Chapter 6
"Bruce, am I going out today?" Kaile asked her father who was working on some last minute touch ups on her suit.
"Well, after a month of training I would suspect that you'd be ready. " He said with a smile, which looked peculiar on a face such as his. "After all we can't let all those criminals run amuck."
With slight hesitation Kaile decided to pose the following question that had been clawing at her, "Was Terry the other Batman?"
"Yes he was, I guess it didn't mean much to him if he was willing to throw it all away. His father probably meant nothing to him," Bruce couldn't help but say this with a touch of hatred for the boy. Bruce felt the boy wouldn't amount to anything, even though he was still going to high school. Bruce knew this only because he wasn't receiving those pesky notes from school informing him of any absences. No doubt that he would soon get expelled from Hamilton High for doing another stupid thing. That however wouldn't be Bruce's problem since he didn't have to worry about him anyone and apparently neither did his mother seeing as though she and her younger son had already moved out of Gotham and into Metropolis. He needed to focus all of his attention on his daughter and help her along the way.
"Bruce?"
"Hmm. What? " Bruce was brought back to reality as he heard his daughter 's voice.
"You just spaced out, are you okay?"
"Yeah I am fine. You should try the suit on."
"It's beautiful." Kaile said seeing the suit for the first time.
"It's a replica of your mother's with a few minor embellishments."
Kaile left the cave to go try it on, while Bruce was once again left alone with his thoughts. Most of them of his daughter but stray ones circling around the name that could destroy him and his newfound family: Terrance McGinnis. He had to find out where he was staying, but the boy had enough skills to keep himself out of anyone's grasp. How he was caught and sent to juvie before seemed quite impossible. As crazy as it seemed Bruce always thought that perhaps Terry had allowed himself to get caught, what Bruce could never figure out was why.
Terry had never really confided in his mentor but then again when had Bruce given him a chance to. He had stopped caring about the boy's welfare long ago, he was just another pawn that he could mold, but this pawn had gone astray and had the power to become to become a traitor as well as an adversary.
Kaile was bright and skilled, she would make a worthy knight, but would she be able to stand up against McGinnis. After all wasn't he the one that had had to grow up in gangs and learn to defend himself, not merely because he had to but because she had always wanted to. In comparison to Terry Kaile had lived in marveled luxury. But perhaps if Bruce trained her well enough she could beat anyone that came her way, even Terrance McGinnis.