Catgirl: Young Justice BOOK 3 (EDITING)

CHAPTER 20

|Mount Justice
|February 20 2016, 17:29

"Ugh, my head...", Felix moaned, curling up on the cold infirmary floor. Next to him there were three pairs of boots; Nightwing, Superboy, and Miss Martian.

"She's not going to be happy when she wakes up.", Nightwing winced, pulling away from the bed Katherine was on to check his injuries. She'd left deep claw marks on his chest, arms, and legs.

"Looks like you jumped in a tiger's cage.", Felix murmured, lifting his throbbing head for a moment before laying back down, groaning from the nausea.

"Help him up.", Nightwing gestured to Felix, ignoring him otherwise. He was much too busy looking for a suture kit to attend his own injuries.

Superboy dragged Felix to the bed next to Katherine's and dumped him on it. "Sleep it off.", he harshly said, going back to making Katherine comfortable with Miss Martian.

Felix huffed, turning over to see what was so urgent about his sister. She looked fine to him. "Sedated.", Nightwing told him, noticing the look of confusion.

"We didn't want to fight her.", Miss Martian added with a frown, "Though she really wanted to fight us."

"Can you blame her?", Felix grumbled, ignoring the glares he got for it. "You're lucky she doesn't want to kill you." He glared back at Nightwing, telling him specifically, "You're lucky she didn't kill you."

"Katherine doesn't want to kill us, she's just grieving.", Nightwing dismissed.

Felix rolled his eyes and lay on his back to get that rest Superboy recommended.

"She's just grieving.", Nightwing asserted, still very much in denial about the truth.

Felix had lived the truth. He opened his eyes, sarcastically wondering, "And why is that?"

Nightwing jumped down from the bed he was sitting on, but Miss Martian put him back up, stopping him from doing whatever he was about to do.

Something he'd also regret, no doubt.

Felix closed his eyes and smiled.

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"Katherine, be reasonable.", Batman said, lowering the brightness of the light in the interrogation room so it wouldn't be as harsh for her. He asked again, "Why did The Light have you and Calico at their Bialyan base? What was your role in their plot?"

Katherine remained silent, keeping her eyes on the metal table between her and Batman. She couldn't even look at him.

"Batgirl, Bumblebee, Miss Martian, and Wonder Girl all reported that you and your brother were the only two villains at the base to not attack them. Even when confronted on the plane, your brother didn't try to attack. For the most part, he's not attempted anything since your arrival to-"

"So?!", Katherine kept her eyes on the table. She paused for a moment before scoffing, "What'd you expect? That he'd leave me? Here? With you?"

"No.", Batman knew that, "He wouldn't."

"Then what's your point?" She was getting to her limit with this interrogation. "You know I'm not half as docile as my brother is."

"I know.", Batman also knew that. He told her, "Nightwing has a theory, and the more time passes, the more I find myself believing it."

"His feral theory." Katherine deadpanned, "Hardly his worst theory."

Batman hid a smile and nodded. He debunked, "You're feral, but it wasn't because you directly took..a life. It...it's more complicated than that."