Caged and Broken

Chapter 1: Living Hell

It was a regular day, they were eating dinner. Alfred was at the table with them, enjoying the wonderful steak salad. When the front doors of the manor were forced open, and sops swarmed into the dinning room. Reyna, Bruce, and Alfred all got to their feet. Alarmed by the sudden intrusion of their home, Jim was in the doorway looking sadly at them.

"Whats going on?!?" Bruce demanded/ asked, but the cops walked up to him.

"Bruce Wayne, you're under arrest for the murder of Tony Zucco. You have the right to remain silent, anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law." An officer Reyna recognized from her time in Mini Arkham, he was Warden Waller. Apperantly he was now officer Waller, and wait a second. Back it up, Zucco is dead?!?!?!?

"Hey, leave him alone!" Reyna shouted as she tried to rush forward to Bruce. But was restrained by two officers, her eyes were wide and held fear.

"You're coming with us girl, to a new place." One of the officers said, and at that both Gordon and Alfred and Bruce gasped.

"Let go of my daughter." Bruce said, as he was shoved forward.

"No, Bruce, no! Let me go, he's innocent." She pleaded, but the officers had taken Bruce out of the home.

"Master Bruce adopted Mistress Reyna, that would leave her in my custody." Alfred said, but by then she was already being dragged out of her home.

"I'm afraid not Mr. Pennyworth, seeing as Mr. Wayne is our prime suspect for the murder of Tony Zucco, Ms. Grayson-Wayne is being sent to a foster family in Robbinsville." One of the idiotic definitely crooked cops said, and Reyna would've been laughing had she not been so scared.

"You can't do this." Alfred said, but Jim stopped the elderly Butler.

"I'm sorry Alfred, but they can." He told the man sadly, Reyna managed to slip out of the cops grip and ran to Alfred, he bent down, and let her crush him in a hug. She was crying, and he felt her trembling from fear.

"Don't worry Mistress Reyna, I'm not letting them take you without a fight. When Master Bruce comes home, we will both fight tooth and nail to get you back. I promise." He whispered to her, she just hugged him tighter.

"Please, don't let them take me away Alfie. Bruce is innocent, I don't want to leave you." She said, but then the cop grabbed her arm, and yanked her away from Alfred. Then proceeded to drag her away, kicking and yelling.

She was shoved into a police cruiser, and the door closed on her. She turned and watched as the rain began to fall, and the car drove off. Her last sight of Wayne Manor, was of it illuminated red and blue, looking empty, lifeless.

-0-0-0-

She awoke with a scream, and bolted upright. Tears spilled from her eyes, as she blinked away her sleep. At first, she didn't recognize the room, but as the room came into focus, she recognized it as Artemis' bedroom.

"Rey, are you ok?" Artemis' voice asked, and she turned to look at her big sister figure. She shook her head no, and tears fell from her eyes fast and hard. Artemis got out of her be, and walked over to her little sister figure. Then embraced her in a hug, letting the young girl cry into her shoulder. She rubbed circles on the girls back, hoping to calm her down, just trying to comfort her.

"It's ok Rey, I'm right here." Artemis soothed, and the girl began to calm down. Once she did, Artemis whipped her last tear away. Reyna's eyes have dulled greatly since she was taken in by that horrible foster family three months ago. Artemis didn't blame the girl one bit for having night terrors, shed lost her entire family at the age of six, now she's not even allowed to see her adoptive father.

Well, she does, but she can't stay with him. It's also technically, not, umm, not legal. Heh, heh, umm, yeah. She's Robin, she has to be there, but, at least she still does get to see and talk to her adoptive father.

Silver lining here I guess, but it's probably worse for her. Getting to see her adoptive father every single night, but not being able to stay with him. That must feel like torture, and it makes her blood boil that Reyna is suffering now cuz of it. They looked at the clock, and Reyna paled.

"Artemis, I've got to go. If I don't get back in two minutes, I'm gonna get hurt." Reyna said, and Artemis felt fear grip her heart.

"Reyna, please. You-you can stay here, we-we can run away, go stay at-at the mountain. Anything, just please, don't-don't go back to that awful family." Artemis said, and Reyna looked at her sadly.

"If I don't go back, then I might never gat to be with Bruce and Alfred again. Artemis, I'll be ok. But, I need to face this. Someone doesn't want me with Bruce, and I'm gonna find out who, and to do that, I've got to deal with this nightmare that never seems to end." Reyna told her, and then she ran out of the apartment, and to her foster families.

When she got back, she was greeted with a world of hurt. Oh, how she wished that this stupid mess was over with already. I mean, how much longer was it gonna take for Bruce to win the ongoing trial for custody over her?!? She hoped that it wouldn't be another day, but obviously, that's not how it was gonna go.