Harleen visits Bruce in the cave.

She reveals some long held secrets.

Bruce heads down silently to the bat cave. He spots one of his favorite blonds at one of the tables.

In keeping with how she seems to know when he's there. She says without looking up, and without her trademark New York accent "Goldilocks must be keeping you busy to be that sloppy."

"Harley…"

"Nope today it's just Harleen, she's hiding right now."

"Oh, interesting, do you know why?"

"Yeah, but it's nothing traumatic. She's just been particularly childish today."

"Huh, okay. So, what brings you here?" Bruce asks forgoing what he planned to do down here to sit next to Harleen who is currently writing something.

"Came to check on the love birds." She said smirking.

"Ha, funny. I thought Harley was the funny one." Bruce deadpans.

"Oh, look at you, he gets a little action and suddenly he's got jokes." Harleen said teasingly.

Bruce looks at the woman across from him, he slightly smirks and shakes his head wondering how they got here from back before.

Harleen noticed him smile and shake his head, "What?"

"I was just marveling how we got from where we were to here. Several years ago, I couldn't even fathom having you in the Bat-cave without cuffs and a blindfold…"

"Hey, leave what you and Blondie do in the sheets, out of this." Harleen said still teasing.

Bruce looks at her, he can see beyond the teasing, he can see the sadness in her eyes, softly he says "Harleen?"

"Damn you had to break out the soft voice. Nothing, just I've been missing my daughter."

"So, go see Lucy."

"You make it sound so easy. I shouldn't be around her, all the bad I've done."

"Harleen, take it from someone who knows, she wants to see you. Go spend time with her, so she doesn't forget her mother."

"Maybe it's better if she does." Harleen said quietly.

Bruce slides over to take Harleen's hand, "No, that's not better. You keep thinking you're a monster. You were misguided, sure, but what happened was all his fault, not yours. He manipulated and controlled you."

Harleen takes a deep breath, then seems to decide something. "the reason that Harley is hiding is she doesn't like to share her toys."

"what do you mean you and her? arguing over something?"

"No, I mean her and Blondie up there."

Bruce looks confused for a few seconds then his eyes widen in surprise. "Me?"

"Well bats at least, I'm partial to the other half myself." Harleen said with a soft smile looking directly at Bruce.

Shocked Bruce, leans back, but doesn't let go of her hand.

She doesn't pull her hand back either.

"I, I that… I didn't know…" Bruce is speechless. He's always known deep down that she resided in his heart, even before that bastard took her. He always was more careful with her when they would fight, he would tell himself that it was because she was as much a victim as the rest.

But every time she got hurt it hurt him a little.

"Bruce… I've known you cared about me; and I knew about your 'night job' a long time ago."

"You knew who I was, but you never…"

"No, Joker didn't care about Bruce Wayne, he wanted the batman. Also, Harley always knew deep down that she couldn't hurt you like that, maybe part of it was my influence part of it was she felt more, deep down, for the Batman then for him even though she'd never admit it to herself. She knew that the Batman was the safe, yet more dangerous choice." Harleen said, she knows this isn't the best time to tell him, but she has held on to her secrets for so long, she's tired of it.

So, she will let him in and do what she can to cushion the blow. All her secrets, except one, there is one secret she can't tell him yet. It would change things for more than just her and him.

"More dangerous, why?"

"You… the Batman is safe in that you wouldn't hurt her like he did, but her… our feelings are much deeper for you then she's ever felt, and it scares her. Yet she can't walk away, especially now that everything is different… Both Harley and I have loved you for a long time."

"Why didn't you, if I had known… I'd…" Bruce started but Harleen put her finger on his lips.

"I know, but she needs you, and you need her. Right now, you and I are both to broken to do each other any good. Kara can heal you more than I ever could." She added doing what she can to hide the pain in saying that.

"Now that I know, how am I supposed to handle it? I can't just forget this…" Bruce said

Harleen knew this was coming and she feels guilty for what she's about to do. The irony is that because Bruce loves her, she will be able to get past his defenses to do it, but if he didn't, she wouldn't need to.

Bruce is to honorable a man.

She reaches in her pocket, to take out the last bit of powder that Ivy had made, "for what it's worth, I'm sorry it has to be this way, but you are needed here, more than looking for me."

"what?" Bruce started to ask confused when Harleen brought her hand up and blow the powder into Bruce's face.

"What… what did you do?" Bruce in his shock slides back.

"don't worry it's a little concoction Ivy had whipped up long ago, it will make you forget we had this conversation. You will be fine; you don't have any side-effects the last time."

Bruce tries to use his anger to stay awake. "How many times…"

"I did it once, this time, Harley in a panic did it once. That was the last of the powder. I'm sorry I know how this hurts you, it hurts me more." Harleen says her sadness clear in her eyes.

Harleen thinks back to when Harley first dosed the Batman, they had both been locked in a room where one of Ivy's potent sex pollen had been released.

Afterwards, in a panic Harley dosed him and ran away after making sure he was safe.

She stayed away for a year while she dealt with the unintended consequences of their time together.

When Harley found out that Joker had been tearing up Gotham looking for her, she came back, but it was never the same.

When the news of her daughter came to light, everyone assumed it was the joker's and she never corrected it.

When she found out about the plan, she was naturally scared, she never thought he would do that.

However, Joker had been becoming more and more unhinged every day and he scared her, she was afraid that even if she ran to Bruce it wouldn't be enough.

She stayed for her daughter's sake, knowing that if he got mad enough, he would track her daughter down and kill her.

Not even batman could stop that.

She did try to persuade him to not go through with it.

It was all for not, in the time she was gone, whoever gave Joker the bomb and the plan had done a good job of convincing him it had to happen.

Harleen got up and caressed his cheek not taking offence when he tried to push her away. "I am so sorry, Bruce." She whispered kissed his temple her eyes welling up with tears in heartbreak.

Once she laid his head down gently on the table. She sat back down, and a few tears fell, she didn't want to make the man she's loved for a long time, forget this, but it's better this way. "I love you Bruce, I don't deserve you, but I love you." She whispered softly to him.

She turned back to the table she would wait until he was awake and then she would move on.

About 20 minutes later she heard him start to stir. She wiped the tears that had been falling the whole time. The put on a bright look. "Good morning, Goldilocks must have been keeping you busy to fall asleep like that."

"Huh, Harley? What?" Bruce said confused as to what happened. He could feel something happened but it's fleeting.

"Nope, today it's just Harleen. Harley is asleep."

"Oh, Harleen what brings you here?" Bruce said putting it to the side, he'll try to figure it out later. However, he is glad to see her, now that they are on the same side.

"I just wanted to see the love birds." Harleen said hiding the pain behind the words.

"ha, funny, I thought Harley was the funny one." Bruce said.

"No, I just wanted to let you know that I'm going to visit Lucy. But I'll be back, still got to do my sessions with Dr. Leland."

Bruce takes her hand, with a soft smile. "I'm proud of you, for sticking with your sessions, and more importantly for being with your daughter. Family is the most important thing."

Harleen making sure her head was down on the paperwork she didn't need to do, so he wouldn't see how much the part about family killed her.

"anyway, I'd better go. You better treat Blondie right; I don't think the world could handle another regime." Harleen said only half joking.

She gets up to put her paperwork away.

"You make it sound so extreme?"

Harleen smiles and giving into the impulse kisses his temple one more time. "with you Brucie, it tends to be all or nothing. There ain't no halfway, with you." She added the last part quietly to herself.

"Am I ever going to get to meet your daughter?" Bruce said as she walked away to the secret entrance.

"Maybe someday." Harleen said, 'someday I'll tell her about her father, and I hope they will both forgive me for what I had to do.' She thinks to herself.

As she leaves, she holds out hope that someday they will be together, and that's why she did this, because even though he won't remember the words, the feelings will remain. She told him she loves him; in his heart he will remember even if in his mind he doesn't.

She heads off as the sun sets in the distance.

- The end -