Here is the final chapter! I know this one was short, but I hope you still liked it! Remember, you can send me more Baby BatCat prompts either by PM on here, or sending it to my tumblr (same username and profile photo as this account). Seriously, if you have prompts or requests, please send them to me.
Without further ado, here is the third and final chapter!
"Selina?" Bruce said quietly. He was standing on a step of the fire escape, just above the landing Selina was sitting on. Her head whipped around to look at him. She'd been caught off-guard, which surprised both of them.
She let out a breath and turned her gaze back down to the street. "What're you doing here?" "Looking for you." Selina rolled her eyes, but didn't respond. They stayed that way for several moments before Bruce stepped down to the landing Selina was on. He took a few steps until he was standing next to her. "...Can I sit?" he asked. "Can't stop you," Selina said, still not looking at him.
Bruce sat next to her and brought out the thermos and mugs he'd packed, filling each up with cocoa. He handed one of the mugs to Selina, who eyed it suspiciously, "What's this?" "Cocoa."
Selina took a hesitant sip. It was warm and comforting, and she smiled a little, still refusing to look at the boy sitting next to her.
After a few moments of sitting and sipping cocoa, Selina felt something warm being wrapped around her shoulders. She turned to face Bruce, who had taken off his coat and wrapped it around her shoulders. "What are you doing?" She asked in a somewhat harsher tone than she'd meant to. "You're shivering," Bruce said, "How long have you been out here?"
Selina shrugged in response, lifting her mug to her lips again. "Selina," Bruce started again, but she interrupted him, "What, Bruce? Why did you really come here? You wanna ask me for something, then just do it. Don't act like you care about me. Don't bring me hot chocolate, don't give me your coat, just say what you gotta say and leave." As she said this, she took his coat off her shoulders and threw it at him.
Bruce was taken aback by this reaction, especially when he saw that there were unshed tears filling Selina's eyes. But he was also angry -- he was trying to help her. He supposed he shouldn't be surprised, this was the way things tended to go with Selina; but tonight it felt different. Tonight he couldn't take this from her the way he usually would.
"Things haven't been easy for me either, Selina!" Bruce said, mirroring Selina's outburst, "You're still mad at me for not giving you the knife? Well maybe you're right. Maybe I should have. Maybe if I had Alex--" tears suddenly sprung to his eyes and he tried to choke them back.
Selina gave Bruce a confused look, startled out of her own frustrated tears. Bruce had never mentioned an Alex before. He had looked away from her now, staring down at the street and trying not to break down in front of her.
"...Who's Alex?" Selina asked in a softer tone than she'd used before. Bruce just shook his head, not trusting himself to speak. Selina sighed, "...I'm sorry, okay? You were right. I am just Barbara's errand girl." Tears sprung to her eyes again, and she too looked back at the street below.
"...He was a friend," Bruce said after several moments of silence, in a voice so quiet it was nearly a whisper, "Alex. He was my friend." "What happened to him?" "He died. Ra's Al Guhl killed him, and it was my fault." "But you didn't kill him." "If I would've just given up the knife, he wouldn't have killed Alex."
Selina debated telling him that if this guy was like all the other criminals she'd dealt with, then it probably wouldn't have mattered if Bruce had given up the knife or not. But that didn't seem like something that would make him feel better.
So all she said was, "I'm sorry." Bruce let out a shaky sigh, wiped away the tears he couldn't hold back, and looked at Selina smiling slightly, "Thank you."
Selina nodded, then suddenly hugged him, surprising both herself and Bruce. She just hated seeing that boy cry.
He hugged her back -- things might never be simple between the two, but Selina was the only friend he had left, and he cared about her.
"...Do you want to come home with me? I'm sure there's a room made up that you could stay in." Selina was surprised by this, she hadn't expected to see Bruce, much less have him invite her to stay with him. "Really?" She asked. Bruce nodded. Selina smiled, she didn't want to admit it to him, but she didn't want to go home to the small, cold apartment she shared with Tabitha. Not tonight. "Thanks," she replied.
They waited a while longer before leaving the small landing for Bruce's home. Things would never be straight forward between the two, but they had each other, and despite everything, they knew they'd always have friends in each other.
