Summary: She saw things she didn’t want to see. She knew things she’s be better off not knowing. Now, armed she goes to stand against the criminals in Gotham…too bad Batman isn’t so happy about that. Eventually BruceXOC

Disclaimer: I own nothing from Batman Begins or Missing. (But no main characters from MISSING)

Bruce: 27 Raelyn: 25 Rachel: 27

Prologue

‘Your eyes’

“My name is Raelyn De Angelo. I was a normal person just like you, but thanks to him that changed. I started to see things before they happened. Started to see the dead or missing people and in Gotham city it’s not a good thing to know such things. And in order to tell you my story…I have to tell Gotham’s.”

18 years ago

Music softly played from the recorder player before skipping and squealing harshly. A tall elegant man stopped it chuckling. “Broken…just like them.” He indicated the two mangled bodies of a man and a woman lying on the floor. His piercing red eyes landed on a young seven year old girl who was lying across the room on the floor. Her eyes glaring up at him.

Blood covered her neck pouring from a bite wound and stained her white sweater. She tried to push herself up off the floor, but agonizing pain shot through her. Crying out she fell back down. The man chuckled and made his way towards her. She froze staring at him like a wild animal stuck in a trap. He towered over her form and gently sipped his wine and said, “Do you know why I am letting you live, little Raelyn?”

She didn’t answer.

He laughed kneeling down ignoring the blood that seeped into his fine Italian suit. He stared down at her for a moment before smiling sardonically. “Do you know why?” The question was so soft that for a moment Raelyn doubted that she had heard him. The tone he used was on that you would use for a child when they were scared or hurt to calm them down, but for her it had no effect.

He grasped her chin roughly and forced her to stare into his blood red eyes. “Because…your eyes…so filled with hatred and pain. So much like mine.”

She glared at him.

“You have a damned destiny, Raelyn De Angelo,” he said. “Now, I am going to give you an even more damned destiny.”

Present Day

“Rachel, you going at a snail pace!” Raelyn said to her friend Rachel Dawes.

“It’s snowing! I don’t want to skid off the road,” Rachel said wincing as lightening shot across the sky. “I swear Gotham is the only town that could ever have snow thunder storm.”

“Ha, ha, ha now stop joking and put a lead foot on the gas pedal or I’m going to do it for you,” Raelyn hissed.

“How do you even know that Anderson is here and he has that missing girl?” Rachel asked looking at her friend.

“Just a hunch,” Raelyn answered slowly and her world froze as if everything had stopped. She glanced out the window and saw a young girl her long black hair hanging in her face. Her body was thin and she was only wearing a white dress that was covered it blood. Her face was deadly pale and she lifted her arm pointing to the left.

Then everything was back to normal. Raelyn blinked and saw that the girl was gone. She said to Rachel, “Stop the car.”

“What? One minute you tell me to use the lead foot and the next telling me to stop?” Rachel asked glaring at Raelyn.

“STOP!” Raelyn yelled putting her hand on the dash board. The car jerked to a stop and Rachel’s jaw was wide open with shock.

“How did you do that?” Rachel asked.

“Trade secret,” Raelyn said grimly. She opened the car door in time to hear a scream. Looking back at her friend she said, “Call the police.” Another scream. “Now.”

With that Raelyn dashed from the car and out into the storm. She slipped down the small hill and into the woods. She heard Rachel talk frantically on the phone, but soon she could hear of see the light from the car. Standing in near darkness she only had the short lightening flashes to lead her way.

“HELP!”

Raelyn dashed forward the branches of trees tearing into her arms and legs. She slid to a stop when she saw a campfire. Kneeling she hid behind a bush out of sight. She heard the girl whimpered as Anderson neared her. Leaning over she saw the girl was lying on the ground her legs and arms were bounded together.

“Now, now pretty…I’m not going to hurt you,” he said. The girl relaxed some. “Much.”

The girl whimpered, “Please, no…no!”

“Shut the hell up you-”

BANG!

Raelyn had her gun trained on the man and said, “You shut the hell up!”

The girl began to cry. “Thank God. Thank you.”

“I am no God,” Raelyn replied her eyes never leaving the man who stared at her frightened. The man was breathing heavily and then mustered up enough courage and ran at her.

Once again everything slowed down. She gasped turning around and saw a dark figure looming behind her.

“Who are you?” She asked.

“I have two faces. One is the mask I hide behind. One is the face that I want everyone to fear…the other is what I wear to hide my secret. Can you tell which one is real?”

BANG!

She flinched as the blood splattered across her face. The man slid down letting her arm go and fell to the ground dead.

“Rae!” Rachel screamed.

“I told you to hold your fire!” Gordon said running up. (what’s his first name?)

“Rae, you okay?” Rachel said walking over to her best friend.

“I don’t know,” she said slowly staring at where she saw the dark figure has stood. “But I have a very strange feeling that something is going to be happening soon. Something that’s going to bring Gotham to its knees.”

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