Kate Kane

Oh, you poor, poor thing…
She is sinking in the cold water of the Gotham harbor and she can't breath.

You're such a sad little girl…alone in your sorrow.
She feels the cloying touch of the Weeping Woman about her, pulling. Her vision fades and the Weeping Woman becomes her sister; the twin killed decades ago, the twin she failed to save months ago.

Let me kiss it all better.
She's losing herself. Her lungs burn.

I taste the deep scars on your soul.
Her sister's embrace feels so right. Why fight it?

I know that cutting pain in your heart…but you can leave it all behind.
The pain is gone now and she would cry in delight if she could.

Just let it all go away, Mija…like I did.
All that's left is a regret that she couldn't save the missing kids.

Hush, hush…my sweetest girl. You can sleep now. Here with me.
No.

Forever.
NO! She struggles against the embrace and lashes out with a quick jab. Everything is dark but she doesn't know if that's from oxygen loss or the nighttime waters. She fights and claws her way past the Weeping Woman who is evaporating like ink in the water.

No! Come back to me! Don't leave me again!

She's on the beach gasping and wolfing down air. Her chest burns and her thudding heart hides the sounds of the Federal Agents who have her surrounded.

"Batwoman! Hold it right there! No sudden moves. You're wanted for questioning in connection with a terrorist attack," an agent, a blond woman who seems to be in charge, is saying. Other agents surround them with guns drawn. The blond helps her up, out of the sand and Kate coughs trying to get the water out of her lungs and focus.

"Wha...what are you talking about?" She asks playing up her confusion until she can get her bearings. The blond agent is now holding her shoulders and reaching for her mask.

"A kidnapped colonel, three murdered enlisted, two stolen planes and enough military grade cyanogen chloride to kill most of Gotham. And somehow you managed to cover it all up...Who has the pull for that?"

The time to act was now. Kate spins to free herself and uses her cape and the agents surrounding her to add confusion to her escape, spinning, dodging and somersaulting over and around agents. Shots thunder out into the night but she's already reached the wharf and cover.By the time she gets home she knows what she has to do. She almost died tonight and worse, was almost caught by federal agents from the Department of Extranormal Operations and her identity exposed. Playtime was over.

"Kate! Oh my god, you're soaking wet..." Bette, her sidekick for lack of a better word, calls out in shock as she enters her penthouse. She grabs a towel and runs over.

Well, no waiting for this then, Kate thinks. "I'm sorry, Bette. I'm so sorry, but it's done."

"Geez, you smell like gasoline. And fish?" Bette says completely ignoring Kate's words.

"You're not listening to me. You never listen..."

"You must be freezing. We need to get you out of this costume--"

"You still don't get it..."

"What the hell happened? Did she do this to you? Was it that Weeping Woman thing...?" Bette continues as if Kate hadn't said a word, toweling Kate off and trying to help her get out of the cape.

"DAMMIT, Bette," Kate nearly screams and pushes Bette's hands away. "Stop it! STOP IT! It's over for you!"

"What are you talking about?" Bette says finally startled and listening.

"I'm done training you!"

"What? Why, Kate? What did I do? What happened?"

I nearly died and then almost got caught by the DEO. I couldn't live with myself if the same thing happened to you, Kate thinks. Out loud she says, her voice cold and flat, "You don't have what it takes."

"You're wrong." Bette screams and throws the wet towel at Kate.

"No. I'm not. You're just a privileged tennis player. You're not even fighting for anything. The only thing you ever lost was a beauty pageant." The words hurt Kate to say but she knows they will save Bette.

Bette stands there frozen. Tears begin to fall from her eyes. Then she slaps Kate and runs out the penthouse yelling, "Even if your mom and sister hadn't died, you would've driven them away you control freak."

Kate sits on the bed as the echos of Bette's running fade behind the slammed door. "You're a bitch, Kate Kane," she tells herself just in case there was any doubt.

Charlotte Wessels (Really like her, right hair color but wrong cut. Looks like she could kick ass and is playful.)
Molly Ringwald: cira 1990s, circa 2000s (Right hair, sometimes right cut if too wavy. Still something is juts wrong about using Molly.)
Zena Grey
Clare Bowditch
Amy Nuttall
Janine Turner
Milla Jovovich (tempting but her face is so recognizable.)
Amy Price-Francis
Suz Lyons
Amanda Somerville (Really liking her except her hair is long and blond but she looks like she could kick ass.)
Simone Simons (Used before in an LJ account)

Ruth Wilson

Kate and her twin sister Beth (Elizabeth) were born to a career military family. On their twelfth birthday terrorists kidnapped the twins and their mother (Gabi). The rescue attempt led by their father, Colonel Jacob Kane, was something of a disaster, resulting in Gabi’s execution and Beth apparently killed in the crossfire. Impressed by these events Kate decided she would never be a victim and dedicated her life to serving and protecting others so that they may not know the pain she does. Following in her father’s footsteps, she focused her life with the goal of becoming an Army officer, ultimately attending West Point. While there, she received excellent grades and ranked at the top of her class. Unfortunately, the day before graduation, her commanding officer confronted with allegations of rumors of lesbian relationship with another class member and asked her to disavow the allegation. Kate refused to lie and violate the code of the Academy resulting in her expulsion.

Returning to Gotham, Kate was adrift and threw herself into the cities social scene until a fateful day when someone tried to mug her. Using her military training, she easily defeated the mugger just as Batman arrived. As the mugger fled with Batman on his heels, Kate realized how she could continue in her life’s goal of serving.

Since then she has been stabbed in the heart, received full sanction from Batman (as if that matters to her), had her twin sister return seemingly from the dead as the psychopathic villain Alice, discovered her father knew her sister might have survived (she hasn't spoken to him since) and taken her cousin Bette Kane on as a partner though she is trying to teach her a more military approach to vigilantism than Bette learned in her time on the Teen Titans.