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You Before Me

"These two?!" The Mad Hatter screeched at his goon as he pointed to the girls tied to the machines.

"I asked you to bring me the girls who Bruce Wayne aka Batman and Barry Allen aka the Flash would die for, and you bring me, the world's most wanted cat burglar, and the scientist. True, I don't know who the Batman loves, but who would think the billionaire loves the thief. And for the kid, I expected the journalist!"

"Which one, boss?" the goon whined, "the pulitzer winner from the daily planet or the daughter of the detective?"

"Which, do you think?"

"Well I think these girls are alright. Try the dream machine boss, put the supers in their minds and let's see what they dream."

The Hatter went to the control screen and frantically pressed the buttons. A blue liquid filled the tube needled into Selina Kyle's arm, traveling quickly into her blood stream, making her unconscious body writhe.

Selina brought her arms back down to her sides after she had clipped the beret on the side of her bun. She looked at herself in the three sided mirrors that showed her every angle.

She stood on a pedestal, wearing the wedding dress her future mother-in-law designed: a lacy, bare back mermaid gown, with a really long trail that was accented with black. Never would she have imagined that she was getting married. (I kinda imagine the fitting scene from shrek)

There was a knock on the door and Selina turned around to see Diana come in her gold color bridesmaid dress.

"Are you ready, Selina?" Wow, you look beautiful."

"Me, Selina Kyle, is getting married, and Wonder Woman is my maid of honor. I'm as ready as I'll ever be."

"Don't worry, you'll be fine." Diana collected the train and helped Selina off the pedestal, setting the train behind the bride.

"Ready?" Diana asked as she held on to the door handle.

Selina sighed and nodded and Diana opened the door, leading the bride to the foyer where Gotham's Police Commissioner waited, dressed complete in his well medalled uniform. He kissed her as he took her hands in his.

"You look beautiful, my dear."

"Thank you, Jim. For everything."

"Alright people, show time." Diana interrupted then walked up to line up behind the bridesmaids for the walk down. The door closed behind Diana and Jim and Selina just stood for a minute, letting her collect herself.

Selina took a big breath and nodded for Jim to knock on the doors, which opened to the first note of the wedding march. The guests stood and oohed as the bride was walked down the aisle.

Selina looked above and around her, mesmerized by the amount of people filled in the hall she could bet was the size of half of Gotham. The windows were large and the intricate ceiling with the beautiful chandeliers.

Wow, they had gone all out-wait, who was they? Obviously she was one half, but who was the other? She was walking down the aisle, and she had no idea who she is marrying?

The bride took in the faces around her; there were a lot of justice league members there, some people she knew from the orphanage, a couple of "friends" from the other side of the law who could behave in a gathering like this (her friend Ivy was a bridesmaid).

The groomsmen line included the Martian, Oliver Queen, and Barry Allen, the best man. Her bridesmaids were Caitlin Snow, Ivy, Lois Lane, and Diana, her maid of honor.

And, woah! That- that is Superman, standing in the middle of the alter. Her wedding officiant, was Superman! Still her mind could not put a name to her groom, who had his back to her, his hands folded behind him.

The closer she got to the altar, the more guests she recognized: Moira and Thea Queen, Laurel Lance, Cisco, her caretakers at the orphanage, the Kents, Barbara Gordon and her boys holding the ring cushions, Lucius Fox, Alfred Pennyworth, Thomas and Martha-

Selina jolted back. That was Thomas and Martha Wayne! She looked over Jim to the other side, yup, that was definitely Thomas and Martha Wayne. That could only mean-

She snapped her attention back to the altar as Jim cleared his throat and the groom finally turned around; Bruce Wayne smiled down at her from two steps above and offered her his hand, which she took as she let go of Jim.

The commissioner hugged her and kissed her head, then hugged Bruce, putting his hand over his holster to the laughter of the audience.

Bruce rested her hand in the crook of his arm and they faced Superman as he initiated the wedding.

"You look beautiful," Bruce whispered to her.

"Is this the first time you noticed?"

"The first time I've said it."

"Now I step down to let the bride and groom present their own vows."

Superman stepped aside and the couple faced each other. She put her hands on his chest as Bruce began to speak but Selina's eyes again fell on his parents.

"Your parents are alive."

Bruce stopped mid sentence and looked to his parents, and then back at her.

"What? Yes, why wouldn't they be?"

Selina's brows knotted at his response and at what she didn't feel under his shirt. The absence of his scars bothered her. She looked again at her in-laws, then at Jim, and back to Bruce.

"I-I need a moment." She picked up her dress and ran down the opposite side from which she had walked up, running into the small room. Bruce ran after her, calling her name.

"What is wrong? We literally have aliens attending this wedding. Our wedding. And you're acting up now! What could possibly be wrong, Selina!"

"Everything! Everything is wrong! Your parents are-are alive! And you're not-you! This isn't real!"

"Not real? Why is this not real? What could you possibly want more? You have a family, my parents are alive, and I'm not broken. And I love you. I will always love you."

"You'd never say that to me."

"Then that me is a foolish me."

"No! No he's not. That is the Bruce I love. The Bruce who would never tell me he loved me, or let anyone ever see his emotions at all. I love that you never say 'I love you' to me. I love you every time you let me get away, from yourself and from the law. I don't love the 31 year old Bruce Wayne. I love the 8 year old Bruce who still feels guilty and broken over his parents' death. The 17 year old Bruce who ran away from Yale to learn from the real world. The Bruce who chose to grow up under Ra's al-Ghul. The Bruce who has more scars on his conscious than on his body. The-"

Bruce grabbed her neck and pulled her in for a kiss, shutting her up.

"Then choose this. Make this your reality. Where we don't have to be hurt. Where we can be together, with everyone we love. You can choose this. You can make this your reality."

"My Bruce wouldn't say that." she looked at the golden paper on which he'd written his vows. The words were all there, but she couldn't pick out a single legible letter. She smiled.

"What would he say?"

"He'd tell me that this is a dream. That I can choose to stay or wake up. That it is my decision, and he'd be okay with it. He'd give me the key to the door out."

"And what door would that be?"

"The only odd one out. The hardest thing I could ever imagine doing."

"Which would be..."

Selina turned away from him and looked around the room for something that could help her. Her eyes stopped on the glass vase holding her bouquet. She threw out the flowers and broke the glass

"To kill you."

Bruce looked wide eyed at her, stammering for words to keep her.

"Emmaline." His choice of words struck her and she stopped and turned back to him. That was the name she had invented in her childhood. The name she would give to her daughter. The name only she knew.

"Emmaline and Damian."

"What?"

"Emmaline Martha and Damian Thomas Wayne."

"Mommy!" two tiny voices sang in the room and she spun to them, a little boy and a little girl, both under seven years old. Selina looked back at Bruce with tears in her eyes.

"Stay with us, Selina. Stay with us, mommy." Bruce cupped his hands over her cheeks and the kids clung to her arms, tugging at her to stay.

Selina looked at both of them, the tears finally dropping from her eyes. She bent down and hugged them, and kissed them multiple times. Then she pushed them away and stood tall in front of Bruce.

"If you knew anything about me, then you'd know that I would die if I ever missed a second of my children's lives! No, oh ho no! I don't want this at all!"

Selina yelled at him and held the glass shard over his heart as he stared at her, in fear. She pushed the blade through and instead of hearing his pleas and yells, she gasped long for air, waking up tied to a machine with needles and tubes attached to her.

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Emmaline is (quite probably) the name of Christian Bale's daughter. Emmaline Martha Wayne flows off so perfectly

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