Bruce just wanted to get out of the GCPD as soon as possible once he picked up Rachel so they could make it to the reservations they had at eight.
He was twenty one which meant he was able to drink and not feel bad about doing something wrong but every time he did a bad memory would come back.
A memory of a fight he had when he was drunk a fight he had with the one and only Selina Kyle. They had sex latter on that same night but the things he said to her stuck he could tell she would always remember it.
Cause not only two months later she brought it up in a fight that they had. To quote the comment. "Man calm down Selina don't be a whiny bitch like your mother"
He regretted it the instant he said it too he knew he fucked up.
"Hey" a female voice brings Bruce out of his thoughts to see his girlfriend Rachel who he was planning to ask to marry him later on tonight. "Hey ready to go?" Bruce asks taking her purse and coat from her arms. "Yep"
Before they could walk out the door he hears a familiar voice. "Bruce?" He turns around to find Lee Thompson with a small child in her hand. "Dr.Thompson how have you been?" Bruce says before giving her a warm hug.
"I've been good, you?"
"Good, I didn't know you had another child?"
"Oh this ones not mine just watching her for a friend" Lee says uneasy
"Oh I forgot my wallet I'll be right back" Rachel says before heading to her office
"Sorry I'm late,work was a bitch" a familiar voice comes up from behind Bruce.
"Oh it's fine we had fun didn't we" Lee says in a baby voice before kissing the young girls head.
As the woman comes closer and takes the child off lee's hip and onto her own. "well I have to get going but call me if you need me again tomorrow I honestly don't mind." Lee says smiling at the clueless child.
"Will do"
"Bye"
"Bye"
She turns around to come face to face with the boy well man she hasn't talk to in three years.
"Selina" he was all he was able to say still trying to wrap his head around what was happening.
Was Selina a mother? Nah.
He looked closer at the child with the same blue eyes he has but Selina's curls. Could it be?
"Bruce"
"Hey,how have you been" she says a bit nervous.
"Been good you lo-look different" he stutters at the end.
"Yeah well a different snot a bad thing sometimes" she says with a bit of hurt in her voice.
"Hi" Rachel comes up from behind Bruce.
"Hi" Selina says with a fake smile.
"Selina this is Rachel, my girlfriend" Bruce says still keeping his eyes on the child. Selina notices this.
"Nice to meet you I'd love to stay and chat but I have to feed and put this little one to bed,so see ya" she says walking away.
"Did you have a good day with aunt lee" Bruce hears Selina in the distance before she kisses the child's head.
It turns out Bruce didn't purpose,his mind was set on Selina and the child that had the same eyes as himself,but he needed answers and he needed them now.
Selina lays her sleeping daughters body carefully on her bed before shutting their bedroom door slowly and quietly before retreating to the living room to clean up.
She feels his presence behind her on the balcony as she puts the pillows back on the couch.
"I was wandering when you would show up" she's says putting the last pillow on the couch.
"Just give it to me straight Selina" he demands with a bit of anger in his voice but this doesn't bother her.
Bruce and Selina have fought some times it was a little argument but it could also be a blown out yelling match, they were either fighting,avoiding each,having sex or sometimes being nice and on the same page about something.
So the anger doesn't bother her that much anymore.
"She is" was all she said before turning around focusing on Bruce on the balcony as the moonlight shines through Gotham.
"We're you gonna tell me?" He says this time with a little bit more anger in his voice.
"I was...but then I decided not to" she says crossing her arms over her chest.
"Not to?"
"In all honesty when I found out I was pregnant I didn't know what to do, I didn't want to have a baby I didn't want to be a mom so I just didn't tell you"
"What changed?"
"I don't know I just couldn't go through with it. I decided to leave Gotham with Lee she offered.
Lee was the only one who knew since I couldn't deal with Barbra and Tabitha died I had no one else."
"You had me!" Bruce raised his voice a bit
"Did I though cause last time I checked you thought I was a whiney bitch like my mother"
Those words brought a frown to Bruce's face.
"Look we've been fine without you we don't-"
"But I want to be apart of my daughters-"
"Helena"
"I want to be apart of Helena's life" Bruce says walking closer to her.
"If your in Helena's life" she took a deep breath before letting out the rest.
"You can't be Batman" this made Bruce's eyes widen.
"I don't know what your talking about-"
"Oh come on bruce I've known you for almost ten years and trying to lie to me proves that your not cut out for this" she says starting to turn around before Bruce gently grabbed her wrist
"Come on selina lets talk about this-"
"NO!" She yelled snatching her wrist away.
"I don't think you understand when I had her I had to make sure everything from my past was cut off so no harm could come to her, I got a job,an apartment, I made sure Barbra or her thugs had nothing to do with me anymore, and you and I both know that being Batman comes with a lot of enemies, enemies that will try to use what ever and whoever they can to hurt you. HELENA WILL NOT BE ONE OF THOSE PEOPLE" she yells towards the end before she hears a door open.
They both turn their heads to find the child with blue eyes and curly hair that goes down to her waist rubbing her eyes. "Mommy" she says with her tired voice.
"Hey munchkin" she says picking her daughter up placing her on her hip. For a second Bruce thought she would let her meet him but that changed as she started walking back to the bedroom before turning to him.
"I trust you can find your way out"
"Who was that"
"Oh just a friend of mommy's"
He hears their voices before jumping off the balcony.
That night selina thought a lot as she stared at her sleeping daughter. She wasn't gonna change her mind about the Batman issue on but she really hoped Bruce did.
Bruce wakes up instantly as he feels the cold water hit him he looks up to see Alfred with a bucket.
"Alfred What the hell!"
"Terribly sorry master Bruce but I called you at least eight time and you just didn't wake so I got a bucket of water just to see if your still alive"
"Ever hear of checking my pulse"
"Of course but this seemed more fun"
Bruce groaned as he sat up off his bed
"What seems to be on your mind master b?"
"How do you know something's on my mind"
"Well when you got home you went straight to bed and it took forever to wake you up, did Rachel say no?"
"I didn't propose"
"What?"
"I ran into Selina"
"Oh how is the little minx doing"
"Good,she has a little minx of her own" Bruce says rubbing his hands on his face.
"Really, I never would of guessed ms.Kyle as the mothering type"
"Yeah neither did I"
"How old?"
"Three"
Alfred stoped in his tracks and turns to Bruce
"three?"
Bruce stayed silent while avoiding eye contact.
"Oh I see,did you make sure?"
"Yeah,she told me that she wants me to give up being Batman if I wanted to be in her life"
"Her?"
"Helena her name is Helena."
"How does she know-"
"Because she's Selina,she knows everything"
"I see, well I guess you have a decision to make here"
"How can I make it though, the people of Gotham they...they need need me, but my daughter she needs me"
Selina's boots walk on the cold wet ground of the Gotham streets on the way to work after dropping off her daughter. She suddenly stops in her tracks as a smirk comes across her lips.
"You should really work on trying not to be notice" she says sliding her hands in her long black dress like coat pockets.
"I usually don't have a problem with it,it's just you"
"Oh don't make me feel special" she smiles as she turns around to see him in a black button down and jeans and his own black coat.
"Your hair, it looks nice up"
"What's the real reason why-"
"I'll give it up"
"What?"
He walks up to her in a rather fast motion.
"I'll give up batman if it meant I can have a life with my daughter...and you"
Selina was shocked and puzzled.
"What about Rachel?"
"Well when I told her about Helena it didn't really go so well"
"Oh I'm sorry"
"No your not" he says with a smile
"Yeah your right I'm not"
Selina took a deep breath.
"Okay,But Bruce you have to know that this is about Helena,us, we can work on us later"
"Deal"
