~~1~~

I scan the rafters. The joker is pulling up something with pullies and laughing hysterically. He gives a signal below. I look to the stage as two men nod then disappear behind the curtain. We wait for the lights to darken then scramble back toward the lobby to change. Alfred quickly texts Oracle then Ivy. "Ivy and Harley are too far away Madam." he says calmly.
I am already grabbing my suit from the back pack nodding. "Good. He's all mine! " I hiss "I don't think so!" Wildcat roars grabbing his costume and staring at me then my belly.
I gulp.
"FINE!" I hiss.
Just as we are about to dress a man approaches us.
He looks Italian and very well dressed.
"Perdon Signorina." he says with a furrowed brow.
I stare at the older man. His face seems oddly familiar. He looks down at me and gasps.
I hear him say words I heard so very long ago. Words in Italian...Words at my mother's funeral...
He calls me butterfly, a butterfly like my mother...
"Carmine ? Carmine Falcone?" I stammer.
"Selina?"
He reaches to me and hugs me tight.
Wildcat coughs breaking the awkward moment. "I have to go!" I scream "What is wrong?" I say to my (FATHER?) "Nothing...I just have to go!"
I turn to the ladies room to throw on my costume as Carmine shouts.
"Let me know if I can help Selina my dear!"
I stop as Wildcat enters the mens room with Alfred.
"Actually..."