What the hell was that?

[femme-du-chat.livejournal.com]

Selina Kyle usually shows up without an appointment.

It isn't something that can truly be expected but it should be unsurprising when she shows up unexpectedly, sitting in your chair or lounging on your desk, regardless of what else may have been there to start with. Sometimes, though, the waiting for someone to show up part of all of that is just too much, too trying, too annoying.

When visiting Eddie (and therefore Crane), she'd prefer not to .... surprise anyone.

So while there is still no appointment, there is, at least, knocking on the door instead of just walking right into their establishment.

She's even doing it during business hours.

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[femme-du-chat.livejournal.com]

"Tempting. Very tempting."

Selina leans back in the chair, her eyes closed for a few moments. "There isn't anything to be done, is there?"

[eddie-nygma.livejournal.com]

Nygma pulls a bottle of scotch out of his top desk drawer, along with two tumblers, pouring the drinks in any case.

"I don't know about that. We certainly can't un-do what's been done, but.."

He trails off, clearly ambivalent about the train of thought he's own.

[femme-du-chat.livejournal.com]

Selina sighs softly, leaning back in the chair. The tumbler is picked up and cradled into her hands. She doesn't take a sip of it at all, just holding the amber alcohol. "I don't know, Eddie."

[eddie-nygma.livejournal.com]

Maybe she guessed where he was going with that, and maybe not.

"The one thing we can do is get Harvey back into Arkham. They might even be able to help him there."

Who is that man in green, and what has he done with Edward Nygma?

[femme-du-chat.livejournal.com]

Selina's brows arch, "Really? You're advocating a return? My one stay was less than pleasant and it wasn't even that long."

[eddie-nygma.livejournal.com]

"Do you know any other place Harvey would be safe from himself, and others would be safe from him? Apart from dead, I mean."

Nygma scoffs.

"I think I need to get the doctor to lower my dosage. I'm starting to sound like Batman."

[femme-du-chat.livejournal.com]

"I don't know if that's a place he'll see anything other than what happened there, Eddie. I also don't think that you sound like Batman." Of course, sound like Batman to her and to anyone else, are likely entirely different things.

[eddie-nygma.livejournal.com]

A shrug of the shoulders.

"If not Arkham, then where? Blackgate? Harvey needs to be contained, and he needs treatment."

[femme-du-chat.livejournal.com]

"I'm not saying I have an answer at all but I don't know if Arkham is a solution for some people. For some people, I think it might well be part of the problem. Repeating the same cycle again.... Same cell, same escape, even if only to prove you can do it."

Selina bites her bottom lip, thoughtfully.

[eddie-nygma.livejournal.com]

"You could get your fiancee to build a new facility with the spare change in his couch. Something fresh, with extra-soft padding on the walls."

[femme-du-chat.livejournal.com]

Selina looks at him, incredulous at first and then slowly less so as she thinks about it. "Well." Pressing her lips together she nods slowly, "That isn't the worst idea I've ever heard."

[eddie-nygma.livejournal.com]

"No, I daresay it isn't, in our line of work."

He chuckles.

[femme-du-chat.livejournal.com]

"Absolutely true on that front."

Selina takes a drink from the glass letting out a breath.

"Damn it."

[eddie-nygma.livejournal.com]

"Look on the bright side. No more Roman."

Harvey's solution had a certain elegance that was hard to ignore, even if it wasn't according to plan.

[femme-du-chat.livejournal.com]

"Ha!"

A startled laugh escapes Selina, unthinkingly. She isn't happy that Roman is dead but there is a relief, a release of stress from her life that she still feels awkward about. "He was an evil bastard."

[eddie-nygma.livejournal.com]

"Unquestionably and unrepentantly. And he was an evil man who intended to kill you by inches."

[femme-du-chat.livejournal.com]

"Me and everyone who knew me."

Selina looks down into the glass again, "Did I ever tell you what he did to my sister?"

[eddie-nygma.livejournal.com]

"Word travels fast. Black Mask's.. creativity is well-known. One of the reasons I thought he should go to Arkham - him and the Joker in a fight with sharpened cafeteria trays would be something to see."

[femme-du-chat.livejournal.com]

Selina lets out a rough breath of air, a frustrated sound. "With my luck they would have decided to join forces or something like that."

"We'll have to watch and see what he does. Harvey, that is."

[eddie-nygma.livejournal.com]

"That goes without saying. This city doesn't need any more misguided crusaders for justice."

He downs his drink.

[femme-du-chat.livejournal.com]

He gets a look at that comment, before arching her brows a bit and finishing her drink.

"So. Harvey. Are you up for trying to tackle that problem? Just the two of us?"

[eddie-nygma.livejournal.com]

"Why not? The Nevermore Detective Agency could use a feather in its cap, and it's always a pleasure to work with you."

[femme-du-chat.livejournal.com]

"If I get paid as a consultant, even better."

Selina grins toward him, hard to tell if she's really joking or not.

[eddie-nygma.livejournal.com]

"Tut-tut. You're about to marry into money. You should let me conserve my meager funds."

[femme-du-chat.livejournal.com]

"Darling, there is no date set."

And that's about all Selina's going to say about that. There is a ring on her finger but an actual walk down the aisle? That's a terryfing idea. They stuff of nightmares for both parties involved.

[eddie-nygma.livejournal.com]

"Still, there's the principle of the thing. Since when has Selina Kyle earned an honest dollar?"

He chuckles.

[femme-du-chat.livejournal.com]

"Since before Edward Nygma did."

Selina grins at him.