry its kinda short...

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