Leather Wings

Mission: Be friends

Kathy sat in the batcave. It was a bright morning. She had taken the bus early to Bruce Waynes house. Aaron was asleep, of course. She was the only one awake, she thought. Suddenly Bruce came down to her.

"What are you doing here?" he asked surprised. "Terry, hasn't come yet, and Aaron is asleep."

"Sigh, I know…" She said quiet.

"Looks like everyone here has a problem or two…" he sighed.

"Everyone?" she asked. "Who else got problems then?"

"Well, Aaron wasn't so happy a couple of days ago…"

"Really, what does he have a problem with?" she asked.

"You." He answered.

"Me?" she asked, and then sighed. "Well, I guess I haven't been so nice to him… It's just that…I don't feel so…comfortable, in his company."

"Comfortable?" he asked.

She sighed, then took a deep breath.

"What kind of bat-breed is he?"

"Would you feel more comfortable if you knew what kind of breed he was?" he asked sarcastic.

She gave him a look.

"Well, good luck with "feel comfortable" in a vampire-bats company." He said with a cold voice.

"Oh, a vampire-bat… well bye-bye "comfortable" thought…" she said and sighed.

"Ah, don't worry about that, Kathy." He said calmly. "I've known Aaron and his family a very long time, and I can promise you, that Aaron never, ever will hurt you! He only eat things that's already dead…"

"Okaay…" she said quiet. "Do you know if any stores are open now?"

"Stores?" he asked. "What is it, you're going to do?"

"Nothing, just buy some breakfast to our friends."

"I think McGinnis already have eaten." He said.

"I wasn't talking about that pig!" she said and then she walked to the stairs and run off.

"Pig?" Bruce asked his dog, Ace. Then he sighed. "What has he done now…?"

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Kathy went to a Supermarket, and walked right to the meat-disk. A middle-age, tired-looking man stood at the disk. He looked at her.

"Good-morning, miss. What can I help you with?"

She held out all her money.

"I take the bloodiest steak you have, sir!" she said and smiled.

He stared at her.

"A…as you wish, ma'am…"

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Later, she carried a huge paper-bag with her to Mr Waynes house. It was heavy. She stopped to get her breath.

"Uh, when I said the bloodiest, I didn't mean the biggest…" she breathed.

Finally she was there. She dragged the bag down to the Batcave. Terry had arrived.

"Hey, what do you have there?" he asked.

"None of your business!" she answered.

Ace got very interested in the bag, and started to sniff around it. Some of the bats woke up, and started to shriek. They wanted the steak too.

"Hmm, is it meat you have in that bag, Kathy?" Bruce asked.

"Eh, yes, I have." She answered. "I thought I'd give it to Aaron, when he'll wake up, as a little I'm-so-sorry-gift."

"Oh, I see then…" he said.

"Wow, did you drag that bag from the store, in the snow?" Terry asked.

"Eh, yeah…"

"You could have waited for me!" he said. "I could have helped you with that."

"But, as you can see, I did quite good by myself!" she said irritated.

"Hey, easy kitty-cat! I only asked if I could have helped you."

She sighed.

"Why, is it so hard for you people to call me my real alter-ego-name! It's Shadowcat, okay! Try to get that into your small little brain!!"

"Ehh? What did I do now?"

"I don't like that you guys calls me kitty-cat!" she said. "Because I'm not a cat, and if you like to give me nicknames call me Kath or just Kathy, okay!?"

"Eh, okay…" he said quite scared.

"Hey, what's that noise?!" Aaron suddenly said…quite groggy.

"Aaron?" Kathy said and pushed away the bag. "Why are you awake?"

"Your voices disturbed me…" he said with a cold…but still groggy voice.

Kathy sighed. She had made him unhappy…again. Suddenly Aaron started to sniff around.

"It smells meat!" he said and flew down to the ground.

"Eh, yeah!" Kathy said. "I went to the supermarket, and I bought this for you!" she said and showed him the bag. "I know, I haven't been so nice to you and now I want to apologise."

He looked at her.

"Apologise accepted." He said and grabbed the bag and flew away.

She just stared.

"Is it just me, or was that the coldest forgiveness I'll ever see?" she asked Bruce and Terry.

"Eh, it was just you." Terry said.

"He must like meat." She said.

"It's not the meat he's after." Bruce said. "It's the blood in it."

"So, he's only after the blood, not the meat?"

"Exactly."

"Ehhh?! So I spend all my money on a steak, he wasn't even intend to eat?" Kathy said quite irritated.

"Well, that's seem to be the problem." Bruce said.

"Hmmm…" she said quiet. "I should have went to a blood-bank instead."

"I don't think they would let you in without a reason."

"I was kidding…" she said.

"Yeah, me too." He said calmly.

"Hey, Kathy!" Aaron yelled. "This blood is awesome! What kind of meat is it?"

"Eh, I don't really know? Pig, maybe."

"Hmmm, pig you say…"

She looked at him.

"Hey, Aaron?" she asked. "Do you only drink the blood?"

"Eh, yeah I do? Why do you ask?"

She sighed.

"Well, then I spend all of my money to buy a steak you wasn't intend to eat…"

"Oh…" he said quiet. "Well, I can try to eat it?"

"Really?" she asked with shining eyes.

"Eh, yeah…" he answered and took a small bite from the steak. Some of the bats climbed to him and started to squeak. Then Kathy saw that they where babies. Small bat-babies! One of the smallest ones dared to climb closer. Aaron looked at it.

"Hi, precious!" he said with a very warm voice. "Do you want to taste too?"

The little bat squeaked happy, and Aaron gave him a little bit of the steak. Then the other bat-babies started to squeak too. He gave them all a bit of the steak. He looked very happy up there, with all the cute babies.

"He actually look kind of cute up there…" Kathy thought. "With his family."

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Later, when all the bats were gone, Aaron was the only one left. He had woke up much earlier than the rest of them and now they ate there food somewhere in the city. He looked very lonely, Kathy thought. She walked to him and took a seat beside him.

"Hey, can't we talk a little?" she asked.

"Talk?"

"Yeah, about ourselves, you know, stuff like that?"

"Eh, okay…" he said.

"Great, so tell me about your family. How's they like?"

"Well, my mother Francine, was a zoologist and so was my father. Both worked for my grandpa on Gotham Zoo." He said. "He was upsets with bats, and worked on a formula who could change people to man-bat creatures. He believed that bats were the only creatures that would survive, if the world would come to an end."

"Wow…" Kathy said. Aaron continued.

"My dad tried the formula and transformed into Man-bat."

"Yeah, yeah! I already know that. Skip that part." Kathy said.

"Eh, okay. Well, after my mother accidentally got the serum, she also transformed, but Bruce cured her. After that, she became pregnant."

"Oh, then you came??" Kathy asked excited.

"No, no." Aaron answered. "My sister came first."

Kathy stared at him.

"You got a sister?" she asked.

"Yeah, Elizabeth." He answered.

"Does she look like you?"

"No, she was born in human-form. She is very beautiful. She looks just like mum…" he said happy. "Later, I was born. They were very protective of me."

"Oh…" she said quiet.

"But I had was a happy child! My best friends was the bats and my kind sister. But when I was six years old, I was kidnapped."

"What!?" Kathy said surprised. "Why?"

"Some crazy doctor wanted my DNA to make an army with Man-bats." He said and laughed. "But my whole family took the serum to come and save me. Robin was there too. He gave them the antidote."

"Okay, so it was a happy ending?" she asked.

"I'm not done yet."

"Oh…"

"My father worked in years on a serum for me, so I could shift trough human-form and bat-form. But he never finished it before he died…"

"Ohh, I'm so sorry Aaron…" Kathy said and took his hand…or paw?

"Don't be sorry Kathy!" he said and smiled. "Well, I'm done with my history, how about yours?"

She laughed.

"My history is very boring comparing to yours!"

"Try me!"

She took a deep breath.

"Okay, as you know my grandma is Barbara Gordon, Batgirl! She married Dick Grayson, and well they got my mum and she married my father."

"Kathy! You're making this boring by yourself!"

"Sorry, but as I said! Your family is much more interesting than mine."

"No!" he said. "Your grandma and grandpa was Batgirl and Nightwing! You got, like Batman-blood in your wanes! That is awesome!"

"Ah, you really think so?"

"Yeah! Now, continue!"

"Okay, well I'm the only child, I was very reserved as a child, and didn't talk so much with other children. I loved to be with grandma and grandpa, and I still do! My favourite-colour is green, by the way what is you favourite-colour?"

Aaron looked at her.

"Eh, I don't really have a favourite-colour… But if I must choose, I guess it's…grey."

"Grey…" Kathy said. "If you could wear clothes, grey would have been great to your yellow eyes!"

"Eh, yeah I guess so...But please continue!"

"Okay, when I was eight I starting to train ninjutsu and kendo."

Aaron interrupted her.

"What's kendo?"

"You don't know??"

"Eh, no…"

Kathy sighed.

"Kendo is a Japanese fight-style. You fight with Katanas."

"What's katanas?"

"You don't know that either?!" Kathy asked irritated.

"Eh, no sorry…"

"A Katana is a Japanese samurai-sword!"

"Oh…" Aaron said.

"Anyway, I trained and trained until Terry saw me fight, then he took me in!"

"Hmm, so that's the end?"

"Yeah! What did you expect? I've already told you that your history is much more exiting than mine!"

"Yeah, I know…"

"But, that serum of yours? Can't Mr Wayne finish it for you? He's a smart guy."

"I know that, but I don't know if Bruce can the ingredients?" he said.

"We can always ask!" Kathy said happy and dragged Aaron out of the cave and in to Bruces living-room.

Hey everyone!! Finally I have write a REALLY long chapter. Almost seven pages!! And finally Aaron and Kathy has become friends, who knows maybe in the future they become something else? But, what do I know? It is them who decide it, not me! Well, how shall it go with the serum? Will Aaron finally be able to change into human-form? Well, I really hope you like this story, and PLEASE review!!!