((Authors Note --
This story follows 'A Day in Gotham - 9 - Batgirl Wins 01'.
As with all multipart series, it's best read after the first episode, but I've tried to make it stand on its own as far as possible.
In brief though, this follows a part of Batgirl's life where she's been through a long recovery and rehabilitation period after the near tragic events in that old warehouse battling Leopard Man. It was a period where she established a close relationship with Catgirl, became aware of feelings for one of her main hospital carers, Sister Allison, and learned some shocking news about her father. Relations with Catwoman continued to run at a very low low though!
Of course Catgirl couldn't resist playing some pranks later so that new, close relationship was strained a bit (well, a lot actually) at the end.
And, just to complicate matters, an alien energy ship had been stranded in the area, in desperate need of replenishing a very specialised energy source. All was going well until a renegade being suddenly decided to speed up the process on his own. Looks like internal power politics aren't a problem just for the human race!
I love to see comments on my stories, hopefully positive, but really whatever you feel. I can take it! (I think!)
I sincerely hope that you enjoy ..........
Duke ))
Index:
1 - Morning Run
2 - A Frustrated Observer
3 - Contact with the 'Enemy'
4 - Fulfilment on a Bike Ride
5 - A Meeting of Minds -- Sort Of
6 - Too Late!
7 - Togetherness
8 - Decisions, Decisions
9 - Two's Company, Three's a ..........
10 - Fulfilment with Friends
11 - Consequences
12 - Anticipation, Bliss, Shock
13 - A Desperate Situation
1 - Morning Run
Batgirl was breathing hard as she approached the last corner before she reached the long road to her apartment block. It was deep in the Gotham suburbs and the tree lined streets were dappled in welcome shade from the increasingly hot sunshine, but the cool breeze that had welcomed her at first was now dissipating and as a result, the temperature was getting uncomfortably high.
Her morning run had extended to well over two hours now that she was reaching peak physical fitness again, and even after that time she was pleased how well her legs were still driving her forward at a very decent pace. She didn't do her training as Batgirl though, leaving the tight purple suit behind in her specially constructed flat. Now she was unmasked, in her civilian guise as Barbara Gordon, librarian and daughter of the Gotham City Police Commissioner. Well, the 'daughter' bit was under a bit of a cloud really at the moment given the recent revelations about Batman and 'biological parentage'. It wasn't something that she wanted to think about though so she pushed it to the back of her mind. Life was complicated enough already!
She was wearing strong, purple running shoes, brief grey shorts with that gave her long tanned legs plenty of freedom to move and a white singlet that exposed her powerful bare shoulders and was now literally dripping with sweat.
Underneath she was wearing a white sports bra that did a fairly good job of keeping her taut young breasts under control as her bare arms pumped backwards and forward in rhythm with her legs. As she turned the corner, she increased her pace to a sprint for the final hundred yards or so, head back as she expended her chest to maximise the amount of energy giving oxygen being driven through her system.
She glanced briefly behind her.
It was strange. She'd had an uncomfortable feeling that she was being followed for the whole run, but there was never anyone there when she looked round and it would have taken a superbly fit athlete to keep up with here anyway. A vehicle wouldn't have been able to follow her over the country tracks that she'd taken, so why did she feel this nagging suspicion? It just didn't make sense.
At first she'd thought that it might have been Catgirl. She'd been bombarding Batgirl with increasingly emotional text and phone messages in the three days since that 'incident' in her new sports car. Batgirl had been so annoyed at the time that she'd left her new 'partner' sat in the car without a word as she'd stormed into her flat without a backward glance. After all, why should Catgirl think that she had some sort of God-given right to inflict her own peculiar brand of erotic tortures on Batgirl anytime that she liked?