What are you doing here, Bruce? It’s a question more befitting a fool than a daughter of Athena. Which is why it never crosses her frowning lips. Of course, Diana knows why the Dark Knight is at her door in all his foreboding glory. He intimidates and inspires the people of his city in equal doses, but Diana only sees the man incased in Kevlar. He breaks and he bleeds, just like the rest of us. He has his faults, but most of all, he has his convictions. Convictions that often boil the blood beneath Diana’s skin. Convictions that will one day get him killed.
Danielle Wellys. The young woman Diana is bound to protect. That’s why he’s here. This isn’t a friendly or social visit, because Diana suspects he does no such thing. Just as she suspects that Danielle has more secrets in her skull than Diana does honesty. Conviction with kill Bruce, and secrets will kill Danielle. Unless Diana can save them both.
Her face turns to steel, because it’s the only language that Bruce understands. She crosses her gauntlet-clad arms beneath her chest and is distinctly aware that her armor and lasso are on the floor above them. She won’t need them.
❛ Go home to Gotham, Batman. ❜
This will be his only warning.
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