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OCs that I have been cooking up because my fixation had me by the throat for the last few weeks. Part 1

DC:

Full Name: Amy Wayne Alias: Vespertilio

Occupation: Vigilante | Business Mogul | Fashion Designer | Occasional Actress Affiliations: Batfamily | Young Justice | Gotham’s Elite | Justice League (Loosely)

Fighting Style: Brutal, efficient, psychological, highly strategic

Public Persona: Gotham’s Ice Queen—admired, feared, untouchable

Vigilante Persona: A shadow, a ghost, a nightmare—the thing criminals fear

Origin & Core Motivation

Amy Wayne is the biological daughter of Bruce Wayne, born from a twisted scheme. Her mother’s family were human traffickers, and she was created as leverage to trap Bruce. Raised in secrecy, locked away in horrific conditions with no birth records or name. At age 8, Batman raided the operation and found her, barely conscious in a dark room. Bruce took her in and raised her as his daughter, choosing the day he saved her as her birthday. She became Vespertilio originally to protect Dick Grayson—what was meant to be temporary became permanent. She quickly realized Gotham could never truly be saved but fights anyway—for her siblings.

Unique Traits & Skills Masters echolocation and silent movement—moves like a literal ghost. Extreme pain tolerance (to an unsettling degree)—can walk on broken bones, remove bullets herself. Designed her own advanced liquid armor that activates from her bracelet. Highly intelligent—predicts opponents’ moves before they realize them. Never shows her face to the Justice League. Only Batman, The Flash (Barry), the Batfamily, Young Justice, and Wally have seen her face. The Justice League doesn’t even know her civilian identity.

A quote from the icon that is Amy Wayne:

"If people fear you, even your allies will fear you. Trust wisely."

The Perception of Vespertilio Across the DC Universe Gotham & The Public Feared as a monster—urban myths surround her. Criminals avoid Gotham when she’s patrolling. Gotham’s elite admire Amy Wayne but fear Vespertilio.

the Batfamily – Her True Loyalties

Bruce Wayne (Batman)

The only person she takes orders from. Absolute, unwavering loyalty to him. "If Batman gives a command, I enforce it. No questions asked."

Dick Grayson (Nightwing)

The first sibling she ever had. Teasing and banter is legendary—Wonder Boy vs. Shadow. "I would go to war for Dick. No hesitation."

Jason Todd (Red Hood)

Jason’s death shattered her. When he came back, she hugged him first—no questions asked. Buys him motorcycles, feeds him, protects him—she will never let him feel alone again.

Tim Drake (Red Robin)

Came in when she was still grieving Jason. Helped Bruce win the custody case against Tim’s neglectful parents. Wiped his tears the day Bruce signed the papers.

Damian Wayne (Robin)

The only biological sibling she has—but treats all her siblings equally. Respects him as a warrior but still acts like a big sister. "I will burn the world if something happens to him."

Cassandra Cain (Orphan) –

Silent, deadly, unstoppable. "Cass and I don’t need words. We understand each other perfectly."

Stephanie Brown (Spoiler)

Shopping trips, inside jokes, endless banter. "Steph is the sister I need when the world gets too dark."

Duke Thomas (Signal) – The Only Normal One

Her connection to "normal life." Takes him to "civilian things" to keep him sane.

The Justice League – Mistrust & Fear ✅ Batman – The Only League Member She Trusts. ✅ The Flash (Barry Allen) – The Only One She Respects. The rest of them don't trust her at all.

They found out she was Batman’s daughter when Damian called her ‘sister’ in front of them. They have never seen her face. They fear her influence and capabilities. She once told them to their faces that:

"If Batman told me to, I would take out the entire Justice League."

Amy Wayne & Wally West – The Power Couple Wally fell first. Amy let him in slowly. Their marriage is pure chaos and devotion. They wear their wedding rings on the job.

Oliver Wayne-West – The Purple Heir Oliver is the adopted alien son of Amy and Wally.

Imprinted on Amy when he woke up from his pod when he awakened from his pod after crashing in Gothom(fun fact in his species he is only 3 but in human years he is 13) and sees her as his true mother.

Deadpan, brutally honest, and too smart for his age.

The Justice League doesn’t know what to do with him. He openly calls them "warlords" and questions their ethics. Amy just lets it happen.

"Oliver, baby, you can’t just tell the Justice League they’re hypocrites." "Why not? It is the truth."

I have been having fun tweaking this character. Like making reactions by using ChatGPT and digging deeper into how my character would do in different events. I have been having so much fun with it. For I made a book and have been sketching Amy (though it is terrible) and have been enjoying making her lore.

Hope you love her as much as i do.

Also, there are way more characters that I have created!!!!! >:3

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Ok has it been a while.

Yes.

Do i have an absoultly good reason for this.

Also yes.

First reason. Starting Unversity.

Serond reason. I may or may have not completly threw out the reunion fanfic and created an oc with lore, how she interactes with the characters of the DC universe and more.

Is it really irresponsible of me to just drop a fic. Yes

But am I having the time of my life creating a whole DC Universe with my tramatized but beautful new characher?

Also yes.

Her name is amy wayne, shes a fashion mogel, and shes the most terryifying vigilante in the world. Shes a softie for her family and is only loyal to the batfamily.(which causes some trust problems with the justice league.)

I love her and im going to take my time with her.

Sorry but good day and good night.

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No words, Thank you so much

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ALRIGHT! We got the results of the poll!

Lets just say i got something speacil planned in the plot for you guys.

>:)

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Hii!! 🤖 Anon here (sorry I’ve not been active😭)

I‘ve been thinking about which Batboy would make the most sense to be the Baby daddy and to be honest I have no clue.

I think in a way it could all fit and make sense really.

For instance:

Dick has always tried to have some sort of connection with Routine!Reader, an perhaps it was never really in a sibling way because of the distance between them both.

Jason and Routine!Reader weren’t even raised at the same time within the manor, and by the time they met properly she was already past the age of wanting any connections.

Tim already had pre-existing obsessive tendencies surrounding her, from what I can tell, and probably has had the most interactions with her due to their similarities.

But I’d love to know what you think! I really loved your response to my previous ask about these three being romantic yanderes in this fic because I think there’s so much potential that should be explored by writers because, to a point, some of these platonic fics just seem so repetitive. Let’s change up the dynamics a bit y’know?

Ok good news, I put up a poll and it looks like you will still get some Romantic batboys.

Now let's get into the romantic potential of the batboys.

Now first of all, as Rountine! reader did not grow up anywhere near the three boys(because one was busy, one was dead and the other was doing his own thing until the actual moment they meet) or she was just at the time where she couldn't give a damn.

Dick, as you said, couldn't really grow close to the reader due to not spending time with her when they were younger. However, when he was trying to be better and be close to the growing family, routine!reader just didn't want to be near him. She did not look annoyed, nor did she look angry, she just looked at him like he was nothing. In the past when Routine Reader was at a family dinner(which she didn't want to be there) Dick would try to talk to her, but she gave him nothing. Now thinking about how dick actually realizes it is a whole new battle. I like to believe that he would realize what his feeling is while he's trying to sleep and all he can think of is Routine! reader's cold face staring at him.

Now as I said many times before, Jason was dead when she was brought in. But they meet after his vengeance arc, at the manor library. Now reader and Jason were neutral with each other at first because Reader at that point had the mindset of "if they don't care about me, I don't care about them" and Jason just wanted the new books that Alfred told him about, but that didn't mean he didn't stop and stare. Now after feeding Jason some extra pork chops you had cooked, that's when the feelings started to show. Jason, to put it lightly, is a fucked up guy. Who wouldn't be after what he went through? And fucked up guys, do fucked up things. For example, he wouldn't leave you alone unless you cooked him something, and even if you still didn't cook for him, he would stare at you, no matter what you were doing. Jason's feelings for Rountine! reader aren't normal romantic, but I like to think that one of the main components in his feelings towards reader is how reader cooks. On the very rare occasion when Jason gets reader to cook for him, as he watches them cook, it kinda heals him? Does that make sense? Like he's just sitting there waiting to be fed, and it just feels normal and quiet.

Tim's obsession with the reader came from wanting to research reader and how she thinks. Basically like a lab rat. And you are right when you said she had more of an interaction with him. As both of them during their early teen years, grew up together in the manor. But it wouldn't be until maybe a year after he became Robin that he met Rountine!reader in the kitchen. As time passes on, the more private research Tim has done about the reader. Which is a very small folder of nearly nothing. Besides her full name, date of birth, a list of friends, and other small things, that was pretty much it. Every so often if he has the time, he tries to find something new about Routine! reader, which is nearly impossible she doesn't even have any social media accounts. Tim sees Rontine!reader as a perfect puzzle, and he want figure out how she ticks.

(hope ya like it 🤖)

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HOLY SHI-

Thank you so much everyone!!!!!!!!!!!! I didnt expect to reach this far!!!!

A little heads up about part 3! I won't begin writing until the poll is finished, so I know which storyline to go through.

Thank you again and ill do my best!!!!

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Routine!Reader Relationship with the Batfamily(in the beginning):

Bruce Wayne:

The relationship between Routine!reader and Bruce is similar to most of the neglected reader fiction you would read.

You were taken in just a few months after the death of Jason. So Bruces couldn’t emotionally take care of the reader. He did provide for them as they grew. He would have dinner with them. He would give them his card if they asked for it. But that was about it. He just provided financially and had meals with the reader.

As time went on, though, and the family grew, the reader began to stop attending the dinners and, more or less, just stayed on their side of the manor. They learned how to cook themselves through YouTube and TV shows.

Due to the reader's emotionless and stern mind, during those dinners where rountine! reader was forced to attend, the reader doesn’t feel much to Bruce. She just sat and ate, and then she would leave to go and plan her week.

The routine reader doesn’t call Bruce, dad or father, as she doesn’t view him as anything but the man who took her in. That was it.

When she left, Bruce only realized until the next family dinner, as you weren’t seated at your usual spot at the end of the table.

Dick Greyson:

Dick was going through the loss of Jason and was going through all sorts of things at the time, not to mention he was already living in Bloodhaven so Dick didn’t interact with reader a lot in the first place.

Dick didn’t acknowledge Routine reader during the first few years she lived at the manor.

However, as the family grew and he began to visit more often, there were times during the few dinners that the reader was forced to attend by Alfred when Dick would try to talk to them, try to get them to be a part of the family dinner. But the reader would just give him only a few hums and short answers.

The reader reminded Dick a lot about Bruce, as she carried a sort of mysterious and quiet aura. Dick is trying to be a good brother now, he tries his best to be better and be around everyone, but with you, it's like you don’t even see him.

After the reader started Uni, there were times when reader would see dick, walking around campus looking for something, but you just ignored him and quietly walked to class.

Little did you know he was looking for you.

But when you graduated, you were missing from the manor . It was like you disappeared.

“where are you dove?”

Jason Todd

 As I said you were brought in when he was dead.

But after being alive, and coming back for vengeance, you were safe due to the fact of your neglect, as Jason didn’t see you around Bruce and the media did not pay attention to you.

After the vengeance arc, the first time you and Jason are in the library. You were doing your homework.

When I say this was your first meeting, it was more like Jason watching you for the first time. When you heard someone walk through the doors of the library, you didn’t even look up, as you were focused on what you had to do for school so you had time to go and cook your lunch.

Jason was neutral about you at first. Alfred had informed him that Bruce had taken in a biological child of his and was raising them and it wasn't like he went to the manor and stayed for long.

What got him hooked was your cooking.

During one of his occasional fridge raids in the manor, he found you cooking some pork chops.

After some silence, you asked if he wanted any or if he was just going to stand there like an idiot.

After that, whenever he enters the manor, he looks for you and tries to get you to cook for him.

Most of the time you ignored him or just leave the room when he enters.

After he found out that you left, Jason was wandering why. University? Nope. He found out through one of your friends Instagram post that you had graduated months ago.

If that’s the case, why did you leave?

Tim Drake:

Tim is one of the greatest detectives in Gotham if not the world.

Yet for some reason, he can't get any information about you.

(This is because you don’t use social media at all, but that doesn’t mean you don’t appear on it.)

When Tim first became Robin at 13 and living with Bruce after gaining custody, you were 12. Due to his stalking research on Batman, he already knew that Bruce had a biological child, but he was too busy carrying the title of Robin that he didn’t have time to address you.

After a while, the two of you would eventually meet face-to-face. You were in the kitchen making coffee when Tim walked in. You noticed him eyeing your coffee so you moved out of the way to let him grabb the freshly made coffee pot.

Your first interaction with each other wasn't anything worthwhile, you just ignored him after that.

But to Tim, this was the start of something new. When seeing you for the very first time, he wanted to know more about you. Why did you act the way you did, why you didn’t seem to care about simple matters or big matters, why you didn’t react to the world around you? Why, why why, why.

As you grew up, Tim would gradually try to learn things about you, after failing to find you on social media because you don’t have any, he found your friends and saw that in all of them, you had the same face, same body posture, and no reaction. Nothing seemed to change. Why?

Were you abused before coming into the manor? No. Past reports indicate no abuse of any kind and that you were raised by hard-working mom who didn’t seem to cause any problems.

As he began to observe you more as the both of you grew older, the more of an obsession he had of you. Every day he would try to learn something new about you, and when he was able to find the rare detail, it was like a fucking rush of dopamine.

When you leave without a trace.

Now he wonders, where did you go? What are you hiding now?

Damion Wayne

Many people say that Damion would attack a neglected reader to show dominance as the better heir and blood child.

This does happen. When they first meet each other.

Routine! reader would be 16 when she meets the 10-year-old assassin for the very first time.

Bruce introduces Rountie! reader to Damion after a few days of him living in the manor. The meeting is placed in one of the living rooms where both Bruce and Alfred are present.

The routine reader does raise an eyebrow when she hears that the little goblin that’s glaring at her is her new little biological brother, but besides that, she just nods her head. Damion on the other hand decides to fight for dominance as the better-blood sibling and immediately attacks with a dagger.

Thankfully due to Alfred training the reader in self-defense, she was able to keep Damion from attacking her until Alfred and Bruce stepped in.

After that it was agreed on, for now, Damion and Routine!reader would be kept separated from each other until further notice.

After that, it was rare for the two siblings to be seen next to each other, and if they did happen to be in the same room. Routine!reader would pretty much treat him like everyone else, ignore him. Damion on the other hand would stare at you with a glare.

Due to this kind of relationship, the two of you didn’t know anything about each other.

All Damion saw was a pathetic excuse of a human, an unworthy successor.

And all Routine!reader saw was a green eyed goblin.

When Rountine!reader finally left, Damion didn’t really care that much.

He was confused when everyone started freaking out about you disappearing. So what?

That was until a child was discovered in your arms.

Cassandra Cain and Stephine Brown:

Honestly, these two both admire you.

The way you speak, the way you carry yourself. The way you dress.

Cassandra especially likes you as both of you struggle with expressing emotions. Whenever there's a family dinner or an event where both of you are attending, she tries to talk to you by sign language or through body language.

Despite you like being left alone and not seeing the family as a family, you did see that Cassandra wanted to just talk and to be with you.

The two of you would speak in sign language until the event or dinner was over and you would excuse yourself and leave for the day.

Overall, I think despite wanting to be left alone, Routine reader doesn’t mind Cassandra's presence as she doesn’t bother her with stupid questions or stares. They just sit there and talk with their hands and body language.

Stephine on the other hand, being the loud and head-first spirit she is, wants to talk to you about everything. Where did you get the shoes, clothes, and everything else you have? Do you like to shop? Tries to get you to shop with her. using Bruce's card.

On a deeper level, Stephine likes how elegant and quiet you are I think she had a type,  you don’t let people talk down to you, and come up with the coolest backhanded comments. Legit makes her laugh whenever she sees you put high-end ladies in their place.

When you suddenly disappear, Stephine is freaking out while Cassandra is trying to calm her down. They want to know where you are. Did they do something, why aren’t you in your usual place?

Please don’t leave them.

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Dick calling her ‘baby bird’ or ‘dove’ or all these sweet nicknames seems increasingly more suspicious to the Batfam.

Jason being gentle and actually staying whenever she’s in/was in the manor raises a few alarms.

Tim preferring the coffee she makes to Alfred’s seems peculiar to.

this was part of Anon 🤖 first ask and it has got me a thinking.

Routine! reader during her younger years was mostly left in the care of Alfred. But as she grew older, she taught herself how to cook and clean and other little things to learn indepencece.

As she got older, whenever any of the boys would come to her side of the manor and she was cooking, she would give them some depending on how much she made or the dish, this would include drinks like coffee.

This could hypothetically be the cause of how some of the bat family try to grow close with the reader, but due to them not really acknowledging Rountine!reader during her childhood or being too busy to notice her, she doesn't really do anything on her side causing a one-sided relationship(platonic or romantic can be up to you).

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Anon 🤖here!!!

Routine!Reader definitely speaks to Eddie normally and therefore Eddie actually is ‘above’ the speaking and reading level for his age. I think she’d get even more annoyed if the Batfam try to coddle or baby-talk him because like no that just makes babies frustrated because they aren’t stupid?!

Yes! absolutely!

I like to think the reader is one of those moms who talk to Baby Eddie like he's an adult, and as he grows older it doesn't really change, and the reader teaches Eddie how to read early which actually creates a real sweet bonding moment between the two as they continue to read to each other as Eddie gets older.

Eddie wants to know how babies are made? Routine!reader just tells him.

Also, whenever the family tries to coddle or babytalk him, the reader gets really annoyed, like you can actually see it on her face.

When Routine!reader was a child her mom would talk to her normally so she doesn't understand why they must speak in annoyingly high voices.

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Dick: Hey there little guy how are you doing¬

Eddie, 7 years old: I am doing quite fine, my good sir. Please escort me to the kitchen, as Mommy says I can have a drink of warm milk.

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If one of the batboys becomes the dad...

imagine a moment where a series of events caused the Batboy to bring baby Eddie to the manor without reader consent.

This causes reader to walk on over there, make sure baby Eddie is alright, ask Alfred to take baby Eddie out of the room, and then when she knows his far away proceeds to full-on go mad at him.

Im not talking screaming kind of mad, im talking very serious voice that makes chills go down your spine and makes you shiver.

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Batboy: He is our son! Routine! Reader: No. Eddie is my son. Stop bothering me with this stupid act of yours.

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Omg if you make a taglist can I be added I'm loving your fic.

Of course you can!!!!!!

I'm happy you like it!!

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When baby Eddie meets the batfamily for the first time.

Batfamily: "what you got there?" Routine!reader: "A smoothie" (she said as if she wasn't holding baby Eddie who was drinking a babyccino)

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Anon 🤖 I am so sorry but while answering your ask, I deleted it but I remember the majority of it!

It was a mistake! I swear! 😥

If I miss something just send me an ask!

Routine!reader is definitely the type of person to just say "this is fine, this is normal" in themiddle of a fire.

The relationship that reader has with the family is pretty distance. She doesent see them as family. More so people who lived with her. A roommate kind of deal.

The rest of the family do know about her, they just don't see her often and when they do Routine!reader just has small talk with them and then when she feels like the conversation goes on for too long she straight up leaves.

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Please please please make one of the Batfam the father! Like I think that opens up so much more possibility for angst tbh than if not.

Like, with a member of the Batfam (like Tim, Jason or Dick) it adds to the idea that (Name) is NOT family, at least to the boys. If that respective Bat-boy is romantically into (Name) then that means the entire dynamic of the Batfam shifts.

But I like to imagine what it’s be like if (Name) has absolutely no idea that the Bat-boy is her baby’s father, maybe she was drunk or just genuinely forgot but it’s also so uncomfortable to think about that it’s perfect:

Dick calling her ‘baby bird’ or ‘dove’ or all these sweet nicknames seems increasingly more suspicious to the Batfam.

Jason being gentle and actually staying whenever she’s in/was in the manor raises a few alarms.

Tim preferring the coffee she makes to Alfred’s seems peculiar to.

Idk, it is totally your choice but I genuinely think that it’d be such a major shift from how most neglected!reader fanfics are.

Also, imagine the idea of ALL three of them possibly being the baby’s father. Of course they can test when the baby is born, but before….it’s a whole Mamma Mia story.

OH MY GOD MY FIRST ASK!!!!! HIIIIIIIIIIIII

Anyways.

I do like the idea of it as your point in making the reader more further from being seen as one of the family.

Routine!Reader honestly doesn't remember much about what happened that night, but if it was the Batboys, I'm going to say she isn't really going to care.

She doesn't know any of the family very well, making the situation not too important for her.

The batfamily will care though, very much.

If i were going to make one of the batboys the daddy, i would definetly see them trying to get a closer relationship with the reader, as she did just have their child.

But at the same time, due to Routine!Reader lacks emotion and straightforward mind, the only thing she will be thinking about is why they even care at this point. So what if she had their kid.

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A little bit of a spoiler but if we go down the single-mama route,

The father of baby Eddie is going to be a made-up character that i am planning but he's going to cause problems for the reader.

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Routine part ii

When you were younger, you weren’t exactly normal. It wasn't anything serious, but unlike most kids who would cry, yell, or giggle, you always had a serious face. You could smile, but that didn’t happen often. Your mother grew concerned for you as you went from toddler to child. So when you were 5, she took you to the doctor, as it would only be a few more months until it was time for you to go to elementary school, and worried about how the other children would treat you.

The doctor didn’t give a clear answer, “there was nothing physically wrong with the child.”

All the Doctor could say was “This child is just quiet for her age.”

Your mother left that office more confused than ever. However, she was going to do her best to raise this small child to the best of her abilities.

Something your mother loved was routine. She loved organization and making sure things fall into place. She did so in work and at home.

Your mother wasn't strict or anything. She even gave you a little whiteboard with the week on it and some magnets that had different symbols to create a cute timetable. Your mother wasn't strict with you, she didn’t want to force you to follow it but she placed it in the living room, and showed you how it worked.

That was the first time your mother had seen you smile since you were a baby. The two of you ‘played’ with the whiteboard, making sure everything was in its place for the week.

You missed that whiteboard.

As you grew up in the manor, Alfred gave you a weekly planner book for your 10th birthday. You used that planner every single day. Planning your day was calming.

It felt like your mom was just over your shoulder helping you.

As time passed by, your planners began to become an obsession, not only was it able to calm you down by reminding you of your mother. You felt like you were in control. You knew everything that was happening and was about to happen.

If things didn’t go to plan, you would fall into a dark place. You would furiously write changes to your plan on your desk for hours on end. The longest you had ever gone was the rest of the evening without a drink of water or food.

As you got older, the planners continued in your life but the obsession wasn't as strong as it was when you were younger but you still followed your planner and you could always follow your life plan.

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Life didn’t go as planned.

The old you would have hide yourself in your room trying to fix this problem. Unfortunately, as a mother to a 10-month-old wasn’t an option.

During your pregnancy, you were still able to work at your new job. It helped that your manager(Alice Rogers) was a single mother of two kids, so she was able to have some sort of sympathy for you. There was also the fact, that after training, it was evident that you were an efficient receptionist at the front desk. You did every task that you were given and never complained, you were quiet yet blunt, meaning you were able to befriend the older ladies who worked beside you at the reception.

There were of course a few hick ups here and there.

There was the fact that during the first trimester, every single time you smelled your co-worker's very strong perfume you would need to excuse yourself to throw up your breakfast. When you stood up to go on your lunch break you nearly fainted from being so dizzy.

The pregnancy hormones weren’t the only annoying thing. Despite befriending your fellow receptionists, there were still the other departments that weren’t so friendly. When once going up to your friend who was in the HR department, you passed a group of young ladies you heard one of them whispered “That’s the whore I told you about”.  Which resulted in you somehow making the girl cry by saying something along the lines of “Oh you must be the woman that’s getting fired with no pay.”

Besides work, you were able to get a decent apartment. If you could call it that. You wanted something practical and safe. You found that Haven Heights Apartments was one of the few places available that was on the safer side of Gotham, so you took your chance at it immediately. Use a good amount of what was left of your trust fund to live there to ensure you were comfortable and were at least somewhere to shield your child.

With help from your friends, you were able to make that empty apartment into a home. With a small nursery waiting for your new baby boy.

Your friends offered to through a gender reveal party but you wanted to just have a small gathering with a little cake in the middle. Despite that, your friends being the amazing people they were, spoiled you with presents. You remember the dramatic gasps they let out when you smiled at the pile they made for you and started an immediate photo shoot to “capture the historical event.”

Speaking of historical events, when the cake was cut, Samantha (the friend in HR) yelled FOOD FIGHT, and the blue cake was spattered everywhere imaginable. You still find traces of cake crumbs and icing to this day despite making your friends do all the cleaning.

The name part was easy for you, you decided to pick the name Eddie, named after an amazing side character from your favorite novel.

What wasn't easy was the actual day you had to give birth. Thankfully when your due date approached your friends and you had all agreed that one would stay with you and help with getting you to the hospital, so getting to the hospital went smoothly. What didn’t go smoothly was giving birth to Eddie.

It felt like days had passed, all you remember was everything was blurry and painful and the next moment, you heard crying.

You couldn’t see at first due to tears and being a bit dizzy.

But then you saw a blurry figure walk towards you and carefully put a small bundle of soft blankets in your arms.

As your version cleared, you saw him. Your baby boy.

“congratulations mama, your baby is healthy and strong” The nurse said gently

The small baby in your arms wiggled around, letting out small sounds.

You couldn’t even describe what you were feeling. But you loved this baby, you loved him with your entire being. You were going to do your best to protect him no matter what.

“Hi Eddie…...

I'm your mum.”

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Shout out to @cheust for letting me name the baby after one of her characters!