In statu nascendi (ch.39 up) - sequel to ATTFABH

[beyond_beautiful]

that actually would be kinda cool!!!

[fosforito]

oh really, do you think?

I mean, Alex and Jonathan would never be together in a scene.

They are seperated for 12 years. I´m not sure if the readership would be that interested in that.

Well, girls you can tell me what do you think about this.

A "lost years" story or the third part of the saga? (which I didn´t wwant to write before the next Batman movie comes out..)

[blue-eyed struck]

Again, I love the tie-ins with the movie! What's interesting is that you don't really see Jonathan have any sort of interaction with Ducard, so I'm wondering if you'll put something in your story since he works for him. I sort of like Ducard's character for the mere fact that he's willing to protect Alex from Falcone. Then again, seeing how he reacted at the thought of Falcone touching her, I can't imagine what he would do if he found out about her and Jonathan! Aaaaa! there's so many things that can happen here!

fosforito said:

oh really, do you think?

I mean, Alex and Jonathan would never be together in a scene.

They are seperated for 12 years. I´m not sure if the readership would be that interested in that.

Well, girls you can tell me what do you think about this.

A "lost years" story or the third part of the saga? (which I didn´t wwant to write before the next Batman movie comes out..)

^ How about both! ;D

[fosforito]

flygirl00 said:

What's interesting is that you don't really see Jonathan have any sort of interaction with Ducard, so I'm wondering if you'll put something in your story since he works for him. I sort of like Ducard's character for the mere fact that he's willing to protect Alex from Falcone. Then again, seeing how he reacted at the thought of Falcone touching her, I can't imagine what he would do if he found out about her and Jonathan!

you gave me an idea

I still haven´t thought about a possible encounter between Ducard and Jonathan, so yeah - this could happen.

And yeah, you´re right - in the movie there was NO scene of Ducard and Jonathan together.

Well, I´m not sure if Ducard let Alex go because he wants to protect her from Falcone - we should have in mind, it was him who sended her to Falcone, being a "business gift".

Maybe it´s more to have her to follow Crane to get to know if he´s loyal - or he´s sending her because he´s suspecting something as you said once.

Well, I want to leave it open to your thoughts.

And ugh - I think, if he would find out about Alex and Jon he probably would go mad, doing something terrible or whatever..

... although I´m wondering what would be worse for him:

finding out that his girl is in love with another man or hear from her what a bad lover he is...

flygirl00 said:

^ How about both! ;D

LOL ;D

I think, I should give up making music and studying medicine and just write then, eh?

And also Chris Nolan should hurry up with the next Batman movie ...

[blue-eyed struck]

Maybe it´s more to have her to follow Crane to get to know if he´s loyal - or he´s sending her because he´s suspecting something as you said once.

hmmm.. very suspicious!

finding out that his girl is in love with another man or hear from her what a bad lover he is...

lol! Well, as you said, Jonathan is in another class all together in that department, so I think Ducard finding out he's a bad lover is probably worse!

I think, I should give up making music and studying medicine and just write then, eh?

who needs a medical degree when you can write Crane fictions all day!?

[blue]

Alrighty -- I just read Chap 28 + 29.

I could definitely hear Liam Neeson's voice throughout the whole deal.

It creeped me out. Hahah. I was a bit surprised that he was her ex-lover, but I knew it was him when you said that. Things are going to get complicated

[fosforito]

Okay, here´s chapter 30.

Hope you´ll like it

Chapter 30 (Demons from the past)

Alexandra didn´t know how long she was sitting on her bed, motionless.

After she had kicked against the chair and the table, she had broken down on her bed, crying and sometime, she had fallen asleep in her exhaustion.

It was already dark outside whe she had called Rachel Dawes on her cell-phone to inform her about the upcoming drug shipment on Thursday. Rachel asked, where Alexandra had got this information from and if she would at the docks as well on Thursday but Alexandra didn´t let her talk and ended the phone call abruptly.

Then, Alexandra had opened the package and had deployed its content all over the floor. She had placed her head into her hands, staring at the content of the package, maybe for minutes, maybe for hours.

She had inspected everything of the package, piece by piece and she knew every piece so well and every piece led her back into her past, reminding her of what had happened and with everything Alexandra was looking at, her feelings from the past came back to her
- the love she had felt, the pain she had felt, the rage, the sorrow and the despair.

She could see the pictures of her and Jonathan in front of her inner eye, pictures from happier days, she could see their night in the cabin, she could see the sadness in Jonathan´s eyes when he tried to open the door to her car when she left the German embassy so many years ago. Alexandra could see the pictures of the war in front of her, she could see her father, laying motionless on the street between the ruins after the bomb attack. She saw her mother, laying dead on the floor in the living-room, her eyes wide opened and her body covered with blood everywhere. Alexandra could see her little brother Martin, laying bleeding and trembling in his small bed in the children´s room and she could hear him saying „Jonathan“ in a low and cracked voice. And then she could see the blood running out of his mouth when Alexandra propped his head, crying and yelling for help.

Tears filled Alexandra´s eyes and as much as she tried to fight them – she couldn´t hold them back and Alexandra sobbed aloud when she dug her face in her hands.

She startled when she could hear her cell-phone ringing which was now laying on the floor next to her bed. Alexandra tried to calm down and wiped the tears out off her face, wondering who would call her now.

Was it Falcone? Or maybe Henri? .... or Jonathan?

`Nobody must notice that I have cried whoever it is.´, Alexandra thought when she bended down, grabbed her cell-phone and flipped it open.

„Yes?“, she said in a low voice and she swallowed because she knew that her voice still sounded weak and choked with tears.

„Hello Alex..“

It was Jonathan!

„Oh.. Jon..“, Alexandra started but then her voice died.

It was still difficult for her to talk and she was still trying to suppress her tears.

Jonathan could feel that something was wrong with her.

„Are you okay? I didn´t hear anything from you all the time and I was starting to worry about you.“, Jonathan asked softly.

He wanted to ask her where she had been all the time, he wanted to let her know how many times he had tried to call her during the day.

Alexandra swallowed.

She had seen the number of his office at Arkham on her cell-phone´s display this afternoon. He had tried to call her four of five times but either her cell-phone was switched off or there was no service when she was in the shopping mall.

As much as she was glad to hear his voice now, she couldn´t tell him what happened. She couldn´t tell him of her encounter with Rachel, she couldn´t tell him of her conversation with Henri and less then ever of the package – not yet..

„I´m sorry, Jon..“, she replied and now she realized how tired and faint her voice must sound. „I.. I had switched off the cell-phone and I was sleeping, too..“

She could hear Jonathan sighing.

„Jon?“, Alexandra started and she could feel the tears rising inside her again.

„Yes?“

Suddenly Alexandra realized, how much she was shaking. She didn´t know why but now she was seized with panic. She didn´t know what time it was but she couldn´t and she even didn´t want to stay here tonight – the thought of being alone tortured her too much, being alone in the dark, in her apartment she hated so much.

Alexandra had the feeling as if a thousand eyes would be hided in the walls of her apartment, now staring at her. The eyes of the demons from her past, waiting impatiently that Alexandra would surrender to her exhaustion now so they could take possession of her in the dark night – probably in form of Henri Ducard, who could show up suddenly in the middle of the night and take her without any warning, like he has done so many times before when she was in Tibet, waiting for him.

„I.. I.. can I come to you, to your apartment?“

No, she couldn´t stay here, she didn´t want to stay here, by no means! She would pass the night in a hotel if necessary but by no means she would stay here, even if Jonathan would refuse her request to come home to him.

„Yes.. yes of course, how can you ask me that?“, she could hear Jonathan saying and Alexandra sighed in relief when she could hear his soft voice.

`Oh Alex, don´t you understand yet how much I want you to be here with me?´, flashed through Jonathan´s mind and now he had to think of their phone call after what happened to him in Falcone´s office, how happy he was to finally hear something from her.

Alexandra had called him and he could hear her voice, her soft voice, consoling him so much in that moment. His angel, who was there for him again, who was proctecting him.

And now Jonathan realized how bad Alexandra felt. He didn´t know why but he sensed, it was now on him to be there for her and protect her and now, Jonathan was longing for Alexandra, holding her in his arms, right now. And he wanted it as soon as possible, no matter what he had to do for it.

„Do you want me to pick you up, Alex?“, he asked in a low voice and for a split second he feared that Alexandra would cancel their upcoming trip or she wouldn´t want to see him ever again.

Alexandra shook her head.

„No.. I´ll come to you.. I still need some time to get my stuff ready for tomorrow.“

`Jonathan Crane, you are a fool. She already told you she would come to you and she also said she would go out of Gotham with you tomorrow and for sure she had found your message as well. There´s no need to be worried.´

„Okay...“, Jonathan responded softly. „I´m at home and I´ll wait here for you.“

„Alright, Jon.“

`Come home, Alex.. come home to me. You´re safe here, no one can harm you here.´, Jonathan thought and for a split second he had to think of their night in the cabin, talking about a possible war in Germany and how much he had tried to console Alexandra.

„See you later, Alex..“, she could hear Jonathan saying in a low voice.“Drive carefully...“

„See you later..“, Alexandra whispered, before she folded up her cell-phone with shaking hands.

[blue-eyed struck]

Yes! Update.

what is in that package? When I first read that it was a long box, I immediately thought of a box of roses, but now, seeing how it reminds her of her past.... Gee I hope Henri is not secretly watching her and following Alex to Jonthan's apartment. Because if he is, then all hell will break loose! I felt so sorry for Alex in this chapter. How she thought of all the things that had happened to her and her family. Will she ever ask Jonathan why he did those things?

[fosforito]

well yeah you´re right - it´s a long box but (sadly) it wasn´t a box of roses...


yes, Alex will ask Jon about her family but you can see in the scene that although she has this horrible visions about her family and although she knows that is was Jonathan who did this to her, she wants to be with him though..

[azina]

Oh, very intriguing. You still didn't tell us what was in the box but I'm sure it will be revealed before long. I'm so glad Jon called her and not Henri or Falcone when she was feeling at her worst. Jonathan always seems to know when she is distraught. I really am intrigued what will happen next and how her past will come back to haunt her.

[blue]

Gah I must know what is in that box. What's long and comes in pieces...?

Jon's definitely connected to her, he always helps her feel better when she's down. He's so sweet.

[fosforito]

Thank you girls for your posts.

I mean, Alex was and is still there for Jon but now I´m trying to also show the other side - that Jon is also there for Alex in a way he might not have been for her before, like when they were at school together.

There, Alex was always protecting Jon when he was bullied and now she´s realizing that she needs protection. Actually we really can see her weak side and we know she´s a tough girl but she´s also a human what means she can be weak, too.

It´s bittersweet somehow that it´s Jonathan who is giving her a hold because he´s actually the person who brought her into the situation she is today (it´s kinda domino effect, so to say).

On the other hand we know that both have their issues and maybe they are the only ones who can really help each other to get their wounds healed.

[beyond_beautiful]

Package! Package! WHAT IS IN THE PACKAGE???


*ahem*


uhm ... i need a brain refresher .... why did Jon kill her parents? I can't remember and I really dont want to go searching through chapters and all

[fosforito]

LOL..you beat me, haha ;D

okay: a short summary:

Alex´s was out with her dad and they got into a bomb attack. Her dad was killed.

So Alex´ mom got the message about their deaths (although she wasn´t sure about Alex as her body wasn´t found) and when Jon was in Germany she told him that both died during the attack.

But as we all know it wasn´t really Jon who had killed Alex´mom and his little brother (who´s not dead but crippled) - we knew that it was Scarecrow, manipulating him..

[beyond_beautiful]

Ohhh! Ok! now i get it


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