"Bruce can't this wait?" I wanted to talk to Dana it was obvious that she was upset that I never told her about what I did for Bruce. I should have felt relieved that she knew now, that she wouldn't have to wonder when she'd see me disappear or cancel a date on her at the last minute, but I didn't, just the complete opposite. Tonight had engaged chain reaction that could break us this time maybe for good.

"No" and by the look on his face I knew there was no getting around that answer. I wondered how Wayne ever got along with the team when he was a part of the justice league, "Can't wait for you to kiss and make up with your girlfriend, that necklace was targeted for a reason."

"Sorry Dana, I have to…"

"Save it Terry, later". She stormed out of the mansion slamming the heavy front door on her way. I sighed how I was going to make her understand why I'm doing this. Did she want me to just leave this?

Bruce had already made his way back down in the cave and was bringing up files on the necklace the royal flush gang tried to steal. "The necklace is one of many items on loan to neo Gotham, all have great value. But they wanted to take this one, didn't even made a try for the others." I look at the screen and saw he was right. The others didn't have the kind of protection that necklace had. He leveled me with a stare that always meant something bad was coming, even if at the time he himself didn't know what. I even joked with him one time that he could have joined the circus and be a fortune teller, didn't even crack a smile. "Terry we need answers, Tonight, the sooner the better" I knew he was right, stealing something that needed that much protection wasn't really the gang's style They were ambitious yes, but not crazy, slipping in and out of a high security facility was more up Inque's alley.

I waited on him to tell me what our next move would be, but he just stared at me seriously like he just caught me doing drugs. "How did your girlfriend get in my house more importantly how did she even get on the property?" I looked away sheepishly, I knew how she might have gotten in. The Joker/ Tim Drake episode left more questions than answers between me and Dana, answers I wasn't prepared to give not yet. She got more suspicious of me then. And Wayne had just installed a very schway security system, one I didn't bother to memorize the codes to. I had just last week that I made an effort and threw the codes in the trash. Who would even know that they belonged to Wayne mansion right? "Had the codes to the gate one me, she must have swiped them" couldn't very well tell him I actually dumped the codes to his very safety in a public bin. "Look the gate is a two system lock right? codes and prints right how was I to know that she would have gotten codes and my prints." He raised his brow and stared at me, seems that he was saying how much dumber could I get. And this time I had to take the rap. Had it been anyone else any of our enemies Bruce would have been dead, and my cover blown, I was getting sloppy but the whole Dana thing was distracting me, and now that Dana knew that I was the dark knight how was I going to deal with that. It wasn't like when Max found out. That wasn't as messy and didn't have nearly as much complication attached to its rear end. "I don't know how I'm going to handle Dana didn't expect her to come here looking for me"

"Well fix it." He said "unlike me, you have too much too loose if she talks to anyone" Mom, Matt, Max Dana I couldn't live with myself if because of me they got hurt. They were the reason that I did this. As much as the guilt of not being home when my dad was murdered, though I have moved on there was no way that I was going to go through another funeral not unless it was mine. "I'll talk to Dana"

"Good, now the necklace has origins dating back to King Arthur time, maybe a family heirloom"

"Wait King Arthur? Are we talking about Arthur Pen dragon? Was that story real I thought it was a fairy tale or something?"

" most people think it was but yes Pen dragon, Arthur king of Camelot wheilder of ex caliber yada yada well you know how the story goes was as real as you and me" a tall woman stepped out from the shadows of the cave. She had an essence of magic about her. Silver hair fell to her waist give the woman a regal appearance. How she got into the cave undetected I did know but I was gonna find out. I was about to draw for a batawang but when she looked at me I froze up. I couldn't move couldn't look away from her eyes that seemed to be ever changing color.

"It's been a long time since I have seen sorcery on this level" Bruce said wittedly. "Impressive"

"Thank you, I do try my best" and almost as fast as my body froze I was free to move again and failing on my face. Talk about a rough night and it was just 2 am. "I'm Alicia, Jason failed to mention your lovely red aura hmm your apprentice seems to have the exact same aura as you only with a bit of black around it, interesting. This is good."

"And who are you, and how do you know Blood?"Wayne seemed to be all business since his five seconds of praising the woman were over, and we were now facing a woman that can do more than parlor tricks, just great.

"Blood refer me to you saying that you're the best detective knew since his time and you know he has been around." Bruce narrowed his eyes at her "still doesn't explain what you're doing here" he said

"Ah yes why I am here" she point to the necklace that was on the screen. "That gentleman is why I have sought you out. Being mortals you can keep it safe and away from evil. I would do it myself or ask Jason but the magic of Merlin or the demon Etrigan would do more harm than good if I was to place a spell on that wretched thing to destroy it, it would cause the chaos of a nuclear explosion, one of Morgan's lovely parting gifts to my great grandfather's decendants"

"Why steal it" I asked. As I got up, gathering my pride I went to lean on the monitor besides Bruce trying to look like I wasn't cautious about her at all. "It amplifies powers, any powers, abilities anything you think is humanly possible with your mind and body it doubles that."

"Ok" I said "then why have it on display why not lock it up? I would think that would have been the logical thing to do, keep it away from everybody who wants it."

"Archeologist love always in for a new find from the days of old" she waved her hand and what I could only describe as purple sparkled fluff appeared out of nowhere, "to get your cooperation I need to tell you what you 'NEED' to know about this necklace" she then sat on her purple sparkled fluff and it totally supported her weight, wasn't even gonna ask her the how it would end with an answer that too complicated or answer that would me think too much about it so ignorance in this case was my best friend.

"I already told you that le Fay made the powerhouse jewel for stone that fell from the skies hundreds of years ago. And you can just guess that it was to take over Camelot and the world but my blessed ancestor my his soul rest peacefully, had an agent that was not of magic or not under his magical control steal the necklace and with dumb luck it was before she put a seeker spell on it.

"It got lost through the years, we thought it lost and good riddance until five years ago it was rediscovered. I was able without directly inducing the museum caretaker in magic to put it under heavy guard but with my magic having no effect on the guardian of the necklace it left the country only could convince the idiot to kept security tight throughout its stay."

"and up until know it has been kept safe?" bruce asked "yes it has, that is why I want your help now I can't find it since like I said no medieval gps wasn't on it"

"What you mean you can't find it? its back at the museum under tight security. Isn't it?" I look to Bruce for conformation but I saw the same thing that was running through my mind written on his face. It would explain why the gang didn't put up much of a fight. Why they left the necklace so easily.

"They switch the necklace didn't they?" I asked hating the answer already

"Yes with most expensive forgery I have ever seen" Alicia said

"Yes but they wouldn't need it" Bruce supplied "that means they were working for someone else to throw us off"

The old man was right without Alicia's info we would have been going down the wrong path. But who would have that necklace, and what do the plan to use it for.

While I was mentally going through all my villains in my head my phone rang, I answered it quickly thinking it was Dana "hey terry it me Mel is it ok if I stay with you for a while? I'm in town with no place to go"

"What's up Mel? Why are you here?"

"I think my family is in trouble again, and this time Terry its real"

*who has the necklace? Is the royal flush gang really in trouble?

Maybe, maybe not. Just want to thank you for the comment and continue to follow my story