BLUDHAVEN (Nightwing Fan Fic)

Chapter 17 (EDITED)

~~DICK~~

She saved me? She took the bullet to save me but why did she kiss me? Was it supposed to catch me off guard? I walked towards the wall seeing the bullet soaked with blood which was all over the floor; I took it into a small bag placing it into my belt before walking over to the unconscious man on the floor who was slowly coming too. I grabbed him by his shirt lifting him up until both of our eyes met one another.

"What is Desmond planning?" I asked the man's hand was dripping with blood with Scarlett's ninja star was still stuck in his hand. He began chuckling almost like he wasn't scared or intimidated by me in any way. 

"You think I'll talk to you? You're no Batman. You are just one of his pathetic little brats." He laughed I tightened my grip on his shirt before I pressed on the ninja star into his hand making him yelp in pain and I kept my hard gaze on his face.

"You really want to try my patience? I'll make sure you will never be able to use your hand again. Now talk, what is Desmond planning?" I questioned stabbing my eyes into his eyes seeing the fear beginning to appear slowly.

"Desmond wants her blood..." he started until I heard the sound of a gun went off hitting the man and he gagged on his blood before dying in my grip. I saw a red line slowly creeping up my chest where I threw a smoke pellet making it impossible to see me. I vanished from the scene leaving the man dead on the roof, a sniper must have saw what happened and silenced the man before he could tell me anything. What did he mean that Desmond wanted Scarlett's blood? I quickly made my way to my own cave hoping to analyze the bullet and maybe get some DNA from Scarlett's blood crusted on it. I pulled off my mask removing my uniform placing it onto the mannequin removing the bullet from my belt and walked towards my computer.

"Babs...are you there?" I asked where I took the tweezers from my lab table pulling the bullet from the small bag looking at the bullet. Based on my knowledge on weaponry it was an Intratec TEC DC-9 your typical semi-automatic pistol. The bullet was a 9 millimeter which could travel to about 50 meters with a barrel length of 76 to 127 millimeters. It weighs about 1 kilogram and length of 241 to 317 millimeters, this gun was used by a lot of Desmond's men including a sniper rifle because he had his connections. Between the military and the police I could only imagine what else he had in his possession, I was still trying to wonder why Scarlett saved me maybe because I saved her before.

"Sorry Dick, I was talking to my father. Is everything alright?" she replied where I took a small cotton swab wiping Scarlett's blood from the bullet before placing it into the super computer.

"I have some of Scarlett's blood; I'm sending you the DNA so let me know what you find I was able to get it from a bullet." I exclaimed where I could sense that Barbara was probably thinking I was the one who got shot.

"What happened? Are you alright?" she asked where I could hear the care in her voice but I knew I couldn't think about that right now.

"I came face to face with Scarlett again but she saved my life by taking the bullet into the shoulder from one of Desmond's men. Before another sniper killed him I managed to get only one sentence from him. He told me Desmond wanted Scarlett's blood so whatever is in Scarlett's blood Desmond wants it." I explained where I could hear a muffled voice in the background of my headset it sounded like Bruce and I wasn't in the mood to talk to him. "Look Babs, just send me what you find tomorrow. I'm going to crash goodnight." I turned off the intercom before taking the headset leaving it on the table. I took my cell phone from the table seeing a new text message from Scarlett about an hour ago. 

'Hey Dick, I know it's late but I wanted to say that I'm sorry for rushing off on you I just have been going through a lot the last few months. I know you are trying to be a friend and I'm just pushing you away for that I'm sorry. Maybe I can make it up to you or something? Maybe we can work on the experiment tomorrow and do something afterwards? Let me know before noon tomorrow okay? Good night. –Scarlett' 

Scarlett just gave me an idea and a way to gather any information that I needed in hopes to stop her. I knew it was late but I knew she was awake so she would see it when she got back to her house, I texted Scarlett back.

Hey Scarlett, sorry for the late reply I have been working on other homework. I agree with doing the Experiment tomorrow since it would be just us too. Maybe afterwards we could have dinner at my place around six? I'll see you tomorrow. -Dick' 

I don't know what it was but there was something about that kiss that is warping my mind. Her lips were soft and everything inside of me made it hard to resist her, was it Desmond's serum making her that seductive or was it me?