December 12th 11:48 p.m.
Gotham
Batcave
I remembered what Dick said about always having a jail broken USB on him. Just in case there was something he couldn't possibly crack. Bruce taught him that.
Bruce also taught Barbara Gordon that. The USB was tucked inside one of her purse pockets.
Her computer had everything.
Videos. Call logs. Texts. News clips. Medical files from when Lenny was a kid.
Lenny's old documents from the army.
A digitalized version of Lenny's Arkham file.
Bianca's criminal record.
Practically her whole life in photos.
It sat in-front of me, splayed out like puzzle pieces.
I played a video of a small street corner. A man with a black hoodie sped past buildings and shops. He threw a thousand glances over his shoulders and never let his guard down. I watched it over and over again.
I clicked on the next file.
Lenny's visitation requests from Arkham. The calls he made. The mail he received. Anything I needed to know.
Greg Lennox
Visitation Requests:
LeLand Marks 11/24/14
Abel Tubbs 11/25/14
Joseph Waco 11/26/14
Jake Mariner 11/27/14
Call requests:
Alesandra Tubbs 3:34 p.m. 11/13/14
Alesandra Tubbs 1:08 p.m. 11/17/14
Alesandra Tubbs 10:46 a.m. 11/19/14
7 more calls from Alesandra.
13 mailed letters. All of them un-opened and returned to sender.
I clicked the next file.
It was a picture of Lenny when he was in the Army. He was caked in dirt and covered head-to-toe in camo. He was huddled up with 3 other men. They had their arms around one another, and they were biting their dog tags as the jungle towered behind them.
More pictures of them smiling and laughing.
They were at each other's weddings. They held each other's kids.
My breath caught in my throat as the next picture popped up. Mark's sliver chain was wrapped around his neck so tight it dug into his flesh. I clicked on the next file. Tubbs tags were stuffed into his mouth. I clicked on the next file. Waco's tags were... Oh my god. I allowed myself a second to process what I saw. The indescribable pain inflicted on...Lenny's friends.
Marks... died 6/12/13
Tubbs... died 7/29/13
Waco... died 7/30/13
Mariner... died 8/18/13
Lenny never told me they were murdered...Lenny never told me about any of them. Just vague men accompanying his stories, but they were tortured...
I clicked on the next file.
The article Barbara sent me earlier.
17-YEAR-OLD KILLED IN ATTEMPTED RIOT.
YOU ARE READING
Closer Than Your Shadow
RomanceAfter a botched robbery pulls Claire into a war between the mob and a masked vigilante; she's forced to choose a side, her family or a man she knows nothing about.
