Summary: Bruce meets Selina after getting in a fight. To be fair, he was defending her.

Selina and Bruce: 16/17

Dick: 7

Bruce couldn't understand why Alfred made him go to school when he could just study the things he needed to know at home. The school had uniforms, a dress code, and a code of conduct. Bruce had no choice other than to wear the uniform, but he'd memorized the conduct and the dress code, and knew every way around the two. It was at this moment that, for the first time, he was glad he'd done that.

"Come on, baby. I know you wanna!" Bruce heard one of the other male students say, groping at a girl. He recognized the girl as the newest scholarship student and one of his class mates. He'd also recognized the other boy as Thomas "Tommy" Elliot.

He had a girl with curly, blonde hair cornered in between two lockers.

"Leave her alone, Elliot!" Bruce said, noticing how the girl was struggling to get out of the other's grip.

"What did you just say to me?" Tommy asked, turning around.

"Did you go deaf or are you just playing dumb? I said to leave her alone." Bruce said as Tommy walked towards him. Bruce noticed a camera aimed in their direction. If he waited for the right moment, he could get into a fight without being punished for it. Good thing Tommy has anger issues

"That's it, you asked for it!" Tommy said, punching Bruce on the cheek so hard that it knocked him to the ground.

Bruce stood up and wiped blood off of his lips before acting like he was walking away. After walking a couple of steps away, Bruce swung around and punched Tommy in the jaw, twice as hard.

It didn't take long for the other students to recognize the beginning of a fight and start chanting "Fight! Fight! Fight!"

A teacher didn't come until a minute or two later and by that time, both Bruce and Tommy had cuts, busted lips, and soon-to-be bruises. Bruce had even broken Tommy's nose, there was blood on the hallway floor as proof.

"Both of you, principle's office. Now!" The teacher said.

"Wait! Miss, I can explain what happened!" The girl said stepping in between Bruce and the teacher.

"You new here?" the teacher asked.

"I just started yesterday. My name's Selina." The girl said.

"Miss. Fowler, there's a camera right over there. You can see the whole thing." Bruce said, pointing to a camera that was aimed where the fight took place, along with where Tommy had Selina pinned.

"Still, you need to go to the principle's office so we can figure out what punishment to give you two." The teacher said.

"Page seventeen, rule twenty-two, section B. If a student is caught fighting in the defense of themselves or another, they are exempt from punishment. I was defending Selina, and it's considered self defense when the opponent is the first to land a punch." Bruce said. "Self defense is legal in Gotham, and I didn't break the school rules. I can't go to jail, and there isn't a single punishment the principle can give me without seeming like a hypocrite."

"Do you have any proof that you didn't swing first?" The teacher, Miss. Fowler, asked.

"Like I said, there's a security camera that recorded the whole fight." Bruce said, pointing to the camera again.

"Fine. I'll make sure that the camera gets checked. In the meantime, you two better go to the nurse's office while I call your guardians." Miss. Fowler said.

By the end of the day, Thomas Elliot found himself expelled fro the school for the rest of the year. Bruce on the other hand, ended up grounded for a week thanks to Alfred, and became a friend of Selina Kyle's. He may have been defending someone, but he still got into a fight at school.

The school might not have been able to punish him for fighting, but that couldn't stop Alfred.

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The reason why I said they're only friends at the end is because they just met in this one.

Am I the only one that can see Bruce being able to find loopholes around school rules?