A/N: I do not own the characters from Batman Beyond. I do own Synthroid and Corinna.
Chapter 2
"Terry, I have to talk to you." Dana Tan told her long time boyfriend.
Terry McGinnis froze in his stride. "What do you mean? What's wrong?" He feared he'd done something wrong, and he couldn't bare the thought that he'd hurt Dana. He knew that barely seeing her because of the time he gave to be Batman, and he knew that tended to leave her ego bruised and feeling that she didn't mean as much to him as she used to.
Dana caressed Terry's cheek and kissed him gently on his lips. "Terry, my family is moving."
Dana still had her eyes closed but heard Terry's surprised gasp. She felt her heart drop at the sound, and she let her hand slip off of Terry's cheek. Slowly, she stepped back away from him and looked up to his eyes. "Ter," she whispered.
Terry couldn't form words, but he did let out whimpers. He was in denial, and he didn't believe what his ears had heard. "No," was all he could force out of his tight throat.
Dana took his right hand in her own. "Terry."
Terry pulled his hand from Dana's grasp. "Why," he whispered as he backed up a few feet.
Dana didn't like the accusing look in his eyes. "I'm not doing this to hurt you, Terry. I just have no choice in the matter. My parents want to move, and I have no choice but to follow them. I'm underage after all, so they still control my life."
"Where?" Terry asked trying to keep the tears from welling up in his pale blue eyes.
"We're not sure yet, but it won't be close." Dana's eyes filled with tears.
Terry watched a tear fall down Dana's cheek, and his throat began to burn from having to force his own tears back. "We could make it work, Dana, I--"
Dana shook her head. "Terry, you know it wouldn't work. Eventually, it would be too hard on both of us. It isn't fair for me to ask that much from you."
Terry almost felt betrayed as his mind misunderstood Dana's sentimental reply. "Or is it you're tired of me and this is an excuse to move on?"
"Terry, it isn't that. I would never do that to you." Dana's eyes welled with tears as she looked up at Terry. "Don't you know me enough to know that?"
Terry heard Dana's words and saw the tears in her eyes and couldn't take it any longer. He collapsed into her arms and let his tears go. "God, Dana, I'm going to miss you so bad," he admitted.
Dana stroked his back. "I know, and I'm going to miss you just as much. But in time, you'll move on."
'I don't know how that could happen,' he thought as his body went through the sorrow of such a sudden heartache.
Hidden deep within the shadows, Corinna spied on the couple's break up. She'd quickly found out that Terry McGinnis was the new Batman. Watching the goings-on, Corinna could not help but smile. 'Well, this is going to be easier than I thought. He's broken, so distracting him will be very easy. All I have to do is wait for him to be on the rebound, then I'll snag him. It couldn't have been easier than this,' she thought as she shut off her recording feature on the device in her hand. Corinna returned the small recording device to one of the four pouches on her belt. 'All is well, and Synthroid will be very proud.'