BLUDHAVEN (Nightwing Fan Fic)

Chapter 5 (EDITED)

~~DICK~~

I spent most of the night researching everything that Barbara gave me on Roland Desmond but all I could focus on was Scarlett Lynx. I pulled up every I could find on her, from school records to anything medical or criminal related. The only things I could find was that she goes to Blüdhaven University with a double major in Criminal Justice and Chemistry, I guess she was like her parents with chemistry. So I probably would be able to find her at the campus that is if she goes to class after everything that has happened to her tonight. I learned that she is an expert martial artist, a well-known gymnast and skilled with Parkour. By the way she fought Desmond's men yesterday the way she was able to break the man's jaw with just her fist shows me she can definitely handle herself in a fight. She was also able to slip from my hands easily where most criminals find it near impossible to do. I am starting to wonder if my skills were starting to get rusty or that I just felt bad enough for the girl that I let her escape. Luckily for me I will be able to find her at the University since Bruce had forced me to enroll to finish school, I pulled up her schedule to see that we had two classes together. I did have only two more semesters and I would be able to finish up easily with my transcripts. I looked at my phone to see that I had about two hours before class actually began for me, so I quickly changed out of the uniform into normal clothing placing the suit onto the mannequin. I exited the mini cave, walked into the apartment to grab my school bag along with a quick cup of coffee. I headed out of my apartment making sure that all of the doors were locked up. I moved to my other motorcycle, I slipped on my other helmet that I used for my personal use and started the engine revving it in my hand. My mind had a million thoughts racing past it, I mean I was tired but thanks to the excessive training Bruce gave us when we were younger it helped extended our needs. We could run through a few days on only a few hours of sleep, our metabolism was heightened so everything we consumed burned off fast and everything became advanced. I closed my eyes for a moment seeing Scarlett on that roof again, she was afraid and angry I know she needed my help and with that motivation I reopened my eyes released the brake letting the bike take me to the campus.

"Babs? You there?" I asked into the com inside the helmet which there was some static in my ear and then it cleared up a few seconds later.

  "Dick? Did you receive the files I retrieved?" she replied where I didn't really want her to bring that up of all things.

"I did thank you; There wasn't much to go on almost like Desmond has been paying someone off to keep whatever crimes or whatever projects he has going on in secret. But that isn't what I wanted to say, I just wanted to see how you were." I exclaimed turning down streets when I noticed that there was some silence on the other side of the com which I knew I was about to hear something I really didn't want to hear.

"Dick, I know what you're trying to do. I told you this a thousand times, I am fine and that I wanted you to move on with your life. It would be better off for both of us if we just saw other people for right now, you keep blaming yourself for what happened to me and I refuse to let you fall back down that dark path. I will be alright so just please go finish up your schooling, find another girl and stop Desmond for whatever he is planning." Barbara exclaimed before I could say anything to her the com went off into a dead silence again. There was no use trying to call for Barbara again when I saw that I was at the campus, I pulled into a parking space and killed the engine. I sat up shaking my head taking my helmet into my hands then I pulled it off my head. I quickly fixed my hair to make it less messy as I swung my leg off the bike opening my seat to place my helmet into it. I locked the seat with my keys, I put my keys into the pocket of my leather jacket before heading into the building. The stairs led me to what looked like a Science building, moving through the halls which were filled with many variety of students. Swiftly with my eyes I scanned every female student's face; mostly the ones who looked at me had some type of look whether it was disgust or admiration didn't matter because none of them were Scarlett. After about ten minutes of scanning every girl in the Science building I decided to head into my class in hopes to try again somewhere else. When I walked into the classroom my eyes locked with a familiar pair of blue eyes, they were the same blue eyes that I locked onto last night. It was her; it was the same girl from last night on the roof, she had her face buried deep into a chemistry textbook. She looked like she was speed reading, I noticed the rapid movements of her eyes and the quick movements of flipping through pages. Taking in a deep breath clutching my backpack on my shoulder I moved towards her direction.

"Hello there..." I started watching her eyes snap from the book and up at me, I could see that she definitely didn't sleep last night but who could sleep after what she went through. I watched her place her thumb into the book closing it slightly. "I'm new here...my name is Dick...Dick Grayson." I held out my hand for her to shake, she looked blankly at me then I watched her place the chemistry book down on the table. She turned back to look at me, she took my hand tightly into her grip then began to shake it.

"Nice to meet you Dick...I'm Scarlett...Scarlett Lynx." She smiled after a few seconds of shaking we broke our hands from one another, her grip was definitely impressive.

"Anyone sitting here?" I asked she shook her head no to me as I pulled out the chair sitting down next to her, watching her turn back around to the textbook. While I grabbed my notebook from my bag I found myself looking at Scarlett who didn't seem to notice that I was looking at her. I found her and I knew if it was this easy for me to find her then deep down I knew that Desmond could too.