Marissa Wayne (batdaughter) wrote in dc_nextgen,
@ 2010-12-27 22:07:00

Entry tags:

inactive - marissa wayne, npc - tim drake, plot - "blackest night"

I'm sorry to have to tell you this... (Keith and Tim)
(*takes places after the Songbirds finale*)

She still had Mia's blood on her. She still had on the wrecked remains of her party dress and one of the shoes and she still wasn't sure how much of the rest of the evening had transpired, but one thing stood out crystal clear. Mia was dead. Mia had pushed her out of the way and taken an arrow to the heart. An arrow fired by a madman that Marissa had pledged to stop.

She had failed, but that wasn't the painful part. The painful part was that her failure had ended the life of Keith's sister, of Tim's friend. She was responsible for the death of a woman dear to her boyfriend and her brother.

She had to call them. Keith first. Marissa dialed the number she knew by her very heavy heart.

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	bloodred_robin 2010-12-28 05:02 am UTC (link)
	Red Robin is out on patrol when the call is routed to him. He's just finished beating down a street-gang when he answers. "Long time, no hear, Robin. What's going on?" he asks, firing a line to the nearest building. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	batdaughter 2010-12-28 05:05 am UTC (link)
	"Tim, I need to talk to you." She winced when he called her Robin. Robin was a hero. Robin didn't get friends killed. "Can...can you go off patrol for a bit?" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	bloodred_robin 2010-12-28 05:28 am UTC (link)
	Tim didn't like the sound of that at all. "All right. I'm off now. What's going on?" he asks. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	batdaughter 2010-12-28 05:37 am UTC (link)
	Marissa was quiet for a moment, though the muffled sounds of what might be crying could be heard. When she did speak again, it was with a ragged voice. "Mia's dead. I...it's my fault." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	bloodred_robin 2010-12-29 12:54 am UTC (link)
	Mia...dead? Tim couldn't believe what he was hearing. "Marissa, I need you to slow down and tell me everything." Tim says, his mind working furiously. He needed to see this for himself, to understand what happened before he went any further. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

batdaughter
2010-12-29 01:00 am UTC (link)

Marissa took a deep breath. Retelling things was every inch as painful as living it had been and as the words to what happened moved from her lips she wasn't just on the phone; she was living it again, first in the Narrows going toe-to-toe with the Artist then finally pulling Mia's still-warm lifeless body from the harbor. She felt the chill of it cut into her bones anew.

Nothing was colder than blood.

"It's my fault," she repeated, her voice still ragged and her heart still raw.

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bloodred_robin
2010-12-29 01:05 am UTC (link)

The Artist? It couldn't be. The son of a bitch was in Super-Max. Mia had pulled Tim off the guy herself after she'd saved Tim himself.

And now Mia was dead. If Tim had just killed him when he had the chance, Mia would be alive right now. Marissa wouldn't have been targeted by him.

Yet another person whose blood was on his hands. Cerdian, maybe Jai West, now Mia.

"No, Marissa. This isn't your fault. It's /his/."

It's mine.

"Did you get him, Marissa? Does Keith Queen or her family know?" Tim asks.

God. He was going to have to tell Lian.

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	batdaughter 2010-12-29 01:09 am UTC (link)
	"Gordon's got him in the secure lockup downtown with guards on him. Jane and I took the scumbag out and I may have busted his face more than Batman would prefer but it wasn't enough. I wanted to kill him. I did." She takes a deep breath. "I told Keith." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	bloodred_robin 2010-12-29 02:05 am UTC (link)
	"All right. I'm on my way to Gotham /tonight/. I just need to let a few people know what's going on." Tim says. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	batdaughter 2010-12-29 02:10 am UTC (link)
	"You don't have to come, Tim." But she was glad that he was. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	bloodred_robin 2010-12-29 03:39 am UTC (link)
	"Yes, I do. For you and Mia." Tim says. "I'll be there soon." (Reply to this)(Parent)

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