A/N: Requested by dreamer for some Bruce/Verena! I really don't know if it is DaddyBruce, but... meh.
GOTHAM CITY
SEPTEMBER 16, 2010
07:42 EDT
BRUCE WAYNE
"I'll see you tonight, then," I smirked, pressing the phone close to my ear.
"Definitely," Veronica purred. "Bye, Bruce."
"Bye, Veronica," I bade before hanging up. I leaned back in my chair and sighed. Keeping up with this playboy act was the easiest part of my life. Have a meal with a beautiful lady, have sex, no commitment needed.
The hardest part of my life would probably be being a father.
My eyes drifted to the few framed pictures I had on my desk. One was a picture of my younger self with my parents.
Another was of Alfred, Dick, Verena, and me.
The last one was of my two children, smiling brightly at the camera. Dick was leaning against a tree that was in my yard, with Verena in his lap. He held onto her close, like he never wanted to let her go. It made me wonder why they weren't together yet.
I thought back to when I first noticed Verena.
The silent alarms had alerted me of a presence near the mansion, so I pulled up the cameras. As it turned out, a jet had landed about half a mile from the estate, and I noticed a girl slip out.
I ran a face recognition, not identifying her and found out she was Verena Blake. What was interesting was that she was from Blackhawk Island, an island that was identified to pretty much all but my radars. I knew the Blackhawks were a secretly-funded organization by the government to use in aircraft warfare. But why had she landed here?
So I sent Dick to investigate, but I didn't plan on them becoming such great friends. There have been many times when I sent Dick out for the sole purpose to investigate, become friends, and take down the person. But Dick was firmly attached to the girl and had told me she was no harm.
He brought her over one day, and I could see why his suspicions were all gone. Polite, yet wary, beautiful, but slightly scared, Verena was immediately eliminated out of my database as a potential threat.
Then when she became Black Falcon, there was no denying that she was here by pure accident and was just doing what she could.
So I adopted her, after finding out her mother had died in a battle against attackers in mid-September.
I gained a daughter, a friend, and an ally that day, which gave my heart a feeling of contentment. Dick, was ecstatic and was jumping off the walls (quite literally) when I told him.
I reached for my cell phone, and dialed a number I had dug up a couple weeks ago.
"Hello?" a feminine, yet hard voice inquired.
"Hello, is this Natalie Reed? My name's Bruce Wayne and I'd like to ask about you involving Verena Blake." I leaned back in my chair, prepared to ask for what would be her birthday present.
A/N: Review/request, guys!