Selina pocketed the diamond into her backpack which she then put into her shoulders, before racing towards the centre of the room. She passed the security guard she had knocked out, chuckling slightly at how easy it had been to handle him, before aiming her grapple gun to the skylights. She fired and the book latched onto the open window of the skylight, and she smiled as she flew high up into the air. Pulling the gun quickly to unhook the line from the skylight she then rolled herself into a ball before unfolding once she had passed through the large window. She landed gently on top of the roof, and as she pocketed her grapple gun she heard a voice from behind her that she thought she would never hear again.
"I didn't think you would ever come back Selina." he said softly, and it took all of Selina's willpower to not run to hug him. Or beat him for leaving in the first place. Or break down crying that he was here.
"Business wasn't going that well in Metropolis. That Fantastics group were making it impossible for me to make a not so honest living." she responded, hoping the joke would claim her nerves. It didn't.
"So that's the only reason you came back to New Gotham?" he asked her and she wanted to turn around so bad, but at the same time she couldn't. Her goggles wouldn't hide anything and right now she was struggling to control the emotions he would be able to read if he saw her face.
"Why did you come back to New Gotham?" she asked, not wanting to answer that question.
"I said I would return in my letter. I said I would come back to New Gotham when I could better protect those I love." he explained simply and at that moment Selina found she couldn't hold back her anger.
"Parker, if you want to protect someone you don't leave them." she told him angrily as memories filled her head.
Of herself at just twelve years old seeing Parker's parents be murdered, of slowly but surely becoming friends with the strange boy obsessed with spiders, and the many things that happened to them in this city. She almost touched her stomach in memory of when when Harry Valeska shot her, as she continued to remember everything. She remembered how over the years more and more people stepped forwards with names and outfits, slowly transforming the city into a madhouse. From King Penguin and Mystery Man to Crow and that madman's father Norman Valeska, the city just got worse and worse. But at the same time people like Parker with his butler Benjamin Pennyworth, detective George Gordon and doctor May Thompkins ended up helping people and protecting the city. And where was Selina in all of this? Constantly jumping from one side to the next, with only Parker really having hope that one day they will be on the same side forever. And they almost could have been if he hadn't done what he did.
"Selina, you have to return the diamond." Parker finally told her, and at that point Selina couldn't stop herself. She understood what he was now, understood that they were officially on opposite sides, so she was expecting him to try and arrest her. But telling her what to do after what he did? That she won't allow.
"Do you know what happened to my dad because of you?" she asked bitterly and when Parker didn't respond she continued to talk. "He died in prison, alone and with no one even caring to check his cell for a whole day. They didn't even try to contact any of his family."
"I know you hate me for what I did Selina. But I couldn't forgive him for what he had done." Parker responded and despite his detached tone Selina could hear the faint traces of anger in his voice.
"He was forced to do all those things!" she shouted and turned around to face her ex-boyfriend, who stood there in his red and black suit that had a large blue spider symbol on the chest. She recalled when she was fifteen and thanks to Parker she was reunited with her father Joseph Hardy, who had been a mess since her mother had told him Selina was dead just to mess with him. For awhile Selina had never been happier and had believed her life will now be better and she could be a normal teenage girl for once. Then she learned what Joseph had done and then he did all those things that ruined everything.
"I found the strength to forgive your father for killing my parents. Joseph had been starving and homeless and he was afraid to die. I saw the conditions he had been living in and while I would never forget what he had done I accepted he wasn't the monster I had imagined." Parker explained as calmly as he could. "But in case you forgot Selina, even after everything we did to help him, he happily took the money even though he knew you would die. He happily killed Benjamin and I will never apologise for letting him be sent to Raftgate. And I know I hurt you by leaving afterwards, but I didn't have a choice."
Selina just glared at him, her conflicting feelings making it difficult to decide what she wants. One parts of her wants to forgive Parker, understanding why he did what he did. The other part hated him for robbing her of the chance to live a normal life instead of becoming the person she is now. Furious she turned to look away from him and saw in the sky something that will help her avoid talking to him anymore.
"Looks like your precious city needs you." She told him as she gestured to the spider symbol in the sky, created by the searchlight on top of the NGPD police station. "Go on, I'm pretty sure they have something more important than me. Probably a new Green Clown maniac or something."
Parker didn't say anything, and she could feel him watching her. Eventually however she heard the sound of he shooting out a webline, making her smile a little when she recalled him showing it to her when he first invented it all those years ago, and a second later she saw him swinging through the streets below. Taking a deep breath and pushing down her feelings, refusing to let them over come her, she started running across the rooftop towards her ride before any alarms are activated.
This is inspired by the last scene of Gotham and while filled with OC amalgams this is very much a Gotham inspired universe. The aspect of Selina's dad being the one who killed Parker's parents comes from the Spectacular Spider-Man cartoon. The Fantastics are meant to be the Superman/Fantastic Four amalgams from Unlimited Access #4.
Amalgams:
Selina Hardy/The Cat (Selina Kyle/Catwoman and Felicia Hardy/Black Cat)
Parker Wayne/The Arachnid (Bruce Wayne/Batman and Peter Parker/Spider-Man)
Joseph Hardy (Walter Hardy and Joe Chill)
Benjamin Pennyworth (Ben Parker and Alfred Pennyworth)
May Thompkins (May Parker and Leslie Thompkins)
Richard Wayne (Richard Parker and Thomas Wayne)
Mary Wayne (Mary Parker and Martha Wayne)
George Gordon (George Stacey and James Gordon)
Green Clown (The Joker and every Goblin themed villain)
Norman Valeska (Norman Osborn and Jerome Valeska)
Harry Valeska (Harry Osborn and Jeremiah Valeska)
Wilson Cobblepot/King Penguin (Oswald Cobblepot/Penguin and Wilson Fisk/Kingpin)
Dimitri Nashton/Mystery Man (Dimitri Smerdyakov/Chameleon and Edward Nygma/Riddled)
Adrian Crane/Crow (Adrian Toomes/Vulture and Jonathan Crane/Scarecrow)
Raftgate (The Raft and Blackgate)