Chapter 6 (Candle Light Dinner)

A few days later Bruce invited Selina over to his house for a candlelight dinner, and to give her, her one week anniversity present, the exact necklace that she had tried to steal exactly a week ago. Well at least he knew it was something that she didn't already have. The real question was: what exactly did she have? Shivers, chills, dizzy spells, bad eye sight? By now even Bruce had noticed that something was wrong, people don't usually pass out for no reason? What had she wanted at the hospital? He still had some research to do.

"Selina", he said calmly hugged her on first sight, a tingling feeling slid down his back. Great. He was in love with a villain. He reminded himself that he wasn't absoulety sure that Selina was Catwoman, and there was a bit of hope left. It was Weird part of him wanted her to be Catwoman, so he could lock her up and throw away the key part another part of him, wanted her not to be Catwoman, so they could fall in love… Maybe get married and… have a life together.

And then an entirely different part of him wondered, if Selina wasn't Catwoman, how could he love her? Catwoman matched him, gave him challenges, he liked that. She pushed him dared him to find her, beat her, catch her. But lately… Well Catwoman hadn't been much of a challenge really, it was disappointing.

Another thought crossed Bruce's mind, if all of a sudden there was peace in the world all Super hero's would be stuck in their boring Secret identities with nothing to do and no one to save. That could easily drive them crazy to the point where they would make trouble, just so they could save people again. As much as it pained him to admit it. Heroes needed villains. Batman needed Catwoman. Bruce needed... Someone. Someone exciting to keep him on his feet.

"Bruce, honey, you're awfully quiet tonight.." Selina's sly eyes traced his outline as if hoping to read his thoughts.

"Just thinking…" He had thought about adding Dear, but tonight it just didn't seem comfortable.

Selina just gave him another searching look, "Hmm…"

"Selina?"

She gave him a look, "Just thinking…"

Bruce realized it seemed like they both were hiding something. That wasn't the best thing for a relashonship, but being in the current predicament that he was he didn't say anything. "Well Selina don't stand out there in the cold you'll…"

She gave him a sly look, "I know, I know."

Bruce, being the gentleman that he was, helped her out of her coat and hand it to Albert, they exchanged a wink.

"So this is the famous Wayne Manor…" Said Selina looking around eyeing the furniture.

Bruce slid his hand into hers, he noticed that her fingers were cold as ice but didn't say anything. "Won't you sit down?" Selina blushed as she let Bruce lead her into a sitting room.

"You really have lovely furniture here." She noted, taking another quick look around.

"Antique, not exactly my style… But it came with the house", he looked down pushing the detailed death of his parents out of his mind.

"Yes…" Said Selina, hanging on to the 's' for a little too long. As she sat down, she raised a finger to touch her lip as if she was thinking.

"Alfred's making dinner, it should be ready in a few minutes…" Bruce said, watching Selina give him a slow weak smile. She seemed so uncomfortable… He watched as her body swayed a little to the right, then over left and then over to the right again. Her eyes fluttered as if trying to stay open. "Tired?" He asked, raising an eyebrow.

A smile broke onto her face, "A little", she admitted. Her shoulder twitched slightly.

"Cold?" He asked, "We can turn up the heat…"

"I'm FINE.." Selina emphasized fine just a little too much in her rush to say the words.

Bruce was going to ask her what he definition of 'fine' was, but he stopped himself. "I have something for you…" He started to pull a velvet box out of his pocket.

"Oh Bruce, you shouldn't ha-" A weird look crossed her face, freezing it in place for a moment, "I have something for you too." She spoke in a voice, not like her own, as if she'd been taken over.

"Ladies first", he said, handing her the box to open.

A familiar glint of excitement sparked in her eyes, along with curiosity. She shot him a flirty glance before she opened the box. When she saw the cat necklace she nearly dropped the box. "OH MY!" Bruce figured that she was going to saw something else but nope all she said was 'oh my', over and over again. "Bruce I LOVE it!", she cried throwing her arms around him whispering in his ear, "Thank you, thank you…" For a second he thought she might start crying but instead she took a deep breath, half fell, half sat down on the couch and, lifting up her hair said, 'Here, help me put it on!"

So Bruce sat down behind her and hooked on the necklace behind her back. He briefly could feel the back of her neck, as he straightened the necklace, it was also ice cold. He watched as a delicate shiver ran up her spine. Then she turned around facing him, her fingers running over the outline of the cat necklace, "It's Beautiful." She whispered, "I love it… I don't know how I can ever thank you…"

"You don't have to", whispered Bruce.

"Thank you", whispered Selina.

"Now what did I just say?" Asked Bruce.

Selina rewarded him with a shy smile, "Open mine." She handed him a little daintily wrapped box.

He cautiously took it out of her hands, and taking care not to rip the paper, he found a box! "It's a box, I've always wanted a box!"

Selina gave him a light punch, "Very good Bruce, now open the box."

He opened the box to find a tie with a superman logo on it. He laughed, at ironic-ness of it all, "I love it."

"Well you have to have something to wear on casual Fridays now don't you?" Selina laughed, "When I saw it I just had to get it, for some reason it reminded me of you."

Bruce gave her a kind smile, "I don't know how you could relate me to superman, but it certainly is an awesome tie. I'm defiantly wearing it next casual Friday." He hugged her, liking how his arms could stretched all the way around her, "You know Selina, I bet I could pick you up…"

"Bruce", exclaimed Selina laughing.

In response Bruce easily lifted her up, then put her back down. Selina kept laughing, as Alfred came into the room, "Come on, young love birds Dinner is currently being served.…."

A/N: Tame Chapter I know sorry! I'll try to write some more soon.