I want to thank everybody for reading this story, in special my friend Lily who always supports me and who is my special angel straight from heaven.

Special thanks also to Itzel_Lightwood13, angela514, Burt_Macklin_FBI_49, LiaDuBlack, Hana Genji, CharlotteKat, Joanna_wch, Catfamilyx, Pinkknight14, Hawklooser and Kalliriana (I hope I'm not forgetting anyone) for the comments, you made my quarantine a lot more enjoyable.

Enjoy the most soft of the endings.

Storge part VI - Epilogue

'Soooo you levelled up from the sofa to the bed.' Said Helena after jumping in the bed with them.

Bruce grabbed the comforter pulling it to his chin, horrified. Selina remained how she was, laying on her belly, eyes closed, only her expression changed to an annoyed one.

'Morning, princess.'

'Geez Helena, how many times I've told you to knock before coming to my room?'

'Well, if this become usual' said the little girl sitting more comfortably at the end of the bed 'and I hope so. I might start doing that. Barbara Lee told me horrible stories about her parents.'

'That's some mental image I didn't need in my brain this early... Or ever.' Said Selina dryly.

'I know, right? Well, I'm hungry, which of you will make me breakfast?'

'I'm sleeping.' Said Selina grabbing a pillow blindly and covering her head.

'Do you know how to do pancakes, dad?'

'He does.' Answered Selina, her voice muffled.

Bruce poked Selina's bare back and she squirmed and tried to bat his hand away.

'I might try. But they will not look anything like Alfred's.'

'I don't mind!' He gave her daughter a pointed look. His cheeks slightly red. 'What?'

'Princess, I need you to go first for me to get dressed.'

Helena's eyes became huge and she turned turnip red.

'Oh…right.' And she left awkwardly, closing the door behind her a little too strongly.

Selina's pillow started shaking with her giggles.

'She didn't plan it out very well, did she?' He deadpanned.

'Not the part with you naked ass I don't think so.'

He takes her pillow and hits her with it.

'Get up.'

'No!'

He was about to hit her another time with the pillow when she pounced on him like a lioness taking the pillow and throwing it away. Bruce's hand fall to her hips, he had a lopsided smile that made him look incredibly young. Selina languidly threw her arms around his neck purring softly.

He kissed her and it felt so good, her breasts pressing against him, her strong thighs around his waist, the way she purrs softy and then moan at his ministrations as the kiss travels downwards, the heat of their bodies so close and yet not enough.

'The kid is hungry.' He says a little out of breath.

'When isn't she?' Selina answers against his skin as she busies herself by giving him a new hickey.

Bruce hisses when she runs her nail on his scalp.

'She's got that from you.'

She chuckles against his skin, tickling him.

'Don't you think I know that?'

The conversation dies and thoughts of their daughter disappears when he captures her lips again, his hands sliding upwards. He moans softly when Selina start rubbing herself against him but the louds knocks on the door make them jump apart.

'Come on you two, you can smooch later!' They hear Helena's voice muffled through the door.

Bruce lets his head fall on the curve of Selina's neck.

'I don't think I have been this happy before.'

She snorts.

'You say that now. I know my kitten, she will have far more fun cock-blocking us than trying to get us together.'

Saying that, Selina pulls his head up by the roots of his hair and kisses him again, sloppy, they share a grin, then she hugs him, and leaves his lap disappearing in the bathroom.

ooo

Selina was really mad when she woke up to find pictures of her and Holly having lunch published in some frivolous tabloid the day after hers and Bruce's relationship became public.

'That didn't happen when we were kids!' She said over the phone.

'It didn't because we were kids… I'm really sorry about it, Selina…'

'Well, you have to do something. What if they try to follow the kids around?'

'They won't. They are terrified of the lawsuits, but again, that's because they are kids. You, Holly and I are adults, legally is a complete different issue. But I'll do all I can.'

'Fine… I'll scratch that woman's eyes out with my claws if she tries to take another picture. You went out with her, didn't you? That Vicky Vale?'

'Uh? Hmmm.' He cleaned his throat. 'What time do you want to take you tomorrow night?'

'Tomorrow? I don't know. For what?'

'Selina? The charity ball? Don't tell me you forgot…'

'Am I going to this thing?'

'Yeah, you are, remember when we discussed it last week.'

'Did we? I don't remember any of this. Are you coming up with this stuff just to distract me about the whole issue with the trigger happy blondie?'

'No, not at all,' Said him, lying to his teeth. 'I told you I'd introduce you as my girlfriend in that party, you agreed.'

'I don't remember and I don't think I'd agree with you taking me to a party to show me off to some snobbish people.'

'Well you did.'

'Yeah? Prove it. What I was doing when I supposedly agreed to it?'

Bruce's tone became dark and he stretched in his chair as he told her.

'We were in my bathtub, covered in bubbles, you were sitting between my legs, and my hands were-'

'Oh…' She interrupted him, her voice hoarse. 'I remember now.' He could listen to the smile through her voice. 'But I don't remember hearing you talking through it.'

'Well, that's on you.' He said matter-of-factly.

He heard she breath in angrily, Bruce had trouble to disguise his urge to laugh.

'You manipulative jerk!'

'Eight o'clock, then?'

'You are paying for the dress.'

'Can I pick it?' He tried.

'No. You are a horny bastard with a terrible fashion sense, I'd be looking like a cheap whore wearing a dress wroth of a small country's GDP. I'll send you the bill.'

And she hung up.

ooo

Selina slides her hand into Bruce's, she is listening to something Dick is telling her. He and Helena are helping them with the groceries, or that is what they are telling themselves.

Bruce notices how attentive she is to what he is saying as he does his best to explain why they have to bring home the sugary monster cereal he wants, he is trying this on Selina because he knows he will get a straight no from Bruce. Helena is sitting on the shopping cart that she managed somehow to still fit, and is enjoying very much being pushed like a baby. Bruce lets the normalcy of the situation sets in. He is in a grocery shop with his family. His family. He never thought he would have another.

'What is it?' Asks Selina with that expression she does when she thinks he's being weird.

'Nothing, just thinking how lucky I am.'

She gives him her best smitten kitten look and he feels his insides turn into warm goo.

'You are a nerd and a sap.'

He grins at her and let go of her hand to circle her hips with his arm, holding her closer and kissing her cheek.

'What do you think? Should we have another?' He says against her ear.

'Another what? What are you talking about?'

'Helena already had Holly, and then got another older sibling when I took Dick in, that's not right, she should get a younger sibling not the other way around.'

She jumped shocked, he had to hold her firmer to keep her attached to him.

'What?'

'You don't want another kid?' He asked coyly.

Incredulity washed over Selina's face.

'Bruce we aren't even married.' Selina said very slowly.

'Didn't stop us before.' He gave her a naughty smile.

Selina snorted.

'You're crazy.'

'Well, if marriage is the issue we can arrange it too, I wanted to since I was thirteen or so, but I was afraid you would say no.'

'But to a baby I'd say yes?'

'You have always liked children.'

She made a face in between laughter and painful second-hand embarrassment, or first-hand, she was dating him after all.

'You are really nuts, you know that?'

'That's not a no.' He sing-sang.

'Shut up.'

'Helena, Dick, do you think we should give you a new s-'

Horrified, Selina rushed to cover his mouth with her hands.

'Shut up, Bruce, shut up!'

'A new what?'

'Yeah, what, mommy?'

'Nothing!' Selina grabbed Bruce by the turtleneck and whispered on his ear. 'And if you don't shut up, I swear to god, that thing you wanted? Not happening.'

ooo

Granted, three years after Bruce woke up from his afternoon nap to find his wife asleep beside him, one hand over her swollen belly, engagement and wedding rings sparkling even under the penumbra of their shared room. It's closer to patrol time, and Robin will be asking for him soon, it will be only the two of them, Catgirl would not be coming along to roam through Gotham's streets that night, she has an History exam next day. Helena waged a long nasty fight with her mother to take the Catgirl mantle, and even a longer one with Alfred. He refused to talk to her for a whole week when she tricked him into letting her patrol the first time, and being the youngest, she was still sheltered a lot, especially by Dick, but she was proving herself worthy at each battle. But if you asked her, she would say that she can't wait for not being the baby anymore.

Bruce wanted to kiss Selina and their unborn child goodbye, but he also didn't want to wake her. She looked so peaceful, her hair was short again and darker, fanning around her head like a halo, her lips slightly parted, inviting. She looked how heaven must feel like. But outside the walls of his home there was still so much danger and misery, he had a duty.

As stealthily as he moved, she still stirred awake, sighing, her eyes still heavy, she was having trouble sleeping at night alone, he felt a pang of guilt.

'It's already time?' Her sleepy raspy voice asked.

'Yes.'

'Hmmm. Come gimme a kiss before you go.' She blindly reached her arms to him, Bruce grinned taking her hand and kissing it.

'And taste your awful catnap breath?'

'Shup up, you've put your mouth in worse places.'

'Classy.'

But he did kiss her, and what was intended to be a quick peck, turned into a long meticulous snog.

He finished by letting his forehead rest against hers for a while, one hand supporting his weight, another absently rubbing her belly.

'Promise you will come back to me in one piece.'

'I'll always come back to you, Selina.'

'Good. Now scram, I want to go back to sleep, I was having this very nice dream.'

'Yeah? Was I in it.'

'No.'

He chuckled and gave her a last kiss on the forehead, when he was about to exit the room Selina called him, she wasn't as sleepy, and had a gentle smile on her face.

'I love you.' She said, not a note of her usual cynicism. As she said every day as he left, even when they were fighting. She said once that she was aware that they lead a dangerous life, and in a crazy city like Gotham you should always count your blessings and never take anything for granted, so, every time she sent him off, she wanted him to know that he was loved.

'I love you more.'

She sighed content, her lids getting heavy again.

'Good.'

The end.

There is an art piece of the grocery store section on AO3 you can look for this story there to see it.

Helena is Catgirl because I think Huntress would be born later, like Nightwing eventually would, maybe one day I'll write that story, but no promises.

I'm really sad see this story end. I had so much fun writing it. The Gotham version of Selina and Bruce are in my opinion their best incarnation when it comes to romance. I'm such a sucker for friends to lovers. And we have a softer and more human Bruce and a Selina that is free from being such an oversexualized character, giving her a lot of free room to grow. I love them so much.

And about that sequel… We'll see.

Than you again, everyone who made into the end. Take care of yourselves and loved ones. Bye.