Revelation
The league was quite surprised as Batman's butler lead them to the master bedroom. They were even more surprised to find Bruce on the bed all stitched up and bandaged. But the biggest surprise was the extremely attractive lady laying next to him wearing only one of Bruce's dress shirts. Clark immediately noticed one of catwoman's claws on the nightstand. The leaguers knew from their files that this lady was indeed Selina Kyle aka Catwoman.
After a awkward moment of staring back and forth Superman finally cleared the air by speaking.
"I was hoping that we could speak alone" Superman said subtly hinting at Selina's presence.
"There is no way in hell I leave him alone with you people." Selina said sweetly.
Superman looked at the others for support and just as Wonder Woman was about to speak she was cut off.
"I would keep my mouth shut if I was you." Selina said and looked Wonder Woman in the eye with pure hatred pouring from her.
"Selina will stay." Bruce said with his usual commanding voice.
"I have nothing to hide from her." Bruce said while glancing at Selina.
"Trust me, it's easier this way." Bruce said and as usual the league didn't argue and obliged.
"Now get to the point." Bruce said with authority pouring from his words.
Selina found herself enjoying this moment. She thought it was ever so delicious that the Justice League, a group of basically gods took orders from Batman. From her Batman. She could tell that they feared him, just like so many others. But she didn't. No, she was not afraid of him. In fact she might have been attracted to the things that others feared about him. In that moment Selina might have been a tiny bit aroused by the sheer power and strength off will her man was projecting. She was nearly too distracted to pick up the conversation when it started again.
"Bruce we came here to see how you were doing and to apologize of course." Superman said.
"You were under mind control Clark. None of you were responsible for your actions. There is no need to apologize." Bruce said.
"And I'm doing fairly well considering the situation. Alfred says I can return to work in a week or so." Bruce said.
"No, Alfred said you could return to work in two to three weeks with greatly reduced schedule. It will take months until you'll be healed properly." Selina said suddenly with sternness that could rival batman.
"Yes, but…" Bruce tried to say but was interrupted by Selina.
"No buts! You will take at least two weeks to heal and let Nightwing cover for you. And after that you will take it easy and let the little birdies handle the more taxing cases! They are old enough and I'm pretty sure you have trained them quite well. Oh! And I will make sure that you actually go through with this by keeping my eyes on you for the time being! You got that, handsome?" Selina said with overwhelming confidence and authority that it almost but batman to shame.
Bruce stared into Selina's green eyes for a what seemed to the others in the room like hours but only lasting for a couple seconds until he finally opened his mouth.
"Fine"
The entire league stared at Bruce with their mouths open. They had never seen batman taking orders from anyone let alone agreeing to anyone's terms. In this very moment every member of the league started to respect this cat burglar a great deal more. And now member who had the least experience with catwoman now understood why somebody (most likely Barry) had jokingly added the "power to control and manipulate the batman" as a superpower on Catwoman's file.
"Wow! I never would have thought i would live to see the day when batman starts taking orders from a known criminal. Man you are whipped!" Flash laughed unable to keep his mouth shut any longer.
Bruce shot him a glare and just as he was about to say something he was interrupted again by Selina.
"Excuse me?! I did not just hear that!" Selina said clearly angry and the flash was quick to realise he had done something to wake the wildcat.
"While i like that he takes some orders from me, I prefer that stuff in the bedroom...or to the rooftops were we have been fuc…"
"Perhaps we don't need to know everything about your...your...activities together , catwoman" Wonder Woman quickly said before she hear anything more she didn't want to know.
"Don't Interrupt me, wonder bitch!" Selina said with hostility and continued her lecture ignoring wonder woman's hurt look and acting like nothing happened.
"Anyway, where was i? Oh yeah. If you think the man is whipped when he accepts to take few days off of work just to make his girlfriend happy and give her some peace of mind you don't know how relationships work." Selina said while poking at the lightning on Barry's chest with her nail (with no claws on).
"Well we are glad that you're ok Bruce" Superman said clearly trying to change the subject but then his mind went back to one word that Selina had just said.
"Did you just say he is your boyfriend?" Superman asked Selina and looked at Bruce.
"I know that you don't want to reveal your personal life to us Bruce. But I think this is important information." Superman said apologetically looking at Bruce.
"Yes. It is important that we share these kinds of things so we can better protect our loved ones. Besides everyone else but you have already shared their personal lives with each other." Wonder Woman said and instantly regretted it.
She found two pairs of eyes glaring at her. The blue ones were judgemental and disappointed but the green ones wanted to rip her apart.
"This is exactly why you are damn fools. By telling me about you personal lives you have given me the means of attacking you if this kind of situation ever rises again." Bruce said with cold calculating tone.
"I had no plans of telling you about Selina anytime soon or ever at all, but since we are all here and she said what she said I might as well reveal something you didn't know but some of you might have already figured out." Bruce said and took Selina's hand in his.
"This is Selina Kyle, also known as Catwoman. And we have been officially together for four months now." Bruce said and smiled as he looked at Selina.
"Officially?" Hal asked.
"He has been chasing me for years and we have had semi continuous hookups from time to time. But now, after three years I stopped running from him and after five years he finally admitted to me and himself that he really liked the bad kittycat." Selina said teasingly and placed a loving kiss on Bruce's cheek.
"So she's your girlfriend?" Wonder Woman asked.
Selina could see that the amazonian seemed a bit hurt by this. She saw a hint of jealousy in her blue eyes and could not help herself and felt so much pride. She had heard rumors about Wonder Woman and batman flirting with each other but she had never cared too much. She was very aware of Bruce's activities with other women and she didn't care. She was not the jealous type. Besides, she knew him, she knew that in the end she would be the one girl for him. And she was right. And now she was secretly proud that she had stolen a man from the princes. Meow. How delicious.
"Yes" Bruce and Selina answered at the same time.
"Hey, wait a second! Bruce, isn't she a criminal? And a supervillainess?" Barry asked suddenly after a brief moment of silence. His question was actually something the others wanted to bring up but were smart or too scared to talk about it.
"Aww. It's sweet that you people consider me big enough of a threat to consider me as a supervillain." Selina said happily and Bruce gave her a look that made her smile even wider.
"That's actually a thing i was wondering about me self." Hawkman said and locked eyes with Bruce.
"You weren't going to tell us about your relationship with this catwoman because you don't want to share. But did you ever consider that the league should know if one of its founding members was under the influence of a known criminal?"
Selina was angered by Hawkmans comment. She really wanted to say something and maybe claw some of the feathers off of that overgrown bird! But she had more self control than that. Besides she didn't need to do anything as she briefly glanced at Bruce. He just sat there and glared at Hawkman until…
"Sorry" Hawkman said quietly and looked at the floor. Even the proud Hawkman was smart enough to not anger Batman.
"Bruce, this really is a serious issue that we should talk about, don't you think?" Superman said and tried to maintain a civil conversation.
Bruce looked up to him and said:
"Do you trust my judgement? Do you trust me?"
Superman didn't say anything but after a moment he gave Bruce a small nod. He understood that batman would never compromise the justice league, especially through him. Bruce moved his eyes from superman and looked at all of his guests.
"She was a criminal. Not anymore. Now she's...well...changed…" Bruce said and gave Selina's hand a brief loving squeeze.
"How can you be sure?" Barry said still not convinced.
"Because I know her." Bruce said and turned to face Selina who looked moved by his words.
Selina's hands found their way behind Bruces neck and she stared at his blue eyes with moisture in hers.
"And because she is one of the few people I can truly trust." Bruce said a bit more quietly and softly.
Now Selina was leaning in to kiss him and had visible tears running down on her cheeks and ruining her makeup.
"Now! Are we done with this?" Bruce said suddenly with his batman voice and cut off the kiss before it even happened. He had realised that he was about to lose control of the situation. Damn her. Somehow she always found a way to distract him. Even when being totally innocent.
"Well there is still one more thing we should talk about" Superman said after a long pause that was uncomfortable to everyone but Selina who was casually inspecting her fingernails.
"The mind control incident" Bruce said with batman's seriousness.
"Nightwing has already apprehended the ones responsible. And I know Nightwing has already briefed all of you." Bruce said.
"Yes he has, but we'd like your perspective on this. We have also agreed to go through with the events with more care this later on." Superman said.
"Fine. But not here and not today. Unfortunately i am just a man and i need to rest" Bruce said with his usual authority.
"Well talk about this tomorrow at the Station" Bruce said.
"Ok great!" Superman said with his boy scout smile and turned to leave.
"No." Selina said and superman stopped at his tracks and turned around to see Selina looking at Bruce with her hands crossed.
"You are not going anywhere in this state. Not today, not tomorrow, not until you are better." Selina said firmly.
"Selina, this can't wait for that long. If we wait some of us are bound to forget some details that might have been important." Bruce said to Selina and stared at her.
"Screw that! Your well being is the only thing that matters here!" Selina said angrily and stared back at Bruce.
"Bruce, maybe she is right. We can wait until you get better." Wonder Woman said.
Bruce locked his eyes with Selina. They knew each other so well that they could communicate with just their eyes. Right now they were having a private conversation.
"Fine. Depending on my state I will come up to the Station sometime next week." Bruce said and got a approving Smile from Selina.
"And she's coming with me." Bruce added to the others surprise.
"You can't be serious!" Hawkman said and again he was a subject of brutal bat-glare. The other leaguers looked at each other in concern.
"You people must understand that as much as he may trust you i don't. And after what just happened i trust you even less and there is no way in hell that i would leave him alone with you. Especially when he's not exactly at his top shape. Besides somebody has to make sure he doesn't run off and try to fight crime and get himself badly hurt again." Selina said with all seriousness that slowly melted back to her usual playfulness.
"Selina will come with me to the Watchtower. Does anyone have a problem with it?" Bruce said with his voice pouring with such authority and confidence that it would have made even Darkseid to do his bidding.
In Selina's mind Bruce was so sexy right now. She lost loved when he when all batman like that. Seeing him to only use his voice to intimidate the justice league and make them do whatever he wanted...What a rush... Right now Selina had lost all of her self control. It had been a rollercoaster of emotions in these last few hours. She couldn't stop herself from kissing up his neck and opening up his shirt buttons. Then Bruce took a hold of her hands and spoke up.
"I trust we are in agreement? She will accompany me to the Watchtower." Bruce said and struggled to keep Selinas hands in line and failed. Selinas hands were back at opening his shirt.
"Yes fine. She will come along" Superman said with a sigh. Then he finally realised what was happening on the bed and saw Selina removing Bruce's shirt. He looked behind himself to warn the others...who were, except for Barry, already quickly moving towards the door.
"Well...we'll just leave you to...to...Okay bye!" Superman was going to say but then blushed at what he saw when Selina threw her own shirt at him. And with that instant he had quickly exited the room dragging Barry with him and closed the door.
Alfred was politely waiting for him back at the front door with the rest of the league.
"I trust your business with master Bruce had concluded sir" Alfred said with his trademark politeness.
"Oh yes. Although I think I was forced out by some other business of his" Superman said with a grin.
"What business might that be sir?" Alfred asked but got his answer almost immediately when a womans moan of pleasure came down from the upper stairs.
"I see." Alfred said without even a hint of chance in his appearance.
"Not the first time something like this happens, then?" Superman asked with a smile.
"No sir. Miss Selina is a passionate woman and very used to get what she wants." Alfred said politely.
"Passionate eh? I was just about to see her shirtless but then Clark here drags me away and I can't take a peek at the good stuff." Barry said and instantly regretted that he had opened his mouth.
"I think you should leave now" Alfred said with gracefully hiding his disdain and opened the door for the quests.
"Have a safe journey and goodbye"
Back upstairs
"So you are really gonna let me come with you to the Watchtower?" Selina said as she laid her head on Bruces chest and played with the old claw marks on his chest.
"I'm not an idiot, Selina. I know you are not letting me go in there alone and I know you will come with me with or without permission." Bruce said and placed a kiss on her head.
"Besides I kinda want to see their reactions when you actually go up there." Bruce said.
"Why? What do you mean?" Selinas asked and turned to look at him. and she saw him with a rare but beautiful smile on his face.
"There is always something bound to happen when you are around." Bruce said with a chuckle. Selina then placed a hiss on his lips and curled back against his chest and purred:
"It's going to be so much fun"
