hope you enjoy chapter two
Superman and Wonder Woman could not understand what they were looking at, "Maybe it's just the lighting in the picture or something" Wonder Woman try desperately to explain what they were seeing. Superman just shook his head, it seemed the longer he stared the clearer the figure became. "Hey" Wonder Woman broke his trance.
"We need more information on this " Superman said with new determination already pulling out the rest of the papers in the file.
"I'll go get the coffee" Wonder Woman said realizing it might be a long night, as she walked in the Superman's small apartment kitchen she heard him call some one on the phone.
"hello Lois, it's Clark...yeah I need your help with something...Yeah I need you to look into an estate owned by Wayne Enterprises, sorry I can' tell you why just yet but I promise it is important, okay...thank you." Superman put his phone down just as Wonder Woman walked back in with two cups of coffee, "Let's get started" he said.
The hours slowly ticked by as the two researched in every way they knew how, Wonder Woman even flew to the library and back, but had learned nothing new. Now on their third cup of coffee Wonder Woman was ready to hit her head on a wall, she looked at the clock and saw it was three in the morning, " I don't think we are going to find anything" she said.
Superman leaned back in his chair and let out a long sigh, "any one who was in any way connected to the mansion either, won't talk, is missing, or dead" Superman's frustration was reaching a tipping point, his desk was a mess and he didn't know what to do next.
"I say we go to bed, we aren't going to find anything that we haven't found already" Wonder Woman said, and unhappily Superman agreed.
the next day Superman and Wonder Woman were on their way to meet Lois for an early lunch, when they walked into restaurant Lois was already there and waved them over to her table. " Oh, Diana I am surprised to see you, did know Smallville here was interesting enough to hang around" Lois joked as Superman and Wonder Woman sat down across from her.
"So did you find anything interesting ?" Superman asked in a desperate attempt to change the subject.
" It's what I didn't find that was interesting" Lois replied, Wonder Woman raised an eyebrow. "Well with a mansion like this, especially one own by Bruce Wayne, would have a lot of information on it. But there was nothing, I couldn't even find a picture online".
"I know, I had to send Jimmy to go take some pictures" Superman said as he pulled out his file and the picture he had and he handed it to Lois.
She studied the photo for a minute then looked more closely at small part of it, " Is that a..." She trailed off.
"What?" Superman asked guessing she had spotted the figure in the window.
"There is something in the window" she said as she turned the picture towards Superman and Wonder Woman and pointed at it, but something was wrong.
Superman snatched the photo and held it closer, " It's in the wrong...window" he said in disbelief.
Wonder Woman looked closer too, "that can't be right" she said with the same disbelief as Superman. She looked at the figure and then the window that it was suppose to be in, on the other side of the mansion.
Lois didn't know what to do, "are you guys okay?" she asked, they both looked up and then at each other.
Superman put the photo away shaking his head and then looked back at Lois, "do you have anything else?" He asked.
"well I wasn't finding anything in my normal channels, so a tried something else"
Lois started, " I thought, maybe you can stop the press from talking about a place, but if police are involved then there has to be a record somewhere. So I looked for anything, noise complaint, employee complaint...".
" I am guessing you didn't find much" Wonder Woman noted.
"I almost gave up" Lois continued. " but then I found it."
"what?" Superman asked relived to finally have some information.
" A 911 call made by an Alfred Pennyworth sending police to the mansion" Lois said "but when I looked into it all I got was a sealed file, so we can't get into it".
Superman didn't know what to do with this new information he looked at Wonder Woman who thought for a moment then said, " I think we need to go back and have another talk with Alfred".
" Wait, you know Alfred Pennyworth" Lois said shocked, but received no answer because Superman and Wonder Woman were already standing up to leave, "hey, where are you going?"
" Sorry Lois, got to go, and thanks for your help" Superman said in a rush as he started for the door following Wonder Woman.
" you owe me one Smallville! " Lois yelled as he walked out the door.
Sorry about the short chapter, but big things coming in the next one