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An Unforgiving Anniversary Part 4

Tim Drake's POV

Location: Wayne Manor

We must have been at this for a couple of hours now every single fact had gone through my brain causing a numb feeling to begin appearing in my mind ,

Man I wish that I had thought of a better lie than this,

I hate school when I'm at school now I'm hating school when I'm at home, I bet that whatever Dick and Natasha were doing was a whole lot more exciting than this

"Tim? Tim! Are you paying attention?" Bruce yells at me, oh damn it I drifted off in my own thoughts

"Uh sorry I was just thinking about something" I realize then that I just made a mistake he looks at me suspiciously with his eye brow raised,

I really wasn't very good at this whole distraction thing and it felt wrong lying to Bruce,

Bruce looks like he's about to say something when suddenly the phone begins to ring cutting through the awkward silence

"I'll get it!" I shout probably too loud he knows something is up I will have to think up another lie.

I quickly jump out of my chair nearly falling on my face in the process and I clumsily sprint towards the ringing phone,

I reach the phone only moments before Alfred 

"Its cool Alfred I think I should take this one" I tell him he raises his brow looking at me with the same expression as Bruce.

Alfred knew about our plan but insists that he can't lie to him especially today of all days

"I think I'll make some tea" he says as he walks away pretending he never saw this

"Hello?" I say into the phone but I'm responded with a brief moment of silence

 I question if there is anyone there until a familiar voice travels through the phone

"Is Bruce Wayne there Tim this is an emergency son" it was Lucius Fox Bruce's second in command at Wayne Corp I quickly rack through my brain for a quick lie/excuse,

"No he's away at the moment can I give him a message" there is another long pause as the older man thinks about what I just said 

"He never said well tell him to get to Wayne Towers immediately" phew he bought it

"Ok I will" I hang up and go back to the Library I'm startled when I see Bruce standing right there with his arms crossed as I open the door I almost run into him and I don't like the expression on his face

"What are you hiding Tim?" he asks me I was getting fed up of all this after all I've been suspecting that I'm not the only one who's been hiding secrets I know what I saw earlier in the Bat Cave

"Me hiding stuff I'm not the one making heart eyes at Natasha" I realize that it was a mistake before I even said it but it was true I may be 10 but I'm not stupid.

Bruce's cheeks begin to turn a rosy red I realize that I've never seen Bruce blush before 

<it's actually quite satisfying to see after all Bruce is still human after all>

"You have no idea what you're talking about Tim" he says trying to control the creeping embarrassment on his face

"Yeah whatever are we going to study or not?" I say seriously regretting this whole conversation but it seems that Bruce has forgotten about what he previously asked me I just hope that I can keep this up.

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Natasha's POV

Location: In Jack Ryders Van Racing down the Gotham highway

"Hey it's cramped back here" Dick yells as me, Dick Ryder, Gordon and Bullock are all packed in to the back of the small Gotham insider van, Ryder rolls his eyes

"Give me a break Nightwing I don't even know why half of you are here" he says referring to Police Commissioner Gordon and Harvey Bullock and to be honest I don't even know why the pair of them are here.

I look at Gordon quizzically "My men are busy taking the Ventriloquist and his men to prison but I couldn't ask for better back up than the Black Widow and I needed a ride" Gordon states,

I turn to Harvey Bullock with the same expression on my face, glares at Jack Ryder "I'm here to keep an eye on you creep" he says pointing at Jack Ryder with a angry scowl plastered across his face,

I smirk slightly because he really had no idea about Ryders little secret and I intend to keep it that way

"I'm touched" he says he holds his hand to his heart in a very exaggerated sincere manner I just hope that he's got everything under control.

Jack picks up his reporters note book and joins me at the back of the van Dick scoots down to make room for him, 

"How about an exclusive?" he asks as he holds up the recorder to my face

"No" I reply and push the recorder out of the way,

I didn't enjoy being in the public eye and he was nowhere near the first to ask I'd received requests from The Daily Planet, The Gotham Times, Vogue, Vanity Fair, The Enquirer, The Times and Q that's just to name a few

<And whilst some of it was flattering>

 I was a spy I lived in the shadows, much to Ryders disappointment.

Jack sighs in frustration and then I realized that I hadn't seen him since the incident at the Two Aces casino a while back 

(see chapters 7 and 6)

"How are you doing Jack with you know the 'other guy'?" I ask him the last thing we needed was the Creeper showing up for the party.

Jack lifts up the sleeve on his jacket revealing the small white patch that Batman had given him to keep the Creeper at Bay so he wouldn't end up at Arkham Asylum 

"Don't worry about me Black Widow I've been taking my meds" he tells me but I sense something in his voice that tells me that he actually misses the thrill of being the Creeper,

<I make a mental note that I will have to keep an eye on that>

I spend the rest of the trip deep in thought because I'm still confused to who set up Scarface and what were they after, Scarface doesn't usually accept being second so whoever was behind this had to be a big deal and also had to have the connections to Wayne Corp since at the moment that was my only link to go on.

Suddenly the van comes to a halt pulling me out of my thoughts and causing everyone to clumsily slide to the back of the van and crushing me 

"So sorry" Gordon sincerely apologizes

"It's ok" I reassure the Police commissioner

"We're here" Jacks diver loudly announces,

No kidding.

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Location: Wayne Labs

We step out of the cramped van I squint a the sun glares into my eyes after getting out ofthe darkness of the van, it takes a moment for my eyes to adjust to an eerie quiet car park, no staff and no security

<Something was definitely wrong with this picture>

"Keep your guard up Nightwing" I warn him he nods in response after all we didn't know what we were dealing, 

Bullock and Gordon both draw their guns from their holsters in caution I just hope we don't need to use them.

Bullock and Gordon attempt to kick down the large doors but to no avail,

I try and give them a hand along with Nightwing and Jack but the door simply won't budge and the door strangely felt cold to the touch

"It's no use something is blocking it" Bullock says in defeat and gives up and so do the rest of us something really heavy must be blocking the door.

Then Nightwing has a suggestion "Why don't we try the roof" he was right I notice a glass skylight and an open window 

I step back and shoot a grappling hook to the roof and so dose Nightwing but Gordon stops us before we can climb up to the roof

"I'm calling in for back up Black Widow I don't like this" Gordon says and he was right something was definitely not right and if anyone inside the building is hurt some back up could be useful.

We climb up to the Skylight and look through the open window into the entrance and I'm struck by an extremely cold breeze as I poke my head through the place was abandoned just like the outside car park but what really caught me as peculiar was the large icicles hanging everywhere. 

We cautiously jump down and we are both stunned when we see that the reason that we couldn't open the main doors was because they were frozen solid,

We look at each other we now knew who was behind all of this

"Mr Freeze" Nightwing says

I nod in response only he had the technology to do this but first things first we are able to break the ice surrounding the door with a combination of my widows bites, throwing chairs at it and sheer force until suddenly it gives way, the others enter and are equally surprised at the sheets of ice surrounding the room

"Brr chilly" Jack says as he hugs himself tightly I can almost hear his teeth chattering

"I suggest we split up Bullock you go with Nightwing and search the east side, Gordon you and me can search the west side of the building where the laboratories are" I tell the men who all looked a bit confused at why they were taking orders from a 5'7" Red headed woman well everyone except Nightwing

"I'm not taking orders from you" Bullock yells getting a glare from commissioner Gordon

"Just do it Bullock" Gordon tells him Bullock groans in annoyance

"What about me?" Jack Ryder asks and although technically he was a civilian I really needed to keep an eye on him, I sigh

"Ryder you can come with us" but I can already see that I will live to regret that decision. 

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* I really liked this Chapter I kind of thought that the last one sucked so I will go back and edit it but more importantly I'm publishing this chapter on Christmas day so I hope yo have a great Christmas (or had one depending on when you're reading this) and have a happy 2018*

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