Chapter Two: Old Regrets

When batman awoke, the museum was empty. Damn he mentally cursed. He hands quickly shot up to his face. His cowl was still on, no evidence of a tampering and no indication that the built in fail safe feature he had installed had been deployed. He slowly got up and made his way over to the broken case. He read the exhibit card;

"Sun goddess Ra – ancient legends states that when the sun god ra is reunited with his sister ray, the two artifacts turn into a deadly weapon. "

He remembered this artifact; penguin along with catwoman had stolen and succeeded in reuniting the two artifacts and held Gotham for ransom with the deadly power. Fortunately Commissioner Gordon had trusted him enough to allow him to keep the other artifact in the batcave.

Batman shot his grapple to the skylight above and slowly got out of the museum. Once on the roof he looked over his city contemplating whether he should relay the information to the league or not. He hated outsiders in his city; he could manage Gotham on his own. But he knew deep down that he was afraid to go back to the watchtower and face her.

2 weeks ago.

"Bruce please look at me," Diana begged. She hated it when Bruce didn't look at her when she was speaking.

"What do you want me to say Diana?" he questioned, not bothering to turn around.

"I want you to tell me that there is a future for us, we've been doing this for two years Bruce and I have yet to figure out where this is going. You are just so hard to read. For Hera's sake would it be so hard to just open up to me for once!"

"I didn't ask you to come here" he stated harshly, falling back on his failsafe attitude.

"There you go again telling me that you didn't ask me to come, you don't ask me to do a lot of things but I still do them anyways. You didn't ask me to catch you when you fell 20 stories after your grapple broke, but I caught you anyways." She paused and stared at the back of his head for a moment before continuing. "I didn't ask to feel this way Bruce and I don't know if it's a gift from Aphrodite or a curse from Ares but I just need to know where I stand with you."

He slowly turned his chair and looked her in the eye and he calmly stated "I don't want a relationship with you Diana, I don't want anything from you, I never did."

Diana just looked at him, she didn't even notice the tears welling up in her eyes. With what little control she had left she firmly told him "Well then I think you should know that I am going out with someone tonight, since there isn't anything between us. I hope you find happiness someday Bruce." At with that she turned on her heel, walked out of the batcave and out of his life.

Bruce watched her go; every fibre of his body wanted to chase after her and pull her in his arms and kiss her, but then the cold, calculating part of him told him that she was better off without him and so he silently turned his chair around and continued typing.

He sighed, he thought he was making the right decision then, but he couldn't stop thinking about her; he had actually followed her that night when she had her first date with Steve Powers the slime ball he thought. He watched her laugh without a care in the world and she even rewarded him with a kiss on the cheek at the end of the night. He wanted to beat Powers into a bloody pulp but that would've gone against everything that he had worked for. Well I could always plant the 20 kilo of cocaine that was recovered at the docks last week in his house. He knew he was being petty but he didn't care, he wanted to be the one that made her laugh. He squashed the thought immediately and pressed a button on his utility belt summoning his car. He smoothly got into the car and headed home. He then realized that his clock in the car did not match the synchronized time in the cowl. The car started beeping indicating an intruder in the batcave, his blood ran cold.

Alfred was in the batcave dusting the large computer when suddenly the alarm sounded indicating an intruder. Before Alfred could react to the information he collapsed on the ground. All he saw was a pair of shapely legs and then darkness.

Author's note: sorry for the long update. I was without internet for a good few days, so sad. Anyways, I know it's not a lot of batman and Diana just yet, I'm just trying to build the story (but I did put some in, although it's probably not what you want). In any case I hope you liked this chapter and please review and let me know that you think and what you might want to see happen.