Swallowing The Spider

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Seeing bother opportunity to mess with Barbara and tease her I quickly slide alongside her before once again wrapping my arm around her shoulder and pulling her close to me and then I began to don a friendly smile upon my face,I get ready to answer Gordon intent on telling him I'm his daughters girlfriend just like I told Detective Bullock downstairs in order to tease Barbara but before I can speak I feel a sharp pain in my side which morphs my friendly smile into an anguished wince, looking down I can see Barbara's deceptively dainty hand grabbing a chunk of my side and squeezing down hard but then I look up at her face and I can see the intense glare she's aiming directly at me though I'm glad that her father can't see her face as I'm pretty sure that he would try to pipe me full of lead.

Even though I stop my words I don't remove my arm from her shoulders for the one simple fact that she was still intensely pinching my side and she's still not letting go so if I try to move away she'll just end up pulling my skin even further and causing me even more pain (I don't care if you have superpowers or not, getting pinched in the side or behind the t.h.i.g.h or behind the upper arm hurts like a f.u.c.kin' bitch and believe me when I say that if you don't have elastic or bulletproof skin then you are not immune to the pain of a pinch) plus I feel like she pinched me because I was going to tell her fathers that I'm her boyfriend and not because I wrapped my arm around her which I'm going to see as a positive so I will just keep my mouth shut and hope she eventually let's go of my poor flesh, seeing that I'm not going to try to talk anymore Barbara loses her glare and let's go of my flesh.

She then walks further to her father which coincidently means that my arm is no longer wrapped around her (no way that she did that on purpose, right) and I can hear the small sigh she lets out of her mouth with my enhanced hearing before she goes to speak. "This is my.. friend Nicholas James and he's here because he has something to tell you, apparently it has to do with some big crime and he has evidence or something." She tells him before she looks to me to continue with the rest and get on with it, I notice now that Gordon has turned his attention fully on to me and is looking at me much more alert than he was before, he throws his cigarette on the floor and stamps it out while he questions me. "Well, what is it kid? Get on with it then."

Gordon practically orders me which I mainly think is because he doesn't want to waste time when other crimes can be solved, instead of answering him though I walk towards the big projection lamp that's in the middle of the roof and I begin to admire it while talking to him. "So this is the famous BatSignal huh, so you just turn this on and he comes running, that how this works?" Now that I'm closer to the BatSignal I can get a better look at it and I notice that it has Super Carbon Arc Filaments to produce a beam 100 times brighter than a normal searchlight, Bullet-proof glass; handground for clarity, an Outer casing of duraluminium covered with bullet-proof glass, aYellow fog filter fir when Gotham isn't cloudy which is almost never, a Batslide so they can remove the bat symbol for whatever reason and a Larger, changeable and more powerful carriage for the battery.

My observation of the BatSignal is interrupted by an irate James Gordon who doesn't look to pleased with my grandstanding but sometimes a plan needs some grandstanding to actually work. "Kid stop wasting my time and tell me what I need to know!" He sounds out angrily but I ignore him once again, I notice that Barbara is standing off to the side just observing but she's ready to get straight into action if she has to. "How long would you say it takes for the Batman to actually get here? He can't always get here super fast can he so how long does it usually take him on a night like this?" I continue which my line of questioning to do with the BatSignal but I can't tell that Gordon is beginning to cross the line from irritated to angry which is a bit worrying but shouldn't really affect my plans.

"Kid.." He growls out in warning but I just look at him stoically and talk to him calmly. "Humour me..." I speak out and for a moment he looks at me blankly before letting out an audible sigh and muttering something about 'troublesome brats' before he eventually decides what he wants to do. "Sometimes it depends on where the guy is but he's usually up to something in the East Ends where most of Gotham's crime takes place, he usually has his weird car with him and a load of his bat themed gadgets and tools so he should be able to get here pretty quick assuming that he sees the symbol in the sky which I'm sure he always keeps an eye out for, on a night like this? I'd say it would take him about 10 minutes to get here, maybe less if he not busting some thugs heads together." Honestly I didn't really need this information as my plan would've happened anyway as I'd already positioned my self in the correct spot but it does give me a proper time frame to talk to the Commissioner and Barbara.

"That's good." I mumble out but it seems that Barbara heard me. "Why is that good?" She questions me to which I reply with my already thought out response. "Because it will give me time to talk to you guys and explain why I'm doing what I'm doing." Gordon let's out a surprised 'what' but it's too late as my hands have already found its way to the lever for the BatSignal and without wasting anytime I pull down on it casting the BatSymbol on the cloudy grey skies above, I look back to them and while Gordon doesn't seem to have reacted I can see that Barbara is tense and has one of her hands behind her back presumably holding on to a Batarang in case she needs to use it. "What the hell did you do that for? Batman doesn't like to have his time wasted when he could be busy stopping crime!" Gordon shouts at me but I don't get to offended at it as I have just fiddled with the man's bat light.

"The criminals I have evidence against and want to have brought down are actually very dangerous and I need the Batman to help me do it." I say as a way of explanation but Gordon is still a bit mad while Barbara continues to stay silent in the background though I do notice that she has put away her Batarang and is no longer tensed. "Why the hell do you need the Batman? I admit that he's good at what he does but his specialty is those lunatics out there who runs around in costumes, the police can still handle the crime in Gotham. Just because the Batman is around now doesn't mean he's replacing us it just means he's supplementing our protection of Gotham's innocents."

While Jim does make a good point I'm afraid that I can't trust the police to handle this and I know that if I get Batman to take over the case the criminals will either be caught by him or they will end up killing themselves while trying to get away from him. "I know that but I'm not just talking about ordinary criminals, I'm talking about a drug and human trafficking ring that has been in operation for at least the last thirteen years and I don't know what that means to you but it means to me that not only have they managed to escape Batman's attention but they also have some friends inside the force that are helping them so the police can't be fully trusted which is why I wanted to bring this to the Batman's attention." I explain to them and while Barbara just narrows her eyes Jim Gordon is clearly shocked to hear that not only has a drug trafficking ring escaped the polices notice for the last thirteen years but they're also a human trafficking ring that has dirty cops looking out for them.

Barbara seems to want to let her dad take the lead but he is still surprised and so I choose to wait for him to snap out of the funk so we can continue our conversation although I feel that I've said everything that had to be said, now I just have to wait till batman shows up. "So this human trafficking ring is selling people? Or are they selling organs?" Barbara questions wanting the answers I provide to the question to snap her dad out of his daze and remind him of what important right now. "I don't know if they sell people or harvest organs but I do know that they are selling human meat to rich people so they can eat it." I tell them which seems to wake up Gordon but even then he still doesn't speak for some reason.

My spider sense doesn't alert me and my enhanced senses hardly pick him up but I notice at that moment that there is someone standing behind my back by the soft breath I can hear behind me, I freeze at the fact that someone has managed to sneak up on me in spite of my superpowers and enhanced sense but I'm startled when I hear his voice and I can feel the cold rage in his stoic voice when he speaks.

"Who is selling human meat..."

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