Disclaimer: Don't own Wonder Woman or Batman
A/N: this is a prologue, and I based Batman/ Bruce Wayne off of the recent animated series The Batman because I figured I knew that incarnation of Bruce better than any other and it gave me more room to play with his character and give Diana something unusual to deal with.
Of Bats and Amazons
Night found Washington in an oddly peaceful state. Blue eyes looked at the stars through an apartment window, but the owner's thoughts were a million miles away.
She sighed and closed the curtains; sure, there were hundreds of places she'd like to be going with her birthday coming up, but she hadn't the means to go. So she went to bed, work came early birthday or no birthday.
Steve took a seat at his desk and checked his calendar; he could feel he was forgetting something, but he had no idea what. Then Rover came in.
"Hi Steve" Rover said his voice sounding high and chipper as it always did.
"Good morning Rover, I know I'm forgetting something important today, but what?" Steve said
Diana came into the office.
"Hi Diana, happy birthday" Rover said
"Thank you Rover" Diana smiled "might I ask you, Rover how you knew it was my birthday?"
"Oh, Diana, you should know"
"Ira" she said knowingly, "he gave you that little tidbit, didn't he?"
"Yep" Rover replied
Meanwhile Steve was mentally beating himself up for not remembering Diana's Birthday, of all things for him to forget.
'Ah shit, that's what I forgot… her birthday, I don't even have a gift, and as good as she is, she deserves one.' Steve thought.
"Happy birthday, Diana"
"Thank you Steve" Diana replied and went into her office
Steve's face went more serious once she couldn't see him
"What am I going to get her Rover?" he asked
Rover left the room
"Thanks a lot, Rover" Steve said sarcastically and quickly went to trying to figure out how to get him out of this jam he had put himself in by forgetting Diana's birthday. Soon Steve made up his mind and left the office and told the front that his one appointment was to be redirected to Diana to take care of she knew about the case and probably could handle it better than he could.
Diana sighed as she finished up a bit of paperwork.
"What a way to spend a birthday" she muttered
"Well, well, why would a lovely young woman work on her birthday?" a man asked
Diana looked up to find a strange man the doorway of her office. He was tall, well built, wearing a business suite but for one reason or another he wasn't wearing a tie.
"You must be lost" she said
"No, you are Diana Prince, are you not, I was told to come directly here." He said
"Yes, I am, and you are?"
"I'm Bruce Wayne, I was supposed to meet with Steve Trevor, but he had to step out for some reason, so they told me to talk to you" the man said apparently slightly nervous, but Diana figured it was a façade.
End Prologue
To Be Continued…