Complicated Love. [Book 3]

Shadow : Chapter 12

~~--2 Month Time Skip--~~

*Damian's POV*

It's been two months without Kate. Two months without hugs, fights, make-ups, and... just Kate. Every minute I don't find her equals another minute she could be in deep danger. I have failed to protect the girl I had fallen for. Everyone has been searching for her for the past 2 months she's been gone. It's almost like she just disappeared from existence. The last words I heard from her were..

"Don't come looking for me, I'll be fine.. I hope."

So at least I know that she left with her 'parents' I keep searching that same rooftop.. Looking for something..something at all! I know she's here in Gotham.. I just don't know where. I sat on the rooftop with my feet dangling over the edge. The breeze blew through my cape. It was around 10 o'clock at night. I was concentrating on the view below. All of a sudden I felt a push from behind me, and I fell to the ground not to far below. I look up and see a black figure.

"Long time no see bird boy!" The figure smirked. Kate.

"KATE!", I shout to her. Thank god she was ok! She jumped down from the building.

"No...it's Shadow! I have come to eliminate you for good this time!", she said with a smile. How could she not remember? I HAVE AN IDEA!! MAYBE DAMIAN CAN SAY, "I LOVE YOU!", AND THEN SHE WILL REMEMBER!!!

"No! Kate! Listen to me! I'm Damian! Your name's Kate! Please, just listen to me!", I grabbed her shoulders to try to persuade her.

"In return she shoved me to the ground.

"No... I AM SHADOW!", she yelled punching me in the gut. I stumbled backwards.

"KATE! PLEASE! This isn't who you are! You are better than this! Who did this to you? I can find them! Please just tell me!", I pleaded. She pulled a short dagger out of her pocket and held it tight in her grip, ready to kill. My instincts told me to run.

I ran into the town as fast as I could, hoping that I would lose her. But she was hot on my tail.

"You a coward! Come back here and fight!" She yelled.

My feet stopped moving and I turned around. We stood parallel to each other, I pulled a batarang out of my utility belt and opened it up.

"Don't make me do this..." I started, but she was determined.

"Do it!" She yelled.

Then a idea popped in my head, I turned around and started running once more. I ran through the park. Every person I ran past had a frightened look on her face. I was making my way to the back of the park. I pushed through the rough edges and There were..at the secret tree... I had my back leaned up against the trunk of the tree. Once she squeezed through the hedges..her look..softened.

"Kate this isn't who you are..you value being a hero much more. You told me that being thought of as a hero, instead of being feared." I put my hand out.

"I told you! I don't have a choice anymore. If I go back, and he finds out that I failed..I'll go back to the room..." She stared.

"No Kate...were in this together" I smiled taking a step closer.

"No... How can I be the girl everyone wants to be,,when I don't even know who I am... You, Two-Face, Batman, My mother! Your all in here! But where am I? How can I be myself if my life is basically controlled by literally everyone else." Tears started to fill her eyes.

I slowly walked up to her and pulled her into a hug, The hug lasted a good few seconds before she pulled back holding her head and yelling in pain.

"Ahhhhhh!!! No stop!!! Please!! I'll do it!!! Aghhhhhhhh!" She yelled rolling back and forth on the ground.

I stepped back in shock. She slowly got up with tears streaming down her face. She pulled a longer dragged out of her pocket.

"Go" She said sternly holding the dagger in her hand, about to throw it.

"Kate we can help you just com-"

"I said GO!" She interrupted me.

I took a step back, still looking right into her blue eyes, I felt them piercing into me.

"I need a piece of your cape.." She said.

I stayed where i was, she started trembling over to me, She took the dagger and cut off a few inches of my cape.

"Stay hidden..." She said hugging me tightly.

She then stumbled back holding her head once more.

"GO!!" She yells.

I did as she said. I turned around and started running the other direction.