Chapter 2: The News and the Olds

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Wayne Manor, 10.00 p.m.

Bruce just jumped out of the zeta tube fuming with rage, with only one glance Alfred was able to understand that it was an emergency. He escorted his master with a glance before Bruce changed into something comfortable and stormed into his study. Alfred took a deep breath and went into the study, there he found Bruce going through his computer.

"Is there anything I can help you with sir?" Alfred asked calmly

"Yes," said Bruce "I need the latest edition of the Daily Prophet, urgently"

Alfred's eyes widened in shock "The Daily Prophet, sir? Is there something wrong?"

"You will know when you'll get it" was Bruce's short reply and on that the butler left the study

As the door closed behind the butler Bruce opened one of his drawers to take out a leather black album, he gazed at it for sometime before deciding to open it.

To everyone it would look like an ordinary album with lots of picture of teenagers but if you took a time and looked closely at the photos you would notice that they move.

Bruce smiled bitterly as he went through the pages of his album until he stopped on the very last one. There were his five friends and himself  all of them were dressed in long black cloaks, all the people on the photo would firstly start a conversation then they would all look at the camera and start to wave. The photo was taken the day he had graduated from Hogwarts: school of witchcraft and wizardry,  he looked at the teen who was messing with his hair, while hugging another boy with his other arm, before they all would look at the camera that teen, to your surprise, is Sirius Black and believe it or not he and Bruce were once best friends.

Flashback

"Well, this is it" said a messy black haired boy with hazel eyes and square glasses, who had a red haired girl right under his arm. That boy was Bruce's cousin from the mother's side, James Potter.

"Yes" said the red haired girl, Lily, quiet sadly "our last day of Hogwarts"

"Oh, c'mon Evans don't give that long face!" exclaimed a teen with a black carefree hair with a mischievous glint in his eyes , Sirius Black "There will be even more adventure after Hogwarts I assure you!"

"And how are you planning to do this Padfoot?" asked Bruce as he and a shoulder length wavy hair and with a slight hint of feminine  features.

"Don't worry your precious head Night Wing(A/N you'll understand why in the upcoming chapters), I promise you that those will be the times you will never forget" said Sirius with a mischievous wink

Bruce's eyes widened slightly then he looked at the boy next to him "Remus, promise me, if you will ever marry this bag of flees, you'll try to keep him in line" he said pointing at Sirius

"Hey! Who are you calling bag of flees!?" exclaimed Padfoot enraged

"I surely will" replied Remus as he gave a soft smile

Then the square glasses boy smirked "What exactly? Marrying him? Or keeping him in line?"

"James!" exclaimed the red head as she elbowed him

Remus' cheeks slightly turned pink "W-well..."

"Ahh I see someone's been thinking of it" snickered James, only to receive another another elbow in the stomach from his girlfriend

"Ouch! God, Lily! That hurts!" he exclaimed

"You deserve it" she said giving him a glare "next time you will think before opening that mouth of yours"

"Well maybe if a certain someone would shut it with her own mouth then I might think about it" he smirked

"Oh really? Who?"  

"Guys! Guys! Look at the camera!" suddenly exclaimed a short and round teen, Peter Pettigrew, who all this time was standing near Sirius

Everybody turned their heads and looked at the camera, but slightly before it Bruce turned to Sirius and asked "Now, for real, when are you actually planning the wedding?"

The only answer that he received was a smirk and session of hair messing.

Bruce smiled slightly at the memory, he still couldn't believe that that rebellious teen with whom he was friends since 1st year had caused him so much pain. Suddenly  Alfred ran into the study, gasping for air and holding a package close to his chest.

"Let me guess," began Bruce, more calmly "Dick almost saw the post owl"

The butler nodded

Bruce sighed "Thank goodness he didn't" he said as Alfred handed him the papers

"Master Bruce, may I know what is going o-" the butler stopped abruptly as his master showed him the latest Daily Prophet edition:

"Master Bruce, may I know what is going o-" the butler stopped abruptly as his master showed him the latest Daily Prophet edition:

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"Oh my..." was all the butler could say

"That's right" said Bruce, as he finished reading the news paper "Alfred I want you to have constant vigilance on Dick, I am afraid that he will not stop just on Harry"

"Whatever you say sir" and on that the butler left the room

Bruce re-read the article one more time "Just as I thought" he said out loud and started to investigate on the information he wanted on his computer. Unaware that a large black dog had just come to Gotham...

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