Chapter 4

Barbara and Dick arrived at the safe house near midnight, Dick unpacked the car while Barbara took the girl to a room, she had just laid the girl when her hand shot up grabbing Barbara by the throat.
"Who is thou?" The girl's face was bathed in shadows. she was no doubt shorter and weaker than Barbara yet she was lifting her off the ground.
"Help" Barbara whispered through gasps for breath. Black eyes stared with indifference at her plight, The girl's grip tightened on her throat, Barbara's fingers wrapped around the small blade in her belt, She slashed at the girl's arm.
Barbra hit the floor and rolled under the bed.
There was a thud on the stairs outside the room, a second later Dick pushed through the door he had one of his escrima sticks in hand.
"Barbara "He shouted, looking around the room he saw the girl standing beside the bed blood dripping from her arm,
"What happened? Are you ok? Where's Barbara?" Dick asked keeping one eye on the girl still scanning the room, The girl began approaching Dick.
The girl collapsed before reaching Dick as Barbara struck the back of her head with her metal bo staff.
"What the F#ck is happening in here?" Dick asked caught off guard by the suddenness of everything that had happened, Barbara was about to answer when a groan from the floor pulled their attention back to the child laying on the floor, Barbara took a defensive stance while Dick cautiously dropped to check on the girl.
"Are you ok?" He asked "Careful," Barbara said taking a step forward, The light from the hall spilled over her Dick immediately noticed the marks on her neck,
"Mhh Where am I?" the Girl asked as she pushed herself up weakly "This isn't the lab" She observed taking in her surroundings,
"No, it's not, but you're safe here" Dick assured,
"But you are not" She replied "Why would that be?" Barbara spoke from behind the girl for the first time since she had woken up,
"The name given me is Vav Daughter of Mancipium and Lord Trigon" Dick and Barbara glanced at each Dick and Barbara had been educated in some amount of Hebrew and recognized Vav as the numeric for 6, only Barabra recognized Mancipium, The Latin word for slave.
"My creation was for only one Purpose" She paused "The Terminus of your Physical and Animus Plain" Though Dick couldn't understand every word said by the way she said it and Barbara's face he knew it wasn't good for them.
"Wait!" Dick shouted as Barbara raised her bo staff and stabbed at the back of Vav's head, recognition registered in her eyes a second before the thud of metal hitting her skull sent her sprawled across the floor.
"What the Sh!t have you gotten us into!" Barbara asked the panic in her voice almost raising it to a shout,
"I have no clue" Dick's eyes were still on Vav concerned she might still be conscious, she was out cold.
"She has either been F#cked up by whatever was going on in that lab or we're in deep sh!t" Barbara usually kept a level head in situations like this, anything involving the supernatural she was the first to question its legitimacy not due to lack of belief in it, quite the opposite she had been face to face with many enemies and allies with supernatural abilities which was what made her skeptical, and Dick could tell she had no doubts about this girls legitimacy.