Despite that, her willpower was formidable. She had hundreds of stitches sewn all over her body without any anesthetic and did not even furrow her brow.
She had once been a student at West Point in the United States, but she was expelled for dating a female classmate. Afterward, she returned to Gotham City and, because her mother had been killed in a street crossfire between gangs when she was a child, decided to become a Masked Vigilante like her cousin.
Bruce treated Kate well and was extremely welcoming. They often visited each other and had meals together. He even had Alfred call his daughter back from the United Kingdom so Julia could handle the daily life of the disheveled Kate.
But Batman was not Bruce. He was not friendly toward Batwoman. When she first returned to Gotham, she endured quite a bit of hardship before finally proving herself and being allowed to use the Batwoman codename and wear the suit bearing the red bat emblem.
But the condition was that she could not interfere in any of Batman's affairs. She was a member of the Bat-Family, but not entirely one.
That might be a little hard to understand. Put plainly, she was not allowed to play with his action figures without Batman's permission.
Batman seemed to regard her as some bratty kid from the relatives' side of the family, worrying that she might break one of them while playing. Of course, maybe he was protecting her. Who knew?
For example, if Nightwing or Damian saw Scarecrow robbing a bank on the street one night, they could immediately step in and stop him without waiting for Batman's instructions.
But Kate could not. If she saw the same thing, she could only notify Batman first. Without permission, even if Scarecrow was