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Take me away (take me away)
A secret place (a secret place)
A sweet escape (a sweet escape)
Take me away (take me away)
Take me away (take me away
To better days (to better days)
Take me away (take me away)
A hiding place (a hiding place)

- "Pocket Full of Sunshine" By: Natasha Bedingfield

Chapter 10: Take me Away

The rain had stopped, but we were still outside. Bruce was still holding me in his arms. I didn't want to let go, to be with him forever was my only hope now. I gently pushed away from him, he stood and helped me get up to my feet. His gaze was upon me as I tried to compose myself, he was reading me again. I looked up at him and offered him a kind smile, a thank you smile.

"Sorry for putting you through all this". I said as we both began to head inside the hospital.

"Its fine, don't worry about it". He replied, suddenly taking hold of my hand.

I closed my eyes for a bit. Much to my dismay I needed to get home, Jasper will go insane if I don't get home. He will also suspect. But I was not going to tell him that I was with Bruce. I sighed and opened my eyes again.

"Are you alright?' He asked concerned.

"No, but I can manage. Listen I need to get home. I will call a cab". I replied as I headed for the pay phone to call the cab company. Bruce took the phone from my hand and hanged it back up. His brown eyes were boring into me.

"Alfred will drive you home." He stated sternly. He almost scared me at times.

"I can't accept that. Jasper will suspect why Alfred drove me home. I don't want to argue with him right now". I replied. Jasper must be infuriated already, I have ignored all his calls. Either way he had no right to be angry, he was not my mother and as sure as hell was not my father.

"Alright, be careful". He sighed, Bruce was not in total agreement but had no other choice. He embraced me once again for one last time. I felt so safe, it felt so right. There was nothing more in this world that I wanted, I wanted him so badly. I had lost Emily, I was not going to lose the man I love. I vowed to be true to him and to never let go again. I was content to know that I still had my one happiness, even if it was just from a distance at the moment. Even if our affair had to be a secret, I vowed to protect it with all that I had. To cherish it for as long as I lived. The only thing that comforted me at the moment was to know that Emily would be in a better place with her parents and free of pain.

I hesitated for a moment as he held me. Should I kiss him? Was it right? My mind was swirls, I was thinking too much. Without even knowing his lips were already upon mine. This tyrant of passion washed over me and I kissed him back. He was so gentle it made me melt.

We let go and looked at eachother once more. No words were said, Bruce nodded and left my side. His eyes had said it all.

When I arrived home, there were no signs of Jasper. I decided to take a warm shower and change into warmer clothes before he came home. Hopefully I could avoid a few questions. Jasper was not the type to badger me with questions, in fact he would leave me be at times. But when he wanted something, he went after it with full force. I had denied him his lustful wishes towards me recently, I deprived him of sex. I couldn't do it with him, I couldn't make love to him. Why? Simple, he wasn't Bruce.

As digusting as it sounds to me at the moment, I loved Jasper at one point. But it all went away. Ever since his greed and obsession for power became umbearable, I couldn't even look at him. Then, abusing me, tormenting me with so many things, telling me If I had been a disappointment as a daughter, I am most certainly a disappointment as a wife and most certainly will be as a mother. But he was wrong because I would never have his children.

After my warm shower, I pulled on a pair of dark washed skinny jeans and a purple cardigan sweater. My room was dark, the only thing illuminating it was a small lamp on one of my nightstands and of course, the bat signal. I put on a pair of black stilettos and walked out of the room. I walked the long halls, it was a bit cold. The house did not feel warm at all.

My eyes were focused on the marble ground before me that I didn't even see Jaspers's hand wrap around my waist and thrust me up against the nearest wall. I gasped at the hard impact on my samll frame.

"Where the hell have you been Vi!" Jasper yelled in anger. His eyes were darkened with rage, almost as red as a vampire's eyes that was thirsty for blood.

"I don't have to explain myself to you. You don't own me!" I tried getting out of his deathly grasp but he kept pressing me harder to the wall.

"My pet you are so wrong, you are my wife." Jasper hissed close to my ear.

"That doesn't mean I have to answer to you. Put me down". I insisted, I will not let him treat me as he pleases, I am not a slave.

"Not until you tell me where you have been!" He protested. "Don't force me to take you right here".

"Fine, I was at the children's hospital, one of the children I would visit at times, died this morning." I held back my tears. I am not going to cry in front of Jasper, no way was he going to see my tears.

He looked at me for a moment. Then a sadistic smirk grew across his face. Without warning he pressed his body to mine, ravishing my lips. His hands explored every inch of my body, one lingered on my breast while the other took hold of my thigh. I tried pushing, but he held on to me harder.

"I am sure if you can give some to your lover, you can certainly give me a taste". Then in a quick bold move his hand made contact with my cheek. The slap echoed through out the dark quiet halls. "Whore! You left my side last night to go your lover, didn't you!?"

"I have no lover. At the moment I wish I did, to get away from a pig like you!" I yelled back. I was not going to put Bruce in danger. If Jasper found out, he would go after him and I cannot afford to lose Bruce.

I moved forward to slap him, but he pushed me against the wall and slapped me once more, then he kicked my side. Rage filled me as I stood. Jasper stood there looking down at me as if he was a powerful lord that was looking down upon a whore from a brothel. He turned away for a mere second and thats when I had him. I kicked him in the abdomen with all I had, luckily I had heels so I had an extra advantage, then I slapped him hard across the face. Twice.

Jasper was on the floor in pain, I kicked him were he had a scar. He was shot a couple of months ago and that was his weak spot. I ran as fast as I could to my room, to pack my bags. Bursting through the door I grabbed whatever I could and left with all haste before Jasper got to me. He would probably rape me or kill me, either way I had to get out of that house and fast. Quickly I slid into the black porshe and rushed away from Chandler manor.

I didn't know where I was driving. I just needed to get away from everyone. My life was not all sunshine and rainbows, it was hell. I lost a very dear friend today, my physco husband is trying to hurt me, and the man I loved was not with me at the moment to comfort me.

I rolled down the window, I was in the Narrows. I had no idea how I ended up in the most dangerous part of Gotham but I did. My heart kept beating faster and faster. For a moment it was the only sound I could hear, my breathing became gasps. I looked at the rear view mirror and saw a black car behind me, very close behind me. The windows were tinted so it was hard to see who was in the drivers seat. I looked away and decided to grab my cell phone and keep it handy, just in case I needed to dial 911.

Without knowing two men slowly crept out of the car. I dialed the number, but waited to hit send. I recognized them to be one of Jasper's goons. He sent them out to follow me, probably to finish the job. But he wouldn't kill me just yet.

"Hello Mrs.Chandler". One of the men flung open the car door and dragged me out of it. Throwing me over his shoulder, I began to kick and scream with all my might, praying that someone would hear me. "Shh, come on now Mrs. C, be a good trooper and you won't get hurt". The man cooed.

I continued screaming and kicking. The other man came up to me and slapped me, then he put duck tape to cover my mouth. My screaming became muffled. Tears were staining my face, I was not going to get out of this easily. Or so I thought.

In one quick swift motion, I saw a dark figure come down. His black cape swooshing with the midnight air. Batman had heard my outcries.

The man that was carrying me dropped me to the ground to engage in a fight with Batman, the other man decided to join in. I watched as Batman took both of them out, he was strong and a beast at the same time. Within seconds the two goons layed on the cold ground unconscious.

"I told you to stay in a safe place the last time I saved you". His voice was dark and low, but there was something about it that I adored. "You were lucky I was near to hear your blood curling screams".

"Well you didn't have to rescue me" I sneered coldly at him, I guess I was proving to get in the way. A burden I was to him.

"I was not going to abandon a woman such as yourself". He replied coolly. "It would just help me if you stayed out of trouble".

"Then next time you shouldn't worry about me".

"Exactly, I shouldn't worry about you because there will not be a next time".

I clenched my fists in frustration. He didn't have to save me, it could have easily been someone else. "Can you just leave me be, I didn't ask for this you know!" I stood inches away from his chest. My sapphires bore into his eyes that were hidden beneath his mask. "I didn't ask for anything that has happened to me!" Tears began to pool around my eyes and my knuckles became more white. I clenched them hard, I stepped forward to him and began beating against his chest. He just stood there looking down on me, taking my beatings. Batman became my punching bag. I beated harder and faster until I grew tired and collapsed in his arms. He held me tight.

"Take me away, please take me away to a better place". I whispered to him. My eyes were stinging as I shut them tighter, letting out my sobs. No more had to be said, Batman took out his grapel gun and shot it up to the dark sky and took me away to a better place, a sweet escape.