Alter-Ego (Batman fanfic)

Chapter twenty six: the truth

I regret to say that this book is nearing a close with only 5-6 chapters left. Thank you everyone for your support and your votes, comments, etc. I hope you all enjoy the last few chapters. I have thought about writing a sequel but no promises. Okay continue on reading now :).

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Chapter twenty six- the truth

BRUCES POV:

My eyes jerked open and I sat up quickly, instantly causing a jolt of pain to run through my body. I fell back down on the cold thin bed sheets of the emergency medical room I had set up in the cave. I could barely remember getting here. It must have been Alfred.

I looked over my body, I had a stitched up cut on my hand and on my side, and one large festering burn where I'd been stabbed, where a heavy amount of cream was applied. The sight wasn't too pretty, but it wasn't bad enough to the point where it would effect my appearance outside of my room.

"Master Bruce," Alfred's familiar voice echoed through the rock walls, as he slowly walked over to me, a tray in hand.

"Alfred, how did I get here?"

Alfred set the tray down in front of me and pushed the toast toward me "eat, you have to get your strength back."

"I'll eat later, right now I want to know how I got here."

"I have a tracker in my mini, after I found that I simply followed what trace of you I could find till I discovered you collapsed in an alleyway next to a certain someone's apartment."

"Harmony...I remember."

I remember that I was Batman, and that she's the one who closed my wound, but I remember something else, she kissed me. I told her a lie about following her, well not a complete lie, but it was close enough to be real. I don't know whether to be hurt or glad that she accepts and loves the other me as much as Bruce Wayne. I was starting to feel like Jerrica Benton.

"Now eat, you've lost a lot of blood and are dehydrated."

I grabbed the toast and shoved the whole piece into my mouth, knowing if I didn't Alfred would never let me hear the end of it.

"Slade did this," I told him after I swallowed my bite of toast.

"I figured as much, you mind telling me how that went exactly, I presume Slade looks much worse than you?"

"About that," I winced trying to stand on my feet.

Alfred pushed me back down "Master Bruce, I will not permit you to stand right now."

"I need to work Alfred, last night, something happened and I just had an epiphany."

"What might that be."

"Let me get up and I'll show you."

Alfred stepped aside and I walked wearily to a computer, typing in Harmony Jackson.

"Might I ask why your researching your girlfriends name."

"a while ago Harmony told me that her birth father left her mother after he joined the military, Slade Wilson was experimented on in the military, that's why he is who he is."

"Are you suggesting her father is Slade Wilson, that makes no sense, even her name isn't Wilson."

"Yes, but names can be changed, and Harmony never said her parents were married only that they had left each other."

Alfred scoffed "there are still no grounds for your accusation simply because her father joined the military and Slade Wilson was in the military."