Author's note: A big thankyou to Lilithofthenight for giving me the animal idea, it's really helped. I'm not entirely sure if Iris might be to animals, what Ivy is to plants but I have decided on what side Iris is going to be on. I hoped I haven't given anything away but I wanted to get my appreciation across. Thanks also to everyone that has favourite/followed this story, and to those who review. It makes me really happy! Enjoy guys :).
An Old Friend – Chapter 6
Iris's point of view
Looking around the island that I grew up on, I can't help but fall in love with it all over again. The babbling brook, the lagoon, the trees, the ferns and of course the iris plants, along with other glorious flowers of all possible colours, the island has never looked better. Luckily the storms didn't do any damage, if anything; they gave everything the boost it needed. The island was a volcano once upon a time but it collapsed in on itself so the only indication of the volcano is the rock cliffs that circle around the island. That's one of the best things about it, unless you know how, you can't find your way inside the walls. From the outside it looks like a solid formation but really, there's a secret way in.
Thankfully, because the island is such a natural wonder, only certain people are allowed to know.
"Not even Batman" I mumble to myself.
Even before I left, he had been bugging me. Always checking up on me and randomly appearing in my house, it's freaking creepy. He didn't know, but I set up cameras in my apartment and caught him on film sneaking in through my window while I was sleeping. When I went to take it to Gordon, the Mayor and Bruce Wayne were with him but I felt so violated that I couldn't have cared less. I still remember how it happened…
Before I left to go to the island
That bastard! How dare he come into my apartment when I'm sleeping, the stalker! I storm into the GCPD, my hair flaring behind me. Everyone turns and stares at me, probably wondering how a woman with a cast on one arm could have thrown the door open so forcefully, but I ignore them, making a beeline for Gordon who is or rather was talking to Bruce Wayne and the Mayor.
"How dare he!" I scream at him.
"I'm sorry?" he asks, clearly confused.
"I promised that I wasn't going to do anything, I promised that I wasn't going to be helping the inmates escape, I promised and you said you believed me!" I screech at him, smacking away Bruce Wayne's hand as he tries to calm me.
"I did and do believe you Iris. What is this about?"
I glare, feeling like a savage animal, and hold up the DVD. "Weird stuff was happing at my house, things in wrong places and my laptop was on even though I always turn it off when I go to bed so I put up cameras and what do I discover?" I ask rhetorically before continuing, "What I found was that creepy bastard Batman sneaking into my apartment at all hours of the night while I was sleeping! Going through my books, my laptop, my private belongings, I was surprised that he didn't go through my underwear when he snuck into my bedroom. What kind of sick joke is this? This stalker is supposed to be a good guy but with what I have on this disk, it's enough for most people to be put into Arkham and yet he's allowed?! What the hell!"
The entire building goes dead quiet, Bruce Wayne looks like he's about to vomit, the Mayor looks like he's about to faint and Gordon looks like I've told his son that Christmas is cancelled this year.
Gordon silently asks for the disk in my hand and I give it to him, "Go for it, I made copies."
I turn to the Mayor, "I am so leaving this city by the way, and there is absolutely no point in changing the locks because it's clear that Batman can get into anything."
Gordon plays the footage and my story is confirmed. The screen clearly shows him coming in through my window and going through my laptop, books and everything else.
Once it's finished, he turns to me, taking in my disgusted expression, "I can't apologise enough, this is…this never should have happened..." he sighs and rubs his head.
Bruce Wayne steps closer to me but I literally jump backwards, "Hey! Personal space rich boy, I don't care that you're Bruce Wayne. I have had my personal space violated by that Bat, the space I have around me right now is going to stay solely occupied by me."
He holds his hands up in a surrender motion, "Maybe you should give Batman another chance, he crossed lines I'm not disputing that. But maybe he just misjudged you."
"He's an untrusting bastard is more like" I can't help my attitude but he reminds me of that space invading Bat. "Don't waste your breath, I'm leaving Gotham and I am going to take every precaution so that Batman cannot find me, that you cannot find me and that no one can bug me unless I invite them to come to me."
The Mayor tries to change my mind but I'm not even going to bother letting him. I glare at the three of them, remind them that they had better leave me alone, and had better find a way to tell Batman to leave me alone too, and ignoring the camera crew, before I stormed back out again.
Back to the present
Shaking my head disgusted, I push the memory to the back of my head and walk back to the little cottage next to the lagoon. Seeing the little building come in to view puts a smile on my face, so many sweet memories in that cottage. Sitting down at my desk I pull up the report that I had been reading, you see being on a secluded island meant that I had a lot of free time as a kid. I was home schooled and I did go to a really good university and graduated with honours but I still have a bunch of free time and because of that, I have become a pretty good hacker. I became a semi-pro in Uni and even managed to get away with a few minor offences since they couldn't trace me. Naturally, no one ever found out but Mum knew, she always knew but she never scolded me. She only ever gave me this cheeky look and giggled.
Being here on the island has given me time to think. The whole thing with Batman and Gordon and everything else, I find myself actually agreeing with those in Arkham. The justice system doesn't seem to exist and is clearly corrupted (but anyone could tell you that), I find that there's a hidden side of me that wants to help my new friends, that just so happen to be classed as criminally insane. Like Penguin, on the outside, he's a reformed criminal, a business man with many venues all over Gotham. But everyone knows that he does a bunch of illeagal stuff out in the back allegys behind his establishments, although the GCPD can't prove it, what a surprise…
Sighing, I close my laptop, not wanting to re-read the information again. I had found out, with a bit of hacking, what had happened to Ivy and I know as much as was typed/written down. After the success of finding her Arkham file, I couldn't help my curiosity, I found the other files too. I looked into Edwards' file, and Mr Freezes', and also into Jonathans' file. Suddenly feeling warm, I stand and walk to the window to get some fresh air on my face. When the heat doesn't go, I walk into the bathroom and look at myself in the mirror… and freeze.
Whispering to myself, "Oh my sweet flower… I'm blushing."
Blushing, me? I'm blushing. Wait, why am I blushing? What was I thinking about? I was going through the names of the files. Edward, Mr Freeze, and Jonathan. Staring wide eyed at myself I the mirror, I realise why I had been blushing as the thought of one name has brought it back. Jonathan. I'm blushing because of Jonathan, uh oh.
Although there's no one to hear me, I say out loud "No I can't be getting feelings for him, his thing is fear, not relationships." The next thing out of my mouth is definitely a whine, "I don't want to turn into a Harley Quinn!"
Turning away from the mirror, I run to change my clothes. I'll go for a swim, that'll clear my thoughts.
Author's note: Yeah I know, it's short, but I haven't written anything in such a long time that I really wanted to get a chapter up. Now, down to some serious business, I do know what the next chapter will contain. But I have been severely neglecting my Harry Potter fanfic and since it is an epilogue, I want to get that done before I write the next chapter of 'An Old Friend'. Please let me know what you think in a review! Until next time, Bye!