Chapter 15:

All Fun and Games

(Part 2)

"Why are we still here?" was Terry's interrogation.

Max mocked his impatience, "Blah, blah ,blah. Stop asking questions. It's a surprise!"

Terry frowned at the ground in thought. But his frown soon became a smile when he spouted out his first guess of this 'surprise', "Does it have to do with a certain someone by the name of… Isis!"

"I'm not telling you! Just wait," Max was becoming tiresome of Terry's impatience.

Terry was now excited, for he knew exactly what his friend was up to. So knowing this he settled down and respected Max's request to be patient.

It was not too long after when a much confused Isis strayed from sideway to campus with her pocket in Terry's brown jacket. She wasn't paying any attention to what went on around her until she raised her head and spotted her beloved Terry, "Oh Terry! 'Tis been too long!" she shouted as they ran to each other for a warm embrace.

Terry greeted her with open arms, "Yes it has," he said just before he picked her up and spun her around.

"Ok you too love bird! Now that you gotten to see each other…" Maxine interrupted, "It's time for the surprise."

"Huh?" Terry was a little puzzled he had thought that Isis was the surprise. But come to think of it, Max wouldn't make them meeting together such a big deal.

Terry had now noticed Max reaching into her back pocket. What could this be?, were his thoughts.

Now in her hand she held three tickets, "I got us ticket to see 'Scarlett Lace'!" a popular industrial band among young adults.

Isis hugged Maxine who now had her hands on her hips shaking her head in gratification, "Thank you Max!" was Isis' gracious response.

Terry inched closer to the two girls and examined the ticket that Max had given him, "Wow, I thought they were sold out." he scratched the back of his head. "Where did you manage to find them so late?"

"I have my sources," she responded with a wink.

"So this is…" Isis searched for the answer on her ticket, "tonight." She looked a little nervous, like she had other places to be.

Max put an arm around Isis, "Yeah girl, so we best get goin'."

"You do want to go?" Terry sounded a little worried.

Isis tilted her hand to one side and smiled playful at him, "Of course I want to go," she temptingly lured him behind her, "Come on now, or we'll be late."

Terry followed like a love sick puppy; Max soon after as they made their way to the concert.

"May I see your ticket please!" Isis was soon awakened from her daze by Terry's nudge on the back.

Isis searched her pockets, "Oh yes…of course."

Terry noticed that something was wrong with Isis. But what… She seemed like she had a lot on her mind and Terry decided not to bother her about it. Perhaps the concert would take it off her mind.

The band of soon to come out and Terry was becoming nervous as well. He didn't like these big groups of people. They are a recipe for disaster and they are attracted to villains. But Terry kept a good eye on his watch. He knew if anything was coming his way, Mr. Wayne would most likely know ahead of time.

The crowd screamed has the band entered the stage. When Terry looked to his left, he saw Max yelled like a mad woman and Isis…she didn't look interested at all.

"You know, Isis. If you want to get out of here I wouldn't mind," Terry yelled loud enough for her to heard, "In fact I don't even think Maxy would notice." He pointed to Max, totally wrapped up in the music.

Isis thought for a second.

Terry smiled ravishingly at her, "What do you say…let run away together."

Isis giggled as he took her by the hand.

Terry and Isis snuck off to a secluded back alley behind the stadium. The music still was audible, but the crowd less of an annoyance.

Terry found this a perfect time to ask, "So, are you okay? You look a little…distracted."

Isis began to speak and then hesitant, "You would think it was silly…" she looked away.

"Oh no, I've been worried about some pretty silly things in my day," he joked as he put his arm around her, "It would have to be extremely silly. You can tell me"

"Well I don't know…I've just been having odd feelings. As if the next week, isn't going to be a very good one."

"Just think of it this way; if they do happen, at least you'll be ready for them."

"Well, true…" Isis let a tired sigh, "but that doesn't stop then from happening."

Terry began climbing a metal rail ladder to the top of a building and Isis soon followed. He helped her over the building's ledge to the roof, "When you're looking at the stars you have no time to think about those problems," he said as he lay down. She laid beside him.

"You know Isis, there are a lot of things that I haven't been able to ask you. I feel like I've known you for quite sometime…but I know nothing about you. How's the Smith family?"

"The who…?"

"You know…what's your family like?"

Isis choked, "That's not a subject I like to take about. You can't really call one person and her cat a family…"

"Well, family's come in all shapes and sizes. But I'm sorry that I made you uncomfortable by asking that question."

"You were just curious," she reassured him that she wasn't angry.

"But I can sort of relate… my dad is gone. But must not be nearly as bad as it is for you."

"Terry, do you mind if I ask--. Well never mind, I know that I wouldn't want to talk about it."

"You want to know what happened?" he knew exactly what she wanted. So he explained the whole thing. Of how he had regret how he treated his father those days before and how he knew he could had saved him if he hadn't snuck out. But Terry was beginning to feel exposed so he soon changed the subject, "So, how's your cat?"

"Oh Felix," she smiled. "It so nice to meet a guy so interested in me literal cat instead of the 'other one'."

The two of them laughed, "But seriously, Felix is great. He's my best friend. I couldn't ask for more. He was there from the beginning…"

A comfortable silence rang between them as the night darkened. And as soon as Terry's eyes began to shut, he heard the shrieks of frightened girls and the cackling of insane clowns. But Isis was already up and alert before him, "Oh no…"

Terry finished, "Not these guys."

The two of them fled for the ladder, "No Isis! You stay up here. I don't want anything to happen to you," he bellowed, recalling the night he had saved Isis. The he descended the ladder.

Isis glared as Terry left her mumbling the word angrily, "I can take care of myself," but Terry hadn't really noticed them.

Terry retreated to a safe spot where he could transform into Batman.

"Oh don't you underestimate me Terry. I can take perfectly good care of myself!" Isis shouted to herself.

As soon her eyes lost track of Terry she came down from the fairly short building in one catlike jump. She ran gracefully through the alley, she didn't want anything to happen to either Terry or Max, "Unless Terry is some sort of superhero," she stopped to laugh at the thought, "he won't be able to protect them alone."

"…although he is quite strong," she was turned on by the thought of his muscles but quickly shook the thought from her head, as not to distract her.

As soon as she shook her head, a man dressed as a clown grabbed her from behind, "Hey, this sort of looks like that girl Daggett showed us a picture of!"

"It does," another one of them answered right before Isis kicked the one that had a hold of her in the shin.

She ran as the two painted faces chased her.

"How many ass kickings does it take until you get the point that no one wants you around," the masked bat retorted to the oncoming clowns.

"It's all just fun and games," one of them cackled

They came at him with their silly clownlike weapons as Batman beat each and everyone of them. Just as soon as he beat all of them he saw a familiar face being chased by two maniac clowns, "I thought I told her to stay where she was…"

But as soon as he went to go after her, one of the not so 'beaten' clown grabbed him from behind holding a knife to his neck. Batman tried to shake off the villain but with no avail. The clown's knife cut into his suit, but for some reason the clown stopped and fell to the ground. When the Bat turned around he was greeted by the smiling face of Maxine who had one of the clown bats in her hand.

"Thanks," he said. Then he ran into the direction that he had seen Isis run.

He searched each alley until he came to one with two beaten clowns. And there was Isis, walking out of the alley as if nothing had happened.

Batman was confused, "Are you okay?"

"Well obviously," she smirked, "By the way, you're late…again."

Batman felt very uneasy. He had seen that smile before, but not from Isis. Though at the moment he couldn't think where he had seen it before, "I'm terribly sorry. I tried to get here as fast as I could."

"No, no, no. It's fine. I'm fine! We're all…" Isis' voice lowered as her smirk became dark, "fine."

Batman was now dumbfounded as she sassily walked away. Wow, that's hot, he thought as she walked away.

Isis walked back towards the stadium to see Max waiting outside, "Max, where's Terry?"

In a lying sort of tone Max answered, "Well, I don't know. I thought he was with you," Max hid a small giggle, "I'm sure he'll be here soon."

And about just as soon as she had said that, Terry came out from an alley.

Isis ran to him with open arm. In there embrace she asked, "Are you alright?"

"Yeah, I'm just fine."

"I think I'm ready to go home now."

Max yawned, "Yeah, me too."

Terry looked down at Isis with caring eyes, "Would you like me to take you home?"

Isis became a little offended by the question; there he goes again, questioning my dependency. I know it's only because he cares about me though… But now she began think about how embarrassing it would be if he came to her house. It wasn't in the best condition ever since she became Catwoman. He would want to come in and her cat suit was laying in pieces all around. She wanted to spend more time, but that would have to wait for another day, "No, you look tried. I can get a cab or something."

"Are you sure?" Terry looked concerned.

"Absolutely."

Isis kissed him and hugged Max before parting their ways.