The Light in Darkness
- Reads 1,160
- Votes 31
- Parts 17
Complete Fri, Dec 25, 20153h 46m
This story about a little girl named Katrina Parkman, who is six years old and lives in an orphanage. Katrina lost her parents a year ago in a car accident. Upon waking up to a three week coma, Katrina was moved to a local orphanage called Little Treasures. There she met two of her orphan roommates, Billy and Sophie, and her caregiver Rosa. Out of the three people, none of them she would call a friend. Her only friend is her stuff teddy bear named Mabel. One day, before the bus arrived to pick up the orphans for school, a report was released telling the citizens of Gotham that another kidnapping and school shooting has occurred. This was the fourth school shooting and kidnapping to take place that month, and still none of the kidnapped children have been found. Sadly though, Katrina will find herself in the middle of another school shooting and will become a victim. The question is, will she survive? Find out more in "The Light in Darkness".
I DO NOT OWN DC COMICS OR ANY OF DC'S CHARACTERS JUST THE CHARACTERS I HAVE CREATED.
All Rights Reserved
#378
orphans
Join the largest storytelling communityGet personalized story recommendations, save your favourites to your library, and comment and vote to grow your community.
You may also like
Soft Things Die Hard
⚠️ Content Warning ⚠️ This story contains themes and scenes that may be distressing or triggering to some readers. Please proceed with care. Major Warnings: Abduction & Captivity: Includes the physical and psychological experience of being held against one's will. Power Imbalance & Manipulation: Central relationships explore toxic dynamics, emotional control, and blurred lines of consent. Psychological Trauma: Depictions of PTSD, dissociation, emotional breakdowns, and past childhood trauma. Sexual Content: Includes erotic scenes that may involve coercive undertones or psychological pressure. Violence & Threats: Verbal, emotional, and implied physical violence. Some scenes may evoke fear, tension, or dread. Self-Harm Ideation & Suicidal Thoughts: Internal monologues and scenes involving despair and psychological collapse. Other Potential Triggers: Gaslighting and unreliable reality Isolation and sensory deprivation Allusions to grooming (non-graphic, referenced in backstory) Moral ambiguity and characters who commit unforgivable acts This story is intended for mature readers (17+) who are comfortable with morally gray characters, psychological tension, and disturbing subject matter. "They all wore masks." Diana is a psychology major, an orphan with too many memories and not enough peace. One night after a party, she vanishes, taken by strangers who live in a house beyond the cemetery, where the doors only lock from the outside. But Diana refuses to break. She learns their patterns, their pain. She disarms them one by one-first with her mind, then with blood. This is not a story about healing. It's a survival story. About what's left after the chains fall off. And the truth? Not all monsters wear masks.Complete![But You Can Call Me Gotham (#JustWriteIt #FreshStart) [COMPLETED]](https://img.wattpad.com/cover/48826730-256-k290830.jpg)
But You Can Call Me Gotham (#JustWriteIt #FreshStart) [COMPLETED]
[rated mature for suicidal themes] "You're different from the others." "What gives you that impression?" "I feel comfortable around you." "Does that make me your friend?" "You may be special, but you can call me Gotham." -- She's a shady little girl, full of surprises. No one knows her real name. But she lets them call her Gotham. -- "I can do things." "Like what?" She stalled. How could she have done this? How could she have lost focus? "I've said too much." "No, you can trust me." "Did you ever hear that curiosity killed the cat?" -- She's a troubled little girl, full of hurt. No one knows what she feels inside. But someone is sucking her into a deep pit, and she doesn't know if she can get out. -- "I'm sorry." "For what?" "This." -- [COMPLETED] TRIGGER WARNING: includes eating disorders, depression, death/suicide.Complete
His Little Flower (18+) (Completed)
*Dark Short Story with triggers including abuse/torture and violence, sexual assault, stalking and home invasion* Someone has been been following me. I never see a face or catch a glance of a shadow but I know somethings not quite right. My life changes forever when I arrive home one day to a nightmare. Just when things seem to be looking up he comes back for me, and this time he wants me for more than just one night. ------ Please note: This is a fictional story. Many, if not the vast majority, of the actions taken by the fictional characters are absolutely not ok in real world, non-fictional settings. This is a dark short story that contains triggers and themes such as kidnapping, graphic sexual assault/ sexual objectification, drugging and abuse/torture. DO NOT continue if you don't enjoy reading that sort of thing in fictional worlds. ------ #1 in: HomeInvasion (January 2024) MatureAudience (January 2024) Heldcaptive (January 2024) Captor (January 2024) #2 in Dark (April 2024) #3 in Force (April 2024) #5 in Force (January 2024) ------ Below are some crisis and help hotlines (US numbers) Suicide, Mental Health Crisis: 988 National Human Trafficking Hotline: 1 888 373 7888 National Domestic Violence Hotline: 1 800 799 7233 Emergency Services: 911Complete
Riddle me this, Riddle me Kat! *Watty Awards 2012 Completed*
Katrina was born and raised in Louisiana until the age of five when her parents were brutally murdered and attempted her death as well. She was taken in by her apparent godfather, Bruce Wayne. Katrina is sixteen and not your average teen. She and her friends have a fascination with the villains of Gotham and she herself is invited to go job shadowing at Arkham Asylum when things go horribly wrong. Bruce and Richard have tried all their lives to keep Katrina happy and keep Batman and Robin a secret from her. Her strange attraction to Gotham's crime worries them and they soon realize they'll have to make a choice that could potentially cause her to hate them forever. Joker and Riddler, along with every other villain in Gotham, take a liking to Katrina when she visits Arkham on that fateful day. Will there be a war between the notorious criminals as to who can keep her as their own?Complete
The Medical School
Bren Halsey has spent her whole life in an orphanage. She blames her miserable existence on her parents-they abandoned her on the orphanage's doorstep as an infant. Her daily routine consists of online classes, taking the trash out, and annoying the hell out of the staff. Now, at age fourteen, life still hasn't improved. Bren plans to move far away from the dreaded place the second she turns eighteen. Until then, life doesn't seem like it could get any worse. Until, that is, she's kidnapped one night while taking the trash out. Bren is taken to a building in her own town, just blocks from the orphanage. The outside says Hancock Avenue Medical Boarding School-the inside says torture prison. Within the building's brick walls are many other children and teens who have also been kidnapped. Bren is subjected to countless painful experiments and hours of slave labor. According to a certain Professor Charleston, the prison leader, prisoners will remain in the building for thirty days before being taken to an unknown location. Escaping is nearly out of the question, as there are guards everywhere and punishments are severe. Bren knows that she has to get out somehow, because the prisoners who are shipped off at the end of the month are never seen again. When Bren learns the prison's true purpose, her worst fear is confirmed: the whole operation is much, much, bigger than just the Medical School.Complete
Caught Up Past, Forgotten Memories|✓
"What do you mean she's gone?" I shouted at Beth who kept crying. "Mom? What does she mean?" I asked with tear filled eyes. "She woke up two days ago and her father demand that they leave this place at once. He's blaming you for her condition Chrissy. And he thinks leaving would be best for us all." ___*___ Somethings are just meant to be left in the past but once it's caught up to you, it will only bring grief, memories and destruction. ___*___ ✓Book One of the GANG WAR series ✓Former known as 'Love Again' ✓Chapters are long-ish and some are short. ✓Republished 8/10/2018 I just hope someone gives it a try. [The first few chapters maybe lame, but believe me, it gets better. Just give it a try.] Cover by: @HermyneKhaling 🐰💞Tiffy💞🐰Complete
Orphan Escape
Fourteen year old Courtney has been living with her abusive parents for far too long, so she runs away and gets put up for adoption. Even after hearing that the orphanage she was put in was a wonderful one, something sure didn't feel right. The caretaker seems off too. But when Courtney and her friends find out what the care taker plans on doing to them, they must work together to escape! DESCAIMER: please note that this horrible stuff Courtney went through never happened to me! This is all just make believe and a made up story. I have a loving family, great friends, and I'm treated very well. So if you guys freaked out, chill lol😂😂😂Complete
Cathleen Josephine Maria Grace
Cathleen was only five when it happened, when her parents died before her eyes. That night started out amazing, she had dinner with them and they went out for ice cream. However, Gotham isn't a place where good things last. When they made it to their car, it exploded, killing her mother instantly, her father rushed to save his daughter, but was gunned down. Little Cathleen could only lay there motionless and watch, whilst slipping into a coma. She slept for a year, but then woke up. The doctors didn't know how to console the traumatized six year old girl, so they let her cry it out. Once she was able to leave the hospital, she was sent to Juvi, because all of Gotham's orphanages where full. She was in Juvi for a year, before taken hostage by Joker. That's when she met Batman, and Red Robin, and Red Hood, And Nightwing. They saved her, they notice that she shouldn't be in Juvi, so they bring her to an orphanage. Cathleen was adopted by Bruce Wayne the following week, now, it's time for her new life to begin. I own story line. Don't be haters!Complete
Fearful and the Fearless- A Jonathan Crane Fan Fiction
Shannon Marks has lived a very traumatic life. After her mother was killed, she suffered from extreme xenophobia and claustrophobia. School was a nightmare with only one redeeming quality- Jonathan Crane. However, the day the genius of her dreams noticed her became her second worse day after her longest lasting foster father was killed, along with many others, by Victor Zsasz. Shannon herself was almost killed, but instead ended up with a forever lame leg and a new life. One as Shannon Gordon. Sadly for Shannon, homeschool does not last forever, and to become a psychologist, she has to attend Gotham University. It's not all that bad, though. Especially not when a familiar face shows up in the classroom... And then again when she gets a job at Arkham Asylum. But when Zsasz escapes once more, intent on finding out if his unfinished victim actually died, will Shannon be able to stay with Jonathan? Will her fears start ruling her life once more? Will she even live?... Or will the one without fear come to her rescue?Complete
The famous guy's daughter *updated*
*this is the updated version of my other story with the same name* Charlotte has been living at the same orphanage in Boston since she was born. She had always been the quiet and shy kid. And she had always been bullied by the same kid from the orphanage, Lucy. Lucy made sure Charlotte's life was miserable, both at school and at the orphanage. She was 12, and her only wish was to get out of there as soon as possible, but she had lost all faith in someone adopting her, because who would want a 12 year old? But somehow, she still has a little bit of hop inside her, will that happen? Will she ever get adopted? And if it happens, who will adopt her? Will one day her life change from one day to another? Follow Charlotte and her new life on this book, and see how does she face the problems that life is going to place in front of her
⚠️ Content Warning ⚠️ This story contains themes and scenes that may be distressing or triggering to some readers. Please proceed with care. Major Warnings: Abduction & Captivity: Includes the physical and psychological experience of being held against one's will. Power Imbalance & Manipulation: Central relationships explore toxic dynamics, emotional control, and blurred lines of consent. Psychological Trauma: Depictions of PTSD, dissociation, emotional breakdowns, and past childhood trauma. Sexual Content: Includes erotic scenes that may involve coercive undertones or psychological pressure. Violence & Threats: Verbal, emotional, and implied physical violence. Some scenes may evoke fear, tension, or dread. Self-Harm Ideation & Suicidal Thoughts: Internal monologues and scenes involving despair and psychological collapse. Other Potential Triggers: Gaslighting and unreliable reality Isolation and sensory deprivation Allusions to grooming (non-graphic, referenced in backstory) Moral ambiguity and characters who commit unforgivable acts This story is intended for mature readers (17+) who are comfortable with morally gray characters, psychological tension, and disturbing subject matter. "They all wore masks." Diana is a psychology major, an orphan with too many memories and not enough peace. One night after a party, she vanishes, taken by strangers who live in a house beyond the cemetery, where the doors only lock from the outside. But Diana refuses to break. She learns their patterns, their pain. She disarms them one by one-first with her mind, then with blood. This is not a story about healing. It's a survival story. About what's left after the chains fall off. And the truth? Not all monsters wear masks.
More detailsContent Guidelines