Bat in Central

Chapter 5

Reyna was asleep in her hospital room, when she sensed someone enter her room. Her eyes flew open, and she had her gun aimed at the person.

However, her eyes widened in shock, and the gun slipped from her hand when she saw who it was.

Combed back grey hair, white gloves, perfectly pressed suit, and the raised eyebrow. Tears prickled her eyes, and the person sighed. "To think, five years apart and you resort to such a crude weapon. Master Bruce would be very appalled by the very notion you even own such a fire arm." The tears fell from her eyes now, and the man sighed. Before he smiled. "However, I must say. It is very good to see you once again Mistress Reyna." Reyna whimpered at his British accent and the smile. "Alfie." She breathed in a broken tone.

That's all it took to get the elderly man, briskly walking across the room, and enveloping her in a comforting hug. She began to quietly cry into his shoulder as he sat next to her on the bed and just held her. Like the grandfather he was to her.

"Selina is getting the countryside villa ready as we speak, and she is quite anxious to see you again. As is Dr. Tompkins, however she is currently arguing with the doctor who is taking care of you. Something about how you recover better at home, and how you're not safe out in the open like this."

Reyna gave a wet chuckle at that, and she pulled back. "That sounds like the same old Leslie to me." She said, and Alfred smiled. "Indeed, and I took it upon myself to grab you some clothes from home. I am quite glad that you had clothes stashed all over the city, and Commissioner Gordon is sending some of your clothes that you stored at Brandon's house from one of your numerous sleepovers with Lucious." Reyna nodded, and then heard arguing reach the door. She smiled a small genuine smile, yup, Leslie was definitely here.

"I've already told you, I've been her doctor since she was six, so let me through to see her." Leslie sounded angry. "No, we cannot let you just barge in on our patients in the middle of the night." A doctor said, and Leslie sighed in exasperation. "That girl doesn't know what a proper nights rest is, she's never asleep this early." Reyna and Alfred smiled. "Early?!? It's two in the morning." Leslie growled in frustration. "Move aside!" Her door swung open and Leslie Tompkins was revealed in all her glory.

"Hi Leslie, it's been a while hasn't it?" Reyna said weakly to her with a small smirk, and Leslie sighed. "Reya, I let you leave Gotham for five years and you got yourself stuck in a hospital. I honestly should've seen this coming." She said with a smile and fake exasperation, and that caused Reyna to smile a weak tired cheeky smile. "What can I say, I must've found the right trail." Leslie's smile dropped, just as Reyna and Alfreds. "I'm sorry miss, this crazy Gotham doctor just barged in here." Reyna chuckled.

"It's ok, Leslie has been my primary physician since I was six. She honestly knows what's best for me, health wise." The doctor sighed, and Reyna knew she won. "Alright, then I'm releasing you into their care. I'll just go grab you a wheelchair." He said, and Reyna sighed as he left.

"I'm sorry about what happened to you Reya. Out of all of your family members, I never expected this to happen to you. To Jason or Damien, sure, they're really pigheaded." Reyna smiled slightly at that, but it didn't last long.

"Timmy did this to me." She said quietly, and both froze. "What?!?" Leslie quietly growled, and Reyna sighed. "I really meant it when I said I found the right trail. Timmy got brainwashed again and they sent him to kill me, but after he freed himself from their control thanks to Babs and Lucas, he was put into a coma. At least, that's what Babs told me."

Alfreds expression became grave. "I know you have been through hell and more these past five years Mistress Reyna, and I'm not sure even hot chocolate and cookies can help ease some of your pain, but you are not alone anymore. And like bloody hell are we gonna stop searching for them now."

Reyna smiled faintly at Alfreds words. "Your cookies and hot chocolate sound really nice." She admitted, and Alfred chuckled. "I shall have a batch ready within an hour of our arrival at the house." She nodded and the doctor arrived with a wheelchair. Everyone left while Reyna changed out of the cursed hospital gown. She simply threw on new undergarments, a white tank top, black sweatpants, a grey sweatshirt, and blue socks.  Though Leslie did help her put on some of her stuff cuz she's still extremely weak from her injuries, and then she helped her into the wheelchair. Then, they left the hospital.

In the dead of night, three of the bats reunited and not at all caring about the ungodly hour. They just were trying to get to their safe-house villa so they could finally bring home the rest of their family.

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Reyna was discussing all her research and evidence with Brandon, Lucas, Alfred, Selina, and Lucious, when her phone rang. She stopped explaining and looked at the caller ID. It was Wally.

"Hey Wally, Umm how are you?" She asked, and she heard him sigh in relief. 'Where are you? I came to the hospital to visit you, and they said you'd left in the middle of the night. I was worried that something bad happened to you.' He told her, and she sighed. "No, I'm just staying with my family right now. I've always gotten home care, never have really gone to hospitals, don't like them. I'm ok, and I promise I'll text you later Wally. But, I've got to go. My aunt was trying to negotiate living arrangements with me for the near future. I've got to go, before she pops a blood vessel." The lie rolled so easily off her tongue, she'd been saying similar lies for so long. 'Ok, well, stay safe. Please. And I love you.' He said, and Reyna smiled. "I love you to Wally. Bye." Then she hung up, and ignored the sly look Brandon was giving her.

"Babs, if that look isn't off your face in the next ten seconds, I will post the video I have of you running around the Batcave in nothing but your little Batboy themed underwear while hyped up on morphine." She said in a even tone, and Brandon's face morphed into one of horror. "No please! I swear I'll be good!" He begged, and she smirked. "Good, now, can we please get back to finding the rest of this screwed up and traumatized family, that is in every sense of the word but blood, family?!?" She asked, and they all nodded.

"Good." She circled an area on the map of Central City she had just rolled out. "I was searching this area of the city when Timmy was sent to kill me. My guess is that everyone is being held somewhere in this area." She said, and Alfred frowned. "That is quite a lot of city they could be hiding in Mistress Reyna, it could take a while to search it all." He told her, and Reyna smirked.

"It would've, if I hadn't tasked one of dads special satellites to scan the area. And I found a questionably high concentration of heat signatures coming from this area." She said pointing to an abandoned factory are. "Specially the factory shipment room. Which, and I did check the schematics before I was attacked, had access to the exterior as well as numerous inside rooms."

"You really did find them." Brandon breathed, and she nodded. "Yeah, but I'm not gonna be able to do much now that I've lost the use of my legs." She said miserably, before she gasped.

"Selina, I need you to break into Star Labs, and kidnap Timmy. Bring him here, to our little cave below. I can get him out of his coma with the chemicals and antidotes we have down there. Then he can assist you and Lucas in rescuing the others." She said, and Selina shrugged.

"Sounds like fun, I'll be back with sleeping beauty in an hour." She said, then she was gone. Leaving them to sit and wait, and for Reyna to become very nervous.