A/N: So here's the next chapter...it's shorter than what you and I would like, but I feel like it's a satisfying chapter over-all. You guys know the drill. Read, review and enjoy.

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Chapter Ten

Rooftop in the Narrows

"Who are you?" Audrey rasped out.

Her shock had been replaced by anger as her captive's words finally sank into her brain. Unconsciously, she began to look for a weakness in his hold on her and pressed her body slightly closer to his. There was little room between them as it was.

Batman's jaw clenched ever so slightly before he replied, "No one."

Audrey scoffed, "You aren't no one."

There!

Audrey's mind screamed as she found a weakness in his suit. The padding was thinner on the inside of his upper thigh. The same place where a pressure point was located. She suddenly yanked both of her arms down as a distraction while her knee slammed into that pressure point. Bruce's gripped loosened as his leg gave out. She twisted dislodging his grip on her wrists, but she didn't move more than few steps back and made a point not to approach her gun that was laying a few feet away.

Batman recovered from her move faster than Audrey expected, but he seemed to understand that she wasn't about to go anywhere. She nearly took a step back at the cold look being sent her way. Bruce silently cursed her. She had hit his already damaged leg.

"The Company?" Batman growled as he noted the defiant look in her eyes.

Audrey narrowed her eyes at the man before her…he is a man, she reminded herself, "I have no reason to tell you anything."

"You do if you want to keep the police from finding out that there really isn't an Agent Peters. They don't take kindly to outsiders interfering in their investigations." Batman replied brusquely.

Amusement swept through Audrey, "Speaking from personal experience I take it. Go right ahead. Tell them."

It was Bruce's turn to narrow his eyes as he tried to tell whether or not Audrey was bluffing. He decided to change his question instead, "Who are you?"

"We'll stick with Agent Peters if it's all the same to you, Batman. You've gained more than enough information by eavesdropping on me." Audrey answered tersely as she turned her back to him and went to pick up her weapon.

Bruce tensed preparing for another fight but she just holstered her gun and moved to leave. Her posture was just as stiff as she prepared for him to try and stop her.

"It wasn't Maroni's men that were chasing after you."

Audrey stilled and sent a side glance at the cape crusader. She wasn't sure how he knew she had suspected Maroni, but she did know that he didn't have to tell her, "How do you know?"

Batman's stony silence was her only reply. He was making it clear that he would give her more if she gave him something in return. Tit for tat.

Audrey turned her head to look at him more fully as indecision burrowed into her gut. On one hand, she knew that Batman probably knew Gotham's underground better than anyone else in the city (at least as well as the other criminals). He could prove to be a valuable asset to her. On the other hand, she didn't know what his motives for doing anything were and that made him a dangerous anomaly.

Audrey bit her lip and looked away as she came to her decision, "Tomorrow night at the warehouses by the harbor. I'll answer your questions."

Batman watched as she turned from him again and walked off without waiting to see if he would agree or even respond.

Warehouse Headquarters

A soft clacking sounded throughout the warehouse as Reed let his hands flow over his keyboard. His emerald eyes hadn't left the glowing computer screen in over an hour. His vision was beginning to blur and a headache was slowly beginning to develop. For what had to be the millionth time the Irish man began to curse Cecilia Stuart in his head.

Audrey had sent him this bloody file over a week ago and he still hadn't been able to decrypt it. That wasn't true, he amended. He had gotten through the first four layers of encryption rather smoothly. The fifth level had been a bitch and now the sixth level…the last level was giving him a run for his money. The computer specialist had to wonder where the deceased linguistic research analyst had learnt such encrypting skills. Reed knew that if Stuart was still alive he would have very much liked to have met her.

"Reed!"

Reed flicked his eyes across the room at the sound of his name. A faint smirk swept across his lips as he caught sight of his annoyed brother, "Problem?"

Charlie glared as he watched his twin's attention drift back to his computer, "What the bleedin' hell did you do to my laptop?"

"Blame Audrey." Reed chirped, he felt his fatigue begin to dwindle as he started to provoke his brother.

The man in question just narrowed his eyes further, "Audrey wouldn't touch my computer without asking. Why are you running a search on it?"

Reed shrugged and leaned back from his desk as Charlie moved towards him, "Audrey called. She thinks she may have a lead and asked me to run a search. My computers are already workin' on this bloody encryption of Stuart's and your laptop was free."

Charlie frowned at his brother's words and wandered back over to his desk and took a look at his laptop again. His eyes drifted over the name of Audrey's lead and he frowned. Tahri Answar.

He could have sworn the man was dead.

"When did Audrey call?" Charlie asked, his gaze never leaving his computer screen.

"I don't know. About forty minutes ago." Reed answered. His expression bemused at his brother's distracted state, "I think she was in trouble."

Charlie froze. He wasn't sure if he wanted to strangle his twin or throw something at him, "What do you mean you think she was in trouble?"

"Well, we were talking and she started to get really quiet and before I knew it she was hanging up on me."

Charlie felt his lips tug up at Reed's disgruntle tone. He wasn't sure if it was because Reed had to explain himself or if it was because Audrey had hung up on his brother, "Were you rambling to her again?"

"No!" Reed said indignantly as he sent his twin and irritated glare, "I don't ramble."

Charlie bit back a grin and grabbed his cell-phone to dial call Audrey. The ringing on the other end of the line filled his ears within seconds. After a few draw out seconds he was directed to his friend's voicemail and a feeling of dread began to seep into his stomach. Just because she didn't answer didn't mean anything…

"Reed, put a trace on Audrey's phone."

Reed raised an eyebrow but didn't ask the question that was dancing on the tip of his tongue, "Bring me, your laptop."

Charlie snatched the piece of plastic machinery from his desk and quickly handed it over to his brother. His thoughts began to drift as he caught sight of Tahri's name once again. His dread turned into a twisting anxiety at the thought of Audrey's tormentor.

"You know she could have ditched her phone. Audrey goes through them like candy." Reed said quietly as he began the trace. He could feel the tension rolling of Charlie and it almost made him wished that he had waited to see if Audrey would call or show up before saying anything.

Charlie didn't reply, he just watched as his brother refined the trace. A map of Gotham popped up on the screen and the twins watched as the parameter began to shrink and the street became more detailed.

"She's still in the Narrows." Charlie muttered unhappily under his breath.

Reed bit the inside of his cheek uneasily and watched as his brother walked away. His gaze returned to the screen in front of him and a faint smile flicked across his face.

"Charlie, she's moving."

Charlie looked over at Reed in question. It was true the dot the reprensted Audrey on the map was slowly moving. It probably mean that she was currently on foot.

His brother just smirked and pointed back at the screen, "She's fine…probably didn't hear her phone go off."

At least, they both hoped that was the case. In the midst of investigating a serial killer that went after Company agents…they didn't need or want Audrey to be killed.

Reed shut the trace down and returned to the encryption he had been fighting. Charlie, on the other hand, began to glance at the clock every few minutes and then the door as he went over the dossiers and case files that had been collected. The vague feeling of fear hadn't quite left the Irish man. Ten minutes later the twins were interrupted from their controlled worried by the sound of Charlie's phone going off.

Charlie grappled to pick up the small device and barely had it to his ear when he started to speak into it, "Audrey! Where the hell are you?"

Reed blinked in surprise as his brother suddenly turned pink and began to wonder what Audrey had said.

"No sir…Of course I don't normally answer my phone like that, my apologies." Charlie said stiffly as he caught his brother's amused gaze.

He flipped Reed the bird and walked out of hearing range. Reed grinned as he watched his flustered brother for a few minutes longer. Not Audrey, then.

His attentions returned to his work, with a few more keystrokes he hit enter and waited for the next dialog box to appear. To his surprise and slight worry a dialog box didn't appear. Biometric code began to stream across the screen before the screen dissolved and he was staring into the file that he had been trying to hack into for so long. Reed blinked in shock as he stared at the words and illustrations that were in the file. He felt his heart pound a little harder…Oh my God.

Charlie walked back into the room, "Jensen will be here in the morning. We're in trouble."

Reed didn't respond as he scrolled down the screen. He didn't notice that his brother was now frowning at him.

"Reed?"

Reed looked up with weary eyes, "I'm in."

The Bunker

The Company.

A man name Tahri Answar.

Agent Peters…. Audrey.

Bruce ran a hand through his hair as he tried to make sense of the new information he had gathered. A small surge of satisfaction had swept through him at being proven right about Lynette…Audrey. He shook his head as he tried to keep her names straight. The FBI agent was, not an FBI agent. He still wasn't sure who she was, for all he knew Audrey could be a pseudonym, as well. He wished he had been able to retrieve her last name and not just her first.

It didn't matter. He was still running another search on her.

Bruce leaned back in his chair and rubbed at his injured leg. As much as he hated to admit it, Audrey had put him out of commission for the next couple of nights. There was no way he would be able to hide his limp while he walked, much less be able to fight at his normal capacity. The bruise that had been the size of a softball before, now covered what looked like half of his thigh. The ice packs he had placed over the injured area had done little to numb the pain that continued to pulse dully. She had pulled an interesting move.

Bruce frowned as he replayed what exactly Audrey had done to get out of his hold. His head tilted to side as he continued to go over the rest of her fighting style. It was a structured style…one that he should have been able to defend against fairly easily. But then, Audrey didn't exactly follow the rules to anything.

Her own grace and creativity had changed certain moves that Bruce normally had no problem countering. His mind flashed back to the first day he had met her in the coffee shop. He had noticed something familiar about the way she walked then, but hadn't been able to put his finger on it. Now, he could.

He had seen Audrey's style of fighting before, her rigid stance, her sharp movements…she had been in the military. Bruce turned to his computer and quickly refined his search. Her picture was plastered on the screen with just her first name next to it. He had estimated her age and hoped like hell that he would get a hit as he ran her photo through the military databases.

It took a good forty minutes but a result did show up on the screen. Bruce now how a name to go with the face…More than that, he had a detailed history on a one, Audrey Lynnette Douglas.

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