Chapter 7 (Carrying out an Adventure)

A/N: I've totally been neglecting this story and I'm sorry! I couldn't think of what should happen next but I had someone review telling me to update so here we go:

Selina was fairly quiet during dinner, every once and a while she'd look up at Bruce, meet his eyes, smile, than go back to moving some food around her plate. She didn't eat much. At one point she was staring at her fork when she made a sound like she was choking, Bruce was by her side in a second, and she started breathing really heavily. "Selina, honey… What happened? Are you ok?"

Selina took a long breath then her breathing went back to normal and she looked at her shoes, too embarrassed to look into Bruce's eyes, "Sometimes I forget to breathe."

Bruce widened his eyes giving her a once-over, (nothing had changed, she was still regular old Selina), before asking, "How often to you forget to breathe?"

"I don't know sometimes I'll be really deep in thought and then I'll just realize I don't have any air to breath…" She moved her gaze to her napkin, the table, anywhere away from Bruce's face.

Bruce laughed, trying to make it look like forgetting to breathe wasn't a big deal, "I do that sometimes, not forgetting to breathe, but I forget to watch where I'm going."

Finally Selina met his eyes, "I forget a lot of things. My name sometimes. People will come up and ask for my name, and I'll give them a blank stare, while I try to remember it. I'll usually end up saying, "It starts with an S…" But they usually just think I'm joking."

"I wouldn't expect that from you", Bruce admitted, as he crossed back to his chair

"I don't know it's just… Everything has been so messed up lately… Oh Bruce! I'm not sure if I fed the cats!" A look of panic crossed her face.

"Don't worry, look I'll escort you home, and we can check on them ok?"

"Oh Bruce, you're so sweet. I hope I'm not ruining dinner but… I just don't know." He studied her face, as her eyes got watery despite her efforts not to cry.

"You aren't ruining dinner, don't worry about it." Bruce got up from his seat to pull her chair out for her so she could get up. Sadly Selina was determined to get out of the chair herself, she pushed it back a bit, stood up, and took a step onto her dress. Her ankle twisted out from her, one thing lead to another and she soon became quite acquainted with the floor.

Tears didn't show on her face, but he could hear them in her voice, "I'm such a mess."

"Don't say that, tonight just isn' t your night, that's all. Everything will be better tomorrow."

"Bruce what if there isn't a tomorrow?" It was at that point they locked eyes. Bruce could see desperation in Selina's eyes that told him that there was something wrong, and she hadn't meant to say what she had just said.

"Trust in tomorrow. And if it never comes I promise I'll help you sue." Said Bruce, trying to get Selina to laugh. She laughed, but it was more like a sad chuckle. Still, it was something. He held out his hand to help her up, she took it, and Bruce noticed a bit of what looked like green flesh coming out of her sleeve. Before she could stop him, he pushed the sleeve up, and saw a very badly bruised arm. He looked her in the eyes, "It's not possible for you to bruise that fast."

She yanked the sleeve down, "It's nothing."

"Selina your arm is practically all blue, purple and green, and you say that's nothing…"

"It's not my whole arm, Bruce, it's just my wrist, I must have slept on it weird and not noticed." She tugged at her sleeve some more for good measure.

"If you say so." Bruce helped her up, but as she walked her ankles continued putting her constantly at the danger of falling over. "Selina?"

"Yes?"

"Maybe you should just take off the heels."

"I can't walk around barefoot Bruce!"

"I know; I'll carry you."

Selina turned to face him, "Are you crazy? Do you know how far that'd be?"

"We can take a bus, it'll be an adventure!" Bruce's eyes caught the light with an excited shimmer.

"Ok." Selina sighed, "If it means that much to you…"

"It'll be romantic." Bruce insisted.

"Bruce sometimes I think you're crazy, I'm never sure what'll you'll do next."

"A lot of people think they know me, but the truth of the matter is they don't." By this time Selina had removed her heels. Bruce picked her up, (she's REALLY light remember), and she secured herself by wrapping her arms around Bruce's neck. He could smell her flowery perfume; it made him want to dance. "Well Alfred, we're off!"

"Very good sir, shall I get the car?" Alfred called.

"No, Alfred we're walking!" Alfred didn't bother to answer back. So Bruce, carrying Selina and her shoes, walked to the nearest bus stop, and waited for 15 minutes for the bus. Meanwhile he and Selina talked. He'd set her next to him on the bench. At one point he reached out and straightened the necklace she was wearing, the one that he had bought for her. She blushed.

Finally the bus came and they got on. People were shocked to see The Bruce Wayne on a regular old bus, but they didn't make much of a fuss. Some girls jealously whispered about the girl who he held tightly in his arms, and he could hear one man commenting on the incident into his cell phone but nothing more. When they got off the bus at the stop nearest to Selina's apartment, they were greeting with camera's, all held by photographers, video cameras too, and microphones. Bruce just smiled and pushed his way through the crowds whispering to Selina the whole way. He avoided looking directly at any of the cameras, but still he found it hard not to be blinded by the light.

"So this is the way celebrities live? Being blinded by cameras day and night?" Selina asked.

"Nope mostly only at night", replied Bruce. Selina laughed, the photographers must have gotten the shots they wanted because they soon disappeared, so Bruce was free to take Selina home.

"I must tell you Bruce, I had a wonderful time as always. And I'll treasure this necklace for always." Selina said after Bruce set her down in front of her door, "And you were right being carried around town, really was romantic."

"I'm glad you had a good time", Bruce said politely, "And I know I'll enjoy my tie when next casual Fridays rolls around." They looked each other square in the eyes. Bruce bent down, and they kissed on the lips. Finally Bruce said, "Goodnight Selina. Don't forget to feed Mr. Squeakers…"

Selina laughed, "How could I forget?" As Selina opened the door Mr. Squeakers meowed loudly at Bruce, then squeaked at Selina, hissing as he pranced off to stare at a bag of food.

Bruce laughed, "I see what you mean… Goodnight Selina, I'll call you ok?"

A girlish smile crossed Selina's face, "Ok." She agreed.

A/N: Sorry I swear next chappie will be a Cat/Bat instead of Bruce/Selina. Need Action! Please review, the more reviews I get the quicker I'll update!