This takes place a few weeks - months, maybe? - prior to Speechless (Drabble 32).


Regrets


Catwoman wishes she can stuff the words back inside her mouth. But it's too late and—oh Lord, she can't even believe that she asked him that.

"I may be a thief but I'm no murderer, Kitten." Ragdoll says after staring at her skeptically for a few minutes. What he says next is full of suspicion, "Why?"

She doesn't know how to respond but she does know this: she won't tell him she's just killed someone in cold blood, even if the bastard deserved it. And it's bad enough that she regrets some of the things she's done in her life. There's no way she'll add this to it.

"… No reason."