Well I was right in my prediction that I would update tomorrow. I actually tried really hard to look over this chapter. I know I have a tendency to make a lot of typos, the grammar fairy hates me. Anyways another chapter for my stupendous reviewers and alerters
Faye was nervous about how her first day working at Wayne Enterprises would be. She was wearing her favorite high heel shoes as well as a pair of black slacks and a white blouse. Her dark hair was pulled back in its usual high pony tail because the bruise on the side of her face was also completely invisible by now. She said hello to the guard as he let her through security and made her way up to the 14th floor where the guard had said her new office would be. Mr. Fox was waiting for her when she arrived.
"Good morning Ms. Parson." He said with a kind smile.
"Good morning Mr. Fox." She said returning his smile. She looked around the rather large office space. To the left there was a door that had a plaque on it that read Faye Parson. In the area around her private office there were tables in the center and on the right wall there were desks with computers, on the left bookshelves full of various textbooks. It reminded her very much of a class room.
"This area would be where the tutoring would take place." Said Mr. Fox. "That there is you office."
"I know it has my name on it." Faye said with a laugh.
"Yes, yes it does. Today there really is nothing you have to do so you can just familiar yourself with the office. To access the computer you ID is your name and the Password is your birthday until you decided to change it. If you need anything just give me a call. On the phones to make an inter office call you press 6 and then dial the extension number mine is 1-2-3-4."
"Thanks, Mr. Fox." Faye said to him as he left. She went into her office and did the first thing anyone ever did when in a office. She tested out her new chair; it was a black leather computer chair with a high back that reclined slightly. It passed her test because it was rather comfortable. She then logged onto her computer.
"Would you like to change your password." Faye read aloud what appeared on the screen. She thought for a moment. Most people when choosing a password would pick something random like the name of there first boyfriend or their pet cat. Faye thought those were far too boring plus she had never had any pets except Peter the goldfish who died the day she had bought him. She thought of a password but felt rather silly using it but she felt it was one she would certainly remember, batman, so she entered it in as her new password.
She then began mucking around with the random setting on her computer changing the desktop, checking her email, and other things of that nature. Once she was done with this she was rather bored. She noticed all the different files that were listed under programs and she began to look at them. Most of them were just links to other departments in Wayne Enterprises. One in particular caught her attention, archives. So she opened the file and began to read about the history of some of Wayne Enterprises departments. She started with A's and decided to work her way down, however when she got to a department labeled Applied Sciences, it asked her for a password to access the information. She tried her username and password but it denied her access. She then picked up the phone and dialed Mr. Fox.
"What is the problem Ms. Parson?"
"I was just wondering, I was looking through the achieves on my computer and it denied me access to a department called Applied Sciences do you know why that is?"
" Well Applied Sciences is no longer a department here at Wayne Enterprise, no one knows how to access it anymore."
"Oh, well thanks anyway." Said Faye hanging up the phone. She continued to stare at the login screen…something had must have once gone on a Wayne Enterprises that they didn't want anyone to know about.
Bruce Wayne had just come into work. He first went to go and talk to Lucius about how things where going.
"Well Mr. Wayne, the numbers are all good. Ms. Parson seems to like her office. I must warn you though Mr. Wayne, she found Applied Sciences."
"Already, I was expecting her to take at least a week."
"You knew, she'd find it didn't you?"
"Come on Lucius she's a history teacher don't you think she would be naturally drawn to the word archives? That's why I put the password on it."
"You know Mr. Wayne she may only be a history teacher and not a math teacher but the girl is bright enough to put 2 and 2 together and realize it equals four."
"She won't find out Lucius."
"I wouldn't count on it Mr. Wayne. Just don't get careless?"
"I'm not being careless." Said Bruce heading for the elevator.
"Where are you going?"
"To welcome our new staff member." He said pushing the number 14 heading down to Ms. Parson's office.
When he got to her office he found her spinning around in circles in her computer chair.
"You know if you push off really hard with your legs you can go faster." He said coming into her office.
Faye nearly fell out of her chair in an attempt to stop it from spinning. Mr. Wayne had once again caught her off guard. Faye could have sworn the man moved without making a sound.
"Really? And do you know that from experience of observation." She said putting her hand to her forehead, spinning around had not been such a good idea for now even though she had stopped the room hadn't.
"A little bit of both."
"I would just like to let you know, I wouldn't usually conduct myself at work in such a manner." Said Faye.
"I would assume so, but since you really had nothing to do today. I'll let it slide." Said Bruce with a smile. "So I take it you didn't have any visits from the mob last night."
"No, someone was making sure I was safe last night." Said Faye.
"And what are you going to do tonight?"
"Hope he shows up again." Said Faye.
"Well if you ever need a place to stay, you can always go back to the penthouse, I can't guarantee I will be there but Alfred will let you in."
"I don't think it would be a good idea for me to be seen leaving your penthouse every morning Mr. Wayne." Said Faye noticing an email from Sophie pop up on the screen. It read hey do you want to go out to lunch at noon today? Faye looked at the clock and noticed it was nearly noon. "Do I get a lunch break?"
"Yes, and technically you can go home now if you want there really is no reason for you to be here if you've already organized your office."
"Alright, I think I'm going home for the day."
"Okay, tomorrow you should actually have something to do." He said.
Faye left Wayne Enterprises and headed over to the restaurant Sophie and she always ate lunch at. Sophie was already there waiting for her.
"So how was your first day of work?" She asked when Faye sat at the table.
"It wasn't really much of one I just got settled into my office. How was the first day of school?"
"Ugh, hell as always. I already had to suspend two students for trying to make drug deals and I'm only on lunch break so the days not over yet."
"Really I have all the free time in the world and nothing to do with it." Said Faye looking around the restaurant for a waiter to ask for a glass or water. While she was looking around she noticed a familiar blonde woman, the same woman she had meet on the train a few days ago. "Oh Sophie do you see that woman over there, the blonde one, she's the psychologist for The Joker she graduated the same year as us."
"Really well maybe she would like to join us. After all it is rather boring sitting by oneself."
"Okay, I will." Said Faye getting up from her table to go and talk with Harleen.
"Hey, Harleen it's Faye Parson the woman you met on the train. My and my friend Sophie were wondering if you might like to sit with us for lunch today."
"Oh yeah, I remember you. Sure it would be nice to have someone else to talk to other than The Joker."
"Oo I love your lipstick, bold color but it works for you." Said Sophie when Harleen came to join the table. Harleen was actually wearing a rather dark red color lipstick.
"Thanks." She said sitting down. They all chatted for awhile until there food came.
"So you are analyzing The Joker?" Sophie asked. "Do you think you could analyze my friend here she has an obsession with Batman."
"Hey! It is not an obsession. He intrigues me and he been kind enough to watch over me." Faye said defensively.
"You've met him then?" Said Harleen.
"Sort of the first time he just beat up some people who were attacking me and the second time he just was on my fire escape." Faye said.
The girls spend the rest of there lunch talking about Batman, and work. Naturally everyone was curious to hear about Harleen's job. After lunch Faye went home. She called a window maker to see about fixing the glass. She had also bought a really cheap, crappy tv off her neighbor and was know watching the 11'00 news. Nothing really interesting was happening in Gotham and she supposed that was a good thing. However she heard police sirens off in the distance.
Batman was running from the cops yet again. This had been going of for almost a year now, but it was what Gotham needed. He did however wish sometimes that Gordon wouldn't do such a good job at least when he was pursuing him. He also hated how well the police had learned to train there dogs. He was near Faye's neighborhood and thought it would be wise to check on her. Climbing the fire escape yet again her looked in on her while she sat watching TV. She then turned off the TV and headed over to her fire escape.
Faye had stopped watching the news because they were talking about the ongoing search for Batman. She went out on to her fire escape.
"Are you there?" She asked into the shadows, hoping that by some odd chance he might be.
He was debating on whether or not to show himself. How did she know he was here? Because you came at this time last time, he reasoned with himself.
"Yes, I'm here." He said stepping out of the shadows.
"What happened to you arm?" She asked noticing the rather nasty bite one of the police dogs had given him.
"It's fine."
"You should at least put some antiseptic on it. You don't want it to get infected. I think I have a first aide kit…" She said walking back into her apartment. Batman watched as she began rummaging through a kitchen cabinet. "Found it." She said returning with the kit.
Batman thought again just to tell her it was fine and he really didn't need it but she had went through all that trouble to find it so he let her put some on the area. She seemed to be deep in thought while she did it.
"What are you thinking about?" He asked.
"Just that everyone makes you seem like this immortal unstoppable force. But underneath the symbol your just a man, you feel pain and you have limits. It must be hard trying always be the symbol."
"Batman doesn't have limits." He said responding in the say way he did when Alfred had said something similar to what Faye had just told him.
"Yes but whoever is hiding behind that mask does. It's just something to think about…" Said Faye taking the first aide kit back into the house. Just as she had expected when she returned Batman was nowhere to be found.
Well there you have it, 5 pages on word worth of story. Don't forget to keep on reviewing it lets me know what you think of the story.