Gotham

She stood there, at top of the building where they once used to spend time together all those years ago. She stood there as she reminisce all the wonderful memories she had of him ….. of them, As she looked out at the city below her feeling lonely. She wondered how things had come to this. Where did it all go wrong, then she remembered that it all began with one word, one name which Bruce had uttered while he was under the black mercy's influence. That one moment had changed their life and she now stood at the end of that path all alone, without him by her side.

"Batman!" Diana yelled out

She was injured heavily during the fight with Mongul and she then She saw a flash of blue and red fly over her and punch Mongul away from her. it was then Diana noticed the absence of Batman, who had asked her to keep mongul distracted while he tries to release superman from his dream world. She slowly got to her feet wishing the whole time that the dark knight was fine but She had already guessed what had happened when she noticed the absence of Batman beside Superman when he attacked Mongul and she was now more than worried on what that could do to Bruce as She had seen what it had done to Superman as it caused him to get so angry that for a moment she thought that he might kill mongul. When she finally made her way to Batman, she felt her a pain in her heart as she saw the smile on his face. She knew she would be tearing him apart from a dream, a dream that showed him his heart's desire, for a moment she wondered what was he dreaming about as she clutched onto one of the plants tentacles, trying to rip it off of him. She saw his smile falter a bit as she tried hard to rip the plant off him. She called out his name and told him to wake up.

Just as she managed to rip the plant off his chest she heard him speak, half in daze of Black Mercy's effect. She heard him call out to his heart's desire, he said a name. For a moment Diana hoped that he had said her name, but her hope was shattered when he spoke again.

" I ….. love … too ….. Selina" Bruce muttered under the influence of Black Mercy as Diana finally managed to rip the black mercy of his chest and threw it across the room. Diana staggered back, as the revelation of what Bruce said hit her hard. She moved forward and held Batman up who was about to fall down as he was still half dazed.

"Diana?" Batman spoke as if unsure

"Yes Bruce, It's me" she spoke as she looked into his deep blue eyes and asked him what he had seen in his dream. Batman replied her query with silence and in that moment Diana knew that things will never be the same.

And then eight months after this ordeal which made him realize his heart's desire, Diana started to hear rumors about certain Billionaire Playboy and Selina Kyle and she felt her chances to win Bruce slip away. Even then she held on to hope that Bruce just needed a break or that this was all ploy which was a part of some big complicated Batman plan or maybe, she hoped, he was trying to make her jealous which If he was, it worked, but she still didn't say anything.

She refused to believe it was real, him and her. All the times their relationship fell apart, all the times they were on opposite sides of the law, all the times she used him and Diana thought maybe she was still using him or his money. She knew that Bruce didn't really enjoy going to parties and gala's, but he seemed to go to an awful lot of them recently, with Selina and she had different extravagant dress and different priceless jewelry every time. It wasn't until Diana saw the magazine cover later she finally accepted that it is real for him as she saw his smile, the smile which she thought he meant only for her, the full, real smile.

Then a few weeks later they got engaged. Few days after that Clark, Lois, and Diana spent an evening with them, just five friends having fun. She felt pangs of jealousy and guilt and anger creep up on her every time she saw her in his arms. It was only later that evening when Diana and Selina found themselves alone she spoke

"I saw the way you keep looking at him, Princess." Bruce was the only one who ever called her that and She felt a surge of anger rise in her as she spit that word out, no affection like when he used to use it.

"Whatever your intentions are, he's mine, and I won't let any immortal bitch take him from me."

Before Diana could reply Lois joined them and they went back to acting as if nothing happened.

She had taken a break from the league and returned to her home as she couldn't stand the thought of him not being with beside her. She wondered if this is how her mother felt when Hades had chosen Persephone over Hippolyta. She didn't attend their wedding, even though he was one of her two best friends, and she couldn't even bring herself to watch them walk down the aisle

After that, she stayed on Themyscira. She became the Queen and passed down the mantle of wonder woman to Donna. She argued that she couldn't be the queen and wonder woman at the same time, but it really was the heartache from what she had not had and lost. She had even gone on a few dates with other men, but none of them were him.

Occasionally she'd see something about him or their children in the news or on paper or via Donna. Whenever she saw their photos in the paper she would for a moment get lost in the dream and wonder about her life with Bruce and their kids. Perhaps it was their destiny, two mortals with abilities that may surpass some metas to end up together. And now Together with their older siblings and nieces and nephews, they not only cleaned up Gotham, but they formed the core of not only justice league and teen titans but nearly every super hero team in existence.

Few decades later, Superman visited her. She was filled with joy as in her attempt to purge her feeling for Bruce she had also lost contact with her best friend. But Superman had a grim look on his face.

"Hey Diana" Superman spoke

"What happened Kal? …. Is everything okay? .. is he ?" Diana asked as she was not able to control the growing feeling of dread within her.

"He is dying Diana. He has cancer. Doctors said he might not make another week"

Diana's heart broke and but she held back her tears as she imagined her dark knight's demise.

"He said he wanted to see you before …." Superman dint have the courage to finish his sentence. " please try to make it, you owe him atleast that" Superman told her just as he left her all alone one the shore of the beach.

She left Thermyscira to see her dark knight and see him and tell him for one last time. She reached Gotham a day later after Superman's visit. When she arrived at the manor she was ushered inside by Bruce's granddaughter ' Diana. She choked when she heard that Bruce named his granddaughter after her. She entered the room where Bruce lay, she saw Selina sitting by his bedside look up at her and left the room leaving Diana alone with Bruce. Soon enough she found herself standing beside the one who was once known as Batman. Seeing him made her realize how much she missed him and how long it's been. She wished that atleast for once she had fought for him harder.

"Hey Princess" Bruce spoke in a coarse voice as saw her. She felt tears build up behind her eyes when she heard him.

"hey Bruce" she sat beside him and placed her hand on his cheek " how are you feeling?"

" I think Clark would have already told you about that"

Diana bit her lips and nodded.

"Thanks for coming Princess. I dint think you would come"

"Of course I would come, you old fool. I am just sorry I left"

"hehe … hehe (cough) (cough)" Bruce tried to laugh put ended up coughing" who are you calling old, Wonder Woman ….. I missed you .. you know that?"

" I missed you too Bruce" she said as she a tear slipped past her eyes " I missed you a lot …. " She didn't bother to wipe away her eyes and looked at Bruce and whispered almost to herself

Diana felt Bruce's hand reach for hers and squeeze it gently. " I know, Diana. I guess I have always known. I had feeling for you too"

"Then why?" she asked suddenly angry

" You are 5000 years old immortal being and I am a mere mortal who had only few years of his life left" Bruce spoke as he remembered what Hippolyta once told him long ago on Thermyscira. He raised his feeble hands to her cheeks and wiped her tears away. "I never wanted you to be sad because of me. I always wanted you to be happy. But I guess I wanted to say goodbye for one last time"

Diana's tears were flowing freely down her eyes as she realized that if she had just fought harder for him then he would have been by her side. She cried silently as she looked at him and bend down to give a quick kiss on his lips and said

" Goodbye , My Dark Knight"

"Goodbye Princess"

So now she stood here confessing her love and her regret as Bruce had passed away that night in his sleep. And here she was now. An immortal Woman filled with regret and sorrow as she mourned the passing of her one true love. It seemed to her that she had waited for him her entire life only to lose him without ever having him. Then finally she let her feeling out as she cried and wished how she had courage to tell him her feelings in past. Just as she found herself out of tears to cry she heard a sound. A voice calls out to her. She looked around to find the source of this familiar voice but found no one.

Then she heard it again, someone call her name. She froze for a few seconds as she finally recognized the voice. The voice came as an echo from a faraway distance and yet she could discern his concern for her in it. Diana screwed her eyes shut and clasped her ears to block the voice out of her head and she felt something tug at her heart. Diana thought maybe this is how people felt when they lose someone so important to them that they start to hallucinate about them and go crazy, she had heard from Wally that such incident happened often in Man's world.

Despite her efforts, his voice in her head refused to stop as he kept calling out to her.

"Princess ... It's me"

"Princess ... It's me ... I am here ... Please come to me"

Diana shivered as she felt his hand caress her cheek and wipe away her tears and place a kiss on her lips, which caused her eyes to fly open as the kiss felt real enough for her to kiss him back. When she opened her eyes, as expected, she saw him. She saw him in all his glory, donned in his black suit with his cowl pulled back showing his face and the concern in his eyes. Diana struggled for a moment and wondered if her heartache had finally driven her mad. She didn't mind though, if this madness gave her the comfort of Bruce then she would gladly accept it.

"Bruce" she called out. As she tried to move her hands and feel his face and once again she felt an all too familiar tug on her chest. She looked down at it to find Bruce struggling to separate her from some plant that had attached itself to her.

The pant looked all too familiar.

It was Black mercy.