Author's Note: Sorry, this took

so long, but school is keeping

me busy, especially finals and

I'm graduating with my 2nd degree!

Yeah, for me!! Once again sorry

it tookSo long and that this

is so short.Anyway here is...

Chapter 3

Two days later...

On the interstate leading

toward the Rocky Mountains...

            "I can't believe you talked me into this,"

muttered Reese in disbelief  in the passagener

seat of the red, sixties Mustang.

            "Well, Tennessee was a good idea Reese,"

Helena told him, "But, I figured my...er...

the people who are trying to find me would

immediately discover your connection with me,

so I just had to give that nice Smokey Mountain

vacation to those newlyweds..."

            "In exchanged for their Mustang,"

he finished despairingly, "I could have

you arrested for that."

            "But you won't," she smugly conveyed

to him, "Admit it! You thought it was cute

the way that they jumped for the chance to

go on a honeymoon, particularly since they

were broke as well as the fact that they

just elope."

            Reese just rolled his eyes as he

remembered the way that Helena particularly

dragged him down the block from his

apartment toward couple, offered them the

trip in exchanged for the car plus the fact

she and him would be the witnesses at their

sudden prenuptials. Sighing with weariness,

he said to her, "Just don't do anything

like that again!"

            "Reese!" she protested,

"Don't spoil my fun! Besides you

just ruined the mental picture,

I just had!"

            "And what picture was that?"

he asked sarcastically.

            "Oh...just a couple of people

who are probably just now going batty!"

she replied with a Cheshire cat smile.

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Meanwhile in the Smokey Mountains...

In a room at the Sweetheart Motel…

            "Yeee!!" shrieked a female voice into the night air.

            "What in h#$% are you doing in here? Get out!

This is supposed to be our honeymoon!" yelled a male voice.

            "Sorry!" shouted a red-faced Dick Grayson and Tim

Drake as they rushed out of the hotel room that they just

barged into. "We thought you were someone else!" Dick

told them in a rush as the door slammed loudly in his face.

            "Well, I see you haven't lost you're touch for

delicate situations, bird-boy," spoke a familiar

feminine voice behind them.

            "Barbara!" chuckled Dick nervously as he

turned toward her and Alfred, "Alfred! What are

you two doing here?"

            Alfred and Barbara just gave him the bat version

of 'are you just being stupid on purpose' look, while

Tim gave the most obvious answer, "They're here looking

for Helena and Detective Reese the same as we are bro,

but it appears sister dear decided to put us on a wild

goose chase."

            "A trait, I fear that she inherited from her

mother, young masters," commented Alfred, "She has

most definitely made us loose her trail..."

            "And drove us batty at the same time,"

finished Barbara, "Just like Selina."

            "So where on Earth can she be?"

questioned Dick out loud.

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A few hours later near sunset...

            Helena sighed with relief as she drove up in the

drive way of a secluded wooden cabin, "Finally! We're

here!" she shouted with excitement.

            "Helena," questioned her companion, "Are you sure

you're godfather is all right with me here?"

            "Of course he is!" protested Helena as

the door to the cabin opened.

            "Helena!" yelled a male voice joyfully.

            "Uncle Eddie!" she screamed out in excitement

as she ran up to him and embrace him in a too hug.

Reese just smiled slightly at the joyful reunion,

as he went to get the luggage at the back of the car,

he could not help put wonder why and how an ex-career

criminal known to the world as the Riddler became Helena's

godfather.

TBC...