love and hate part four (by lily! dark night love story gone horribly wrong!)

“Goodnight Alfred.” He strode out of the room closing the door behind him. Anna slipped out of her leotard and walked into the bathroom and had a shower. She pulled on the pyjamas and crawled into bed and instantly fell asleep.
Meanwhile, Alfred hung the phone up and walked to a locked door and pushed a tiny button on the door frame. The door swung open exposing shelves of silverware and copperware. Alfred pushed on one side of the shelves and they spun around leading to a secret stairway. He walked down the stairs and walked into the batcave where Batman had taken off his mask and was sitting on his seat in front of several screens.
“Master Bruce, Miss Kyles is sleeping in the west wing and I have ordered her some clothes for her. So apparently you’re out of town?” Bruce scoffed and rolled his eyes. “And you like ballet?” Alfred went pale and shuffled his feet. “I won’t ask you if you don’t ask me.” Bruce looked back at the screen. Alfred looked to and shook his head sadly, on the screen was a picture of Anna doing the flamenco in Spain.
“She’s beautiful.” Said Bruce in a soft voice. Alfred shook his head again and began to walk off.
“Master Bruce, please try to get some sleep tonight. Even Batman needs to sleep. Goodnight.”
“Night Alfred.”
Anna tossed and turned in her sleep, she was having that dream again. That horrible dream she forgot every morning, but still left her in tears. She was abruptly brought out of her nightmare by a knock on the door. Anna was breathing heavily when she called out “Come in!” Alfred walked in pushing an old fashioned trolley of dozens of white boxes, he noticed she was breathing heavily and he couldn’t help but look around for Bruce.
“Your clothes and shoes have arrived.” Anna blinked a few times trying to remember what had happened.
“Home, fire, Joker, Scissors paper rock, Batman, here. Oh now I remember!” she got up and opened up the first white box and inside was a red summer dress with a red flower on the belt. “Thank you Alfred! What time is it?” Alfred looked at his watch and chuckled.
“Three-thirty ma’am. You had a long interesting night so I thought I would let you sleep in, dinner will be moved to five tonight, and I called up Master Wayne and he is delighted to have you as a guest for as long as you like.” And with that, Alfred walked out to go and cook dinner. Anna spent the next hour opening up her new clothes and shoes. At twenty to five, she pulled on the red summers dress and red high-heels to match.
She walked down the hall looking for the dining hall, as she did she thought to herself this house needs maps or signs Suddenly she got a whiff of roast beef and she followed the smell to two large wooden doors. She pushed on the doors and Alfred looked up from the dishes he was placing at the table.
“Ah Miss Kyles, you found the dining hall!” she nodded and walked down to the other end with two plates for her and Alfred. He held out a chair for her as she sat down at her place. He sat down himself and slipped his hand in his pocket and turned the voice recorder on. Anna saw this and smirked. Alfred fixed up his shirt and took a sip of pumpkin soup.
“So Anna, you were kidnapped by the Joker and lived? That’s very impressive, not many people live to tell the tale.” He let out a loud laugh and Anna forced a smile. I'm going to have to come up with a good story Thought Anna as she buttered a bread roll.
“Well, it wasn’t a very interesting tale. I was just walking home from ‘Isabella’s dance studio’; I got home where all these men with clown masks knocked me out and burned down my house. Then I woke up in a weird bed with only my leotard on and my hands tied together and the Joker walked in. I tried to run but that just made the Joker angry and then he pulled out a knife and said ‘Do you wanna know how I got these scars?’”
Anna paused and Alfred stopped eating, he was held up by suspense. “I took a deep breath and said ‘Yes’ he was so shocked he told me about how his father would drink and one night he came home really drunk and the Joker’s mother grabbed a knife to defend herself but he didn’t like that. Then he grabbed the knife off her and turned to the Joker who was only a little boy and said ‘Why so serious?’ then he put the blade in the little boy’s mouth and said ‘now let’s put a smile on that face!’”
Anna paused again to see Alfred’s reaction and it did not surprise her, Alfred was shocked and large eyed. This story was sort of true, but this had happened a long time ago. She continued on with her story. “And well, you know what the Joker looks like now. The Joker looked sad but he quickly snapped out of it and tied me to the wall.” Anna took a sip of wine while Alfred just stared, gobsmacked at the new information he had just found out.
Anna continued on with her story. “Then Batman flew in and saved me.” She then took a large swig of wine. “Did you know that Batman’s muscles are perfectly sized and shaped? And his brown eyes are to die for! Oh and those lips! I would do anything to kiss those lips!” she finished her soup and began eating the roast beef while Alfred remained frozen. “I just wish I could thank him... in my own way.” Anna ended slyly. The rest of dinner was quiet but this just amused Anna.
Once dinner was over, Anna walked off to her room and Alfred went to the batcave to give Bruce the tape. “Here you go sir, something interesting about the Joker and something interesting about ‘The Batman’.” Bruce looked up from his paper and sandwich as Alfred handed him the tape.
“What do you mean Alfred?” Said Bruce who was puzzled. Alfred smiled slyly and said “You’ll see. Well, hear.” And with that, he walked out of the cave leaving Bruce to stare at the tape. He pushed the tape into the computer and listened to the conversation Alfred and Anna had over dinner. Once the tape had finished for the sixteenth time he looked at his watch and saw it was twenty to twelve.
He walked over to his suit and pulled it on; he was going to see Anna tonight. She wanted batman and she didn’t know who Bruce was, he might even be able to take the mask off.