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Chapter 2: Curios Cat
Dream
I was playing hide and seek with Harley Quinn. I was hidden in the rafters. "Hayley Q. Where are you?" she asked laughing. I giggle and scoot farther towards the wall so I could lean on it. Harley suddenly jumped up in front of me and I giggled again. "Hi Mommy!" I say grinning.
"Hi their Lee." She said grinning. I giggle again and hug her.
"You win!" I exclaim happily.
End of Dream
I snap awake and sigh. I sit up and pull out my dream journal writing my dream quickly so that I can get breakfast. I slowly make my way downstairs. "Morning Alfred. Bruce, Richard." I say slightly glaring at them before sitting down at my place at the table. I eat my breakfast as fast as I can, before standing up and going to get ready for school.
I walk up to the doors of the school slowly with my head low. I spend the day just going through the motions. My bullies were too busy bulling other people to bully me and nothing interesting happened. After school I walk up to Alfred because I am required to at least check in with him before walking home. "I'm walking again." I say before turning to leave. I begin talking to myself again. "Why am I having these dreams? Is my subconscious trying to say something? If so…Why?" I was once again interrupted by Catwoman.
"Hey kid." I turn to look at her and sigh.
"What's up?" I ask.
"Nothing. Just want to talk." She said shrugging lazily.
"Ok. What about?" I ask leaning on the wall of the alley.
"How was school?" she asked looking down from her perch
"School was fine. My bullies were focused on others so they didn't bug me. And the lunchroom didn't serve the mystery meat that has been there for about four months. So really the only complaint is that I wasn't allowed to explode my Chemistry assignment." I say shrugging.
"Huh. You sound like someone I use to know." I tense suddenly and look at my phone. To my relief there's a text from Bruce telling me to get home now.
"Sorry Bruce wants me back home now. I'll see you around." I say before rushing off. I check my phone for the time and I'm shocked to see it's five minutes till my curfew. I panic and run as fast as I can, knowing that I'll be at least an hour late. I suddenly feel a rush of power and find myself at the gate of Wane Manner. What the heck? How'd I get here so fast? I shake that off and decide to just not speak about this to Bruce or Dick. I open the door and walk in. "Hey guys! I'm back. Sorry I'm late. I had to avoid some muggers and stuff." I say getting silence in response. I shrug it off figuring they went out or something. I head to my room setting my backpack next to my door and logging onto Minecraft.
After a while I got bored so I went and took a shower before heading to bed.
Dream
I was sitting on the Jokers lap looking up at him. "Welcome back Daddy!" I say grinning "Did you blow stuff up?" I ask exited.
"Yeah I did!" he said before laughing insanely. "Bats showed up and I had to leave early, but I took a picture for you, my little princess of chaos." He handed me a picture of an exploding building.
"That's so cool!" I say hopping off his lap and rushing over to Harley Quinn. "Mommy look at the pretty picture Daddy gave me!" I exclaim excitedly
"That is a very pretty picture Lee. Why don't you put it in your book?" she said and I rush to my room quickly pulling out a scrapbook and placing the picture in it.
End of Dream
I wake up and write the dream down, I also draw what the scrapbook looked like and am surprised to see I recognize it. I try to think where it is and I begin looking around my room. After a few minutes of searching I remember where it is and rush from the room to Bruce's office. I look around the shelfs and quickly find it on the bottom shelf. I smile as I pull it out, I quickly take it and run to my room stuffing it in my backpack.
I sigh in relief knowing that I have the book. I head downstairs smiling at Alfred. "Morning." I say to him. "Where's Bruce and Dick?" I ask looking around.
"I'm sorry to say, they are quite ill today." He said as he handed me a packed lunch.
"That's a shame. Batman and Robin are making an appearance at the assembly today. Dick seemed to be excited about it. Thanks Alfred. Don't bother coming to the school. I'll be walking home." I say as I walk away. I get to school and go about my day as usual. At lunch I eat quickly and leave the cafeteria. I was heading to the assembly when a voice called out to me.
"Hey freak!" I sigh and turn around to see my bullies coming at me. There are three of them. All big burly boys who are on the football team.
"Yes." I say raising an eyebrow at them.
"You haven't received your beating in a while." The leader, Jonny said grinning and popping his knuckles. He punched me in the face before I could react. I fall to the ground from the force of the impact. I sigh at them getting up.
"You really shouldn't have done that. I've been having a very bad week." I say before suddenly kicking him in the nee, then punching his nose hearing a very satisfying crunch noise. I then Sparta kick his nearest lackey and make sure that the other one will not have any children. Then after that I turn and walk to the assembly. Batman talked about a bunch of uninteresting stuff and I tuned him out for the entire assembly. The rest of my day went pretty normal. I have a black eye. But I don't really care.
I begin the walk home muttering my complaints. "Hey kid." I hear from the usual alley I turn and see Catwoman.
"Hey. What's up?" I ask looking at the three unconscious guys on the ground.
"They owed me money and information." She said. "They didn't pay up. How'd you get that black eye?" she asks looking at the injury in question.
"My bullies. Though…I think I hurt them worse." I say before explaining what happened. She seemed to enjoy the story. I sigh. "I'd better get going. Don't want to miss dinner." I say smiling. "See you around Catwoman." I say before turning and rushing off. To my great joy I was as fast as yesterday. I slow down and walk in to the door. "Hey I'm Home!" I call out and Bruce walked in looking disappointed and I know that the school called.
"You got into a fight today?" he asked with an eyebrow raised.
"They attacked me. It was self-defense. Do you not see the black eye? My bullies decided to beat me up. I didn't like that plan." I say glairing.
"You shouldn't be fighting at all." He said
"Oh, so you want me to be beat up on a regular basis without defending myself?" I ask rhetorically. "I'm sorry Bruce but that's not happening anymore. I'm not some defenseless little girl." I brush past him. "If they attack me I will attack them with twice the force they use." I pass Alfred. "I'm not hungry right now. I'm sorry Alfred." I say before I go to my room. Once I was in my room I sat on my bed and hugged my backpack.
"Hey kid." I hear coming from my balcony. I turn and see Catwoman standing there.
"Why am I not surprised that you found out where I live?" I sigh before walking to stand next to her setting my bag between us. "So, what's with the visit?" I ask.
"I once had a niece called Hayley Q." she said and I tense.
"Interesting coincidence." I say.
"Yeah. I gave her a scrapbook for her fifth birthday. It had a blue skull with green eyes on the cover. It took me months to find the right gift for her." I glance at my backpack and gulp quietly before looking around at the sky. She looked down. "Nice bag." She said and I immediately pick it up and rush to put it in my closet. "What's with the sudden rush?" she asked.
"You do realize that you are a very well-known thief, right?" I ask looking at her weirdly. "I keep some very privet stuff in this bag." I say as I put in up on the highest shelf in my walk-in closet.
"Then why did you not put it up until I pointed it out?" she asked walking into my room and sitting on my bed. I walk to my desk and turn the chair around sitting.
"Does it matter?" I ask.
"No. I'm just curious." She said.
"Sorry I don't feel like sharing information with you. Put my locket back." I say seeing that my empty locket wasn't on my bedside table. The locket is made from silver with rubies and emeralds decorating the edges, my initials are engraved in the center of the front. Simple, but I'm very attached to it.
"What makes you so sure I took it?" she asked.
"I know you took it because you didn't immediately ask what locket I'm talking about. That means you know what locket I'm talking about and therefore since I know that Bruce and Dick would never take it the most obvious answer is that the well-known thief who was on my balcony as I entered." I say before glairing slightly at her. "Put my locket back." I repeat raising an eyebrow.
She pulled it out of her pocket and said. "If you answer two questions of mine honestly than I will give it back. Deal?"
"That sounds fair. What's the questions?" I ask looking at my locket to make sure it's not a fake.
"First, where did you get this locket?" she asked examining it.
"I don't know. I've had it for as long as I can remember. The only thing I know about it is that it has my initials engraved in the center of the front." I answer knowing that she can tell when people lie.
"Interesting. Ok kid. Second question. Why did you act so suspicious when I described my nieces scrapbook to you?" I tense again and sigh. I slowly stand up and head to my closet. I reach up and pull my backpack down. I open my bag and grab the scrapbook out of it.
"I found this in Bruce's office this morning before school." I say walking up to her and handing over the scrapbook. Her eyes widen and I take my locket while she was staring at the scrapbook. I walk back over to my desk and sit down looking at the necklace in my hand.
"How did you know this existed?" she asked looking through the pages.
"I don't have to answer that. The deal was two honest answers and you got them." I say tensing once again. She got halfway through the book when I suddenly rushed over to look at something that caught my eye. It was a picture of me on Harley Quinn's lap the Joker sitting next to us, it would've looked like a normal family photo, if there wasn't a hostage tied up in the corner of the frame. My eyes widen as I snatch the book away from her slamming it shut and rushing back to my desk and turning the chair back around, sitting and trying my best to ignore the shocked thief that is still sitting on my bed.
"You're her." She said in shock. I ignore her and go to my backpack to get my homework. She walked over to my desk as I sat down and began my math homework. I'm in the middle of a problem when she suddenly flips the scrapbook open to the place she had been showing the picture once again. "Is that you?" she asked pointing at the picture of me. I glance at it and try to close the book again. She stopped my hand. I sigh and get up to get my pajamas.
"If you want an answer I can't give you one. I don't remember when I was that young." I try to walk away but she called to my back.
"Can you speak to one of my friends to see if I'm right?" she sounded desperate and I sigh.
"Fine. Not tonight. I need to get to bed. Leave the locket and the scrapbook in my Backpack." I say as I pull out my pajama's. I hear her leave and I go and lock the balcony door closing the curtains. I get dressed quickly and head to bed. I sigh as the world fades to black.