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Exactly an hour later, Alfred was waiting outside for Tawni. He had gone to the front desk and asked them to ring her and let her know that he was waiting to pick her up.

Tawni had rushed down there in her best clothes and makeup, ready to go.

Waiting outside, in front of a limo, was an elderly chap in a black and white tux waiting for her. When she came out he asked, "Miss Hart?"

"That's me!" Tawni said, "You're Alfred?"

"Yes, Miss Hart," the man said, nodding his head in a bow. He opened up the backseat door on the driver's side and stood at the side with it open and motioned for her to get in. "Master Dick sends his apologies that he couldn't be here to escort you personally. Something rather important came up and he had to leave. But not to worry, he should be home in plenty of time for dinner."

"Oh, it's alright," Tawni said, only a bit disappointed, "These things happen, right?" And she got in.

"Oh, you have no idea, Miss," Alfred said as he shut her door and slid into the driver's seat. After making sure she was buckled, and that he himself was buckled, he proceeded to drive her out of the city to Wayne Manor.

Sonny sighed when Tawni left and said out loud, "First day in Gotham and Tawni's already got a date."

"So?" Nico asked.

"Nothing," Sonny said, walking around and straightening a few things left around from the boys, "I just think she should slow down a bit... I mean, Tawni and I aren't the best of friends, but I don't want her to get hurt."

"She'll be fine," Grady said, playing a hand held video game.

"I hope you're right," Sonny said.

It took about half an hour to get to Wayne Manor. Alfred drove through the opening of an iron gate up to the round-about driveway in front of Wayne Manor. The place was /huge/!

Alfred parked the limo behind another car in the driveway, got out, and opened Tawni's door. "Here we are," he said, "Wayne Manor."

"I'd love living here," Tawni mused, taking in the manor as she got out of the limo.

Alfred closed the door after Tawni'd gotten out and went up the steps to the huge front doors. As he opened the doors, a woman in a black evening gown eagerly walked into the hall. "Bruce...?" she wondered eagerly. "Oh," she said, her enthusiasm dropping rappidly, "it's you, Alfred."

"It's nice to see you again as well, Miss Kyle," Alfred said dryly to the woman. "I take it Master Bruce still isn't back yet?"

"No," the woman said and walked back into the room she'd come from.

"If you'll follow me, Miss Hart?" Alfred more said than asked.

Tawni nodded and followed Alfred.

He took Tawni into the room Selina Kyle had gone into. It was a huge room. There were comfortable looking sofas and chairs seated before a large, roaring, fireplace.

"Please make yourself comfortable," he told Tawni. "Masters Bruce and Dick should be home shortly."

At that Selina scoffed.

Tawni slowly sat down and looked at Selina, "So how long have you been waiting here?"

Selina looked at the huge grandfather clock on the far wall. "An hour..." she said dryly.

"Oh," Tawni said, "You're Bruce's girlfriend?"

"More or less..." she snorted. "I'm leaning more towards less." She cocked her head ever so slightly and twirled the drink around in the glass she held. "You're dating Dick Grayson? Hhhn, never knew the kid was dating."

"Well... he invited me to dinner... I met him in LA and he said to call him when I'm in Gotham next, so I did," Tawni shrugged.

"Hhhn," the woman scoffed again, "if you were smart," she took a drink, "you wouldn't have...assuming the kid's taking dating advice from Bruce."

"Well, I shouldn't be in Gotham for too long," Tawni shrugged again, "So if things go bad, I should be good."

"Smart girl," Selina said.

The women were kept waiting for another hour before Bruce and Dick walked into the room.

"Sorry we're late," Bruce said, meeting Selina with a kiss, "that meeting was nuts."

Tawni stood up when she saw Dick and said in her head, /He's as gorgeous as I remembered./

"Hi, Dick!" she said.

"Hi, Tawni," he smiled. He looked to have grown since they last met, if not in height, then in muscle. "It's Bruce's fault we're late," he grinned, "I couldn't pull him out of that meeting."

"Figures," Selina said. "But now that you're here we can eat...I hope you had your butler cook up a delicious bird of some sort."

"As a matter of fact, he did," Bruce said. "Why don't we all go into the dining hall?"

Tawni agreed and they all went into the dining hall.

The dining hall was another large room. In the center of the room was a long table, almost like tables seen in movies dating back in medieval times.

Bruce seated Selina at one of the sides and took his place at the head of the table while Dick seated Tawni across from Selina and sat down at the other end of the table, across from Bruce.

Shortly after they were seated, Alfred brought out the first course of the meal.

"Well," Bruce said, standing to make a toast, "here's to a sight I never thought I'd see. To a full table, and to friends," he toasted.

"Cheers," Dick agreed

Tawni wished she was a bit closer to Dick, but she wouldn't complain. She was glad to be there and in all honesty, felt a little uncomfortable and out of place there... but she tried not to show it.

Dinner was the usual for the dates at Wayne Manor. An overly formal, stuffy dinner with little chatter and what was spoken was mainly by Bruce as he discussed business matters and whatnot.

But afterwards, he and Selina broke away to walk the Manor's grounds, leaving Dick and Tawni alone.

"So," Dick said when Bruce and Selina had left, "what brings you to Gotham?"

"Oh! I was invited to be in a Gotham City Fashion Show. /In it!/ Can you believe it?" Tawni said to Dick.

He smiled. "I can."

Tawni giggled like an idiot and said, "Thanks. Yeah, the message was really unexpected. My friends and Chad got invites to something, too... not the same thing, but theirs aren't as important." She shrugged.

Dick smiled. "When's the show?" he asked.

"It's tomorrow night," Tawni said.

"Really? I'll have to ask Bruce if it's alright if I skip the State's Greatest Actor's Rewards and come to your show instead. I'm sure he won't mind."

"Pfft, of course you should! Chad Dylan Cooper's not worth missing me," Tawni said. "I'm sure Chad wouldn't care either. He doesn't like you much."

"Chad doesn't like me?" Dick asked, pointing innocently to himself. "What'd I ever do to him?"

"He thought you were into Sonny. Or Sonny liked you. Anyway, it had something to do with Sonny and those two are in love with each other, but I'm the only who knows. They don't even know. Or if they do they're going about it all wrong. Anyway, enough about them," Tawni said, "What have you been up to?"

"Nothing much," Dick said vaguely and stood up. "Let's walk around, I can show you the grounds. They look especially stunning in the moonlight."

"Alright!" Tawni said eagerly, standing up.

Dick held his arm out for Tawni.

Tawni took it and smiled happily at Dick.

He led her outside of the house and into the large groomed grounds of the Manor.

"It's so pretty out here," Tawni said, looking up at the sky and then around the grounds.

"That it is," Dick said and took her over to one of the gardens. This particular one had many beautiful hedges and fountains.

"I'd hate to be the gardener for this place," Tawni said, mainly to herself, but she didn't say it quietly.

Dick laughed. "Alfred enjoys tending the gardens in his spare time, but Bruce hires people to do most of it."

"I'm just not one for dirt...Other than that, I would like spending all day out here," Tawni said.

"If I wasn't so busy training under Bruce," Dick said, "I'd probably spend all day out here with a book."

Half of that was a lie. He and Bruce spent a good amount of time training outside in the yards and gardens. Needless to say, Dick steered Tawni clear of those "training grounds".

"I would too... but I don't read very much. Mainly only for school. Other than that it's show-biz all the way!" Tawni said.

"I bet these grounds would make a great place for you to practice your acting," Dick said.

"Yeah, it probably would... if So Random had more of a romantic atmosphere about it... but it's not supposed to be romantic... so this would be a better place for...I can't believe I'm saying this... Mackenzie Falls..." Tawni said with some trouble.

Dick shrugged. "I can't vouch these grounds for either...I...I've never seen either show. That or when I do finally sit down to watch one, the Joker interrupts with one of his deadly and insane broadcasts."

"Well, Mackenzie Falls is a lame drama and So Random is a... well.. a so random comedy... And that Joker guy's such a freak."

"You're telling me," Dick snorted. "A few years back he tried to get the copyright on fish! All because he made all the fishes' faces contort into his twisted grin...You probably saw or heard of it. I mean, fish from here to China were affected!"

"Yeah... I remember that. Kinda, whenever the news was on, I just changed the channel and stuff... or ignored it in the newspaper... I should probably work on being more observant or pay more attention to things that are probably important."

Dick shrugged. "Doesn't matter...seems Gotham always ends up making a small part of news everywhere else...something's always going on here."

"Must never get boring here, huh?" Tawni asked.

"You'd be surprised," Dick said. "Most of us tend to put it all in the background...it actually gets pretty boring around here." As they were speaking, a light flashed into the sky and stayed there. Inside the yellow beam of light was a black symbol of a bat.

"What the heck is that?" Tawni asked.

Dick had to stop himself from jumping, or exclaiming, or running to Bruce and then to the Batcave. Instead he just shrugged and said, "That's the batsignal. The police use it to contact Batman when something major's come up."

"Oh...cool..." Tawni said. Though she didn't really find it cool. She wasn't into super heroes.

Dick cleared his throat and fidgeted slightly. "Let's go back inside," he said.

"Is something wrong?" Tawni asked, frowning.

"No," he said and, quite convincingly, fake yawned and stretched, "just getting tired, is all."

"Oh," Tawni said, "Well, if you need me to leave..." she didn't continue, but she didn't think she needed to.

Instead of protesting, Dick said, "Yeah, it's probably time. I mean, you gotta get a good night's rest for tomorrow evening's fashion show and all that."

"Oh...well...alright then," Tawni said, gulping once. She didn't know what her means of transportation would be to get back to the hotel to be and she didn't know how to ask if Alfred would take her or if she needed to get a cab. She just stood there, feeling awkward, uncomfortable, and like she did something wrong.

"Come on," Dick said, offering her a smile and his arm. "Alfred will give you a ride back."

Tawni smiled the best she could and then took his arm and said, "'Kay."

He took her back inside the Manor and called for Alfred.

"Alfred, would you take Tawni back to the hotel, please?"

"Already, Master Dick?" Alfred asked, but he could easily guess the reason for the cut off visit.

"Yes, I'm feeling rather tired and Tawni needs to get her beauty sleep for tomorrow evening."

"Of course, Master Dick, I shall go start the car," Alfred said and headed out to the limo.

Tawni stood there quietly.

Dick took her hands in his. "We'll have to do this again before you leave Gotham," he said, "it was fun."

"Yeah, it was," Tawni agreed, "Definitely again."

Before seeing her to the limo, Dick leaned over and kissed her cheek.

Tawni felt like melting. Or fainting. Or both. This made their cut-short night all better. Tawni smiled at Dick. She had nothing to say. Or her words were caught in her throat.

Dick escorted her to the car and saw her off before darting back inside and for the batcave. He had noticed that Selina Kyle's car was gone, so Bruce must have cut short their night...or she did, she was known to stop their dates short as well.

Tawni was quiet in the limo. She wished their night was longer, but she was happy that he at least kissed her on the cheek. She wanted to see him again soon.

"How did things go with Master Dick, Miss Hart?" Alfred asked.

"Oh...fine," Tawni said with a small shrug.

Alfred said nothing else for the rest of the drive and soon enough they were back at the hotel.

"Thanks for the ride," Tawni said, and not waiting for anything a second longer, opened the door and got out and walked quickly into the hotel.

"You're welcome..." Alfred said after she had gone before pulling back out into the road and heading back for the Manor.

Everyone was sleeping that she knew of, but she wanted to talk to someone, so she rudley knocked on Sonny's door.

She heard Grady groan and say, "Sonny, door!"

"Why do I have to get it?" Sonny was heard grumbling and she trudged to the door and opened it.

"Wow you look awful," Tawni said to Sonny.

"Yeah, don't feel bad about waking me up or anything," Sonny growled.

"Can we talk?"

"What?"

"I want to talk..."

"Well.. okay..." Sonny said and then Tawni took Sonny into her room and she told her all about the date and how it was cut short and how he kissed her and how it was a perfect, yet horrible date in one and about the bat signal and everything.

"Well, that's what happens when you date Robin," Sonny said. She still refused to believe that Dick wasn't Robin.

"He's not Robin," Tawni said then huffed, "Get that out of your head! And anyway," they talked a bit more, until maybe one o' clock, and then Tawni let Sonny go back to her room to sleep and then Tawni, too tired to change, fell asleep in her clothes.

Tawni wasn't granted a long sleep, shortly after she'd fallen asleep, the window to her room opened, letting in a cold breeze.'

Tawni shivered and got up groggily and went to go shut her window.

"Tawni Hart," a husky voice said from the shadows beside her.

Tawni jumped and screamed, "Who are you and what do you want?"

"Do you have the invitation you received for the Gotham City Fashion Show?" the man asked, no answering her other question.

"Yeah, why?" Tawni asked.

"I need to see it."

"Okay...?" she went over to one of her suitcases and pulled it out from the outside pocket and warily handed it to him.

The man stepped from the shadows to take the invitation. He was clad fully in black except for the yellow icon on his chest. It was a yellow circle with a black bat symbol in the center. He wore a black mantel and a mask. The hood of the mantel had two pointed ears sticking from the sides.

"Thank you," he said as he took the invitation.

Tawni knew who he was immediately and was less scared. He wasn't bad.

Before she could say anything, he left to get the invitations from the others. Well, he only needed one from Nico, Grady, and Sonny, seeing as they all got the same thing.

Since Sonny, Nico, and Grady's room was next to Tawni's, theirs was the next Batman entered; same way as Tawni's, through the window, letting in a cool night breeze.

Sonny sat up and said, none too quietly, "Alright, which one of you left the window open?" She was not a morning( or a middle-of-the-night) person.

She stood up when all she got from Nico and Grady was a snore.

"Men!" she rolled her eyes and headed to the window.

"Sonny Munroe," Batman's hoarse voice said from behind her.

Sonny turned around and said, "Batman?"

He nodded, stepping into the pale moonlight. "I need one of the invitations you and your friends here received."

"Alright," Sonny said, going over to her purse and taking her invatation out and handing it to him.

"Thank you," he said and then left through the window to go to Zora's room.

Zora was already awake and holding her invatation when Batman had shown up.

"I heard you needed everyone's invatations," she said.

"Yes, thank you," Batman said, masking his surprise. He was halfway through the window, after accepting the invitation, when he stopped and looked back at her. "If I didn't already have a partner, you may have been the perfect candidate." And then he was gone for Chad's room.

Chad was normally a pretty heavy sleeper, but he was also a restless one and ended up kicking all his covers off, and like everyone else, felt the cool breeze his open window let in and he woke up and just sat there a moment before tiredly standing up to shut his window.

"Chad Dylan Cooper," Batman said from the side of the window, shrouded in the dark shadows.

"Oh it's you," Chad said tiredly, "What do you want?"

"I need the invitation you received for the awards ceremony," Batman said, "don't worry, you'll get it back before you have to leave tomorrow night."

"Fine," he mumbled sleepily and went over to the suit case he brought and dug through the inner pockets and found and said, "Here, take it." He handed it to Batman.

"Thank you," Batman said before disappearing through the window and into the night.

Chad shut the window and went straight back to bed.

When he woke up the next morning, he wasn't quite sure whether that was a dream or not, but he had talked to the So Random cast and they were all visited, too, so they came to the conclusion that it was not a dream.