New update and this one contains a little fluff:D Also, shadychef, it appears you have found my tumblr; cutesmiles83. Thanks for following me:D


Chapter 12: Recovering the car

Selina grins proudly to herself. Not only Bruce, but also she had George wrapped around her finger and that is so cool. She could see the awe-stricken look in Agent Hayes eyes. The girl simply shrugged to the older woman and left the room.

Agent Hayes watches the girl leave and shakes her head while chuckling to herself as she wonders what she possibly could have done to the boys to make them obey like this.

George flops down onto the couch beside Hayes as Bruce leaves the room as well, stopping his defacto-girlfriend from whatever she's planned to do. It turns out she isn't doing much, just standing in the hallway waiting for him.

"I guess we now have to wait until my brother makes a mistake and gets spotted somewhere," Bruce says and stands parallel with Selina as she leans against the wall. Then he sighs deep; "I wish he will make one fast."

Selina frowns; "I get it you want to catch Thomas as fast as I want, but you do realize this whole situation chances you faster than I like you to, right?"

This time it's Bruce who frowns; "What do you mean?"

"You're one big stress-head. You need to calm down a little. I mean, you're acting like you're fighting against a whole army of brothers instead of one who also happens to be more scrawnier than you."

Bruce looks offended; "The past few months I trained hard and-

"Yeah, punching a bag that can't hurt you back." Selina grins. "I'm just messing with you, kid, but honestly, you do need to relax a little and trust the feds."

Bruce sighs; "Easier said than done. Almost two days have passed since Thomas escaped and-

"Yeah! And you did a kick-ass press-conference, so everyone inside and outside Gotham knows how Thomas looks like. Trust me, that kid can't hide for much longer."

Bruce smiles; "I suppose you're right."

"I'm always right!" Selina smirks and punches Bruce against his arm. Even though he tried to hide it, she could tell it hurt. And she's happy it hurts. After what he had done to her during lunch, this was just a little start. The big punch will come later, though she still has to work on that one.

She can sense someone is watching them and when she looks, she finds Alfred strolling regally toward them.

"Agent Hayes has news for you, Master Bruce."

Bruce and Selina quickly head back into the study where they find Hayes who tells them she just received a text message from Agent Baldwin who said they found the stolen car in a lake five miles outside the city.

"They already have a team on sight as we speak trying to pull it out," Hayes adds.

Bruce nods; "I would like you to take us there."

"Of course," Hayes replies and adds; "I will tell a few men to bring the convoy around." Then she turns to face George; "Are you up for this field trip as well?"

George shrugs; "Well, I'm not back a hundred percent yet, but I think I can handle it as long as things don't get too excited."

Bruce grins; "Well you can always hide behind our FBI friends if they do."

"Very funny Bruce, but I don't consider myself as the hiding type." George grins back. Agent Hayes listens to a report over her radio and then lets them know the convoy is ready.

Selina wraps her arm around Bruce in a friendly manner and says firmly; "Head out to the vehicles Bruce, the rest of us will be along shortly!"

Bruce nods back and then the young billionaire strolls out the study, not noticing that Selina calls George, Agent Hayes and Alfred into an huddle and whispers something to them.


After a rough fifteen minute drive the convoy arrives at the lake that is taped off and guarded by heavily armed agents. Several helicopters circle overhead.

"Here we are team," Hayes says and then steps outside one of the vehicles and walks toward the lake with Bruce, Selina and George closely behind her.

Selina looks with wide eyes at the sight of the security and scoffs; "Wow, all this just to pull up a sunken car?"

"Cops do the same thing when securing their crime scenes, Selina, but these guys are a step above cops."

Selina rolls her eyes; "Yeah I can see that, Bruce."

The agent in charge turns around and spots the female agent and her new team approaching and calls out; "Agent Hayes!"

"Agent Russo," Hayes greets back as the man walks up to meet them.

Agent Russo raises a section of the tape for them to walk under as he says; "I've been expecting you and your friends, so you're all free to come on over."

Hayes and her team step behind the tape and then Russo spots Bruce, holds his hand out and asks; "And you must be the billionaire Bruce Wayne."

Bruce still shakes Russo's hand firmly but replies a little agitated; "I am, but I would appreciate it if you would give us a status report on the car instead of being obsessed with my monetary status."

Agent Russo darts his eyes questioned from Bruce to Hayes, to Selina and then to George who all simply share the same facial expression as Bruce. Obviously Bruce means business and they are with him.

Russo clears his throat and says, cutting to the chase; "We're about to pull it up now and place on the tow truck. We even searched the lake and the surrounding area for any sign of the suspect, but we found nothing."

Bruce nods understandably and the rest follow his gaze to the crane near the water's edge that's pulling up the car and places it on the flatbed.

George comments; "Well in my humble opinion, I say this car qualifies as a write-off."

"Still, we'll tag it and place it in our impound lot as evidence," Russo replied.

Selina frowns; "This doesn't make any sense, why would Thomas throw a perfectly good car into a lake?"

"He's trying to throw us off his trail while continuing to flee; "George explains. "The council operatives are highly trained in the art of avoiding capture."

Agent Hayes replies; "We've captured elusive criminals before and we will do it again."

"Indeed we will, Agent Hayes, but I got a feeling that when finally corner this kid, it's going to be somewhere far from Gotham."

Bruce clenches his fists and says; "I'm more than prepared to hunt Thomas to the ends of the Earth if necessary."

Agent Hayes adds to that; "As are we!"

"Ditto," Selina comments which draws a smile from Bruce.

George grins; "What Selina said."

A little while later some of agent Russo's men talk down the crime scene tape after the car is hauled off, the young billionaire decides to take a closer look at the lake.

As he approaches the lake he thinks to himself how peaceful and calming it is to look at a lake. He's so occupied in his own thoughts he's not aware of his cat-like friend running up to him from behind. A second later he finds himself falling forward into the water.

The sound of the splashing startles two nearby agents who spin on their heels and readying their M4s.

Selina rolls her eyes and grumbles; "Chill, will yah? It's just an idiot in the water. A cute one, but still an idiot nonetheless." Bruce sends a very dirty look at his female friend who simply ignores and spits to the two agents; "Make yourself useful and extract the billionaire before the Kraken gets him."

The two men give one and another a confused look, then turn back to her as one of them says; "There is no such thing as a Kraken and we're not in business of taking orders from kids."

Selina's eyes grow in anger and offence. She would have given the man the worst talk of his life if it wasn't for agent Russo to be faster and spits; "But you are in business of taking orders from me." Russo walks up to them and adds with a scowl; "Now the young lady asked nicely, so get to it."

The two men nod obediently and head over to Bruce. Russo turns to Selina and grins; "Cat, your little stunt really made my day. I always wanted to see someone stick it to the rich."

"Yeah, I did this to him because of a minor slip of the tongue during lunch break at the manor."

Bruce scrambles back onto shore and the two feds help him to get back on his feet, returning him safely to Agent Hayes and George. Selina re-joins as well with the biggest grin, imaginable.

Bruce plasters an angry scowl on and asks; "Alright, which one of you thought it would be funny to push me into an lake?"

"I did!" Selina puffs her chest proudly.

Bruce turns to face her and notices that's wearing a helmet. Instead of asking why he's more interested in something else, so he asks calmly; "But why did you do that?"

"That's what you get for talking about my personal life without permission."

Bruce turns back to Hayes and gasps; "Did you know anything about this, agent Hayes?"

"I did!" Hayes replies while hiding a fit of laughter. "Cat told me she had a surprise for you before we left the manor."

Bruce looks offended; "But why didn't you stop her?"

"Out of all things I can protect you from, your girlfriend isn't one of them." Hayes slaps him gently on the back. "Besides, you had it coming for earlier."

Selina grins proudly; "You see, kiddo. Even Agent Hayes understands our dynamic."

"So you and Agent Hayes are…buddies now?"

Selina nods rapidly and adds; "And thanks to you, I decided to drop my grudge with her over the encounter with that denial system."

Bruce drops his head in defeat and mutters; "Oh, me and my big mouth."

Selina nudges his arm to retrieve his attention and asks as she points at the top of her helmet; "One more thing, you see this little doo-hickey on the top of my helmet?"

"Yes, what it is?" Bruce asks suspiciously looking.

Selina folds her arms and replies; "It's called a helmet cam. I got it from our vehicle and recorded the whole thing. It's still rolling, but I'll turn it off in a minute."

"It looks to me we're going to have a team movie night later on," George grins as Selina took off the helmet and gave it to Hayes.

Bruce throws a stink-eye at the older boy and then sighs; "I guess I can mark these clothes as a write off too. I'm soaking wet and covered in mud. There's no way Alfred will let me walk through the front door like this."

Hayes grins; "Alfred knows about your little dip in the lake as well, so before we left he packed some dry clothes which you can find in the fifth vehicle."

Selina wipes some mud from Bruce's face and smirks; "You may look like crap to the rest of the world right now, but you're still a cutie pie in my books." Then she plants a kiss on his lips.

Then, Bruce scurries off to the fifth vehicle with a flushed face. Selina can push him in a lake anytime, as long as she keeps kissing him afterwards.

A few hours later the team and Alfred sit on the couch and having their movie night as promised. They are having a big laugh about Bruce's big splash over a bowl of popcorn.

"You know, it's even funnier in slow-motion," Selina grins as she grabs the controller and rewinds the tape back to the beginning and clicks start.

Selina was right. Slow-motion made everything more funnier and they all burst into another laughter. Yes, even Bruce. It shows he is also capable of laughing at himself sometimes.

"Let this be a lesson for you, kiddo," Selina grins as she pulls her feet beside her on the couch and leans with her head against Bruce's arm.

Bruce nods and smiles before wrapping his arm around his defacto-girlfriend, slowly cuddling together.

Then the both of them drift off to sleep and Agent Hayes glances at them, smiling and thinking how adorable they look together.


So, what did you think? Let me know by review. Next chapter will contain more action again.