A wish a heart makes {wonderbat}

How strange (part 3)

After about pealing all the carpet out Diana found what she was looking for.

She peeled  the left opened and read its one line phrase: The more you take away from it the larger it grows, what is it?

This was hard. Negative numbers where in the mix but that wasn't a place. Maybe a negative address or something weird like that was in question.

Then it hit her a hole. Holes where dig in grave yards! So that's where she headed.

Form above it didn't take long to spot a greed dot next to a hole with a black dot in it.

She landed as riddler put his finger up. He was on the phone with someone. When he was finished he slammed the phone off and into his pocket.

"Ah, now that's done. You like my choice of venu?" She smiled. "Both futée and past!but then again... your part god." He stretched his arms out. "The other riddles where easy. I only had to stall. But seams  Dr. strange's plan fails." He looked down at Bruce who was tied up and blindfolded. "I got my money and some quality time with Bat."

Diana reaches bakc and drew her sword. "Let him go and this won't get messy."

"I am not one to get my hands dirty in a fight, is just riddle me this, what happened to the god who outlived her love?"

Diana glared now answering.

Riddled cackled like a hyena. "Stumped are you?" He drew a gun with one hand and with the other a control with one button. "Anyways. Have fun with that thought. I got what what I wanted." He pressed the button and the coffin Brice was in began to close.

Diana fused and wedged her hand in the tiny opening thatremied before it shit. Using her super strength she died it opened and took Bruce's blind gold off. Then went for the hand cuffs.

Bruce didn't say a word.

"A thank you would be nice." Diana gave him a look.

"I was never really good at saying thank you. But.."

"What did you do to you?" She asked.

"Nothing, I was just tied up." He sighed. "We... talked..."

"About What." Diana siad slowly, a bit hesitant.

Bruce sighed heavily. Diana could see that he was deep in thought. A man with his emotions. "Mainly about how we where the same." Brice took a seat on the hill in the graveyard over looking Gotham. "He was right, in a way. That we both fight with our mind and our skill. But he kept on asked about the same thing he riddled you."

"About the..."

"Me growing old and dyeing." Brice finished her  sentence.

She took a seat next to him. "But that's not the part that got to me."

She was suprised to be heading the words escaping his lips at this moment. He wasn't drunk, no other substances invovled. This was... the real Bruce.

He put his head down. "I am week. I couldn't even protect myself. Or free myself form bind. Strip away my gadgets and who am I? Not batman? Take away my fortune and I am not Bruce Wayne. So then... Who am I?"

Diana pur her hand on his. "Your you." She said. "You wanna know why I l-love you." She hesitated a bit because this was her first time saying it to his face. The word love. "Not for your fancy gadgets, or cape, or torture. Its because of your soul."

He looked up at her the dog eyes staring off inot the distance.

She put his hand on his. "I have seen many men walk this earth. And only a small fraction have what you have. Curve, bravery. Despite all the powers or your lack there of, you still risk your life to save others. The risk are higher for you but still your one of the braces on the team. You don't say it but you show it... you care. You care just as much as them or more. That's why - I love you."

They here face to face now. Bruce was hooked on each words she said. That was one of the nicest things anyone had said to him and comming from Diana who he holds in high regards mean that much more.

He felt her hand move to his check as Rey both both moved in to kiss.

Fireworks still went off in his heart. Eyes close they pulled away with their forgers leaning against each other.

Then in a whispered voice that only they could hear, he said, "Thank you."