Went to The Dark Knight Rises again, yesterday. Had the most wonderful day and it brought me inspiration c:
More Heather? Sorry, not today xD I am clinging to much to Aria D:
You will see what will happen later, because there are going to be Batman shipping's, eeyup. I came it with the idea .. about a day ago? I was like: YES! And then she can have Bane. Eeyup. Also, I can shoot myself. Bane's eyes are .. dark .. D: Not grey/blue. Dafuq no D: More like brown :I Well can't change that now. Just stick with this then xD

For those who wonder, Talia is going to make a major appearance not too far ahead, look out for it c:


And just in time
In the right place
Steadily emerging with grace

Curled up against a cold, brick wall sat a small figure down. Her blinding, fire red hair seemed dull and lifeless. Just as her green eyes, whom were closed at the moment. The rain was pouring down in a peaceful pace.

The woman opened her eyes when she though she heard something, something else then the homeless dude who lived some meters away from her in a cardboard box.

With a sign she looked around, expecting anything bad happening in the next two minutes. The 'roof' above her head held some of the rain away, so at least she was dry.

When there was no one around that could have created the sound, she continued her assault on her sleepless body and huffed. She was so tired, hungry, weak. She lost everything and now lived on the streets, she regretted it that she once snatched a pretty, eatable burger from the street out of the hands of a homeless woman because she now knew how that would have felt.

She tucked her knees up and buried her face between her knees, sighting. She felt miserable, and had totally no clue where she would go now. She could leave Gotham, of course she could but where would she go then? To another miserable city where living on the street could be more worse, since she knew the surroundings here better than her own backyard. Oh yes.. she had no backyard anymore.

When she peeked somewhat when a flock of birds flew up, she could see something moving now.
Her head snapped up and her eyes scanned the area, no desire to fight in it. Whoever it was, they must be damn quick with it.

Slowly, from out of the shadows the night held captive, appeared two men, and something else in the middle.

With a shock she noticed that it was a person, and a damn big one.

Thinking every possible, worst case scenario possible she stayed where she was, one eyebrow pulled up.

'O no, that is Bane' She thought, keeping her face into a straight poker face, letting somewhat of the disturbing tricks her stomach was doing right now slipping trough. What would he do here, at night in the dark, in company of her?

"What do you want from me?" She croaked, voice broken. She swallowed and stared up at him, waiting.

Of course she had heard the stories, the legends of 'the sewers', and the legend of the man with the mask. Still it made her flinch a little bit when he stepped into the light.

He was indeed huge, and she was sure when she stood up and stretched out to her fullest she would maybe reach his sternum with luck. This made her realize that whatever he wanted, he most likely would get it. She was in no position right now to fight him off, actually she was pretty sure no one was. Okay, probably she could dodge him, and then made a insane dash for it but right now her body seemed to protest in every way.

His mask was what took most of her attention, she just could not stop staring at it. It seemed so .. like an illusion. Was this really happening? She felt the blood withdraw from her face when he stepped another step closer, now fully in the light. Was he here to kill her?

She gave that some thought and decided that he was not here to kill her. Simply .. from the stories she had heard about him he just would not wander up to a stranger to kill him, for nothing. Still, his appearance here, could not match any story that has been told.

When he spoke she felt his voice rumble in her stomach, and she suddenly felt like throwing her last, small, meal out. It didn't sound like anything she had ever heard, it felt so .. unreal. It sounded unreal, it even looked unreal. But he was real all right, and he was standing in front of her.

"I simply want to offer you a job" He rumbled.

She blinked, slowly and stared at him in disbelief.

"What" She slowly said, eyes wide with disbelief. "I don't have anything to offer to you anymore, anything I could give you is gone.. why me?"

Everything she had was gone now, and forgotten. She could only give him some connections, but the people she knew were probably not important to him. Not important enough at least.

"Because I think we both know why" He merely stated.

Slowly she pushed her red hair out of her way and sighted. It was a foolish idea to refuse. He could give her more than she had now, but the thought of it made her veins go ice cold. While a silence fell she could not help but wonder if he would kill her right now, right here if she would refuse his offer.

Eventually she pushed herself upward, and straightened herself. She looked first at the men next to Bane and then to Bane.

"All right, I accept"


When I opened my eyes I felt an intense pain around my chest. I grunted softly and found out I was back in my cell again for whatever reason. Slowly I heaved myself up and looked around, only to find the same darkness I did .. how long ago? I could be out for days, since he didn't hit me very soft.

The second my brain registered Bane made the hairs on my arm rise. Panic rose again in my throat, know that if I would not get out of here soon I would meet him again. I knew I was a coward, I also knew I wanted to escape and run. Mainly run and never look back.

I heard a person on the outside cough, I flinched and remained silent, keeping myself from breathing out until I was sure it was gone. My mind started to work on what it seems it's own. I started to think the best ways to escape, to dash and find an exit.. an exit in this hell hole was not very easy to find and if I would get problems with my bad sense of direction I would mostly end up right at the place I would most likely not want to be. With a sight I felt the panic rose higher and higher, I was trapped.. like a mouse in a corner. Cornered by the cat, this was a cat and mouse game and I would be death if I would be brought once more up there ..

Then I remember Aria, and I felt my mood drop right away. I knew something was wrong with the way she wrote that letter, was she all this time here? In the sewers with Gotham's worst nightmare? No, that could not be! I knew Aria, and Aria was not the type of person who would end up here. She wasn't even involved with anyone from the underworld.
Whenever I remember the look on her face, and the fact no one attacked her at that point there was no denying in it. She was part of all of this, and nothing could be done about it.
I could not stop wondering if she betrayed me or did not have any choice, would she join Bane on his next assault on me or would she help me out?

I sighted and shove back against the wall, feeling tears burn in the corners of my eyes.

I may never come out of here alive.


Aria sat with her back against a dusty pillar, examining Bane's back. He sad on the floor, crouched and occupied with some laptops. She felt the urge to let all her emotion out at him, ask him desperately why he had taken her, Heather, out of all people.. but something held her back. She was not sure what. In her mind she was already planning an escape plan for Heather, she could not leave her here to die she would never forgive herself if she did. Aria reached in the back pocket of her trousers and fished a pack of cigarettes out.

"So.. what's our next move?" She asked, green eyes fixed on Bane. "Planning anything special?"

Bane shifted for a moment before answering "Yes, tomorrow I intent to visit a certain stock exchange" (Not sure if I have this one right, forgive my Dutch genes)

This made Aria look up in surprise. "What? Why's that?"

Before Bane could answer her did a loud bang in the distant took both of their attention. Bane continued with what he was doing but Aria looked a bit nervous.

"The hell?" She said, glancing at Bane who seemed totally calm. She turned her attention to the entrance the sound had come from, slowly she lifted herself up and started to shift the cigarette in between her fingers. Shouts were heard from the entrance, in the far distance. "It could not be .." Aria murmured to herself.

Not very much later appeared a few men who seemed to drag a body to where Bane was sitting. Aria sat motionless, looking to the body. Was it dead? When they dropped it next to Aria her brown seemed to lift somewhat, and she felt suddenly very relieved for no apparent reason. At least Bane could see some progress in here, with him locked up she could stop the ridiculous patrols on the streets to scan for certain officers. It was Commissioner Gordon lying in front of her.

"Why are you here?" Aria tensed and felt the urge to do some steps back. When there was no answer, a mercenary kicked Gordon merciless.

''Answer him!" The mercenary shouted.

"I was asking you" Bane said in reply to the mercenary.

Right at the moment that the mercenary seemed to realize what Bane meant Aria knew right away he was screwed.
She tossed the cigarette away and shifted somewhat so she could take a interesting look at the scene. This is going to be good, she thought with a smirk on her face.

Suddenly everything happened at once, the commissioner hauled himself in the flooding water, shootings were heard and screams in the far distance. Aria sprang up and turned in the direction where they kept Heather. With a strange feeling in her stomach she started to run in their direction not even thinking straight. If anything happened to her she would shoot herself, no matter what.

When she exploded around a corner and noticed some thugs standing with a somewhat startled she froze, green eyes widened.

".. Where did she go?" Aria growled, trying not to show her fear. If she had escaped she could have been shot..

"She just ran when we opened the door, it happened so fast and the gunshots in the distance distracted us" A young guy explained.

Aria already trailed off. "Where did she run to?" She spat, eyes blazing.

They directed to the left. Aria left the somewhat shaken and surprised thugs for what they were, knowing that Bane would clean it up later and started to run in full impulse. She could not have gone far, could she? Gunshots in the distance confirmed her worst nightmare.


As fast as my legs could carry me I burst ed around a corner only to be greeted with a hell lot of gunshots, bullets flew around my ears like a madman. Not once in my entire life had I done something that bolt like I did then, and it worked! I escaped.. well out of my cell. I had the feeling I was not going to get any further.

"Come on, darling" A raspy voice rang in my ears "Come on out, .. you've got nowhere to hide now .."

I felt my heart speeding up, and it was already beating at a ridiculous high rate. I felt the fear coming over me, yet again and I started to think about Bane. What if I ran into him .. he would surely kill me. When his face showed up in my eyes I felt my knees buckle. I kept myself from whimpering and tried to focus on the task. I could peek, with the risk they would see me .. or I could run and risk to be shot, or I could stay here like the coward I was and then wait until they reached me. The last thing seemed very tempting, I could also dash past them probably and risk to be shot anyway but at least I knew where they all were.

When I was about to make a decision I was roughly interrupted by a very clear gunshot and a very familiar voice.

"You idiots! Can't you see she is going that way!" Aria's voice spat.

I tensed and felt all the blood withdraw from my face. Trembling like a leaf I closed my eyes and expected the worse. But the footsteps that I could hear clear now were not heading for my direction, they were heading towards the opposite of the room. When a soft 'thud' was heard I slowly peeked around the corner only to see Aria heading my way. Not sure whether to be defensive or not I backed away, eyes wide with terror and misunderstanding. Aria stopped dead when she saw me doing that.

".. We have to get you out of here" Aria spoke, voice soft and somewhat broken. I gulped and looked at her with suspicion, unable to find my voice back.

"Heather .. come on.. we know each other for years now.. don't do this to me, I never intended for you to end up here" Her green eyes were clouded with sadness. I never saw her like this before, how could I be sure she was not lying.

"... .. w-why" I said with what was left of my voice.

"Come on! Wasn't that letter a bit clear after what you saw?" Aria continued, finding herself back again. I said nothing, only stared well aware of the fact that Bane could show up anytime now anywhere. She must have seen my sudden terror flying over my face want she stepped toward me, ignoring my 'No's' and 'Fuck off's'.

"Come on, Heather!" She said a bit louder now but not loud enough for others to hear "I can end up dead if you don't trust me now, I can get you out of here but if you want to stay alive please.. come with me!" She snapped.

There was nothing I could do, I had to trust her. I would have trusted her right away if I hadn't seen her with Bane.
Aria seemed to realize I was not going to move on my own so she sprang forward and grabbed me by the arm, dragging me towards a different entrance that led upstairs.

"Keep your voice down, Heather" Aria hissed. Not that I was going to talk, my vocal cords seemed to be closed off and throw away so I could never use them again.

We continued trough different halls, upstairs, downstairs, every now and then Aria would stop and looked around if nobody saw her. I did everything she asked, looking a bit blankly in front of me and having the strange feeling that I was going to vomit anytime when we stopped. After what felt like ages I could see light in the distance, Aria suddenly stopped and pushed me forward. I almost fell over my own feet and quickly tried not to fall, mumbling hysterical. I quickly scanned the environment to be sure she hadn't lure me into some kind of trap but the only thing I saw was a metro station.

"Okay, listen to me .. listen to me .. Heather!" Using my name in such a harsh tone made my head snap up in her direction and I gulped. With some hesitation she reached behind her and pulled out a gun. In reflex I jumped somewhat back, feeling like I could faint now anytime.

"Ssh.. it's okay, Heather. I. Am. Not. Going. To. Shoot. You, okay?" She said, repeating every word like she was talking to a very, simple toddler. I noded slowly and looked with caution at the gun that she handed over to me.

"Here, take it .. you have to defend yourself, Heather" Aria said, green eyes filled with concern. When I saw that I slowly reached out to the gun and took it from her. I stared at it and then gulped again.

"Listen I got to head back in and see if Bane is not-"

"WHAT?" I squeaked, with twice much volume as normal. Aria jumped and looked behind her swearing for my sudden outburst.

"What? Did you expect me to come with you?" She said, voice low.

"..."

"You are hopeless, Heather .. you know that?" Aria said, sighting. "Okay, listen to me. Head up and go somewhere, to a hotel for all I care but do not use anything traceable! You hear me!? And do not, I repeat, DO. NOT. Go home, okay?" Aria paused for a moment, before she continued with a heavy sight. "Leave Gotham, Gotham as you know it is gone.. people will start dying .. and .." Her voice suddenly dropped what snapped my attention back up, my eyes suddenly also filled with concern.

"I will not be the one to bury you" With that said, Aria turned around and disappeared in to the shadows, just like that.


Slowly Aria followed the subway tracks under her feet, closing in to the entrance to the sewers. With Heather finally gone she was hoping that Bane would just leave her alone, she was to no threat to them in her opinion. While she entered the sewers and came to the place where she saw Bane for the last time she found out that he was still there. The way he held his vest made Aria shudder, she had seen it before and every time it reminded her how much he could wreak, just with once blow of his massive fist. She walked towards him, closing the distance between them.

"He escaped?" Aria asked.

"Yes, and so did our prisoner, I fear" Bane replied.

Aria tensed and tucked her hands in her pockets, forcing herself to calm down.

"She escaped trough the subway, I-I lost track of her there .. she also took one of my guns"

"Very well"

When the silence that fell continued for longer than a few moments Aria could not stop herself from asking.

"What? We're not going after her?"

"Indeed, we have other things to do first"

Aria looked utterly surprised in his direction, noticing he was now looking straight at her. When her eyes met she kept herself from withdrawing and stared right back into his cold, merciless eyes who seemed surprisingly calm this time.

"I heard from some of our contact something about a 'Catwoman'" Aria said breathless.

"Indeed" Bane said, voice dangerously low.

I'll seek you out,
Flay you alive
One more word and you won't survive
And I'm not scared of your stolen power
See right through you any hour


A/N: Well .. shit xD This took long, I got into a real fight with the quotes here .. every quote of Bane seems on the internet except from this part. Well fuck, I thought. I fell back into a depression, school started again but everything worked out fine. Total times I have erased and redone this chapter? Close to six times, to be precise. If there are still people out there who like my story, please keep on reading I seem to have my old Bane obsession back (:

Please, leave me be with the Commissioner scene, I looked everywhere on the internet for clues what happened in that particular scene, and my mind failed me once again so I had no idea, only in big lines and not with the exact quotes.. Meh. Don't like this chapter. Meh. And Bruce Wayne is going to show up in the next chapter, less Bane I am afraid (: