{A/N: I own none of 'The Batman' series or anything related to it, I just have my OCs, such as Elena :D thanks for reading and reviews are gladly welcomed :D *}


Elena Noyance stood beside the rail, holding a clip-board in her hand and she was scribbling something down onto it, a frustrated expression on her face for a moment, her blond hair tucked behind her ears and over her shoulders until she flipped her hair back slightly. Then Elena shrugged and turned around only to nearly bump into someone. A lanky person with long black hair stood in front of her, he was taller than her and he had his eyebrows narrowed and he was wearing all green, a question mark placed on his arms and the cane he held in his left hand was shaped the same way, a question mark. She gasped softly, her own breathing trembling as she didn't even look away as she heard a clattering noise on the floor, realizing she had dropped the clip-board but couldn't look away, her gaze only on them at the moment. He then leaned to the side for a moment, leaning against his cane as he looked at her with an amused expression

"We meet again, Elena Noyance." Then he looked to the side for a moment as if trying to remember something then looked back at her as he gasped as if realizing something then "Ah, what a wonderful name that suits you quite well." He leaned away from the cane then. He just smirked as he looked at her. Elena tried taking a step back then, after remembering how to move again, but she just bumped into the rail behind her. There wasn't really anyone around, no Julie this time to come around or Batman to swoop in again, at least not right now.

"Ah, ta, ta." He wiggled a finger in front of her face leaning in for a moment "Where do you think you're going, Elena?" He frowned, narrowing his eyebrows then, his voice soft but had an edge to it "You haven't answered my riddle yet."

"What riddle?" She asked in a whisper, not knowing what else to say at the moment

"This is the riddle, Elena." He chuckled in amusement then

"I don't understand…" But then she wondered if maybe she shouldn't have said anything at all when she saw him frown again

"Of course you don't." He shook his head "You never did."

Elena glanced to the side and then back at this person with the green question marked outfit, someone named the Riddler who was quite well known. She nodded with a soft sigh then dashed to the side only to grunt softly as she felt metal connect harshly with her, and she could feel the coldness of it, the question mark cane that now blocked her way of course. She felt her hair now over her shoulders, already noticing how her once bangs were no longer in front of her face as she had let it grow out with the rest of her hair so she no longer had them. Even in a moment like this, she felt as though she was exposed again but then Elena felt herself being quickly shoved back to where she was a moment before. Her eyes widen slightly, not knowing completely why he was here but she felt that odd tingly feeling again, like when he used to work here too…with her and everyone else that was there, but that wasn't now, that was before he was the Riddler, when he was still Edward Nygma, her almost friend.

She just looked at him, and he quirked an eyebrow at her "Do you know the answer or not?"

"I already told you that I don't understand what you're asking me to answer...I'm sorry."

"No, you're not." The Riddler told her as he shook his head. She heard a noise like a soda being opened up or something then she felt suddenly sleepy, and the coldness of the floor greeted her as she was then asleep, her hair back over her shoulders again. She started to dream then, remembering what had been once upon a time years ago, when she felt calmer, memories that seemed to blur together but were still all so visible in her mind as she drifted asleep.

When she'd look away from him as she was sill in awe of his work, of how he could be so sophisticated, it made her want to know him better but he didn't really seem all that interested, that one moment when she thought he actually was noticing her, he had talked with Elena until she had come in, Julie of course…the one he seemed to be more interested in, aside from his riddles, she knew him better than Elena did, she was his friend when Elena wasn't, but when she'd come in then Elena would go back to her work of course, and the moment would have been just a moment and only that, just like all the other moments she thought she had with him but only to realize they weren't that important really.

She hadn't even been hired by him anyway, Julie had been the one to meet her and then probably mention her, but after a while when she thought she wouldn't be hired then Julie told her with a smile that she had the job, that she'd be working with her and Edward Nygma. Elena had been nervous but she started the week after, and met her new co-workers, aside from Julie of course. She had thought it to be absolutely wonderful, even when Julie went to lunch one day and she had to stay instead with him, with Edward Nygma, it had been their first real conversation then but then Julie was back from lunch, and they went back to work, just like always. He loved riddles and puzzles, they made him so happy and he enjoyed them, at least that's how Elena saw it, but so did Julie, so what did it matter what she thought about it then.

Then she felt something nudging her at her side, it felt like the toe of a shoe gently poking her at first then harder the next, she groaned softly as she opened her eyes, looking up only to see the same person from before looking at her. He quirked an eyebrow then smirked as he walked on over to a chair, sitting down with one leg over the other as he held his question mark cane in his left hand. He nodded then "Get up, Elena. No time to rest now, you have to answer my next riddle."

She slowly started to get up only to slip slightly, but then balanced herself, getting up to her feet as she looked around, the whole room looked to be bright green with question marks and there was the Riddler sitting in a chair that had the back of it shaped like a question mark too. He gestured for her to come towards him but then held a hand up quickly "Ah, ah, not to close, not yet at least." He smirked again as if amused now "I want you to really try this time, okay?"

"Okay." She nodded reluctantly, looking around again until she heard a chuckle

"That's better, Elena." He nodded with a smirk, almost chuckling again