Roy coughed lightly as the second hand smoke from a man with a cigarette filled his lungs while he entered the old concrete building. Despite the building's age it was by far one of the more popular nightclubs and was as a common meet place for criminals almost as much as it was for people looking for a good time, unfortunately for Roy tonight he couldn't say he was here to stop the criminals. Among the colorful lights and loud music the red head made his way to an empty table where he had been instructed to wait for his informant.

He didn't particularly enjoy playing so close to the criminal underworld but in his eyes there is no other choice, every day that passes is another day Speedy is still being held hostage, or worse. It's been a year since he vowed to find Speedy, a year since the last time he had a decent nights sleep.

"How did I know it was you?" The sultry and teasingly familiar voice of a woman questioned from behind him.

Roy didn't have to turn around to know it was her, or for her to sense the obvious displeasure in his face. He knew she could feel it, the same way he could feel her smirk for a moment before she faced him with a disappointed frown as she passed him. Her back was to him only for a brief moment before she sat down across from him but it was long enough for him to notice that her short blue dress didn't have a back to it, and he didn't catch any glimpse of a bra.

She wouldn't come to a club without a bra, would she? He thought to himself, he doesn't know much about women but he couldn't imagine that dancing and moving around a lot could be very comfortable like that, then again she probably had some unseen solution that Roy would never think of.

"Cheshire" he said her alias in disgust "I should've known they'd send you" she smirked at his obvious dislike of her being his informant.

"Like I'm stupid enough to do a job without my mask" she began

"You did once," Roy reminded her

"Face paint. Anyway they didn't send me, I came here to warn you," she told the red haired man who was currently looking at her with more and more skepticism. "The Shadow's know you're looking for Speedy, your 'informant' tonight was going to pull a gun and kill you," she admitted to him.

"Yet I'm still alive," he remarked but when the woman across from him did nothing more than stare him down, he got the message. "You aren't the one I'm supposed to meet are you?" He asked

"You need to get out of here, he'll be here soon," she warned

"Who?" Roy questioned

"Whoever they were sending!" She snapped in a loud whisper, getting annoyed with her stubborn 'enemy'.

"Why should I trust you?" Roy questioned

"Why shouldn't you? If I'm remembering correctly the last time we saw each other I almost fell off a building, but you saved me. I figure I owe you one Roy," she explained to him but he simply looked at her perplexedly.

"How did you?" He began to ask but stopped upon seeing her smirk, he should've known she knew his name.

"Sportsmaster was in charge of you, and the Shadow's seem to have a sick sense of humor when it comes to my assignments. I was with him enough to learn a few things about you," she explained, for a moment her eyes betrayed her and look almost guilty, and if Roy were better at reading faces he would've seen that she allowed that on purpose, she was trying to let him in.

Just then her focus shifted and she looked past the man sitting across from her, closely studying a man in a suit who had just entered the building. He was a young man; though Cheshire didn't know his exact age she knew that he was only a year or two older than she was herself. He was African-American and had the beginnings of a goatee forming on his chin.

"He's here" she warned Roy who almost looked over his shoulder but stopped when she placed her, surprisingly gentle, hand atop his own.

The look Roy gave her when she did this, to Jade at least, was absolutely priceless.

"It stopped you from turning around, didn't it?" She quickly excused but Roy only smirked.

He didn't have time to enjoy this little victory of seeing Cheshire something closed to embarrassed, because the next thing he knew she was on her feet and pulling at his arm for him to join her.

"What are you doing?" He asked but he got no answer as she pulled him onto the dance floor.

He was going to pull her arm from him, but when he looked down to do so he became distracted by the fact that he saw her shoes, she was wearing a pair od very beat up sneakers.

Where the heck did this woman come from?

While he pondered this Cheshire dragged him into the middle of the crowd and before Roy even knew what happened he was dancing along with her.

"Geez Roy, you dance like a plank of wood" she commented

"Well excuse me for not wanting to draw attention to myself when one of your friends is after me" he excused and Cheshire rolled her eyes. Not even a minute later Roy's curiosity of what this man he was avoiding looked like got the better of him and he began to turn around, but a hand on the side of his face turned him back.

"Don't you dare look back," Cheshire warned him

"But-" he tried to argue.

"Just keep your eyes on me" she said and in that one moment Roy managed to answer a question that had been burning inside of him since the day he learned the truth.

When he first found out he was a clone he had a lot of thoughts, one of which was I'm not even supposed to be alive, Speedy is! This is his life, and it's my job to find him. But he had Speedy's memories. He had the memories of his childhood, Speedy's childhood, growing up on the Indian reservation. He had memories of the tribe elders telling him about destiny, but upon discovering he was a clone he believed that he was not worthy of a destiny, he doesn't have one.

But in that moment he knew. This woman, who's real name he wasn't even 100% sure of, but she is his destiny. So he danced with her, he could tell by the look on her face, the way one eye kept looking past him, that she was watching this 'informant'.

"He knows your identity?" Roy asked and Jade nodded, now focusing entirely past him so he stepped directly in front of her and blocked her view of whoever she was watching.

"He's a Shadow and he knows your tricks. It's only a matter of time before he sees you watching him," he said; if this guy caught her then he'd be suspicious and they'd both end up dead.

Cheshire looked like she wanted to argue, in fact it looked like it was killing her that he was right, but she nodded and stopped watching the man who was still sitting at their previously occupied table, waiting for Roy. Despite this Roy knew that for whatever reason she had, cause never could he believe she actually cares about him, she was still worrying. He could see it in the way she danced, he couldn't believe it but she actually looked unsure of herself.

"You're holding back," he told her. She looked surprised at first, like she couldn't believe he hadn't taken the opportunity of seeing her uncomfortable to mock her. But seeing an opportunity of her own she cracked a small smile and grabbed one of his hands.

"Shut up and dance with me."

Neither of them knew how long they stayed on that dance floor, all they knew was that they never wanted to get off. Jade was never comfortable dancing, it wasn't that she didn't know how, it was just something she never really did. She ran away, and as a result dropped out of school, before she became old enough for a school dance. There had only been one before she ran away, a sixth grade meet and greet, but at eleven years old she was FAR more shy than the confident woman she had grown up to be. But here, with Roy spinning her around and guiding her until she was ready to let go and guide herself, she found those old feelings of shyness evaporating until they were completely gone. She also found that her initial purpose for dragging Roy onto the floor was off in the back of her mind, and catching a glimpse of the table she saw that Eric, Roy's so called 'informant', was gone. But she waited a few more minutes to tell Roy that.

They were both almost completely out of breath when they returned to the once again unoccupied table.

"It's getting late, I better get going" Roy said, glancing down at his watch.

"You're welcome" Jade said as he got up to leave, shaking his head with a smirk.

"See you later Jade" He said and as he walked out of the club Jade smiled to herself, of course he knew her name.