The Double Date
Sorry I couldn't think of a better title at the moment so I will change it later when I think of a better one.
A double date with Dick/Babs and Wally/His New Girlfriend but Babs finds something strangely familiar about this girl.
Characters
Dick Grayson: Nightwing Barbra Gordon: Batgirl Wally West: Kid Flash
Bruce Wayne: Batman Tim Drake: Robin Stephanie Brown: Spoiler
Zatanna Zatara: Magician Artemis: Artemis
Background Story
The team was crushed after the death of their fellow archer and friend Artemis but secretly she is not dead. The only people that know are her boyfriend Wally West and good friend Dick Grayson. Dick gave her a magic necklace made by the one and only Zatanna Zatara so nobody can tell who she is except for them; she looks like a whole different person. She was meant to fake her death so that she could go under cover for Aqualad but sometimes she comes back to town to visit her boyfriend.
Chapter 1
"Barbra are you almost ready Wally will be waiting" Dick asked walking into the small bathroom that I was using to get ready. I was pulling my soft red curls back into a high ponytail and brushing the wrinkles out of my light green dress that matched the sharp green color in my eyes. I turned around to look him in his beautiful icy blue eyes that almost felt like they were looking deep inside my soul. He was the only one that understood me and that is why he was my best friend since we met as Batgirl and Robin in my freshmen year of high school.
"Well Mr. impatient I am final ready." I said with a smirk on my face.
"Great" he placed his hand on small of my back which made my skin shiver. I knew the only reason he did that was so he come almost shove me out the door so we could get there before Wally. He might have been one of the fastest guys on the plant but being on time was not his strong suit but knowing Wally, Dick would never hear the end of it if he beat us there.
Dick was driving like a bat out of his bat cave trying to get there on time but I was perfectly calm during this. I turned the radio on high letting the music blast out of the red mustang that he must have borrowed from Bruce for tonight he knew how much I loved the fast sports cars that the billionaire owned. It made me feel dangerous with the top down letting the music light up the dark city of Gotham.
He reached over to grab my hand but before he could catch it I grabbed his. I could feel the scars that ran up and down his fingers form years of fighting Gotham's worst criminals. A very noticeable scar he had was on his left arm from Wally cutting him with a spoon. That's what happens when you are going a hundred miles an hour trying to get a taste of soup. He always flinches when I touch it, was a very deep cut we had to take him to the hospital. Batman was not very happy with Kid Flash but Dick brushed it off and though it was funny. I did not think it was so funny Wally is never carful and one of the most immature people on the plant but he and Artemis were meant for each other, she was his little spitfire. I could not help but think of Artemis death and I could feel a slit tear run down my face but I wipe it away before Dick could get a chance to see me cry.
"Are you excited to meet Wally's new girlfriend."
"No" I said bluntly.
"Can you please act happy for tonight." I reach over and turn off the radio so I could hear him better and untangled my fingers from his. "I know you still think it's too early for him to start dating after Artemis's death but. . . . but he needs are support right now ok."
"K but I still can't see him with anyone else but Artemis" I was getting upset with him he knows I don't like talking about Artemis just as much as I hated when he talks about his ex-girlfriend Starfire. "Do you know what her death did to the team?" I blurted out with an angry tone in my voice. He did not answer he was shocked by the question also he thought it was a oratorical question but I wanted to know what his answer would be. "Do you."
"No" he answered looking down at his hands that where placed on the steering wheel.
"No you don't . . . you haven't been around team since her death you have been more occupied with another mission that none of us have been informed about." He looked sad I knew I hurt his feelings but I didn't care I wanted to know he is my best friend we don't keep secrets from each other. "Is it for batman or something with red hood . . . I want to know." I could feel a tear run down my face I was angry and I hated hurting him but this was not best for the team him not being there.
"Please don't cry I hate when you cry." He said wiping the tear from my face. "You wouldn't understand I have been going through rough times since Artemis's death too."
"We all have but you need to open you to the team . . . you just have seemed very cold lately and the team does not need another grumpy team leader." I grabbed his hand and smiled hoping to make him feel better but I know it didn't. I made him feel unappreciated and like he was a bad team leader but that was the last thing I wanted to do. He has been great at it I was just angry and sad.
"I'm sorry" he said quickly before I could say it. "I know I haven't been there for the team lately."
"It's ok everyone has gone through rough patches." I smiled up at him.
When we got there parking spots where few a far between probably because it was Friday night and nobody cooks nowadays. After fifteen minutes of driving around the busy street we found a parking spot right next to a nail salon that I was surprised was still open in the part of town we were in let's just say it was not the best. Dick walked around the car to open up the door for me.
"Well thank you Grayson" I said smiling deeply at him. He blush as he shut the door and grabbed my hand. The warmth of his hand felt good against mine in the breeze of the chilly September night.
"Are you cold" Dick asked sympathetically seeing that goose bumps had accumulated up and down my arm. But before I could protest he toke his heavy gray jacket off and placed it gently over my shoulders. He was wearing a navy blue sweeter under the jacket that keeps him warm so I didn't feel so bad about taking his jacket from him. The sweeter was tight against his six pack abs that he got from hours at the gyms and being on patrol with Tim that just came with the job. Being only human with no superpowers you need to be physically fit which he was.
We walked for about ten minutes before noticing a woman getting robbed and beaten up back in one of the dark alleys the small light was the only thing that made the pavement not seem like a sea of tar.
"Do you have batgirl on you" Dick asked shuffling around for has nightwing costume that he had hidden away under his civilian clothes.
"Come on" I grabbed his arm pulling him behind a dumpster so that we could get dressed. I got in my batgirl costume in record time pulling the cowl over my face I ran out using my grappling gun to reach up to the roof of the building right in front of me. Nightwing was already up there waiting for me he gave me the motion to go down into the small ally.
He swooped down knocking out one of the masked robbers with one hit. I slip down throwing a batarang at a robber holding the woman's purse it hit him right in the hand making him drop the purse immediately.
"That's not really the best way to ask a girl on a date" Dick said smirking at the couple of robbers that where pining the girl against the wall. She screamed and squirmed until one of her arms came lose and she grabbed the robbers arm and toke a huge bite out of it. He screamed a grabbed his arm in pain but all I could do is laugh he got bite from a sixteen year old girl. Her facial features where young looking but she were very tall and thin and looked like she could be in her mid-twenties. She ran off grabbing her purse and before she left she gave a nice swift kick to the man rolling on the ground gripping onto his bleeding hand.
"Thank you Nightwing and Batgirl." We turned around to see the blond girl waving us good-bye and giving us thumbs up. "Hey can you give robin my number." She asked placing and piece of paper on the dumpster that we used to change.
"Well what are we going to do with these jerks that are left" I asked but before I could even finish me sentence one lunged forward at me with a knife. I swiftly moved out of the way kicking him straight in the jaw knocking him onto the tar. "That was to easy." I said cracking my knuckles.
"Watch out" Nightwing yelled from behind me but before I could react I felt a sharp pain on my cheek and lower lip. He cut me not deep but he nicked me enough to start blood flow. He turned around thinking that he hurt me so bad that I was going to roll around on the ground like a baby but I was tougher than that.
"Look I hurt your poor girlfriend now let me go and I won't hurt you." He said pointing the tip of his knife at Nightwing. All Nightwing did was laugh hysterically clenching his lungs that hurt from laughing so hard. I even started to laugh, come on we were trained by the dark knight do you really believe that we are going to back down from a small Swiss army knife that he probably got from his mother for his birthday.
"In your dreams" I said punching the robber in the jaw knocking him out. "And his out for the count" I yelled happily giving Nightwing a high-five. After we wrapped all the robbers in nice pretty wrapping and placed them nicely where the police could find them we got dressed and left for your date. Before we left Dick grabbed the sheet of paper the girl had left for us to give to Tim. I looked over his shoulder to see what it said.
123-456-7890
Love,
Stephanie Brown
"Why did you pick that up we don't need it" I asked.
"Tim should like knowing that he just started and already has at least one fan girl and you never know it become useful sometime." The whole way to the restaurant we were laughing about Tim's new girlfriend and how she would react if she got a call from him. Skipping through the streets singing-
"Timmy and his fan girl sitting in a tree K-I-S-S-I-N-G first comes obsession than comes . . ." but before we could finish the song Dick's cell phone went off.
"Hello" Dick said nervously because the only people he got calls from were Bruce or the Justice League.
"That's not funny."
"Tim is that you where are you." Dick asks looking up at the roof of the building slightly behind us. Tim and Batman were on patrol tonight and I guess they had nothing better to do than spy on are date. I wave up at Tim and Batman, Batman was smiling under his cowl and you could tell you could hear deep loud laughs coming from Dick's phone. "Sorry Tim but I need to get to my date ok."
"Fine go back to your date but please stop singing that song its stupid"
"Ok I air picky sware but then you need to stop teasing me about my old robin costume." Dick stuck his pinky up in the air so Tim could see and Tim did the same.
"Truce see you later . . . pixie boots." Dick frowns when he hears it but brushes it of a grabs my hand as we head off to the restaurant.
When we got to the small French restaurant there was no sight of Wally or his new girlfriend. I was really mad at him already having a girlfriend it had only been two months since Artemis's death and it toke a toll on me when she was killed she was a good friend of mine he barley seemed to miss her. I felt bad for being mad at him he found a new girl he moved on that's great but I still haven't.
"I will be on time my butt" Dick said looking in all directions hoping for some sight of kid flash anywhere."
"I told you he wouldn't be here on time he never is." He giggled and nodded knowing that I was always going to be right.
"So do you want to go in or stay out here and wait for them?" He asked as he pulled me into his arms. I could have stayed like this forever with the twinkling lights stringed over the restaurant glowing over us and the light sound of a violin playing in the background. His smile light my stomach on fire and my knees went weak at the sight of his eyes. I brushed his midnight black hair out of his face so I could see those beautiful blue eyes.
"Stay out here" I whispered in his ear.
"Alright" he replied giving me a peck on the lips before letting me go. My lips tingled from his embrace but before I could ask for another kiss Wally was standing in front of us.
"Well we are here." Wally said with a huge I'm sorry smile on his face. I rolled my eyes his timing is impeccable.
