A/N: Time for a new chapter! Over 100 reviews on this story so far! That's really exciting, and awesome. Anyway, that's enough of an author's note. I'm really not good at these. But oh well, you guys are here to read the new chapter, not my mindless ramblings.
Like last chapter, I'll be using content from The Dark Knight Rises, so WARNING: SPOILER ALERT! If you haven't seen the movie and want to find out what happens yourself, reading my story wouldn't be advisable. But if you've seen it, or you just want to read and find out what happens, then by all means, read on!
Disclaimer: I do not own Batman, or any of its characters. They all belong to DC Comics and Christopher Nolan… Even though I'd really like to. If I did I would put much more John Blake in the movie. And my characters would most definitely be added.
Reviewers and Replies:
ZabuzasGirl: Thanks for the review! I hope you like this chapter.
bonniebeast: I didn't even think of her doing that until I posted the chapter. She'll call him that eventually though.
Mellzm: Thank you for the review! You're insanely right. I should have. And I completely agree with you. Joseph Gordon-Levitt is definitely a very attractive man. Celebrity crush-worthy indeed. Writing from John's point of view sounds like a good idea and I may do that in the upcoming chapters sometime.
starfire25: I'm really glad you liked the last two chapters, and the date scene! I had a lot of fun writing it. I even "Aww"-ed at it sometimes while I was writing it. I have the scene where Selina gets caught by John all planned out, and I can't wait to write it. Thank you for the review!
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wisegirl2772: Nah, there will be plenty of time for nice scenes like that when all of the action is over. Hopefully this chapter will be better than the last one. Thanks for the review!
Luli Cullen: I'm really glad you liked the date scene! Looks like we've seen Batman the same amount of times! It really is brilliant isn't it? Definitely my favorite of the trilogy. Thank you for the review!
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-IWRU-
"Did you at least kiss him?" Jen interrogates Rosalie as she heads into the bathroom. She quickly throws her hair up in a messy bun, and sighs.
"No. Well… yeah. On the cheek," Rosalie says, beginning to wash her make up off.
"Boring," Jen groans, walking back out to the main room of the apartment, and flops down on the couch. Rosalie watches, wash cloth in hand, and rolls her eyes.
"Terribly sorry to disappoint," Rosalie says, sarcastically. As soon as Rosalie gets the makeup washed off of her face, she pats her face dry with a towel. She walks back out into the main room and goes to her dresser, pulling out a pair of pajamas, and quickly changes into them. As soon as she pulls her t-shirt down, the door to the apartment opens, and Selina storms in, slamming the door behind her. Rosalie and Jen both look at her with raised eyebrows, but Selina ignores them, and walks to her room. She doesn't bother to shut her bedroom door, knowing Rosalie would probably just open it back up to walk in anyway.
"What's wrong?" Rosalie calls from her bed, pulling off her socks. She looks at her unpainted toenails, and tilts her head to the side. She gets up and goes into her sister's bedroom, opening the top drawer of her dresser, pulling out a bottle of silver nail polish and making herself comfortable on Selina's bed.
"Bruce Wayne knows who I am," Selina says, pulling off her dress. Rosalie looks sharply at her sister.
"Knows who you are? How?" Rosalie asks her eyes wide.
"He saw me that night in his manor. Caught me with the pearls," Selina says, hanging her dress up.
"What? Never mind. Should we… leave?" Rosalie asks, shaking her head.
"I think we're good. If he was going to go to the police, he would have already," Selina points out.
"But that doesn't mean he won't later!" Rosalie raises her voice, glaring at her sister.
"Calm down Rosalie. Even if he does, we can get away before they take me to jail. I don't plan on going back anytime soon," Selina says, sitting on the bed and taking the nail polish from her sister. She takes the lid off, and begins painting her sister's toenails for her. "How did your little date with one of Gotham's finest go?"
"You really want to know?" Rosalie asks, looking warily at her sister.
"I promise I'll hold all comments until the end," Selina says, smirking.
"It went… actually really… well. We have a lot in common," Rosalie says, smiling a bit.
"Except that he's a cop and you're a criminal," Selina says, and Rosalie scowls at her. "Are you going to see him again then?"
"Yeah, I am," Rosalie says, ignoring the way her sister shakes her head. "I like him."
"What if we have to leave again?" Selina asks as she finishes up with Rosalie's nails.
"Then we leave," Rosalie shrugs.
"Somehow I have a feeling it wouldn't be that simple," Selina says, looking at her sister knowingly. Rosalie adverts her eyes away from her sister, and gets up, leaving the room, and sits on the couch. Jen walks into Selina's room, and the two start talking. Rosalie sighs and mulls over the last thing her sister said in her head, and Rosalie closes her eyes, leaning her head back on the couch. She can't help but get the sinking feeling that her sister is probably right.
-IWRU-
Rosalie wakes up to the annoying sound of her alarm clock screaming in her ear. She punches the top of the clock a couple of times until it's finally silenced. She abruptly sits up when there's a knock at the door. Rosalie tiredly gets up and goes to the door. She sees Jen asleep on the couch, and she raises her eyebrows.
"If it's another one of your ex-boyfriends he can have you. I'm way too tired to fight anyone right now," Rosalie says to the sleeping blonde.
"She's asleep," Selina says, coming out of her room. Rosalie doesn't respond and looks through the peep hole on the door. She rolls her eyes at the sight of their landlord standing on the other side of the door with his arms crossed. Rosalie opens the door, and nods slightly to the man.
"You girls are about 75 bucks short on the rent," he says, gruffly. Rosalie grunts and walks over to her purse. She pulls out her wallet and pulls out the amount in question and hands it to the man.
"There you go," she mumbles.
"Don't let this happen again," the man says, walking off, and Rosalie slams the door. Rosalie heads to the bathroom to take a quick shower, then after, gets dressed in an old, football shirt she acquired in high school, and a pair of jeans. She pulls on a pair of pink socks, and her sneakers. She again, pulls her hair up into a messy bun, and applies a coat of mascara to her long eyelashes, and a small layer of eyeliner to the lower rims of her brown eyes.
"When do you get off of work today?" Selina asks.
"I'm working a double shift, so around ten," Rosalie says, and Selina nods, pouring her sister a cup of coffee, and Rosalie sticks a few pieces of bread in the toaster. She glances at the stove and chuckles a bit.
"What?" Selina asks.
"I told John about that time I tried to cook chicken," Rosalie says, and Selina laughs.
"That was hilarious," Selina says.
"I thought the whole apartment was going to burn down," Rosalie remembers, shaking her head.
"Not quite. Just the stove and one of our kitchen towels, because you didn't have the common sense to keep the grease in the pan," Selina says, and Rosalie makes an indignant noise.
"It spilled! It wasn't my fault!" Rosalie nearly shouts.
"It was a gas stove! You shouldn't have had grease anywhere near there!" Selina says in the same tone.
"You always did!" Rosalie shoots back.
"Yes, but I know what I'm doing!" Selina retorts, and Rosalie opens her mouth to respond, but shuts it, knowing Selina is right.
"Yeah, yeah," Rosalie says, taking a bite of her slightly burnt toast, and a gulp of her coffee. Rosalie risks a glance at the clock, and her eyes widen slightly. She quickly finishes her toast and coffee, and sets her dishes in the sink. "I have to go. I'll see you tonight."
"Bye," Selina calls to Rosalie as she puts her leather jacket on and leaves the apartment, closing the door behind her. She makes the ten minute journey to the diner, and is greeted by Holly's scowling face when she walks in the door. Rosalie cocks a dark eyebrow when she catches the blonde's eye, but Holly only turns her nose up at Rosalie and enters the kitchen. Rosalie hangs up her jacket on the available hooks.
"Lamont and her had a few words," Joanie tells her, when she walks behind the counter.
"You mean she actually spoke to him?" Rosalie asks sarcastically.
"Well, she more spat words at him. He handled it well though," Joanie says, raising her eyebrows.
"You doubted he could?" Rosalie asks, smirking as she walks into the kitchen.
"Damn right. I knocked that bitch down a few pegs," Lamont gloats, and Rosalie chuckles, giving her friend a pat on the back.
"Well, someone had to do it," Rosalie says, as Holly walks out of Terry's office.
"Fuck off," she sneers at the two. Rosalie and Lamont just send a smirk her way, causing Holly to scoff and leave the kitchen.
"Section four, Rosebud," Terry says, walking out of his office with a sigh.
"You alright?" Rosalie asks her boss.
"Yeah. Girl's difficult though. She's usually not so bad. It must be her time of the month," Terry mutters with a shake of his head.
"Hey, that's nothing to joke about," Rosalie says, tying an apron around her waist.
"I wasn't joking, love," Terry says, smirking, and Rosalie rolls her eyes, picking up a check pad and pen. She quickly clocks herself in and walks out of the kitchen.
"Your cop shows up here everyday, Rosie," Joanie says to Rosalie when she leaves the kitchen.
"And what a fine piece of ass he is," she hears Lamont call from the kitchen, immediately followed by Terry's scolding.
"He already showed up this morning with his partner for their coffee. He always asks one of us about you," Joanie says. Rosalie grins stupidly, and heads to her first table. A handful of screaming kids, fifteen elderly couples, twenty-seven families, and seventeen couples ranging from young adult to middle aged, later, Rosalie was clocking herself out for her forty-five minute break before her second shift started. She sits at the counter next to Missy who is eating a quick dinner before her shift starts. She places a quick order of a burger with Swiss instead of American cheese, and fries.
Rosalie yawns widely and props her elbows up on the counter, pressing her forehead into her palms.
"Tired?" Missy asks, and Rosalie glances over at her. She does a double take when she sees that Missy is missing her glasses.
"Where are your glasses?" Rosalie asks.
"Contacts. Just got them yesterday," Missy asks, smiling slightly.
"I love it. You look great," Rosalie compliments.
"Thanks Rosie," Missy says, quietly.
"I've been telling her that, but she just kind of shrugs it off," Angie says, wiping a few crumbs off the bar. Angie had taken Joanie's place around an hour before Rosalie's first shift ended.
"How are you and your boyfriend doing?" Rosalie asks Missy, and Missy only shrugs, avoiding eye contact with anyone. "Uh-oh, what's going on?" Rosalie asks, feeling concern for the younger girl. In the year of the two girls knowing each other, Rosalie has grown quite close to the teenage girl, and likes to think of her as a younger sister.
"He cheated on me," she says, with a small shrug of her shoulders.
"Dirtbag," Angie scoffs, leaning on the counter.
"He says he didn't mean to…that it just kind of happened," Missy says, looking at the two older women.
"Well, are you two still a couple?" Angie asks, and Missy nods.
"Can you forgive him for it?" Angie continues her questioning.
"I… I don't know," Missy says, and Rosalie frowns.
"I say kick him to the curb. If you can't forgive him for it, then get rid of him. The trust there is broken. A relationship can't survive without trust. Then if you get rid of that… scum sucking leech who can't keep it in his pants…," Rosalie trails off, glaring at the counter, honestly angry at the boy who hurt Missy. "You'll find someone so much better, that will say they love you and actually mean it."
"If you love someone you wouldn't hurt them like that," Angie chimes in. Missy nods a bit and shrugs her shoulders.
"I'll think about it," she says and Angie puts Rosalie's food in front of her.
"What about you, Rosalie. You never talk about guys," Angie says, and Missy sighs in relief that the attention is off of her and her guy problems. Rosalie smirks a bit, putting ketchup on her burger, and on her fries.
"I had a date last night," she says, and Angie is instantly in her face.
"What? With who? What happened?" Angie asks frantically. Rosalie and Missy look at her wide eyed. "I've known you for two years and this is the first date I've ever heard of. Someone finally caught your-," Angie starts but cuts herself off with a gasp, and sends Rosalie a wide smirk. "It was with Officer Sexy wasn't it?"
Rosalie can't keep in the bark of laughter that escapes her body at the name Angie calls John, and Missy joins her.
"Yeah. It was," Rosalie says, when she calms down.
"What happened?" Angie asks.
"Nothing, we got dinner and talked," Rosalie answers, taking a bite of her burger.
"Talked?" Angie deadpans.
"Yes, talked. We talked…a lot. It was a… getting to know each other… thing," Rosalie says.
"So you guys didn't have sex?" Angie asks, and Rosalie stares blankly at the woman.
"No."
-IWRU-
"You've got to be kidding me," a male customer says, looking at the TV behind the counter. For nearly an hour, the news has been covering the chaos at the stock exchange. But now, there's a new surprise. The Batman is back. Rosalie furrows her eyebrows, and keeps her eyes trained on the television, along with everybody else in the restaurant. The whole restaurant watches in silence, as the Batman leads the police away from Bane and his men, although Rosalie believes that the Batman doesn't have helping Bane on his agenda.
Fortunately enough, the Batman gets away and the anchormen go back to talking about the Batman showing up again, and Bane.
"I can't believe the Batman is back," Angie says, scowling a bit.
"I think we should be more worried about Bane, than the Batman," Rosalie says quietly, knowing just how dangerous Bane is all on his own.
"The Batman killed Harvey Dent. Now he's working for Bane," Angie replies, and Rosalie shrugs.
Two hours later, everyone finally gets the diner cleaned up and closed. Rosalie waves to everyone as she begins her journey home. When she reaches the half way point she gets the alarming feeling that someone is following her. She glances behind her and sure enough, sees two men walking behind her. She shrugs it off, holding her head a bit higher, but she speeds up a bit. She hears the men's footsteps quicken along with hers. Rosalie tenses, mentally preparing herself incase she should have to defend herself, but what she didn't expect, is two other men to appear in front of her from an alley. Rosalie stops abruptly, and eyes the two men.
"Good evening, Miss Kyle," one of the men says, in an accented voice.
"Who the hell are you?" Rosalie asks, narrowing her eyes a bit.
"You're going to have to come with us," he says, ignoring her question. Rosalie chuckles darkly.
"Yeah, I don't think so," Rosalie says.
"Listen beautiful, you can come willingly, or we'll take you by force," he says, smiling at her. Rosalie stays rooted to the spot she stopped on the side walk, and the man sighs. He steps forward and grabs her arm, breaking Rosalie out of her frozen state. She knees the man in the groin with all the force she could possibly put into it. The man groans in pain and drops to his knees.
One of the two men behind her grabs her arms, and twists them behind her back, holding her against him. Rosalie forcefully stomps on his foot, and leans her head forward, and quickly slams the back of her head into his face. The man releases one of her arms to grip his nose, and Rosalie takes this opportunity to elbow him in the eye. The other man from behind her walks up to her, wrapping an arm around her throat. She goes to fight against him when she hears the click of a gun. She immediately stills and closes her eyes, taking a deep breath.
"Nighty, night," she hears the man whisper in her ear. The last thing Rosalie remembers is a sharp pain to the side of her head, before everything goes black.
-IWRU-
A/N: Uh-Oh. Rosalie's in trouble. Thank you guys for all of the reviews for the last chapter. I hope you guys liked this one! No John in this chapter. But I hope it was alright anyway.
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