The Joker And The Fool

4.(3) Who is afraid of the big black bat?

4.3 the bat and the cat

Diana had long been unable to place the lady who she had thought to be a spy. When she first found out who she was, she thought that she was nothing but a common thief. But she would soon come to find that she was no more that thief. Diana was almost certain that the woman who had been trying to get information from various men, including the penguin himself, was an infamous cat-woman. When Diana looked into burglary-items she came across the name several times. However, lately she had not been able to find new information. Either the cat woman had become extremely skilled and professional, or she had favoured a change of career paths. The cat-woman and the batman had been seen together on more than one occasion. 'Burglar turned hero', how does that sound for a headline? She was not sure whatever the nature was of the batman and Cat-woman's relationship, however she was almost certain that she had accomplished some sort of pardon for her own crimes. It was quite odd to her that the Batman decided to have a partner beside Jim Gordon. He was not known to work well with others, he was not known to work with others at all. Diana was aware that he had frequently used a few pawns. She knew that he had used several women who worked for either Penguin, or any other crime-lord to receive some sort of information. She was not sure why he had only ever used women, she imagined perhaps he seduced them. Once, when she had been speaking to a lady who was a date to one certain Zuko, she could have sworn that she had seen some sort of reflection in her eyelid. It almost seemed as if she wore lenses, with some sort of engraving. She imagined that it was his way of seeing into the places where he could not come. But it being not important to her, all she showed was interest, nothing more. The Batman and the Cat-woman, Gotham's latest vigilantes. They found that they were a sort of 'necessary evil' to fight those who corrupted Gotham City. However, they seemed not to understand, it was not a mere infestation; Gotham was a rotten apple, inside and out. There was no salvaging what was left, it was inedible. It would either have to be destroyed or used for a different purpose. But no, she must not think too much of the future of Gotham. She did not care after all, right? According to the Joker there would be a time when all who were intelligent enough would come to understand that Gotham was a blackspot, that the entire world was a blackspot. Diana doubted whether he himself understood whatever happened to or in Gotham. She imagined, he only looked at life as a game of death. And that being his game, he liked to seed theories like a plague. There was no telling which he truly stood by, or which were so ridiculous that they would have had to make no sense. But that could not possibly be the purpose of her life, no. 

Why was Diana so very interested in this woman? For after all, this woman in question was the particular woman she had once asked Penguin about. Unknowing of why or even that she had asked it. She was not kind to people; she made no friends. She cared not for the woman.no, it was because Diana had a feeling. She had always had that feeling, but it had somehow taken up much space of her mind. She would not never say it aloud nor mention the name in her mind, but somewhere she knew very well, she knew that she knew who Batman was. And for some particular reason could she not help but resent the cat-woman for her very own personal reasons. Almost like Joker had Batman, she had Cat-woman. Not her sworn enemy, nor her nemesis, nor as important as such things. But the woman was the only way in which Diana would be able to finally agree with her thoughts. The woman was the only way to confront her with what she already knew. 

She had tried to confront this woman multiple times. She wanted to know if she was a spy, if she was the Cat-woman. But whenever she did catch a glimpse of her, it appears that she disappeared as quickly as she had shown herself. So, Diana knew who this cat-woman was, and now the Cat-woman knew who she was. However, they did not truly start out as each other's enemies. Cat-woman, though normally suspicious and mistrusting tried to oppose the Batman in his opinion on the Fool. For some reason the Cat-woman chose to believe that Diana was a victim. But she never went looking for the Fool, actively. She would not challenge the Batman's wishes to leave Diana out of the question.