FIC: Symmetry

Chapter 05. 'Self' Conversations

Author: BatmanWolverine
Rating: PG15
Summary: As the title says. One talks to the other…where do they get?


"You have an hour to get ready."

"Where do you think you are going?" Wonder Woman stopped and turned to the two men following her and the three following those two.

"To your room," Batman answered without the slightest bit of embarrassment. Sometimes it helped to be a world famous billionaire playboy. It gave you the much-needed practice in loosing your inhibitions. "She needs to know."

"I will tell her myself," Diana's eyes narrowed in a perfect 'Wonder' interpretation of the Bat-glare.

"Yes," was all Batman said before he started towards the Amazon's room, leaving a increasingly annoyed Diana, a mixed-up Superman and the three snickering stooges in his wake.

"Diana, I think Bruce is right in not trusting her completely," Superman offered the voice of reason, goading his friend and teammate towards her room.

"Of course he is right," Diana grinded out through clenched teeth, her hands balled at her sides. "When is he wrong?"

"That would be on this side of….." Flash got a cold Wonder and Supes-glare for his effort. "…never."

"Man, I still can't believe I am not in the executive council," Plasticman lamented, plastic tears forming along his cheeks.

"You," Green Lantern seemed even more distraught. "I am not even a member. Not even a reserve."

"Ladies, stop crying" Flash barely missed two slaps sent his way. "Different world, different league."

"Easy for you to say Flasher," Kyle's lips lifted in a grin at the sight before him. Standing a few away from them, in front of Wonder Woman's room was Batman, looking just like a grade school student who has just been sent to the principal's office and is fearing to knock the door.

"You could have waited for us," Diana glanced up at him. "It would have saved you standing like this, the door locked in your face."

"Want me to unlock it?" Batman's head tilted just a hint; his words letting everyone know that he knew everything about each one of them. He made his business to know everything about everyone.

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Not deeming his remark worth an answer, Diana turned back to her door and entered her pass-code. The door slid open with a whoosh, disturbing the sleeping form on the bed, waking her from her slumber.

"Oh, sorry," Wonder Woman apologized to the new Diana, her hair mussed from sleep; her doe like eyes bleary from the sudden and abrupt wake up call.

"Huhn," the bedside Diana seemed lost for a moment. As she regained complete consciousness, she remembered that she was no longer in her world, in her and Bruce's room at Wayne Manor or their suite on her watchtower, but was in an alternate dimension where until a couple of hours ago, she had been a prisoner of sorts.

"We didn't know you were asleep," Superman offered with a smile. "Perhaps we should do this a later time and let you get your rest."

"No," Batman snapped at him. "Now."

"Its alright," the new Diana smiled languidly, her body still feeling the after affects of her battle with Toyman and his cronies. "I hope you don't mind, I took some clothes of yours," she looked up at her counterpart, who had noticed her changed attire.

"No problem at all, sister." Diana instinctively fell back on the Amazonian practice of calling all women sister. "Although I must complement your choice. It is a favorite of mine."

"Mine too," both women smiled at that. "And his. That's why I wore it. For some familiarity," Diana knew, who the new one was talking about.

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Instead of giving an answer to that remark to the other Diana or making a comment to the silent Batman, Wonder Woman settled on revealing the League's decision.

"You will be glad to know that Batman has graciously agreed to allow your stay at Wayne Manor for the duration of your stay in our dimension," the twinkling of those deep blue eyes that were exactly like hers, told her the decision had come as a welcome relief to her dimensional twin.

"Thank you Batman," the new Diana smiled almost wistfully at the stoic form of the caped crusader. "So who is going with me?"

That got raised eyes from every present league member. Who ever this woman was, Diana or not, she knew Batman quite well, something she had demonstrated for more than a second time now.

"I am," Wonder Woman got a smile for that answer.

"It was either you or Kal," the use of Superman's Kryptonian name got some more raised eyes. It was only Diana who used that name for the man of steel. J'onn sometimes used it too, but he preferred the more complete Kal-El instead of the more intimate Kal.

"Forty five minutes," Batman's growl was followed by a swish of black cape as the Gotham Knight turned around and left the room.

"We'll give you some time alone with each other," Superman offered as a parting remark, following in the direction that the caped crusader had taken moments ago.

His movement brought into sight the three bystanders, who were busy with their own renditions of the Wonder-Bat relationship. The cartoonist in Kyle was coming up with ideas at the speed of light, using his ring to give form to them. One instant he had a relaxed looking Batman and Wonder Woman walking hand in hand, kicking ass of the villains who seemed to attack at a regular interval. The next moment they were shown as a married couple complete with a tuxedo for Batman and a pseudo-Grecian robe for Wonder Woman, except that in this depiction, Batman still had his cape and cowl and in a representation of her physical prowess, it was Diana who was carrying Batman in her arms.

"Kyle, some privacy please," Wonder Woman's call momentarily frazzled him, causing the green figurines to dissolve into thin air.

"Uh-sure," was the last thing the new Diana saw before the door slid shut in the faces of the three heroes.

"Forgive them," Diana turned to her twin. "They don't mean any harm."

"I know that," the Diana on the bed turned sideways and stood up, the bed-sheet flowing down her cotton-clad body. "Although, it is a bit disconcerting to see a Green Lantern act this way. Where I come from, our Lantern is a much serious person. Not at all like yours."

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"Tell me more about yourself and your….world," Diana requested as she started opened her closet to see whatever she could take from her watchtower residence. The rest would have to wait until she could make a trip to the Themiscyrian Embassy.

"What would you like to know?" Diana looked up to her counterpart. She had removed the nightgown and was in the process of donning on her costume.

"Uh, Diana," she didn't know what else to call her, they were, for all obvious purposes, the same person, except for the slight bulge at the midsection of the new Diana. "How far along are you?"

"Four and a half, almost five months," she replied, tracing a loving hand over her exposed belly. "Soon I won't be able to wear my costume. It already chafes my nipples," she stated with a grin. Looking away from the mirror, she turned to the un-pregnant Diana. "You want to feel them?"

"Me!" Diana's mind reeled at the offer. Even from where she was standing, the fact that one of her was with child was something that unnerved the Amazonian. "Can I?" she asked softly, hesitantly.

"Sure," the pregnant Diana seemed to glow with the warmth of motherhood. "Bruce always likes to feel them. He does it every morning when he wakes up and every night before and after his patrol."

"Oh," Diana didn't know what to say to that either. It seemed that the Batman of the other dimension was much more emotionally open that the one here.

"He is the same there too," her twin seemed to dip right into her thoughts. "Seemingly cold, seemingly dark, closed off, obsessive, intensely private, a control freak."

"And you still choose to be with him?" Diana had to ask the question. From what her counterpart had just described, there wasn't any difference between the two Batmen either.

"Those are the qualities that drew me to him. They are his best assets," the pregnant Diana chuckled humorously. "No seriously, what drew me to him was his dedication to his mission, his warrior spirit, his hidden love. Although I must say, it is hidden quite well. I had to almost literally…well figuratively go through Hades to get through all his locks, shields and walls. It took me a lot of time and effort to get to where we are now. And you know what, I do it again a million times over."

"So you brought him out of the darkness," Diana mused as she once again remembered the dream sequence in which she had told Bruce she couldn't bear children.

'You pulled me out of the darkness and taught me that there is still light in this world,' was what he had said. 'Your love is the greatest gift I have ever received.'

"No," the visiting Diana shook her head. "He still has his world, his darkness, his night and I still have mine, my mission, both as the Champion of the Amazons and as now as their ambassador to man's world. We just decided to be together and have something common, a dream just for the two of us."

"So, do you dress up as Batwoman and join him on his patrols," Diana asked as a joke, recalling yet another sequence of her dream where she had become the female version of the Dark Avenger.

"No, no, nothing that extreme," she got a burst of laughter for the visual she was presenting. "You know how territorial the Batman is. Wonder Woman is still isn't allowed to intrude upon Gotham, well not often anyways," she added with a wink. "Our professional partnership is still limited to the league and its affairs. Once we get back to the manor, we are just Bruce and Diana, and even though he still has his introspection marathons, he keeps them under the stairs. He knows what is good for him," she added with a chuckle.

Diana was listening to the other Wonder Woman recount her experiences. 'Just as in my dream,' she remembered telling Batman that there was equal possibility of them being wonderful together as was there of an utter disaster.

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"When do we leave?" the words drew her out of her thoughts.

Looking at the clock, she noted the time. "We still have about fifteen more minutes. Bruce, Kal and the others are making sure that the news of your arrival stays a secret."

"I understand," a smile exactly like her own, answered her words.

"What about you?" the new Diana made her own inquiry.

"What about me?" Diana asked, her temple creased in confusion.

"Do you have someone else now that you don't have Batman?"

"What makes you think I ever had him?" the words sounded hollow to Diana herself. She mentally cursed herself for trying to lie to…well, to herself.

"Just the way you talk about him," Diana arched her eyebrow as if saying, go on. "Your questions, their singled approach towards Bruce and my relation and the affect it has had on both of us. That, and the way you looked at him when you came to know about my relation with my Bruce."

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"Although I must say, there are some things about you that are intriguing to me too," Diana was really interested now. Interested and the least bit suspicious, Batman and Superman's warning raising its head inside her.

"What do you want to know about me?" Diana sighed and sat down on a chair, facing her counterpart who had finished dressing in plain clothes, dumping her initial idea of wearing her costume. That would only make things more obvious for anyone chancing in on them.

"Well," the new Diana seemed to think it over for a moment. "I guess everything. After all, we are from two different worlds. In my world, Kal is just my friend, but you, you seem to have had or still have more than friendly feelings towards him."

"How can you…" Diana started only to stop herself from asking yet another obvious question. "Its not like that," was what she finally settled on.

"Then how is it Diana?" an identical hand came to her on hers.

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They sat in silence for the next few moments, until the other Diana ended it, dissipating the sudden tension.

"We'll talk about it and more, but once we get to the manor and I have had some of Alfred's delectable cooking. I am telling you, being pregnant is no joke. You really develop some very interesting tastes….even some ones that would make you want to puke in any other situation.

Their laughter was interrupted by a buzz. Someone was at the door.

"Yes Batman," Diana answered it, her eyes keenly studying the man standing in front of her. He, in turn uttered just two simple words.

"Its time."