Chapter 4
Place: A secluded cabin in the
Rocky Mountains.
Time: 8:00 A.M.
Reese rubbed his neck as he softly walked
into the kitchen to get some much-needed coffee,
suddenly someone behind him asked, "The couch
was crap, wasn't it?"
Startled, Reese yelped out, "What is it
with you people sneaking around and scaring the
living daylights out of people?"
"Sorry," apologized ten-year old Amelia
Nigma as she brushed passed him and made her way
to the refrigerator, "I thought you be used to
since your dating, Helena."
Reese groaned in frustration and then yelled,
"For the last time, I'm not dating Helena! I just
found out her name the other night, how can I be
dating her?"
Before Amelia could argue her position,
her mother came into the room, "Now, Amelia,
be nice to Helena's young man, he just does not
know what he has gotten himself into...yet,"
scolded Margaret Nigma as she started to fix
breakfast.
"Well, he should," muttered Amelia as
she munched on an apple, "After all he's
dating the daughter of ..."
"Amelia!" shouted her mother;
"Helena needs to tell him in her
own time."
"I need to tell what in my own time?"
questioned Helena as she came into the
kitchen carrying three-year old Edward Nigma
Jr., while her godfather followed her with
his twin sister, Edith Nigma.
"Amelia was just about to tell me who
your parents are, when Mrs. Nigma stopped her,"
Reese told her, "So, who are your parents?"
Helena gave Amelia a furious glare as
she answered, "My mother was Catwoman, and
her real name was Selina Kyle."
"So that's how you got the Riddler as
your godfather, I was wondering..." muttered
Reese in amazement.
"Guilty as charged," Edward Nigma told
the detective as he placed his namesake in a
high chair, "Though I'm retired now, I found
something better than all the money, bats,
and clowns in Gotham."
"Edward!" shouted a blushing Margaret
as she helped Helena get Edith settled into her
high chair, "Not in front of the children! And
may I remind you we met after your near-death
experience with a certain clown!"
"That's how Daddy got his scars and
artificial leg," Amelia whispered to Reese,
"Mommy saved his life after Batman got him
out of that h^%# hole."
"Amelia Selina Nigma!" shouted her
parents, "Watch your language!"
Amelia rolled her eyes, and muttered
softly, "Parents!"
Reese though had other things on his mind,
"I thought you told me Batman wasn't real! And
just who is your father?" he questioned Helena
in frustration.
Helena merely growled out in fury,
"No one!"
"Helena," her godfather told her as
he buttered some toast, "You might as well
tell him, and you never did tell us the
reason for your and the detective's sudden
appearance."
"The reason I'm here is that big mouth
Canary told 'him' and certain others about me!"
Helena shouted out as she poured some milk
into her cereal.
Silence descended into the kitchen,
finally Margaret muttered, "Oh, good lord."
"Helena," Edward softly told her, "I
understand your anger, but it's perhaps for
the best that he has finally found out. Your
mother, would have wanted you to get to know
him as well as..."
Helena interrupted with a shout, "I do
not want to get to know 'him' or his little
tag-a-longs!"
Confused, Reese whispered to Amelia,
"What are they talking about?"
"Helena's father and brothers,"
softly replied Amelia.
"Oh," muttered Reese, "Wait a minute,
brothers?"
"Uh-huh," answered Amelia, "Shhh, this
is getting interesting."
"Helena," Edward said as he rubbed his
nose in frustration, "I realize that they were
never there for you..."
"Oh, do not start with 'it was for your
own safety crap!'" bellowed Helena, "Mom did
that to me when I Amelia's age, what really gets
me is that he or any of them never...never!
Attempted to stop her murder or ..."
As Helena choked up, her godfather finished
her sentence, "Or attempted to apprehend Clayface
for her murder. Helena..."
But Helena stood up and rushed out of the
room crying, sighing in frustration, Edward
muttered, "Well, that went well!"
"I'll go..." Reese started to say, but
was cut off by Helena's godfather.
"No," Edward told him as he gestured for
him to stay in his seat, "Let her calm down,
besides you'll never find her when she's like this.
Takes after her father in that department from
what I learned over the years and from her mother...
she'll find the most darkest, most unreachable place
that she can find and brood for quite some time."
"So, who is her father?" questioned Reese
for the third time.
"You might as well tell him, Dad," commented
Amelia, "Maybe he can help you to knock some sense
into her."
"I still feel Helena should be the one to tell
him," Margaret said stating her own opinion, "But
since 'he' has found out about her, it will only be a
matter of time until 'he' tracks her down here. No matter
what false trails that Helena has laid out before
she left Gotham."
"Very well," sighed Edward as he surrender
to the inevitable, "Helena's father was my
greatest nemesis."
"And he was?" questioned Reese with a
sinking suspicion in the back of his mind.
"Batman," admitted Edward.
"Oh," muttered Reese, and then for the first
time in his life, he fainted.
