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Of Thievery and School
"Oh dearest kitten, I shall rescue you and bring you home~." Faye twirled around on the roof of the pound and broke inside much the same way she had at the jewellery store. Within it she saw a bunch of dogs and a few cats. However there was one in particular she wanted. When she had come earlier she had seen the very cat that had saved her life as a child. It never aged and it always knew where she was, no matter how far she went away.
"Here sweetie, we know that cages don't hold you dearest." Catwoman cooed as she sliced open the lock holding the small ball of fur behind metal. "There, there Felix." She cuddled the cat to her chest and looked him over from beneath her mask. He was a black Egyptian Mau with silver spots decorating his coat and a few flecks of silver in his black fur. What really made her kitten unique were his purple eyes that seemed all knowing, even when he was born.
Felix meowed softly as he rubbed his head against her cheek and began to purr softly. Faye pulled her friend away from her face to look him over before setting him on her shoulder. "Let's go."
She exited the same way she entered and flipped onto the rooftop to begin heading off to the next jewellery store that held so many sparkling beauties. Felix trotted beside her and leaped as she leaped on all fours to walls, pipes and even onto other rooftops. "Thank you Felix. For the adventure and thrill and the senses I never would have had." Faye did a front flip onto the next building and the cat next to her leapt onto her shoulder with a loud meow.
Catwoman did a twirl, her whip-tail twirling around in a circle as she did so. Her diamond nails glinted in the moonlight and she lifted them up to admire them shining. "Cyborg was so sweet by giving me these." Her father's teammate Cyborg was one of the only people she knew who could cut diamonds in such a smooth perfect shape.
With her admiring done she set Felix down on the ground and extended her nails out. "Go home kitten, I'm getting some sparkles and I don't want you to get hurt." The cat meowed out a response before bounding away in the opposite direction.
The woman knelled down on the glass roof and cut a large circle out and pulled it up with her nails. She set aside the heavy glass before she slid her body down into it. Quickly she used her whip to latch onto a pole to swing herself to safety on a balcony and then glanced around at the store she was in.
"Hurry it up. What if the Bat shows up?"
Catwoman frowned and peered over the ledge at a group of men on the ground. They had guns and the normal things a robber would. She sighed and leapt to land on the ground quite safely. Only she was allowed to steal.
"My, my, boys. Are you trying to take those beauties?"
"What do you want?" They pointed their guns at her and she faked a yawn, showing her fangs before uncoiling her whip in her hand.
"I just don't think that it's fair for you to be hogging all these wonderful pieces." Catwoman grabbed the necklace nearest to her and did up the clasp on it around her neck. "Now isn't that better? You better leave before you-know-who comes." She gave a flirtatious smile and stage whispered her last sentence.
"Leave or I'll shoot!" One of the men yelled, which only provoked her to step forward. True to his word he squeezed the trigger and she went wild. Her body dodged the shot reflexively before she cracked her whip and caught his hand in its grip. She yanked in such a way that he immediately dropped his weapon before she dropped down to avoid another shot at her. Catwoman did a front flip and threw a kick aimed at one of the robber's chests.
Just then a loud crashing noise sounded and the dark form of Batman appeared from the roof. "No one invited me." His deep voice sounded out before a shot was taken at him.
Catwoman hissed and tackled the man who had shot at him although the Batman had dodged. She punched the robber in the face three times before she was forced to do a handspring backwards with her whip gripped in her free hand. "You spoil all the fun in things. Party pooper." She stuck her tongue out at Batman and twirled to avoid a punch aimed at her. She grabbed the fist that had tried to strike her and smacked the man in the back of the neck with her whip handle to knock him out.
All of a sudden she felt the impact of something in her chest and she paused a moment to look down. Someone had shot her! She gasped out a few breaths before she climbed up the wall to the roof quickly. Her breaths came shorter and quicker until she finally escaped the building.
"Wait!" Batman shouted after her but she was already gone, bullet wound and all. "Damn it! I still can't get her!" He growled in frustration and he tied the robbers up.
"We'll get her Terry. We always do." Bruce said over the com-link, "You're done for the night now."
Faye dragged herself behind a dumpster and wheezed out some air from her lungs and then back into them. She pulled off her mask and closed her eyes as tears sprung to her eyes. She was dying and there was nothing she could do about it.
"Mrow." The familiar sound of a cat sounded down the alleyway and the girl raised her head slightly. Her suit wasn't build like Terry's to take gunshots. In fact, it really didn't protect her at all. The entire thing was made out of tight pleather. Her legs were tightly covered up, where as her suit only zipped up halfway up her chest. Since she was well endowed, it showed off a little bit of teasing cleavage. The gunshot had gone completely through her stomach to the other side, blood and stomach acid oozed out of the wound because she didn't have the strength to put pressure on it.
"Sorry kitten, I can't pick you up." The girl murmured before her eyes slid shut and her head lolled off to the side. Patiently the cat sat by her side and Felix trotted up to sit by the tabby's side. After two minutes of silence, the Catwoman's body began to shake and she started to cough harshly. Her chest expanded as she took a deep gasp of air and she coughed a little longer.
"Felix? Did you do it again?" Faye rolled her head to look in the cats' direction and picked her pet up gently. The wound in her stomach was smaller, but it still bled sluggishly down her skin. At least the acid was gone and she wasn't leaking that horrible substance. The cat peered up at his mistress and gave a very human-like shake of his head. She smiled at him and slipped her mask back on. "Then I have 8 lives left, don't I? Let's head home, I have my necklace."
The next morning she placed a gauze pad on with a little mixture to help it heal faster. The wound on her back was the same way, only Felix had to help her put that one on with his paws. She had held it up and he pressed it down seeing as the tape was already on.
"Bruce would kill me if he found out I was a thief." Faye muttered before flopping down on her soft bed. "I honestly can't help myself though. I'm a kleptomaniac. Always have been and always will be. I probably get it from one of my parents." She spoke to Felix as she petted him. He laid across her abdomen since her stomach was in pain. It didn't help that she had to place quick-healing bandages down her left arm from laser-gun grazes. That was on top of all the bruise balm she smothered on her legs and abdomen. She was good and dodged 90 percent of the time, but she needed to make it 100 percent.
Absently she picked a piece of glass out of her palm before scowling and wrapping it up in a bandage. "Oh great, this'll look awesome first day of school." She slid on a pair of tight jeans that flared at the end; they were her favourite style, and a red shirt with only one shoulder holding it up. The other side was cut across the chest in a comfortable pattern. She put on a pair of black skater shoes to finish the outfit off but finally she made the bandage on her hand look like a glove instead of just a wrapping. A thin layer of raspberry lipgloss was applied to her lips and she outlined her blue-grey eyes with black kohl.
"Perfect. Wish me luck Felix!" Faye called out as she left the apartment. In response the cat meowed from his position on her couch just as the door closed.
Once she pulled up to the school and entered it, it was a different story. It seemed about the same size as her one back in San Francisco, and seemed to have all the same skanks and sluts. She rolled her eyes and walked towards the office. Her bag was strapped from one side of her body to the other and was like a fair sized purse when it held everything from her books to medicine for pain.
Faye collected her schedule from the office and started walking to her locker when she bumped into a large chest. "Oomph." She breathed out as she fell backwards from the force of impact.
"Hey, sorry about that." A warm voice enveloped Faye and she looked up from beneath her long black eyelashes to see a hand outstretched to her fallen form. Her glossy lips spread into a smile upon seeing exactly whom she had literally run into. Terry's face was stretched into a grin as he looked down at the girl on the ground.
"My fault." Faye replied as she accepted his hand to pull her up. As he pulled, he tugged a little too hard and she ended up falling into his chest. "Oh!" Her hands landed on his well-muscled chest and her body pressed against his own. "I'm such a klutz today." Her face reddened the same time as Terry's.
"That was my fault." He apologized before releasing her upon hearing the sound of an 'ahem' noise. Faye backed up a couple of steps and folded her arms across her wounded stomach, which Terry had bumped into accidentally.
"Who is this?" A girl with long black hair who was about the same height, appeared behind Terry with her arms folded over her chest. Another girl with bright pink hair and dark skin was not far behind.
"Oh," Terry rubbed the back of his head, "Hey Dana, this is Faye Grayson. Faye, this is Dana Tan. And the girl with the pink hair is Max Gibson." He lowered his eyes to his arm as Dana latched onto him. If she were a cat, Faye mused, she'd be hissing.
"It's nice to meet you both." Faye smiled and adjusted her bag across her chest so that it was behind her more than in front. She looked up at Terry with a questioning look in her eyes and he gave the slightest shake of his head. Somehow he knew she was asking if she had anything to worry about. From just that her shoulders relaxed slightly and her smile became more real. "I didn't know you attended here Terry."
"I thought your uncle told you." Terry shrugged and allowed Dana to continue clinging to his arm. Faye shook her head and glanced down at her schedule, "I have homeroom in 250 first."
Max smiled and walked forward to look over Faye's shoulder, "That's where Terry and I are too. Oh, it's nice to meet you by the way." Faye nodded and looked at Terry and Dana again before giving her attention to Max.
"We should probably head there then?" She asked just as the bell rang for class to start. The girl flinched and covered her ears as the ringing went into straight into her brain. Faye smiled, "Can you two show me where it is?"
Max nodded as she looked at Faye and then her eyebrows shot up, "Did your eyes just…nah never mind." Faye raised an eyebrow at the pink haired girl before shrugging and looking at Terry who was getting a good bye kiss from Dana.
"Gross." She muttered in Max's ear, "I just got here and I don't like her."
Max snorted and then covered her mouth with wide eyes, trying not to betray her 'friend' too much. Faye burst out laughing and put an arm around her new friend's shoulders. "Let's get going." The other girl nodded as her laughs escaped from behind her hands.
"So what were you going to say about my eyes Hun?" Faye questioned the other girl as they walked to the other side of the school. Max looked at her friend's face and shook her head with a confused expression.
"I just thought your pupils went like a cat's or something for a split-second there."
"That's crazy man." She tossed her hair back with one hand before fixing her bangs off to one side. "I'm as normal as normal gets." Thank the cat goddess that she was a good liar.
"Really, with a name like Grayson and friends with Terry?"
Faye whirled around and stood with her hands on her hips in front of Maxine. "What's that supposed to mean?" She smiled slightly, guessing that Max was a very bright cookie. Bruce had told her that one of Terry's friends was being his 'Oracle', and that they went to school with him.
"Oh, just that Richard 'Dick' Grayson was Rob-"
"Shhhh!" Faye covered Max's mouth and glared at her with one of her uncle's famous glares. "Do you want the world to find out?!"
"Whoa calm down girl. Look! Your eyes are doing it again!" Max shoved a compact into Faye's face as her eyes fluctuated from normal rounds to the slit pupil of cat's eyes. Faye's face drained of all colour upon seeing it and immediately covered her eyes with her hands.
"Don't tell anyone. Not a soul! Not even Terry!" Faye removed her hands and grabbed Maxine's shoulders tightly, "Please." She mumbled finally.
"No problem girl, you're all good." Max gave the other girl a tight hug before pulling away, "Let's get to class."
"Hey wait up!"
Faye rolled her eyes in Max's direction causing the pink-headed girl to burst out giggling again. "Does he think he's important everyday?"
"Oh you have no idea who he thinks he is." Max laughed as she crossed her arms over her books against her chest. Terry ran until he caught up with the girls, who not surprisingly had kept on walking.
"Hey, slow down!" Terry dropped his arms over Faye's shoulders and smiled down at her while she rolled her eyes at him. She looked at his hand on her opposite shoulder and then at his face with one raised eyebrow.
"And where has that had been lately? Oh yeah, all over whatsherface."
"Dana?" Max supplied with a smile as she tried not to laugh again.
"Yes, her. Move it or lose it pretty boy." Faye tossed her hair and walked faster ahead once Terry had moved his arm. His face fell somewhat and Max laughed at him, "Well? What did you expect Terry? I think she liked you."
Maxine ran forward to catch up with her new best friend and they began to chat about the various superheroes that Faye knew, including her ever so loveable uncle. Terry shoved his hands in his coat pockets and followed after them a couple paces behind.
Once homeroom was over Faye visited her locker again. She punched in the code for it and grabbed out her biology books, when she closed her locker door Terry awaited on the other side. "Why are you so mad? Dana is my girlfriend." He placed his hand on the locker door, cornering Faye between the lockers and his body. "Don't ignore me."
"Whatever McGinnis." Faye retorted before slipping under his arm. Honestly she had no idea why she was acting like a stung animal when it was perfectly fine that he had a girlfriend. It was just her cat side pulling through. She wanted him all to herself to toy with and now his attention would be split. But not for long.
As she approached her bio class her eye got caught on a bright blue dress that only one Dana Tan had been wearing. She smiled and was about to go talk to the other girl when she noticed her kissing someone who definitely was not Terry. "Oooh someone is baad." Faye murmured to herself before she entered her class, she'd tell Terry later.
"So how was your first day?" Max questioned as she leaned against Faye's car. The girl shrugged in response and threw her homework in the backseat.
"Not bad I guess." Faye said as she watched Terry with Dana.
"You're not still upset about Terry not telling you?"
"Nah, more like Dana not telling Terry." She sighed and flipped her hair over her shoulder as she watched Terry come towards her. "I'll catch 'round Maxie. Tell McGinnis that I'll see him later."
Terry watched as Faye speed off in her sleek black car and winced, "What's her problem?" He shoved his hands in his coat pockets and looked down at Maxine who shrugged her shoulders.
"No idea at all. I don't think it's you particularly that made her mad if it makes you feel better." Max patted Terry on the shoulder before she walked back towards the school to head home.