The next morning Commissioner Gordon arrived to Chase's office at nine. No longer intoxicated by Batman's swashbuckling, she was thinking more clearly. Having Gordon miss an important meeting was not wise. It was merely an arrogant power play on her part. Her own arrogance had always been her greatest weakness. She met him outside. He could tell she was nervous about something.

"What did you tell the Mayor Jimmy?", she asked. "I told him I was ill, that the stress of last night wore me out." Chase was relieved, but she found it odd that he did that on his own, "Why" "Because cancelling the meeting for any other reason would be unacceptable." There was a pause. He had to gather his courage, "this IS unacceptable", he continued. He caught Chase offguard.

"How so?", she asked, surprised. "I've let you inside my head. I'm letting you influence my thoughts. I'm in charge of the safety and security of everyone in Gotham. I can't let the security of my judgement be breached.", he said. She was taken back. Perhaps Gordon was stronger than she had given him credit for. Good for him. She would break him again easily, but it was nice to see some back bone every now and again.

"But I thought you liked our hypnosis sessions?", she toyed. "I do. In fact, I like them too much. I like you too much. I'm not thinking clearly these days." "Well Commissioner, if you don't want to continue the therapy, you don't have to." "Thank you for understanding Dr. Meredith. You have no idea how hard it is for me to do this." "I can imagine", she smiled,"before you go, I was hoping you could do something

for me", she said, approaching him. "What's that?", he said, nervously. He felt much like a fly about to get caught in a web. "I need you to tell me everything you know about Batman" Damn. Gordon knew something was wrong. She had been using him to get to Batman. He broke from her spell just in time! "I knew there was something strange going on. I'll tell you nothing young lady!"

"That's unfortunate Commissioner, becuase I have the pretty watch you love so much with me. I'm just going to dangle it here in my beautiful delicate hands. I know how much you like to look at it, see the light bounce off it, watch it shine. I'd let you look at if for as long as you like, if you were telling me about Batman" "I-I guess if we talked about a few of the more public things, that wouldn't hurt", Gordon said. "It wouldn't hurt at all. In fact, it would feel wonderful", Chase smiled. She reprimanded herself for giving Gordon more credit than he deserved. He was as weak as any of her subjects. For the next two hours he told her everything. She then deepened his trance and made sure no back bone would ever reappear.

Police Commissioner Gordon eventually did show up to work that day. He apologized to his staff, and said he felt much better now. He called his assitant into his office and had her compile one single file containing all the information the Gotham Police ever had on Batman. Although they had a fantastic working relationship at this point, that was not always the case for Batman and the GPD. Gordon had feverishly tired to discover who he was at one time. All his findings and research, though ulitmately inclonclusive, were in the file. That night he gave the file to his Mistress. Chase now had what she needed to compile a profile and plan an attack.

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