Again, only here to hold the place! How is everyone liking the new update thing? I like it when it cooperates with me! That's mostly my fault, but there was that one time that it was Wattpad's :p Now, this chapter is confusing, and there's a lot of things I was trying to say with it, but I don't know if it worked very well (I haven't had any time whatsoever to edit or reread this), so I may rework it and rewrite it later on. I do have this week off, but I'm having writers block on the next chapter, and it's been starring at me, waiting for my ideas for the last two-three weeks, and I'd really like ideas! Well, I have ideas, I'm just not very good at conveying them. Anyways, if you have any questions, or need any clarifications about what Luce says, feel free to ask me, I love getting comments, although it takes me a while to reply. Now, that's enough of m rambling (I swear this note is longer than the chapter :( ), on to the chapter!
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When I finally came to, I couldn't see anything. I wasn't sure if I was blindfolded, or if it was really dark in the room. I tried to see through the darkness, but it just seemed to get darker. Part of me didn't want to know what waited in the darkness, so I stayed silent.
"You awake?" A familiar voice asked, before a light turned on. It wasn't bright, but it was a sudden change from the darkness, so I closed my eyes and reached up to block my eyes. I wasn't tied down, and the chair I was in wasn't super uncomfortable, so this was a nice change from how I usually woke up from these kidnappings. "Good. I'm really sorry about all of this, but you need to stay very quiet." Luce said, staying out of the light.
I tried to speak, then realized I was gagged. I nodded in response, realizing I wasn't supposed to touch it. What was going on though? Why was Luce being so cryptic? She didn't usually play the pronoun or the guessing game, so I didn't understand why she was now.
"The people who took me have you too. You're in a dream state, and absolutely none of this is real. They left me tied up, but they were going to go hurt Bruce. I got untied, and I hacked into the machine, I put myself in here, but we don't have much time before they come back or before my time in here runs out. I don't know everything they did to you, because they kept me unconscious. You need to not trust either of them when you wake up, or when you go back into the fake world." She said, and I couldn't even function. This was all a dream? I had so many questions, but I couldn't ask anything. "I know, you probably have a million and seventeen questions like you usually do, but whenever you talk they can see and monitor what you're saying. You've been here since you passed out that day they got me, but about a year and a half has passed. I don't know what's been going on in the outside world, but they've kept me as their little slave, and I'm just about ready to finally get back at them. You need to act as if I never told you about this once I leave. You need to react the same way you would have, because I only need three more days before I can fight them off, and wake you up for real. The way to tell if it's really me us if I tell you to "dance with the devil in the pale moonlight". Remember that? Yeah, well that's our signal now. I can get them to believe this is a dream, but you need to be convincing for me. If I can figure out how to get you back home quickly and quietly, you will wake up at the Manor, and you need to act as if this conversation didn't happen. If you absolutely can't act as if this didn't happen, tell whoever asks you that you're shaken up by a dream." She explained everything, but I had more questions than answers now. She started fading a little, so she quickly rushed out, "Remember our signal, and I'll see you in three days! Wait, three days in your world is going to be longer than in real life! I'll see you once I wake you up, love!" Then she was gone. I shook my head, and stood up.
Luce had been standing in front of the door, so I figured I should go out there and get back to the Manor as fast as I could. I didn't want her getting into trouble with whoever because of me. Why didn't she tell me who the people were?? I guess Deathstroke was one of them, because she showed up with him the first few times, but was Jason one of them too? Ugh!! Suddenly, I was in front of the Manor, and I gasped. Please tell me that was Luce. Wait, of course it was. Our kidnappers probably were too busy trying to figure out why I was wherever I was rather than how to get me home. I smiled slightly, and knocked on the door. A few seconds later, an over excited Dick opened the door.
"Hey, there you are! You had me worried!" He said, and I smiled at him.
"Sorry about that. I kind of needed to clear my head, so I went for a walk and got a little lost. I found my way back though!" I exclaimed, and Dick laughed.
"How you still manage to get lost is a mystery in and of itself!" He said happily, pulling me into the Manor. "Want to play Hide n Seek?" He asked, and I laughed and shook my head.
"Aren't you supposed to be the adult here?" I asked, and he laughed louder.
"Where would the fun in that be? Go hide, I'm it." He said, then turned to the door and started counting. I wasn't sure how high he was going to count, so I shot up the stairs and went straight for one of the many hiding places I found when I had been exploring before.
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I'm going to end this one here, I'm sorry it's so short but this was kind of a filler and also kind of important. Anyways, I love you all, don't stop dreaming, don't change for anyone, and I'll see you in the next chapter. BYIE!!!!
~J's Girl who's gotten really boring in these end notes. Does anyone actually read these though? I feel like if people read these and were trying to figure out who I was, they could learn a lot about me!
