Disclaimer: I don't owe any of the characters here, if I did there would have been no reboot. All belong to their respective creators and DC.


It was the eyes that caught him unawares. Big green eyes looking back at him from the little girl's face. Breath caught on his throat eyes widened ever so softly and a shiver ran down Bruce Wayne's back. Not many could claim to be capable of such a feat. Now that small person was making the Batman himself stutter.

"Mr. Wayne?" he heard what seemed a voice from beyond but turned to face the young woman finally remembering where he was. The local elementary school had scheduled a tour of the aeronautic research facilities. The children had been learning about the Wright brothers and had asked if they could bring them around to see some of the more creative plans they had. Lucius had been very accommodating and had handled it all but for some reason Bruce just felt like seeing the group. And then he had been blindsided by a pair of green eyes. Bruce shook his face a little and turned to the teacher who was now looking at him with some concern.

"I am very sorry, long hours." he said feeling very stupid for such a simple answer but not being able to think of anything better as the green eyes looked away and ran to one of the desks where one of the engineers showed the children a model of the one of their planes. It had been only a second.

"Oh no I am very sorry we interrupted your day. The kids were so excited to come here." she said with a worried smile. Bruce just smiled and nodded softly.

"I am happy to provide..." he trailed a little,turning his face to the children "It's a small group."

"We aim to have small groups, it's better for the children this way. We can concentrate on them better. Specially for new kids,we have a new girl who has been settling in well after a bumpy start."

Bruce looked back to the group. She must of been talking about her. She was looking at the model with wide eyes...same eyes her mother would have when they went to museums. A small hand stretched out and grabbed one of the planes, a stealth model. As the teacher called them to move to the next are he could see the little girl still looking at the model she had grabbed. He could not help but follow her. The little girl looked up at him. Silently she looked down at the plane and back at the man standing over her. Slowly she stretched her hands up offering him the model. Bruce felt himself unable to breath as she looked at him. Bending down to see eye to eye with her he took the model plane. Those green eyes just stared at him. Bruce smiled, trying his best to not do anything to upset anyone.

"You like the planes?" he said moving the small model around. The girl nodded. Bruce could not help but look at her as the detective he was. The eyes were hers...the features where his. He could tell she would be tall like him, but slimmer like her perhaps. He could not hold back from thinking this was the most beautiful little girl he had seen. But at that moment, whether it was his own mind or the teacher calling the little girl's name, he fell down to earth once more from his thoughts. She ran off to join her school group. As she took her place in the line he heard the young woman once more say her her name.

"Helena you have to stay close, come on."

Bruce could feel his heart beat faster. This was not how the plan was supposed to go.


This came out of a "what if" I was discussing with a friend. I don't know long it would be yet and I am making it a few years after where the comics where before the reboot. I am making Helena about five years younger than Damian and here she is about seven. Lets just all agree this story is AU. Some things apply and some things have been changed to fit the story. I hope you enjoy it and well, hopefully a next part will be around soon.