The next day, I had spent at least an hour preparing the unique Greek cuisine I had seen fit for Miss Prince's tastes. It was almost exactly noon when Bruce came rushing in the door from a meeting that had run late.

"Alfred, tell her I'll be ready in a few minutes," he called out on his way upstairs.

"Yes, Master Bruce," I responded as the doorbell rang. I went to answer it, leaving the kitchen without any chance of burning something.

"Good day, Miss Prince. Please come in," I greeted her, "Master Bruce just came in from a late meeting. He's getting changed as we speak." I winked at her as I said my last statement. She smiled at me and blushed a bit.

"Thank you Alfred, I appreciate that," she commented as she stepped inside the door, ducking needlessly under the high doorframe. She was obviously used to a typical door that wasn't as high as the custom doors made for the Waynes. She waited cautiously with her hands holding one another in front of her while I turned around and shut the door.

"He's right up the stairs, second door on your left." She looked at me in a bit of disbelief that I was serious, but then grinned and proceeded without another word up the stairs.

I was alerted to their presence on the first floor after almost 10 minutes with their loud voices causing quite a din out in the hall. I had been keeping things warm and ready for them, but I realized I still had yet to put anything out on the table. I rushed around and just finished putting the last dish on the table before they barged in through the doors, shouting at each other.

"Well, I was delusional at that point! I didn't mean to say anything I said when I had over a hundred-degree fever! But you wouldn't know that since you're not human!" He was shouting at her like he never had. I was surprised at the strength of his emotions behind the words.

"Are you saying that you didn't mean what you said, or that you just finally had no inhibitions and did and said what you wanted to? What did it mean to you? Did it mean anything to you? Anything at all?" She retorted, her fists clenched at her sides as she followed him in, clearly not happy with the answers she was getting.

"I'm saying you need to forget about it. It doesn't matter! Now can we eat, or are you planning on dying again, only this time it'll just be to save your heart?" He caught his breath at the last syllable, gasping at the shock of his outpouring of emotions. I could see he wasn't happy with his actions or his words at this point. He was being put in an emotionally difficult situation, and he didn't have his Bat-suit to hide behind this time. It was all out on the table, and he didn't have any defense except for avoiding the situation and getting his opponent to sit down and eat. It was almost sad for me to watch, knowing there must be strong feelings he could not express if he was this angry at only a question she had obviously asked.

I watched her reaction to what he had said now. I hoped she wouldn't leave, but would keep fighting so he wouldn't shut out yet another potential confidant would might be able to understand him. She was a warrior after all, why would she surrender?

"Bruce, all I wanted to know was how you broke the spell. How you saved me before Manitou killed me the first time. Why you kissed me. Why you held my hand when we died. Why it was so difficult to talk to each other when we got back to the Watchtower. I want to know if I..." She trailed off, obviously afraid of saying what she was about to say.

"If you what, Princess?" he challenged her.

"I'm not a princess. You know that. I was going to say, I want to know if...if there's something you have never told me. Something about us. About me. Is there something should know?" She avoided being honest quite well, I noticed. She said something differently than what she had been saying, but at least it was an answer.

"I have secrets, Diana. All of us do. Now can we eat?"

She hesitated, glancing towards the door. "Oh, all right. But not because of you. Only because Alfred went to all the trouble to make it."

I smiled at her when she said that. She wasn't giving up, she was only being polite. I liked that.

They sat down in silence and began eating without another word. I left them to eat in the kitchen, and came back a while later to be sure they didn't need anything. The sight in front of me, amazed me.