Nadine Lewis
Batman (OC)
435 words
Six-year-old Nadine Lewis stared out the window of the car. The speedometer needle crept higher and higher as her mother stared forward at the road, blinking back tears. She's riding on a horse, even though she's never seen one in real life before, only on the TV. There's no more shouting, no more doors slamming, no ( Read more... )

Nadine Lewis
Batman (OC)
653 words

Marie and Nadine Lewis looked at one another without speaking. Marie watched her daughter's shoulders shake, her lips quiver and barely part. She watched her child - she would always be a little girl to her mother - breathe heavily. Marie knew that look. She was lost and afraid and just trying to make sense of the ( Read more... )

Nadine Lewis
Batman (OC)
674 words

The seven-year-old girl hid under her bed when she heard the front door slam. It was a daybed, the matress easily two feet above the floor. She adjusted the bedskirt to hide her sanctuary and pressed her back against the wall. She squeezed her eyes shut as a man shouted downstairs, and she counted every heavy ( Read more... )

Nadine Lewis
Batman (OC)
312 words
The silver Impala stopped its crawl through the suburban streets, its headlights never on. The engine died when the young woman behind the wheel spotted her target. There was the red mustang convertible and the annoyingly yellow Bug.

She parked on the street, across from the innocent house. She wanted to break every ( Read more... )

Nadine Lewis
Batman (OC)
225 words
We'll do it all
Everything
On our own

"Daddy..."

"Nadine! Marie, it's Nadine!"

"Hi Daddy."

( Nadine, what the Hell's been going on? )

"I told you I don't want those people in my house!" Mother shouted.

"Your house?" Father replied, his voice just as loud.

"I take care of it!"

( I pay the goddamned mortgage on it! )