"You were up here for six hours yesterday?" Superman said, double-checking the log sheet.

"I did build the place," Batman did not look up from the paperwork he was filling out. Monitor duty. Sigh.

"You never stay that long. Even for the Christmas parties."

Batman gave him a look. "Because parties are so my thing."

"You didn't even have monitor duty yesterday."

"Do I interrogate you about what you do on your off time?" Bruce asked. Superman thought for a moment and nodded. "Fine. But I do it for important reasons."

"Or sometimes you're just testing me. Or just trying to annoy me."

Batman sighed, got up, and dumped the paperwork in front of Clark. "I'm leaving. Since you're so interested in my affairs, take care of that."

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Okay, technically he wasn't leaving-leaving, just exiting the room, but still. He had a couple hours before the sun went down in Gotham, and he wasn't going to spend it filling out forms. Not when there was a much more enticing option.

"I didn't even know there was a Christmas Party," Angel said, when he opened the door to his room, and found her perched on the desk chair. "Next year I'll have to spike the punch with absinthe or something."

"It's a little creepy that you know what's always happening to me."

She smiled. "I only see it when I'm asleep. It's not like I'm trying."

He leaned down and kissed her lightly and she kissed him back.

"You know…" she said.

"Yes?"

"Both Bekka Haring and Bruce Wayne are attending the Gotham Charity Ball."

Bruce feigned innocence. "So?"

Angel sighed. "I know you're not thick."

"Becks…"

Her green eyes flashed. "Give me one reason why we can't go together."

"It would be toeing the line. And I thought you weren't into the whole spotlight-red carpet thing."

"I'm not--but damn it, Bruce! It would be nice to not have to duck behind a fern every time I wanted to kiss you."

He looked at her. She stared back. "Fine. But this means that Batman and Angel can't start up together."

"That's fine. I can do without being questioned by the Boy Scout."

Batman scoffed. "I don't think he'd do that."

"He did it to Selina Kyle."

"WHAT?!"

A/N: teeheehee