A/N: Sorry for the delay in the update. Life has been crazy... anywho MAJOR SPOILER ALERT! This is a legitimate warning (Once again I know :P) But if you have not seen the dark knight rises yet, this chapter will give major plot twists away! Just a heads up, enjoy! And here is too more regular updates :D!

Chapter Nine

Adriana dropped her bag of shopping into the chair in the living room of the suite and leaned over hitting power on the remote control for the TV. She was still shaken from the phone call earlier that day, and had gone out to clear her head, and the best way to do that was to buy new shoes. She set about taking off her cream coloured coat when the News Anchor caught her attention.

"An international sigh of relief was let loose today as the stand off over the fate of Gotham city was decided in a clear victory for the good guys. I am now joined by our field correspondent Lisa Szu. Lisa, can you go over with us what happened this afternoon, in an amazing turn of events?"

Adriana sat down and turned up the volume, leaning her elbows on her knees, watching the TV closely. "I sure can, Tom. Things reached a climax here as reports started flooding in that an uprising was taking place, within the barricaded city. No one knew exactly what was happening, except the hour on which the terrorist known as Bane, had set the fate of Gotham on, was fast approaching. As things looked their bleakest, we saw this."

The picture cut away to footage of a big black aircraft flying out over Gotham and then out over the bay. "We were quickly able to ascertain that this vessel, belonged to the one and only Batman."

Just then the main anchor cut over Lisa's droning voice, with what sounded like a rushed after thought pushed through by nervous producers, "We would just like to warn our viewers that the footage, is graphic and may be considered disturbing by some viewers."

'What?' What could possibly happen? Clearly Bruce had the bomb, he was getting it away from the city! He had done it! Adriana felt tears well in her eyes. But then… all of a sudden….

An explosion.

It looked bad, but it couldn't be….

Lisa's voice suddenly came ringing back into focus, "And tragically, in all of our confirmed reports, the hero who saved Gotham, and possibly the entire Untied States from the tyranny of the Mad Man Bane, has been confirmed dead in the subsequent explosion."

"No!" Adriana grabbed the TV remote, hitting rewind, but it was just a regular broadcast, there was no way to unsee it. She hit mute and in the deafening silence that filled the penthouse suite all she could hear, ringing around her brain, were the words, 'confirmed dead', there was no way to unhear it. "Nooooo! NOOOOOO!" She screamed.

She threw the remote across the room, cracking the screen and watching the colours fade to blackness. That was how she felt, as she frantically shook her head, she was fading into blackness.

"Oh my god, ohmygod." She got up and ran into the bathroom, and wretched into the sink, but nothing came up.

Suddenly his face was in front of her eyes, "No!" She screamed closing them and pressing the heals of her palms so firmly into her eye sockets that white lights sprouted in her vision. She opened her eyes blinking, looking in the mirror, she could see him standing behind her as if he had always been there. She turned on her heel but he wasn't there. He hadn't been there for eight long years. He would never be there again.

"Bruce." Adriana was moaning, like some sort of wounded animal. She was loosing her breath, as if it was slowly being pulled out of her lungs. "Bruce, no, no, no, no….." She fell forward onto her knees, feeling the brutal jarring of the bathroom floor surge up her body.

That was when she just gave herself up to the darkness.