My Super-Story

13: Scarred For Life

Nightwing P.O.V.
Grace passed out a little after I finished telling her my name. I don't think it was just because of blood loss, because when I came there were wolves everywhere and one was distinctly familiar. I realized it was the wolf she'd met 2 nights ago whom she named Jasper. When the wolf saw me he left her side, she then started screaming, and was crying so I came behind her and covered her mouth for her to stop screaming she then went rigid and started to struggle out of my grip so I leaned over and whispered in her ears calming and soothing words she started to relax I told her to close her eyes because I believed that she was scared and not being able to see the fight would comfort her. She backed up to the tree trunk and sat down cradling her left wrist but she kept her eyes closed and blocked her ears. After I defeated the villains, I bent over and tapped her on the shoulder.
      "Grace, it's over you can open your eyes now." I said.
     She slowly opened her eyes which were wet with tears, I grabbed her wrist more roughly then I intended to, she yelped and pulled away. I grabbed her wrist more gently and turned it over, my eyes widened, it was a huge gash across her wrist. I pulled out medical supplies from my belt and tended to the wound on her wrist. When I was finished she looked at me and asked.
     "What's your name?" she asked through shaky breaths I answered Nightwing.
      She fell unconscious just as I scooped up her fragile body in my arms. I started walking towards the manor, and a blur of yellow came speeding towards me. Wally stopped right in front of me,
      "Dude, what happened?"he asked as he noticed Grace unconscious in my arms.
        "Let's just say she is the luckiest normal person to ever encounter all the villains of the Light and a few more. She escaped with only a gash on her wrist." I said looking at my friend,
       "Wait, wasn't Roy supposed to be watching her?" Wally asked looking around.
     "I was," said a voice from in the trees. "But Miss Amnesia here decided she was going to play hero." Said Roy jumping from a tree branch with a makeshift splint on his wrist, "and that girl can run, man, you should have her train with you she'd probably beat you in an endurance race!" Roy said looking fondly at her limp body in my arms.
      "We should get back to the manor." I said, so we walked back to the manor.
        We brought her back to her room, I gave Grace to Artemis who would clean her up and change her clothes then put her in bed, while Roy, Wally and I all stood out on the balcony.
      "I have to admit I thought it would be more girly." Wally said after looking around.
     "No, the most girly things she owns are her clothes and accessories really, she likes neutrals and pastels more than solid colours. From what I can tell." Roy said
      "So, what happened Roy?" Artemis asked coming through the door and closing it softly.
Roy told us about everything what she said and how she ran 10km like it was a 100m sprint
    "It must of just been adrenaline." Wally said.
    "I don't think so because she has a lot more courage than a 12 year old girl should, Wally she revealed her location to save me, I don't think any normal person would do that especially for a superhero, she held her ground and talked completely normally to the villains she even talked back to them, the only weird part was when the villains would say their names she'd have like a seizure and fall to the ground screaming as in she already knew them but in a bad way, she knew stuff about Harley that very few know..." Roy said leaving us hanging.
      Roy continued until when the wolves came and one approached her
      "Wait, wait, wait, did you say it was like the wolf already knew what was going on, and went and comforted her?" Wally asked awe struck.
       "Yeah, actually they have met she named the wolf Jasper." I said, I continued the story from there.
       "She'll probably think it was just a dream, but that gash will scar." Artemis said looking through the glass door at Grace's sleeping figure.
        "What will Grace probably think was just a dream?" Batman inquired as he jumped down from the roof.
    We relayed the story to Batman, Wally and Artemis left a few minutes after Roy had finished, Batman told Roy to leave he needed to tend to his wrist and he told me to rest he needed to make sure there was nothing in the gash.
Grace P.O.V.
I woke up in my bed with a massive headache but it dissipated after I had a shower. I changed into simple clothes a white tank top, with a long sleeved white and navy blue horizontally striped off shoulder shirt on top, full length jeans, and simple brown winter boots (outfit above) then noticed a bandage on my wrist but thought nothing really of it. I walked downstairs and to the dinning table, when I walked in the boys stopped talking and looked at me. I ignored it, I sat down next to Dick who was staring at me as I ate, I set my fork down and turned to him.
      "Is there something wrong or are you trying to annoy me?" I asked, he shook himself out of his daze and answered         
        "No... Could I see your wrist, the left one?" He asked.
   I didn't know why he wanted my left wrist but I still gave it to him, he rolled up my sleeve slowly and gently then I saw he was going for the bandage I pulled my arm back and yanked the sleeve up and unwrapped the bandage and there was a scar.
            "Huh? How did I get this?" I asked looking up.
     "I can explain... Huh how did it heal so fast?" Dick started saying then the others came over to look at my wrist Jason looked first his comment was cool, Bruce was next he looked at it then he stumbled back.
       "No, this can't be they're extinct." He said disbelief obvious in his voice, he turned and ran to the kitchen.
        Dick got up and ran after him.
    "Hello? What is going on? Could someone explain my scar?" I asked calling after the boys who'd just run out of the room.
        "Fine, no one answer me, I'll just go to my room because no one is talking to me!" I yelled after them
      *sigh*" I have to figure out who or what Nightwing is... As well as my weird dream last night, because I think I'm scarred for life." I said softly to myself as I trudged up the stairs.