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Chapter Thirteen

Mayor Garcia's Private Game Room

Alfred was right, he did like her. Bruce just couldn't explain why. Instead, he pulled Audrey closer to his body as his hands twisted the silky material of her dress. She felt so soft. He felt her fingers comb his hair and smiled faintly as she began to trace a light pattern on the base of his neck. Slowly, he broke their kiss and lent his forehead against hers as they caught their breath.

Audrey gazed at him through half-hooded eyes, but to his satisfaction those sapphire eyes that gleamed up at him had deepened to a dark blue. Bruce was surprised when he heard her emit a whispered laugh and raised an eyebrow.

She smirked faintly, "Would you believe me if I said that this is the last thing I thought I'd be doing tonight?"

Amusement danced in Bruce's eyes, "What? Hiding in the Mayor's private game room or making out with me in it?"

"The later." Audrey whispered, "I underestimated you're ability to charm me."

"That's a first. I usually don't have that problem with people." Bruce pulled back slightly to get a better look at her, "Would you believe me if I said I hadn't expected this either? I had the feeling you didn't really like me."

Audrey bit back a smile, "Might have something to do with the fact that you seemed to enjoy irritating me."

Bruce smirked and ran a hand through her hair, "I'm not irritating you now."

"It's a miracle." Audrey murmured dryly as felt Bruce leaning into her again. Her eyes unconsciously drawn to his mouth.

Once again she felt a sense of déjà vu at having Bruce so close. She could have sworn they had been like this before. His shape felt familiar…his height. Audrey tilted her head back to get a better look into his eyes and noticed for the first time how dark they were.

Her back hit cold metal as her assailant tightened his hold on her wrists. Audrey snapped her head up only to find dark eyes glaring down at her.

"That was stupid."

Audrey blinked and pulled slightly away from Bruce, barely noticing his confused gaze as she shook off the snippet of memory. She was just being paranoid.

"You okay?" Bruce question as he watched her become unsure.

"Yeah…Just a strange thought." Audrey looked up and sent him a reassuring smile. Her mind raced for a better explanation before she realized how silent it was, "I think the mayor and his wife are back at the fundraiser. We should get out of here while we can."

Bruce slowly nodded as he tried to figure out what exactly had happened to make her back off so suddenly. He stepped away from Audrey to let her move freely and felt a dull thrum of pain. He mentally cursed... the pain-meds were beginning to wear off. He forced his leg to relax and ignored how his muscle began to stiffen when he walked forward.

Audrey frowned as she watched Bruce's expression suddenly become blank. She wondered vaguely if she had hurt him by pulling away and felt a distant sense of guilt thread through her. Almost savagely she pushed it to the back of her mind to be analyzed later.

The two silently headed over towards the office door and paused to listen. It was with a vague sense of relief that they stepped into an empty office. Bruce was already at the door for the hallway before he realized that Audrey wasn't following him. He turned to see what was keeping her and found her staring at the wall behind Garcia's desk.

"Au-Linnie?" Bruce called as he managed to stop himself from saying Audrey.

Luckily, she didn't notice his slip as she continued to stare fixated at the wall's border. Bruce quietly watched as she stepped around the desk and pressed her hand against the white surface. It was only then that he saw what Audrey had been staring at…there was a very small crevice in the wall. Her hand slid towards the edge of the surface, gently searching for something. A brief smile lit her face and Bruce knew that she had found what she had been searching for. A quick arching of her fingers and a section of the wall pushed in and slid away. It reminded him of the cache that he had in his bedroom at the penthouse.

Bruce moved to stand next to Audrey as they both gazed into the little storage area that the wall had hidden. Four boxes filled the space and as Bruce tilted his head to get a better look he noticed traces of white powder on the floor. Slowly bending down he ran his finger through the dusty substance before holding it up to his nose to smell.

Audrey raised an eyebrow, "Cocaine?"

Bruce grimaced and nodded, "Yeah."

"The good stuff?" Audrey asked as she watched him dust his hand off.

"I wouldn't know." Bruce sent her a dry look, "Why? Do you want to take a hit?"

"Just curious. If it's the good stuff then the Mayor has a direct supplier and knows someone high on the drug food-chain. If it's the mixed crap that dealers give their regulars, then the mayor only has low level connections with the drug suppliers in the city." Audrey answered as pulled one of the boxes down to inspect.

"And you know this how?" Bruce asked as he looked over her shoulder, "I thought you worked in the behavioral analysis unit."

"I do." Audrey glanced back at him briefly, "I've had to take several drug classes and seminars. Most agents do."

Bruce barely heard what she said as she pulled open lid on the box that she had grabbed. Inside laid hundreds of small glass bottles. Bruce reached in and gently pulled one out.

Audrey frowned as she read the label, "Lithium?"

Bruce glanced at Audrey briefly before they both moved to open the rest of the boxes. There was another box filled with the silvery liquid substance while the last two boxes contained bottles of haloperidol and lorazepam. Audrey held a bottle in her hand. She wasn't completely sure what to make of the strange batch of drugs that lay before her, though she was more than sure that this was connected to the murders.

If Garcia was in some way connected to the murdered the only thing that traced back to it was the lorazepam. The only problem was that lorazepam had only been used in one of the murders and even Audrey wasn't sure if that was enough of clue. Her gut was churning though, and she could feel that all of this led back to one thing. Stuart's device.

She noticed movement out of the corner of her eye and turned to see Bruce moving to stand. His movements were stiff and when she looked up at his face she saw a brief cloud of pain before a shield of blank emotion masked his expression again.

She couldn't stop herself as she asked, "Are you okay?"

Automatically, Bruce met her eyes and smiled, "I'm fine. I had a rough workout the other day and my muscles are still sore."

He had a good poker face. One that almost fooled her, but there was a reason why the saying, 'never con a conman' was around. Audrey was once again reminded of the night that Batman had pinned her on the roof. She had hit his left leg with her knee…the same leg that Bruce was currently favoring. A grim feeling hit her and she suddenly knew. Instead of calling his bluff she nodded and put the bottle back in the box and moved to close the secret storage room.

"Let's go." She said as soon as the wall was firmly back in place.

Audrey's Apartment, Lower Gotham

Her room was bare, but then so was the entire apartment. No pictures hung on the wall or decorated any of the tables. It was strange for Laure to walk through such an empty place. Normally the people he went after were surround by the things they cared about, but not Douglas. The only sign that someone had been leaving here had been the unmade bed and the shoes that lay on the floor next to it.

His fingers trailed over the cool green sheets on the bed while his eyes traveled over the room again. He had already gone through the bag in the corner. It only contained her clothes. She had to have something, right? A photo or a letter…some little knick-knack. Laure shook his head. He couldn't understand why this was bothering him so much.

His sky blue eyes strayed to her open closet. There wasn't much in it from what he could see, but as he stepped closer he notices a small box lying on the top shelf. His hands reached up and gently pulled the container from its resting place. It was made of wood and had several scratches and dings to show that it was well used.

It had character he decided as he pulled the top off. Here were the personal items he had been looking for. Old letters and newspaper clippings. There a few old photos. His finger softly traced the outline of Audrey's face and frowned as a vague memory came back to his mind. He knew her…another box caught his eye. It was a jewelry box. Laure's hands shook slightly as he moved to open it. Inside laid a ring it was simple, a gold band with a small square cut diamond.

Laure gasped in pain as he stared at the ring his hand unconsciously coming up to press at his forehead. He did know her.

She was giving him that adorably confused look. The one that told him she wasn't buying his bullshit. It was with a deep breath that he took the box from his pocket and placed it gently in her hands.

"You already said yes." Sean whispered as he stared up at her hopefully.

Audrey gasped as she looked at the ring, "Sean…you didn't have to."

Sean shrugged, "But I wanted to."

"Audrey." He whispered.

He moved to pull the ring form its container when he heard the click of an opening door. Quickly, Sean dropped the ring onto the bed with the rest of Audrey's belongings and pressed himself against the wall next to her bedroom door. She was home and he had a job to do.

Footsteps sounded as they came down the fall and a man's voice called out, "Audrey?...You here?"

Laure cursed quietly, it was her colleague and it didn't seem like he was going to stop before her bedroom.

Charlie stepped into Audrey's bedroom with a few files in his hand. He barely had time to register that there was another person in the room before a fist was swinging at him. Charlie blocked the punch as best he could before Laure used his body weight to take him down. It was a quick tousle and Charlie was unconscious before he even had a chance to really defend himself.

Sean Laure barely glanced at Charlie as he stepped over his body and exited the apartment.

Penthouse Parking Garage

Bruce glanced over at Audrey as they pulled into the parking garage. She had been silent ever since they had left the fundraiser and he didn't know what that meant. He didn't know if he actually wanted to know what her silence meant. It wasn't just her silence that had been bothering him; it was the tension that seemed to be radiating from her body. The same tension that had been present in the Mayor's game room.

"You're mad." Bruce said before he even realized he had been thinking it. As he thought about it though, he knew it was true. She was mad.

Audrey glanced sharply up at him. Her sapphire eyes were glittering with the defiance that had been present during their nighttime meetings. Bruce felt himself stiffen warily at the look.

"That's one way of putting it." Audrey replied steadily as she undid her seatbelt and got out of the car.

Bruce was behind her in a flash. He reached out and grabbed her wrist to get her to stop. The action only seemed to irritate Audrey more as she stared down at his hand.

"Alright, what exactly did I do to piss you off?" Bruce asked as he came to the conclusion that silence from Audrey was not a good thing.

She tugged her wrist from his gripped and shook her head, "You should have called this night off the moment you knew who I was."

Bruce had a sinking feeling in the pit of his stomach, "Funny, I thought that was the point of a date. To get to know someone."

"Don't even…" Audrey growled out her eyes flashing, "I don't like being played, Wayne. I know that you know who I really am. And I now know who you are."

Bruce turned grim as he stared at her, "How did you figure it out?"

"Honestly?" Audrey asked, but she didn't wait for an answer, "You got too close to me. Our more violent encounter with each other was only three days ago. You felt familiar….What really solidified my suspicion, though, was your limp."

Bruce looked away, unsure what he should say. Murphy 's Law seemed to be hitting him hard tonight. Hesitantly, he stepped forward and locked gazes with her. He didn't blame her for being angry. In more ways than one it looked like he had used her and in a way he had, but that wasn't what he had set out to do.

"It wasn't my intention to play you." Bruce said firmly.

"Then what exactly was your intention?" Audrey asked softly.

Bruce sighed as he consider what he should say, "Originally, when I asked you to come with me it was to figure out who you were. I looked up Lynette Peters and while her file is solid for a quick check, a deeper look showed holes in her story. And when I found out that your name was really Audrey and I looked you up again…I only managed to find snippets of information. Most of it from before three years ago."

Audrey looked at him in disbelief, "So you just wanted to what? Get to know me? See what hidden motives I had?"

"Something like that, yes." Bruce stated firmly as he narrowed his eyes at her, "I didn't lure you to the fundraiser thinking that we would find drugs in the Mayor's private office. I didn't kiss you because I thought that using your attraction to me would make you easier to handle. I kissed you because I wanted to. I wasn't lying when I told you I never expected for any of that to happen and I wasn't lying when I told you that you made me curious. I'm using you about as much as you're using me."

"Comforting, really." Audrey snapped.

Irritation flashed over Bruce's face, "It should be."

Audrey took grim satisfaction in that look as he stood over her. She was honestly more mad at herself than she was at him. The spy in her had to applaud him for drawing her in so completely.

"Doesn't matter anyway." She said as she took a step away from him, "You're forced to trust me as much as I trust you now. Goodnight Wayne."

Bruce growled lowly as he watched her walk away from again. It was beginning to become a bad habit of hers.

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