Happy belated birthday!
Title: Pictures
Characters: Bruce/Selina, Helena
Rating: G
Word Count: 330
Disclaimer: DC owns.
AN: For abvj’s birthday! =) And inspired by the batcat_fic Challenge #8- pictures.
Selina opened the small, blue box and decided to go through them all. It wouldn’t take long, there weren’t very many. Some caught her eye more than others. Some she couldn’t even look at. What was she wearing in that one? She had the strongest urge to tear it into tiny little pieces and burn it, but she had promised not to, so she threw it on the “These Should Be in the Trash” pile.
There was one, no, two where they were both smiling. In the first, they both looked so young while at one of the many events they managed to find each other at. He looked so handsome, but he always did look good in a black tux and that rakish half-smile. She wore a short, black dress with his hand wrapped possessively around her waist as the only accessory beside her diamond necklace.
She turned the picture over to see if by some miracle she had written the date on the back. She had not, but the date was printed there. In his writing. She couldn’t help but smile.
The second one was taken with a disposable camera. He snuck into her hospital room while the nurse stepped out. She remembers there was one frame left in the roll and she hoped Bruce, who had earned the task by having longer arms, wouldn’t accidentally cut off all their heads in their first family picture.
He didn’t. The three of them managed to squeeze into the shot damn near perfect. Though, her right eye didn’t quite make it. No one is looking at the camera, however. Bruce’s eyes are on Selina. Selina’s one visible eye is on Helena. And Helena was worn-out, having just been born and all, and was fast asleep.
Selina ran her fingers delicately over the snapshot and sighed. One last look and she placed the two pictures with the others in the cardboard envelope she was mailing off to Princeton at Helena’s request.