Bruce waited until Ororo had fallen asleep to get up. He'd meant it; he wasn't going to lose them. He wasn't going to let anyone take them from him. There was also something that didn't add up. Waller might be a lot of things. She might toe the line between immoral and unforgivable, but he'd never known her to cross it. He'd get the information out of her, one way or the other.

Amanda Waller was walking out of her office in the Pentagon. Going to her car, she froze as she put her hand on the door. Glancing around she shook her head and opened it. She drove away. After 15 minutes of driving, she pulled over to the side of the road. "You could have just called."

Batman's head rose from the backseat. "I don't tend to make appointments with people who threaten my wife and son." He growled.

Waller knew that at some point this confrontation was coming, she just hadn't thought that it would be so soon. "You don't understand what I'm trying to do."

"I fail to see what murdering Ororo and kidnapping my son could achieve." He was livid. She didn't deny the accusation. Lying would only make him more angry."

"Ororo's death isn't necessary." Amanda admitted. "But her nature makes her too unpredictable."

"You don't know her nature." Bruce growled. "And my family are not pawns in your game. And don't bother activating that distress beacon, I disabled all 4 before I got in this car."

Waller cursed his resourcefulness. She'd been reaching to activate the beacon. Turning she glared at him. "You're messing with things bigger than you."

"You were planning on kidnapping my son to run experiments on him." His hands gripped the seat. "He's 2 years old. You've gone too far."

Waller reached under her chair.

"Your gun's gone too." He said through gritted teeth.

"You won't kill me." She said. "You've come here to talk."

"So start talking." He hissed.

Waller said. "I'm not going to use Bakari-"

"Don't say his name." Bruce interrupted. Waller sighed and began again.

"I am not going to use your son for experiments."

"I suppose you've got live adult subjects for that."

Waller frowned. "What do you mean?"

"So you're denying having Forge kidnap mutants for you?"

Waller laughed. "Forge doesn't work for me, I admit to using Talia and pushing him to free her, but I've never had direct contact with him." She leaned back in her seat.

"He's been receiving payments from a department under yours." Bruce said. "Something called..." He paused. "Cadmus."

Waller fought to keep her expression from betraying anything, but she could see the gleam of triumph in his eyes reflected in the rearview mirror. How could he possibly know about Cadmus?

"I'm not in charge of that department." She said.

"They work for you." He said.

"Yes and while their cheif scientist reports to me, I let him have autonomy."

"Well that was a mistake." He said simply. "You come near my family, and I'll release all my information about the skeletons ARGUS has in it's closet."

Waller turned to look at him. He was being serious. "That's not like you Bruce." She said. "It's reckless and there are too many ways for it to go wrong. Your family has made you sloppy."

"That's why you're threatening them, isn't it." He said and Waller realized she'd tipped her hand. "You don't like the way I operate when I'm around them so you decided to eliminate the problem."

"The world needs Batman." She said.

"I'm still here." He replied.

"But for how long?" Waller hissed. "You're not as young as you once were. It takes longer for you to recover from injuries, you need more rest, you aren't able to pull off long night runs. Every time you come up against one of your enemies, do you notice how much harder it's gotten?"

He remained silent, but she knew she'd hit a nerve.

"You want him because you want to mold him into an ideal Batman." He said finally. "One that you could control."

"We've toyed with the idea before; with mutants coming out of the woodwork it became necessary to take more drastic precautions. Batman stands as proof that an ordinary human with no advanced abilities can still achieve great things."

"So why not train one of the many soldiers you have at your disposal." Bruce growled. "Why take my son?"

"Because he is your son."

Bruce's eyes narrowed. "And you think that's what makes the difference."

"I know it is."

"One small problem." He growled. "Your unenhanced champion's mother is a mutant."

"That's easily corrected." Waller replied.

"What?" Bruce growled.

"I think this conversation's over." Waller said. "It's been nice catching up, but you need to leave now."

"I'm not done here." Bruce said.

"But I am." Waller pulled the gun she kept in her suit pocket out and pointed it at his throat. "You may have disabled my alarms and removed the guns in my car, but did you seriously think I wouldn't have one on me? Sloppy, Bruce."

He didn't even flinch. Leaning back as though it were his car he gave her a small smile. Something was wrong, but Waller pressed on.

"You won't kill me." She said.

"You're right." Bruce said. "I won't." There was a screech of metal on metal and a hole was ripped open in the ceiling of the car by metal claws. Waller looked up into the angry face of Wolverine. "But I can't say the same about him. I've got more questions Waller, and you're going to answer them." He pulled the gun out of her hands. "What?" He said. "Did you seriously think I wouldn't have a backup plan?"

Notes:

Amanda Waller's actions here aren't out of character. Terry McGinnis in Batman Beyond was turned into Bruce Wayne's son using Nanotechnology that she injected into him. She went as far as almost recreating the murder of Bruce's parents so that Terry would have the emotional push to become Batman. She didn't go through with it and Terry became Batman on his own, but she was still willing to do it.