Author's Note: Hi everyone, so this is my first fanfic on this site (I hope people are nicer on this one than the other site I was on, it pretty much destoryed my conifidence.) I wrote a fanfic called New Beginnings (I'll be uploading it soon) and it was based around the life of Alex Wayne. A tiny background on her; Alex Wayne, for the purpose of my story, is the biological child of Bruce Wayne, she ends up in his care and becomes Batgirl (along with Dick Grayson as Robin). She then becomes Blade, and drops the Batgirl mantle to Barbara Gordon. So in New Beginnnings it followed Alex's life through Young Justice and then into the comics (I kinda picked all of the material I liked, plus creating new twists etc) She ends up falling in love with Dick Grayson (big shocker there :-P ). But I found in New Beginnings it was all nicey nicey to a point and things kinda ended well as I left out influnce from the comics. But I decided to take Alex and put her in the scenarios of the comic (changing them slightly) and see what happens. Any way, I thought I'd see if people liked it, as on another site I was told to "Piss off and stop writing" by a rather unpleasent person. So I hope you enjoy, thanks for reading.
Chapter 1: Let it Pour
Present:
Rain, it was raining. Of course it was. It hammered off the dark umbrellas and the sky was that dark grey, one that could suck the joy out of a child's birthday party. The grass under our feet fell under the weight of the rain and puddles began to gather in clumps around the lawns. I looked up at the sky, the tomb stones rising high above us, the wings of the angels spreading wide darkening my face and the rain cascaded down their faces like the tears on mine. The mound of dirt that lay to our right, sat there taunting us waiting to be put back in its place, to cover up what we had failed to protect. I heard a sniff of someone near me and the white flash of a tissue being brought to the person’s nose. All sound was gone to me, I just stared, stared at that gaping hole in the ground, I didn’t hear Dad reading out a passage of a poem, all I heard was rain, that god forsaken noise. The hole looked up at me, dark and deep, the rain thudding off something wooden inside. God, we’ve failed you, I’m so sorry Damian.
A few days earlier:
Panic was rising in my chest, how could we have let this happen? I bolted up the stairs to Damian’s room, the door was open a jar and I pushed it. Papers rustled on the floor and the curtains fluttered from the open window. He was gone, Damian was gone. I heard someone walk up behind me, I turned, it was Tim, in his Red Robin uniform. “Bruce needs you to suit up. Dick hasn’t come back,” He told me.
The knot in my stomach got bigger, when Damian disappeared Dick had gone against all of us, including me, to go and find him. Ever since the two of them had a stint as Batman and Robin Dick was more protective over him and nothing I said to him could tell him otherwise. I nodded to Tim and headed down to the Batcave, my legs felt like lead. My brother and my boyfriend were both missing, and in our line of work that was never a good thing, I pushed what happened to Jason to the back of my head.
The cave was as dark as ever, the ceilings high and full of bats. I walked down the stairs that had been cut into the ground by my great Grandfather, before my eyes the cave opened. The huge super computer, or as we affectionately called it the Bat-Computer, took pride and place in the centre of the cave, next to the cases of our suits. The various motor bikes and cars were near the run way and of course the state of the art training centre. But all of the splendour was diminished, I pulled my suit out of the case. It was one thing I loved, the form fitting suit with red strips down my arms and my legs, but other wise it was totally black. I fixed my belt on, then I grabbed my katana swords and strapped them on to my back, finally I fitted my mask on to my eyes and put in my radio. “Blade is online, Batman do you copy?” I asked.
