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The Truth Behind His Life	By : Strailo Category: BtVS Crossovers > Misc - General Views: 13914 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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Title: The Truth Behind His Life
Fandom: Batman/Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Chapter: 23
Pairing: Dick/Xander
Characters: Bruce, Barbra
Word count: 1,069
AN: Almost, just, almost forgot to post this but I have been busy.
So yeah. Enjoy.
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Sitting back in his chair, Bruce laced his fingers together as he gazed at Barbra as she slumped in her own chair in front of him.
They were both sitting in the BatCave, Bruce wearing a simple tux that he worn too one of the many charity functions that he had agreed to attend, this one being about the orphans of Gotham City. Barbra, on the other hand, was wearing a pair of black jeans and a black shirt, her hair pulled back and tucked under a bandana. She was dressed to do something not so legal, something that Bruce, as Batman, had caught her in the act of doing.
“I’m seriously disappointed in you, Barbra,” Bruce said as he stood up and moved to a mirror. “Not only did you make me hunt you down as Batman to have this little chat, but I caught you breaking into Dick’s and Xander’s apartment. Again.” He smirked at himself in the mirror as he put on the tie that he was going to wear, smoothing down the black fabric, Barbra’s head jerking up in her surprise. “Yes, Dick did call and tell me.”
“He told me he was going to tell you,” she sighed softly and looked away as she scowled heavily to herself.
“And he did. Let me tell you, it surprised me when they told me that you had picked their locks since they know that you didn’t have a new key to get into the condo yet,” Bruce stated as he made sure his knot was properly done. “Not only to break into the condo but actually go through Xander’s stuff, now that’s just abusing Dicks trust in you. And you, as well as I do, know that in this business, trust is the key to staying alive.”
“He’s not right. It’s almost like he’s got you guys blinded to what he really is,” Barbra cried as she stood up from her chair, snarling and eyes flaring in her distaste. Bruce just gave her a dark look.
“I know exactly who he is, Barbra, because unlike you, I used an Open Mind,” he stated, voice roughening, deepening. “I know exactly where he comes from, what he has done and how he is looked upon. You do not. You have probably also lost any chance of Xander telling you anything or answering anything willingly,” he continued, sending shivers down Barbra’s back.
“Bruce…” she started, blinking at the man as he went back to getting ready for the charity function.
“I don’t want to hear it, do you understand me? You’ve hurt Dick with the way you can’t seem to trust him or the fact that yes, he does know Xander and that you keep trying to make him seem like some kind of person that doesn’t know how the life goes,” Bruce said as he slid on a jacket, buttoning it with simple movements. “Now, I want you to stay away from Xander, knowing that if you go near him again I will strip you of the Bat symbol and will not help you with anything that you need.”
“But…!” Barbra cried, eyes wide as she stood up, shuddering at the thought of losing Bruce’s support. They all knew that it was his money that funded their fight against the darkness, his money that paid for their costumes and weapons that they used against the deviants of the night. “Why are you taking his side…?” she asked, flopping back down into the chair she had been sitting in.
“Because I was quick to judge him without knowing anything about him. He gave me all of the information that I could want but I wasn’t willing to look under his words like we should have done from day one,” Bruce stated, turning to her and giving her a sharp look. “Should you try to do what you’ve been trying to do again, I will follow through on my threat, and you know I will,” he finished. “If you’ll excuse me, I must leave now. The orphans need me to smooze with people to get them lots of money.”
“Yeah, sure…” Barbra muttered, glaring after Bruce as he left, looking very neat in his tux, every inch the playboy that he was called. Those who were close all knew that he played at it, wasn’t actually a playboy despite how many women he had on his arm he had, but he still had a role to play to keep people off of his night time job.
Sighing, she sat back and yanked her bandana off of her head, letting her red hair fall free. Barbra was starting to wonder about Bruce and Dick, suddenly both of them worried about her overstepping lines that concerned Xander in ways that they had never worried about before.
It was almost as if he had them under a spell, and with the people they fought daily, magic wasn’t out of the question. Who knew with this Alexander Harris? There was just enough information about him to tell her that he was far from the normal civilian and it was looking as if she was the only one to see that.
Especially since she knew for a fact that the kid had gone to see the Joker and Harley in Arkham Asylum after they had been caught. The tapes that had been recorded during that meeting had mysteriously been deleted or lost, backups included. Someone had done something to them and she was pissed about that fact. She had wanted to see what those three had talked about but with the tapes gone she had been unable to do so.
Shaking her head as she scowled, a low growl escaping, she shoved out of her seat and stalked over to the main computer that they were all connected to. Logging in, she hunted around the computer, trying to figure out what Bruce had been looking up, the programs that he had used and if there were any new files that would answer her questions.
She was soon looking at an encrypted file, the only words she could make out being Alexander’s full name and Sunnydale, which she knew to be his home town. There were a few other names such as Oz, Buffy and Willow but not much else. She knew that she wouldn’t find out anything much less break Bruce’s encryption program.
It was hopeless, unless she somehow figured out what they kept meaning by having an open mind.
She was missing something and it was driving her up a wall.
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