Wiskers

Chapter 7

Next time I wasn't making the same mistakes, to survive in the children's homes I had to learn self defence and with my gymnastic skills and quick pace people didn't know what had hit them.

No doubt batman would be guarding the museum tomorrow, but with intense planning it will work and the statue will be mine.

I was lucky, I was in touch with a lot of the mob families and crime organisations around Gotham, not to say I was friends with all of them though, the Falcone head was planning a trade down at the docks there would be over a thousand dollars worth of firearms and illegal goods. I'm sure that batman would love to hear about this.

I stood on the nearest roof to the GCPD and commissioner Gordon was waiting for batman. I know him because many years ago I had slipped up, not been careful and ended up in the police station where he questioned me.

Batman had turned up and was speaking to commissioner Gordon and I was only getting parts of the conversation through the hustle and bustle if the busy street below.

After a couple of minutes talking batman turned and jumped off the building and landed just in front of me.

"And I thought that you hadn't even noticed little old me" I said

"Well generally if people don't want me to notice them they don't go stealing from museums and waiting on rooftops listening to my conversations" he replied bluntly

"Ah, touché" I replied

"So what do you want?" he asked in his rough gravelly voice

"You know you can drop that fake voice around me. I don't mind" I said walking towards him

He stared for a moment like I had just said something stupid

"Ah well, anyways down to business. I wanted to talk to you about an illegal trade you might like to know about"

"Between who?"

"Well, if you had let me finish. I believe that Carmine Falcone is having a ton of drugs and guns sent in. no doubt you'll be there to stop it now won't you"

"Hm, why are you giving me this information?"

"Well" I said leaning up against a wall examining my nails "the Falcone family have had a grudge against me ever since some diamonds of theirs went missing at a masquerade ball"

"Did you really think that this would work?" he asked abruptly

"What work?"

"Feeding me false information so that I am out of the picture and steeling the artefacts from the museum. I am not stupid. I know how a criminals mind works"

I held my hands to my face in mock shock "me?! a common criminal? I am outraged! I would never try such a thing" I held one hand to my forehead dramatically "how could you accuse me of such things? You see for yourself, there will be a trade tomorrow just you wait and see"

I leapt off the roof and made my way home batman was on to me I was going to have to think smarter for my next move.