A new chapter, and big thanks to swiftbolt99 for helping me out a little with ideas for this chapter:D


Chapter 3: Making plans

Alfred is locking the doors and windows for the night when the patio doors suddenly swing open as he's about to lock them. The butler jolts into a ready-to-attack mode when he's sees it's just Selina, grinning wildly at the older man.

Selina can see the butler isn't very happy to see her, mainly because of the tired eye roll he gave her. Then, noticing the closed fireplace; "I guess you managed to drag him out of there, huh?"

Without waiting for the butler to reply, the young girl walks around him and further into the study and to the door as she says over her shoulder; "I guess he'll be in his room then."

Alfred quickly shuts and locks the patio door before rushing after her. As he reaches the bottom of the stairs, Selina is already halfway up, and Alfred whispers firmly at her to stop and turn around.

"Master Bruce went upstairs like an hour ago, so I don't want you to wake him up." Then, realizing something else; "Also, since when do you make midnight visits?"

Selina shrugs; "I do what I want, whenever I want, remember?" Alfred tries to hide his scowl behind a polite face as an awkward pause ensued between them. Then, the young cat-girl rolls her eyes tiredly and says as she walks back down the stairs; "You better wake up Bruce, because there's something really important I have to tell. Both of you."

Alfred folds his arms behind his back, regally as he stares at her, suspiciously. Selina stares back at the butler, her green eyes sparkling in the semi darkness of the hallway as they finds the butler's, piercing into them, determined.

The butler sighs deeply and motions at her to wait in the study while he wakes up his young master. Selina replies with a polite nod before heading into the kitchen, instead. There she raids the fridge before perching herself onto the kitchen bench.

Alfred returns two minutes later and finds her sipping straight from a milk kart, rolling his eyes annoyed as he strolls over to the kitchen cupboard and takes a glass, handing it to the young girl.

"It's going to be a long night, isn't it, Miss Kyle?" Alfred grumbles, and the girl simply grins cheeky. "I'll better make some food then."

Alfred walks over to the kitchen bench and starts preparing some sandwiches when Bruce walks in, wearing his morning gown. Once his eyes spot his cat friend, a smile curls on his face as he asks; "Selina, why are you here so late?"

"Well, to be honest, I wanted to see for myself you were here and not out on the streets, disguising yourself as some weirdo with long hair, handing food to street kids." Alfred and Bruce frown confused.

Then, Selina starts to explain the man and the boy how she was hanging out with some "friends" at the corner of the alleyway and warming their hands while chatting a little. Well, they chatted, she was lost in her own thoughts' when suddenly a person stepped between her and some other kid, brushing her arm as he did.

"The kid started to talk with the others and his voice had a striking resemblance to yours, Bruce. My gut told me something was not right about this kid so I hide myself into the shadows as he started to hand out food, and some girl asked me if I didn't want any. The boy looked my way, and I could see his face which had the same resemblance as yours."

Bruce and Alfred frown at one and another as Selina continues her story. "As a walked off I could hear him introduce himself as Thomas Wayne Jr. So, either this boy found a very good surgeon and made himself look like you, or, you have a twin brother."

Bruce gulps awkwardly and looks at Alfred who seems equally stunned as he is. Even the bacon in the pan started to burn as the butler lost focus on it. Selina rolls her eyes annoyed; "Well, which one is it?"

"Well, my parents never mentioned to me I have a twin brother, or a brother at all," Bruce finally replies as he has found his voice again. "But then again, they never mentioned their secrets either."

Alfred turns around to turn the stove off and starts preparing the bacon-less sandwiches as he says; "Trust me, Master Bruce, if you had a twin brother, I would have known it."

Alfred puts the plates on the kitchen table, and Selina digs in taking a bite from one of the sandwiches while muttering with her mouth full; "Well, Jeeves, it seems we have another situation on our hands."

Bruce's eyes start to sparkle as he nods agreed. Alfred however, not quite as happy as the two kids and he starts to worry what is even wrong with them. Why can't they be like any other kid and collect cards or other items?

"So, were do we start?" Bruce asks before taking a bite of the first meal he had all day.

Selina shrugs and this time chews her mouth empty before saying something which gives Alfred enough time to step in and grumbles; "First; eat that and then we will get a good night's rest."

"Even though I would love to say I would stay, I have to return to the city and find this boy. You see, I made plans on my way to this manor which is; stalk the kid and find out what her wants. Then, soon as I have information, I will report it back to you two."

"Absolutely not!" Alfred barks, and the two teens stare at the butler for a moment. "That is an dumb idea, not to mention; dangerous."

Selina grins as she takes the last bite of sandwich before sliding off the kitchen table, lingering to the door; "Well, you know me, Jeeves. I love to do dumb and dangerous stuff." Alfred is stupefied for a second, and Selina says over her shoulder as she heads down the hallway; "In the meantime, if this kid shows up at the manor, treat him like family until further notice."

"I will absolutely not treat that kid as family because he's not!" Alfred bellows angrily. "I will-

"Yeah, kick him out Wayne Manor and never find out who he really is and what he wants," Selina says sarcastically as she stops halfway the hallway. "Because that worked so well with Silver, didn't it?"

Bruce chuckles to that, and Alfred throws an icy stare at his "step son" as he takes the plates off the table and listens to the patio doors open and close in the distance. "Off to bed now, Master Bruce."


A few nights later Selina strolls down china town since it's late-night market again. Slowly she lingers closer to an unaware victim to take snatch the wallet from his pocket. Soon as she has it, the young girl lingers away like nothing happened.

Quietly she blends in to the crowd and disappears into an alleyway. Since she had left Wayne Manor, days ago she hadn't seen Bruce's double anywhere. She also hadn't visited back to find out if the boy already had contacted him. She figured Bruce would find her if he had any news.

After a short walk, Selina entered the Narrows and figured a little visit to Bridgit's pigeons wouldn't hurt. She climbs up the flight of stairs to the roof and sits down beside the cages. It doesn't take long before her mind wanders back to what happened at the asylum.

Selina really misses her friend. The young girl is happy she could escape the asylum before the bomb went off, though she doesn't know whether she's fine now or not.

"A penny for your thoughts," someone says from behind her, and the young girl looks around in alarm. She sees a tall boy walking up to her. His face is covered in his hoodie and his hands stuffed into his pockets.

Normally Selina would be more alarmed if someone walked up to her like that, but not this time. Even though she had seen him last when she was eight years old, his voice hadn't changed.

"Well, the prices has gone up," Selina smirks and jumps to her feet. "George, why you're back?"

George Anderson is Selina's older stepbrother. He was her age when his foster parents took Selina into their home, like many other boys and girls. Age never really mattered to them. They always said to other people they wanted to help as many children as possible, but it was all to hide the real truth.

One night George overheard a conversation between his foster parents, about Selina. She would take Selina for a midnight ride. George knew exactly what it meant since he had seen it many times. Every time his foster mom came back alone, telling no one what happened with the boy or girl she drove off with.

George snuck up the roof to Selina's bedroom window and woke her up, quickly. He took her to the streets and told her to stay with a friend for a while. That friend was Bridgit's real cousin who lived in with her and her stepbrothers.

"I told you I would look for you again," George replies as he brandish his arms and hugs his stepsister. "I happened to be in the city and saw you climbing up this rooftop. It looks like Bridgit still love's pigeons. Where is she anyway?"

Selina swallows sadly as she breaks the hug and drops her eyes to the toes of her shoes; "Bridgit is not herself anymore, George." The young man frowns worriedly, and that's when Selina tells him everything. That the Pike boys threated Bridgit as trash until they decided it was time for her to step into their business.

"One night I took her to my hideout and went on a heist the next day so she could leave town. But before she could even do that, her brothers came with their van and kidnapped her. Later I heard she snapped and burned her brothers. I tried to warn her, George, I really did but she didn't listen. I was too stupid to trust a cop and told him where to find her. They tried to stop her but she got trapped in her own fire, and everyone said she burned herself alive."

George listened the entire time, not interrupting her once. But what she just said made him frown; "What do you mean, everyone said? Is that not what happened?"

Selina shakes her head; "They brought her to the Asylum instead of a proper hospital. That place was run by some crazy professor who used people for experiments. I found out Bridgit was one of them so I went inside to get her out. But I didn't find the Bridgit who we once knew. The professor brainwashed her and let her believe she was Firefly and that I was her next test subject. She went crazy on me with a flamethrower until I offered her to become her sidekick. It worked and we escaped the place but I don't know where she is now."

The young girl sighs deeply to hide back her tears. George wraps his arm around her for comfort, and for once, Selina just lets a person do it. Even though she keeps telling everyone she's strong and she doesn't need one, once in a while she does need someone.

A few hours later she finds herself in George's temporarily apartment. At first she kept saying she didn't need his help but, George kept insisting she had to come with him because he would feel terrible if he knew she was out on the streets.

George made a bed for her in one of the spare rooms while she rigged his fridge to make herself a midnight snack. Suddenly the front door opens and someone enters the apartment. Selina comes from the kitchen with a box of cereal in her hand and almost drops it to the floor in shock.

The person, who just walked in, happens to be the same boy she saw on the streets days earlier. Bruce Wayne's double ganger. Or better yet, the boy who calls himself; Thomas Wayne Jr.

The boy looks at her quizzically and then asks; "You're a friend of George?" Selina nods slowly as she eyes the boy up and down. Again she's so surprised with the strong similarities between him and Bruce. "You don't want anything to go with that?"

Selina notices he's pointing at the cereal box in her hands and she shakes her head, watching the boy with the eye of the tiger as he strolls past her and into the kitchen. She even turns around instantly to see were he's going.

The boy takes a kart of milk from the fridge and then points at the cereal box and grabs a bowl and spoon; "Do you mind if I have some?"

"No, knock yourself out," Selina replies with a grin and hands the box to the boy. Then George enters the room again and walks up to her to tell her the spare room is ready and that she can take a shower if she likes.

Selina smiles a thank you at her stepbrother and turns around, lingering across the room and into the hallway, heading toward the bathroom. George grabs for his apartment keys and tells the boy he will be out to buy some groceries. He would be back before Selina would be finished with her shower.

The kid shrugged and sits down at the kitchen table and takes his laptop from his bag. Soon as George had left, and after he was absolutely sure he heard the shower running, the boy opened it and logged in a private connection site.

Three men with masks zoom into screen and they start a private chat with the boy. The boy instantly requests for his next orders.

In the meantime Selina had turned on the shower to given the boys the impression she was showering. She was still alarmed with the question how this double Bruce knew her stepbrother. If this kid was bad news for her friend would that automatically mean George was in as well, or was he just using him as well?

Quietly the girl lingers down the hallway and hears the kid talking with someone but not George. It sounds like a disguised voice or something. Then the words Wayne Enterprises drops and the street girl roots in her spot, listening to what follows.

What she hears is a male, but it could also be a female with a disguised male voice, talking about Bruce's investigation into his company. The elements he's looking in has to disappear but more importantly, Bruce Wayne has to disappear along with it.

So it was true? Bruce is the centerpiece of this boys plans, but why? Also, who is this kid? Did those people just pick a random kid and brainwashed him to the point he helps them to get rid of Bruce Wayne? But why did he look like him, and more important, why did the kid called himself Thomas Wayne Jr. on the streets?

Carefully the girl peeks around the corner of the hallway wall noticing the boy sitting in the kitchen with his back toward her. She can't see what's on his laptop screen but it looks like he's talking to more than just one person because now a different man starts to talk.

"Your order is to make contact with Bruce as soon as possible and befriend him until the council decides it's the right time for you to deal with your brother!"

Selina gasps in shock and realizes her mistake instantly and ducks away behind the wall. She can hear the boy whisper something that sounds like he will get back to them later. Selina knows he had heard her and obviously would take a look.

Immediately she turns around and runs quietly back to the bathroom locking the door behind her. She waits a few moments before she presses her ear to the door to listen. She can hear the boy's heavy footsteps trooping up and down the bathroom door.

Frozen in her roots, Selina stares at the door handle which moves down slowly, like he's trying to open it. Instinctively Selina takes the bottle of soap from the rack in case he would pick lock the door and she needed to blind him.

The door handle stops moving and Selina tries to inhale and exhale to get a grip on her breathing. That's when she hears George calling and realizes he had returned from whatever he had been doing. She hears the boy walk back to the main room.

Selina quickly takes that shower and puts her clothes back on afterwards. Then she walks into the main room and says casually as she after-dries her hair with a towel; "Man, you're shower has great water pressure. Far better than the usual bathrooms I sneak in."

George chuckles to that while the boy glances at her suspiciously. Selina keeps her face as straight as possible as she tells George she will head to bed. They say good night and Selina turns back to the hallway.

Once in the spare room the young girl walks quietly to the window and opens it, climbs onto the windowsill and hangs her feet out. Then, quietly she slips into the night to warn her friend.


The next morning Bruce decided to attend breakfast and sits in the kitchen eating with Alfred when Selina comes inside. She perches down onto the kitchen table and steals some toast and bacon from Bruce's plate.

The girl smirks at Alfred before stuffing the food in her mouth. "I did some dumb and dangerous stuff and guess what I found."

Bruce doesn't reply because he's too occupied to watch the news-loop on the small TV that stood on the counter top and suddenly turns to volume harder, his eyes wide open in shock as he sees his own face on screen holding a press conference.

Alfred notices the pale look on his young Master's face and frowns, quickly turning his head to the TV behind him as he hears a voice remarkable similar to Bruce Wayne's, saying to the press and all the citizens that are watching the news; "My name is Thomas Wayne Jr. and I'm Bruce Wayne's older twin brother."

Bruce and Alfred turn slowly to face Selina who moans sadly; "Great, he beat me in telling the news first. I hate him already."


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