Home, sweet home, Kyler thought bitterly as he walked through the door of the apartment he, Terry, Saena and Dana all shared. The rat shack of a shit hole was worse than his accommodations in the other reality. He thought of Miriam's room. Delicate and feminine, beautiful like her, amid that absolutely huge and fabulous mansion. He almost felt ashamed of this set up.
"Kyler!" a shrill voice, full of female energy, screamed as the lithe, naked, wet form of Saena leapt from one of the back rooms. She wrapped herself around Kyler, pressing her wet body into his own, wrapping her legs around his waist and arms around his shoulders. He was not at all surprised by this, he knew she wouldn't be out patrolling, even though she was this reality's Batman, the person who was charged with the protection of the city. Somewhere in the back of his mind, he knew she wouldn't have been dressed either. His respect for her was dwindling. She kept her death grip tight, her lips spread in a wild smile.
"We missed you! Where have you been?" she climbed down from her perch against his body leaving a wet mark. She looked at his face and anger flashed in her eyes. "It was that tramp from the other reality, wasn't it!?" anger shot through her and her mouth drew into a tight line. "I thought you..."
He cut her off before she could accuse him of doing what he wished he had been doing any further. "I was patrolling. Unlike some," the accusation cut through the air like a hot knife through butter. He was lying, of course.
He felt the hypocracy of Saena calling Miriam a "tramp", her own actions much less like a lady than the proper British woman he had met. He missed her, Miriam that is, and let the anger towards Saena grow, thinking to himself that she enjoyed Terry's abuses, it gave her a reason to pity herself, and gain pity from others. She was always allowing others to hurt her, and Kyler was beginning to see a pattern in it.
"For four days?" she asked him bitterly, the accusation firing a new. Saena did not like to share, even if her and Kyler weren't officially anything more than friends, and even if she had a boyfriend, he was her's and that whore Huntress couldn't have him. She wouldn't let her.
"You don't patrol," he stated simply, dryly, emotionlessly. "And neither does Dana." Kyler pushed away from her nude form, shrugging her away from him. "I'm tired. I'm going to bed." he said nothing more to the woman who was his best friend. Was being the key word here. All of that had happened before he had the pleasure to meet Miriam.
He left Saena to stand indignantly, naked, watching her best friend walk away from her. Their time in the other reality had changed him, she could see that in his walk, her it in his voice, the tone he used with her, feel it in the way that he didn't catch her when she jumped on him, that he didn't even touch her. Something was different about him, and she knew where the blame laid: squarely on the shoulders of Miriam Drake.
That bitch'll pay, Saena thought to herself, letting the bitter rage take over. She began to dress herself as she thought of that posh bitch, with her money and her advantages. Admittably Kyler wasn't the only that Saena was jealous of when it came to Miriam. Kyler was just the only thing that Saena had that Miriam wanted, and now apparently she had him too. It wasn't fair. She would pay.
The mere thought made Saena growl, her hands clenched tightly into fists. How dare she? How dare -he-? He was supposed to be her best friend, the one person she could count on, for anything! And this is how it happens? She wouldn't stand for this. He was not allowed to fall for that little tramp. She might not be able to prevent or change his feelings, but there was one thing she could do...
If she couldn't be happy in the arms of Kyler, she wouldn't let that bitch be either. That little tramp, with her "charmed life" and her proper, British up-bringing. It made Saena sick. She would find away to stop the two from becoming a pair. She would get her best friend back. After all, he was HER's.
She knew what she would do. She would go back to the other reality, she had made "friends" with the Batman of there, Terry McGuiness, as well as with Bruce Wayne, with whom Miriam was staying. She would find away to destroy Kyler's would-be girlfriend and then they'd see who he'd prefer...