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"Give me one good honest kiss, and I'll be alright."

I woke up in a hospital with blinding lights again causing me to rub my eyes, there was a shuffling sound to the side of me causing me to turn my head.

It was Bruce.

"Bruce? What happened?" I asked, in a raspy voice.

He smiled lightly and held my hand whilst looking me in the eyes, it wasn't good news he was going to tell me.

"You kept your promise, you just ended up losing your way."

Bruce pulled me into a hug and everything hit me at once causing me to hug him back, tears instantly started pouring as I felt horrible for what I did.

That wasn't me to put it simply, Riddler had messed with my head to a point that I couldn't think for myself.

"I'm sorry Bruce, I didn't- I wouldnt-" I sobbed.

Bruce rubbed my back in a comforting way as I continued to sob, I didn't even realise that the TV was on until he let go of me and I turned to see it.

The footage of my costume on that night show it wasn't mine anymore as it had Riddlers markings scribbled all over it, it wasn't even white at that point and was a dark green with an off white spray paint for the markings.

Bruce accepted my apology and told me that my identity was never revealed which was a sigh of relief for me, I was so glad it wasn't but he told me that it wasn't all good news.

The footage was leaked of what Riddler had said to me to make me lose belonging of my mind, the videos of the torture was leaked too which Bruce showed me a small clip of one.

The news were going crazy about it and he told me how Alfred had heard, it made me want to sob even more but Bruce offered me comfort.

After a week or so, the hospital released me from their care.






[Bruce's POV]

I visited Alfred again since Y/Ns release, they never dared to visit due to the shame of what they had done and Alfred didn't blame them but knew they would have to meet again soon.

"Did I ever tell you, what happened the day when they escaped?" Alfred questioned.

I raised an eyebrow as he had never mentioned this before and their rooks have always been at opposite sides of the hospitals to prevent them from seeing eachother, The now old mayor made sure of that and so did others due to the fear of conflict or a negative reaction due to all their trauma resurfacing.

The doctors thought their mind was damaging them enough and Alfred would of hurt more.

Alfred took my silence as a no.

"I saw them, they were following someone and shouted you a few times. They paused when they reached my room, as soon as they saw me they snapped out of it." He explained.

They were shouting me?

My confused expression was visible as Alfre smiled and toon a deep breath to continue his story.

"They didn't look at you as if you were this height, they were seeing you as a child. They hate how they reacted towards their parents death as a kid, they wanted to make it up to you and couldn't let go." Alfred explained.

It was comforting to know that Y/N didn't only care for me after Don's death but it still seemed weird to why Alfred was mentioning this.

"You took them out of a trance, similar to the incident with Ghost. You both wanted to keep your promises so desperately that it was the only thing that could get them back." He explained.

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