Chapter 2: the accident
Bruce couldn't forget that night he almost lost her, he had been in Metropolis working with Superman when he heard Oracle in his ear.
"Bruce? It's Selina she's hurt." It was serious he could tell by her tone.
"I have to go" Clark looked at him, his eyes showing worry.
"Is everything alright?" Bruce frowned he knew that his super hearing allowed Clark to hear everything including how Bruce's heartbeat change yet he asked.
"Personal emergency." Bruce stated calmly though he was anything but.
He arrived at the hospital's ICU waiting lobby and immediately saw Tim sitting in one of the chairs asleep, Bruce walked over to him and shook him awake motioning for Tim to meet him at the stairwell.
"How … how is she?" he asked as soon Tim made it to him.
"She's still in surgery, they didn't tell me much just that her ribs were badly broken."
"What happened out there?" His voice shook.
"Barbara told me that the joker had escaped Arkham again," Tim noticed as Bruce's demeanor change from concern to anger at the mention of HIS name.
"One of Selina's contacts tipped her off to the fact that he had been seen in one of the warehouses by the docks."
"It was a trap." Bruce stated, his fists clenched as he started to take off before Tim stopped him.
"You can't Bruce. You have to stay here." Tim sympathetically demanded.
"There was so much blood Bruce, it … it might have look worse than it is but you have to stay here with her" Bruce wouldn't admitted it but in that moment he was scared, Tim noticed and put a comforting hand on his mentor's shoulder.
"I .. uh … I called Dick. He and I are going go searching for him, we will call if we find anything."
"Don't face him just … call me as soon as know where he is." He warned before returning to the waiting lobby.
Nearly six hours later she was finally out of surgery, her surgeon explained that surgery went well. He felt sick when he heard the extent of her injuries; she fracture her collar bone, a large gash on her thigh from which she lost a lot of blood, and a couple of broken ribs that caused a lung to collapse. He sat by her bedside when she woke, her eyes desperately looking for something familiar until they landed on him.
"Handsome you're here?" Her voice raspy and low.
"of course I am kitten, where else would I'd be?" He smiled at her and kissed her hand.
"Did I get hit by a bus or fall of a plane?" She joked. He loved that about her; she could get a smile out of him at inappropriate moments.
"You had surgery to correct two of your ribs."
"Oh good, for a minute there it felt like they took a lung and set the other one on fire."
"You could have call me Selina, you should had call me." She looked at him, her eyes tired from the drugs.
"I didn't need you Bruce."
"He almost killed you."
"I made a mistake," she tried to turn her body towards him but feeling the immense pain it cause in her chest and midsection she didn't.
"Have you found him?"
"I will." He watched as she began to doze off, some bruises covered one side of her face. Once she was out he left to help Dick and Tim find the man that had yet again hurt one of their own.
Five months had barely gone by since she was released from the hospital and she wanted to go out there.
"No, you are barely well." He was dressed already.
"I've been well enough for other activities," seduction dripped from her words as she caressed his chest.
"besides darling I'm bored"
"I got it covered tonight Selina." He said walking away to his car.
"Oh I see, so you don't trust me with your precious city anymore?" He stop and turned to her.
"Is not … I," he came closer to her.
"I appreciate you taking over my patrol when I'm not here but you nearly died because of it."
"So you keep reminding me." She was annoyed.
"What's the problem? This is what we do, the risks are an unavoidable part of it"
"It's what I do because I need to, I don't do it for the thrill." She was offended.
"Is that why you think I do this? All these years of I've been fighting by your side and that's why you think I did it?" She sounded hurt by his accusation.
"I have to go Selina, we can talk about this later." He jumped in his car avoiding arguing with her any further.
A/N: In case it wasn't clear this was meant to be what Bruce experience when Selina got hurt. I will be writing a chapter later where I describe Selina's experience.
