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When Bruce woke up on Monday he felt a foreign weight on his chest, he opened his eyes to find himself with a cascade of dark waves, Alexandra was using his chest as a pillow, he ran his hand carefully through her hair, her face looked so young when she slept, she seemed to be wearing an oversized shirt that made her look even smaller, he traced the outline of her face with his finger, slowly as if she could break at any moment.
"Hello there stranger" he heard her murmur, her voice heavy and husky, he found it extremely sexy. He pressed a kiss to her hair.
"Hi yourself" he said, she smiled sleepily at him
"What time is it?" She asked, Bruce looked at his watch.
"Almost two" her eyes widened almost comically.
"Oh god, I had a meeting with some vendors today it was important" she said, Bruce hushed her.
"Alfred took care of it" Bruce said, once they had arrived the night before he had talked to Alfred about filling in for Alexandra at work, the butler had done so without complaints, he seemed oddly pleased about it.
She left the bed to take a bath, Bruce supposed that he could do the same, he walked into his bathroom and walked out ten minutes later, when he made it to the living room Alexandra was sitting on the couch wearing a pretty summery dress and munching on a bucket of popcorn a can of soda near to her, he sat next to her on the couch, she immediately cuddled up to him.
"Please do remember that the bat has work tonight" she said, Bruce passed his arm around her shoulder bringing her closer to him.
"Want to make me disappear that fast?" He teased; she looked offended for a moment.
"Me? Of course not, if I had it my way you wouldn't leave this place to put yourself in danger" she said pressing a kiss to his cheek.
"There are innocents lives in danger, this is Gotham after all" he reasoned, she huffed and he hugged her closer to him "I will be okay, you'll see, sadly you will have to deal with me for a couple of decades more"
"I think I can manage" she said, Bruce pressed a kiss to her neck, she moved her head to the side allowing him more skin for him to kiss. Bruce moved his hand running down her body coming to rest on her tight, her hands came to rest on his shoulders, he pressed a trail of kissed from her neck to her mouth, and Bruce was completely sure that the kiss would have progressed if not for Alfred who took that moment to join them.
"While I'm overjoyed that there is a slim chance for future generations of Wayne's I appreciate if you do not attempt to do so in that particular couch" said Alfred cheekily, Bruce growled against Alexandra's lips before facing Alfred.
"And while I am, overjoyed that you are here, I would have appreciated not to be interrupted" Bruce said making Alexandra laugh, he moved so he was not on top of her anymore, she positioned herself sitting next to him and smiled at Alfred.
"Have you two eaten today?" Asked the butler eyeing the forgotten popcorn bowl and the coke.
"Not exactly" answered Bruce, Alfred raised an eyebrow.
"Lucky for you I bought Chinese on the way here, its waiting for you in the kitchen" as soon as Alfred said that Alexandra stood and made her way to the kitchen leaving Bruce and Alfred.
"She left me for food" murmured Bruce, Alfred smirked.
"Well, its Chinese food" said Alfred as if it was the most obvious thing.
When they walked into the kitchen Alexandra had three plates out already, she did look lovely in her dress. He and Alfred took their seats, Alexandra took her seat, they ate in silence, Bruce often stealing glances of Alexandra while Alfred had a satisfied smirk on his face.
Bruce gripped the steering wheel of the batmobile, turns out that yes Alexandra and Alfred had been right about the smuggling, just not sure about what the smuggling was about, children, all boys around the ages of eight and ten, Bruce's grip tightened, it was going to be okay the police would handle it, he trusted Commissioner Gordon to do the right thing, the guy always did.
When he got out of the batmobile in the cave the first thing he saw was Alexandra dozing off on his chair wearing shorts and a tank top, he took the cowl off and placed it on a table, he walked towards Alexandra who woke up when he was close enough, she stood from the chair and stretched. She walked up to him he immediately scooped her in his arms.
"How was it?" She asked softly, he pressed a kiss to her hair his silence speaking louder than anything he could have said, she sighed, "you got there on time; you're always on time"
"Not always" he said, she put her hands on his chest and pushed him away so she could look him in the eyes.
"Bruce you did all you could, all it was possible for you to do, there is no point in dwelling in the past, none at all" she said, she cupped his face with one of her hands "What really matters is what we do from now on" she stood on her tiptoes and pressed a chaste kiss to Bruce's lips "I'll be upstairs, yes?"
Bruce sat on his chair for a while he was confused, he had everything he could've wanted to have and yet, there was something, he sighed. When he went upstairs to the actual house, dressed in sweatpants and a t-shirt, he found Alexandra in the kitchen with two glasses of wine served in front of her. He took one of the glasses and took a sip; Alexandra did the same not taking her eyes off of him. She placed her glass down and went to stand in front of him.
"Surprisingly enough I don't have anything smart to say" she said with a smirk on her face, Bruce raised an eyebrow "My dad would be disappointed by that, my mum would be pleased, I always talked too much for my own good"
"And your point is?" He asked dryly.
"No point, just making conversation" she said softly, she placed her hands on his chest, he placed his hands over hers "Just diffusing the tension"
"Are you flirting with me?" He asked, a hint of a smile, her smirk faltered.
"Am I that bad?" She asked incredulously, then she pouted "Honestly its a miracle I ever managed to get a boyfriend, four to boot and several hook ups, but lets not think about that"
"You were doing fine" he said, amusement clear in his eyes, she scrunched her nose and Bruce smirked at her.
"Was I? You're just trying to make me feel better about myself, I'm a horrible flirt" she said pouting; he smiled at her.
"Maybe" he admitted, she got on her tip toes and pressed a kiss to his mouth, he cupped the back of her head with one of his hands, with the other he grabbed her waist. Her hands gripped his t-shirt as he devoured her mouth; she managed to remove said t-shirt as he kissed her hotly.
"Bruce" she moaned against his lips, his grip on her tightened, his hands left her hair so he could lift her up, she wrapped her legs around his waist. He pressed her against the counter, his mouth hot on her neck, she moaned his name again moving her hands to grab his hair and tug on it "Bruce please" her voice trembled, Bruce bit her neck, it was sure to leave a mark, she cupped his face bringing his mouth to hers once more, and Bruce Wayne was only too pleased to comply.
"Hey, its okay, its only for a few days" she said, he could almost se her mischievous smile "Unless of course you'd like to join me" her voice gained a seductive edge, Bruce gripped his phone a bit tighter.
"I would love to join you," he said.
"But the batsy has bad guys to catch, I know, does not means I will miss you any less"
"Please call me when you arrive to the building, our Metropolis office is a busy place, although I'm sure that Jack will love to show you around"
"Perfect, I'll call you later, I love you" she almost whispered the last part and Bruce smiled.
"Love you too" he answered.
Bruce placed the phone on his desk and decided to keep working with what Alexandra had left him, it was not much as she was very diligent, he picked up a pen and started reviewing a contract. He was on his third contract when his cellphone rang.
"Yes?" He asked.
"Master Wayne, there seems to be something happening in metropolis" said Alfred in a grave voice, Bruce looked up from his contract.
"What is happening?" He asked icily.
"Sir there seems to be an alien ship on the Metropolis sky" Bruce felt a knot on his stomach; Alexandra was in Metropolis.
"I'll get back to you in a moment Alfred" he said, he closed the call and pressed two on his office phone. "Prepare the chopper" he said as soon as someone answered "We're headed to metropolis"
Bruce jumped off of the chopper before it even landed, a car was already waiting there for him, he had to get to her; she was in danger. He drove through town as the sky battle unfolded, things were exploding, buildings were falling as if they had been made of cards, Alexandra was not picking up her phone.
"Jack!" Bruce said relived when his friend picked up "I need you to get everyone out of the building now"
"Yes boss" Jack answered, Bruce could hear as he started mobilizing the people, the connection fell and Bruce was left holding his phone, he got out the car and started running towards the building, he tried calling Alexandra again.
"Hello?" She had picked up the phone, he sighed.
"Alexandra where are you? Are you okay?" He asked hurriedly.
"I'm in the office, about to go down, Jack and I were making sure everyone left, its okay Bruce, I'm fine" she said trying to comfort him.
"Stay on the line with me" he ordered, she laughed.
"Honestly Bruce, I love you but you're such a worrywart sometimes, I'm taking the stairs now" she said, he could hear her heels clinking through the phone, Bruce kept running towards the building but slowly stopped when he heard "oh shit" Alexandra said softly.
"Alex? Alexandra, what is going on?" He heard as she took a deep breath.
"Nothing love, its fine" her voice sounded different, scared.
"Alex?" He tried again; he saw as the two aliens crashed into the building "ALEXANDRA" he shouted, there was no answer.
"Bruce I love you, I really do" she said after a while, Bruce closed his eyes.
"And I you" he whispered, he heard her whimper "Alex you have to get out please"
"I can't, there's glass everywhere, it hurts" she said softly "I love you"
"No" he said, "Alexandra no, please, don't"
"The doctor told me that it was going to be a boy, I wanted to tell you after I got home" she said her voice growing fainter by the moment, Bruce was watching as the building fell to pieces.
"Alexandra please" he heard rustling from her side.
"I don't want to die" he heard her cry softly; he then heard an explosion.
