Feelings and true love
Chapter Two: Hidden past
Summary: When it comes to feelings and true love, can a man make a difference. Set three months after TDK.(Bruce/OC)
((Author's Note:Well here is Chapter Two! I hope you enjoy this Chapter. It will get interesting once more Chapters come in. Please review!))
((Author's Note 2: In this story Rachel knows the whole fiasco of Harvey therefore does not hate Bruce. They were & still best friends & not in love with each other in this story that I've created.))
Disclaimer: I do not own anything, except for Christiana Azwal.
Christiana was on the streets of Gotham walking to the DA's building, where she was going to surprise Rachel. As she was walking, she remembered what happened that morning when she meet Bruce Wayne, Gotham's Price Billionaire.
She remembered the way he looked, the way he smiled and to her it felt like he wasn't being the playboy billionaire that every newspaper's talk about. It felt like he wasn't doing that any more, like it was just an act for everyone else, like he was hiding behind the playboy act so that no-one finds out what he's up to.
She walked into the DA's building and goes to the floor where Rachel office is and walks through the door. She sees Rachel at her desk looking at case files that all over the desk. Christiana knocks on the door and walks in.
"Special delivery for DA Rachel Dawes."Christiana says to her giving her a smile when Rachel looks up at her.
"Hey Chrissie what are you doing here? I thought you had work to do?" Rachel asks her
"Oh I had work all right, but I didn't expect my client to hit on me when we were having a lunch meeting."Christiana tells her giving her a disgusting look when thinking about Mr. Pettersion.
"What? What happened, tell me everything!" Rachel says with a shocked look on her face.
So Christiana told Rachel everything what happened at the restaurant with Mr. Pettersion and also the discussion she had with Wilson.
"I can not believe that...that...that man would come on to you. He's bloody married for Christ's sake. Sometimes I can not believe the Gotham's rich and famous. No wonder Bruce doesn't like them. On that note what did you think of Bruce, Chrissie?" Rachel asks her having a huge smile on her face.
"Bruce seems like a nice man even though his 'Gotham's Prince Playboy Billionaire'." Christiana says to her.
"Well, he is a nice person. I've known him since we were kids. Anyway don't believe what the newspaper tell you about him cause since Wayne Manor burnt down he's changed, he's not the playboy any more. Well hell he hasn't been a playboy in the first place. Oh shoot I shouldn't have said that." Rachel said will scolding her self for giving away Bruce's cover.
"What do you mean he hasn't been a playboy in the first place? Are you implying that it was all just an act?"Christiana asks her while moving forward in her seat.
"I'm not saying anything Chrissie. Oh don't look at me like that ok, any way why do you want to know in the first place huh? Do you like Bruce?" Rachel says trying to get the focus off of her.
"No don't be silly, I don't even know him!"Christiana tells her giving her a look.
Just then Alfred walks into the office and greets both women.
"Hey Alfred, what you doing?" Christiana says to him in a kiddy's voice.
"Hello Ms. Christiana, well I'm here to see Ms. Rachel." Alfred tells her.
"Well Rach, I think I'm just gonna go now and get dinner. Oh by the way have you got an invite to a charity ball that Mrs. Williams is organizing?" Christiana asks.
"I think we might get in today. She asked you to go out with her for shopping, didn't she?" Rachel says.
"Yeah. I'll talk to you later. Bye" Christiana waves bye to them and leaves the office and building.
"Ms. Rachel I presume that you are thinking hard about something, are you not? You seem to have a look on your face showing that you have got an idea about something. May I ask why?" Alfred asks her. He looks at the women -who is like a daughter to him- and is happy that she is coping with what happened 3 months previously to Harvey and appreciates her for not pushing away Bruce after knowing the truth about what happened that night with Harvey.
"I'm thinking off hooking up her with someone I know." she tells him while thinking that Christiana and Bruce would be great together.
"And who would that be?" he asks.
"That Alfred would be telling!" she says to him smiling a huge grin.
She arrived at her apartment door with Chinese food. She opened her apartment door, entered and put the food down on the floor and went to the coat stand and hang up her Gucci bag and coat. She kicked the door with her left foot while picking up her briefcase and food. She went straight to the kitchen and dropped the Chinese food on her dining table.
She decided to take a shower and change into a tank top and Nike tracksuit bottoms. 45 minutes later she walks out of her bathroom and goes to the kitchen and fill up the washing machine with her work clothes and as well as her laundry. She spent the rest of the day watching tv and eating Chinese food.
By the time it was 9pm she got changed into her pyjamas and got under the covers of her bed and fell asleep when her head hit the pillow.
Alfred entered Bruce's bedroom and went straight to the windows and opened the curtains all the way. A groan came from the figure laying in bed.
"Alfred what time is it?"
"Its 7 o'clock Master Bruce and you need to get ready for work seeing as you have meetings today."
"Why can't I just skip the meetings, its not like I can stay awake when I'm in the meetings, I'm asleep when the meeting starts." Bruce states while getting out of bed and start his 100 push-ups for the morning.
"Well Master Bruce, it shows you that you need to go to bed early for work then. But seeing as you run around as the Batman, it would not likely to stop any time soon now." Alfred said while Bruce got out of bed and started his morning routine of 100 push-ups. When Bruce finished his routine, Alfred gave him a glass of orange juice that he brought up to him from the kitchen. Once Alfred gave Bruce the glass, he went and got Bruce one of many work suits to wear that day.
"Did you get the information that I asked for?" Bruce asked once finished the drink and gave it to Alfred, then went to the bathroom in his bedroom and turned on the shower.
"Yes Master Bruce. Its downstairs in the kitchen along with your breakfast." Alfred said and left the room when Bruce went to have his shower.
Once Bruce was well dressed for the day, he went down to the kitchen and sat down on a bar stool in front of his breakfast. He stated eating his breakfast while looking at the information he had on Christiana. As he went through the information he found out that she got her degree and master's in law from Oxford University at the age of 23. Not surprising as she was classed as a genius when she was just a child due to long line of passed down genetics. Her father, David Azwal, is a lawyer in New York and her mother, Akemi Azwal, is a wedding planner in London. It also states that after she graduated from Oxford she spent two years in China.
"Is this all the information about her Alfred?" Bruce asked while continuing on with his breakfast.
"Yes Master Bruce and don't speak with your mouth full." Alfred said scolding him like he was a child.
"Sorry Alfred." Bruce said to his butler who was a father figure and friend to him.
"May I ask as why you need information on Ms. Christiana. Why not ask Rachel about her seeing as they are friends." Alfred suggested.
"How do you know that they were friends? I didn't mention that they were friends to you." Bruce asked him.
"Well Master Bruce, Rachel introduced me to her and well we have become friends therefore we have regular talk together. Therefore I know a fair bit about her and her friends, well the ones she told me about. But it still does not answer my question Master Bruce as to why the information on her?" Alfred asked.
"Let's just say that I want to get to know her a bit better as a friend. When we first met she wasn't like any other person or women in fact to be laid back and not all excited that they met Bruce Wayne Billionaire."
"Mr. Wayne, Mr. Wayne the meeting has finished." Lucius Fox said while shaking Bruce's shoulder.
"Sorry about that, didn't get any much sleep last night, well this morning to be exact." Bruce said while rubbing his eyes and getting up from his seat.
"Ah yes, saw it on the newspaper and on the news. What were you up to any way?" Lucius asks him.
"Ah you know its the same thing every night. More copy cats again." Bruce says getting to the door, opening it to leave.
"Well maybe you could hire them so that you can take a day off." Lucius says to him.
"Alfred said that to me already and it goes against what I do as Batman. I don't and will never use guns." Bruce says to his friend with a hard expression on his face showing that he doesn't like the conversation and leaves heading to his office.
As Bruce walks to his office, his iPhone goes off. He checks the caller ID and sees that its Rachel calling him.
"Hey Rachel, what do I owe the pleasure for you calling me today?" Bruce asks his best friend, while opening his office door which leads him to his large office.
"Well Bruce, I was calling cause a certain someone informed me that you were getting background info of a friend of mine, which by the way is wrong but also intriguing. Well to cut it sort, Alfred called me saying that you wanted to know Christiana. So may I ask, why do you?" Rachel asks him bluntly.
"I can't believe Alfred would tell you. Ok if you must know, I was curious ok. She wasn't like any other women that I know or met -expect for you- who would be all flirty and want to be my next girlfriend or something along those lines. They are not looking for friendship, that's why my friend they are called gold-diggers. But with Christiana, she was just friendly to me. There now you know." Bruce said to Rachel, getting it all of his chest.
"Well I can tell you for sure that Christiana is no gold-digger cause well she earns quite a lot due to being a lawyer and any way, she's not that type of person to go out with someone so that she could become rich and famous, trust me she doesn't want any fame at all, she already had plenty of that and it wasn't the good kind any way." Rachel said to him.
"What do you mean not the good kind any way?" Bruce asks her, now being curious of the new info he got.
"I really shouldn't of said that. Look I can't tell you about that cause its private and its not my business to stay. But I can tell you this is that on the day we bumped into her I saw that glint in your eyes Bruce. It's not the glint that you get when you used to portray that playboy act that you stopped since Wayne Manor burnt down. It's the glint that portrays of home. A home that you lost years ago." Rachel said remembering the past.
"Any way its not going to happen, not while I'm busy with my 'late nights'. No women won't be with me because of it because they shouldn't. They will get hurt in the process of knowing who I am and I can't risk that to someone you have feelings for even though I don't have feelings for Christiana. If anything happens to the women I fall in love with, I'll never forgive my self especially if they get killed." Bruce says in a grave tone.
"Bruce, you know that I'm not fond of you taking the law into your own hands and I can see the effects it has done. Its given Gotham hope. But I know that you deserve someone to love and to be loved. The women you fall in love with would get hurt even if their was no 'late nights', hell no one would be alive if it weren't for you. All I'm saying is when you find someone you love don't let fear get in the way of something wonderful Bruce." Rachel tells him.
"So...?" Bruce says.
"I'll talk to you later and oh did you get Mrs. Williams invite for the ball?" Rachel asks.
"Yeah I did. Alfred wants me to go, so I'm going alone. I don't know why I started the playboy act any more. It wasn't me even if it was to hide my 'late nights'. I just want to be me no-one else but it only looks like I can only be my self with you, Lucius and Alfred. If I had someone, maybe her too. Talk to you later Rachel, bye" Bruce says ending the call. He reflects on what Rachel told him about not letting fear come between love.
Maybe, just maybe he's already found love.