#4
Box
Disclaimer: See #1 for it.
It sat under her desk and her foot always touched it while she worked. It was just another connection to the man she loved.
There wasn't anything special about it really: just a small brown cardboard box with the word 'personal items' written on a top flap in her handwriting.
It was what the box contained that made it special.
Within it was a teacup depicting the mad tea party from Alice in Wonderlandshe'd gifted to Jervis on his birthday, a couple left over control cards Ari and Zeek had been able to snag, and Jervis' leather bound notebooks containing all his work, including the little doodles he'd made in the margin.
Dr. Cates and the rest of the company had been dead set on just throwing everything away, but Ari and Zeek had appeared in the department early the morning after Jervis had been sent off to Arkham and went through everything while the higher ups discussed what to do with all the things in his office.
Everything of value to Jervis had been saved: from his poster (which now hung on her bedroom wall in Ari's apartment) to Carrol the rat and her offspring.
All of the personal objects from his office fit in a small box under her desk, and that thought made Alice cry.
It seemed that no one cared much for Jervis besides herself, Ari, and Zeek. No one but the three of them had seen it fit to give him gifts over the years he'd been working at Wayne Enterprises.
It touched her that Ari had sprang into action right after The Incident in order to save what was most precious to Jervis in his office. She didn't know what she might have done if there was to be no sign that Jervis had ever occupied the space with her.
The office was empty now, had been delegated for storage space for other departments since Mr. Wayne had shut down the nanotechnology department in case history repeated itself.
Alice glanced at the box, smiled, and went back to work. She was connected to Jervis, just by having that box under her desk.