The fact that she had lost her mother to an automobile accident when she was only a preschooler, and her father to a slow combination of grief and alcoholism, had closed her in on herself. It had broken her heart. When she was forced to leave Marcy & her Ohio childhood behind to go live in Gotham City with her Uncle James and Aunt Barbara, her world had changed. She hadn't wanted to leave Ohio. It was her home, her place in the world, and all of her mother's memories. However, when she arrived at her new home, she changed her mind.

Her aunt had slept with her during those first hard months. Barbara was never left her alone, her aunt always with her. She had found in her a second mother. And her uncle was adorable. He sat to play with her and took her to the zoo and other places. He always had time for her. She never would finish to repaying them for all their time and love. They had given her a home, a real home. Full of love.

A sound took her out her thoughts. The redhead, who had been sitting on the cornice of the building, stood up. It was time to work.

Selina sat in Dr. Harris' office. Helena was in her lap, her head on her mother's chest, sucking her pacifier; she was playing with her stuffed Winnie Pooh. The ex-burglar had taken her child to get some tests. The worst part had been taking the blood, Helena didn't like needles and had created a huge scandal before the doctor could take a sample.

That had been two days ago. The blonde woman wasn't sure about which capabilities Helena would develop; and the best was to always keep an eye on her. Now she had gone back to him to find out the results.

Harris appeared with a file and standing up in front of Selina, he leaned to check Helena's forehead. "You heal pretty fast, Helena, your wound is closed. That is good."

The little girl fixed her eyes on him and growled. If he tried to bury needlein her again, she'd bite him this time, instead of just kicking him.

"You're still angry, eh?"

"I'm worried about her, doctor." Selina said.

"Why?" he sat in front of Selina. "She's okay."

"The way her cut healed was weird. Maybe this means that her metabolism is faster than ourss and she would grow up faster than other children. Maybe she would look as if she were 21 when she was just seven, you know…"

"Oh, don't worry, that's not it. She's half meta." He took a roll of stickers and gave it to Helena. She looked at it; it had a lot of colors. And best of all, there was a Winnie the Pooh there. She liked Winnie the Pooh. Well, maybe the evil man wasn't so evil.

"I know that." Selina sighed looking at her daughter.

Helena took the roll. "Mu…" she showed it to her mother.

"You're her friend again." Selina smiled.

"Yes, I see. I did a complete analysis on her." Harris said "Her bones are structurally similar to those of cats. She can jump higher than any human being; I'm sure that when she grow up, she'll easily be able to jump a nine storey building."

"Are you kidding?"

"No, I'm serious. I checked and she is developing an extremely efficient healing system." He showed her some pictures of a microscope of her cells "It doesn't mean she's going to age faster; but if she cuts herself, she'll heal in a few hours or a couple of days, depending on the severity of the wound. Her immune system is amazing. It's almost ten times faster than any human being's would be."

"So… If she breaks a bone?"

"A normal human being would need about a month to heal. She'd do it easily in five days, eight at most."

"What other abilities can I expect?" Helena tried to lick the stick and Selina moved it out of her mouth.

"I don't know, every meta is different and when she grows, new ones will appear." He moved forward, "Your cat vision is really great and she has it too."

"I'm curious, doctor, I can see at nights as the cats do, as she can… but what makes it possible?"

Helena tried to lick the stick again and Selina moved again it far from her mouth, "No, Helena."

"No?" the baby asked, shaking her head.

"No."

Harris smiled "Unlike human eyes, which work best in day light, the cat's eyes must function well in extremely low light condition and as such are well suited to an animal that is predominantly nocturnal and crepuscular in activity. In darkness, cat's eyes are able to function in approximately one-sixth of the light needed for human vision. In low light levels the cat's pupil must be able to open as wide as possible, but also be able to contract to very small size to protect the sensitive retina in bright sunlight."

"Oh, I see…"

"In human eyes, this size variation of the pupil is controlled by a circular ciliary muscle, but this limits the amount of size variation. In cats however, the same process is controlled by two, shutter-like ciliary muscles, which gives the cat it's characteristic slit-like pupil in bright light conditions. All cats pupils are therefore elliptical, however some, notable the 'Big Cats', like you and she, appear more circular. Let me show you something…."

The doctor closed the windows and turned off the lights, he turned on a lamp and sat on a chair in front of Helena. He turned on a hand lamp. "Hi Helena."

She frowned wondering now what he was planning to do. Was he thinking of taking her stick? She hugged it closer.

"That's your stick, keep it. I'm going to check your eyes, okay?" he said to her and raised the hand lamp.

Helena moved back and covered her face. "Fuc…"

Surprised the doctor looked Selina who blushed. "I'm sorry," she apologized, "she heard me once and I can't stop her from sometimes saying it."

Dr. Harris smiled. "You are learning bad things, Helena. Let me see your eyes."

"No, no, no no…" Helena covered her eyes with her hands.

"It's okay, Helena," Selina whispered, lowering her daughter's hands, "he just wants to see your eyes."

"Look the lamp, Helena, okay?"

"Mu…"

"She calls everything 'mu' ."

"I see." He looked at the girl's eyes "Now her eyes are in cat's shape, see?"

"Yes."

"Look..." he put the light over one of the girl's eyes, and her pupil changed. Helena blinked. That was really bright.

"I see."

"Another feature, which enabled the amount of light hitting the retina to be increased, is the tapetum lucidum. This is positioned at the back of the eye," he explained moving the light lamp again toward Helena's eyes; the child blinked again, "behind the retina and acts like a mirror, reflecting light back onto the light sensor cells in the retina. This gives the cats eyes the characteristic night-time glow when they are caught in a beam of light."

"Ohh… interesting. Her eyes change too when she has strong emotions, like when she is angry."

"Yes, I imagine so." He stood up and tuned on the light.

"So, she's fine."

Helena kept blinking, the light had blinded her; now she saw a lot of lights in front of her. She tried to catch them. "Mu.."

"Yes, healty and strong, like her mother." He sat back in his chair.

"You reassured me, letting me know she's fine."

"You just must keep an eye on her, She is pretty quick."

"Yes."

"And keep an eye on what she eats…" he pointed to the girl.

Selina lowered her head. Helena was biting the stickers. "Oh damn!" The blonde tried to remove it from Helena's mouth but her daughter growled, protesting.

"Seems as if she likes the taste of glue." The doctor smirked.

"If she could, she'd eat stones. Helena, give me that." Selina took the stickers of her hand.

Helena gurgled, still protesting.

"And I see she has a strong character."

"Yes, she's very short-tempered." She stood, taking Helena close to her chest. "I appreciate your help a lot."

"Like her mother." He smiled.

"Very funny." She kissed his cheek.

"Bye-bye, Helena." He waved at the child.

"Ba." She waved back.

"That's a much better word."

"Yes."

Selina smiled and walked outside covering Helena with a blanket, it was cold. The little brunette pulled it back to wave again to the doctor. He wasn't such a bad guy after all. The blonde covered her up again. "Be quiet just a minute."

"Fu…"

"No, don't start again…"