Intoxicated - Bruce Wayne

Chapter Thirty Nine

Wincing and grunting, Tigress' head was throbbing again. She could feel her arm go numb as it was hanging above her. Both her arms were tied above her head as her feet was barely touching the floor, tied together.

Her blurry vision soon settled as she blinked her eyes that felt like they were burning in her skull. As she dropped her head from exhaustion and sore neck, familiar boots were dangling beside her and as she turned her neck, it was a beat up little bird.

"Robin." She called out his name as loud as she could.

While Nightwing and Batman figured out who Tigress was, Robin and Red Hood took a longer time to know who was behind the mask of the woman. When they received the news from Bruce and Eva, Jason wasn't surprised as he always felt she was hiding something to begin with.

"Robin!" Tigress hissed, "jesus kid, how bad did they knock you! Robin!"

Robin's eyes fluttered as he too started to grunt and wince just like how Tigress woke up.

Tigress looked around only to see the walls covered in tiles and so were the floor, it was different than the other room she was in earlier.

"T-Tigress?" Robin said as he shook his arms, trying to free whatever was holding him up.

"Yeah, I'm here." Tigress said as her arms started to ache.

"What the hell is going on?"

"The Joker happened, that's what." Tigress sighed and observed the corners of the room, trying to find a camera.

"I feel like I was hit by a truck, god!" As Robin continued to wince, Tigress took a glimpse of him only to see he was bruised all over his face.

"You look like it too." Tigress chuckled.

"We gotta find a way out of here." Robin groaned, looking up to his chained up wrists.

"Actually, I'd rather wait this out."

"What? Are you crazy?"

"I wanna know what the clown is planning okay? He might've caught Nightwing too. Either ways, the clown has something up his sleeves and I tend to know what his game is."

The only reply that Tigress received was a low groan from Robin.

The two were hanging by their arms in silence, maybe they were too exhausted to talk or maybe they were just wondering what would happen next.

But because the silence allowed them to think, Robin furrowed his eyebrows as he looked over at Tigress' limp body, "hey, why do you think he didn't remove our masks yet?"

"It's obvious Robbie, it excites him that he doesn't know who is behind the mask. If he really cared about who we are, he would've removed our masks and spread the news."

"How do you know that?" Robin asked.

"I don't know, I just do." The metal door flying open caught both Robin and Tigress' attention as Nightwing's body slammed on the floor with a loud groan.

One of Joker's goon kicked Nightwing in the face and just like Robin, his face was covered in bruises and it only made Tigress wonder if her face, too, was blotched in blue and purple too.

Just like Tigress and Robin, Nightwing was tied up beside Tigress on her right.

Once the two goons left the bright room, Tigress decided to speak, "you alright, Nighty?"

"Never felt better!" Nightwing groaned, spitting blood on the floor.

Tigress smirked, "atta boy, Nighty."