Damian sat alone in Victoria's room a day passed since he met with Victor Fries, Blake had gone home to help Barbara and Oliver along with Laurel were on their way, Victoria went into surgery a few hours ago, within that time he took down the city's most powerful crime lord, with Black Mask on his way to Arkham, and the False Facers locked up in Blackgate, maybe the city could get back to normal.

But just based on what his father told him when he was younger, Gotham was a city that never seemed to see calmness, it always seemed like when one problem was complete, there would always be another one to arise from the shadows. When Scarecrow was sent to the Asylum, Ra's al Ghul and the League of Shadows arrived, when Joker was captured, Two Face almost killed Jim Gordon and Bane was dethroned, Talia al Ghul almost destroyed Gotham. His father was right, Gotham wasn't beyond saving; it just had a lot of scars.

The door opened as a pair of nurses pulled a bed in next to Damian and his eyes grew wide when he saw Victoria, she was asleep but breathing and not being hooked up to the life support machine, Fries walked in and took a breath.

"Okay, so for this being the first time I was in surgery in ten years, I really think I did well." He smiled

"Is she..?"

He patted Damian on the shoulder "She's fine Mister Wayne, she went through it like a trooper, just let her sleep for now. I will want her here for the next few days for close observations and she should avoid anything stressful."

He nodded "Thank you Fries."

"Also, one other thing." He reached into his pocket "When we were prepping her for surgery, our equipment went mad for a few minutes and we found this."

A microchip small enough that Fries was able to hold on his thumb and index finger, Damian took it and held it in the palm of his hand, this was what controlled Victoria, this was Jervis' legacy.

"We removed it and we found she had a look on her face of relief, was that causing her stress?"

He shook his head "Not anymore." Damian threw it on the ground and slammed his shoe on it

"Alright, if you need anything at all…"

He nodded "Fries, I heard about your wife Nora. Luke Fox told me, I work in WayneCorp now."

"Oh is that so Mister Wayne?" He cocked an eyebrow

Damian stood up and the pair shook hands "Victor, I promise you, when the finances are squared away, the Wayne Foundation will donate enough money for you to continue to find a cure for Nora."

"You would do that?"

"Of course." Damian smiled "It's what my father would have done."

"Bless you sir. Bless you." Victor said in pure happiness

With that, Victor took his leave and the nurses followed him out, as Damian closed the door behind him, he had a chance to watch her sleep, he had a lot of questions, but mostly it was about them. Would she remember how much they cared about each other? Their dates or even just the time they spent together? He didn't know, but he would find out when she woke up.

Her body slowly began to stir, her green eyes slowly started to open as she turned on her right side, the first sight she saw was Damian's face.

"Hey..." She said sleepily

He smiled as her hand took his "Good morning. How do you feel?"

"Great." She smiled "Never better."

Damian leaned in and kissed her forehead "I was worried."

"I'm sorry about everything with Black Mask." She let her head hit the pillow "I should have told you."

"No, no you had every right not to tell me." He knew he had to tell her, he had to "Tori listen I…"

The door burst open and the pair turned to Oliver and Laurel who had walking inside, a look of relief was on Laurel's face while Oliver had a look Damian realized was the concerned father look.

"Tori, you okay sweetheart?" Laurel walked over to her daughter and kissed her forehead, moving some of her blonde locks away

"I'm good mom." She looked at Oliver "Papa."

Oliver didn't know what to say, Damian knew just based on their conversations he was the stern father, but he saw something different in him, Oliver's face calmed and he walked over to Tori and kissed her on the cheek "I'm sorry sweetheart."

Damian let go of Tori's hand and stood to the side "I'll let you three have some time together, I have to go into the office."

Tori looked at him "What about…"

"We'll talk later." He winked at her "I'll be here at dinner time and I'll stay overnight."

She smiled and nodded.

"She's okay, woke up but I wanted her to meet with her parent's." Damian told Luke and his father Morgan

They called Morgan Fox in for help with the finances, he had a plan and had this plan brewing for a while now, he wanted to not only protect Gotham as Batman, but as Damian Wayne, he wanted to take his company back and Morgan was the best person to call.

Morgan was in his late forties to his early fifties, he had seen pictures of Lucius, Morgan's father and he looked like a younger version, short black hair with a few gray hair spots coming in and a mustache over his lip.

"Well, we're happy for you Damian." Morgan smiled, then pursed his lips together and slipped on his glasses "But we need to figure this financial out, based on my calculations, the company has about fifty million dollars missing."

"Stealing?" Luke looked at his dad

"Not sure, based on these figures, the contracts are hurting, WayneCorp is turning a profit, but so far, we're still in the hole half a billion dollars."

Damian rubbed his temples "Must be Black Mask, maybe Paxton…"

He was hushed by Luke who pointed at the door as footsteps were heard outside, Luke opened the door as a trio of men were walking to the elevator, two men Damian recognized as security, but the third man had silver hair forming a crown of sorts in his black hair, his face gave a look of scheming and treachery.

"Who's that?"

"Ferris Boyle, WayneCorp's head, he was appointed by Paxton." Luke whispered

As Boyle and the security men went into the elevator, Damian turned to Morgan "Track the elevator, come on Luke."

"Where are we going?"

"You'll see." Damian took a running start for the stairs.

Victor Fries adjusted the camera on his computer, it was set to record, these journals were the way he kept things in order, and this was the first one before he would sell his idea to Wane Enterprises.

The light turned red as Victor cleared his throat "My name is Doctor Victor Fries, I am recording what…I pray will be mankind's first step toward immortality. Behind me you see the CC-100," he stepped aside and Nora's cryotube became the camera's focus "a cryogenic freezing chamber of my own design. I created it with the express purpose of freezing patients with incurable diseases….patients like my beloved wife Nora."

He took another pause as a hand ran over the cold glass of Nora's pod "I have created a cure for stage one of her disease called McGregor Syndrome, my goal within the next eighteen months is to develop a cure from stage one using…"

His monologue was cut off by three men bursting into the door, two members of security and Ferris Bole.

"Get away from that equipment!" Boyle barked then turned to his men "Shut this stuff down."

As the two men began to move, Victor immediately turned to his boss.

"Stop!" He pleased "This is my experiment!"

"Your unauthorized experiment, I shut down funding for this project six months ago. Now I come to find out you've been stealing money from us for this!?" Boyle retaliated with pure hatred in his voice

Damian and Luke entered from the stairwell and heard shouting; Damian took to the left while Luke took to the right of the opened door.

"What are you talking about?" Victor looked at Boyle then darted his head when the sound of button's pressing caught his attention "You can't stop this now! My wife is in there!"

"So bring her out then Victor."

"No! If I do she'll die! She can't leave that chamber until the medication is properly created and tested!" Victor snapped back "The process cannot be interrupted now!"

"Shut it down." He said to his right hand security guard

Victor took Boyle by the arms "This is her only chance Mister Boyle!"

"Enough!" Boyle knocked his arms away "This is my equipment and I have every legal right to use it. And I say she is shut down." He growled with the last statement

Victor knew he had to act fast, Damian felt so bad for Fries that this was happening. His eyes widened when he saw Victor swipe the M4 from one of the security guard's belt and aimed it at Boyle.

"No! You stay away from Nora! You murderer!"

Boyle's eyes went wide, but then he calmed down "Victor, I'm sorry. I lost my temper, it doesn't have to come to this, why don't we go into my office and we can discuss this."

One moment, that was all it took, one moment of deception and Victor lowered his arms that was all Boyle needed. A kick to the chest sent Fries into the tubes of cryogenic liquid, a bright blue smoke coming from the machine enveloped Victor and with a quick second, the chemicals from being mixed slowly began to rumble.

"Move, move now!" Boyle called to his men

The three men moved out as quickly as they could, Damian looked at Luke, who was watching with sheer terror.

"Fox move!" Damian yelled, his tone grew cold like Batman's as he leapt, knocking Luke to the ground as the chemicals exploded

The resulting explosion shook the entire building, Boyle, his men, Luke and Damian were on the ground, and a thin sheet of ice was jaggedly coming from the entrance to Fries' lab.

Boyle looked over at the two men "Fox? Why the hell are you up here?"

Luke's eyes met his boss and instant panic began to sweep over him, his words began to jumble, he knew he would be exposed.

"We were on our way back from the cafeteria." Damian spoke up

Boyle cocked an eyebrow "The cafeteria is on the second floor."

The two young men stood and Damian narrowed his eyes "Well, we would have been down on the fourth floor sooner had someone not used the elevator, so we took the stairs and when we heard screaming we thought something was happening."

Luke nodded "Yeah, yeah."

Boyle glared at Damian and the two men entered a moment where another rivalry could have formed "You speak of what happened here Fox, you will lose your job and I'll make sure you never work in Gotham again."

Damian smiled "And if you fire my employee Mister Boyle." He walked over until both men were face to face "I will see to it that you are arrested with manslaughter."

"You have no proof." Boyle smiled "How do we know this could be an accident."

"Watch your tone Ferris, hired by Paxton or not, you still have Wayne on your front door." Damian reminded

"Very well Mister Wayne, you don't speak of this, and then we won't either." Boyle nodded and left with a huff

As the door to the elevator closed and it slowly rose, Damian slipped into his jacket and removed his ski mask.

"He's right, we have nothing."

"Oh yeah?" Damian slipped his mask on and motioned for Fox to follow

The room was covered in ice from head to toe, the computer was the only thing that was still working and Fries was slumped in a corner, his skin had turned ice white. As Damian began to type on the computer, Fox walked over and felt Fries' pulse.

"He's dead."

"I know, I know." Damian inserted a flash drive "luckily his computer still works."

After a few seconds, the computer beeped and Damian removed the drive "I downloaded everything Fries had on McGregor syndrome and his video logs, Boyle won't be able to get his hands on this."

He typed a few more keys and the computer began to reformat itself, while this happened, he carefully walked over to the terminal that showed Nora's stats, the machine was going haywire and if he didn't do anything soon, Nora was going to die.

His fingers went over the keys while Luke checked the computer "You know how to do that?"

"I have some experience with computer programming, took some classes in college. Best I can do is stabilize her."

"Is she alive?"

"Barely," Damian let his eyes focus on the screen "she'll need to be monitored heavily in order to stabilize her."

Fox nodded as Damian kept pressing keys, until finally everything read stable. With that, the pair departed leaving Fries alone in his ice prison.

The door to Victoria's room opened and Damian stepped in, a smile spread on his face when he saw her sitting in her bed, her phone in hand and headphones in her ears, not paying attention at all.

He silently walked over and placed a light kiss on her neck which made her smile and remove her headphones "Well, someone's very affectionate."

"Well, I missed you too much." Damian smiled at her

As Victoria was about to kiss him, her eyes caught his, and she could tell there was something wrong.

"What happened?" She asked

He looked away "An innocent man just lost his life because of Black Mask."

Tori didn't know what to say as she placed a hand on his shoulder, she knew she had to change the subject "What did you want to tell me before?"

"When you get out of here. meet me at the Palacades, Thomas and Martha memorial boys home, go inside, find the piano, press three keys, when the book shelf opens, go inside." Damian looked at her "I'll tell you then."

"Can't you just tell me?" She asked

"It would be easier if I showed you Tori." He looked at her "I don't want any more secrets between us."

She smiled gently "Neither do I." She thought of something "My father told you…"

"That your Lady Arrow? Indeed he did." Damian smiled

Something dawned on her as Tori watched his body language, there was a certain familiarity to it, he reminded her of Batman, just from the two encounters she had with him.

Tori decided not to press the subject as Damian pulled up a chair and put one of her headphones in his ear, she gently let her head rest on his shoulder as she turned her music back on her phone.

Alright sixteen is up! I really want to thank everyone for their kind words with this story, this is the most fun I've ever had writing a story in a long time.

Seventeen won't be up until next weekend due to RL things going on, but as a sneak preview, there will be some mother and son bonding for Damian and Selina as well as flashbacks into Damian's childhood with his parents.