A/N:Sorry it took so long to update but basketball season has started which meant I have basketball for two and a half hours and homework and after finishing both and eating I usually go right to bed so, if I were an insomniac like Faye, or used to staying up all night like Batman I usually go right to sleep, but today I have so free time so I wrote this. Enjoy!
That morning after they had dropped Jesse off at school and Faye, Bruce and Grayson went to Wayne Enterprises. Faye went into her office to check her emails leaving Grayson in the tutoring room to work on some of his homework before they started their lesson. About half and hour later she went back into the tutoring room to find Grayson dosing his head resting on his calculus book.
"Grayson." She said loudly causing him to wake. "Sleeping wasn't part of your homework."
"I wasn't sleeping I was just resting my eyes." He said yawning and stretching.
"Right, look I'm going to be lenient just this once and let you rest your eyes for awhile, I'll be in my office making some phone calls." Said Faye before heading back into her office. She knew how difficult it was to stay out late when you weren't used to it.
She called the doctor's office and made an appointment for Thursday because it was the only day she was free. While she was on the phone someone from the mailroom came by her office and dropped off a package. He left while she was still on the phone so she did not have time to ask him what the package was. She opened it and dug around the Styrofoam peanuts until she found what looked like a DVD. Puzzled she dug around the box some more seeing if there was a note with the DVD all she found was a deck of playing card. She knew that she should probably tell Bruce and not put the DVD into her computer to see if it would play but curiosity got the better of her and she put in the computer. The image that came up on the screen was one she had seen far too many times.
"W-ell by now you mig-ht have noticed something isn't…on time." Said The Joker his tongue running over his scars after he spoke. "I mean, you can get in al-most any where dressed a nurse, hospitals, offices, the CVS Pharmacy on 5th and Broadway." He said with a leer.
Faye wasn't exactly sure why he had decided to name the particular pharmacy she just happened to go to or why he would ever want to dress as a nurse then again he did dress as a news anchor that one time so, it wasn't too much a surprise.
"But, you see, I was getting ti-red of this whole tag team thing, seeing at it was just me, myself and I ver-se you and Bats, so I needed to get you out of the pic-ture for awhile, and nine months seems suf-ficient…"
At this point Faye had stopped listening and exclaimed rather loudly. "WHAT!" If what he had been saying earlier was true that would mean it hadn't been just a mistake at the pharmacy she was given vitamin C pills on purpose and it was all because The Joker didn't want to have to deal with her! She noticed that she had not paused the DVD and the Joker hadn't been talking while she had been having her freak out. He stood in front of the camera looking rather bored.
"I'm going to as-sume your done panicking by now, so, since I know you and Brucey just can't keep your hand-s off each oth-er I'm just going so as-sume my plan worked. But I have a bit of a problem, cause now, I've met some-one willing to help me find Ha-r-ley which me-ans I'm not flying solo at the moment, which means now I have the two against one advantage since you will be mission in action for a-while, so, whoops." He said with a shrug.
"WHOOPS! I'm F*&ING PREGNANT BECAUSE OF YOUR GOD DAMN PLAN!" She said hitting the computer screen.
He had paused again. She knew it was probally not a good thing that The Joker knew he so well he was able to tell at what parts in his speak he would need to wait for her to stop talking. "Anyways, now I hear you are training a re-placement so, that's good. What's not is the fa-ct that you stole my case and I w-ill be wanting that back some-time, but I suppose I can talk to Bats about that…well, ju-st thought I should gi-ve you the 414." He said with his signature laugh before the screen went black.
"ARE YOU F*&ING SERIOUS!" She said her head spinning from this new information.
"Are you okay?" Asked Bruce rushing into the office followed by Grayson. They had both heard her shouting and came to see what was going on.
"Did you know I'm pregnant because of the Joker?!" Said Faye unable to hide the panic in her voice. She felt sick, she felt like screaming, she felt as though her privacy had been completely violated.
"WHAT!?" Said Grayson and Bruce at the same time.
Faye quickly corrected herself after realizing how that sounded. "What? No, firstly why would you even think that? Secondly, ew. Thirdly what I meant to say was that he switched my birth control pills with the vitamin c pills.
"Why the hell would he do something like that?" Said Bruce with a scowl. This was defiantly a sick joke, even for The Joker.
"Because he wanted to make sure I wouldn't be able to be Batwoman for awhile."
"God, he has not right, mucking in our personal life like that. I mean what if you were on those pills because you could die if you got pregnant or for some other health reason, or if you were allergic to the other medication."
"Well, on the flip side he didn't try and kill me." Said Faye she really didn't want to think about this subject for much longer.
"Yeah, well…" Said Bruce clenching his jaw. Faye had a feeling if Batman happened to see The Joker later tonight the clown was in for quite the beating.
"Did you have something you wanted to talk to me about?" Said Faye changing the subject she knew Bruce came to her floor for a reason.
"Oh, I talked to Lucius about the case he said we shouldn't open it yet. He's going to get some of those suits like the CDC (A/N Center for Disease Control) uses so that when we open it, that way if it is some kind of virus or something we can be safe."
"Lucius thinks it might be harmful then?"
"He just wants to be careful."
"Understandable, what with The Joker stepping into the limelight again." Said Faye with a scowl. Bruce was about to say something but stopped when he heard the elevator ding.
A rather frightened looking Jesse came into the office.
"Jesse what's wrong?" Said Faye.
"Their was a bomb threat at school everyone's been sent home." She said.
"What do you mean there is a bomb threat?" Said Grayson.
"They found a Joker Card pinned to the bulletin board in the office and the principle's been murdered."
Faye and Bruce both looked over at the deck of cards sitting on the table. Grayson thinking it would be a good idea to get Jesse out of the room so Faye and Bruce could discuss the situation. He ushered her out of the room.
"Come on, Jess, I'm sure it's fine everyone got out of the school right?"
"Yeah, but…" She said as he took them over to the tutoring room.
Once they were gone Faye reached for the deck of cards and began to shuffle through them, both the joker cards were missing.
"He's going to hit somewhere else." She said.
"I'll find him." Said Bruce heading towards the elevator. Once he was gone Faye walked back into the tutoring room where Jesse and Grayson sat.
"Bruce is going down to the police station to see if they can give him any information." Said Faye.
"Does he need help?" Said Grayson standing up.
"I think it might be better if you stayed here and keep Jesse company." Said Faye starting to leave the room.
"Wait where are you going?" Asked Grayson.
"I need to tell Lucius that he is going to have to cover Bruce's meetings today. I will be back." She said before leaving.
Grayson didn't really know what to do. He saw that Jesse was obviously distressed about the whole situation.
"Um, you know your safe here right, I mean this place is like a fortress." He said with a nervous laugh.
"It didn't stop him before. I still have nightmares about that day."
"You mean when he broke into Wayne Enterprises? From what I heard you all were really brave in here. Men like The Joker they want to see is hurt, but we can't let them get to us, we have to be the better person. I know it's hard, if anyone understands it's me, he killed my parents."
"Faye was really the brave one. She was the one who stood up for him all be herself, even when she had a knife in her mouth. When she told me to say I was Batman, she was trying to protect him, protect all of us in that room. You know sometime I still when I see people from the room I always wonder which one of them he is." She said.
"You mean who was Batman?"
"Yeah, I think I would like to thank him."
"He doesn't need to be thanked, that's not what he seems to be about. What?" He asked when he noticed her staring at him strangely.
"You're a lot different you know. I remember you were in my class for a few days before Faye homeschooled you. You grew up a lot in a short amount of time."
"Oh, been watching me have you?" He said with a teasing smirk.
"No." She said rolling her eyes. "I just remember thinking you were some ungrateful punk who though he was too cool for anything, when you would always waltz into class tardy."
"Yeah well I got a new hobby really put a lot of things into perspective."
"Really and what is this life changing hobby?" She said incredulously.
"Spelunking, Bruce and Faye got me into it." Said Grayson with a smirk.
"I never realized cave exploring could be so monumental." She said with a laugh.
"So if you used to think I was so ungrateful punk, what do you think of me now?" Asked Grayson.
"Uh, well I don't see you much so, I don't know." She said avoiding eye contact with him. "Hey aren't you technically still in school?"
"Gee what a shame my teacher isn't here, I guess I can't be." Said Grayson.
Grayson looked down at the calculus book that was sitting on the table. "Actually Jesse you're kind of smart…hey!" Said Grayson when she hit him on the arm.
"If you want me to help you with that I better be more than kind of smart." She said rolling her eyes.
"Yes, well I don't see you much so, I don't know." He said using her own words against him.
"Maybe sometime we should rectify that." She said before opening the calc book and beginning to explain how to find the derivative of x squared. Grayson was not listening however because he was still thinking about her earlier comment.
Well there's a bit of a twist and a bit of Jesse, Grayson bonding. Don't forget to review otherwise I don't know if people are reading this.