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Barbara Gordon ([personal profile] twiceahero) wrote2009-03-08 12:55 pm

One last, not so good, option

Barbara isn't sure how long it's been since she cut her connection with Dinah. She's been on the move since then.

The submarine is filling up fast. As last stands went this one had gone pretty well. Except for that bullet in her leg. That wasn't such a good thing. But she'd definitely cut this one too close. Her primary and secondary exits had been blocked by Blockbuster's goon squad, and her tertiary exit was now under water.

Under water meant swimming. A long and difficult swim. Which would be hard enough for someone with functioning legs. But the sub is filling up fast, and it's that or give up and drown, and Barbara Gordon doesn't know how to give up.

She takes a deep breath and lets it out, then another. Each one stretching her lungs and diaphragm a little further than the last. The fifth one she clamps her teeth down over and dives.

The first part, the part inside the submarine, isn't so bad. She knows how the boat's laid out and there are plenty of handholds to use to pull herself along. But that doesn't mean the trip isn't a long one. By the time she reaches the hatch her lungs have stopped burning and black dots are swimming in front of her eyes.

It takes precious seconds to figure out which way is up. It would only take a few strong kicks to reach the surface, but that's definitely not an option. Babs begins clawing at the water, desperate to get enough purchase to make it those last twenty-five feet.

Progress is slow, and it's getting harder to think, and harder not to give in to the panic her body wants so badly. She loses track of the time, and even of where she is, as the oxygen reaching her brain runs out. Did her hand break the surface? She's not sure, but she is sure that it doesn't matter. She doesn't have the energy to fight any more.

I'm sorry, Dinah and I'll miss you, Dick and I love you, dad and It's not your fault jumble up in her head. It's not how she'd imagined things would end.
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[personal profile] serinusniger 2009-03-08 05:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Dinah has a theory that every one of them, deep down, knows how things will end, and subconsciously engineer things that way.

Ollie, for instance, always always knew he'd go out doing something heroic, something big and important, giving his life in a blaze of glory for the big picture.

Dinah herself is convinced that she's immune to Jokers and Dr. Lights and Cheshires: she knew long before Seattle that her death would be small scale, some maskless punk having the luckiest break of his life.

Oracle never struck her as a girl who'd drown on her own.

The hand has only broken the surface for a second before strong gloved fingers close over the exposed wrist, and she heaves out the body attached.

"Looks like I got here right on time."

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