The Shadow: A Renegade Sory

The Sleeping Bird

Tim despite Bruce offering to keep him off with due to the stranger decided to go to school. He liked it and he was feeling cooped up in the manor. Bruce was on full guard and for good reason, they had no idea where this mystery person came from or what he wanted and if they knew Bruce's identity, they knew everyone else's as well, which meant that they weren't even safe as civilians. Tim wanted to help, wanted to make sure his family was safe, but he knew there was nothing that he could do. With a sigh he slammed his locker shut and made his way to his class arms filled with books.

He slipped out of the flow of the crowed and into his history classroom, sitting down in his usual seat at the back of the class. It wasn't that he didn't like class because he did but like usual, he ended up falling a sleep to the slow drone of the teachers voice, taking about some world war. Tim woke up again five minutes before the end of the class and if he was honest the rest of his day was spent, sleeping, writing notes and listening to his classmate's squabble.

By the time lunch came around he couldn't have been more happy. He made his way to the empty computer lab and pulled out his laptop from his backpack setting it on the table. As he promised both Bruce and Alfred he quickly ate his lunch before even opening the computer. He had a terrible habit of getting sucked into work and forgetting very important things that kept him alive. He ate quickly taking a few sips of the coffee he had gotten before coming here and thought about the mystery man of Gotham.

They didn't know who he was, where he came from and why he was here and to make It even stranger there was no evidence of him even existing. Other then Bruce first meeting him and the two drawings. They hadn't heard of crimes being solved, or even crimes other then the norm being committed. It truly was like the person didn't exist.

It was strange to say the least and they needed to find out who, why and where he came from in case problems did start to arise. They just had no idea where to start.

Tim sighed as he packed up his luck bag and pulled the computer back towards him. He opened the lid and froze. Sitting stuck to the screen was a little post it notes. He hesitantly pulled it off the screen to get a better look, on the paper was a small cartoon drawing of a person with their head on a desk. With a message that read 'Get some rest little bird – S'.

Tim dropped the post it onto the table and quickly hacked into the schools CCTV but as he had guest it was just like the Wayne Tech the script said Five word 'I said get some sleep'. Tim shook his head and quickly packed his things upholding tightly to the post it notes and called Bruce.

"Dad, we have a problem" he said just as the line connected. Bruce didn't say anything else other than "I'm coming to get you". Tim made sure that he was standing by a large group of his classmates by the glass door watching for Bruce to arrive. He ran straight to the car throwing his things in the back seat. He pulled his seat belt on after passing Bruce the drawing. Bruce looked at it before kicking the car into gear and raced back to the manor. "I don't know how it got into my laptop" Tim explained "I had been in class all day. My laptop doesn't leave my side and I know that it wasn't there this morning. I checked the CCTV but the files were gone and when I looked at the script it was also blank and just said 'I said get some sleep'" Tim said clutching the drawing in his hand, "Who is he?" Tim asked worriedly.

Bruce just shook his head knuckles white on the steering wheel as he glared "I don't know Tim but we will find out"