14. Green
"Necessary Lies"
Batman is standing in her living room; it is the first thing to come to mind, until more moonlight pours in through the window and she realizes no, it is not Batman tonight. It is just Bruce Wayne.
Selina leans her back against the wall. She is wearing a simple pair of black cotton underwear and an old gray shirt that belonged to him in another life. It used to say Princeton, now it's too faded to read.
"Can I see her?" He asks. Selina says nothing, but the slight inclination of her pretty head shows him where the crib is. He's quiet when he moved across the room to stare down at the sleeping baby. Four or five months by the look of it.
"She's not yours," she lies.
"I know," he lies back.
They stand there, the cat and the bat, in civilian clothes and civilian identities not sure how to proceed.
He runs his fingers over her forehead. Her hair is a gold color. It looks like his mother's.
She is unbelievably beautiful.
"May I hold her?" He asks.
"She's not yours," Selina lies again, but it's not exactly a no, so he picks her up and listens to her soft breaths. He thinks about all the things he's missed. Like hearing the beating of her heart through the sonogram and seeing her first smile. He missed it.
She stays sleeping in his arms and eventually he places her down in the crib.
Selina stays leaning against the wall, her sharp eyes watching him in the darkness.
He leaves through the door this time, instead of through the window and over rooftops.
When he gets back to the manor and climbs in bed, he imagines that her eyes are green, like her mother's.