BLUDHAVEN (Nightwing Fan Fic)

Chapter 35 (EDITED)

~~DICK~~

Commissioner Gordon arrived with the rest of Gotham's and Blüdhaven's police force; they could see the entire mass of unconscious men on the floor. Jim Gordon was Barbara's father who doesn't know our identities and just believed Barbara was attacked by Joker at random. Bruce was pacing around the limp Desmond; I can't believe that Scarlett killed Desmond even though she promised me that she wouldn't. I mean I see she had only that option since Desmond had his hand inside her chest and was about to rip out her heart. Bruce signaled me to come over while Jim was taking Scarecrow, Harley Quinn and Joker into custody while they tried to figure out what to do about Desmond.

"I convinced Jim to take Scarlett's mother to the city morgue, I'll take care of everything on that but you need to find Scarlett before she skips out of town." He exclaimed where I nodded where he returned to Jim to discuss everything. I decided to slip out of the room to see if I could track down Scarlett but I know right now she was gone. The next morning came fast where I was exhausted after spending my night trying to find Scarlett; she wasn't at her home or at my apartment. I didn't get any phone calls or text messages from her so I hoped to see Scarlett in class today. When I walked into the classroom seeing no sign of Scarlett anywhere, Redhorn wasn't in class and I heard the rumor that he was arrested last night for something. I guess Jim got to Desmond's paid policemen, after ten minutes class started with Professor Wilkins's handed back our project which I completely forgot was due today. He handed me the paper where I guess Scarlett must have typed it up and emailed it to him before the big fight.

"Nice work Mr. Grayson. You and Miss Lynx are an excellent pairing; you two got the highest grade in the class please let her know that." Professor Wilkins replied where I felt my cell phone vibrate and it was Barbara texting me that Scarlett's mother was to be buried today. So after class I rushed home to change into some dress clothes, maybe Scarlett would be there before she tried to skip town. I grabbed some flowers from the store across from the graveyard; I began to walk seeing a young girl with a black dress staring at the newly made grave. I knew Bruce would show up eventually where I felt my phone vibrate again seeing it was a long text from Bruce and Barbara. 

'Dick, Desmond is still alive. His heart only stopped for a minute, whatever that compound Scarlett injected into him was not fatal. Bruce was able to make the Antiserum again, if Scarlett comes back we can inject her to be normal again. Let me know what she thinks.' 

I felt a first sign of relief that Scarlett didn't kill Desmond as I slowly walked up behind her seeing that she didn't notice my presence yet.

"Desmond is still alive." She answered where I was stunned to hear this come from her like she knew the compound wasn't fatal to him. I walked up next to her placing the flowers onto the fresh plot for Scarlett who gave me a slight smile like she was thankful for me coming.

"You knew that the compound wasn't fatal?" I asked where she crossed her arms sighing keeping her eyes locked onto the grave.

"Did you forget I was good with chemistry?" she questioned where I did forget that she was good at chemistry we aced the chemistry experiment.

"Well we did ace the chemistry experiment that I forgot about, thanks for taking care of that. What was the compound anyway?" I exclaimed where she turned to see a limo pull up in the distance knowing it was Bruce Wayne coming to rub it in.

"It was adrenaline mixed with Tetrahydrogestrinone which is an enhanced steroid, it is meant to speed up the process of Blockbuster's steroids to the point where his intelligence levels will diminish severely. He also will become more animal-like like his brother Mark; his memory will be highly affected so he won't remember me thankfully." She explained where Alfred opened the limos car where she knew it was time for her to leave even though she wasn't a murderer. "Tell Bruce thanks for this." She walked away leaving her back to me where Bruce came up watching Scarlett leaving the cemetary behind her.

"So is she leaving?" he asked where I shrugged at him, looking at the grave where it sat next to her father. She had no one left keeping her here anymore, now that Desmond was in prison she didn't have to worry about her safety.