Ch 8- Safe

Nelson laid in the middle of the bed with Dana who was wide-awake on his left and a sleeping Blade to his right. Dana was sitting on her legs looking a Nelson with a frustrated look on her face.

" Look it was a great idea but she got away. Just leave it alone." Nelson sat up in bed and ran his hands over his face.

" I'm going out for a spin." Nelson jumped out of the bed and threw on some clothes, left his house and went ripping through the streets of Gotham.

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" It's late McGinnis. Call it a night."

" Once more time around the city then I'll head in."

" I thought you'd want to spend more time with Max."

" It's two in the morning she's probably asleep."

"Ace would know better then I would. He's taken a liking to her. He's upstairs with her now." Batman laughed at the thought of Ace sleeping at the foot of the bed

" I'll be in soon."

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Dana had a point of leaving the whole Max situation alone but it was the fact that he hadn't succeeded at recapturing Max after she escaped. He knew she was with Terry but had no reason to come in contact with him. He figured he wouldn't let him bother he was after all sleeping with the guy's girlfriend. Nelson was stopped at a stoplight not paying much attention to his surroundings. He lifted his head and saw Batman in a half stand on the hood of his car. Batman tilted his head to the left and grinned. He grabbed Nelson by his shirt and took him to the roof of a fifty-story building. He dangled Nelson over the edge of the building.

" You're the first in my Catch and Release program. The way it works is you tell me what I want to know and I'll put you back in your car. Don't cooperate I drop you from this building and catch you before you hit the ground. Get it?" Nelson nodded his head rapidly "Good. Why kidnap Max?"

" I don't know. I was just told to hire the Jokerz or the T's to keep her."

" How'd your ID get in her apartment?" Nelson looked at the ground and tightened his grip around Batman's wrist

" She pulled it off my neck when we were fighting."

" Who told you to kidnap Max?"

" Dana Tan." For a moment Batman forgot he was holding Nelson and almost dropped him. He took Nelson to his car as promised and flew away. Batman cut his night short and went back to the cave. Terry couldn't believe that his girlfriend planned the kidnapping of his best friend. He went to the room Max was staying in and stood in the doorway. Max looked at him for a moment before saying anything. He sat on the bed next to her.

" Nelson told me that Dana was the one who had you kidnapped."

" Yeah I know." Max brought up some e-mail while Terry looked at. " After I found out that Starfish was Dana Bruce let me use the computer in the cave to hack into Dana's computer. She's been planning this over a week. You want to know why?"

" Yeah."

" She was under the impression that we were dating behind her back. According to an e-mail she sent Blade she was trying to save me from you good looks and charms that will eventually cause me pain." Max looked at Terry who was reading the e-mail.

" Her intentions were good" he said "but she went about it wrong. Am I that bad of a boyfriend?"

" To those who don't know what you do I'd say yes." The looked at each other smiling " You never told her what you really do and it had to be frustrating for her when you cancel or leave in the middle of a date."

" So now what."

" Nothing. We go to sleep and forget this ever happened. We can't tell the police because half of what we did was illegal and you were Batman when Nelson confessed. So we do nothing."

" It's probably for the best."

" I look at it this way. I was in no real danger because my protector saved me." He smiled a crooked smile at Max before kissing her on the forehead. He made his way toward the door before stopping and turning to her.

" Hypothetical question. If we were dating and I did what I did to Dana to you would you consider me a bad boyfriend?"

" No but I have an advantage over Dana. I know what you do when you're gone. Are you going home?"

" It's been a long week and I need to get some well-deserved rest as well as you. Goodnight." Terry closed the door as he left. The thought that his girlfirend who was soon to be his ex could master mined the kidnapping of his bestfriend. He thought for a moment that Nelson was lying but who would when they were being dangled from a twenty-story building. As he walked the long narrow halls of Wayne manor he became even more frustated at the thought that the only thing he would be able to do was breakup with her. For a moment he thought of going to the police be that would put him at risk of being exposed as Batman and he couldnt tell Comminisher Gordan for that same reason. He did find comfort in knowing that Max was safe sound. Terry hopped on his bike letting out a slight sight and drove home.

The End

I'm sorry its taken me forever to finish this story buy things kept getting in the way like work and school. I hope you can forgive me and I promise my next story won't take forever to finish. Thanks and I hope you enjoyed reading my story.