Well here is another chapter. Enjoy!
Grayson was in the bat cave attempting to stitch the knife wound on his side, however for the past hour all he had succeeded in doing was making quite a mess and knotting the thread.
"Damn I knew I should have taken home ec." He mumbled to himself.
"You know I'm not sure I could see you in that class." Said voice from over by the stairs that was definably not Alfred, he looked up to see Jesse standing over there. "Alfred let me in." She explained as she came towards him.
"Oh…"
"Do you want me to help you with that?" She asked pointing to the tangled mess of thread.
"Be my guest." He said looking over at the tread in annoyance. He watched as she got some new thread and a new needle and began to sew up the wound. He also noticed a slight blush creeping up on her face, he was after all not wearing the top half of his suit. She noticed he had forgotten to take off his mask and she paused for a moment to stare at him.
"What do I have something on my face?" He asked feeling his face.
"As a matter of fact you do." She said reaching up to take the mask off. "See there's the guy I know."
"Hey, Jesse? Uh earlier today when you kissed me was that just because you almost died and were overwhelmed with emotions or something like that?"
"Yeah, something like that." She said continuing to stitch his cut.
"So then there's no way you would ever want, cause you don't really feel, and I mean it's understandable because of all of this, for the record I'm not crazy, sort of, well what I mean is basically you would never really want to, unless…" He said rambling on until Jesse began to laugh.
"Grayson I have no idea what you are trying to ask me, I think." She said with a smile.
"Okay well I know we are kind of friends and stuff but maybe sometime I could take the night off and we could go catch a movie or something? I mean since you've seen me like this and you haven't decided to try and admit me to an asylum."
"I'd like that." Said Jesse with a smile.
"Great!" He said excitedly. "I mean, cool, I'll figure out a time later." He said trying to sound causal about the whole concept.
"I don't know if you heard already but Bruce is alright and Faye and the baby are fine."
"That's good."
"It's just weird isn't it? Gotham's golden family has a dark side." Said Jesse walking over two the other two suits that were hanging in he Batcave after she had finished.
"Yeah but it's weird trying to think what this city would be like without them." Said Grayson coming over to join her.
"Yeah and talk about girl power." Said Jesse looking over at Faye's suit.
"And I'm man enough to say that she could defiantly kick my ass in a fight if she weren't pregnant, actually she probably still could." Said Grayson in such a serious tone it made Jesse laugh.
"I've seen her stand up to The Joker before, I wouldn't be surprised." Said Jesse.
"Yeah, I'm just glad to have The Joker back in Arkham."
"Defiantly."
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The next day they brought Bruce home from the hospital, he was confined to bed rest in order for his ribs to heal properly and Faye for the most part keep him company as well as visitors who came throughout the day to give him get well soon presents. At the moment Silvia and Fredrick were over.
"Well I think everyone is glad to have you back Bruce, especially this one." Said Silvia pointing to Faye who was sitting on the bed next to Bruce.
"Yes, and as I start to age he's going to wonder why I will have some many gray hairs." Said Faye rolling her eyes.
"I'm sure no matter what it will suit you." Said Bruce with a smile.
"Well Bruce that's quite a knick on the cheek you got there." Said Fredrick.
"Yeah, doctor said it will leave a small scar."
"But you will still look handsome." Said Faye giving Bruce a kiss on the cheek.
"Faye I really must know what is your secret?"
"What secret?" Said Faye a flicker of fear rising in her for a moment.
"How do you and you husband stay so in love with each other it is like you just got married yesterday?"
"Maybe it's the fact that one of us always seems to be in mortal danger every few months." Said Faye.
"Hum, guess I don't really want to use that method." Said Silvia. "Oh have you thought of names for the baby yet?"
"No, when have we had the time?" Said Bruce.
"Oh then me and Fredrick should go you guys probably want some time alone."
"Oh not Silvia it's fine."
"No, we should probably get going anyway." Said Silvia beginning to usher Fredrick out of the room. "Hope you get better soon Bruce." She called as they left.
"Well that's probably everyone who will stop by today." Said Faye leaning back on the pillows. Bruce had taken his non injured hand and placed it on the barely noticeable bump that was beginning to form on her stomach.
"You know she did bring up a good point, we should probably think of names. If it's a boy do you think we could name him after my father, Thomas?"
"I think that would be a great idea. Also now I don't know who you would feel about this Bruce, but I've always liked the name for a girl and…"
"Rachel?" He said his expression unreadable.
"Yes, but I know that was her name and I just I don't want you to have to think of that every time you would hear the name. Actually I suppose it would be better if I thought of something else."
"I really don't mind."
"Are you sure because I don't want you to just be saying that, because if you don't want to…"
"I've made my peace with that part of my life, just like I have my parents dying." He said darkly. "So it's settled then if it's a boy we name him Thomas and if it's a girl we name her Rachel."
"You're really okay with it?"
He took his hand from her stomach and reached up to cup her cheek and then he looked her straight in eye and said "Yes, I really am." And then any doubt she was feeling about suggesting the name disappeared.
"Okay good." Said Faye giving him a peak on the lips. They had not but a moment of piece together before Grayson came barging into the room.
"Oh good your both here. I need to talk to you guys."
"About what?" Said Bruce.
"I mean how did you guys, like make this whole thing work?"
"Grayson, I'm going to tell you something Alfred told me, if you can find yourself a girl willing to put up with all this then you're a damned fool if you don't do everything in your power to marry her. Not that I'm suggesting you do that until you're older but asking Jesse out couldn't hurt."
"How do you know it's Jesse?"
"I think everyone knows that it is Ms. Jesse." Said Alfred coming into the room with a tray of food. "And she is indeed a nice girl you would be a fool not to date her."
"There see she even has the Alfred seal of approval that's important." Said Bruce.
"I'm assuming I had that as well?" Said Faye with a smirk.
"I think Alfred had it in his mind I should marry you before he even met you." Said Bruce with a smile, which the butler returned before leaving the room.
"Um, right, well firstly I'm not even 18 yet so I don't think I will be thinking about marriage for awhile. Secondly I just asked her out on a date and I should probably see how that goes first, I just wanted to know how you balanced the whole having a relationship and leading double life thing."
"It's different for everyone Grayson, but if she turns out to be the girl for you, and she is willing to make sacrifices, everything will turn out alright." Said Faye with a reassuring smile.
"Okay…and uh the dates sort of tonight so I wanted to talk to Bruce about some stuff…" Said Grayson looking over at Faye.
"Alright, I get the hint; you two have your man talk. I'll just go see what Jesse is doing." Said Faye with a laugh as she got up from the bed.
I have decided that I am going to do a fourth story because I think I have come up with a pretty good story line thanks to some inspiration from another movie that came out this year and Batman Returns so hopefully it will be good. That's all the details I'm giving out now. The next chapter will have the baby being born and then the chapter after that will be a teaser trailer for the next story once I think of a title. Don't forget to review!
