A few months later

Damien's pov

I was patrolling alone that night. I needed time to think. As father was being too protective lately since the tournaments and grandfather.

Often I remember the death tournaments, it was almost a year ago now. Sometimes, I still get dreams of Respawn, demanding me to resurrect him. Also of Faltline and -

A noise caught my attention, from the alley below me. A girl dragging the body of a young man. I saw that they were being chased into a dead-end alley by 3 burly men. I couldn't tell much about the girl and guy she was dragging. The 3 burly men looked like your typical Gotham street thugs. The 3 pulled out knives as the 2 reached the end of the alley. The girl turned and set the young man down, she prepared to defend the man.

That's when I intervened. I jumped in between the young man and girl and the 3 thugs.

Thug 1 shouted "It's Robin!"

Thug 2 yelled run!"

All 3 thugs went running at the sight of me. I smirked at their fear. I turned and saw the girl was still in defensive mode.

The girl was about 5'8, a little taller than your average girl. Her genes and shirt were so ripped and tattered that they needed to burned and she wore no shoes. She wore a black hood over her head that covered her hair and face. Her skin was just in between tan and white. She had scars all over her body, which was athletic yet starved.

The girl was memorized by me. I began to say, " Why -" when the young man groaned.

She looked at him quickly then back at me and, deciding I wasn't going to hurt them, she ran to his side. I came over to the pair of them.

From what I could see on first glance, the young man was probably my height. He wore torn genes as well but not as bad as the girl's. He had a simple black t-shirt on that was ripped and he was bleeding from a wound in his side. He also wore a hood like the girl's.

Before I could take a closer look, the girl pulled a knife out of a bag that I failed to notice earlier. She put the edge of the blade to my throat.

"I just saved your sorry buts and you pull a knife on me?" I asked frustrated.

The girl simply answered," yes" before tending to the young man. She pulled out bandages, gauss, rubbing alcohol, and stitching materials. She clearly knew what she was doing.

"you should take him to a hospital." I said

"no"

"why-"

"its none of your business why." She was getting mad

I was about to retort when the man muttered something. She must have heard him and looked at me.

"him?" she asked the man

"yes" the man's voice almost sounded like mine with the exception of the pain in his.

Somehow this young man knows me. I came closer, cautiously, the girl still had the knife in hand, I saw that the man had dirty, bloody, white hair and he had my face.

"Respawn" I whispered, only loud enough for me to hear, somehow the girl heard me. She turned and swept my feet out from under me. 'Am I that out of practice?' I thought to myself. She held the knife to my chest, prepared to kill, but definitely unwilling. The top part of her face was still hidden, but I could see thin lips, and black hair with a streak of white, like Todd.

"no" Respawn managed.

The girl ran back to Respawn still looking at me. 'Make up your mind already' I thought. She propped him up against the wall and went back to his wounds. I waited till she was done. Better to fight after, so this way he wont bleed out.

"You mind explaining Respawn?" I asked at last

The girl turned again, ' she must really not like the name Respawn', fortunately Respawn caught her wrist. He looked at me, our eyes are exactly the same. Actually, as we were both derived with genetic experiments from Mother and Grandfather, we were basically twins in looks expect for our hair.

"She prefers first names. Ab's you can trust him." Wait. Did he really just say that after the shadow war and him dying because of it? What how is he even here now? The pits are poisoned there's no way he could come back ... unaffected.

After a long glare at Respawn, the girl turned to me. "I will answer your questions after we take care of Daniel."

Who? Resapwn is ... oh he must have finally have a real name. I nod to girl knowing it was the only way to get answers. I picked up Respan/ Daniel under the shoulder and began to carry him. I gabbed my grappling line, and zipped up with Re- Daniel in my arms. Suddenly I realized that I had left the girl, Ab's? Was that what Daniel called her?

I looked down and saw she was already half way up the fire escape. I had gotten up here in less in 15 seconds. 10 seconds later she was next to us.

Ab's was not looking at me. "is there somewhere safe we can take him?" she had noticed before me that r-Daniel passed out.

"yes" I knew I couldn't take them to the cave, father would go nuts, I thought a close safe house would do. Unfortunately, it was occupied but this was no time to debate. Despite the girl's medical help, he was still bad, probably some internal injures. I gave Ab's a spare line and told her how to use it, she simply nodded. We ran across the roof tops to help out Respawn.