12:00am – Gotham City Limits
A car quietly slipped through the toll both. The man and woman in the car were both casting wary looks over their shoulder in case they were noticed.
"Hurry up, it's hard to get an appointment with this guy!" The man growled to the woman in the driver's seat.
"Hey chill!" she snapped back silencing the man with blue skin. "We're still an hour early and I don't even know where we're going!" She drove on, her face set in a scowl. One hand was on the wheel and the other holding up her head so she didn't drift off to sleep.
Nothing was said for another hour has they drove deeper into the heart of Gotham. The man brushed his dark hair out of his eyes and let his hand run down his short pony tail. He coughed, clearly uncomfortable in the silence. "Um…I was told you couldn't miss the place, the front's some glitzy club called the Iceberg Lounge." He sat up in his chair and glanced around. "Oh! Oh! Sheego there it is! Over there!" he started pointing wildly at a dazzlingly white building with people staggering out of it, blatantly drunk.
"Oh joy." Sighed Sheego as she swung into the alley behind it and parked the car. "Well come on let's get this thing over with."
1:15am Gotham's Abandoned Bio-Chemistry Labs
The mobile phone on Kat's beside table began to vibrate and exploded into 'I'm a Gummy Bear,' Making Kat bolt up right and dive for the phone.
"No! No! Shut up!" she moaned as the phone continued to sing happily. "You'll wake up everybody!" As she pressed the green button and held it up to her cat like ear. "What?" she growled into the receiver glancing over to the three animals lying asleep in the corner. As she spoke one of them lifted their head, "Little Wolf" she breathed. She quickly barked at him to go back to sleep as a voice began to speak on the other end of the phone.
"Miss Tailer," the voice began in an annoyingly upper class tone.
"What is it Oswald?" He was the last person she wanted calling at 1 am.
"It's imperative you come right away, one of the penguins is acting in the most peculiar manor," he stated quickly.
Kat sighed, "I'll be there soon, give me 15 minutes" she hung up, put the phone down as she rubbed her eyes to wake herself up. She took out her hair bobble and shook her hair into its usual wild state as she mumbled to herself.
"Bloody Oswald waking me up from my first good sleep in months," She cursed him under her breath as she pulled on her signature ripped tights and Doc Martin boots, for you see Kat, like the men she was sharing the labs with, was an insomniac and had went to great lengths the evening before to make sure she and her two friends got a decent night's sleep for once. This included her having to secretly drug Jervis' last cup of tea with sleeping pills and stealing Jonathan's research and locking it away so he couldn't stay up all night and work on it as was his usual occupation.
Kat walked to the other side of the room to grab her long blood stained lab coat and vet kit. As she did so she heard the floor boards creak in the room next to hers.
"Stupid gummy bear ringtone waking up Jonathan." She scowled as she stumbled over to the window and flung it open. As she pulled on her lab coat she heard a small whimper behind her, turning she saw Little Wolf sitting there.
She bent down and patted the wolf cub's head. "Don't worry. Kat will be back soon." She purred softly to him. "You just stay here and behave like a good boy."
Little Wolf barked softly and licked her hands in affection. She kissed the cub's head before standing and throwing her kit bag over her shoulder. "I'll be back soon." She smiled as she stuffed her phone in her torn shorts' pocket. Then she leaped out the window.
Tumbling through the air she landed neatly on the roof top that lay and good couple of metres below her window. She looked back up to Little Wolf's head staring down at her. He tossed his head back and howled to her and she howled back a good bye before she proceeded to run over the rooftops of Gotham to make it to the Iceberg Lounge.