Her name was Justice but it wasn't her original name given her by parents. She was a daughter of immigrants. They stayed in the first place and only place they knew Gotham. Big city, big opportunities they thought. She was already born when her family moved in a new country and settled in Gotham. She didn't know how hard it was for her parents until she grew a little. By the time she was four her parents divorced and her mother was left alone in this big, dirty and insanely dangerous city.
Mother called her Diana until she met a man. A man who changed her life from terrible to slightly better than terrible. Terri Creed married Diana's mother and brought them into his house on the edge of Gotham. He announced that name Diana was not appropriate and he made mother to change her daughter's name for Justice. By the age of six Diana became Justice but nothing changed, there was no justice in her life. Step father definitely didn't like her, he despised little Justice for not being his daughter.
Mother gave birth to three brothers in next four years of her new marriage. Law, Honor and Valor. Mother was very tired of being pregnant all the time but she never complained. She taught her daughter never complain as well. Justice didn't. She didn't complain when her step father made her clean his shoes, or clean his vomit in a restroom, or go to church and sing in a community choir. Terri Ceed was a man of honor and also a big drunk most all the times except Sundays. All family was going to a church on Sunday and watched Justice to perform in a second roll of a community choir.
It was where it all started. A church choir required a two hour practice on Wednesday's evenings every week. Justice had to go, she even liked it, it was all better then sit at home and watch drinking Terri or screaming brothers. Justice felt bad to leave her mother in this crazy place for two hours but she had to go. Mother always told her not to cross through the park. That park close to their house was a bad place for a girl after dark. Justice listened and never crossed the park on her way to practice and back. She was going around on a street with lights.
This Wednesday Justice had to go again. She hugged her mother and left. Weather was cold and windy, it was sad outside and all buildings looked grumpy. She got to a church. It was warm inside and many kids were sitting on benches waiting. Two hours flew by and it was a good practice, everyone got a compliment. It was time to go. Terri didn't allow Justice to take rides from kids parents; she must go home on her own. It became much colder and windier outside. Justice wrapped herself in a coat and pulled a hat down to her ears.
She walked on a bright side of the street around the park but the street was empty. It got to be this bad weather held people inside their homes. Justice walked on the empty street but she felt she wasn't alone. The girl looked back and saw a car driving very slow on the road behind her. As soon as Justice turned around the car went faster but stopped next to sidewalk. Justice walked very close to a building and tried not to look at the car but she knew something bad was about to happen.
A man left his car and came to the girl so close she could feel his breath. She tried to run but a man grabbed her and dragged to his car. He tossed her on a back sit locked doors went around the car and took off. Justice tried to scream and hit a driver but he punched her right in her chest. The girl choked on cough and busted in tears. She looked outside of the window and realized they were driving through the park. Couple minutes and the car stopped.
There was no justice for little Justice that night. A man brutally raped her on the back of his car and pushed her out when he was done. At some point Justice stopped feeling time and pain and next she remembered she was on the ground. A man threw out girl's clothes and a bag from the back sit. She grabbed it all she didn't want stupid Terri Creed to find out that something was missing, something what he bought to her and paid his money for it. All body hurt every part and every bone but the soul got hurt much more. Justice cried. She run through the park and cried but when she saw a street she told herself to calm down. She wouldn't tell anybody but her mother and they wouldn't do anything about it. It would be their secret.
Legs were shaking and stomach was in agony and pain, Justice's cheeks were red and hot but inside she was feeling freezing cold. She came out on the street. One more street and there would be her house, she got to hurry up, it was getting really late. While walking because she couldn't run anymore pain was excruciating, Justice noticed glare of red and blue lights coming out from her street. She knew what those lights were. Definitely there were at least three police cars and two ambulances. Justice turned and a bigger picture laid before her eyes. There was her house surrounded by police and ambulance cars and there were another people their cars were black and they wore black. People in black would come only if there was some cleaning to do. Justice tried to run overcoming pain and fear.
Mother! There is my mother! – she screamed when got close to yellow line and sneaked under it.
She was caught by a policeman.
Stop! Where are you running! Who's child? – a police guy tried to drag her out
My mother! My mother inside!
Wow! Stop! Let's go with me. – now he was pulling her in opposite direction.
They both came to an older policeman and he looked at Justice and then looked at the police guy and hissed him away. He set close to the little girl.
Are you Justice Creed?
She nodded. They immediately took her into a captain's car. Justice saw people in black taking out a big black bag, it was heavy, it was Terri. It was like a vacuum inside the car. It started to rain and drops landed on the car's window, on the ground, on police cars and on a second black bag what was taking out of Justice's house.
"It's not that heavy but still long. There got to be my mother" – thought Justice.
The captain jumped into the car and turned it on. They left the scene. Lights of a big city were dancing in heavy rain. Dark watercolor picture was observed by Justice from the car's window. The city went rotten long time ago but only now Justice smelled a disgusting scent of it. She stared though the window on wet asphalt with puddles watching nothing in particular but her memories. She remembered how she hugged her mother before she left, she remembered how she hugged mother the day before and the day before and now it occurred to Justice she couldn't hug her anymore. Never. Never in a million years.
