DISCLAIMER: I do not own any of the characters featured in this story, it is a work of fan fiction.
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Issue 1: On The Prowl
'Just hold down the fort.'
His words lingered in my ear as I sat patiently on the rooftop, looking down on the city I'd long since abandoned. Those were the last words he'd said to me before heading off world with the Justice League on some sort of mission of galactic importance.
'Should be easy enough,' I thought to myself as I perched on the rooftop, waiting for some sort of crime to take place.
He had left me with a pretty good support system after all; Red Robin, Black Bat, Batgirl. Those were the members of Batman's team, official members anyway. Tim Drake, Cassandra Cain and Barbara Gordon respectively. Robin had gone with Batman to whatever planet he'd travelled to, he was Bruce's son after all.
Besides the primary team, there were quite a few unaffiliated vigilantes also present in Gotham keeping the peace. Including Batwoman, Red Hood and Spoiler; Kathy Kane, Jason Todd and Stephanie Brown. Even Catwoman was supposedly leaning more on the side of good than evil from what I'd heard, basically it seemed, my job was just to take care of the big guns.
Not that there were very many big guns left either, Bane, Joker, Riddler, Scarecrow and Two-Face were all out of commission. 'This is going to be a boring couple of months,' I said to myself as I idly jumped from one roof to the other.
'Should be a nice change of pace from what I've heard master Grayson,' Alfred said through the communicator as I continued absent-mindedly jumping from roof to roof.
'Bludhaven's not that bad,' I said back.
'No, not since you've been there sir,' Alfred responded.
He was right, when I'd arrived to Bludhaven three years prior, vowing never again to return to Gotham, it was a criminal hotspot. Now, after I used everything Bruce taught me to clean the place up, it was basically crimeless. It helped that I didn't face one criminal as evil as the Joker or as cunning as the Riddler or even as ridiculous as the Mad Hatter.
'You could just come back to the cave master Grayson, we could have a drink for old times sake, I'm sure the girls and Tim can handle the petty criminals tonight,' Alfred said as I stopped, parked on the roof in the richest district in Gotham.
'You know what,' I said, staring at a black shadow as it seemed to enter one of the windows of a luxurious apartment. 'I think I've found something to do.'
'Your choice sir,' Alfred said.
I immediately sprung to action and leaped around, building to building, making my way to the luxury apartment complex where the shadowed figure had broken in.
'Got a feeling I know who this is,' I said as I examined the window, a clean hole had been cut into it.
'Breaking into an expensive apartment in the middle of the night, I'm sure I have no idea who it could be,' Alfred joked as I climbed into the opening.
I quietly moved through the apartment, something wasn't right though. Nothing in the apartment looked that expensive, and it didn't really look like the kind of place that contained anything valuable. If it was who I was thinking it was, then something wasn't adding up, her style was usually priceless diamonds or one-of-a-kind heirlooms. The best she could find in this place would be a TV and some money stashed somewhere.
'Catwoman,' I said as I saw her impressive silhouette against the bedroom window.
She turned to look at me, the moonlight did a good job of showing off her perfect figure. 'Bats,' she said smiling at me as I continued to stand in the shadows.
'Not quite,' I said walking of the darkness into the moonlight where she could see me.
'Boy wonder!' Catwoman said in her sultry tone as she sauntered toward me. 'My how you've grown.'
I rolled my eyes at the boy wonder comment. 'I see you've stayed exactly the same,' I said referring to her thievery as she continued toward me.
'Thank you,' she said, feeling up her body and smiling at me. 'You know what they say, eat healthy, get plenty of exercise.'
'Not what I meant,' I said as I stayed still, letting her come to me. 'I was told you'd changed.'
'Maybe I have,' Catwoman purred. 'A cat can live many lives you know.'
This was something I hadn't missed about Gotham, the endless puns from every criminal in the place. 'This doesn't look like the activity of a hero,' I said.
'Maybe not,' Catwoman said, she was inches away from me now. 'What does it look like?'
I looked around the room and realised, nothing had been stolen, nothing had even been moved around, the window though, had a perfect view of the moon. It made everything feel just a bit romantic. I looked down at Catwoman and realised that in the three years since I'd seen it, it had changed a lot. She used to have an outfit that more or less kept her covered head to toe, but now, she was wearing cleavage enhancing black leather. She looked like a dominatrix.
'You're waiting for someone,' I said, looking down at her knowingly.
'I see some of the world's greatest detective has rubbed off on you,' Catwoman said. 'If I'm being honest, I thought I saw the bat himself and I thought I'd get his attention... but I guess that turned out to be you.'
Jesus, how long had I been done for? Batman and Catwoman always had a sort of flirtation going on, but I never thought he'd actually... 'Are you and Batman...' I questioned.
Catwoman smiled. 'No,' Catwoman said. 'But I've never stopped trying.'
I laughed. 'He's strong willed,' I said, openly looking at her perfect hourglass figure.
'The strongest,' Catwoman said. 'I'm actually surprised he takes nights off.'
'Oh no, he doesn't,' I said. 'He's on another planet.'
'Oh,' Catwoman said. 'That explains why you've graced this fair town with your presence.'
'Yeah,' I said. 'Although, I'm starting to think I shouldn't have bothered, not much to do in this place these days.'
'I think I can think of something to fill your time,' Catwoman said as she placed her hand on my arm and leant up to kiss me.
My eyes widened in surprise as her lips covered mine. 'Mmm,' I moaned as I closed them again, pulling her into an embrace as I kissed her back.
