Hi there :)

Finally, I managed to write a new Young Justice -ff! I hope you'll like it :)

I don't own Young Justice...

That's what a best pal's for

Chapter 1

It was night-time in Gotham. A shadow was swinging from roof to roof, cape fluttering behind. Was it Batman? Or Robin? No, it was Batgirl.

And she was pissed.

Barbara had been looking for the former Boy Wonder for a while now. To no avail.

She had heard that he'd had some huge argument with Wally. And by experience she knew that Dick never took it lightly when he had quarreled with his best friend... Take an educated guess who had to raise his spirits again when Dickie-bird was sulking in some lonely corner - precisely, it was her, good ol' Babs...

She had been looking everywhere: the Hall of Justice, the Batcave, the Watchtower, Dick's apartment in Blüdhaven, everywhere else in Blüdhaven, Wayne Manor... She had asked every single team member (including the former ones, like Raquel and Zatanna), Justice League members, Alfred; heck, even Bette – but nobody had an idea where the raven-haired acrobat could be. Barbara had also tried contacting him via , but of course he had turned that off, as well as his cellphone...

Gosh, the next time Wally and Dick have an argument she is so going to hunt down both of them and kick them in the-

A loud 'crash' and a muffled moan interrupted the redhead's inner rambling. Alerted, she stopped her cruise above the rooftops of Gotham City and decided to get to the bottom of the source of this noise.

It came from a side alley; and there stood, surrounded by armed thugs, Nightwing.

Another groan escaped a criminal, who seemed to already have had the pleasantry of having been slammed into the brick wall that he (more or less) leaned against.

Barbara decided that it wouldn't hurt Nightwing to share the fun with her and swung right next to him: "I'm sorry I have to tell you guys that you picked a pretty inconvenient time to do, whatever criminal activity you planned to do; Nightwing here is kinda angry tonight..."

"Batgirl," was all the black-and-blue-clad superhero said, not letting on if he was annoyed by her appearance or glad that she had found him.

Meanwhile, the thugs made the decision to attack the two crime-fighters as long as they were distracted – big mistake!

While handling the gangsters, Barbara couldn't help but notice that her partner was a little less careful as usual, both concerning his and the criminals' healths...

Kicking a gun out of a thug's hands, she couldn't help but remark: "You really think that it's a good idea to use them as your personal punching bag just because you're a little ticked o-" .

Before the red-haired heroine could finish her sentence, a wing-ding whizzed past her head, knocking down a bulky felon, a rusty pipe falling from his already raised hands.

"Okay, maybe it's not such a bad idea," the redhead added dryly, dodging a swing from the angry, now disarmed, opponent she was fighting.

Soon, the criminals were taken care of (it hadn't been too nice for them – but hey, she had actually warned them not to tick off Nightwing, so they should have seen it coming) and Barbara had decided to accompany her friend until he finally opens up. Dick, of course, wasn't making it easy for her at all – he just kept on patrolling, never a word leaving his lips, unless it was to snap at the criminals or warn Barbara that there was someone behind her (ugh; she's been unobservant for one single time and Dick just has to start babying her... seriously?!). At least, he wasn't telling her to go away, so he probably wasn't averse to talking about his problems... sooner or later...

After two hours of beating the crap out of criminals and one hour of simply wandering across Gotham's rooftops (who would have thought that even in Gotham City crime would go to sleep from time to time?), Barbara had enough of Nightwing's 'silent treatment' : "Would you please talk to me?! I know you had an argument with Wally and you're most likely not in a mood to chatter about it, but obviously it's eating you up and I won't leave until you told me!"

She could see Dick's posture changing while he was swinging to the next rooftop.

"And we both know how persistent I can be." Batgirl added for good measure, while gracefully landing next to him.

The ebony-haired acrobat let out a sigh and stopped his crusade. Then he turned around: "You really just won't leave me alone, will you?" He couldn't help but let a small smile sneak across his lips.

"You can count on that, bird-brain."

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I'll post the next chapter soon, I promise!