The next day Bruce burst into Darcy's room bright in early just to receive two alarm clocks thrown at him and a few pillows before all his yelling for her to wake up got her up with a grouchy attitude that made Bruce wonder whether the same girl that he took to the amusement park was really the girl scowling at him from the seat in front of him in his limo. In the end he couldn't blame her after all she hasn't awoken this early since Alfred was still tutoring her, so it was a miracle he even managed to get her out of the house.
"You know I gave you warning ahead of time."
"Nowhere in the job description did it say that I had to get up at five to get ready for work at six in the morning!"
"Oh really I must have forgotten that detail."
"You're just lucky that I can't hit an old man," Darcy retorted with a grumble as she sank deeper into her seat as they grew nearer to Wayne Corporation. Unfortunately for Darcy it didn't take long to arrive at her father's corporation, and the first thing off the list of things she had to do before the end of the day was a tour of the corporation to see where everything was, what everyone did, and the most painful part to Darcy the company's history. A heavy sigh ushered out of her mouth as her father left her with Warren talking about where the magic of the creation of all her father's new technology takes place. By the time they went around half the building Darcy could hardly keep her eyes open. They were just about to leave the technology part of her father's company, which took up more than half of the tour, when she caught sight of a section that Warren either purposely didn't show her or just forgot, but judging by the sign that said 'Derek's property no unauthorized entry' he purposely avoided. It made her wonder what a creepy guy like him was doing in a private area where probably only a few could enter. Even though she never voiced her concern or her suspicion she could bet her whole bank account that he was up to no good that was for sure. The next part of the tour was learning about all the charities her father supported, which was slightly less boring than the tour around the new technology that her father's company was producing, but as she thought back on it, while only partially listening to the history of the company after Warren finished telling her all about all the charities her father had donated to, she figured that it wasn't really all that completely boring after all the technology that they were producing in Wayne Tech was all to better humankind, which brought her mind back to Derek. Why would her dad hire and keep an employee that didn't agree with his vision of peace? She soon put all her questions about her dad's rat at the back of her mind as she sat behind a desk in her dad's office where she found over a billion documents that Warren instructed her to read before hurrying out of the room with what Darcy could see was an emergency private call from his cell phone. She could hardly believe her dad was really making her do this, and after an hour skimming through a few documents she was wishing to be back in the comfort of isolation that her home brought before she was introduced to society, and to do what? Handle her dad's job while he was probably at home drinking tea and laughing at the fact that he got her good with giving all his responsibility to her. More hours passed as she read through the document of everything that her dad's company stands for, what he has done for Gotham, and all the major things that have ever happened like break-ins, stolen equipment, and security measures and by this time for the first time in her life she wished she could be a normal kid that didn't have to deal with a multi-billionaire company or seat there reading things that was about as interesting as watching paint dry, which seemed more appealing to her right now then being stuck there till either her dad came to take her home or when Warren decided to show up, but either way to Darcy both saving graces seem light-years away. As plans of escape crossed her mind everything from faking a fatal sickness to giving herself a concussion, which she figured would probably keep her away from this dreaded place for a month at least, with desperation almost lead her to put her plans in action when she heard footsteps just to look up expecting to see her soon to be sorry dad, just to sigh heavily as she caught the figure of Wayne Corporations biggest mystery, Derek Powers.
"Lost?" Darcy asked with a raised eyebrow as she glared at Derek trying to vent all of the growing irritation that she had gotten throughout the day upon him, but it didn't even faze him to her misfortune. She figured that he probably seen scarier most likely from her dad and the fact that he probably saw her as some kid playing in the big leagues.
"Quite the contrary little girl…is your daddy here?"
"How old do you take me for? And my father isn't around, so go back to the hole from which you came."
"I see you got the old man's attitude down pat, but it takes more than that to be considered his biological child-"
"What're you implying Mr. Powers?" Darcy asked with an edge in her voice as annoyance crept into both her face and voice as she felt anger fuming up in her as she watched a smug smile appear upon Derek's face. If only she was in a situation where slapping off that smug smile would be justified, was the thought that floated around in Darcy's head.
"I'm implying that you're a phony, a fake, not Bruce's legitimate child."
"Are you really in a position to be making accusation to your boss's daughter, because if I were you I would watch myself you might get fired."
"I doubt that highly after all a great deal of my own money is invested into you daddy's company, so without me bye-bye funding's-"
"With that much power you should be higher in this company or should've walked by now, but there is something that's keeping you here is it the facilities, scientists, power? Am I wrong?" Darcy asked as a mischievous smile manifested itself upon her face with a venomous edge that slightly pushed Derek to step down a notch as he realized just how much she was like his dinosaur of a boss, either she was an amazing actress or Bruce was telling the truth, either way she was a thorn stopping him from what he deemed rightful his so he made a note in his head he was going to have to deal with her as well.
"Well then I suppose my curiosity got the best of me after all it's not every day that the ruler of a multi-billionaire company suddenly announces his successor is his child no one has ever heard off."
"My dad likes to keep his private life private."
"Which in these days is a noble practice; anyway I'm looking forward to working alongside you Miss. Wayne, and hope that you will see me as a great ally," Derek concluded as he waved farewell to Darcy that just narrowed her eyes with greater suspicion wondering why he was retreating, what was he planning now that he had a little chat with her, and what he had hoped to gain by their conversation? Darcy collapsed on the desk knowing that she couldn't assume anything about that rat at least not until he makes the first move.
"Miss. Wayne, your father has informed me to tell you, your ride home is waiting in the parking lot," Mrs. Finn announced, which revived Darcy to the point she bolted pass her dad's secretary in a mad dash to get away from the paper work, nosy employees, and boredom that the very building brought to her. When Darcy hopped into the car what she saw shocked her mildly as she pointed towards the familiar boy sitting next to her father with a questioning look at her dad.