My Light Within Her Dark [T. Drake]

~16~

Selena had tossed her hoodie into the chair and ran into a different part of the Batcave. Tim was really worried how Selena would take this. She wasn't like every other girl who had a hard childhood, she felt so broken, she thought she wouldn't be able to come back into the light. They were all equally worried so they decided to get to work. Dick and Damien searched through Selena's email as Jason worked on his utility belt. 

Tim quickly helped them as they found what they were looking for, while contacting an old friend of Batman's Tim went off to find Selena. Deep in the Cave, Selena was leaning against a metal lab table, it was the lab where Bruce made his venom antidotes.

On his way of walking over he spotted drops of blood leading to her. Sneaking closer he noticed a bird-a-rang in her hand as there were fresh slit cuts on her left arm. Tim was about to move in when Selena then moved the bird-a-rang to her neck, as the cold metal touched her skin she then felt the world black out around her.

Dick, still in his Nightwing suit had put pressure on a point on her neck which made her drop the bird-a-rang and fall forward into his waiting arms. Tim rushed over as he saw Selena passed out as the wounds started to close. Tim took Selena from Dick's arms and took her upstairs. Walking up the stairs and to his room, gently placing Selena on his bed as he went and changed from his costume and into his regular civvies. Walking back with a wet wash cloth and the first aid in his hands. Placing the cloth in her forehead he then got to work cleaning the blood of her left arm. Noticing the slight cut on her neck, Tim then gently got to work.

Wrapping bandages all the way up her left arm slightly passed her elbow and carefully around her neck. Selena didn't fell pain as she slept peacefully. After watching Selena sleep for 2 hours, Tim carefully crawled next to her and wrapped his arms around her waist. As he then maneuvered her head to lay on his chest he let the sleep take over.

The next morning, Jason went over to Helena's place as Damien was doing his morning exercise with Bruce while Dick was sitting in the kitchen with Alfred. Tim woke up in his bed and found Selena still asleep. Carefully getting up, Tim went into his bathroom and took a quick shower to wake up.

Coming out with his hair still wet, Tim found Selena curled up facing away from the bedroom door.

"Hey, you awake?" Tim asks softly walking over to the other side of his bed. Looking at her more closely he then see's a pillow clutched to her chest. Selena's nail had become her claws as she gripped the pillow when she smelled Tim walking closer to her.

"Selena?" Tim says as he tried to touched her hand but caused her to flinch. Slightly pulling his hand back, Tim then tries to hug Selena.

"Is there any pain?" Tim asks but didn't get a response.

"Selena please talk to me." Tim says as he tried to get her to look at him.

Full of pain and disappointment, Selena just couldn't face him. After all this time, her walls that were brought down, the fears of getting close to people, gaining friends, finding out her feelings about Tim, and more importantly; her self-confidence was all washed down the drain. Selena felt weak, she hated feeling weak, but what she hated even more was feeling Tim's fear. Tim finally managed to get the pillow out of her grasp as he then climbed on top of her. Selena kept her eyes shut as she just couldn't bare to see him look at her like this. Tim held her hands above her head as he tried to kiss her, it was the only thing he could think of to get her to open her eyes.

Selena moved her head as she didn't let his lips touched hers. Tim stopped as he saw the tears building up. He gave a concerned look as he loosened his grip on her wrists.

"Selena, I understand that you feel hurt right now, but if you don't open up your walls again the pain won't go away. Please .. if you won't open up to me, at least open up to Tim. Please, Selena. If you can't do it for me, then please do it for yourself." Luna said in Selena's head.