The Black Cat
Disclaimer: I don't own batman beyond or catwoman for that matter I don't really own much just the sad little sorry thoughts in my head and also this story which was written after a little inspiration of Catwoman the movie (which isn't as good as the book) and I think they should have a story category for that one but hey life is life.
I can warn you right now that this is not gonna be one of those ordinary catwoman stories. I wasn't even gonna include Selina in this but maybe she'll come in later we shall see.
This story is kind of a mix between Catwoman and Batman beyond and slowly it will become a Terry and my OC Alex. But the thing is I don't really know a lot of the batman beyond stuff though I did watch a lot of it when it first came out but then it was cut off air and then back on but I didn't know where so I can only remember the basics but I'm going to look into it to try and get everything right but if I screw up then just tell me, much appreciated, though I hate it, I need it to make this a good fic.
And just a warning in this story this catwoman is going to be slightly off stable like in the older movie with penguin and the other guy I can't remember his name playing batman but yeah in that one she was a little unstable and in this one she's going to be very animalistic so just a warning things might get a little wild for some of you in future chapters.
You know the little three stars that means the beginning of something new in a chapter well this is what my three stars is going to be.
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Well that's all yeh's need to know here's what you want, the story.
Oh and the name has nothing to do with Spider man's Black cat I think the name suits this character better anyways though I must admit the spiderman black cat's a kick ass character.
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Chapter 1: Death
She raised the violin up and laid the bottom end softly in the nook of her neck. With her other hand she lifted the bow gracefully over the instrument to set upon the first string.
Then she began to play and it was as if the world fell silent to hear the music she created.
Each note was pure and strong; spun together they held more feeling than most people put together.
The girl herself seemed to be one with the instrument, swaying gently to the melody of the music.
She was so caught up in the raw passion of the piece she didn't hear the school bell ringing until she brought the music to an end with a long but soft E major.
"Shit." She said in a whisper as she fumbled to put her instrument away as quickly as possible. "I'm going to be late."
She grabbed her things into her arms and ran to class not caring if anyone saw her.
"Miss Alexandra Burnet, late again I see, stay after class so we can discuss the reason you're always tardy for my class." Mr. Elwand snapped coldly inspiring a set of 'oooooh's and ouuuu's' from the class. "In the mean time I advise you to take your seat."
Alex felt her face heat up as she took her seat one row from the front.
Mr. Elwand was a middle aged man about in his early forty's with a black slightly balding head of hair and a small mustache barely visible above his top lip. He held himself with in an arrogant way, always looking down his nose at his students.
His biggest joy was making fun of their 'naivitity' as he said it.
If you were brave enough to even suggest that 'naivitity' might not be a word he would kick you out, telling the principal that you were mouthing off. It was mostly the new kids that tried and they suffered the consciences.
She didn't notice the cat outside the window sitting on the maple tree watching her with it's almost golden eyes. It had dark tan fur covering it's body (including it's ears) except for it's head, paws and the tip of it's tail which were black..
As the bell rang Alex gathered her things and made her way slowly to the front of the room where Mr. Elwand sat grading papers. She stood there for a few minutes until Mr. Elwand finally acknowledged her.
"Fifteen tardys Miss Burnet, fifteen tardys in this month alone." He said leaning back in his chair and eyeing her up. "What are your future plans Miss Burnet?"
"uum.. I want to go to veterinary school and-." She said speaking softly and keeping her eyes on the floor.
"Veterinary school!" He exclaimed cutting her off. "Well let me share a secret with you Miss Burnet, tardys are not something colleges will be looking for in applicants. With this kind of lack of punctuality you will be lucky if you can get a job as a waitress."
"I…" But she let her words fade away when she realized she had nothing to say.
"Of course these tardys don't have to go on your record," He said with a thin smile. "They could disappear with out any one having to know."
"I will do what ever it takes to make up the credit Mr. Elwand," She said her voice seemed to be growing in confidence. "I can do any assignments you-."
"Assignments? Who said anything about assignments?" he asked a sneer replacing his thin smile.
That's when she saw the lust in his eyes and became aware of them traveling up and down her body.
He slowly got up.
Fear filled Alex as she realized what she had said, what he had said.
She didn't notice she was backing away until her back hit the corner of a desk.
Her heart seemed to stop and she wanted to scream but her throat seemed to have tightened up choking any sound that might have escaped.
Nothing seemed to be working.
Her brain told her to run, to scream, to kick, to get away, anything to prevent what she knew the teacher wanted.
He was upon her now grabbing a hold of her face and smashing his lips on hers. His hands traveled down her body feeling her up. He pushed her to the wall so now she had no escape. He then deepened the kiss trying to force entry into her mouth. But her mouth was clenched tightly closed and her body had stiffened.
He pulled away from her and smacked her across cheek, but still she refused to move.
Finally he pulled all the way from her and pushed her to the door. "GET OUT!" She struggled to grab her things and rushed to the door as she reached for the handle she flinched as he called out. "If you speak of this to anyone I will make sure you won't even be able to get a job as a waitress. Got IT?"
She nodded quickly and ran out the door.
Alex didn't stop until she reached the school courtyard.
She felt so filthy. How could she have let that happen. It kept on playing over and over again in her mind. She felt his mouth bruising her's his disgusting greedy hands grasping her-.
She blocked it from her mind.
Think of music, think of gran, think of anything that takes your mind away from what happened.
She was so overwhelmed with her thoughts that she bumped straight into some one, she bounced off warm flesh and fell to the ground, the impact made her drop her things and they went flying all over the court yard.
"Hey watch where you're going, ass wipe!" Alex looked up and she could feel the blood rush from her face as she recognized the person that stood before her.
"Oh well look who I found just the person I was looking for." This sneering comment came from one of the biggest bullies in school. Her name was Jennifer but don't let the name fool you she was a huge stocky girl with muscles like an ox. She had multiple piercings up and down her body and usually held an olden day cigarette between her huge fish lips. Coming from her head were twos curled horns (due to splicing) which gave her the devilish look that matched her personality.
"You got my money?" Each month she'd choose some one to pick on, this month it was Alex's turn.
Jennifer was especially fond of the 'loan method' (as the students of Dawson High had named it). One day she'd pay for your lunch then for the rest of the month she'd say you haven't paid her back yet, even if you had paid her the money three times all ready.
If you didn't give her the money she'd beat the living crap out of you.
"I-I haven't got it yet but-."
A crack split the air as Jennifer's hand made contact with Alex's face. But Alex didn't cry out she just took it silently.
"I'm going to be nice today and let you off with that slap but if you don't have it tomorrow..." Jennifer cracked her knuckles loudly leaving the rest of her sentence for Alex's imagination.
She just kept her eyes on the ground and Jennifer swaggered away.
Alex felt her eyes burning, yearning to shed tears, but Alex refused to she just started down the street that led to the trashier part of town were she lived.
She had yet to take notice that the same cat that had been watching her through the classroom window earlier and who had just observed Alex's confrontation, was now following her home.
Alex kept her head low never meeting anyone's eyes. It was easier that way.
As she was two blocks away from her school it started to rain but Alex didn't seem to notice.
She kept on playing out what had happened with Mr. Elwand over and over in her mind. Finally she just stopped thinking, she put all her mind power into memorizing the surroundings before her, not that there was much to see.
The street's were littered with trash and hover cars zipped up and down the back allyways of Dawson.
Alex's mother had killed herself, when Alex's father left her, that was when Alex was three. The police had found Alex five weeks later when one of the neighbors complained about the stench coming from the apartment. The police found a very small three year old who had been living off the food that was in the apartment at the time. The stench had been coming off of the dead body in the locked up bedroom. ( A/n I know, I know, gross right, but I never said things were going to be all cheery and sunshine so if you don't like stop reading now. I for some odd reason always have a bad incident or past in my characters life.)
That's how Alex ended up living with her poor grandmother.
Alex loved her grandma, she was probably the most caring person, Alex knew.
But her grandmother had an off and on illness that didn't leave her very stable, most of the time she didn't even know who Alex was. Alex worked two jobs at night to pay for rent and food. But luckily her very distant father (who refused to come to his own wife's funeral and would have nothing to do with his three year old daughter) sent checks each month and that helped with the bills.
Alex sighed, god, she hated her father, how could anyone leave their three year old daughter like that with her mother dead and no one to help her understand the concept that she wasn't coming back.
She was doing it again thinking, why couldn't she just stop thinking about the past, about the present, about anything.
That's when she noticed the cat it was graceful little thing and beautiful at that, it's fur was dark tan and black but it was it's eyes that caught Alex's attention two perfect golden orbs that held such compassion and intelligence that Alex could mistake them for human eyes if there wasn't a wildness about them, an animal like quality that told Alex this was no clone. (Clones were made with out that animalistic instinct so they were more homely.)
It sat staring at her in the middle of the street.
Stupid cat you're going to get hit. Move! She wanted to scream but she couldn't find her voice, and even if she did she wouldn't want to draw attention to herself in these streets.
She saw the head lights of a hover car racing down the street towards the cat. It just sat there almost unaware of where it was, it just stared at her. Then it gave a piteous like howl.
She couldn't stand it any more, she dropped her things and ran out into the street throwing herself over the cat holding it's warm body to her chest.
Alex waited for what seemed like hours for the impact, the pain that she knew would soon flood her mind, but it never came. She opened her eyes and she saw that she was on the other side of the street watching the car zoom past.
The momentum must have sent her rolling across the street just as the car was about to hit her.
That was luck, pure luck, she thought as she felt the adrenaline slowly start to leave her body.
That's when she looked down at the small cat she held cradled in her arms.
It looked up into her eyes and she felt as if it was searching her soul. Like it was seeing everything.
"Well little one you are a very lucky cat." She said as she tore her gaze from those piercing eyes and crossed the now empty street to retrieve her things.
"Now to get you away from the street." She mumbled to herself.
Alex saw the rundown park in the back of her apartment building and decided that would probably be the safest place to set the cat down, but before she could take a step forward the cat started to struggle from her grasp hissing and scratching almost desperate to get free and Alex happily obliged.
Crazy thing sits in the middle of the street practically asking to get run over and now this?
Alex just rolled her eyes, can't save all of them, especially if you can't even save yourself.
As she was nearing her apartment she heard a voice behind her.
"Hey pretty thang whatchyeh doin in new Joker territory?"
She turned around to find three Jokers coming up behind her, they were one of the largest gangs in Dawson and a lot of other cities nearby.
Her hands tightened around her violin case as she looked them over. The one who had been speaking looked to be the boss, he was rather fat and had sloppy face paint over his ruff unshaven face, he wore a black and red clown suit that was filthy, then she spotted to her amazement and dismay, in the place where his arm would naturally be was a replica made of metal, with a chain saw at the end.
The two others were twins, they had on blue and red costumes that was almost as filthy as their boss's. They were two heads shorter then their boss, but had bulging muscles that didn't look like they belonged on two that short.
The boss eyed her up, like he was eying up a steak. "Why don't yeh come play I'll make you laugh."
It was strange how he could make something like that suggestive.
The other two laughed with their boss. "Yeah come and play beautiful." They said simultaneously.
That's when something inside her snapped. She was not going to be man handled again today by these males. She smashed her violin case with all her strength on top of the boss's head and ran towards her apartment.
Alex slammed the door closed and locked it behind her, but it was a pitiful rusted lock and she heard the Jokers breaking the door open as she reached the second set of stairs.
The stairs that would normally be a short trip for her, now seemed endless. Finally she reached the fourth floor and she struggled to get her keycard out. Then at last she got the door open and closed it quickly behind her.
Alex breathed a deep sigh of relief as she let herself lean against the door.
"Who is that? Who are you? What are you doing in my home!" Her Grandmother shrieked as she came out of the small bathroom.
That was way too cl-.
She jumped as a chain saw, pierced through the door. Alex let out a cry and scrambled away from the door.
She ran to her grandmother and tried to get her away but she was having one of her 'off' days and she struggled trying to escape Alex's grip. That's when the Jokers finally broke through the door.
"Honey we're home!" called the boss Joker.
Grandmother began screaming with all her lung power.
One of the twin Jokers winced in pain and took out a blaster.
Alex tried to get in front of her but she wasn't fast enough. The joker shot her grandma in the chest twice.
"No!" Alex screamed, it was all her fault, but before she could run to her grandma the boss man smashed her into the window it broke into pieces that scattered on the floor and outside. Then He grabbed her by the neck and forced her up against a wall where he started unbuttoning his pants with his one hand. Alex kicked him between the legs.
"BITCH!" He cuffed her around the head. The force of it made her fall to the floor and her ears started ringing.
That's when she saw her only hope a rather long jagged piece of glass.
Alex grasped it in her palm and hid it behind her back, as the man came at her again. This time he started kissing her neck.
With out any thought but to end it, she stabbed him in the back, digging it in as far as she could, he looked up at her in shock and pain. Alex felt warm liquid spurt out on her hand but she didn't care she kept on pressing it farther in, until finally he stopped moving and slumped to the floor.
Her whole body was shacking but not of fear, of hatred that boiled inside of her.
The twins looked at her in unbelievable amazement, but then what happened started to sink in and their faces twisted in angry scowls.
The one with the gun raised it up and took one shot straight through her heart.
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The End …Just kidding
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Warning: Right now it's rated T but I have to bump it up to M next chapter so it won't show on the sight unless you have it on 'all ratings' so be sure to either have it on author alert or check for it with the 'all ratings'. But mostly the M's just for the next chapter the rest of my chapter's are most likely going to be ok falling into the M. I just want to be careful with the ratings and crap.
Well here's my first chapter I hope you liked. If you didn't I don't care. The next chapter is a little gory so don't say I didn't warn you. Terry will come into the story later maybe the fifth or the fourth chapter but I have to give you the transition to the Black Cat. SO Blah! Well I shall be off and she will be slightly insane in my next chapter.
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