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Marissa Wayne ([info]batdaughter) wrote in [info]dc_nextgen,
@ 2011-05-30 08:50:00


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Entry tags:inactive - marissa wayne, npc - jai west, npc - tim drake

A personal mission (Jai).
Keith wasn't dead.

This knowledge pounded through Marissa's head every second of her waking days, most significantly when she was dealing with Keith's family.  Dinah had made the gesture of inviting Marissa to come out to be with the family for the funeral preparations which meant that she was surrounded at any given moment by someone who should know that Keith was alive.  Dinah was easy to fool; the woman's grief was palpable and she voluntarily kept herself distracted by alternately working on Mia's wedding and the funeral.  Oliver never acknowledged her, which was fine.  Men have their own ways of grieving.  She hadn't had much contact with Mia, either, but that was by design.  Marissa still hadn't forgiven herself for letting Mia die so it was already awkward.  Sin, however, had been harder to shake.  The small woman seemed to be looking right through Marissa at every turn.  Keith was right; she was creepy. Marissa was fairly certain she knew something was wrong, which made Marissa faintly paranoid.  Keith wasn't dead.  She knew it and she really couldn't sit around and do nothing about it.

Left alone in Keith's room, Marissa found one of his old cellphones.  A few moments later she had his contact list and there was a particular number she was looking for.

I need to talk to someone about Keith. Star Tower Hotel restaurant 4pm. -MW

She had been generous with the time, but she knew Jai West was fast so Marissa was already there waiting when she sent the text.



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[info]dareyoutorun
2011-05-31 01:46 am UTC (link)
"No, not happening. I'll help you out because I want to put this guy behind bars once and for all." Jai says.

"You plan on asking help from Batman or anyone else on this? And we need to find Keith one way or the other. His family is going through hell right now. I can't believe he'd do this." Jai says, looking around.

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[info]batdaughter
2011-05-31 01:51 am UTC (link)
"I'm still not certain he is doing this; there are a million variables here. We don't have any way of knowing what Keith has truly been threatened with. I'm not going to get angry with him. He has his motivations."

Marissa took a deep breath.

"I'm not asking anyone else for help. It's either you or it's no one so I'm glad that you're in on this. If this is in fact the Artist, he's dangerous and he's been gunning for my family for awhile." She thinks briefly about Tim. She knows she should call him, but she wants to solve this without his aid. To give him peace.

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[info]dareyoutorun
2011-05-31 02:05 am UTC (link)
"Okay, then we need to take this conversation elsewhere after all. We need to compile what we know and go from there." Jai says.

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[info]batdaughter
2011-05-31 02:06 am UTC (link)
"I know a secure location a few miles from here."

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[info]dareyoutorun
2011-05-31 02:10 am UTC (link)
"All right. Set me up with the location and we'll set up a time to meet." Jai says. "I don't live here in Star City and I've got to keep up appearances back home." he says.

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[info]batdaughter
2011-06-01 02:13 am UTC (link)
"I completely understand. I'll send you a text within the hour with the information. I want to double check things. Right now, we can't be too careful."

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[info]dareyoutorun
2011-06-01 02:15 am UTC (link)
"All right. I'm going to get out of here for right now, but as soon as you've got something, call me and I'll be there." Jai says.

He looks around to make sure no one is watching, and then is gone before Marissa can blink.

Just then, her cell phone rings.

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[info]batdaughter
2011-06-01 02:16 am UTC (link)
That was unexpected. Startled, Marissa answers.

"Marissa speaking."

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[info]bloodred_robin
2011-06-01 11:35 pm UTC (link)
"How's the room at Star Tower?" Tim asks over the line.

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[info]batdaughter
2011-06-01 11:43 pm UTC (link)
It was vaguely disconcerting how he always managed to do that.

"I'm actually staying at the Gardens," she said casually. "How are you?"

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[info]bloodred_robin
2011-06-01 11:53 pm UTC (link)
"I know." Tim says. "Do you /always/ leave your room so messy?" he asks, looking around her room at the Gardens.

"I'm all right. Turns out I need to go to Gotham for a case and I could use some help. You interested?" he asks.

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[info]batdaughter
2011-06-01 11:57 pm UTC (link)
"Do you always break into my room just to point out that I'm a slob?"

She stepped back against the wall of the Towers to attempt some privacy.

"I actually need to go back to Gotham for some information. I could help."

Maybe if she was helping him with something it would serve as a sufficient distraction to keep him from figuring out what she was working on.

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[info]bloodred_robin
2011-06-02 12:37 am UTC (link)
Tim wasn't stupid. He knew Marissa would need the distraction, especially after the news about Keith broke. Granted, Tim was aware there was more to things than met the eye, but he didn't know how much.

"My plane is leaving in two hours. Come get your things so we can go." Tim says.

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[info]batdaughter
2011-06-02 12:41 am UTC (link)
"Be there in ten. Have to do my usual ditch the press routine."

She hung up with Tim then quickly sent Jai a text to let him know she was returning to Gotham to get more information and would be in contact again soon.

Nine minutes later, she was walking into her hotel room.

"You packed me."

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[info]bloodred_robin
2011-06-02 01:00 am UTC (link)
"It helps that you really didn't unpack anything at all." Tim says.

"How's Keith?" Tim asks, testing the waters.

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[info]batdaughter
2011-06-02 10:23 am UTC (link)
Tim's question wasn't "testing the waters;" it was flat out cannonballing right on in. Marissa pretended to do a sweep of the room for missed items and didn't say anything for moment. She had options here. They involved lying or telling Tim what she knew so far. And Tim had a great radar for a lie. He was better than Bruce, really.

"I don't know, short of him having a pulse and being very evasive about telling me what the hell is going on." She turned and looked at her brother. "Keith called me from a pre-paid cell phone a few days ago. He refused to tell me what was going on, but called mostly to tell me he was alive and taking care of something and that he had to do it alone. I caught up with his best friend today and found out that right before his so-called death, Keith received something from the Artist.

"I'm going to be going after the Artist, Tim."

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[info]bloodred_robin
2011-06-03 01:25 am UTC (link)
Tim doesn't say anything for a bit, letting her speak. At her final words, however, Tim takes a deep breath.

"No, Marissa. You aren't." he says calmly.

"He's out of your league. I'm not saying that to be cruel. I'm saying that because I've got toe-to-toe with him and come up short. Twice. He nearly got you a few months ago and he /did/ get Mia.

You and Jai West are going to get yourselves killed if you try this."

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[info]batdaughter
2011-06-03 12:42 pm UTC (link)
"And we may well get killed if we don't try this. Tim, I get that this is personal for you because he killed Giselle, wrecked your life, and has been more or less hunting down the rest of the women you care about. What you don't get is that this is personal for me, too. The shot that killed Mia was meant for me. He stalked me. He killed several young women in my city, on my watch because they resembled me. Now he's taunting my boyfriend. This isn't going to stop, Tim. Not until he's stopped and while I understand and respect that you would like to protect me, truth is I'm not afraid to die and I'm willing to do whatever it takes to stop this maniac."

She looks up at him, her voice calm and her demeanor even.

"You can either help me do this or you can step aside. Stopping me is not an option. This is something that I have to do."

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[info]bloodred_robin
2011-06-04 02:21 am UTC (link)
"I /can/ stop you if I have to, Marissa." Tim says warningly.

"This isn't just a bad idea. This is a terrible idea. If something happens to you, Bruce will be crushed. So will Terry. Everything your mother went through will be for nothing." Tim says.

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[info]batdaughter
2011-06-04 02:37 am UTC (link)
"Every night I suit up and go out into the absolute worst areas of the most dismal and dangerous city on the planet. I get kicked, punched, shot at, and in one notable scuffle, choked. I've broken bones and played hurt for weeks after because the darkness and monstrosity of Gotham's underbelly doesn't give sick days. Something could--and does--happen to me every day. And do you know why I do it? I do it because my mother never backed down. She believed in truth and she believed in a better Gotham, that people deserved to be safe and to have an opportunity to thrive. She didn't back down and she didn't raise me to back down, either.

"The Artist is a monster and he very well may get the best of me, but I can't just back down because it might get me hurt. His victims don't get the luxury of hiding out; their protector shouldn't either. I have to do this. If I don't, I might as well hang up my gear."

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[info]bloodred_robin
2011-06-05 01:25 am UTC (link)
Damn it. She was right. Even if he does tell Bruce, it'll just push her to do this more and she wasn't going to let him talk her down. Well, if /that's/ how things will be, Tim can't let Marissa, and Keith, do this alone.

"We do this my way. You follow my lead. You go off script, I turn you over to Bruce and I make /sure/ you never put on a cape again." Tim says, his eyes boring into hers.

"I'll do the legwork and bring you in when I've got something. In the meantime, you focus on finding Keith." Tim says.

"Let's go, before we're late." Tim says.

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[info]batdaughter
2011-06-05 01:43 am UTC (link)
Blah blah, off script. Sometimes she wondered if Tim had forgotten that they were Batkids, which meant there wasn't a script save for "and the bad guy ends up with broken bones." But she didn't say anything. She simply nodded. This was a victory. She'd savor it later.

"I'm pretty sure you can't be late for your own plane," she commented as she grabbed her suitcase. "Does your alien know you're running off to do something insane?"

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[info]bloodred_robin
2011-06-05 01:46 am UTC (link)
"Her name is J'anna and she'll know tomorrow. I left word with a friend so she'll get the message. I'll call her before I go home and tell her about what's going on." Tim says.

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[info]batdaughter
2011-06-05 02:00 am UTC (link)
"And now I have confirmed your girlfriend's name. Excellent. You really should talk to me more. Sharing is caring." She seemed a little gleeful for a moment before sombering up again.

"So what are we doing? You said you had a case you could use my help on."

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[info]bloodred_robin
2011-06-05 02:06 am UTC (link)
"A little girl who lost her mother needs someone looking out for her. Her mother...was a friend of mine." Tim says. Stephanie had been much more than his friend once, but he couldn't tell Marissa about that. Not now.

He hadn't even really told J'anna about the girls that came before her, except Giselle, and he'd only told her about Giselle when he'd had no other choice in the matter. This with Stephanie were more complicated.

"I need to find this little girl and make sure she's all right. She lives in Gotham, which is why I was going in the first place." he says.

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(no subject) - [info]bloodred_robin, 2011-06-05 02:14 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]batdaughter, 2011-06-05 11:14 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]bloodred_robin, 2011-06-06 12:35 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]batdaughter, 2011-06-06 02:05 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]bloodred_robin, 2011-06-07 11:46 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]batdaughter, 2011-06-08 12:26 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]bloodred_robin, 2011-06-12 02:14 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]batdaughter, 2011-06-12 02:19 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]bloodred_robin, 2011-06-12 02:50 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]batdaughter, 2011-06-12 03:10 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]bloodred_robin, 2011-06-12 08:43 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]batdaughter, 2011-06-12 08:57 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]bloodred_robin, 2011-06-12 11:33 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]batdaughter, 2011-06-12 11:37 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]bloodred_robin, 2011-06-19 09:19 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]batdaughter, 2011-06-19 09:42 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]bloodred_robin, 2011-06-19 10:17 pm UTC
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