stranger things | dick grayson

twenty four

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'Keep your heads on swivel guys, Dr Light could still be down here,' Dick's voice rang through Eleanor's earpiece. 

She shone the torch up at the roof of the tunnel she was in and cringed at the rats running along the pipeline.

She had told everyone if they didn't get down into the tunnels to look for Jason with her, she was going to take matters into her own hands and hunt Deathstroke down herself, and nobody knew how far she would go. So, to give her peace of mind, and to help move the search along, Dick agreed and scanned the area for possible spots Jason could be before instructing everyone to hurry into the sewers.

'Dick, there's no sign of Jason's tracker on the third floor,' Donna said. 'Hank, did you find anything?'

Eleanor heard the man groan a little before asking, 'Do rats the size of my head count?' Dawn told Hank to stay positive. 'I got dragged out of bed to trudge through sewer water cause dip-shit decided to go off half-cocked,' Hank grumbled away, leaving Eleanor to ignore his choice of words to reference Jason.

She sighed as she shone the torch down the other end of the tunnel before reminding Hank, 'At least Jason found Dr Light.'

'Maybe he would have told us if we'd given him half a chance yesterday,' Donna added.

Eleanor continued on her path when Dick's voice rang in her earpiece and travelled around the corner from where she was. She was close to him.

'Guys, I got something,' he informed them urgently. 'Sending over the coordinates now.'

Eleanor jogged the rest of the way, and she was the first one to see what Dick had been looking at. There was a large dent in the concrete wall, almost as if someone's head had been smacked into it. She prayed it hadn't been Jason, because no matter how thick-headed he was there was no way he would be okay after something like that.

'Jesus,' Dawn muttered as she looked around at the trail of blood, something that Eleanor refused to even look at.

'This is fucked!' Hank exclaimed as he shone the torch up the wall to inspect it.

Dick began pointing at certain places. 'He was attacked here, then dragged. Tracks disappear 100 yards down.'

'He could be anywhere,' Dawn said with a sigh and slump of her shoulders.

'If he's still alive,' Donna said, earning a small shove from Eleanor who glared at her.

'He's alive. Dr Light's using him as bait to lure us out. If he was dead he would have left him here,' Dick said and pointed his torch at the pool of blood.

Eleanor closed her eyes as another wave of nausea overcame her.

'How does that make it any better?' Donna asked him.

'I'm not saying it makes it better,' Dick said.

Hank told him to back up. 'So the kid is bait to you now, is that it?' He asked as if taking offence on behalf of Jason. 'That's rich, Dick.'

'You were baggin' on him a minute ago, and now he's your best friend?'

'Not about me, Pal. This is all because of you and your big, dumb fucking idea to start up the Titans again!'

Eleanor turned around in annoyance and began walking away, followed by Dawn and Donna who both said that they were out.

'What, where are you going?' Hank asked the three women as they stopped and looked back.