Bruce walked into his daughter's room and sat on the bed next to her. He loved to watch her sleep, ever since she was baby. He ran his clean hands threw her short brown hair. She rolled over and said, "Dad is that you?" "Yeah, Tam, it's me. Sorry, sweetheart, I didn't mean to wake you." Tamara sat up and turned her bedside lamp on which reviled her father's black eye. "Dad what happened?"

"I wasn't watching where I was going and ran into an open file cabinet."

"Oww, that sounds like it hurt."

"Yeah it did and still does a little." Bruce continued to lie to his daughter

"Hey do you want to do something later?"

"Sure, I think I'm free." Bruce said calculating his work schedule in his head quickly. He did have someone who was going to give a presentation to him at ten later that morning but that could wait. He needed to spend time with his daughter. She was his number one priority now and that's how it was going to stay. "What do you want to do?" He asked as Tamara laid back down. "I don't know." Tamara yawned and rolled back over, "why don't we sleep on it?"

"All right let's do that. Good night Tam. I love you."

"Night Dad, I love you too."

Bruce kissed his daughter's forehead, turned out the light and shut the door. "Maybe she does need to know." He said to himself as he walked to his room for a few hours of sleep.

The next Day at School:

"I don't know, Tom." Tamara said as she and her boyfriend walked into the cafeteria with their lunches and sat down. "I mean could my dad really be B-A-T-M-A-N?"

"Let's look at all the evidence." Tom said as they sat down across from each other. "When's the only time people see the Bat?"

"In the cover of night." Tamara replied getting out her stake sandwich Alfred had made for her this morning.

"When is your dad always gone?"

"Late at night and now that I think about it he always comes home hurt. For example this morning he came in to tell me he was home and he had a black eye?"

"What did he say when you asked him about it?"

"He said that he ran into an open filing cabinet. Now, I know my dad and he's the least clumsiest person on this planet."

"So you think he's covering something up?"

"I don't know really. I'm just going to think about it for a while longer."

Tom looked at his watch and his eyes grew big. "Tam, I'm sorry for running off on you like this but I've got to go talk to my English teacher about making up for that test we took last week. I'll talk to you later." Tom kissed Tamara on the head and walked out the door. Once he was out side the cafeteria door he went to he pay phone and dialed the operator.

"Hello, how may I help you?" said a woman's voice on the other end.

"Yes, um... I need the number to Blue Card Hotel."

"One moment please." Tom waited for five minutes and finally the woman gave him the number. He hung up the phone and dialed the given number and a man answered.

"How may I help you?"

"Can you connect me to room 011?"

"Yes sir hold one moment please." Three minutes passed and finally a man who sounded like he was mentally disturbed answered the phone. "Hello?"

"Hey boss, it Tommy."

"You got info boy?" the man asked in almost a laughing voice.

"You were right. The girls father is Batman. So what do you want me to do now?"

"Bring the girl to me. I killed her mother and finishing off her and her father would make my life much easier!" The man laughed a very high pitch laugh. Tom hung up the phone and walked to his next class.