"Mr. Wayne, I see you got my message." Lucius Fox was waiting for me in the basement with applied sciences. " I have some new lighter weight fabrics for your suit that you may be interested in." He lead me to a large lab table with some kind of black fabric that looked just like what my cape was already made out of.
I ran my hand over top of it. "Seems just like the fabric I already have.."
"See, thats were your wrong Mr. Wayne. This fabric is fire proof. No matter what kind of hot blaze you send this through, it'll stay intact." He pulled out a lighter and held it up to it. The flame just flickered when it hit the fabric and nothing else. The fabric didn't change at all.
"Wow. Thats something I haven't seen before. It could come in handy."
"Good. I knew you would like it." He smiled up at me. "Anything else I can do for you Mr. Wayne?"
"Actually, You can. I need to find somebody. Do you think you could help?"
He looked at me curiously. "What kind of person Mr. Wayne?"
I looked down and smiled. "Well... It's just a girl I need to find."
"O, a love interest maybe?"
"No, definitely not." I couldn't see myself with anyone who runs around playing with bombs for fun.
"Okay. Do you have this person's name?"
I couldn't help but laugh. "I got her initials."
"Her initials? You want me to find somebody by there initials? How did you even get her initials?" he looked at me as if I was crazy. Which, it wouldn't surprise me if I was.
"Um...a necklace?"
"O. A necklace. That's a great source." He rolled his eyes and headed towards three large flat screen computer screens. "Well, are you going to tell me these initials, Mr. Wayne?" He logged into the database containing practically anything you needed to know about anyone.
"Um, FLP." I walked over next to him to get a better look at what he was doing. He pulled up a couple of different screens until he found some kind of search engine and typed in the girl's initials. The middle screen showed every person who could possibly have those same initials. There fifty-three of them. "Can you take out all the men?" Lucius typed in a few things and clicked on some others. Then, there were three left; a Fawn Lauren Phelps, Fallon Lee Primas, and Farrah Linette Phillips. "Can you pull up photo ids of them. Lucius nodded and brought up three photos. One on each screen. The girl's id was in the middle. She had her short hair still and the same necklace and small smirk on her face. I pointed at at eagerly. "That's her."
"Fallon Lee Primas, age twenty-seven. Are you sure this isn't about your personal life? Mr. Wayne?"
"Positive. Does it have her address on there?"
He looked at me in a peculiar way, obviously not believing me at all. He sighed before scrolling down on the page with her picture. "5782... Watch mill street."
"That's in the narrows right?"
"That's correct Mr. Wayne"
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"Police have confirmed that the explosions was the work of the joker leaving citizens wondering what he'll do next..." I caught the tail end of the news once I had returned back to my apartment, but I couldn't focus on it. My brain was still racking over what Ryan had just told me at the shop. He was scared shitless, and I didn't blame him. He had no choice but to leave town. The joker probably knew it was him by then and was out looking for him right now. although it had been his idea to join his crew , it still felt like it had been my fault that he had to run for his life.
He took the first flight out of Gotham. He was going back to were we grew up in Michigan. He said that they would never be able to find him there, since they new nothing about our backgrounds. He said staying in Gotham meant certain death for him now. I knew he was right. When your being pretty much hunted in Gotham, you were bound to be found. But I didn't like the idea of him being so far away. I wouldn't be able to contact him either. He thought anything could be traced back to one of us, which meant no phone calls or letters. He did promise that he would find a way to let me know if he was alright. I hoped he was right.
It was almost 9:30 when I looked up at the clock. I hadn't noticed how late it had gotten since I got home around 5, or how hungry I was. I hadn't eaten since my lunch break at work. So I got up from were I was sitting on the couch and headed to the kitchen. My kitchen was small but neat and clean. It had a small table with to chairs next to a window and a sink, stove and fridge on the oppisite wall. I walked over to the fridge and opened it looking inside. I jerked my head up from were I was eying some pizza from yesterday when I heard a swooshing sound coming from out side. I walked over to the window and looked out and around the fire escape that was just outside it. I didn't see anything and turned back around almost running in to the black armored chest of Batman.
"What the..." I took a step back .
" You were the girl at the complex yesterday weren't you?" I nodded my head in return. " Your names Fallon Primas?" I opened my mouth getting ready to say something smart ass but he held up a hand to stop me. "Why were you there? How did you know were to be?"
"Look Bats, thats no of your business, and it would just fantastic if you could..."
" It's my business know. The joker made a threat against your life, and it would be best, unless you want to wind up dead, if you would cooperate with me." He took a step closer to me, filling the gap in between us.
" It's real great and all that you want to help, but I don't need it. I got this under control." I made a move to go around him, but he grabbed my arm and pulled me back .
" You don't seem to be getting my point, I'm not giving you choice."
" And what makes you so special? Huh? Why should I trust you with my secrets? Your just some guy that gets kicks out of running around dressed up as a bat."
" Fine," He let go of my arm arm. I smirked up at him, thinking I had one, "You don't have to tell me know, but I'm not letting you stay here. It's not safe, especially in the narrows. I'll send someone tomorrow to get you. He started back towards the window.
"Do really expect me to go along with this?" I couldn't help but laugh. This guy was insane. "How will you even be able to find me?" He turned back towards me and tossed something at me. I caught it and looked down at it. It was my keys that was held together with a Clemens Auto Repair employee sign in card attached to it. "How did you...?" I was stilling looking at my keys in disbelief.
"You left them in your door. Maybe you should be a little more careful." I looked up and he was gone. This guy had to be crazy if he thought I was going to go along with this. I was definably not going anywhere with him or whatever crazy guy he sent for me. I needed to call Maddox immediately.
"Hello?"
"Hey, it's me, Fallon We need to talk" I Walked back into my living room and flopped back down on my couch. " Guess who just paid me a little visit."
"Who? Your landlord? I told you should have payed that last..."
"What? No! Not him. Besides, I did pay him."
"O. Then who was it?"
"Let me give you a hint. He dresses in black and runs around on..." She cut me off before I could finish.
"Batboy!! I knew it...Wait. What was he doing there? Were you doing something you weren't supposed to?" She said sarcastically.
"Nooo... well maybe. Just Joking! He was just here about that whole bomb thing. He wants to know why I was there and stuff."
"Did you tell him?"
"Hell no! I didn't tell him. I don't even know him. Heck, nobody knows him!"
"OK, so what did you tell him?"
"Absolutely nothing," I said with a smirk. " He said that I would have to tell him though. I highly doubt that. O, and he's sending someone to get me. I feel sorry that for that guy."
"Hold up a sec. Who's this guy he's sending? Is he cute?"
"How should I know? He just said he would send somebody."
"Ooo okay. Got it. If he is cute will you promise not to kick his ass? I mean it's not exactly his fault that he has to come and get you."
"No, I won't promise. But I'll do my best to restrain my self." I lied. "Kay, well I got to go. I'll see you tomorrow."
"Kay, don't do anything your not supposed to." She laughed and I hung up the phone.
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I stood facing a dirt covered window in my 'office' in the abanded apartment building. I had given the crew two day to come to me with the rat. It had only been one day when Scott, a short round man came to me.
"Boss. Ryan never came back yesterday. He's gone. We think he left the city." I looked at him and smiled before punching him in the face.
"Why did you let him get away!" he cowered on the floor beneath me.
"We didn't know boss. We didn't know it was him."
"Find him." Is all I said and walked out of the room.
...
Fallon wasn't going to be easy to get. She was stubborn and ,to be honest, completely stupid to think she take on the joker by herself. One way or another she was going to give in. I would make sure of it.
"Alfred. Can you prepare a guest bedroom for me? I think we will be having someone else with us tonight." I was siting across from Alfred eating my breakfast.
He looked at me curiously before answering. "Of course Master Bruce. And who is it that will be joining us?"
I looked up from my food at him and smirked. "Fallon Primas."
"Fallon Primas, sir?"
"The girl that was there at the the complex that exploded. Lucius found out were she lived for me and I went there last night."
"Is she going to come so easily, sir?"
"No not really Alfred. This is going to be difficult, especially as batman. Maybe not so bad as Bruce Wayne." I was going to get her today like I told her. Luckily she left her keys in the door that had her employee card on it. All I had to do was scan it to find out what time she would be at work today. Which was at 11.
"A Lamborghini day, Master Bruce?"
I smirked again and stood up. "Yep. A Lamborghini day." I walked out to my huge mullti car garage and pulled out in a sleek gray Lamborghini.
