Clothed in our grief

Chapter twenty two

a/n: Short chapter, I know. but I'm re-introducing Maya Ducard because she's extremely under-rated in DC comics and I love my angry smols so much. Scorn and Wrath eventually show up in this story too, and their apperance start showing up in this chapter. And the green shooting star is an important thing, it's just time is weird right now in how i'm writing. Along with the new detective, all of that happened hours ago. I haven't forgotten about anything, it's just this part of the story is extremely eventful and it all basically takes place on the night before Halloween-eve

"Maya." Damian says her name like it's the warmest thing he's done all day. He can't exactly help the smallest and faintest smile that displays on his features as he stands across from her. Free of soaking wet clothes, after changing into a grey sweater with a white button up and tie underneath. A blacj jacket and casual jeans with plain sneakers. His hair is still a little bit damp, though. And it usually curls just the slightest bit when it's wet. So he's got one odd-ball curl sticking up in the back of his head, that Maya finds the most amusing about him.

Maya Ducard. She's at least an year older than Damian, and after what he's done to her? They're friends. After what the two of them even went through? Damians year of atonement brought on by her? It's only natural the two of them still talk to each other. And they're more than just friends- She's basically an older sister. Of course, not by blood. She's just as much as a sibling to him as Dick is to him. Tim, and Jason too. As much as he doesn't like to admit that part, either. But between Dick and Maya? It's tough to say who he gets along with in a sibling way more.

Maya is part of the reason Damian is so different now. Not only after finding out about his year of blood, and then proceeding to force him to attone for everything he did?

She's Nobody. As in, she took up the mantle of Nobody after he died. And Nobody? Morgan ducard. Her father.

But why did Morgan Ducard, Nobody, die?

Damian killed him. It was almost as soon as he started his redemption as robin. Morgan found out about all of them, who they were. They secret identities. Everything. He wasn't a good person. He even split Damian and Bruce up for a whlie, making Damian his own partner for a little bit. but the entire time, Damian was doing it to get an opening. To take Nobody out.

Like hell he had any idea Nobody had a daughter. A daughter who ended up making her own 'Nobody' suit and using it to find out what happened to her father. And once she found out, she found a video explaining who Robin and Batman were. She went home, and studied.

But she didn't kill him. She attempted to, yes. But she blackmailed him. Maya Ducard successfully blackmailed Damian Wayne. And forced him to attone for his year of blood, and forced him to atone for what he did to her father. And at the end of it all? She found herself understanding him better, and seeing that he was already a better person and had already paid for what he did to Maya's father. At the end of it all, Damian had gained a sister. Through all the hardships with his father and his brothers, Maya made it known to Damian that he's only gained more family.

Morgan Ducard was a bad person. But Maya isn't. She's usually on the down low with the 'Nobody' suit. Doesn't use it often, and with what she's called Damian to talk about? She'll be using it even less, now.

"Damian, I'm planning on trying to find my mom." She spoke up, pushing a strand of short brown hair behind her ears. Wide brown eyes filled with hope and excitement only make Damian's smile widen the slightest bit. Her skin is maybe a little darker than Damian's, and her hair stops right above her shoulders in thick soft locks of chestnut brown. She's wearing a short leather jacket over a yellow T-shirt and a white skirt that goes just above the highest part of her shins. Some brown boots that leave an inch of a difference between the two.