love and hate part fifteen (by lily! dark night love story gone horribly wrong!)

At the circus,

Anna was wearing a slim black dress with matching gloves to cover her cuts. Her arm was linked to Bruce’s as they walked past the flashing cameras from the press. They took their seats at the back and began to watch the show. About half way through, Harvey two-face walked into the arena. Bruce stood up as did many others, but he looked around and saw two-face had his minions placed all around the exits and on the high platforms.

“Ladies and Gentlemen, please direct your attention here. Tonight, a new act for your amusement, we call massacre under the big top!” he spat into the microphone. Anna stood up and held Bruce’s arm tightly. “Inside this box is two hundred sticks of TNT and in our hand is the detonator. You have three minutes.” He pushed the button and people started screaming. Anna slipped her gloved hand into Bruce’s.

The mayor stood up and shouted “What do you want Harvey?” two-face turned around to face him. “Want mayor? Just one little thing, Batman! Bruised! Broken! Bleeding! In one word: DEAD!” Bruce looked down at Anna who shook her head. Two-faced continued like nothing had happened. “Who do we have assembled before us? Gotham’s finest. Rich, influential, smart. One of you must know who Batman is. Hell odds are one of you is Batman.”

Bruce gave Anna the ‘I’ve-got-to-do-it-face’ and yelled out “I am Batman!” but no one heard him over the screams of terror. Anna pulled him to the stairs. “Batman can’t be here to protect these people, but Bruce Wayne can help in stopping the bomb.” She whispered. Bruce kissed Anna’s cheek and climbed up the ladder and knocked out the guards while circus performers climbed up to the bomb to throw it out the top.

Two-face flipped his coin and it landed on the damaged side. He laughed evilly and pulled out his gun. Several people screamed as he pointed it up at the chain that held up the pole the circus family were using to help their youngest member chuck the bomb outside. He pulled the trigger and three people fell down as if in slow motion to the ground. As they hit the ground, two-face slipped down a trap door and out of the tent.

Anna ran onto the arena to see if any of them were still alive. Everyone gathered around Anna as she checked their pulses, each time she checked, was another fatality. A teenage boy with blonde hair and light blue eyes poked his head through the top screaming “It’s gone!” happily. He looked down and saw his parents and his brother lying dead in the centre. “NO!!!!!!!”

Tears were pouring out of Anna’s eyes for that boy who also was crying. Bruce was watching the boy as well thinking of the time when his parents had died.
The boy slid down a pole and ran up to his family. “Mum! Dad! Hunter!” Bruce walked up to Anna and whispered in her ear. She nodded her head and they walked over to the boy.

Anna kneeled down next to the boy and said “What’s your name sweetie?” he looked up at Anna and instantly fell for her. He stuttered out “Dave Grayson” she smiled sweetly “Well hello Dave, my name is Anna Kyles and this is Bruce Wayne.” She pointed at Bruce who smiled gently at Dave. “We were just wondering if you would like to stay with us.” Dave was entranced by Anna’s beauty; all he could do was nod his head slowly.

Bruce helped Dave up as the police were called in to bag the bodies. Anna walked over to a man selling sodas and bought three cans of coke. She handed Bruce and Dave a can each and opened up the last one for herself and took a dainty sip. Bruce walked over to the mayor and talk to him about looking after Dave for a while and he came back and sat down next to Anna and held her slightly shaking hand.

“Well Dave, if you want to stay with us you are very welcome to.” He pulled out a pen and a business card and wrote their address and phone number on the back and handed it to him. “This is our address and phone number. Come on Anna, let’s go home.” Anna smiled through her tears at Dave whose eyes were red and puffy from crying.

“Bye Dave.” She said softly as she gracefully got up and left with Bruce. Dave looked at the card quietly reading it to himself, thinking about the offer. Maybe I should go, they seemed nice. Especially Anna... he thought to himself.