Duela Dent
Batman
761 wordsThere was one thing Duela Dent wanted more than anything else in the world. Above everything, she wanted to hate Jonathan Crane. She wanted to want him dead, wanted to scream at him until she was hoarse. She wanted to want to put a bullet in his head, wanted to want to watch him bleed out. She'd hated him just yesterday ( Read more... )

Duela Dent
Batman
500 words

Duela Dent took a drink from her glass of water as she glanced out of the window, down at the lovely arrangement set up for her wedding. Alone and with six hours until the wedding, she couldn’t help but wonder.

Why was she doing this?

( Not marrying Jonathan, no. )

Duela Dent
Batman
641 wordsJonathan worried far too much ( Read more... )

Duela Crane fell asleep sometime around one in the morning, waiting for her husband to finish his work in the basement laboratory of the Crane home. She preferred when he worked on the second floor, but the lab there was much smaller. It was quickly being adopted by the ten-year-old Joshua Crane. His essays and plans took up one corner and were ( Read more... )

Duela Dent
Batman
1132 words

By seven, Joshua Crane had long since outgrown the need to have his mother by his side when he fell asleep-- if the child had ever really needed her to do so. Even so, she sat on the end of his bed, listening to his breathing as he slept.

Duela wanted nothing more than to live for her son. She knew, though, even as she ( Read more... )

Duela Dent
Batman
412 words
Duela Dent woke up at four o'clock in the morning. In and of itself, that wasn't unusual. The little girl woke up several times most nights and merely rolled over, located her stuffed dog, and fell peacefully back asleep. One thing stood out tonight, however.

Light streamed in from beneath her door and footsteps sounded ( Read more... )

Duela Dent
Batman
209 words

Duela Dent-- she'd have to research marriages soon, no reason it shouldn't be legitimate before the baby was born-- looked at the grandfather clock. It chimed the hour. The young woman knew she should have been asleep hours ago. She had a meeting with a client, newly sent to Arkham; Duela had promised herself she'd go to ( Read more... )

Duela Dent
Batman
457 words

Nine days in, Duela caved. She felt foolish, going to a doctor. After all, she really wasn't all that ill. A little nauseous every now and again but nothing to worry about. Still, the length of time it had continued made her worry just a bit. Really, the young woman supposed she could have spoken to Jonathan about it rather ( Read more... )

( Part I)

Duela Dent
Batman
520 words

Three weeks ago, Harvey Dent went out into the Narrows at one o'clock in the morning.

By itself, the event was commonplace. He often received calls, tips about whomever he had sought recently. He always left soon after those calls came. On that night, he'd made sure that his fourteen-year-old daughter was sound ( Read more... )

Duela Dent
Batman
353 words

"Will you listen to me?!"

"You're not making any sense, Mom. I'm trying to listen to you, but you're not making sense!"

Duela hadn't meant to raise her voice, and she regretted doing it almost immediately. Well, she regretted it quickly. Immediately, she had to dodge a plastic pill cup. Nothing she wasn't used to, nothing ( Read more... )