Ok, I had to fix some things. Changed Mad Stan's name. :). Thankies to the reviewers and the one who corrected my mistake.

Chapter 2

The night was crisp and clear. Nothing of the unusual seemed to be going on. Even if it had been, Terry would be none the wiser. It had been two weeks since he had last seen Melanie. Secretly, he was blind sweeping the city in hopes of spotting her. As much as he tried, he couldn't seem to get her off of his mind. Even when he was with Dana, his thoughts went back to Melanie. Terry sighed as he took a left across a building.

"See any activity?" Mr. Wayne asked through the telecom in the Bat mobile.

"No. It's a quiet night." Terry said, scanning for any sign of Melanie. He didn't know why, it wasn't like he could greet her as Batman. He figured just seeing her again would be suffice for the moment.

"You have been acting weird lately." Mr. Wayne said.

"You're calling me weird?" Terry asked. He picked up some disturbance in a park near a restaurant. "Found something, probably some jokers picking on a couple or something." It didn't matter what it was. As long as it got Melanie off his mind. He hid the Bat mobile in an abandon alley and soared over to the disturbance.

"Hey sweetheart. I love a woman in uniform." A T gang member said to a woman walking through the park.

"I'm flatted." She mumbled sarcastically. The other member grabbed her arm and pulled her towards him.

"And I'm horny." He responded. The young woman fought to get out of the T's grip when the first T grabbed her, holding her arms behind her.

"Get off of me!" she struggled and yelled.

"It's alright baby. No one's gonna hurt you, if you comply." The T said who was holding her. The other T approached her with a switch blade.

"You are a very pretty girl. I'll hate to mess that pretty little face with my knife." The T said, both laughing sinisterly. The young woman tried to escape the T's crutches but his strength overtook her. Suddenly, Batman came flying in with a kick to the approaching T's face and the second received an uppercut to the jaw. The T released the girl, who ran behind Batman. One T swung his knife at him, which he easily dodged and flung the T into the other.

"Man, let's get out of here." One T said, grabbing the other as they ran out into the night.

"Thanks Batman. You seem to always save me." The young woman said. Terry knew the voice automatically. "And this time, I'm not in trouble with the Royal Flush gang." Melanie said with a smile. Terry nodded and started towards the sky. He found her and he was satisfied for the moment. "Wait!" she exclaimed. He turned back to face her. She reached into her bag and pulled out a pen and paper. "Can you please find Terry again? For me. And when you do, give him this number and address." Melanie handed the paper to Terry. "Please tell him to contact me soon. I need to talk to him." She said, holding her arm.

"I will." Terry said, putting the paper into his utility belt. He then took off to the sky and left Melanie at the park.

"So, I was looking into this really cool restaurant. It's new and I was hoping we could go, if the infamous Mr. Wayne doesn't beckon you." Dana said to Terry as they walked to their computer class.

"I'll see what I can do." Terry said, opening the computer lab door for her. "What's the name of the restaurant?"

"It's called Deckard's Kitchen. It's really nice; Blade went there last week with Tanner. You know, big money man on campus?" Dana joked.

"Ok, I will make a big effort on talking Wayne into allowing me out of work tonight." He told her.

"Great! I can't wait." Dana said before going to her seat by Chelsea. Max came in the class and got in her seat in front of Terry.

"So Ter, what's up with Ten?" Max asked.

"Melanie." Terry corrected her.

"Use the code name, unless you want some big mouth in here to go back and tell Dana about Ten." Max said.

"I saved her last night from a couple of Ts last night. She handed me her number and address to give to, well, Terry." He said, logging on to his email.

"Are you going to contact her?" Max whispered as someone walked passed.

"I don't know, I've thought about it-"Terry said but was cut off by Max.

"I warned you about this last time." Max said, minimizing her web page. "You're not being fair to Dana by mindlessly thinking of Ten, wanting Ten, lusting after Ten." Max said, turning back around in her seat. Terry leaned back, taking Max's words in account. "So you two are going to that new restaurant Deckard's Kitchen tonight, huh?" Max asked with her back still to Terry.

"Yeah. It'll be nice to sit with Dana in a quiet environment for once." Terry said while surfing the internet.

"Maybe then you can finally get your mind together." Max said, turning around to look at Terry.

Deckard's Kitchen was a nice restaurant in downtown Gotham. It was an Italian restaurant with a whole Italian look and feel to it. Terry and Dana sat in a booth near a window that showed the busy city life of Gotham. It was just the kind of night they both needed.

"This is really nice, Dana." Terry said, grabbing Dana's hand from across the table.

"I'm so happy that Mr. Wayne was nice enough to let you off. Even if it's only a few hours." Dana said with a laugh. Terry smiled at her. What would make him want to leave her? Yeah, they had their ups and downs, especially with the job he had, but those times brought them closer.

"Yeah. I'm glad to be here with you." He said, kissing her from across the table. Not once had Melanie crossed his mind since he got to the restaurant. Maybe it was just something in that night she came over. They parted when the waiter came along with a basket of breadsticks and menus.

"Your waitress will be over shortly to take your dinner order. Would you like something to drink?" He asked them.

"I'll take cream soda." Dana said.

"Me too." Terry added. The waiter nodded his head and went off to retrieve their drinks. They looked over their menus at all the different Italian meals.

"It all sound so good." Dana said.

"It does. But I think I want to try the crispy parmesan chicken." Terry said, pointing to the page in the menu.

"Let me check that out." Dana said, looking for the page in her menu. "It sounds good, but this seafood pasta sounds really tasty." She said, still looking over the menu.

"Welcome to Deckard's Kitchen. Are you ready to order?" the waitress asked. Terry looked up from his menu and saw the waitress, his jaw dropping almost immediately. She was looking down at her notepad, concentration on something.

"I think we are. You ready Ter?" Dana asked, looking at Terry. Upon seeing the expression on his face, she slightly frowned and looked at the waitress. The waitress looked up and saw Terry looking at her. She slightly smiled.

"Hey Terry." Melanie said sweet and innocently.

"You two know each other?" Dana asked looking back at Terry.

"Umm yeah." Terry said, looking at Dana.

"Mr. Wayne is always at the tech shop my dad owns and I sometimes work there. We only met casually a few times. Mr. Wayne is the in and out type. Not very sociable." She explained to Dana to erase any suspicions. Dana nodded as with Terry who was surprised Melanie came up with such a great lie on spot like that.

"So are you two ready?" she asked again. Dana began with her order, not noticing the look Melanie was giving Terry and vise versa. What a great way to get his mind straight.

Dinner was painstakingly slow to Terry. Good for him, Dana didn't seem to notice. Finally it came to an end and Melanie brought the check to them.

"If it's too much-" Dana said, noticing the reaction on the look on Terry's face. He looked at her from over the check holder.

"No, actually, it's a lot cheaper than I expected." Terry said. "Besides, I'm the gentleman here, I'm paying for you." He said, reaching into his pocket for some credits. It wasn't the check that surprised him, it was the note inside.

Ter, if you can, meet me here at 12:30 tonight. Please come

Melanie.

Terry put the creds in the check holder and some on the table as a tip. He stood up and grabbed Dana's hand and they left. Terry noticed Melanie on the way out. She looked at him and he gave her a short stare before leaving out with Dana on his arm.

Terry was again flying through the city, hoping not to run into any big time criminals. He sighed, looking at the time. 11:15pm. He just had to hope for the best for another hour and 15 minutes.

"And she was your waitress at the restaurant? Wow that had to be majorly awkward." Max said, talking on the phone with Terry and typing on the computer.

"Yeah. I never have been more uncomfortable in my life. She kept giving me this look whenever she walked passed or our eyes met. Thank goodness Dana didn't notice. I made the best of the night though." He said, sweeping pass a skyscraper.

"She was too happy to be there with you to worry about some waitress." Max said. Terry looked at the small note that Melanie slipped into his check. He kept second-guessing himself rather he should go see her or not. He hadn't told Max about the note she gave him. He didn't feel like hearing her mouth again.

"Well, her background has been cleaned thoroughly. She hasn't gotten into anymore trouble since you last seen her 3 months ago." Max said looking up the information she found on the internet.

"So she wasn't lying to me." Terry spoke thoughtfully.

"She hurt you huh?" Max asked softly. Terry was silent for a while. "Seems like the old man is rubbing off on you." She said with a slight chuckle.

"Yeah, I was burned pretty badly. I just thought…I guess I put too many expectations on one person." Terry said with a sigh.

"Goodbye Max." Mr. Wayne voice was heard on the phone. "Terry has to work to do now."

"Alright. See you at school." Max said, hanging.

"Yeah Wayne?" Terry said. He was hoping that it wasn't anything too major and time consuming.

"Mad Stan is at the Wayne/Powers electricity building, causing trouble…again." Mr. Wayne said. Terry sighed. It never fails.

"Alright. On my way."

"Alright." Mr. Wayne said. "Oh, by the way Terry, don't let this girl get to your head again." Mr. Wayne said ending the phone conversation. Terry sighed heading to the library.

"Easier said than done." He mumbled getting closer to the library.

"Technology is corrupting our culture! We seem to can't do anything ourselves anymore. Only one solution!" Mad Stan yelled, sticking bombs on everything.

"Blow it all up, we know! Man, can't you find a hobby or a girl to do on the weekends?" Batman said, flying into the electricity building.

"Batman! A prime example of why technology needs to go!" Mad Stan said, throwing a few bombs Batman's way. Each only having 6 seconds till they were to blow up. Batman flew out of the way, dodging each one as he threw Batarangs at Mad Stan's explosive vest. He got out of dodge and jumped on Mad Stan's back. He turned the electric field on his suit on, giving Mad Stan a shock. Mad Stan reached around his back and grabbed Batman, throwing him again a wall. When Batman looked up, Mad Stan was coming at him with a big piece of metal to crush him with. Batman quickly tripped Mad Stan, making him fall forward and miss Batman by a few inches. He jumped on Mad Stan and slammed his face into the floor repeatedly, trying to knock him unconscious. Mad Stan jumped up to his feet and ran backwards to the nearest wall. Batman jumped off before he could be slammed into the wall. He picked up one of the inactive bombs and threw it at the ground in front of Mad Stan. Mad Stan began charging Batman when the bomb went off and he was throwing backwards into a wall. He was unconscious by then. The police were heard in the background. Batman sighed with relief. He looked at the clock in his vision scope and saw it was 12:20am. He still had time to make it there in time. That is, until the bombs began going off around him and there was an electric fire starting. Time to escape. He grabbed Mad Stan and flew towards the door. It was blocked, so he quickly looked for an emergency exit and he found a window. He flew them both to safe before the entire building was a fire house. He brought Mad Stan to the police before flying off.

Melanie looked around the area. No sign of Terry. She sighed and looked at her watch. It read 1:07 am. She looked around once again and no one was around. The restaurant was closed and the manager was locking up.

"You need a ride Melanie?" He asked walking up to her.

"No, I'm fine. Thanks." She said with a smile. He told her bye and left her by herself once again. She looked around again and decided to head to the subway and go home. "I guess you have left me in the past McGinnis." She said walking across the street to the subway.

"Melanie!" she heard someone call out. She turned toward the voice and saw Terry running towards her. She smiled and waited for him to catch up to her.

"I'm so sorry! I got caught up with work. I had to sneak away to get here." He said breathing heavily.

"I'm glad you came." She said, giving him a hug

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