Chapter 7: Rising Suspicions

They both felt horrible. As they laid in their separate beds in separate rooms, they couldn't rest. It was the first time they were okay about the separate room policy because they felt like they didn't deserve to be with each other. Like they couldn't look at the other one in their eyes ever again.

It wasn't exactly cheating but they didn't know it. They just knew they betrayed their loved one. The worst part was that despite how bad they felt, they wanted more. He still wanted the Cat and she still wanted the Bat.

That following morning as they got ready for school, Bruce avoided Selina as much as possible. She did the same. Just being near the person they betrayed made them uncomfortable. They were too busy trying not to seem to suspicious to notice the other person acting suspicious. But Alfred watching them both noticed and grew suspicious himself as a result.

At school school Clark noticed just how dismissive Selina and Bruce were of each other.

"What's going on with you and the lady?" Clark asked.

Bruce let out a long and heavy sigh. "I cheated on her."

Clark's eye lit up but he kept a normal expression on his face nodded. "Hey buddy, look at me."

"What?" Bruce asked.

"Just look right here for a second. Right here."

Bruce turned only to be immediately met with a slap by his friend.

Bruce let out a groan of pain. "What the hell was that?"

"She's the love of your life! Your future wife and mother of your kids and you cheated on her?"

"Hey, 'Mr. screw anything with two legs and has a pulse' maybe you should check yourself before you judge me!"

"I made the biggest mistake letting Lois go and screwing all those other girls and I feel horrible. You had it all and you just jeopardized it."

"Don't you think I feel bad enough as it is? As bad as it sounds, she doesn't need to know."

Clark scoffed. "What are you just gonna keep a secret forever?"

Bruce thought about that. 'Keep a secret forever', from her? Could he keep a secret? How long could he keep The Bat a secret from her?

Bruce looked at his friend and did a double take. "Wait, did you shave your mustache?" The heavy slap had distracted him from his friends missing mustache.

Clark sighed. "Lois said she thought it looked stupid. So I shaved it in hopes it will help me win her back."

Bruce shook his head. "These girls... They're gonna kill us."

Clark nodded. "Yea... Probably."

Selina, Harley, and Pammy all skipped class together to smoke a joint underneath the bleachers.

"I'm telling ya girls, wanna establish dominance in your relationship?" Harley asked. "Threaten a sex strike until he lets you peg him. I tell ya I made Jacky my bitch."

"I heard Mera pegged Arthur." Ivy said.

"Nah, she just stuck a finger in his butt while she blew him, I heard. That's different. I'm talking putting on a 9 inch strap-on, which is like 3 times the size of jacky's dick, and making the guy the bitch."

"You ever peg Bruce?" Ivy asked.

Selina shook her head. "Nope. He doesn't like anything involving his butt. Which is a shame because he's got a cute butt.

"I know! Your man straight up has cake." Harley said.

"Dummy thicc. So unfair." Ivy added.

Selina nodded. "That's why I like to spank him by surprise on occasion. Drives him crazy."

"Well if you feel the need to spice it up with him, sex strike strap-on. Works every time."

"Yea, I'm a long ways off from threatening a sex strike with him. Hell I owe him some serious apology sex. Like I'm gonna have to totally degrade myself and do some unspeakable acts to make it up."

Harley and Pam leaned in. "What did you do?"

"I..." She let out a sigh. "Cheated on him."

"Selina Kyle, you little slut!" Harley squealed excited. "With who? Was it with one of his friends?"

"Was it with Clark?" Ivy added bitterly.

"No it was... Well he doesn't even go to school here so it doesn't matter. It was the stupidest thing I've ever done."

"Was he just packing like a monster dong that you couldn't resist?" Harley giggled.

"Yes... but not that's not why..." She she took the joint and gave it another hit. "Look I made a serious mistake, just don't go spreading this around. I told you this in confidence, alright?"

"I'll keep it to myself. Picky swear." Harley held out her pinky. Selina wrapped her own pinky around hers and gave it a squeeze.

They both looked at Ivy. She rolled her eyes and joined in for a triple pinky promise.

"I hope you fix things with Bruce." Ivy said. "Last thing you want is to lose is his bank account."

Selina scowled at her. "That's not why I'm with him and you know it!"

Unbeknownst to them Vicki was eavesdropping and listening, with a recorder in hand.

On the way back home from school the station they were listening to on the radio, was talking about the gang of rapists. That they were found all brutally beaten by the Bat Vigilante and even the Cat Burglar

"I'm telling you guys, Batman and Catwoman and they are a thing!" One of The hosts said. "Apparently one of these assholes claimed that he saw them banging on the hood of their car, while he was slipping in and out of consciousness."

"He had a concussion from hell from the beating he took." The other host replied. "He was just seeing shit!"

"What do you think about that?" Selina asked Bruce.

"About them screwing on the car? Sounds unsanitary." He replied slightly nervous.

She gave him a small chuckle. "No, the rapist in the ally getting beat up."

"Justice is served." He answered.

Selina shook her head. "They should've just killed them all."

"What?!" Bruce scoffed. "Where is this coming from? You're not a killer... are you?"

"No, I've never killed anyone. But if i was them and had the power to do it, I would have."

He shook his head. "You sound like someone I know."

"Yea..." She looked at him and saw a scratch on the back of his neck, "So do you."

She thought back to her affair with the Bat and remembered digging her nails into him and scratching his neck at one point.

"How'd you get that scratch?" She asked.

"What scratch?"

"On the back of your neck."

He reached back and felt it. "Hhhmm. Must be from that fight you and Talia had that I got caught up in."

"Oh... right.." She replied unconvinced.

He looked over at her and saw some slight bruising on her neck. Like she had been held down by her throat. It reminded him of when he pinned the Cat down by her throat.

"Looks like she got a tight grip on your neck at one point." He said.

Selina looked at her neck in the mirror and nodded. "Yea. I uh- guess she did."

When they got home they sat at the dinner table to do their homework. But instead of doing their work, they just stared at each other for minutes.

Alfred saw them and felt unnerved. "Is something wrong here?" He asked

A moment of silence passed between them before they answered, "No", simultaneously.

They both leaned in closer. Selina had blinked as needed, but noticed Bruce hadn't blinked a single time. She tried snapping her fingers right in front of his face. Not even a slight quiver from any muscle in his face.

"Not a chance." He said coldly.

The staring contest went on for a couple more minutes. Finally Bruce got up and started walking upstairs.

"Where are you going?" She asked him as she followed him.

"I think Alfred left some of my clothes in your room on accident." He answered.

"Yea because he would totally mistake your manly clothes for mine." Selina replied.

Bruce didn't say anything back. He got to her door. Just as he reached for her doorknob, Selina began walking towards his room.

"Well while you check my room," she said, "I think I should make sure he didn't leave some of my stuff in yours. I better go check... thoroughly."

Bruce and Selina stood there. Hands on the doorknobs staring each other down again. He turned the knob slightly. She did the same. They never broke eye contact as they did this.

"Maybe I was mistaken." Bruce conceded as he lowered his hand back to his side.

Yea." Selina did the same. "Me too." She began crying.

Bruce walked over to her and wrapped her up in his arms. "Selina...what the hell is wrong with Us?"

She sank into his embrace. "What are we gonna do, Bruce?"

He let out a heavy sigh. "Maybe we should talk about this?"

"Yeah." Selina nodded. "I uh... I have something to show you."

They sat next to each other on the edge of the bed in Bruce's room. She handed him a duffle bag. He zipped it open and took out her catsuit. He admired it's design.

"So it was you." He cracked a small smile. "You have no idea how relieved I am."

"You!" She chuckled. "How do you think I felt? That I just let some stranger who's face I couldn't see, rail me?"

"I knew there was a reason I was so drawn to the Cat." He looked at her and smiled. "Because it was you all along... just in leather."

"Oh you like me in leather?"

"I love you in leather. Why don't you ever wear it in bed. Maybe we should even get the whip involved."

"You mean the same whip you cut in half last night?"

"Oh, right... Sorry?"

"I meant it when I said you owe me a new one."

"Well... fair's fair." He leaned in for a kiss. She did the same before asking.

"So where's your suit?"

He grinned. "You wanna see mine?

"Well yeah! That's kind the whole point of this right?"

"Follow me." He guided her to the bookcase. "Pull it."

"Which one?"

"You know which one."

Of all the books only one stuck out.

"Oh no."

"Oh yeah." He chuckled.

"God I hate that book."

"You loved it."

"Yea when I was like 12, Now it's just cringe."

"It's the last book you'd ever want to touch again. That's why I chose it." He pulled Twilight, opening up the case into the secret elevator.

"Where's the suit?" She asked as she stepped inside

"In the shop." He said as he pressed the button sending them down.

"Babe, I love you and I trust you... But this is creepy as shit."

"Just wait for it."

They got down to the cave and Selina looked around in amazement. The natural structure of the cave itself was a sight, but the big computer, the Bat suit, the Car, was all amazing.

"You built all this?" She asked.

"Not just me. I had a little help from an old friend of my parents, Lucious Fox. He works in the applied science division of Wayne Tech."

She walked over to the car and ran her hand along the hood. "You've got to take me for a ride in this thing sometime."

He walked up behind her and wrapped his arms around her. "I thought I already did." He kissed at her neck.

"I meant in the car not on it." She chuckled as she turned to him and kissed him. She pulled away for a second. "So who all knows about this?"

"Just me, Lucious, and now you. Not even Alfred knows about this."

"Oh don't I?"

They both gasped as they turned to see Alfred sitting there, in a big chair in the dark.

"Master Wayne. Miss Kyle. We need to talk."

Bruce couldn't believe it. "How did you find this place?"

Alfred stared at him intensely.

"...Because I'm Alfred."