A/N: So I know it's been a few weeks since I have updated and I'm sincerely sorry about that. I've been swamped with two huge projects for school...still am actually, but I finally managed to do the final edit on chapter four and here it is. I hope you guys enjoy this. Read, review and enjoy.

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Chapter Four

"Marry me."

"What?"

"I mean it Audrey, marry me." Audrey shifted her head to look up at the man lying next to her. His arm was wrapped around her shoulders, while hers laid across his toned stomach.

"Sean, we can't get married. We're not even supposed to be seeing one another, you're my C.O."

Sky blue eyes met sapphire ones, "So, what? That hasn't stopped us before, now has it? We can have a really long engagement there's only…two years left in our military contracts."

His fingers twirled around the ends of her hair and a grin slowly started to spread across his face. Audrey could feel one of her own start to tug on her lips, laughter bubbled up inside her, "Yeah, only two years. A lot can happen in two years, we could lose interest in one another by then."

"I don't know about you, Douglas, but I have no intention of becoming interested in anyone else…but you." Sean brushed his lips over her brow and she felt her eyes flutter. God, he made her feel like such a school girl.

Audrey smirked up at him, "Aw that's a shame because I had my sights set on Greene. He has such a nice ass."

Sean mocked glared at her, "I see how it is you were just using me for my body. I know I'm sexy, but damn girl."

Audrey couldn't help but laugh, "You caught me."

"I caught her, but that does that make her mine?" A suddenly serious look came over him, and Audrey stared back.

"Two years huh?"

A sparkle came into Sean's eyes, "Yeah?"

She smiled, "Yeah."

Audrey sat up and turned to look at her fiancé, but found an empty bed instead, "Sean?"

When she looked around she realized she was no longer in a cheap motel room, but a dark cell. Leaning back, she felt the cold stone of a wall. Her hands brushed against something sticky, she looked down…her body was coated in blood. She couldn't breathe, Audrey rolled forward onto her stomach gasping for air. Everything felt so cold, she felt herself start to choke, blood started to dribble out of the corner of her mouth.

Lights flooded around her, and the burning she had become so familiar with had returned. She rolled onto her back and found her head drifting towards the right. There was a mass on the floor... the world seemed to tilt and became like static before coming back into focus. She found herself staring into sky blue eyes…no. There was a ringing in her ears now…Sean? She opened her mouth and screamed.

"All you had to do was answer my questions, Sergeant." Brown eyes.

Audrey shot up in bed, a nine millimeter was in her hand and surveying the room before she could comprehend what was going on. She felt tears coursing down her face and she sighed aggravated with herself. Audrey pulled her knees up and reclined back against the headboard and took in the room around her. It was dark of course, only shadows and the outline of various pieces of furniture greeted her eyes. It wasn't until she moved to wipe her eyes that she realized that she was still holding the gun. Shaking her head, she placed the gun back under her pillow and moved to make her way into the bathroom.

As she turned the faucet on Audrey listened to the running water before getting a good look at herself in the mirror. She didn't like what she saw staring back at her. Pale clammy skin seemed to shine in the dark, and while the bags under her eyes had lessen from some of the sleep she had managed to attain. It would take more for the sight to totally disappear.

She pushed her light brown hair away from her face, but stopped when her eyes focused on her forehead where a scar rested. She ran her finger over it; nothing special really. Most didn't even notice that it was there. It blended in so well with her natural coloring that the only time she remembered it was there was on nights like these. Realizing that the water was still running Audrey quickly cup her hands and splashed some water on to her face and repeated the motion until she felt slightly cleaner and her tear tracks were gone.

She walked back into the bedroom, and picked up her cell to check the time…two forty-three. A little over six hours of sleep, that wasn't too bad considering she normally slept less. She admitted to herself that she probably would have only gone to bed a couple of hours ago if Charlie hadn't grabbed both her and Reed. He took her to her apartment and ordered her to go to bed. He even stood there and watched to make sure she did so. Reed had been snickering the whole time until Charlie had turned around and asked him what was so funny he was going to be doing the same thing in a few minutes.

Audrey barely had anytime to really look over the apartment since she had been in the city. She knew the basic layout just not any of the little details that gave someone the feeling of familiar surroundings. She needed to do something…anything to distract herself form the lack of familiarity and the anxiety coating her being. It wasn't until she began to fidget as she walked around that Audrey knew she needed to go out. There was too much restless energy built up inside of her.

Remembering what Todd said about going out after dark, she began to rummage through her duffel pulling out a pair of baggy cargo pants and a black hoodie loose enough to hide her gender with a pair of boots. She slipped a knife into her left boot and another into her sleeve. Audrey looked in the mirror and became satisfied with what she saw. As long as she kept her hood up she would pass for a scrawny teenage boy.

She grabbed her id and the keys to the apartment, locked the place behind her and made her way down to the street. Her first thought was to head towards the warehouse and get some more work done. Reed had managed to get her credentials done the day before and with her cover in place she could start crashing crime scenes. However, she soon found herself straying in the opposite direction of the office... but towards where she didn't have a clue.

As she walked, Audrey became amazed at how dark Gotham looked at night even with the street lamps. Never before had she lived in a city that seemed to hold a malevolent atmosphere once night had set and at the same time seem desolate. Curiosity got the better of her as she made her way to what looked like the run down part of the city. It was a little hard to tell with a decent sized bridge between her and there.

There was certainly more noise coming from that section of the city. Not loud yelling or anything like that, but the buzz of a TV could be heard, and people shuffling around inside and out. As she got closer, she could see a drunk laying on the stoop of a slightly crumbling apartment building. Oddly enough, this area almost felt like home to Audrey. All the traveling she had done while in the military and the places she had seen and had to stay in closely resembled this part of town. Sometimes it would be worse other times it was better. She learned quickly during that time to stay towards the shadows if she had wanted to stay unnoticed and Audrey wanted the same thing now.

As she let the dark cloak her, Audrey began to make her way into what looked like an old department store. It was abandoned now, the glass on most of the windows were missing and if someone were to take a sledgehammer to the center pillar the whole place would most likely fall to the ground. She pushed back her hood and pulled her cell out again…a quarter before four. She had been out for about an hour.

Audrey started to get ready to head back when a scream sounded through the store. She dropped down into a crouch and took in her surroundings. There was no one around her or in the store. The scream sounded again and then there was crying. This time Audrey was able to pin point where it was coming from. It was outside… near an alley.

She crept towards a nearby entrance as quickly as she could to see what was going on. Almost timidly she peeked through an opening, the cries she heard getting harsher. She could make out four figures. One was slumped on the ground seeming to be unconscious. She hoped he was unconscious. Two of them were guys that were closing in on a girl who was sobbing so hard she couldn't even call out.

"Come on girly, don't cry." One of the two men soothed teasingly, "You're going to have a grand ole' time."

Audrey felt herself stiffen in anger as he made to grab the girls arm. She stepped forward before even she had time to process what she was doing, "Hey!"

The two men whirled in her direction. The girl was too shocked to move.

"Well, well, well…looks like we got another one to join the party, Dickey." The man from before sneered as he realized that Audrey was just a girl, "Come on, Sweetheart. Come and join the fun."

"Why don't you come over here?"

Dickey laughed under his breath as Audrey tilted her head to the side and smiled almost sweetly, "I think she likes you, Roy."

Roy chuckled too and moved closer to Audrey. No one was aware of the other pair of eyes watching the scene unfold. Roy was mere inches away when his hand came to latch on to her hip…only it didn't make it there. Audrey's fingers wrapped around his wrist as she twisted and shoved up his appendage until she heard a cracking noise.

Roy roared, "YOU BITCH!"

He teetered backwards cradling his injured wrist before he nodded towards his companion. Audrey could see Dickey smirk in the faint light of the alley and soon grew wary. Roy's friend was entirely too calm for her liking. She soon found out the reason why a second later as she suddenly found herself staring down the barrel of a handgun. Her attention was so caught on Dickey that she failed to notice Roy moving towards her again until she was shoved up against the wall.

What happened next, Audrey wasn't sure she could explain, but she heard a sickening snap and then a thump. Roy heard it too and twisted his head to turn and look behind him. It gave her the chance to throw him away from her. It wasn't until she saw Roy hit the wall across her that she noticed that Dickey was slumped on the ground. The same snap and thump sounded again and Audrey turned into time to see Roy fall to the ground.

There was figure standing over him and Audrey moved forward to get a better glimpse of her rescuer. The adrenaline running through her system was at full blast as she took in the rigid outline of the man before her. It took Audrey a moment to realize that the reason she couldn't make him out clearly was because he was wearing a cape that seemed to merge him into the shadows.

He was a wearing a costume…a bat?

He suddenly turned towards her and Audrey held back a gasp as she caught sight of his blazing dark eyes, "Call the police."

He moved to leave and Audrey felt compelled to keep him there, "Wait! Who are you?"

As soon as the words had left her mouth she knew that wasn't what she had wanted to say, but it seemed liked the only thing to say. He glanced back towards her briefly a faint smirk tinting the corners of his mouth. The low cries of the girl from before suddenly pierced the air again and Audrey made her second mistake of the night by looking away from the cape crusader. He was gone when she looked back.

Biting the inside of her cheek, Audrey frowned and moved over towards the girl who was hovering over the boy that had been unconscious when Audrey had first arrived. The girl was shaking him now, trying to get him to wake up. Moving to kneel next to her, Audrey finally realized how young the girl was. She couldn't have been more than seventeen.

"What are you doing out here? Why aren't you home?" Audrey questioned as she reached forward to check the boy's pulse. He looked to be the same age as the girl.

Satisfied that the kid was still alive. She turned her full attention towards the girl as she reached for her cell phone.

The girl couldn't seem to stop the tears streaming down her face as she tried to explain, "I'm not supposed to see him anymore…He..he came and saw me tonight though…We just wanted…wanted to g-get away for a little while. W-we didn't realize…"

She trailed off from there but Audrey could guess the rest. She held back a sigh and thanked God that she didn't have kids. The police were on the line a moment later and would be at the alley in another twenty minutes. Audrey had hoped that she could have put off introducing herself to Gotham's PD, but it seemed like the stars weren't aligned for her that night.

From a rooftop not too far from the alley Batman sat and watched as the police finally arrived. He was more curious about Audrey…the woman from the coffee shop. He couldn't figure out why she would be in this part of town, especially so late at night. He had seen the way she held herself against her attackers and it only made things more peculiar.

He was about to turn and leave when she pulled her id out. He hadn't gotten her name earlier, but he would now. Adjusting the frequency on his listening device, Batman found himself stilling as her name floated to his ears.

"We're going to need a statement from you…Special Agent Peters."

Audrey smiled faintly at the cop, "This early in the morning, Lieutenant, call me Lynette."

A/N: Special Thanks to Marislily, Something541, and Angelvoice15 for reviewing. And thank you to Marislily, Angelvoice15 and Shadow Lupus for adding this story to your favorites list.

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