"The Dark Princess"
By: LiLdRoPoFsUnShInE
Disclaimer: I don't own any of the characters, except Addie, and Aerin.
Chapter 10: Conclusions
BPOV:
I knew what Addie was thinking, that her mother was here to take her away. But on the life of me, I just got her back, and I was going to put up one hell of a fight to keep her. I stopped hugging her, and went to talk with her mother. Maybe I could reason with her, so that I could keep her, and her mother could visit her, or she could visit her mother. I opened the door after another knock, and looked out to find her still out there.
"Hello, I am Bruce Wayne, Addie's adoptive father. How may I help you?" I asked politely.
I saw the grin come form on her face. I thought that she was scheming for something, and maybe it was money and all I would have to do was pay her to keep her off. But when you bribe someone with money, they always come back. But then again Addie was turning 18 in two months, the school year was almost over, and her mother would have no parental rights whatsoever.
"Hi, I'm Margaret, Addie's mother. May I speak with you about her?" She asked.
"Yes Margaret, you may. Please come in." I replied.
I took her into my office, and assumed that Addie and Alfred were up to their old selves, snooping. She had been looking all around her when she came in, and I knew she was scooping the place out, just to see for herself, how much I was really worth.
"So what was it that you needed to speak with me about?" I asked her.
"I came for sole-parental rights over my daughter." She said.
"Can't we work something out, I know Addie doesn't want to live with you, she hasn't seen you in years, 13 years to be exact. Why now? May I ask?" I said.
"I have wanted to find her for years, but I thought she had been adopted a long time ago. Then when I saw on the news, that she had been adopted by you, and then kidnapped, I knew where to go and find her." She replied.
Instead of looking me in the eyes when she talked, she kept looking down or to the side. I knew she was lying.
"Cut the crap, what do you really want?" I asked.
"I just want my daughter back!" She exclaimed.
"I know you're lying, you can't even look me in the eyes when you talk." I said.
She looked astounded that I could tell that she was lying. She opened her mouth to speak, but then quickly shut it.
"That's what I thought. If you don't have anything better to do, and you don't really want the parental rights of your daughter, then I suggest that you leave." I said.
With that she got up and left, she looked very deflated, almost as if she had been overly confident. She turned to look at her daughter, who she shared the same eyes with, and knew that she had lost this battle. I knew that other than her eyes, she shared nothing else with her mother. Addie was strong, intelligent, quick-witted, and she did have a big mouth, but I knew she was my girl, and no one could take her away from me.
GRADUATION DAY…
APOV:
Today was a very special and important day of my life. I was graduating, no more high school, no more being picked on, from now on, it would be college life, and classes. I was growing up, and moving on with my life. I couldn't believe it. I had the summer here, and then I was going to Gotham Community College in the fall. I would be studying to be a criminal profiler, so that way I could help the police out and let them know where a criminal was going to target next. I had already helped the police on a couple other cases, and I was moonlighting as Batgirl at night. They put me right alongside Batman in headlines now. I was his sidekick, although people speculated, that we were lovers, they were completely wrong. After I had been dubbed Batgirl, I think Gordon started to suspect that Bruce was Batman, and I was Batgirl, but I wasn't sure. If he did, he sure didn't say anything.
"Addie Wayne. She will be going to Gotham Community College, to study criminal profiling. Congratulations!" The principal said.
I walked across the stage, in my blue robe, to hoots and hollers from Bruce and Alfred.
I have decide to keep this story going, and just take what I had for The Dark Royalty, and make it into one story! So this part of the story will now focus on her college life, her doubling as Batgirl, and her work with The Gotham Police Station.