Bruce finally woke up earlier than someone. Emma was still asleep when he woke, she looked like a heavy sleeper and didn't even move when he let go of her form to take a better look at her. He felt good being so close to her while sleeping, even though he never considered himself a cuddler. Her lips were a little parted and she breathed lightly, her hair was messy from last night activities and her dress was ruined, she looked like an angel when she slept. The black piece of clothing was ripped on the floor and Bruce had to grin at the sight of it, it was too hard taking it off in a conventional way with such a tiny zipper. He looked at the time and it was 10 am, too late for breakfast but a nice time for a nice little brunch. Bruce found a hickey on her neck and had to kiss it, she muttered something and leaned onto him as if giving better access to her neck, he found out last night that it was her weak spot. He kept trailing little kisses down her neck till she finally opened her eyes and smiled at him, a sight that he would never get tired of staring at.
" Good morning. " She said with a groggy voice and tangled her body around his like a vine. He liked this feeling of closeness, being near her body felt comfortable like he was meant to be near her.
" Morning." He kissed her lips and got up naked. Emma turned around and was staring at his body with a look of lust on her face. She was biting her lips at this awesome sight.
" Gosh. Stop staring, if you keep doing this we will never leave this room." He leaned on the bed to peck her lips again but she gave him a full kiss on the lips and tried to lure him back to bed. Of course, he resisted and collapsed on top of her, pinning her down. They kept making out, the pair was so entranced by each other that they didn't realize when the door opened and Alfred Pennyworth entered. Even Alfred didn't notice that his master wasn't alone till it was too late.
" Master Bruce, good-" He finally noticed that Bruce Wayne wasn't alone like he used to. Emma was naked underneath him and it looked like they weren't just sleeping.
" Hey, Alfred. Alfred !" Bruce realized the compromising position they were in and pulled the blanket over Emma and himself. Emma was blushing bright red, just like a tomato, and couldn't look at Alfred in the eye.
" Sorry, sir, miss. I was just bringing your tray. I thought you were alone, just a second and I will bright something for you Miss Delaney. " Alfred said professionally and left the room.
" I never felt like I was caught by a parent doing the deed until now." He commented staring at the door. Emma hid under the mattress.
" I don't think I can ever look at Alfred in the eye again" she muttered.
" At least he brought us food." He commented and she had to laugh at the embarrassing situation. Her laugh brought a big smile to Bruce's face and he laughed a little bit, Emma liked his laugh. Even though it was just a brief sound. She got up and started to pick up the pieces of clothing that were
" God. You ruined my dress, how can I go home ?" She commented after finding the ruined fabric.
" Here, take this. " He gave her one of his robes. There were a B and a W engraved on it. She wrapped it around her after finally putting her panties and her bra back on her figure.
" How do I look? A mess, I bet. " She commented and asked him about his bathroom.
" It's located after the closet. " He said this and guided her to their destination.
" You know, I always cared about the environment. We should save water and shower together. " She commented with a witty smile on her face.
" I completely agree. " Bruce said with a grin and they both went to his huge shower.
They left the shower together and Bruce borrowed her some yoga pants and one black t-shirt. She tied her hair and brushed her teeth with a spare toothbrush Bruce had.
" You are in worse shape than me. What happened? " She commented at the bruises covering his arms and back.
" Accident while spelunking. You know cave-
" Cave Diving. I know, used to practice before coming to Gotham, do you know any good spots to practice spelunking around the area. "
" Yeah, I will show you later. " He winked and got dressed.
" Alfred left another tray of food while we showered, do you think he heard -"
" I'd rather not even think about it." He commented with a frown and Emma laughed.
" Oh, hold on. My friend is calling me." Emma answered her cellphone and the name Jonathan Crane popped up. "Hey, Johnny. I'm not at home, no I'm not, I am at a friend's. Nope, maybe, I don't know. What? What about the water? Do you think I know where my house's water comes from? It comes from the tap, dumbass. Bye"
" You're friends with Dr. Crane ?"
" Yeah, remember when I told you about that world tour of mine? He was the one who helped me when I got lost."
" The psychologist ?"
" Yeah. He is nice, people used to make fun of the way he looked, skinny like a stick. I helped him on a diet after he helped me when I was lost. " She told him
" You know that he is freeing some criminals? Right ?"
" Yeah, but I'd rather delude myself thinking that maybe he is just being a good professional. I know what and why he is doing it, but I simply can't accept that the same guy who helped back then is that corrupt psychologist. "
" You always think the best of everyone ?"
" I try to but it's not who you are underneath...it's what you do that defines you." She sighed "I've been avoiding him because of his association with Falcone, but deep down I just want to believe that he is a good person underneath."
"Then you're lying to yourself. "
" I know. But lying to myself is better than losing a good friend." She said with a sad smile while she sat and begun to eat " I've seen on the internet that your birthday is coming. What would you like as a gift ?"
"I don't know. What would you give to a billionaire?"
"Something he doesn't have." Emma said as a matter of fact. And managed to throw a crumpet at him but Bruce was faster and ate it before the cake hit him.
" You are probably going to give me grey hairs before I'm 40." Emma laughed and continued her meal.
The couple finished eating and, finally, left the room. Alfred was waiting for them in the garden with a small smirk on his face. Emma saw the elder gentleman and started to blush.
" Hey, Alfie." Emma said playfully and kissed the butler's cheek.
" Good morning, miss Delaney." He said with a smile and Emma looked down the ground, unable to meet his eye. " Don't worry, I have changed his diapers and seen him naked many times before." Emma started to laugh at this while Bruce almost choked his water.
" Boys, I better go back home. Kitty is waiting for her mommy."
" Your cat surely can wait a little bit longer." Bruce said and circled her waist with his strong arms, taking her in a loving embrace right in front of his house.
" Bruce ?" A woman, who looked a little older than Emma, came with a small gift box.
" Oh, hi, Rachel." Bruce said awkwardly, it was weird having with the woman you've been having sex with in front of the woman you've been loving since childhood. Emma just stood there with a small smile, looking friendly.
" Hey, I just came to give you your gift. I didn't know you were busy." She said pointedly.
"Oh no, we have just finished our business. I'm Emma, Emma Delaney. You are ?" She said with her sympathetic smile.
" Rachel, Rachel Dawes. " Rachel said with an edgy tone and shook hands with her. Emma wasn't dumb to miss how hard the older woman shook her hand.
" Good thing that you both met. How can I help you, Rachel ?"
" Nothing, forget it." Rachel kept the gift inside of her bag and left. Bruce had a confused look on his face and Emma looked as if she was trying hard to figure the whole situation out.
" That was weird." Emma said with a small frown that turned into a smirk.
" Wipe that smirk off your face, this story is for later." Bruce said playfully.
" Let me guess, she is your ex? No, too friendly for that. She is your first something, men usually have some obsession with their firsts. First sex? Nah, she looks more centered, prudish than you, probably you did it with someone older."
" You're really wondering about who I lost my virginity with ?" Bruce laughed. "It was not Rachel. That's for sure."
" I knew it." Emma said with a smile and kept walking. "How much older than you ?"
" I was 16 and she was 30. "
" Dude. That's crazy."
" It was quick, I was a nervous teen who lied about being 20," Bruce said with a smirk.
" No way. " She laughed hard.
" What about you?"
" Sophomore year at Harvard. He was a law student and had blonde hair, I had a thing for blonde haired guys back then."
" Should I bleach my hair."
" Nah. I like your looks, all dark and mysterious. It's way hotter than a goody-two-shoes guy who's afraid of the dark."
" Don't tell me you had to leave the lights on. " Bruce had to laugh at this.
" I had, I was so self-conscious about being naked for a guy to stick his one-eyed snake inside of me that it was awful." She said with a laugh.
" You're very descriptive." Bruce said with a small smile.
" Half of the things I say are inappropriate, the other half either."
" That must be why Alfred likes you," Bruce said closing the space between then and pinning her against the wall.
" Just Alfred? After that sex, I'd think that you'd like me even better tha-" He shut her up with a kiss. They kept making out until he carried her to his rooms again and repeated last night's activities.
She had to leave and go back to her house, Batman had to work tonight but was sad to see her leaving nonetheless. Tonight he would invade one of Crane's hideouts but right now he was leaving his not-yet-girlfriend in her house but her cellphone rang before their goodbyes.
" Hey, Johnathan. Meet you at 11 pm? Where? But it's located in the Narrows, you're getting crazy with those patients of yours. I will be there, bye, idiot." He heard Crane's voice asking her to meet him tonight for a surprise but the address given was in the Narrows, was she involved in all of this?
" A competitor ?"
" A friend. He asked to meet me in a weird place." She said with a confused look on her face, it made him feel guilty of ever doubting her. But meeting someone so perfect made him beware that all great things in his life ended soon.
" Would you go there ?" He asked trying to leave all his worries behind him.
" He has not given me a reason to doubt his intentions yet." She said and kissed the corner of his mouth. ''Bye, I gotta go and get ready to meet this dumbass in a weird place."
" That's the wrong way of saying goodbye to the 'sex God', as you told your sister-in-law during that other call."
" You heard that? I thought you were sleeping. If I said your name they would start asking me some weird crap about your habits or if you do drugs. People tend to talk about billionaires, I learned this in a hard way. " She said with a small smile and gave him a proper kiss.
Bruce finally reached Crane's hideout, the problem was that Emma was inside of the crappy apartment in the Narrows. She looked scared and was trying to call Crane but looked like she was unable to reach him.
" What the hell is this? I thought you were living here or something, there's is just a box full of weird looking teddies." She left that message and sat on the floor near the box. Bruce was watching her from
" You're an ugly little rabbit." She said that and shook the thing, a weird substance was hidden inside of the rabbit. She hid behind the door while it was being opened. Crane and some men walked in and she tried to quietly leave without being heard, her now ex-friend was too busy looking for something inside of that room.
After leaving, Emma was starting her motorcycle and couldn't think about anything other than the fact that one of her closest friends was involved with something so serious and dirty. She was panicking and couldn't focus on starting her bike, she was just standing there for ten minutes straight. Till she found a black dot catching fire running around in a narrow alley and Emma ran right after him. It was Batman, the shock of meeting him was greater than the shock of seeing him catching fire, thank God he was able to get rid of the flames.
"Hold on, stop. " She tried to say but he was holding a small device, he shot a string right over the building and started to go up.
" I must be insane, damn it. " She said that and went to the stairs. She realized that he was delusional (as much as a guy who dresses like a bat can be), he was too weak to hold himself up and was shaking like a convulsing person. She got up and helped him to get some small cellphone and held it near his ear.
"Alfred, help me." He said with uneven breaths. She was more shocked than before, Alfred was a name too British for another American. It just couldn't be. She thought Bruce was nice enough to give a huge amount of money to help people, but not good to the point of wasting his on energy to save the whole city.
He was muttering something to her about blood and poison and the teacher was able to understand that he was poisoned and there was some unknown substance in his blood. She did what a normal person would do, other than jumping over a building with a man masked as a bat, of course. And told him to breathe, she wanted to keep him conscious no matter what.
" Hey, Alfred. We're over this address I've sent my message."
"Miss Delaney ?!"
"Are you Alfred like Alfred? Alfred Pennyworth?"
"Oh." The butler realized his mistake, he just gave away Bruce's biggest secret in the heat of the moment.
" Then this is Bruce-fucking-Wayne?! I knew that I've seen this tight and nice looking butt somewhere." She said with a desperate laugh.
