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Post by Shinobi on Nov 28, 2003 0:49:19 GMT -5
"I try." He said trying to smile a little.
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Post by Falcon on Nov 28, 2003 1:00:54 GMT -5
She returned the weak face smile and sfor a short time, there was a comfortable silence. But, the silence was finnaly broken when she stood back up, feeling better after her cry, but still a small sense of mourning in her. "I better be heading back to Gotham before I get another nag from either Oracle or his mother about 'getting too wrapped up in my work'."
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Post by Shinobi on Nov 28, 2003 1:06:34 GMT -5
"yeah. oh by the way. is the thanksgiving thing formal or casual?" he asked tossing a card to racheal. (remember from waaaay back on the first page?)
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Post by Falcon on Nov 28, 2003 1:12:15 GMT -5
"What?!" She looked down at the invitation...She didn't ever send invitiations for a thanksgiving party....BRUCE!
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Post by Shinobi on Nov 28, 2003 1:13:16 GMT -5
"...you didnt know about this?"
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Post by Falcon on Nov 28, 2003 1:16:35 GMT -5
She quickly picked up her utilitybelt and b=gloves and began to make her way out of the training room and to the transportation room. "I'll talk about it later. I got to get back to Gotham and tell off one VERY sneaky old Bat." And , before he could protest, she was out of there in a flash that would have suprised Hyper Velocity.
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Post by Shinobi on Nov 28, 2003 1:18:55 GMT -5
(speedster: HIGH HIGH ITS HIGH VELOCITY!)
"Well...i better be getting back to new york. Never know whats going on there." he said making his way to the transporter room.
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Post by Falcon on Nov 28, 2003 1:37:38 GMT -5
"What. Did. You. Do." Rachael interrogated Bruce as she entered the cave and ripped off her mask. Skyla should have already been in bed, so there was no threat of her over-hearing.
"You've been crying." Bruce noted, looking at her mascera streaked cheeks.
"Don't avoid the subject." She tossed him the invitiation to the Thanksgiving ball. "What are you doing making me host a party....behing my own back!"
"It's for a good cause. All money thats donated will be--"
"Bruce, we both know that the money spent to HAVE a party could just as easily feed TWO HUNDRED poor children in a foriegn contry. Whats your real reason? Barb' convince you to find a way to make me 'move on'."
"No, I'm only protecting your identity and dignity by throwing the ball. It's about time people met the mystery heiress of the Wayne/Drake fortune."
All anger left her and she was only confused. "My...dignity?"
Bruce turned back to the computer and brought up a number of articles.
"MISTRESS SCAMS DRAKE OUT OF FORTUNE"
"LOVE CHILD OF TIM A. DRAKE AND RACHAEL SIMMONS."
"SIMMONS SUES FOR CHILD SUPPORT OF ILLEGITTSMITE CHILD"
"Can the press....get anymore...vicious." She winced as she read the flashy headlines, another surge of anger coming forth.
"It's about time you started ACTING like a billionaire. I don't care what you do at the party. Just make an attempt to better yoursself with the press so they'll stop printing these scandals."
"Rachael merely nodded and crumpled the papers up, throwing them down into the abyss of the cave. Oh, she'd show them a billionaire hostess alright...
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Post by Shinobi on Nov 28, 2003 1:54:56 GMT -5
"Dont you normally only worry about your appearence when you have a date?" His sister asked as he went through some of his better clothes.
"Hey this is a party with billianairs. Besides Mr. Wayne will be there. and since i DO have a job as one of the security engineers at wayne enterprises i gotta dress to impress." he said looking through his things.
"yeah but your acting like me." may teased her brother as she pointed out what she thought he should ware.
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Post by Falcon on Nov 28, 2003 2:12:08 GMT -5
"Bruce...I'll go to the party, I'll even be cordial...But I am NOT wearing this dress." she held up a skimpy little black dress, short skirt, low neck-line.
Rachael began to pace the casual living room floor. "I mean, what kind of example am I setting by going around half naked?!" Bruce simply watched as she paced back and forth, working herself nto a frenzy.
"Who picked the dress." Bruce asked O2, who was setting right next to him with Skyla in his lap as his 'new boss' looked like she was ready to have a coronary.
"Arsenal." O2 answeredm trying to hold back a laugh. He was only allowed a very limited number of quirks or pranks a year...and he was savoring every moment of it.
Bruce looked again at the dress and, o2's eyes might have decieved him but, it looked like he blinked. "Get her a different dress. "
O2 stifled a laugh and nodded and was met with a pillow connecting with his face. "Hey!"
Bruce looked to Rachael. She had once again started to let her rich dark brown hair with its blond and red highlights, grow back out. "And something in red." (I can't help thinking of the song 'Lady in Red' Heheh)
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Post by Shinobi on Nov 28, 2003 11:30:41 GMT -5
(lol)\
"Well kiddo whaddaya think?" Shinobi asked sliding down the banister in what for a man who spends most of his life dressed in a t-shirt and jeans would be considered formal. "I like it uncle adam." THe small child said sitting on the couch watching a cartoon and reading something. "What'cha got there?" HE asked picking up the paper. "Oi. You shouldnt read this trash." it was one of the tabloids he ruitenly bought for laughs plus on occasion they had something useful to say about the villain community. This issue mirrired the common headlines of the moment. wayne/drake fourtune scandel. "But you read this all the time." "yeah im an adult too." He laughed tearing it in half.
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Post by Falcon on Nov 28, 2003 12:41:53 GMT -5
Thanksgiving ball.
"Wheres the hostess of honor." Bruce turned as he heard the voice of an old friend.
"Rachael is still upstairs trying to get her daughter asleep. She should be down to the party in a moment." He paused. "It's good to see you again Lois. I'd have thought you would have retired as a reported by now."
"Somebody has to get the REAL facts these days. All the younger reporters care about is making the papers interesting." Lois Lane, now in her fifties, wore a long sleeved blue eveing gown, her hair had been dyed so that it remained black. "And I think we both know what really went down." She added quieter. "Police found another pool of blood not to far away from where the Joker had died and there was one bullet missing from his gun." She was silent for a moment. "How's the kid taking it?"
"Hard. But I think she's finnaly forgiving herself for what happened."
"If I were her, I would have found whoever printed that trash in the Gotham Gazette and gave them a black eye. " She added.
"I'm guessing you came her tonight to get the 'real facts' about what happened?"
"Still the detective as always." She took a long swig of her drink. Even after all these years, she was still the same ol' sassy and spunky reporter that she had always been.`
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Post by Shinobi on Nov 28, 2003 13:03:56 GMT -5
"Its been a while since i was here mr. wayne." Adam said walking in he looked uncomfertable around all the people. "wonder where everone else is." He didnt have to wait long before seeing a man in what looked like shaolin robes walking after a entray carrier. "Same old gosai." A slightly creaky voice came from behind them the small group turning to a very short old man. "Hello bruce." Enoki said his hands behind his back. "I beleive you and i still have a competition to finish up yes?"
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Post by Falcon on Nov 28, 2003 13:15:03 GMT -5
Bruce gave a sly smile and was about to open his mouth when-- "There she is." Some one said from the crowd of billionaires, celebritiyes, and politicians.
All eyes turned to the marbel stairwell as a graceful figure made her way down, her hand gently gliding along the banister.
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Post by Shinobi on Nov 28, 2003 13:18:55 GMT -5
"Wow." Was all adam said watching. "I dont know whose taking pictures but i want doubles of that." Gosai had actually stopped eating to see her and whistled. "Well now perhaps if you had looked that good when we first met you'd be adam's new grandmother." Enoki joked watching racheal walk down the steps.
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