Chapter Two

Clark, Lois, Diana, and Bruce where standing in a corner of the ballroom at the gala, preparing to leave.

"You were right Lois, this was fun." Diana was saying.

Lois nodded. "I told you it would be."

Next to the two girls, Bruce and Clark were talking.

"Well, I should get going, I've got to feed the animals." Bruce was saying.

"I thought Alfred did that stuff."

"Not for the horses."

Diana's head snapped to the side. "You have horses?" From beside her, Lois laughed knowingly to herself.

"Uhmm.. yeah. Three, actually."

"That's so cool. I love horses. I rode them as a little girl, before we moved to Metropolis. I had to quit after that, though, with work and all."

"Really? You should come to the Manor sometime and ride with me." The words were out of Bruce's mouth before he realized what he was saying. Luckily, Diana seemed exited by the prospect.

"That'd be amazing!" She exclaimed. "Are you free Thursday afternoon?"

Two days from now? "Of course."

She smiled at him just as Lois spoke up.

"If you don't want to walk back to Metropolis you better hurry up, Di."

"Coming." Diana called over her shoulder at her friend. "Bye, Bruce, Kal."

"Later, Di." Came Clark's reply.

"Bye, Princess."

Diana looked over her shoulder at them with a soft smile.

As she disappeared into the crowd after Lois, Clark turned to his friend.

"Princess?" He asked with a smirk.

Bruce shrugged. "See you around, Kal."

"Childhood nickname." Clark explained, somewhat embarrassed.

XXX

Diana woke up the next morning to a loud meowing right next to her face.

"Kanga…" She half-groaned at the cream cat. "Go wake up Donna."

'She's your cat." Donna's voice came from the doorway. "And I'm already up, which means you should be too."

Diana sat up and rubbed her eyes. "Where are you going?" She asked, now noticing that her sister was dressed up nicer than she usually was.

"I'm going out with some friends, and probably won't be back until two or three."

Diana glanced at the digital clock that she kept on her bedside table as she began getting dressed. The glaring red numbers told her it was already after ten o'clock. Luckily, she didn't have anything of extreme importance to do today and would most likely end up on the couch, in front of the TV, with snacks.

"Well, have fun." She called to her retreating sister, whom Kanga was trotting after, still hoping for food.

"I will! Bye!" Donna called back, though it was now muffled by the distance between them. Diana heard the main door of the penthouse open and close, then the padding of paws back towards her room. With a chuckle, she grabbed a hairbrush from her vanity and headed for the kitchen, a happy Kanga at her heels.

Kanga jumped onto the counter to watch Diana as she made her own breakfast, and then meowed happily when she pulled a small can of tuna from the cupboard. She opened the can of tuna, then proceeded to carry her hairbrush, Cheerios, and Kanga's tuna into the living room. She unceremoniously set everything on the glass coffee table in front of the sofa before leaning back, Cheerios in hand.

"What do you want to watch?" Diana asked her cat, who was now on the coffee table, eating her own breakfast. Diana reached over, picked up a pile of DVDs, and began to rifle through them. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban… that case was empty, Donna must not have replaced the disk after watching the movie yesterday. It was either Babe, To Kill a Mockingbird, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, The Princess Bride, or A Dog's Purpose. Diana opened the case for A Dog's Purpose and traded that disk out for the Harry Potter one. She set the cases aside and leaned back into the couch.

The movie had barely started when there was a knock at the front door. "It's open!" Diana called. The door opened and closed, and footsteps could be heard coming towards the living room. Shayera walked in to find her friend stretched out on the couch, watching a movie, with Kanga lying on her stomach. The now empty tuna can and cereal bowl lay on the coffee table alongside her hairbrush.

"Looks like you're having fun." She observed.

Diana shrugged and sat up, which Kanga protested to with an irritated meow. "Care to join us?"

Shayera smiled. "That's exactly what I came to do." She strode across the room and plopped down on the couch beside Diana. "What are we watching?"

"A Dog's Purpose."

A few hours later, after the movie, Diana and Shayera were in the kitchen, eating a late lunch.

"So, how was coffee with Lois yesterday?" Shayera asked as Diana sat down next to her at the island.

"It was pretty good. She actually ended up dragging me along with her to a charity gala in Gotham."

"Of course she did. Anything exiting happen? See any new faces?"

"Well, I got to meet Bruce Wayne. And Clark was there, too."

"You did? That's neat." Shayera said.

"Yeah. Did you know he had horses?"

Shayera shook her head. "But you would be the one to figure that out, wouldn't you?"

Diana just shrugged. "You know me. He even invited me up to the manor to ride."

"Really?" Shayera said, suddenly exited. "Are you going to? When?"

"Yep, tomorrow afternoon."

"Diana! Why didn't you tell me you where going on a date? And with Bruce Wayne, no less."

"It's not a date, Shay. We're just meeting up to hang out and have fun."

"Mhmm. You said he invited you, right?"

Diana nodded.

"Then it's pretty much the same thing as a date."

Diana sighed and rolled her eyes. "You're insufferable."

"Yes, but you love me anyways." As if to prove her point, Shayera threw her arms around her friend in a tight embrace.

XXX

Bruce was in the stable, washing a saddle, when Alfred walked in.

"Master Bruce, you have tidied up enough, surely? Haven't you already cleaned five saddles, six bridles, all five stalls, and all three horses?"

Bruce didn't even look up from his work. "I told you Alfred, I'm having someone up tomorrow to ride. I don't know if she rides Western or English, if she prefers a small horse or a bigger one, what size helmet or boots she wears, or anything like that."

"Oh? I didn't know you where trying to impress a woman."

"I'm not trying to impress her."

"Whatever you say, Master Bruce."

He watched his charge for a moment, then spoke again.

"Dinner will be ready shortly. I'll be back to get you then."

Bruce made an affirmative noise as the butler walked away. Once he was satisfied with the saddle's cleanliness, he began to put things back into place. Alfred walked in again then.

"Ah, Master Bruce?"

"Yes Alfred?"

"You washed each horse earlier, correct?"

"Yes." Bruce turned to face the butler, a question look on his face.

"Well… ah, Wolf may have rolled in the mud some."

"Did he really?" Bruce asked, striding briskly past Alfred and out of the stable until he was standing next to the pasture, where he had turned his three horses, Diamond, Wolf, and Storm out to graze earlier. Sure enough, the gray Andalusian gelding was grazing near the fence, splotched with mud.

"Wolf…" Bruce groaned. He could hear Alfred chuckle to himself, and Bruce shot him a look over his shoulder. Wolf just glanced up and looked at them as if to say, what?

Well, Bruce had until tomorrow to (not) impress Diana.

A/N: Here it is! Took me long enough, huh? I may have woven a little bit of my horse-loving self into both Bruce and Di here but whatever. Also, the scene that Donna was watching in the beginning of the first chapter was in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban when they're all in the Shrieking Shack and Snape comes in, and Harry proceeds to hit him with an Expeliarmus charm, which somehow knocks him back into a bed frame or something like that. Last but definitely not least, huge thanks to TheSilverPegasus for help on both this chapter and the last one. She isn't writing WonderBat stories as of yet, but I'm trying to get her to. As always, thanks for reading and please leave a review!