That night was the quietest night City Hall had ever had. Everyone mourned in their own way, men were patrolling. Barsard was in his quarters for the remainder of the night. Danika sat on the couch and she read one of the books that had been left in her room. It was some sort of law book. She read through the pages and shook her head at every exception and pass the law gave to criminals. This is why we are so corrupt, back in the day when it was an eye for an eye, no one did shit. She thought to herself as she shut the book closed and ate a bite of her food that she had been lingering on since earlier. She went into the bathroom and rinsed her mouth out.

When she finished she looked into the mirror. She looked in the mirror to the ledge of the shower. Shivers went down Danika's back as she remembered how Bane took care of her. Danika changed into her casual jeans and a black V neck T-shirt, while she was changing she looked at herself in the mirror. She starred at herself in her red underwear and bra. She let out a noise. "Pfft, I wonder if any of the other members of the League have undergarments such as these" She laughed to herself and brushed her hair through her fingers and let it hang loosely. The waves at the bottom of her hair extenuated the bright red. Her hair had grown so long in 4 months. It was up to the end of her shoulder blades now. She splashed water on her face and she put the glasses back on.

She tried to fill her mind with anything, anything but him. When Danika left the bathroom and went into her room she sat on the couch and turned off the main light and just left on her side lamp. She lit up a cigarette and thought of Bane, his more frequent looks to her. She could tell he was fighting as much as she was. They were both professional, and Danika was sure Bane would never in a million years initiate anything. She wondered if he had any relations to Talia. She shook her head. No they're like brother sister, right?

She puffed away on her cigarette and looked at the bottom of the conjoining door. She saw a shadow move from left to right a few times. He was pacing. She tried to remember what he smelled like, and what his touch felt like. Not when he was taunting her, or when they fought. Then Danika flashed back to the first time they trained together. She remembered when he had her against the wall and his knee was in between her legs and his hand around her throat, not squeezing but holding it there. Danika felt a tingle crawl up her as she closed her eyes and she could hear her heartbeat in her ears.

She thought of being in his arms when he picked her up, when her head on was his shoulder. Then today, when she touched his shoulder and they looked at each other, and there was something deep in both their eyes. She tried anything for the next hour to not think of him. Nothing worked, she sighed with a bit of anger behind her breath and she started to pace, she smoked one then two cigarettes, She looked at the clock on her wall and saw that it was nearly 2'o clock in the morning. She sat back down on the couch and she felt anxious, jittery, she looked back to the door and saw that the light was still on. She didn't even think before she acted but she walked up to the door and opened it slowly.

Bane was sitting at his desk in his chair as he usually was. He didn't turn around he knew it was her. Her scent of rain and cigarettes filled the air. He wondered why she smelt like rain all the time, but he never really thought too much into it. Probably her soap he presumed.

He saw Danika's shadow walk over to his cot where she usually sat.

"Thinking of Samuel?" Bane asked while he stared at the monitors of Gotham.

Danika replied, "No." Bane turned his head slightly confused with his eyebrows furrowed as he heard the click of his door lock.

He spun the chair around so that he was facing her now as she stood facing the door with her hand still on the knob.

"What, are you doing?" Bane asked.

He watched Danika slowly turn around to face him from across the room. "I, I don't really know." She met his eyes, and Danika may not have known what she was doing but her eyes told him everything as she stared at him and walked slowly toward him.

"Danika, leave me." He said as he dismissed her and turned back around to the screens.

"No", Danika said quietly almost as a whisper.

"No?" Bane said as he turned around again and looked at her with a threat.

"With all due respect, Sir, no." Danika said as she approached him and stopped when she was about 3 feet away from him sitting in his chair.

"I don't have time for this." Bane said as he torn himself away from her eyes.

"Your right." Danika said quickly and a bit of annoyance came out with it. "By my count 23 days right? We don't have time. We're going to die."

Bane stood up. "If you will not leave I will." He walked toward the door to her room and Danika followed him and quickly slinked herself in front of him before he reached the door.

"I have stood behind you, and I have defended you. You are probably the only man I really trust, that's why I told you my story." Danika said firmly.

"I am the only reason you have anything to stand for or defend. Your point?" Bane interrupted her.

"Exactly. That's my point." Danika said as she searched Bane's eyes, and she could tell that right now he was fighting something. "My point is that we are going to die in 23 days, hell, we could die tomorrow. Men are dropping like flies. Excuse me, sir. But , I don't wanna die without... I've never had…, except for him." She admitted and she put her head down for a second, and then met back into Bane's eyes. He took a moment to reply to her, which is all the answer she needed to know that he wanted to as well.

"Stop this Danika, just leave me." Bane said.

"No." Danika said with force and that was enough to anger Bane. He quickly placed both of his hands on the door behind her with strength that sent her to back up to the door as both his hands were on either side of her head.

"This is the last time you say 'no' to me, girl." Bane said to her with the familiar threat and control in his voice that she knew.

Danika pulled her head back and her eyes changed at him. She pushed his left arm and walked back away from him back toward his cot. Girl. He never called me that. She said to herself as she felt a little bit hurt.

Bane sighed and watched Danika turn her back away from him. He went back to his chair and sat it in. He assumed that was enough to make Danika go back to her room.

Danika's mind was racing. He said that to convince himself.

Danika breathed in long and hard and exhaled. She turned back to him as he sit in his chair. She studied him. He had his dark cameo cargo pants on, his vest laid on the back of his chair leaving him in a black sleeveless shirt. His wrist brace of some sort was on his right hand as it always was. Danika knew was she had to do if she wanted him.

Danika walked over to his desk and he was a good distance away from her. He stared at her, with watchful eyes. She took off her glasses and placed them on his desk. Then she took off her shirt, and then her pants. Each time she took away her eyes for a moment then looked back at him. Bane turned his head so he wasn't facing her. He couldn't say anything. He knew what desire did to other men, but surely he thought he was an exception to that rule.

Danika knelt down in front of him. His hands hung off the arms of his chair. Danika slowly picked one up and brought his palm to her face, he didn't fight it, but he didn't make a move. She starred at him as she kissed his palm and then turned his hand over and kissed his knuckles. Bane who was still looking away from her closed his eyes. This hiss of his mask filled Danika's ears. Danika put her other hand on his leg to balance herself. Bane quickly stood up and grabbed her in his arms, one hand on her lower back the other one on the back of her neck.

"You know not of what you ask." He said to her as he held her. Danika's breathing was quick she was searching his eyes. She swallowed and let out a breath.

"Yes I do." Danika's arms found themselves in between her and Bane as she reached up for his face. She kept her eyes on him, she found herself getting lost in them.

Bane didn't want to let her go, his mind was a tug of war right now, he was carefully waiting to see what she would do next. He kept his hold on her lifting her a bit off of the floor.

Danika's small hands found themselves on Bane's mask. Bane's eyes widened a bit and his grip on her tightened a bit.

"Bane, you've have taken your mask off for me before. Don't you trust me?" Danika said as she slowly tried to find the clasp she watched him undo. She found it and a louder hiss released through the air and she took his mask off and gently let it fall out of her hands onto his chair.

Bane found himself almost lost in her eyes as well. Nothing made sense to either of them. They shared one common thought; They both wanted each other. Bane let Danika's feet touch the ground but kept his hands on her. Danika placed her hands on his shoulder and gently kissed his collar bone, she tugged on him lightly for him to bring his face closer to hers.

"Please" The air seemed to escape Danika's lungs as she let out her plead.

Bane moved his hand from behind her neck and held her face by her chin with his other arm still wrapped around her lower back. "You are a member of the League of Shadows, Danika. You do not beg."

Bane brought his face close to Danika's, she felt his breath on her skin and she closed her eyes. "Fine", her words were all whispers now "I'll take what I want." Danika without a moment's hesitation wrapped her arms around Bane's neck and met his lips. They kissed with such a force and fire between the two. Bane tightened his grip on her once more and walked her backwards. Danika was lost in desire, she focused on nothing but kissing him. She tightened her arms around his neck and kissed him harder.

She felt herself turning horizontal as he laid her on his cot, they didn't yet break away from their kiss. His hands were now on her waist. He brought his hand up to her collar bone and traced the scar that stretched to the bottom of her stomach. To him, it just made her more beautiful.

Danika broke their kiss and gasped when she felt his hand move to her thigh as he pulled off her underwear and threw them to the ground. She left her mouth by his ear, as she felt ever bit of him touch her. Her breath going through his ears just made him lust for her more. He raised his head to look at her in the eyes. Danika was staring at him breathing hard; he knew that she was waiting. Danika raised a finger to his mouth and traced his scar. Anyone else and he would have probably killed them but he was fine with her hands on his face. Danika reached the end of his scar and picked herself up to kiss him, and after that it was over.

Bane pulled Danika so that she was underneath him now. He unbuckled his pants and unzipped them. Bane and Danika never left eye contact from each other. Right now not even the world existed.

Bane brought his face lower to Danika's and she again wrapped her arms around Bane's neck and they kissed. Danika was obsessed with kissing this man. She thought of nothing, just Bane's scent and warmth surrounding her. Danika moved her arms from around his neck to his shoulder blades and dug her nails into them and broke their kiss when she felt him inside of her. Danika's gasp was accompanied by a whimper. She let her head fall back onto the mattress and her eyes closed. With every thrust Bane gave her, her nails were dug into his arm further and further.

His left hand was on the mattress by the side of her face holding himself up, while his right hand was on her waist, gripping and pulling her as he brought himself into her each time.

Bane closed his eyes. She wasn't lying about never having sex besides from 12 years ago. He brought his head on her collar bone so that his ear was by her mouth again. He listened to her breathing and examined it change each time he pulled out slightly and then pushed back into her. He felt her nails in his back and it just made him go harder.

"Bane" was all Danika could whisper out of her mouth as he felt her arch her up toward him. Bane put his hand underneath her back and pushed himself into her hard, and faster than before.

Bane watched as Danika pulled her head away from his and closed her eyes shut. Bane grabbed her face with his other hand and brought it back to him.

"Look at me." Bane commanded and that made Danika loose her breath all the more. He felt her clinch around him, his shoulders tensed and he thrust so hard into her she let out a cry. They finished together. Bane pulled himself out of her and zipped his pants and buckled them. Danika laid on his bed for a few moments. He got up and walked toward the desk chair. He saw her shaking out of the corner of his eyes that brought an accomplished smile to his face. He put the mask back on and picked up her clothes and brought them over to her.

She put her clothes on and walked over to the desk and put her glasses on.

There was silence in the room for a bit, not out of awkwardness, but they just watched each other. Danika broke the silence with a laugh.

Bane raised his eyebrow. "Something amusing?"

"Think of where we were 3 and a half or something months ago and look now. I guess I am a pretty bad masochist. " Danika walked up to Bane who sat on his cot. She grabbed his hand as she did before and kissed the inside of his palm. They looked into each other's eyes for a moment longer and Danika walked toward their joining doors and walked into her room.

"I guess you are." Bane said as he turned off his light and went to sleep.