The night was still as my claws delicately moved over the sensitive glass window. Two hundred stories up with a storm blowing in towards my direction… I guess I would just have to make this a hell of a lot faster than I normally would.

Nothing had ever been the same in Gotham after those… ah, lets say; those unfortunate jail breaks. On complete different news, Bruce Wayne had been seen casting his poor defenceless boy and wife out into the cold. The public had begun to quickly turn against the rich bachelor.

But both mother and son survived now in a humble home in a nice neighbourhood… Well... That's what the public think anyway.

Three years at ArkhamAcademy had hardened me into the man I was today. I was nineteen, attending university for drama and gymnastics while being supported by a mother who was now an Olympic coach… that didn't stop me earning a little on the side though.

I dug the nail into the glass and quickly sliced a perfect hole so I could get in. The motion sensors and lasers were almost too easy to move past as my cloak fell to my feat revealing me in my black, leather cat costume. "Hmm, I do feel so yummy when I get to do jobs like these." I crouched on all fours leaping and prancing over desk tops with a perfect silence. "They could at least try to challenge me." I laughed as I made my way over to the main computer in the locked office.

"Be careful what you wish for."

The screen flicked on and I tilted my head with a grin as I looked at the old face of a man with streaks of grey hair and a twinkle in his eyes. "So you're Selina's kid? I must say, you are less of a cat and more like a rat in my trap."

"Riddler? I asked for a challenge, not a victim."

"You are as arrogant as your mother! It's a shame you are going to die. You was my favourite student."

I looked closer at him. His eyes glinted even brighter with a dark anticipation. He probably trapped the building. I had to keep him distracted while I could do my work. "I see you hung up your job at Arkham?" I smiled as my claws subtly reached out as I lent my head on my arms taking the office chair and relaxing back into it. My hands silently moved across to the side of the laptop while he began rambling on. "They didn't even give me a decent enough retirement fund! Plus they expected me to work overtime?!" I slipped in a memory card and began to let one of my personal virus programmes began to scour and rip through the system. I just needed a few minutes!

"They only did it because you were so brilliant! Sir you was such an inspiration. The man who could fool the bat! You were a legend! But I guess I do understand about them not treating you right. Not everyone understands a great artist." Keeping him distracted with what he does and likes best; Talking and complimenting himself. The moron.

"You understand." He smiled at me before he shrugged, "It's a shame I got to kill you… Hey where did you go?"

I had pulled the memory card out when I started seeing the image begin to break away and become charged with static. "Over here you egotistic Moron!"

"Watch it brat. I could kill in a split second."

"You're right. Could. But cant, mainly because." I watched more sparks fly from the laptop. "You are a idiot Riddler and I am trained not to fail."

"You- YOU… BRAT!" he screamed and began swearing every curse under the sun at me as he typed rapidly on the keyboard where he was. Thank god I took out most functions on his PC at the same time. I grinned looking at the memory card in my palm. I also got a little bit of a treat for myself as well.

"Oh, and by the way, Riddler?" I saw a cartoon cat fall back laughing on the screen at him and his face turn bright red in rage as he began shouting and fumbling for what was most likely a detonator to the hidden bombs in the room. "Cat got your tongue." I winked and pulled my cloak back around me as I leapt from the window watching the flames run through the room behind me.

For a few second I was scared.

For a minute I was worried.

Well… I guess Riddler really had got my blood going a bit. I pulled my whip from my belt and grinned as I lashed it out and watched it lash around a statue head pulling me out of free fall and into a swing which brought my crouching on a ledge not far off the ground. "Cats always land on their feet." I took a deep breath before jumping down into the alley bellow me. Riddler has probably got men in this area. Probably best to get back into my other clothes. I thought as I unzipped the comfy leather outfit and let it fall around my ankles. Good thing I always scope out an area before I take a job. I elbowed the side wall next to me and watched as a few slabs fell out revealing clothes in an airtight bag. "And aren't you the pretty kitty?" a gruff voice sounded but I barely looked up.

"Listen I will give you one chance. Turn away and forget what you saw before I kill you." my sweet voice lingered in the air as I pulled on some boxers and skinny jeans before pulling on a tight green shirt which fitted my lean body perfectly and then finishing the outfit by pulling my black cloak back around me.

"You really are a cute on aren't you."

"Last chance." I growled. After I had left the Academy and turned eighteen I had noticed some… changed. Well… kinda like the fact I had a freaking tail! My hearing and sight had increased well beyond normal as well. I was the next thing my mother could never become. I stretched my arms as my long black tail wrapped through the belt of my jeans and I tied my whip around it.

I turned and saw about five guys closing a circle around me. Each was full toned muscle men with a gun strapped to their back though something about their eyes… they were glazed over as though they were in a far off distant dream. You have to be kidding me… I have seen this before.

As they closed in around me, I closed off any emotion from my face so it was just like I was back in my mask. "Five against one."

"Out numbered." I grinned.

"I know." He said nodding.

"I was on about you." His eyes widened when he saw my claws glint in the dark light, more than ready to be soaked in fresh blood. For a second each of them took a slight step back before regaining the composure of their act.

"We have a business deal with you."

"Really?" I grinned inching my claws towards my whip.

"One where you can come out very powerful and very rich."

"All that glitters isn't gold."

"One where you can bring the bat and a man you hate down. Six feet under to be exact." My hand stopped cold but still ready to grab my weapon at a moments notice.

"Okay… you caught my attention. Choose your words very carefully." For a minute they looked at each other disappointed that they didn't get to beat the crap out of me but the glazed over expression in their eyes picked up with a smile quickly as a thought occurred to them.

The man who had been speaking so far took a seat on a garbage can and my eyes ran over his body. He was leant slightly more on his right side with his hand hiding a scar on his left side. I did this for each of them; studying their body language and taking in any shifting or odd manor. "My mistress sent me. She has thoughts and ideas… that would require you, cat."

"I'm guessing that Ivy sent you?"

"Not exactly."

The new voice made me pause, feeling a thick sensation of thrill, lust and scheming darkness spread through me. "And who would you be?" My long tail swayed before curling back around my hip as I playfully looked at my claws.

"It's only been two years since we last saw each other." a girl began to step forward. Her body was hypnotic she was that beautiful. Her skin was slightly tainted green and she wore only a torso piece. "Seriously Daniel, I had hoped I left a better impression on you." she ran her arm lustfully across her skin and gently blew in my direction but my hand reached out snapping around her wrist before the substance could possess me.

"That won't work with me. I'm not a tamed cat."

"Really? That's a shame." She shrugged and ran her hand along my cheek before her glistening eyes hardened and she looked at her soldiers. "Hold him and bring him with us."

"Not Likely."

The next thing that happened was incredibly stupid.

They decided to take me on.

The main leader ran at me and I grabbed his next twisting myself around so I was back to back with him before I grabbed his gun and shot him through the spine and watched as the bullet carried on into the head of another moron. "Two down. Three to go." I licked my lips and watched as Rose began to back away, though her eyes still betrayed that dark look of longing that she held for me. "I tried being gentle." She shrugged and raised her hands making the concrete beneath my feet crack and explode as giant vines began rushing out like lashing cables as they grabbed me harshly. "Now was that so hard?" she shrugged at the three remaining guards but now I was getting pissed off.

It was only when she caught the glint of my claws she realised her mistake, "Daniel… Don't do it."

"What? Don't do this?" my claws slashed violently through the over grown weeds and she stared at them in horror as though I had just killed her own child. I lunged to one of the guards digging my claws deeply into his neck while my eyes filled with blood lust and anger but not before a dark laugh burst from me. "Never corner a cat. Especially a big bad one, like me." I snapped his head with a twist and a slice then watched as the headless corpse fell to the floor.

"Jonathan!" one of the guards screamed and the next thing I knew I felt a searing pain in my arm, leg and side of my chest. A dark mangled scream of agony escaped me as I fell clutching the now bloody wounds. Those last two bastards had been quicker on their triggers than expected! "Enough!" Rose shouted and stormed over to the two of them. "You damaged my prize you moron!" her hand closed around their throats as she lifted them off the ground crushing the bones and air way. It brought some fun to watch them turn blue and suffocate. "Next time you morons fail me. You will taste your own death!"

Now I was starting to get freaked out as their skin began to peel away revealing a new layer with was moss green… oh god… okay now I was scared. "What have you done to them!" I hissed as I began to crawl away from her as she towered over me.

"Oh don't worry kitty. That won't happen to you. I have a nice little cage waiting for you." her hands grabbed my face as I looked away but she forcefully turned my gaze back to her. "Oh now, now Kitty. Is it because your lips are hungry." She half closed her eyes as she began to lean in. I could smell the vanishing scent of the venom which coated her lips when she wished it to.

"Get. Your. Hands. Off. Him."

I rolled my eyes as I looked back to see a man standing in the shadows of the alley. He was wearing a waist jacket suit without the jacket. He looked at a pocket watch before his hand moved to his pocket. "You?!" Rose snarled backing away from me. Who ever this guy was, if he scared her; the person right now who seemed to have all the power.

Then I was screwed.

He began to step forward into the light of a door exit light which cast a dark glow over his features. Dark hair which was highlighted green around the edges while dark makeup circles made their way around his eyes. Who ever he is. He's handsome. I grinned.

Yep. You're about to be made into someone's eternal slave and you're thinking about how cute a boy is… typical!

How can you judge me?!

Because I am you… But he is cute.

HA! My thoughts seemed to argue back and forth as I regarded this tall, dark and handsome.

Rose began to step away from me, though it was not far. "You can't just swoop in here. This is my territory! He belongs to me."

"You're right in two points. One; this is your territory, for now." He growled though a white tooth grin seemed to be making its way to his face. "Two'; I can't just swoop in here. But you know what." He slowly pulled a knife from his pocket and every urge in my body told me to run while they were distracted. Though with a shot arm, a broken and shot leg and bullet in my chest… I wasn't going anywhere anytime quick.

The two men stood in front of me blocking him but as soon as a bullet passed right between the eyes of one and a knife slit the throat of the other I soon found myself in full sight of him. "Long time no see Daniel. How long has it been?" He lent closer so our lips were barely apart.

His lips smelt of blood.

I blushed as he picked me up bridal style and I wrapped my hands around his neck to keep myself from falling. "Jack?" I gasped and he nodded, obviously pleased to see the fact that I remembered his name.

"HIM YOU REMEMBER!?" Rose shouted before turning. "Beware kitty. I will make you my prize. You will be my pet soon enough."

"Get going you weed before I rip you from your roots." She paled at Jacks threat and soon vanished.

As soon as she was gone I slapped him across the face though he didn't drop me, he just began carrying me up a block of stairs to an apartment. "Three years you bastard! I wanted us to remain friends. THREE YEARS I HAD NO FRIENDS AND WAS BY MYSELF!" His lips soon landed on mine and I shrank away from him staring wide eye at him.

"Better?"

I nodded

He burst into laughter and placed me on the bed as he carried me into the apartment. "I'll let you get some rest." I mumbled something unintelligent and he left but not before saying. "Oh and Daniel." He took my memory card from my pocket as he landed another kiss. "Cat got your tongue." He ran out as I pulled out my whip and lashed away the door which collapsed into what was now just unrecognizable firewood.

So this took a bit longer to get uploaded but it will soon become all the better in the next chapter. Let me know if you like it so far and let me know what couples you are rooting for plus who so far is your favorite character. Hope to hear off you soon.

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