Chapter 95 - [AT] Waiting in an Alleyway...

[After Transition]

I'm continuity topping the steering wheel while waiting silently for something to happen, we're currently sat inside my BMW rental that's parked just inside an alleyway that's connected to a main road and we're waiting for the white van to eventually pass so we can follow them but it's taken for ever and I'm getting impatient and I'm showing my impatience by continually tapping the steering wheel with my fingers as I wait but it seems like my coping mechanism is annoying someone else in the car. "Can you stop that tapping already, it's getting annoying now?" Barbara says while rubbing her forehead but I just ignore her words in favour of asking my own question. "Where the hell are they? Are you sure that they'll be coming through this way? What if we've lost them? What the hell are we gonna do?" I start word vomiting all my worries that have been brewing inside me for the long a.s.s time that we've been waiting in this alleyway just watching the cars go by and the immeasurable worry I get when I see that it isn't the white van that I'm waiting for, I can't help but worry that we've missed them and those kids are gonna get butchered as I sure as hell cant remember the factory I was taken to and I don't even know if they're even taking those kids to the same place.

Barbara sighs. "Can you just relax, we've only been waiting here a few minutes and we definitely got to this place before the white van so don't worry, we will definitely spot them soon." She says but that doesn't reassure me at all (it's only been a few minutes?), they might not even be going this way as there's never a one hundred percent guarantee for anything in reality, nothing is assured and more often than not things will go the worst possible way, I think there's some kind of law about that actually and I think it begins with an M or something. "But how can you be sure that they'll come this way? They might've taken a turn or something and we will have completely lost them, what then?" I question but she shakes her head appearing to be sure that her answer is correct and I can't help but dislike her for being so self assured that she's right but that's only because I'm very worried about those kids having the same kind of thing that happened to me happen to them and every second I sit here doing nothing is a second that takes them close to their doom. "Trust me, there's nowhere this road really leads to so they must be coming down here, so just wait, okay?" Barbara tries to reassure me to which I do not reply and try to stop the conversation there being too worried to have a chat right now.

Barbara still seems to want to have a conversation though and I don't think there is anything I can do to stop the inevitable. "While we're waiting you can answer some of my questions, to at least stop your stressing for a little bit at least." I just sigh in resignation before giving a resigned nod. "Ask way then." I say but I still don't take my eyes off of the road in front of us making sure to keep my eyes peeled for the white van as well as making a nite if any if the vehicles that pass with enough storage space for the two crap bags and the three kids in case they changed vehicle. "First of all, why did you leave the coffee shop in such a rush and why are we following this White van?" She questions and not wanting this conversation to be too drawn out I strive to answer her as quickly and concisely as I can do I can put my all into watching the road though I still don't take my eyes of the road for even a second too afraid that the van will pass without me noticing. "When I was in that coffee shop and the waitress spilled that hot coffee on me I somehow caught myself staring out of the coffee shop window and I saw that White van further down the street and I saw both the Matron and that drug dealer getting into it and not only th-" I'm just getting started when Barbara interrupts my dialogue with her own observation.

"Nick, you shouldn't be following those two, I know they hurt you deeply when you were younger but remember that you brought this situation to police attention because you didn't want to stoop to those two's level and you knew that you would do that if you had any deeper involvement with their arrest or anything to do with them, we should be leaving this to the proper people while keeping our distance so they can do their jobs. Leave this to the police and more importantly the Batman, let me call my dad and tell him okay." She says already reaching into her handbag/purse to get her phone but I tell her the whole situation before she can get her phone out. "I wouldn't have followed them if it was just them Barbara, I saw the matron leading three kids into the back of the van, okay!?" I finish shouting which I didn't actually intend to do but somehow ended up doing. "Three kids..?" She questions to which I nod. "That's right and I could tell immediately what was happening, these three kids went wearing clothes that were too ratty and I could tell that they were more filled out than any kid living at that orphanage has any right to be without some special treatment and I know that the only special treatment offered at that orphanage is reserved for this desperate kids who are willing to be drug mules." I finish to which Barbara suddenly gets really quite not even bothering to continue to search for her phone in her handbag.

"The- they're going to go and do to those kids what they tried to do to you when they were ten?" She stutters out no longer so assured that her decision to wait here was correct knowing that lives are on the line, the lives of three young boys and so I nod my head to tell her that her conclusion is right. "They're going to go and kill those boys in probably one of the the worst ways that anybody could die." I affirm her conclusion to which she looks very concerned but also confused. "But why? They should've stopped all illegal activity once they learned that Bruce Wayne was interested in the orphanage and they shouldn't have risked doing anything illegal with so much public attention, it's not the way that the Falcone Mob act as they'd let things die down when it gets too hot without committing any crimes even crimes as small as jaywalking. It just doesn't make sense." She says seeming to be in denial that her actions (even if it is loosely connected to her as I'm sure that Batman is the one who made the decision) could have resulted in three young lives being endangered, but I'm here to widen her eyes to the truth disregarding MO's and patterns with cold truth. "I don't know how the Falcone mob works, acts or reacts but what I do know is that orphanage and those two pieces of shit, as well as that van. I can't forget that van as it was part of the worst day of my life so you can be sure when I say that 'those boys are in danger' that those boys are in mortal danger."

She nods her head and begins to rifle through her bag looking for her phone again. "I'll call my dad and let him know so he can bring the police and hopefully he'll contact Batman if he doesn't already know about the situation." She says that but I bet that she gonna somehow notify Batman through her phone while in the process of getting in contact with her father but I can't wait for that as I've already waited long enough and so I put the car into to gear and put the pedal to the metal boosting out of the alleyway and turning to go down the street that the white van should be coming from. "What the hell are you doing? We should be waiting here for the van to come!" She looks up from her bag startled when I suddenly started driving but I don't stop driving for even a second. "I've already waited too long and this is a two way road so I'm gonna head down it until I see the white van and once I see that I can spin around and start following it, I've already wasted too much time with my inaction." I continue to speed down the street serving through traffic while Barbara seems to have become resigned to my actions and continues her search for her phone.

"I've found it, let me just call my dad." Barbara exclaims and when I look over she's already typing away into her phone presumably calling he father as well as notifying the Bat. I just home they get here before I do anything I regret...

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