Before The Storm

Chapter 6

The feeling of falling made me jolt awake. I sat up in my bed and placed my hand over my beating heart, before looking at the digital clock on the table next to my bed. 1:00. I let out a groan as my sore muscles ached as I got out of my bed. I grabbed some clean clothes before heading to the bathroom for a much needed warm relaxing shower. 

Once I was finished getting ready for the day I walked down to the kitchen for a bowl of cereal.

“I see the dead has awoken” Papa joked as he walked into the kitchen with the news paper in his hand as I finished my cereal.

“Anything interesting in the paper?” I asked him.

“Not really, except that one man calling himself the Penguin tried to rob a bank, but Batgirl showed up and stopped him, but he escaped, and also there was a suicide, but the police are saying it might actually be a murder, close by the science facility late last night” Papa said as he laid the paper down on the table.

“Really? Who was the person that was killed?” I asked him as I got up from the table.

“A Miss Karen Jones, she was the manager of the proto-type division at the facility” Papa said as I cleaned my bowl and spoon.

Proto-type division? Wasn't that where Erik worked at?

“I hope the police or Batgirl can catch the killer” I said as I turned the water off.

“I do too, but until they do I want you to carry these around” Papa said putting a tazer gun and can of mace on the table.

I walked over to the table and picked up the can and tazer.

“Thank you, Papa. I've been meaning to get one of these, but it's been slipping my mind every time I'm in the city” I told him.

Papa nodded his head, as I glanced at the clock on the wall. It was 1:45. Hm, what am I going to do for the day? Maybe I can go into Gotham and check on John since the Penguin was after him now, and I might be able to check out the science facility to see if I could find anything about that suicide or murder.

“Well I'm going into town. Need anything while I'm gone?” I asked Papa.

He shook his head and I nodded before leaving the manor. I walked into the garage to see the red camaro sitting in it's spot. I walked over to the red beauty to see a note in the window from Bruce.

Lily,

Try not to get it towed again.

Bruce

I rolled my eyes at the note with a smile on my face as I threw it in a trash can. I got into the camaro and drove to the city of Gotham. As I drove through the city of Gotham I wondered where I would be able to find John at. Maybe he's at that diner like the last time I had seen him. So I drove to the diner to be surprised that he and his partner was getting out of police car that was parked in the parking lot. I parked the camaro a few empty spaces from the police car and got out.

I walked into the diner and saw that he and his partner was at the counter talking to a different and older waitress then the last one, Megan. I smiled at the waitress who greeted me as I took the seat next to John.

“Hello, how can I help you, sugar?” She asked in forced sweet voice.

“Hi, um can I have a cheese burger with ketchup and a side of fries with a coke?” I asked her and she nodded her head writing my order down on a pad of paper.

“Hey, Lily” John said after the waitress went to give my order to the cook.

“Hey, John” I said smiling at him.