Meow
Disclaimer: Don't own anything except Serenity Anderson
Summary: Somebody has to keep the legacies alive, but will history repeat itself even with a new bat and cat?
A/N: Thanks ratdogtwo for your review, hopefully the chaps going to get longer very soon…
As I've stated before (Thanks to CATgrl ;)) this chapter was inspired by AnnieD's fic "Forego the Interest" which is amazing. If you haven't read it yet I highly recommend it…
As always let me know what you think, and have a nice day!
-Present-
BUZZ-BUZZ-BUZZA low mumbling was heard before a hand flared out and slapped down the alarm. The girl in the bed stretched languidly for a few moments before rising. She rubbed Bastet on the head while gathering up her clothes that she was going to wear in her other hand. Making her way to the bathroom she quickly stripping her clothes off and jumped in the shower.
Fifteen minutes later she immerged showered, dressed, and ready for…school.
"Selina, I'm going to," she gave a loud sigh, "school."
"Alright have fun, and don't forget-"
"Yeah, yeah, training after school! I haven't forgotten in years why would I forget today?"
"Well, there's something I want to talk to you about afterwards so just make sure to be there."
"Is this going to be like the other 'something I want to talk to you about' talk, cause if it is I might be a little late," Serenity said with a frown.
Last time they had a 'something to talk to you about' talk it was when Selina told her everything she knew about her mother and brothers death. Yes, she told her how they did die in a car accident like she originally said, but she had left out the fact that they were in the accident in the first place because of the Jokerz.
When Serenity heard this she had many emotions running through her, first and foremost was sadness. She had finally come to accept her mother and brother's death as nobodies fault, a sort of, well, not exactly a sign of god but a sense that there wasn't a person to blame, but as soon as she heard that it was because of the Jokerz she moved to rage.
That was when Selina offered to train her, self-defense. She even offered to train her many other forms, but for right now she just wanted the self-defense.
As long as she could just defend herself she should be happy right?
"Not really, this ones a little different, and…not really bad," Selina trailed off stroking one of her many cats' heads.
"Oh, alright, well I'll see you after school then", she said grabbing up her backpack and leaving the apartment. She took the stairs and made quick work down to the ground floor before hitting the streets. She glanced at her watch and saw she had ten minutes to get to school.
Walking briskly down the street, she looked up as saw a boy who lived in the area. Actually, if she could remember correctly he lived in her building on a different floor, but still in her building. She dropped her gaze back to the pavement, what was his name again?
George? James?
No…
Jerry? No, no not Jerry. Something like it though…
Oh, what was it? This was going to bug her all day…
Terry! That was it. His dad had died and now it was he, his mother and brother. Now there was a sweet kid. Matt. She had seen Matt plenty of times in the building. She saw his older brother too, but they didn't speak to each other. It was a 'hi, bye' relationship kind of thing. Nothing more than a few words spoken and that in itself was a rarity. There was that time he went to Juvy, but other than that he was nice enough she supposed. Other than the basics she really didn't know him.
He fell asleep a lot in class. At this thought Serenity's lip quirked up into a grin before she sobered. He must have been having a hard time dealing with his dads passing, she heard it was because of the Jokerz too, and could sympathize. Many times she had thought about going over and talking to him but for some reason, she just couldn't get the nerve.
She walked up the steps to the school and tried not to cringe as her 'friends' voices came up over the noise of the crowd and over to her. She was really a loner, but Selina thought she should try and make friends. Truth be told, these girls were annoying and dumb as rocks.
She shook her head as she entered the school. Ugh, she would carefully avoid them today. She wasn't in the mood.
She flicked some dark dirty blond hair out of her face and quickly put it all back into a bun. She looked up and met a pair of dark eyes from across the hall. Terry. This was one of those rarity moments. She nodded her head at him in greeting to which he nodded back with a small smile, before two other girls walked up to him and stole his attention.
That would be Max and Dana, one best friend, the other, the girlfriend. Wait, were they still together? She heard that Dana was breaking up with him. Or broke up with him…'Not committed' were the words she had heard used to describe him. Well, she thought, can't win them all. He was cute enough though, she supposed.
Serenity realized that she was still looking at him and dropped her gaze to her newly opened locker.
Yes, she thought with a grin, he was nice enough.
Terry couldn't believe his luck. Not only had he missed his date with Dana last night but also now she was breaking up with him. Not committed? If she only knew the truth, but she couldn't…it was bad enough Max knew.
He looked to Max and saw the sympathy in her eyes. "Tough break," she whispered to him as soon as Dana began walking away.
"I can't believe it!" he exclaimed running a hand through his dark hair as he watched Dana's retreating form.
"Look Terry maybe this is a blessing in disguise, I know you like her but this might make your…after school job a little easier and less stressful for you, for right now at least."
He knew she was right, she was making sense, but that didn't mean it was easy to listen to.
"Yeah, yeah." he muttered looking morose.
His felt his eyes gradually getting heavier as he entered Math; this was not what he needed now. He had another late night yesterday; add that to what just happened with Dana and he just wanted to sleep for weeks. How did Wayne do it?
Oh, that's right, he was a billionaire and could afford to sleep all day.
He shut his eyes and rubbed his head mumbling about rich old caveman before he soon drifted off to sleep.
"Honey I'm home! Oh, that's right I'm not married," Serenity stated with a grin looking through the apartment. Silence met her. She raised her eyebrows and shut the door behind her with a soft click. She wasn't late, school only ended a half hour ago, she got caught by her 'friends' and had to stay and gossip. If she heard another thing about somebody's shoes she was going to strangle them with there own hair…
"Hello my darlings," she greeted the cats all around. She walked over to the refrigerator and took out some milk and poured it for them.
"Serenity?" a voice called and Serenity immediately put back the milk and went into the living room. There she saw Selina sitting on the couch with a decent size box in her hands.
"Come sit down," Selina stated patting the empty space next to her.
"What's going on?" Serenity stated looking a little confused and concerned.
"It's time to tell you everything," Selina started only to be cut off by Serenity. "You told me everything about my mother and brother."
"This isn't about them Serena, it's about me." She stated using her nickname.
Silence. She decided to try another tactic.
"Ever heard the saying curiosity killed the cat?" Serenity looked up at her with now obvious bewilderment before slowly nodding 'yes'.
Two pair of human eyes and many pairs of feline eyes watched as Selina opened the box to reveal a leather costume, and a whip. She met Serenity's wide eyes.
"They lied."