Catwoman's fingers glistened over the safe and gently turned the dial, once to the right, a second time to the left and a third time to the right. She had done this hundreds of times and it never got old, though she felt it sometimes, her mid-forties after birthing two children wasn't a fun time for her.

Though she loved her family, her daughter Maria was exactly like her, even at fifteen she was already turning heads, Bruce always did say no man was good enough for his daughter, she was such a daddy's girl, she always had Bruce wrapped around her finger.

Of course, Damian was the same way, while she and her son had always been close, when Bruce decided he was going to train Damian, she continued to try and be a part of it, though in his own way, Damian always went out of his way to make Selina a part of his teenage years, even if it was a little thing like taking her out to lunch when Bruce was at work and Maria was at school or asking her to come watch his baseball games in Star City, she always had time to be with her children.

Her hands slowly opened the safe and revealed a safe deposit box, a hand went to her wrist and removed a lock pick and slowly lowered down her infrared glasses over her eyes and slowly began to work her way into the lock.

"It's a late night for burglary Mrs. Kyle?" A voice growled behind her

She turned to Batman standing behind her, his cape fluttered in the wind and his arms were folded over his chest, a determined look came across his face as she raised her lenses and stood up, looking at the caped crusader.

"Well, well, the rumors are true." Selina smiled "Batman has returned."

"You know me; I always like to keep my enemies guessing." Batman smirked

Their bodies began to move, every move Selina made, Batman made the opposite, she was waiting for him to make a move and vice versa, of course, this was how they always used to do it.

Eight years prior.

"Come on Damian; try to keep up with me."

Damian tried to mimic his mom's movements, Selina stood in front of him, her chocolate brown locks were tied back in a ponytail and she was wearing a pair of yoga pants and a black tank top while Damian wore a dark blue t-shirt and a pair of black basketball shorts.

"Mom, I'm trying, I'm trying."

He felt himself move in the opposite direction, he felt his feet feel uneasy and like he was going to fall, she had been teaching him how to do his footwork and he didn't know why his mom was pushing him so hard.

"Mom, can we stop?"

"The enemy will not stop." Selina flipped and slammed a foot into Damian's chest sending him into the ground "because you're too tired." She got down on one knee and held a hand in a chop position at his throat

As Damian looked up, Selina had a warm smile on her face as she helped her son to his feet "You just need to work on your footwork, as long as you know how your opponents technique, using your footwork can allow you to maneuver more easily."

Catwoman moved first, she raised her foot in an attempt to kick, Batman blocked it with his wrist and smirked as Selina retracted and attempted series of cobra strikes with her fists, Batman blocked each one, moving with accurate precision.

"Come on Mom, your better than this." Batman smirked "Is Dad keeping you in shape or has this cat been declawed?"

Selina sneered "You haven't seen anything yet."

Each strike was extremely fast, a kick followed by cobra strikes, than a whirlwind kick then attempting to punch him in the back, each move was met with Batman blocking each strike, and then a blocked with his arm turned to block her fist.

"You've gotten fast." Selina smirked "I'm sure your father will be impressed."

"Thanks." Batman smiled "Let's get out of here."

As he pressed a key on his belt, the Bat slowly began to spark to life and rose up so the seats were level with the rooftop, as Batman got in; Selina walked behind him, a headache began to plague her.

"Impressive, rental I take it?"

"You always did want me to move up in the world, not down."

Damian sat down at his desk with his feet propped up while Selina walked through the room, her eyes focused in on the shiny objects she didn't recognize.

"Where's your base?"

"Still underneath Wayne Manor, I'm thinking of having it moved…and building a second one."

Selina looked at him "A second cave? Where?"

"Arkham Island, the inmates there need a bit of observation, one of the doctors there has me a bit on edge. The name Hugo Strange ring a bell?"

She shook her head "No, I'm sure I can inquire with some old contacts."

"Things have changed here Mom; Gotham has changed a lot in the last quarter of the century."

"Well, I'm sure many things haven't…"

The door to his study opened as Blake walked in, when he spotted Selina, the pair rolled their eyes.

"Great, you again." Selina sighed

"Still seducing Congressmen? Congressman Gilly had a lengthy bit of say when he died about you."

"I'm sure; I was the best thing that ever happened to him." Selina smiled as she ran her nails along her top

"Uh…" Damian looked at them "The kid is confused here."

"Just something from my past kiddo, nothing to worry about." Selina smiled at her son

"Well, I'll leave you two to it. I have a meeting to attend."

"With whom?"

"Ferris Boyle, I need to talk to him about something that happened last month."

"Damian Wayne, a pleasure as always."

Damian and Boyle gently shook each other's hands; they met in Boyle's main office in WayneCorp headquarters in central Gotham, it was a giant building, rivaling that of the Wayne Enterprises building, with seventy floors and a hundred different department heads, it would be a rival company had Powers not acquired it after it opened.

Boyle sat down on his oak desk, various picture frames sat so the contents were facing Boyle's swivel chair, a laptop sat in the middle of the table under what a appeared to be a thin layer of glass.

Damian straightened his red tie, when he finished dressing his mom told him he looked just like his father, dark brown hair was slicked back, a white shirt sat under his black jacket, along with a set of black pants and loafers, he looked business man like, but also as a prowler ready to gather the information he needed from Boyle, should the situation arise.

"I wanted to apologize for what happened last month." Damian sat down and looked at Boyle "I guess I was just a little too over sensitive because Fries did me a favor."

"Yes, I heard about Mrs. Queen, it's a good thing Fries got to her when he did, good thing Black Mask is going to prison." Boyle walked from the table and looked out the window, a disturbed look on his face

"Everything okay Ferris?"

"No," He took a sigh and rubbed his temples "look, don't tell Powers, I hate to see him have to pull the plug on another employee for incompetence, someone has been robbing WayneCorp buildings."

"What were they taking?"

"How the hell should I know?" Boyle snapped "I'm no scientist; all I know is that they are worth a lot of money…my money."

"I think I understand." Damian's eyes narrowed

"Do you? The technology stolen within the first week put me out of a hundred million, now all this other stuff is at least double...no...triple that."

"Did you file a report with the police?"

"You bet I did, turns out it won't be looked at until they get their heads out of their asses and stop chasing the Batman."

Damian kept his composure as he watched Boyle talk, determination not to let Boyle intimidate him, it was time to pull out the charm his dad taught him during training, though his mom did teach him a few things as well.

"Do you have any leads?"

"No, the only person who I could think would pull some load of horse crap like this is buried six feet underground in an unmarked grave."

Damian felt his cellphone vibrate and beep "Excuse me Ferris, I have to check this, could be the hospital."

He stood and turned his phone on; a text from Victoria warmed his heart, something she always did have a tendency to do.

Roommate left this morning and the doctor's said I should be able to do something's like move around, no Lady Arrow business yet, but if you wanted to…reconnect, I'm just laying here waiting and begging for my strong man to come and get me.

Damian's cheeks flushed when he saw the attached picture, he never knew Victoria was into seduction over the phone, it was a picture of her laying on her bed though not in her gown, a dark green tank top and black yoga pants, her hair was wrapped up in a bun, the casual look sent chills up Damian's spine. She would definitely kill him for over dressing like this.

"Excuse me Ferris." He turned "That was Mrs. Queen's doctor; they want to run some paperwork by me."

"Of course, send her my best. Her father is a good man."

Damian opened the door and not letting Boyle see him, wipe the sweat that was forming on his brow "With pleasure."

The door to Tori's room opened and Damian walked inside closing the door behind him, she looked up at him and smiled wickedly at him, her body was positioned so Damian got a full view of every curve and muscle in her body, his face was heavily red.

"You're trying to torture me aren't you?"

She smirked and motioned with her index finger for him to come forward "Maybe I just missed you too much."

"Well," he sat down on the bed toward her feet and gently set his jacket down in front "here I am."

"Good, hate to think this is another dream."

He leaned in close and planted his lips against hers; the bed creaked as she held a hand to his right cheek, feeling a bit of the scruff on his face touching her lips.

She giggled against his lips as her hands moved to take his tie off "You know that tickles right?"

He pulled away "I can go shave."

Tori reached a hand to the back of his neck and pulled him back to her lips "No, I like it."

As they continued to kiss each other, her body had moved as Damian straddled her, Tori's fingers removing the buttons from his shirt, multitasking was not one of her strong suits he could tell as she was having trouble concentrating on getting his shirt open. She sighed in pleasure as Damian's lips moved to her neck, gently laying a trail of kisses up toward her ear lobe and going down toward her collar bone, she couldn't take it and ripped his shirt open and gently removed it, leaving his upper body exposed.

Don't look at his abs…don't look at his abs…don't…hmmm….

Damian could only smile as he caught where her eyes were, staring straight at his abs; he gently scratched the back of her neck.

"Your Achilles' heel huh?" Damian smirked

"shut up." She smiled up at him pulling him into another kiss

As her hands began to go to the belt holding his pants in place, people yelling outside caught his attention, Damian lifted his head and heard one person giving out orders.

"Alright, move her in and get her situated, don't let her slip again." A doctor yelled

"Yes doctor." One of the nurses responded

Damian stood and grabbed his shirt, slipping it on as best as he could, he opened the door and heard Tori whine a bit.

"Damian really? You're really going to leave me like this?"

He looked over at her, her skin was flushed red, sweat was dripping down her brow, and her legs were spread open slightly, a look of desperation on her face.

"Give me a minute." He stepped outside

As one of the nurses ran by, he quickly caught up "Nurse, what's going on? Who was admitted?"

The nurse checked her chart "Selina Kyle."

Damian's eyes went wide; he poked his head back inside "Two minutes." Turning back to the nurse "Why was she admitted?"

"She was admitted with a high fever and had fallen in the home she was in. The nine one one call was made by a…John Blake."

Damian's eyes began to tear, he was just with his mother that morning and now Blake was admitting her into the hospital. Maybe it was because of the transition of air, she had been living in Italy for the past quarter of a century so maybe the Gotham air had gotten to her, though if that were the case, it would have gotten to him as well, or maybe…maybe Blake did something that caused his mom to become hurt, he wouldn't be surprised, not with the way they were glaring at each other.

"Can I go and see her?"

"She's not awake and we're not allowing visitors until she is diagnosed, I'm sorry Mister Wayne."

"Look," his tone grew bitter "I'm her son, all I want to do is see my mother for the first time in five months, so please let me go."

"Fine, but the doctor will tell you the same thing I told you."

"Yeah, whatever."

He poked his head into Tori's room again "Five minutes."

"What?"

"Just give me five minutes and then we'll pick up where we left off."

The heart monitor beeped constantly as Damian walked inside, an elderly woman examined her charts, Damian instantly recognized her.

"Doctor Leslie Tompkins." He smirked

Leslie was a woman in her mid-seventies with short graying hair, a white coat over a brown sweater, blue jeans and shoes, she was still fit and best of all, and she was Alfred's wife and a good friend of his family's.

"Damian Wayne, you're looking well." Leslie turned to him "I'm sorry about Selina; she was such a good child, even after she broke out of prison."

"What does she have?"

"Best I can tell it's a mild fever, but based on her charts, it's something worse." She held them up "They just came from the ER and apparently…she has McGregor Syndrome."

His eyes went wide and the tears slowly began to fall down, he sat down next to his mom, her brown locks were cut short and her bangs were swept over her forehead, oxygen tubes in her nose, an IV was attached to her arm, her index finger held the clamp for her heart monitor.

There was a time when she would have done anything for him to be safe, but now…now he couldn't do it for her.

Eight years prior…

Damian walked off the steps of Starling City High School, diploma in his hand and his gown and cap still on his head, graduating was one thing he was so happy about and he hoped his parents could make it.

"Damian!"

He looked over to Selina standing under a tree, wearing a black top under a purple coat, purple skirt, gloves on her hands, black stockings and a set of high heels, her long brown locks were wrapped up in a bun. Bruce stood beside her, a pair of sunglasses over his eyes and a baseball cap on his head, blue jeans and a black jacket over his dark blue polo.

Damian ran over and pulled both of his parent's into a tight hug, being apart of Starling Cities class was weird, he would have rather been in Gotham High's class, but there was a benefit, and right now, she was talking to her parents about graduating, Bruce smiled as he looked at Oliver Queen and Laurel Lance.

"I am proud of you kiddo." Bruce smiled as he hugged his son

"Does this mean we can go training this summer Dad? You promised."

"We'll see how my back is, if its good enough, we'll leave by the fourth."

Damian's smile turned into a grin as he hugged Selina next, tears ran down her face and her make up slightly stained her face "I'm proud of you Dami."

"Thanks Mom." Damian looked up at his mom

She smiled "Now you see why we wanted you to come here?"

"To keep me safe and away from the criminals in Gotham."

She smirked "One day you'll go back there, and when you do, you'll be on your own."

She once said that to him and now he felt like the only thing he could do is slip on his cowl and hide away, he wanted to just run and not look back.

"There's nothing more we can do Damian. She has stage one McGregor Syndrome and best we can tell…Selina will be gone by Christmas."

"There is a cure…" he whispered

"What?"

"There is a cure, someone made a cure."

"Then go find them. Bring them here so we can save her."

Damian stood and wiped the tears away "I…I can't…" he bit his lip "He's in a tomb six feet underground."

"Then…then she's doomed."

"No!" He shouted "I'll save her."

Damian looked down at his mom, he wished his dad was here, he would know what to do, what Batman would do.

"But if I'm going to do this, I'm going to need some help."

Alright, sorry for the delay, work had me going two weeks straight with no break so I hardly had time to think, now things will be slowing down so expect eighteen up soon! And just to warn you now, this story was inspired by the terrible Batman move Batman & Robin, just Mr. Freeze only, so expect some things to be similar and a lot to be different (A few ice puns I promise, not over the top).

Stay cool and I'll update soon!