Swallowing The Spider

[After Transition]

The sleek black disguised 'BatCycle' stops outside the Gotham City Police Department which looks a lot like you would expect it to except from the overwhelming amount of gargoyle and other such statues that are perched all over the building, what is with this city, you can't cross the street without seeing a gargoyle or some other gruesome statue attached to a building, one things for certain once I get what I need to get done done then I'm outta here, Gotham just isn't my kinda town.

I'm broken out of my thoughts by a feminine 'Ahem' which is the universal sound for politely reminding someone about something and I'm being reminded about the fact that we've been parked in front of the GCPD for more than a minute and I'm still holding tightly onto the delicious body of the red headed Barbara Gordon, I look towards her and I see that she is giving me the stink eye while gesturing with her eyes and head to the arms that are still wrapped around her.

I give an awkward chuckle before untangling my arms from her supple waist and climbing off of the bike before unstrapping the helmet off of my head and handing it to her so that she can put it with her own that she had just taken off, after she had put the helmets away we both walked to the entrance with her leading in silence and me awkwardly trailing behind, I really need to stop getting lost in my thoughts and take more notice of my surroundings but I guess the little bit of insanity that was with previous Gotham Nick has also transferred over to me (can't really forget being ripped to shreds in a meat grinder) though I could probably use a bit of crazy in this f.u.c.k.e.d up town.

I follow Barbara in through the entrance and we are walking past the reception while she talks to the female officer who is currently on receptionist duty. "Hey Vanessa, is my father in?" Barbara speaks and Vanessa promptly replies. "Hey Barb, yeah your father is somewhere in the building though I don't have a clue where." Barbara then thanks her for the information and grabs me by the arm and leading me up the stairs to where I presume she thinks her father is. "Listen to me, don't make trouble here and don't provoke anyone, some of these cops are worse than the criminals out there but unfortunately they cover their tracks so my father doesn't have probable cause to investigate them fully. Just follow me and don't say anything, okay?" She ask but it isn't really a question so I just nod to her showing that I am taking her words very seriously by not responding verbally.

She leads me up the stairs and then past a lot of desks that are occupied by police officers and detectives that are busy though some of them do take notice of us one of them being a broad caucasian man that has a serious case of beer belly and he's wearing jeans, a white shirt and a long dark leather duster as well as a dark grey fedora hat, for a fat guy he sure does have a good sense of style (or my sense of style out of whack) but more importantly than that his eyes are like a hawk as he watches us with a keen eye as we walk across the floor to some destination unknown to me.

He gets up seeming to want to catch up to us but decides to stop and finish his two glazed donuts before catching up to us but even while he engorges himself on his treats his eyes are still following us move across the room, that guy might be fat and lazy but there's no doubt that he's a good cop, I can just tell but it just irks me that in the back of my mind there's a little itch telling me that I should know who that man is but I don't and I know it's because I'm missing my meta-knowledge.

I'm at least glad that even though my meta-knowledge is gone I still got a tiny hunch that this guy is important and I should know him which is good in its own right as it will help me know if there's more to the people I meet in the future then it seems, while I'm thinking this Barbara continues to lead me a cross the room by the arm no doubt leading me to her father and my assumption is confirmed when I notice that we are heading in the direction of an office that has the words 'Commissioner J. Gordon's Office' on the glass of the offices door though we stop outside and don't enter.

We don't even knock and that's because the blinds to the office are wide open and it's easy to tell that the man we are looking for isn't inside, Barbara lets out a sigh of frustration but I'm not too bothered as I know that the solution to our problem is heading our way now. "Hey there Barbara, how you doin kid? You lookin' for the Commissioner?" The beer bellied man from earlier asks wiping away the donut crumbs left around his mouth. "Hi Harvey, I'm fine thank you but do you know where my father is?" Barbara proceeds to ask but 'Harvey' ignores her question in favour of sizing me up with his beady eyes.

"Who's the spare?" He questions quite bluntly, Barbara goes to answer when I quickly wrap my arm around her shoulder and pull her closer to me before quickly answering in her stead. "I'm her boyfriend, Nicholas James but you can call me Nick, nice to meet you Mister?" I finish in askance, I felt Barbara tense up when I wrapped my arm around her and I know that I was very close to being judo flipped onto my back. "Detective Bullock to you kid, if you're her boyfriend why on earth would you be looking for her father? That seems like the kind of thing you'd wanna avoid." He finishes his tricky question but luckily I have the perfect answer.

"Well you see me and Barbie-" He snorts at my nickname for her. "-have been going out for a while and it's about time I met her dad and what better place then in a police station surrounded by police officers where he definitely won't be able to gut me or pipe me full of lead, the rest of the officers would be there to stop him if he feels like kicking my a.s.s." Harvey chuckles. "Either that or we'd be filing a missing persons report for you, us guys on the force are very loyal to the commissioner so instead of stopping him we'd probably help him hide the body. Anyway it's your funeral, Jim is on the roof taking a break, puffing away like always. See ya later Barb."

Harvey walks away all the while chuckling without waiting for us to respond and after he'd travelled a sufficient enough amount of distance away from us Barbara quickly stomps down hard onto my foot, very hard and I let go of her shoulder in surprise at the action. "Why the hell did you tell him you're my boyfriend? Now he's going to tell everyone else and my fathers going to ask me about it you asshole!" She whisper shouts at me.

"I'm sorry okay, I told you that I have some serious information and I can't trust anyone even some of the cops in here so it's better that they think I'm your boyfriend rather than some guy whose come here to give evidence. I'm sorry but I can't risk anyone finding out about this though for what it's worth you could do a lot worse then me for a boyfriend, in fact I'm quite the catch." I apologise and flirt with her at the same time, Johnny really rubbed off on me huh.

She rolls her eyes at me before once again grabbing me by the arm and leading me off in the direction of a set of green doors. "Come on idiot, we're gonna take the stairs to the roof where your gonna get to meet my father and I swear if the information you give him is worthless and people end up thinking you're my boyfriend then I'm gonna get pissed. I could do way better than you." She tells me but I reply with a smile. "There's no doubt that you can do better then me especially with that gorgeous smile of yours."

She pauses and turns to look at me. "What smile?" She questions and I smirk at her. "The one you've got on your face right now." I tell her and her face rapidly heats up and I can see that she's blushing before she rapidly turns around, tightens her grip on my arm before pulling me along even faster than before, she's really cute when she's fl.u.s.tered.

On we go to Commissioner James Gordon where I'll set my plan into action but in the mean time I'll continue to tease this hot redhead daughter of his...

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