A run of bad luck (Batman)

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Diana landed in front of Wayne Manor she had been staying here helping Bruce tend to the people as Agent Prince at first things changed over time. It use to be less of a problem this way then as Wonder Woman and Bruce Wayne. Everyone knew Wonder Woman and Batman were seeing each other from the rumors no one really knew for sure. Those rumors had been going around for many years. Almost as long as the ones about Wonder Woman and Superman dating each other as well. Now everyone that was living here knew that Diana and Bruce were both Wonder Woman and Batman and they really were together.

Diana let herself in looked around making sure no one was around before making her way down the hall to Bruce’s room she had been sharing with him and slipped inside so she can change out of her costume and back into normal clothes. Who knew it would take the end of the world for the two of them to live in the same house and share the same bed for longer then a night or two like they had in the past.

She pulled off her gauntlets and tossed them onto the bed followed by her tiara and lasso. She sat on the edge of the bed as she began to take off her boots disappointed in the day. Diana had set out to find more food and the one place she really wanted to check there ended up being close to 20 clones in the area there was no way she could get in check things and get out with one of them noticing her and if one did they all would have, she wasn’t looking to die today. Instead she searched other places and found some things she but it wasn’t a whole lot.

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More and more efforts had been made, by Bruce, to eliminate the threat towards the survivors in Robinson Park. The leader was not known, and, if he could find them, he could get rid of the rest of them. That was what had happened to most of Joker's gang. Without a solid leader to give them orders, they collapsed. Who was going to take orders from Harley? Perhaps, that was another reason for why he kept going to Robinson Park. Harley could be there. Trying to lead that gang, or, even, taken hostages by the leaders. He knew that he could fix the young girl, and she had potential to be good again.

A few of the goons in the park had landed a few blows on Bruce. A surprise attack. Fortunately, the knives they wielded were unable to fully pierce the armor. Blood ran down his arm, but it wouldn't kill him. Not like he'd never been stabbed before. Scars lined the man's body. He'd be shot at, tortured, and endured many other pains. Most people would have fallen down in pain, but Bruce went through the pain. They hadn't nicked any major arteries. Eventually, the blood would stop. That was guaranteed.

As Bruce walked down the stairs towards his room, he began to strip off his mask. Most people in the Manor knew who he was. No use for any secret identities. As he began to take the costume off his torso, he opened the door. Instantly, a meager smile fell upon the man's face. Quickly, he reduced the distance between them and placed his mouth upon Diana's. As he broke the kiss, he gestured to a small box on the table next to his bed. "I meant to give you this before you left. Open it," he said, the small small on his face. Emotions had never been a thing he was good at.

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Diana stopped undressing when she heard footsteps coming closer she knew it was Bruce from the way he carried himself. His footsteps were a lot different then anyone else’s they were a lot lighter. Instead she sat there waiting for him to come inside she didn’t have long to wait before he was in front of her kissing her it wasn’t a surprise anymore she’d be worried if he didn’t kiss her when he came home. That’s when she knew something was wrong with him.

Diana looked over at the night table where the box sat that was a ring box. She opened it looking down at the engagement ring inside. “Oh Bruce it’s beautiful.” she threw her arms around Bruce’s neck the force she did it with ended up knocking them to the ground with her landing on top of him “The answer is yes.” she kissed him. She really hadn't expected him to ever propose to her. Before it was always because he put protecting Gotham before mostly anything else.

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Two women had managed to claim Bruce's heart. Both were very beautiful women. They were entirely different from each other. Not a single thing was shared between them. Selina and Diana were the only people who he could have called his wife. Talia had mothered one of his children, but he had not paid her much attention. As she was the daughter of one of his worst foes, he could not fall in love with her. Selina, on the other hand, could never have fully stolen his heart away. Time after time, she would regress back to her original status as a burglar. He could not marry a woman who was entirely against everything he strove to get rid of.

With some surprise, Diana tackled Bruce. There weren't many people who could take a man with so much muscle to the ground. Perhaps, that was one of the many qualities that attracted him to her. There was no maiden-in-distress quality about her. No, she would not be taken away from him. To him, Diana could protect herself. "You know, Diana, I was kind of hoping I'd get to ask you. But, I guess, just you saying yes is fine," he said, showing some fake pain in his voice. "You really should be more gentle. I'm just a human, after all."

With a beautiful woman on top of him, Bruce wasn't the type of person to pass up any opportunity. Planting a few kisses along her collarbone, he decided to ask her a question. "So, when do you want to have this wedding? Soon? There's really no reason to wait. We're pretty much married already." With those words, he picked up Diana and put her onto the bed. He began to work on shedding the rest of his fiance's clothing, attempting to finish the job that she had already started.

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Diana smiled “You can still say it if you want. Oh and your so not funny Mr. I-took-on-Darkseid-and-made-him-back-down. You probably didn’t really even feel it.” She could very easily hurt Bruce but she wouldn’t she could control her strength she had learn how to do some from a very young age. She slapped his arm playfully making sure not to hurt him.

“Soon, I would like to go get my mother to be apart of it. You know we’ll never hear the end of it if she missed this.” She wrapped her arms around Bruce’s neck when he picked her up carrying her over to their bed. She helped him get her out of her clothes before helping him out of what was left of his before pulling him down on top of her to kiss him again.

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When Darkseid had shown his face on Earth, Batman was there to meet him. There was only one man that he'd ever break his no gun policy against. No need for a typical bullet. With one bullet of radion, he brought the "God" down. It poisoned him, and, a simple human, was able to kill a man that had caused Superman much grief. No, he would never claim the life of a human. That had always been his creed. Now, though, he had thoughts of revising that. In the state that Gotham was in now, he had thought of adopting a no tolerance policy. If any person was terrorizing a fellow human, he would leave them for the clones. Break their legs. Leaving them unable to move.

Something had changed in Bruce. The apocalypse was going to change anyone. Heroes were going to turn on their allies. Villains were going to join on to the side of good. Sane people going mad at the sight of the their fallen friend. As far as he knew, he had not gone crazy. Death had been around Bruce his entire life. He had gotten use to it. Both of his parents died at a young age, and he witnessed the death of Dick's parents. Joker had killed many people in front of Bruce's eyes. That never bothered him, so why did it feel like the Doomsday clones had gotten to him. Shaking it off, he focused on pleasing his fiance for the night.

The next morning, Bruce looked over to his right. Looking at Diana sleeping beside him always put a smile on his face. Outside of his family, she was the only person he loved. Soon, she'd be his wife and be a member of his family. Possibly the only living relative alive in his family. It's a sad though to have, but, somehow, Bruce is able to overcome it. At the moment, Diana's face was away from his. Grabbing at her head, softly, he moved her lips closer to his. "Wake up, beautiful," he said, bringing his lips to Diana's. His other hand around her waist, bringing his fiance closer to him.

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The apocalypse had changed everyone but surprisingly it hadn’t changed Diana as much as it did everyone else she wouldn’t take a life of a human like she had done with Maxwell Lord. No matter what happened to the world she couldn’t bring herself to take another life she only killed Maxwell to save her friends even after that she regretted it. She would only kill Doomsday clones if she knew she would win otherwise she would avoid it. No point in doing something that would end up getting herself killed. She had asked the gods many times for a way to beat these things and so far none of them answered she’s starting to think they had turned their backs on earth and it’s people. It was a disturbing thought after everything that’s happened to the earth this was what made them turn their backs on everything.

Diana didn’t open her eyes she was awake though had been for a while but she was just enjoying laying there next to Bruce her soon to be husband. Her mother had already given her approval a few years ago before all this had happened her mother even told them she wanted them to have lots and lots of babies. She had found it funny the way her mother had said it. She kissed him before opening her eye’s finally “What a way to wake up.” she smiled up at Bruce before she laid her head on his shoulder “What’s today’s plans?” she used a finger to trace his abs up to his chest while she waited for his answer.

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Who would be invited to the small wedding? Yes, Bruce wanted to keep it fairly small. A large concentration of people out in the open was likely to bring clones over. That would be a terrible wedding ceremony, but an awful one. Most of his family had gone missing, and his allies had rejected him. Diana seemed to be the only friend that he had remaining. It was a sad thought to think of, and Bruce preferred to stay happy. If anymore sadness was in his mind, he knew that it would break. Cracks were already forming in his fragile mind, and he did not want those to develop anymore. They should stay they way they were: cracks.

For a man who apparently didn't love, Bruce found himself in bed with several of the world's most beautiful women. Yet, he never had feelings for them. Sex did not always come from love. Lust was a much different thing from that feeling. Besides Diana, there had been one woman he could only say he had slept with out of love. Now, he found himself getting married. There was not a person in the universe that expected this to happen. A longtime ally had become a lover and now his fiance. He could not wait to marry Diana.

Shortly after Bruce shook Diana wake she gave him a kiss on the lips. Before she said a word, he took her hips and rolled Diana on top of him. Then, she asked him a question. Bruce had no idea what they were going to do. Probably the normal things. What was there to do in the apocalypse when you hardly had anything left. "Well, my love, we could stay in bed all day. Continue our fun from last night. When we get done with that, we could get married. We don't need a big ceremony. Just me and you."

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Diana hadn’t expected to be moved from where she had been sleeping but she wasn’t complaining. Who would have thought Diana and Bruce would be together? No one thought it would happen but it did and it lasted for years on top of it. Those that didn’t know Batman very well thought he didn’t even know the meaning of the word love but Diana knew better he just didn’t want to risk anyone getting close to him at the chance of them getting hurt or killed by one of his enemies. But he didn’t have to worry about that with her she was more then able to handle any of his enemies. Now that the world pretty much ended all of his rouges were dead or most of them were same with hers. Most of hers were probably still alive a lot of them were gods like Circe she would have found a way to live through this.

“It all sounds good to me.” she pulled the sheet up over them before continuing their fun from last night. Hours later, Diana was using Bruce’s chest as a pillow an arm draped across his abs. “Now that we’re going to be married does this mean I have to change my name to Wonder Bat?” she didn’t look up at Bruce she was to busy trying not to laugh at the name. “Or change the colors of my costume? You know black and gray like yours.” this time she did look up at him to see his reaction to both questions.

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Children did not roam the halls of Bruce's home for one specific reason. There didn't seem to be any left. Many children had been killed in the first attacks, which led to immediate distrust in the government. This had been during the first couple of skirmishes. The destruction had caused a few deaths, namely children who had gathered outside their homes to watch these little attacks. Innocent lives had been taken, but the government didn't see any harm in their actions. Sure enough, the masses agreed that casualties happened in war. At that point, it was no longer a war. The government had no control over the clones. It was more of a massacre than a war.

A few hours had passed, and the two had experienced a little more fun together. Perhaps, that's why he had been thinking about children. The two had been romantically involved for a little over a year now, and, besides marriage, the next biggest step they could have would be having a child. In the back of his mind, Bruce did not want to bring a child into a world filled with death. Although, at the same time, he wanted a child of his own. He had no child of his own flesh and blood, and, it seemed, he no longer had any children at all.

Did Bruce really have a sense of humor? Most had never actually seen him smile, unless he was in his playboy facade that he used to put on. Not many people had actually heard the man laugh. It would ruin his image as a man without emotions. If people knew he had emotions, he would no longer be as frightening anymore. Yet, he let out a chuckle when she mentioned changing her name. Then, she actually had a decent suggestion and she looked up to see his reaction. "Changing your colors would help you sneak around a bit more, and, I have to admit, you'd look very, very nice in those colors," he said, kissing her on the top of her head softly.

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“You do have a point there I would rather not stick out like a sore thumb and draw those things to me when I go into the city would be somewhat safer.” the only way it could be truly safe is not going into the city at all but that couldn’t be avoided they needed things and were planting a garden to grow some of their food. Sooner or later they were going to have to bring in some animals they needed meat too if they were going to stay healthy. "I will miss wearing my colors though."

Diana looked up at Bruce again “What’s bothering you? You know you can’t hide it from me.” She’d find a way to get it out of him one way or another she was really good at that. “You know I’ll help you in anyway you don’t have to shut me out. I understand things better then you think I do.” she hated when he shut her out over something always had long before they even got together. There were times she find out and he would get mad and go off and brood somewhere over it all. But he would get over it and they would still be friends in the end.

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What hadn't changed in Bruce's life? There wasn't a single thing that remained the safe from before the attacks. At least, that's what he assumed. Alfred still roamed the hallways, but his time was spent with several of the new guest within the manor. Most of the Batfamily had gone missing. Search parties were sent out. All failed. He even had a fiancee now, which would come as a surprise to many people in the superhero community. Bruce never seemed like the type to settle down. Much less with Wonder Woman. Even Bruce's appearance had changed due to the stress. Some grey could be fine within his usually black hair. Would anything ever return to normal?

Diana knew something was wrong. She almost always knew when something was wrong. Bruce was never one to put his heart on his sleeve. Feelings were what normal people had. Quite frankly, he wasn't a normal person. When Diana asked him what was wrong, he kissed her on the lips and put on a fake smile. There really was no use in lying, but he could attempt to make his mood seem different. "Children, Diana. I'm thinking of our future," he said, the fake smile plastered on his face. Hopefully, she wouldn't attempt to press him.

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“Children?” Diana repeated she hadn’t expected an answer like that from Bruce. She was a bit confused by it until she saw his fake smile then she knew that he didn’t want to really talk about what was really bothering him. It was probably the boy‘s there hadn‘t been any sign of them and he was always thinking about them now. “You want to start a family now?” she didn’t think he would want to start a family now maybe wait until this problem was taken care of then again they might not be able to fix it. And would have to live the rest of their lives like this.

“If that’s what you really want I’m not against it.” she looked up at him again resting her hand on his chest. “Or were you planning that all along? Must be the reason we’ve hardly left this bed.” she smirked. It wasn’t like they had a whole lot to do anymore supply runs every now and then but other then that they were pretty much just sitting around watching the paint dry on the walls. It was a good thing Bruce had sound proofed the room even though most people probably knew what they were doing they didn’t need or want to hear it all the time.

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There truly was only one thing left to do in Gotham. Liberate it from the damn clones. That was much easier said than done. To make matters even worse, the country was split between several factions. The Avengers, along with the Justice League, wanted to get rid of the clones in every major city. Yet, they had no idea what to do after that had happened. Squadron Supreme seemed to be somewhat similar to the Avengers in their current action, but they knew what to do once their plan came true. A dictatorship would rise as Zarda took the lead. Bruce found himself not joining with any of these teams. In fact, he had a much different plan for everything. Gotham would soon no longer be apart of a government that had screwed the country, and city, over many times.

Apparently, Diana had no objections to them having a family together. Unlike him, he was sure, they were likely to be immortal. Of course, Bruce wasn't exactly a person who'd live forever. After his death, Diana would be left alone with their kids. That was something he hated. Despite Bruce not being very old, he knew that his family would outlive him. He didn't want to bring any more sadness to them. Pulling Diana close to him, he answered her question with an action. He moved her face closer to his and locked his lips with hers.