To Smile - UNDER CONSTRUCTION -

Chapter 1

------------Lilly Black -------------
I shook my wrists which were currently handcuffed to a chair in the police station. Don't start assuming the worst, I'm not a criminal i just do things differently than most and so far they want to send me to school, and an orphanage. "We have two things we need to do,"

I glare at Detective Zayden who sat across with an empty file "I refuse."

he sighed looking defeated "and why is is that?"
"School is pointless, and orphanages are like old folk homes in the sense that when we go in we're not likely to get out until one of two things happen. I'm just getting a head of the curve."
I shrugged throwing my feat up on his desk, He looked confused "were you once a orphan?"
I scoffed "No, raised on the street stay in the street, that's how its been and always will be."
He looked rather frustrated with my words. "I will be sending you to school at least"
"Gee thanks dad"
I rolled my eyes at him and he sighed "are you hungry?"
I shrugged my shoulders once again "I dunno."
His head turned to me in curiosity "What do you mean?"
I crossed my legs, my foot moving in annoyance "What do you expect, ignore hunger long enough and the feeling goes away"
He looked at me skeptically "when was the last time you ate?"
I started taping my fingers. "I don't know, how am I supposed to know, that could've been a week ago!"
Immediately he stood up and un-cuffed me from the chair and started dragging me away to a place to eat ignoring my protests no matter how loud they were or how i protested.

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Food was placed before me and all I could do was stare, I didn't feel the need to eat but my stomach felt hollow and empty with a dull ache. Zayden motioned me to eat so i slowly picked up the fork and started eating only being able to finish a couple bites of the food. he looked at the food then me and sighed, "Well we're going to have to test your knowledge levels to see what school would be best"
he said typing away at his laptop. I sighed and shifted uncomfortably under his gaze "Lilly, what if you stayed with me instead of an orphanage? You'd have somewhere to stay and wouldn't be a old folks home for children as I believe you put it."
I mentally sighed he was right but I didn't want to end up being trapped somewhere I might not like in the end of it all. "No, it doesn't matter where it is, you just don't get it!"

I shouted at him frustrated with this situation, it was always the same things with these people. they could never understand. "you need a place to stay and if not an orphanage than I'd rather know that your safe and warm. otherwise I have to put you through the foster care system and i think you'd like that even less." 
I ground my teeth. "Just go through and do what you can"

he handed me the laptop with a placement exam on the screen. I handed it back to him after the same amount of time it had taken him to pull it up completely finished and he looked amazed "what i did the test."
"I know that but, this was an placement exam for the most prestigious school in Gotham and you just scored a hundred, it wasn't even a practice test, where did you learn all of this?"
I sighed and glared out the window, "dose it really matter"
He sighed stood and gestured me to follow him, I stood and followed him to outside of the restaurant with my food boxed and in a bag beside me. "I will visit your house. and I will consider staying. I promise nothing more, and nothing less. and even if I decide to stay it will only be sometimes. now, in an hour I will meet you at the police station."
"Wait!-"
I didn't let him finish and quickly used whatever I could to get to the roof in less than five seconds scaling the building flinging and flipping onto the roof. I gave him a mock salute and started running across the roof tops making sure he didn't follow me, I stopped at the bridge I slept on top for years and started climbing. 

I hadn't thought about what family was like especially since I never really had one. sure I was born. But, my family was long gone and I grew up without them I turned out just fine people freely gave me food and I survived on my own (the food thing has significantly slowed down since I am much older now). Why was I considering this. I am fine on my own, I don't like being told what to do. Maybe it was my subconscious saying You deserve better, but I tend to like it outside where I am fully aware of everyone and what they are doing. I can't explain how I know but I just can. it's not like I had someone to explain what I am to me. like the big bat in Gotham, the bat dad of the huge bat family, I don't want to know who they are but it seams what ever i have this, this, this stupid ability just won't have it! This is why I don't like socializing, because someone will find out you know something about them and bam! your suddenly a huge target for all the crazies that live around the world, I say "world" because what I see doesn't stop for anything. I hate it all and most of all, myself. I picked up my messenger bag and packed my drawing book, amulet and the letter that came with it, the very few pencils I had, a pencil sharpener, and my flute. I stood and slowly walked across the lines on the bridge. I heard people shouting and looked down slightly to see people bringing up phones and started taking pictures and videos. i stopped and decided to give them all a scare. i turned to face them seeing a shadow move in the corner of my eye. so the bat came to watch. "you shouldn't be up here"