All characters appearing in the following narrative are fictional. Any resemblance to any real persons - either living or deceased - is entirely coincidental on the part of the Author. Unless otherwise noted all persons appearing in the narrative are written as being of the majority age of eighteen years owing to depictions of graphic sexual activity contained throughout the body of this work.
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Tonight's 'grab' was almost proving to be more trouble than it was worth - almost. Even figuring on the low-side, after her fence paid her and Selina had her share, the Gotham Centre for Women in the notorious East End was going to be receiving another, very generous, anonymous donation. The Eye of the Orient was a one of a kind, flawless cut, emerald that Salvatore Maroni had only recently 'acquired'. A pay off for allowing the local Yakuza to get a toe hold on ol' Sal's turf. No doubt the senior ranking mobster in town was going to be getting his share of whatever they were moving but with Batman watching him and most of his known confederates all of the time, Sal was having to keep his head down and take what he could get.
One of Maroni's thugs was starting to come around so as she headed toward the front door Catwoman went ahead and slashed at his face with her claws. She would not want tall, dark, and brooding to get the credit for ripping off Maroni. Her calling card would also let them know that she was watching them as well. Selina might not be in 'the game' just for busting up the bad guys - there was overhead for everything - but she was solidly on the side of the good guys, so long as there was a little profit to be had at day's end. Selina was out the door and back on the roof tops! Making a clean getaway before the alarms were tripped and the theft was discovered. It was ten minutes across town to her apartment in the Bowery from Maroni's 'social club'. While the normal people complained about the gridlock and the overcrowding in the city all she had to concern herself with was pigeon shit - and the occasional do-gooder trying to rain on her parade.
"Evening Ma'am." Came the voice from the shadows just above the window she liked to use for entering and exiting the apartment.
Catwoman's claws and whip were out and ready in a flash and she flipped her goggles over to infrared! That did not seem to help so just the level of the tech needed to fool her told Selina that she was dealing with one of the 'good guys'.
"You know, I have never been a big fan of Boss Maroni, but stealing from him is still wrong." The shadows seemed to relax and so did Catwoman when Nightwing stepped out of them and sheathed his Escrima sticks.
"The Eye of the Orient never belonged to him." She pouted, trying to disarm Batman's senior sidekick. "And it was not the property of the Yakuza before that either." She continued on. She retracted her claws and coiled her whip, stashing it on her hip in case she did end up needing it.
The Kid - the first Boy Wonder certainly had grown up into a fine specimen! He filled out the costume in all the right places that was for sure, thought Selina as she mentally licked her lips and savored the sights. He was still a bleeding heart, but he was the closest thing to the Batman anywhere near her at the moment and his close association - and passing resemblance - to the other hero was making her body react in ways that she reserved for the Dark Knight alone! Not that the two of them had ever done anything. Batman had always been too high minded to risk muddying his reputation by sharing her bed. Mores the pity, she added to herself, knowing that the two of them would have made a damn good pairing.
"Did your boss send you here to collect my little trinket before I could use it to do some good in this urban cesspool?" She risked asking.
"Not the 'Boss' anymore Selina, and I could care less about the gemstone. Word on the street has Two-Face making a play tomorrow night and since this is supposed to be happening in the East End I thought that you would like to know about it."