| Chapter XXVIII | questions, questions and answers

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After Ivy tells them where the place is, they head over there

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After Ivy tells them where the place is, they head over there. Reine plays around with her bat as Bruce tells them his plan.

"I'll give him the necklace and explain there's no need for further violence."

"Maybe I shouldn't be here. I kind of hit him over the head with a vase."

They stop walking and look, Ivy.

"Course you did.", Selina says.

"I thought that was a thing you do on all dates."

Bruce looks back to the place and sees the door wasn't closed.

"Door's open."

They all head inside. When they get by the stairs, they see a man on the floor with an arrow in his eye.

"I did not do that."

"Never thought of you as much of an archer anyways."

"We really got to go.", Selina tells them.

But Bruce goes closer to the man.

"Bruce."

"It was the men that came after us. He was killed by the same weapon."

"I thought they worked for him."

"Oh, looks like you were wrong again, Ivy."

Bruce takes out the necklace from his pocket.

"Can we leave now?", Selina says ready to get out out there.

"Why is this necklace so important? What makes someone kill for it?"

"Who cares?!" Selina grabs the necklace and throws it.

"Are you crazy? That's worth five thousand dollars.", Ivy says as she runs up to it.

"I'm not much of an emerald girl myself. Rubies are more of my style. Though they both look great on me."

"Whoa.", Ivy says as she picks up the emerald.

"What is it?", Bruce asks.

"A key." She hands it over to Bruce.

"We should really go, Bruce.", Selina tells him.

Bruce and Selina look at each other.

"Oh, my God. You two are a couple now?"

"Wait, you're dating Bruce?", Reine asks with a weird look
on her face.

"No."

"Yes."

They both answer at the same time with Selina denying it.
Bruce looks at Selina.

"We're not?"

"I'm not talking about this right now. We need to go somewhere right now. And my place is toast thanks to this dimwit."

"We'll go to my house.", he says before walking out.

"You just had to come back.", Selina tells Ivy as she follows Bruce.

They follow behind Bruce as they enter the library of Wayne Manor..

"Holy cow.", Ivy says as she looks at the Wayne Manor.

"Don't get any ideas."

"You know, I remember when the Coldwells used to try to hide me in a closet each time we came here.", Reine's comments again going ignored.

"Okay, mom.", Ivy responds to Selina.

"Tomorrow we'll look into what this all means. Who those men in masks were. For now, I'll have Alfred make up beds for you both. There's food in the kitchen if you're hungry."

"I could eat.", both Reine and Ivy said.

"Surprise.", Selina said sarcastically.

Selina looks back at Bruce, who walks away.

"I hope I didn't mess things up with your boyfriend."

"I told you, he's not my boyfriend."

"I remember when I would say that. Hopefully, it doesn't mean the same thing this time.", Reine said.

While Reine's day ends with questions left unanswered. The Coldwell twins' night ends with an unwanted answer.
As Edward grieved for his girlfriend's death he found out that she had in fact been murdered. Which was very distressing for both Oswald and Joan.

At least it was for a few moments. Lucky for them, Edward believed it was actually Butch who killed her, in retaliation for exposing him as the leader of the Red Hood gang. Joan had let out a sigh of relief when he heard him say that, not caring that someone who wasn't guilty, of this crime, will probably die now.

And since last time Edward had enlisted the help of Odette to take down Butch, he once again extended the offer. Which she happily accepted, unaware that she was actually the killer.

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