"You slept in your clothes," Bruce noticed Adriana was wearing her clothes from the previous day.
Adriana wanted to change the subject immediately.
"And you... look like you've been on your computer all night," she said. "Did you sleep at all?"
Bruce stood up and walked over to her.
"A couple of hours," he said.
They stood and looked at each other.
"Br-" she started to say.
"Adr-" he started to say at the same time.
"You...you should go first," she said.
"I had a lot of time to think last night," he said. "About you..about us. About this League. And I've come to the conclusion that whoever they are...their ultimate goal is to destroy Gotham. Even though I am not active as a vigilante right now, they are trying to shake me. My best guess is they are recruited people who are skilled to help them complete...their end goal. People like the Catwoman. Sidi once me that I would suffer greatly but I would also save the city. They will not be successful in the end, though they will cause a great deal of destruction. She gave me no indication that Arsenio would be harmed."
Adriana nodded.
"So...you should be able to spare a month to go the rehab then?" Adriana asked, wasting no time. "I mean, we already know what they want. And thankfully...because of Sidi, we know they will fail ultimately. And our baby will be fine."
Bruce looked pensive for a moment and then replied. "Yes."
Adriana let out an enormous sigh of relief and then ran to Bruce and hugged him.
"Bruce I'm so relieved," she said. "I don't want you to have to leave but I want to make sure everything is alright-"
"I can do it without leaving," Adriana heard Bruce say into her hair.
"Huh?" she asked and leaned back in their embrace to look into his eyes. "How?"
"If you would really like me to have treatment or therapy, Dr. Kapoor can handle it," he told Adriana. "I can stay at home."
"I don't understand," she said. "How will you be monitored. I mean, that's the whole point of rehab...they monitor you."
"I will stay here," he said. "In the manor. You will know that I am not using anything. I won't have a way to acquire anything."
Adriana pulled herself out of his arms.
"Bruce, I don't know what you're doing," Adriana said. "I thought that was pretty fucking clear when I found pills hidden in your shaving tools. And we have staff coming and going, anyone could bring you anything."
"No staff then," he said. "We've already given most of the staff time off so that we can keep the wound you have hidden from as many people as possible. We will give everyone a break. No one will come or go. You can put me in a wing alone and search through everything I will take with me. I know that Arsenio will be fine, but I still cannot leave right now. It would upset him too much."
Adriana crossed her arms. She did not disagree that Bruce leaving for another month would be a lot to explain to Arsenio and likely too much for him to go through.
"You've really thought this out," Adriana said.
"Yes," Bruce said. "Dr. Kapoor will test me regularly for opiates."
Adriana could see that he was serious.
"If you're willing," Bruce said. "No staff would mean no one would be here to help you with housework but Alfred and Harri I suppose."
