Chapter 04
Barbara and Dick arrived at the safe house after midnight, Dick unpacked the car while Barbara took the girl to 1 of the rooms, she had just laid her down on the bed when her hand shot up and wrapped around Barbara's throat,
"Who are you?" The girl was far smaller than Barbara, but easily lifted her off the bed.
"Help" Barbara wheezed between gasps for air, jet black eyes stared back with indifference, and her fingers tightened around Barbara's throat, Barbara grasped at the small knife in her belt, she gripped the handle slashing upward at the girl's arm.
Barbara hit the floor and rolled under the bed, there was a thud on the landing of the stairs outside a second later Dick burst through the door, his escrima in hand,
"Barbara" He called out looking around the room, he saw the girl standing, shadowed beside the bed blood dripping from her arm "What happened? Are you ok? Where's Barbara?" Dick asked keeping an eye on the girl, scanning the room again he approached her slowly, and suddenly she pitched forward and landed in a pile on the floor.
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Barbara now stood where the girl had been, her bo staff in hand,
"What the fuck?" Dick asked, looking between her and the girl on the floor, Barbara opened her mouth to answer but a groan from the floor drew their attention back to the child, Dick dropped to his knee to check on her,
"Are you ok?" He asked,
"Careful" Barbara warned.
"Where am I?" The girl asked as she pushed herself onto her elbows weakly "This isn't the lab" Her bright eyes moved quickly around the room,
"No it's not, but you're safe" Dick assured her, her body seized when her eyes returned to Dick they were Jet black again,
"I may be, but you're not," She said with an almost laugh,
"And why is that?" Barbara asked tightening her grip on her staff,
"The name given me is Vav, daughter of Lord Trigon and his Mancipium, my creation was for the sole purpose of terminating your physical and animus plane, to make it fitting for my Lord Trigon" Barbara raised her staff over her head,
"Wait," Dick said, the metal struck Vav's head, returning her to the floor,
"What the shit have you gotten us into?" Barbara asked,
"I have no clue" Dick's eyes were glued to Vav's prone body,
"Either they fucked her up or we're in deep shit" Dick was used to Barbara keeping a level head, she would usually be discerning involving supernatural events due to her studies involving the mystical, but Dick could tell she did not doubt the girl's legitimacy.