We pick it up after the fight in the first fic (The Doctor & The Sorceress. Check it out). Max died again and now he's got to deal with his lady for it. It's gonna get just a tiny bit emotional. I hope you're enjoying yourselves so far and I'll talk to you at the end of the chapter.
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He stopped the car in front of her safehouse, shutting off the engine and unbuckling his seatbelt. He looked to the hole in his shirt and huffed out. He'd died yet again. That was 6 times since he started dating Catherine.
He felt terrible everytime he saw her face when he "rose from the dead". She'd look at him with a tear running down her face, a hand at his chest. He hated seeing her like that. It destroyed him. And now he'd have to explain that big hole in his shirt. He wasn't looking forward to it. But it had to be done. She'd probably heard the car arrive anyway.
He got out of the car and locked it, activating the cameleon circuit. He went for his keys and hopened the door.
"Cat? Baby? You in here?" A few seconds went by. Maybe she had to...
"I'll be right there." Well, there goes that idea. He took of his shirt and went up to the bedroom. She was in the bathroom, separated by only a half closed door. She came out in a pair of tracksuit pants and a t-shirt, drying her hair with a towel.
"So, how'd it go?"
"Could have gone better."Her hands stopped moving and she put her arms down.
"How so?" She noticed some sort of discoloration in his back.
"It could have gone better." She was starting to worry.
"Baby. Look at me." Damn... here goes. He turned to her, and she dropped the towel. He had the mark of the blast, right in the center of his chest. She went to him slowly. She raised her hands and set them over the mark. She looked up to him a tear running down her face. She buried her face in his chest and he held her there, letting her mourn yet another one of his deaths.
"I'm sorry Cat." She kept crying, he kept holding her up.
"Not again." More sobs. More holding.
-A FEW MINUTES LATER-
She'd stopped her cying and busied herself with anything she could find. She broke down again. He told her what happened. The monster blasted a hole through his chest. She'd wanted to kill that spirit, but Max said he'd already done it. Damn him for making her suffer like this. She didn't know how much more she could take. How anyone could. Especially him. How does he even keep on going? Every time he died, he'd get in a dark mood, but you gave him some painkillers, a few hours of sleep and he'd be right as rain again. Not her though.
She understood the danger of the job. She'b been that very danger once. She still was. That's why she wanted to trade sides. She wanted to stop hurting the inocent, the good. Most of all, she wanted to kill Circe. She'd killed him as well. Death by electricity. She deserved to die in a much more painful way. Talking to that... bitch without ripping her head off, proved to be the one of the toughest things she'd ever done.
"Hey." She turned around to see Max, standing there with a new uniform.
"I know it's not the best time, but if you want we can go up to the Watchtower now." It's like he read her mind. She started walking to her room to dress in her uniform.
"Sure." She stopped midway, sensing his sadness. She turned to him and hugged him.
"I'm not mad at you. You know that right?" He looked her in the eyes.
"I know. I just feel relly bad for making you cry again." She put her right hand around his neck and brought his lips down to hers.
"I hate that I do. But... I'm glad you're okay now." She smiled at him. He returned the gesture and then hugged her tightly against his chest. She did the same.
"I love you."
"I love you too." She let go of him reluctantly and went up to put on her costume.
-A FEW MINUTES LATER- IN THE WATCHTOWER-CONFERENCE ROOM-
Wonder Woman, thought about what Max had just said. Catherine Cross wanted to turn to their side. She seemed honest enough about it. Batman was scrutininzing her. Doubting her commitment to change. She was put out of her toughts by Catherine herself.
"Look. I understand your doubt. I haven't exactly done much good. I've only passed on small time info to you for the last months. But I swear, the only reason I'm here is to become good." Batman took the lead.
"You might be telling the truth about wanting to turn to our side, but you've done a lot of evil. A lot of things that we can't overlook." She looked to the floor.
"I know that... I haven't exactly been the best person in the world. That joining Circe was not my finest hour when it comes to decision making. And I'm not asking you to forget all the things I've done. I do, however, have information. A lot of it, about all the major operations in the Chinatown district. Both already in progress and in the future. I also have the locations of several magical villains. Some of them are very high up in the food chain." Now it was Wonder Woman's time to talk.
"Circe?" She nodded in disagreament.
"I know where she is. You just won't be able to get to her." Wonder Woman raised her eyebrow in confusion.
"Why do you say that?"
"She's in the Hall Of Doom. 24/7. She only comes out into the open every other week and she doesn't have any apparent routine. She always goes out in different days, at different hours, to different places. Unless you want to try to storm the Hall Of Doom and drag her out, you're not getting to her." Batman seemed to dwell on this.
"What if you're just giving us fake intel? What then?"
"I'll tell you what I know. You're going to attack the locations and you can keep me here. Locked away. If you find the locations empty, then I'll be lying and I'll willingly accept any punishment you feel is appropriate. I won't fight back." Batman and Wonder Woman looked at each other. Talking without actually saying anything, they turned back to Catherine and Max.
"Very well. Tell us what you know. After that, we'll see."
-A FEW HOURS AND 8 RAIDS LATER-
They let her out of the cell. Max and Wonder Woman were waiting for her.
"Well, Catherine. It seems you were telling the truth. We have to thank you for your help. And apologize for the way we treated you. We still have the problem of your past actions to deal with though." Max looked at her. Confidance in his eyes.
"What's the verdict on that?"
-A COUPLE OF YEARS LATER- NEAR THE NORTH SHORE OF METROPOLIS-
He shot the enemies in the head with fire balls as she struck them down with her staff. By their side, Doctor Prime and Miss Magician did the same. Miss Magician spoke.
"Well, now this is a party." She shot another set of three arrows at the nearby enemies.
"You call this a party?" Max screamed over the sound of the screams and growls.
"Don't mind her. She just hasn't had a decent fight in a few weeks. She was kind of bored." Prime explained. Then Catherine spoke up at last.
" Well I agree with her. This is fun." The man both thought: what have we gotten ourselves into? Because there was a mind link established the ladies heard it. They voiced that fact and they both cursed. A new wave of enemies appeared.
"God! This is getting ridiculous! Alright time to end this. Ladies, you find a way to close the portal. Prime..."
"Catapult?" Max smirked.
"Catapult." Just as the women took off, Prime went a few feet up in the air. He extended his hands in front of him, aiming at Max. He lifted him up and swung him around several times. In the meantime, Max was gathering up all the power he could and concentrating it on his body. Prime let him loose as he was turned to the enemies.
The explosion could be heard miles away. Prime contained it. The ladies came back and the enemies appeared to stop spawing. Max stood in the center of the crater opened in the middle of the battelground. He clenched his hand extinguishing the flames around it. He looked up to the rest of the guys.
"Well, I'm glad that worked." The others laughed.
"I guess. That's one hell of a cannonball Max."
"But we're the ones who stopped the enemies." Rebecca and Catherine giggled.
"Like hell you did. We blew these guys up." Max high fived Prime.
"But we shut off the portal. And you'd better not argue or neither of you gets any action for a month." Both guys wined.
"Low blow. You're blackmailing us."
"Well there's always a way for you to pay us back" The guys looked at each other then at their dates.
"Name it." Both ladies went to their respective partners and they walked away talking amongst themselves about a possible double date that night.
Well isn't this nice? This is the end BTW. Those two years that passed were for Catherine to be in Rikers for a year and half and being on the team for the other half year. The two couples got together. Now they make a super-duper-awesome team. Yey! Also before you move on to the possible review of this chapter and if you enjoy Assassin's Creed and Uncharted lovin' you should check out Juno57. She's a way better writer than me and she does cool romance stuffz. Keep in mind all her stuff his M-rated. There's a reason for that. Ok. That's it. You can go now. Bye. And...
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