Well I have had some free time so I've been able to update a lot. Here is yet another update with some info on Jesse stuff!
According to what Alfred had told him about the men who took Jesse, Robin had a faint idea of where they might have taken her. He knew from the people he used to talk to on the streets at night that clowns usually used abandoned warehouses for there operation most of which where on Paper Street. He had seen the sirens and the ambulance and had gone over to investigate. He had watched as Faye, Alfred and Bruce had gone into the ambulance and knew if they didn't see Jesse she wasn't there. He had also seen the clowns kicked out earlier and decided to try and enter the warehouse they had gone into just across the street. Luckily they had not gone far so he was able to watch them while still keeping an eye on the building when Faye entered a while ago.
The clowns had been careless and left the door unlocked so he was able to walk right in. A few rather vicious looking rottweilers where in cages near the door and they began to bark and growl.
He quickly hid when he heard someone coming over to that part of the warehouse. "Hey! Stupid up!" Yelled a man in a clown mask. However when the dogs didn't stop he came closer and shouted louder. "I said shut up you stupid mangy mutts!"
When the dogs didn't stop the man threw up his hands in annoyance. "Eh when the boss gets back they will stop." He said going over to his companions.
"Hey speaking of the boss, what's he want us to do with that girl." Said one of the clowns. Grayson edged around the dog cages trying to get a better look at the group. Once they were in few he saw them, five clowns stood around Jesse who was tired to a chair a piece of duck tape over her mouth.
"I don't know, he just said not to damage her or nothing. He also said to get some explosives."
"What he wants us to blow her up?"
"How should I know what goes through the boss's head, maybe, maybe not. He said he'd find a way to give use more instructions."
"Hey if we are going to blow her up can I at least get some use out of her. It's a same to waste such a pretty little thing." It was at this moment that Robin decided it was time to act. He had knocked out the clown who had just made the lude comment first and he had already started fighting another one of them when the man who seemed to be most in charge pulled out a gun and pointed it at Jesse.
"No another move of I blow her brains out." He thought he was so smart by doing that but what he didn't realize was Robin was faster than him, much faster all he had to do was wait for the right moment to act.
"Look, I'm not here to kill anyone, lets not be to hasty." He said putting his hands up in surrender.
"Firstly you're not the bat so who the hell are you?"
"I'll put in it in simple terms for you, Batman is like the cavalry and I'm the infantry I handle the small time stuff and on occasion so larger scale stuff, like you boss. I put him away in prison and now you don't have him to protect you."
"Nice try but I think your lying you couldn't take down the boss."
"How do you know that for all you know I could be invincible or something." He said with a cocky smirk.
"Well let's test that shall we." Said the clown. It was all he need right as he began to take the gun away from Jesse's head he sprung knocking the clown to the ground and knocking him unconscious. The other clown's who were not already unconscious ran quickly out of the building and where soon met by cops.
He quickly kneeled in front of her so that he was facing her. She looked as though she had been crying and looked rather frightened.
"It's okay you're safe now." He said taking the tape off her face slowly. "Are you going to be alright?" He asked.
"Yes." She said before looking up at him. "I saw you on the news before they came and kidnapped me. You looked like you where about to be killed but then Mrs. Wayne fired that gun, what happened after that."
"I sure someone will tell you later." He said reaching over to untie her hands. Once they were free she spoke.
"I don't believe I have thanked you for saving me life." He was about to reply when he felt her lips on his own, and he quickly forgot whatever if was he was about to say. Sure part of him had always liked Jesse and they had become close but he did not imagine that she would ever just suddenly kiss him like that, unless maybe he finally got around to asking her out on a date, like he planned on doing later. However he did not have much time to enjoy the rather brief kiss because the police knocked down one of the warehouse doors and he had to break the kiss and disappear once again.
Gordon was relieved to find Jesse unharmed.
"Do you need me to call an ambulance?" He asked her after she got up from the chair and the other officers were taking the unconscious clowns from the building.
"No I'm fine. Did they catch him?"
"The Joker, yeah we got him. Mr. Wayne has been rushed to the hospital and Mrs. Wayne and Alfred are accompanying them, Grayson I believe is still taking his SAT."
"There not who they seem to be are they?" Said Jesse trying to confirm certain thoughts that had been plaguing her for some time.
"The Waynes?" Said Gordon playing dumb.
"Sometime I replay it over and over again in my mind, the day The Joker came to Wayne Enterprises. I remember we discovered that he was in the room, The Batman. I gone over ever possible person it could be but I never suspected him before, how could someone who everyone knows everything about be someone with such a big secret? But then I realized…"
"That it couldn't possibly be him." Said Gordon interrupting her, but the glint in his eye suggested that her suspicions were spot on and thus should not be discussed out in the open.
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Faye hated hospitals, mostly because most of the time she woke up in them feeling exhausted and discovering that some part of her body was not functioning properly. Today however she sat in the ER waiting to find out what was wrong with Bruce.
"Mrs. Wayne?" Said someone from somewhere behind her. She turned to face who was speaking.
"Yes?"
"I'm Dr. Palmer we spoke on the phone. I know you are probably under a lot of stress right now and I know you a busy woman so trying to reschedule an appointment might be difficult so I had a cancelation today an I can see you now if you would like?"
"Sure, I will just tell Alfred to call me if he hears anything about Bruce."
"Alright we can just go into this room here. Do you have any idea how far along you are?"
"Um, sorry my life's been a little crazy right now, but since my clothes are starting to feel a little snug maybe 2 months or so."
"Okay we will do a blood test to get a more accurate finding and maybe even get you and ultrasound if you would like to have one today."
"Alright sounds good."
So Dr. Palmer checked her vitals and took a blood test and deemed both her and the baby fairly healthy apart from a slight anima in her blood and so he prescribed her some prenatal vitamins and told her she was about 14 weeks pregnant.
At the ultrasound the moment the nurse was able to find the baby for the first time it truly became real to Faye. She had always know it was there but she had been so focused on everything else she had pushed this to the back of her mind, and now their it was, that thing that was growing inside her had appeared right there on the screen.
After it was all over they printed out some pictures from the ultrasound and Faye went back into the ER waiting room and despite the fact that she was still worried about Bruce she couldn't stop smiling.
Alfred came back to the waiting room after picking up Jesse from the police station and taking her home. Grayson did not appear to be in the house but Alfred assumed he was probably still in the Batcave.
Faye showed Alfred the ultrasound pictures as they waited for one of the doctor's to tell them how Bruce was. Finally after a few hours a doctor called them into the hallway.
"Well the good news is your husband is going to make a full recovery."
"That's a relief." Said Faye though she had her suspicion it would be that way anyway.
"Now he does have three broken ribs, a dislocated shoulder, a mild concussion and so rather nasty cuts and bruises, he should be able to go home so long as he is on bed rest for awhile, but we will probably keep him here overnight just to be sure everything is alright. You can see him now if you want." Said the doctor opening the door to one of the rooms in the hospital.
After Faye and Alfred went in to say there hello's Alfred left to give Faye some time alone with her husband.
"How are you?" he asked her as she took a seat beside his bed.
"Really great, a few days ago I thought you were dead. It was the most horrible feeling I have ever felt in my entire life. I just keep thinking how I didn't even get to say goodbye or that I loved you. I had my worst fear come crashing down on me in a matter of minutes, but then when I realized you were still alive, god I was just so happy." Said Faye tearing running down her face. "Uh, I thought I was done crying, I think this whole pregnancy thing is making me over emotional." She said wiping her eyes.
"Did you actually make it to that appointment you scheduled a while ago?" He asked looking concerned.
"No, but they were able to fit me in today. I'm healthy, the baby is healthy…well actually you can see for yourself." Said Faye pulling out the pictures and holding them up for him to see.
He winced slightly as he reached up to grab them so he could get a closer look. She watched as the smile on his face began to form as he studied the pictures. She noticed the small cut on his face that was about an inch long had been stitched. It would probably scar, and it was one of the few he had that everyone would actually be able to see.
"Do you know if it's a boy or a girl?"
"No, not yet but we might want to start thinking about names."
"Well I'll have time I'm not bed rest for awhile." He said. Faye smiled and was about to say something when they heard a knock on the door. She turned to see a nurse standing in the doorway holding a glass of water and some pills.
"Mr. Wayne it's time to take your medication."
"Is it going to make me drowsy?"
"Yes."
"Then I don't need it." Said Bruce wincing again when he handed Faye back the pictures.
"Bruce you should probably take them." Said Faye.
"Fine." Said Bruce taking the pills from the nurse and swallowing them down. "I'm probably going to fall asleep on you while you are talking if you want to leave and tell everyone that I'm alright that's fine."
"No, I'll stay." Said Faye reaching out for his hand and holding it. "Oh that reminds me, I believe you lost this." Said Faye rummaging in her pocket until she found his wedding band.
"I'm glad you found it I felt so out of place without it." Said Bruce with a smile taking it from her and slipping it on his finger.
"I'm just glad it's back where it belongs." She said with a small smile as she held his hand again. He could tell be her expression that she had been through a lot these past few days, they both had and although her struggle was not as evident as his, he could tell it had been hard on her.
"Hey, I'm not going to be going anywhere, anytime soon and I promise I will be there for you and this baby alright?"
"You can't promise that, and I can't be there to make sure you're going to be coming home at night." She said grimly.
"Maybe right now, the city doesn't need me so much anymore. You got The Joker behind bars, right." Said Bruce with a yawn. "And Grayson and Gordon can handle things for awhile…" He said fighting to say awake but the meds were kicking in.
"Maybe…" Said Faye as he watched him fall asleep she waited until he was asleep before she said with a sigh. "But soon it will probably need you again, it will always need you, it's our family's burden and I will always be at your side to help you with it, because I love you, and I know you will do the same for me." She then gave him a kiss on the cheek before leaving the hospital and heading home.
Just a few more chapters before this story is over. I don't know if I will make anymore stories with Faye and Bruce, because I don't want to kill a good series. I've been playing around with some ideas in my head about a possible 4th installment but I want to make sure I have a good story before I would write something like that. Tell me what you guys think about this chapter and about a possible 4th story.
Captain Turlow.
