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Selena walked into the club wearing her revealing outfit that he loved the most, the leather like corset and black mini skirt that she matched with her boots that went over her knees.

The music was loud but Batman had put a filter on the video to prevent the flashing lights and any other effects in the club to help me focus, everyone turned to face her in the club and you could hear some of the whispers.

"Can you hear us?" Batman asks.

"Yeah," She responded.

She walked through the normal part of the club where a lot of people would normally party and get drunk and I had been once or twice within my life but it wasn't much fun in honesty, Selina walked down the stairs towards a guarded door where they asked what she was doing and she responded and flashed an ID.

She walked through the doors and started slowly looking around the room with a lot of people's faces showing up with information coming onto our display about them, none of them were anything interested or would help in the Riddler case.

"look back for a second," Batman spoke.

Selena looked back and we picked up the IDs of the group of men and Selena called them drop heads as they were doing drugs, she must of forgotten that we can hear her but she continued to walk around but there was a table full of the DA department.

Selena looked at them for a moment but Colson soon made eye contact causing her to look away and continue walking, Bat wasn't happy about this and they fought for a moment until she looked back at Colson and he walked up to her possibly to flirt.

He invited her to the table which allowed us to catch all the IDs of the people who were in the DA department and it was over half of them causing me to sigh in disappointment, Selena talked to them for a second and went to talk about 'the rat' which I hadn't heard about until now meaning that Batman and Gordon solved something without me.

They all looked at each other awkwardly when Selena mentioned it and I realised this was going to go south easily, I knew Selena had a friend that was currently in trouble that she was trying to care for so she was on edge especially since she went missing and they said they didn't want to talk about it or end up like 'the Russian girl' then walked off causing Selena to follow her.

Fuck! the Russian girl was going to be her friend, we're going to lose her.

"What do you know about Annika?" Selena asked, clearly annoyed.

Batman looked at me confused and I simply just tried to calm down and was thinking of ways to get Selena back on task, Selena knew that this girl was going to be her only lead so there was going to be no way to get her to back out of this.

"Selena, you need to be careful-" I go to warn her but get cut off short.

Selena storms after the woman but when she loses her she goes into the bathroom for workers and starts to take the contact out, panicking Batman but I tuned him out and was more panicked over Selena.

"Selena, don't go back to her or you'll get hurt!" I warn her.

"I'm sorry Ghost, I can't do this," Selena's voice cracked.

Selena took the contact lens out of her eye causing the video to cut to static with muffled sounds, I was worried for her so I punched the wall closet to me which caused Batman to look at me confused but I could tell he was also angry as he got his investigation cut short. 

It was the first time I had acted on my rage as I usually managed to keep my composure which is probably what worried Bat, I managed to stay calm in front of Penguin and yet that was more important and risky then this but I still cared about Selena as I didn't want her to go missing like her friend.

"Don't follow me and give me some contacts," I suddenly spoke.

Batman gave me some contact lenses and I walked into another room and changed out of my suit and did my makeup and took out my old Iceberg Lounge worker ID, I sigh and put in the contact lenses then the ear piece that Batman gave me with it and looked at my disguise in disgust as I had horrible memories flood back from working at this place.

Investigating never comes easy though.

"Can you hear me?" Bat asks.

"Yes, I can," I sigh.

I walk down to Iceberg lounge and the two men we had beat up earlier let me in after I flashed my ID card to them, I walked in as if I owned the place and walked through the crowd as people turned to look at me and I took a deep breath and let out a sigh.

I walk up the the guarded door and they asked me the same questions as Selena then let me in once they looked at my ID, I knew Batman would try to scan it but it was luckily one of my old disguises that I used from my earlier days as Ghost.

I walked in and started scanning people and Colson seemed to move on quick as when I looked at him long enough to scan his face, he walked over to me clearly drunk with a smile on his face and gave me a creepy aura but that was probably because I knew that he was a corrupt part of Gotham now.

He invited me to sit with him and I accepted after I got him to insist, Batman told me what topics to cover but compared to Selena who got to the questions immediately I timed it so I would get the topic started and only ask the question if their reaction wasn't one where they could catch onto me at any point.

One of the questions Batman had was an answer I wouldn't be able to give so I moved onto normal conversation with them and pretended to be friendly with them, Bat was annoyed by this but it didn't matter as I knew this disguise would be useful if I pressured them into giving me an answer but left not long after and got the contact lenses Selena had left for me.

I walked outside and Colson was there, he seemed drunk but I realised it was his car in front of us but I could see someone in the back but I needed more light if I wanted to ID them.

"Hey, do you need a ride?" Colson asked.

How sweet of him but I had to return to Bats so he could have his contacts back, I smiled at him and tried to look as polite and nice as possible.

"I don't live far, I'm fine. Thank you for the offer though," I smile.

Colson gestured to his car and I can't help but think about the person I saw in the car earlier but denied his offer even when he insisted, he admits defeat and waves me a goodnight and I wave back with a smile.

I return back to the hide out and give the contacts to Batman and he thanks me, I change back into my suit and wipe off all the stupid make-up then walk to our bikes with him.

"Remember the funeral is tomorrow, Bat," I remind him.

Batman seemed confused by the fact I shortened his name but I turned on my engine and drove back to the manor and quickly took off the suit and walked into the study room and picked up a book, I sat down and realised it was almost 1AM and sighed and put the book down and walked into the kitchen.

I grabbed a mug and started making a hot chocolate and thought back to the club and how almost everyone had their eyes on me, the security had improved in that club since I last worked there and I knew Penguin will notice something is wrong when an employee that hadn't showed up for a year suddenly showed up.

I was so deep into thought I caught myself zoning out again but snapped myself out of it and started drinking my hot chocolate, I walked over to the window in the dining room that let me over look Gotham and zoned out whilst looking out the window.

My mind ran wild with concern for Selena and if Riddler had anything to do with the disappearance of her friend but I had to focus on simply understanding Riddler's goal first, if I didn't know what he was trying to gain how else was I meant to stop him if I didn't know what his end goal was?

I know he wants to stop the corruption of Gotham but there is nothing else that Riddler was giving us, the murder tool was obviously meant to lead us to something but I needed to know what Batman was doing as I missed some of the riddles.

"Y/N?" Bruce called my name out.

I turned to look at him with my empty mug to see his eyeshadow on his eyes again with his messy hair.

 does this man run an emo band in secret or something?

Bruce told me to follow him and I nodded my head as he took me to an elevator he had previously told me not to use, he presses a button and we start to descent and when the rocks are no longer in view I see it's full of all of Batman's stuff.

"Bruce told me about you being ghost, so I guess it's only fair," He shrugs.

My eyes widen as I see how huge this place was and to see his cars and equipment dedicated to Batman, I see my suit is on his desk and that it had been upgraded meaning that I was zoned out for awhile.

I look around to see everything we knew about the Riddler cause was being displayed on the computers and the footage from me walking into the club playing, the TV behind us suddenly turned on and it plays the news.

"So, we're working together now?" I smile.

Bruce nods his head.

"We need to go to sleep, it's 3AM and we have Mitchell's funeral to attend," Bruce reminded me.

"Okay, Bat," I nod.

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