Author's note: So guys here is the new story! Hope you like! This is set a few months after Return of the Joker.

*Sofia POV*

"Dad! Come on we have to go!" Foot steps ran down the corridor. A girl of about 16 pulled her black hair into a pony tail and swung a backpack on her shoulders. First day at a new school this was gonna be a tough one, but she figured everyone had the same nerves on the first day. "Dad! Seriously? Let's go!"

"Alright, alright, keep your hair on!" Her father came to the door with his keys in his hands.

The drive didn't take long at all. They rolled up at the school and her father parked at little bit away.

"Ok thanks Dad," She leaned over to the door., "Oh and enjoy your new job!"

Her father chuckled, "Thank's it'll be a nice change." He thought over the past few months, it had been very hard and circumstances had lead him to being let go, but he found a new job with less pay at Wayne Enterprises, it was better then nothing. So with money tight he had to pull his children out of private schooling and returned back to Gotham. His son was less than impressed to be going to public school, but he was proud of his daughter, she seemed really excited to be going to a new place. He watched as she left the car and walked to her new school; Hamilton High School.

Looking around Sofia could tell that it was going to be a different place to go to school; in one corner of the car park some jocks had picked up a small seventh grader tipping him upside down for lunch money. Wow, thought Sofia, I thought that only happened in the movies. She continued to observe the crowd and saw rockers and goths, cheer leaders and geeks, she smiled slightly, oh the joys of high school. Lost in her thoughts she wandered past the group of jocks that had finished upending the poor seventh grader.

"Well looky here boys? What do we have here?" The ring leader with red hair said as the boys surrounded her.

"Looks like a new girl, she's hot too, look at that hair, and those eyes dark brown, like pools of chocolate." The other said.

Sofia eyed them all up, she had seem worse at her all girls school out of state.

"Well do you talk? Come on lets here that pretty voice." The red haired one spoke again.

She looked at them all in turn, dim, very dim, QI of 40, she counted them all off, "Well, I do believe you make as about as much sense as a paranoid schizophrenic with Turrets." All of the boys jaws dropped, and she walked out of the circle as the bell rang for school to begin.

Ok room 2205, where are you? Sofia wondered as she walked down the corridor. Voice caught her attention, ah there you are, she grinned. She knocked gently on the door, it was opened by a woman, she was in her mid forties in a blue suit. Sofia could see the under paid teacher give a sigh as she walked into the room. Her eye's were greeted by a sea of faces all looking at her. She took a breath it was like a performance, she needed to centre herself.

"Ok class, we have a new student joining us today. Please meet Sofia Drake, and make her feel welcome." The teacher addressed the class. Sofia gulped when she saw the groups of jocks sitting in the sits, they were all grinning at her. But her eyes then fell on another person, he was about the same age her, he had jet black hair and blue eyes, he was giving her a funny look, like one of slight shock. The teacher spoke again, "Terry McGinnis? You and Sofia are in the same classes, will you show her around?"

The boy with black hair that Sofai had been looking at nodded, "Yeah sure miss." The bell rang and all the student's got up out of their seats to head to class. Sofia stood sheepishly smiling at some of them as they past, she felt a tap on her shoulder and wheeled around, Terry was there and a girl with pink hair.

"Hi, I'm Terry McGinnis and this is Max Gibson," He gestured to the girl.

"Hi! I'm Sofia Drake, thanks for showing mHe around." She smiled at Terry but he didn't smile back, he just walked past her, Sofia sighed, this was going to be a long day.

Lunch finally came, she retreated to a place that she knew was the same in every school, the Gym. She walked in to the room and regulated her breath, stretching out her muscles. Turning a a corner of the mat she centred herself, she was air now, nothing more. Taking two powerful steps she sprung off her feet on to her hands then did a series of flips across the mat landing lightly on her feet. She straightened and did the same movements backwards and on the final flip she leapt higher and somersaulted backwards and hitting the mat with her feet leapt again and twisted in a round-off then touched down on the mat. The shrill ringing of a bell ended her moment of escape, time to get back to reality. She walked out of the gym but didn't see the figure in the shadow watching her.

*Terry's POV*

"You will never believe who came in to school today!" Terry's voice echoed around the Batcave. He walked past the cases that contained the old suits of Robin, Batgirl, Batman and Nightwing, they looked as they always did to Terry, sad and unused. He made his way over to the computer where Bruce Wayne was sitting with his large black dog Ace. The dog got up to greet Terry as he approached, Terry patted the dog on the head. "Did you hear me?" Terry asked the old man.

"Yeah I did. Who?" Bruce asked.

"Sofia Drake." Terry leant against the computer desk.

"Drake?" Bruce turned to look at Terry.

"Yeah as in Tim Drake, your boy wonder." Terry pointed at the Robin suit across the room.

"Is she a new student?" Bruce asked, and he began typing data in to the computer.

"Yeah, I've been asked to baby sit her until she gets her bearings, but on the first day she's already managed to piss off Nelson and the jocks." Terry sighed.

Bruce was silent and continued typing, "Ah here we go." A file on Sofia came up on the screen. "Born 4th January 2023 in New Bludhaven just outside Gotham. Went to school in Mount Pleasant Elementary School and their High School too, but got transferred to Hamilton High School this year. Well no surprise there, seeing as Tim got fired from his last job, I put in a word at Wayne Enterprises and got him a new position there, but not as well paid. She is highly skilled in acrobatics, seems to have won most of her competitions and competed nationally, and she also does some marital arts."

"Wow, is there nothing you can't find on that computer?" Terry squinted up at the read out.

"I like to keep tabs on people that I know. She has a brother to, Josh Drake, looks like a good kid, more academic than his sister." Bruce brought up a picture of the two. Terry looked up, both couldn't be more different; Sofia had jet black hair and dark brown eyes, while her brother was blonde with blue eyes. In her picture Sofia was smiling, her eyes almost shone, but her brother just looked out with a blank expression of total boredom.

"She's pretty," Bruce said, looking at Terry for his reaction.

Terry was still looking at her then realised that Bruce had spoken, "Oh yeah, yeah she is." Bruce chuckled.

"She looks a lot like her father," Bruce cut the sentence short. Terry knew that he had never fully forgiven himself for what had happened to Tim Drake all those years ago at the hands of The Joker.

"Are you concerned about her?" Terry asked.

"Concerned? No, she is not her father, but keep an eye on her all the same." Bruce said, "Now are you going on patrol any time soon?" Terry rolled his eyes and went to change into the new Batsuit.

An hour later he was standing on top of the Gotham Plaza looking down over the city. It was a quiet night nothing too exciting, just a mugging and robbery. Terry flexed his shoulder where one robber got him with a plank of wood, but thankfully because of the suit, it didn't hurt that bad. After Tim and Barbara had moved on from the cape-and-cowl days Bruce had developed a new Batsuit. Gone was the cap and replacing it was a full body suit that could fly, turn invisible and amplify your strength ten fold. Ugh, that's it, Terry thought, I've had enough. He stood on the edge of the building and spread his wings taking flight. He glided over Gotham, it was better like this, he thought, no noise, no worry. The moon shone down on the tops of the buildings that almost reached the sky, but a shout broke the beauty. Terry looked down to see what was going on. He saw a girl and a boy on the street arguing. He landed and hid in the shadows.

"I'm going Sof and that's it, I can't take it here anymore," The boy shouted at the girl. Terry realised that it was Sofia Drake, and the boy must be her brother.

"Josh, forget it! This is life now, get over it, things change!" Sofia said to her brother pulling the bag he was carrying out of his hands.

"I'm going back to Mount Vale, all my friends are there." Josh started to break in his voice.

Sofia saw this too and pulled her brother in to a hug, "Come on little bro, I know its hard but we have to be strong and get used to this. If you think it's been hard on us, think about Dad, he's had it rough these past few months." Terry tensed, did she know about her Dad's past, he hoped not. "Now," Sofia spoke again, "Are you over this little out burst, can we go home now?"

Josh brushed his arm under his nose and sniffed, "Yeah, but we're so far away."

"Well you're the one that ran! It's only four blocks, come on." Sofia pulled her brother in the direction of home. Terry decided to follow them. The siblings talked about school and what they missed from their old lives, but peace wasn't kept for long. They rounded the corner on to their block and waiting for them was a Jokerz Gang.

"Well, well, well. Looky here guys, we have a pretty little girl and her pip-squeak brother. Hmm whats in the backpack?" The one with his face painted dressed like a circus clown asked.

"Nothing, move please." Sofia said.

"Nothing? Not even one credit? Ah come on pretty girl, if you don't have credits we can work something else out," The joker touched her chin. Sofia knocked his hand away. Terry poised himself, this could go badly wrong. The joker went from entertained to angry in a second, he raised his hand and as he went to strike Sofia moved. She pushed her brother to the wall and through the bag at him. She leapt in the air twisting away from the joker's punch, then kicked him square in the stomach.

"Why you little!" The joker moved at her and the rest of the gang too. Sofia flipped backwards and double kicked two of them.

"Are you getting this Bruce?" Terry asked into the radio, making sure the vid-link was on.

"Yeah, I can see it," He replied. Terry leapt from his hiding spot into action. His presence alone scared off three of the Jokerz and they ran down the street, Sofia was still fending off one of them and the other came at Terry. He shot a baterang at the joker and it wrapped a rope around his legs and torso sending him crashing to the ground. Terry whipped around and saw Sofia was still battling her joker, he snuck up behind him and pinned his arms back, Sofia then side kicked him in the ribs so he buckled down and Terry placed the hand cuffs on him. Both Terry and Sofia stood for a minute getting their breath.

"Nice work," He said to her.

"Not too shabby yourself," Sofia grinned. They looked up when they heard cop cars coming.

Sofia reached over to Josh to make sure he was ok, the child was trembling a bit but otherwise fine. The door of the car opened and it wasn't just any cop that got out of it, it was Barbara Gordon, the Commissioner.

"Everyone alright," She asked, Terry nodded, but Barbara's eyes fell on Sofia and Josh, "What are you two doing here? Your dad is going to be worried sick!"

"Sorry Aunt Barbara, but dofus here decided he wanted to run anyway, so I had to go and get him," Sofia said, poking Josh in the back making him squeak.

"Well if it wasn't for Sofia Commissioner," Terry butt in, "I would have had a harder time."

Barbara looked at Terry, fire seemed to blaze in her eyes. "She fought with you?"

"Yeah, of course I did. The Jokerz jumped us, Batman only came at the end. But I could have had them." Sofia said flicking her hair.

"Sofia Barbara Drake! You know how your father feels about this type of thing. Home. Now! Do not make me call him." Barbara ordered.

"Whoa, ok. Let's go Josh. Thanks Batman." She smiled at him as she walked past.

Terry looked in shock at Barbara's reaction to Sofia's involvement. "Don't blame her Barbara," He said to her ear, "I was watching but she had it under control, she is better than you think."

"I am fully aware of her talents Batman, but Tim would loose his reason if he found out, that's just the way things are." Barbara said to him. "Alright, lets get these fools in to the back of the cars." She motioned to the other cops and they loaded the Jokerz in.

Terry took off and stood on the top of the building. That was a strange night, he thought, then looked at his watch, 3 am, enough time for another patrol. He spread his wings and took flight again, soaring high over Gotham.

*Sofia POV*

"Come on, and quietly," Sofia tugged her brother's arm when they got out of the elevator.

"Ouch! Sof stop," Josh pulled his arm back and cradled his bag.

Sofia rolled her eyes and took the key for their apartment out of her pocket, please don't let Dad be awake, Sofia thought. She opened the door and it creaked on it's hinges, poking her head in the door she looked to see if the coast was clear, all good. She let Josh go in ahead of her and then shut the door behind her, once the door was shut she turned and nearly screamed, their father was standing right behind the door.

"Where have you two been?" Tim Drake asked his children.

Sofia gulped, "Eh, well."

"Speak Sofia, where have you been?" Tim looked down at her eye brows raised. "Your mother and I have been worried sick! Have you any idea what time it is?"

"Yes Dad," Sofia bowed her head, she looked over at Josh, she could see tears coming down his face, "Well the thing is, Josh isn't happy Dad and well, he tried to run off, I had to stop him I couldn't just let him go."

Tim looked at his daughter, he was trying to hide his shock at how like him she was, "Josh go to your room now, I will talk with you in the morning, its late. Not you Sofia, I'm not finished." Sofia gulped.

Josh went to his room and Sofia heard their Mom talking to him. "Sofia, what really happened." Tim asked. Sofia looked up at her Dad, she wanted to lie but her father always knew when she was lying.

"Ok, I'll tell you." She sighed, "Josh isn't happy Dad, he wanted to go back to Mount Vale. I heard him leave the house so I followed and convinced him to come back. We were on our way home when we got jumped by a Jokerz gang."

Tim's eyes widened, "What?"

"It was ok Dad, I could take them, and then Batman helped-"

"Batman?" Tim snapped.

"Yeah, I dealt with one of them and Batman took the other, the rest of them ran off when he arrived." Sofia grinned, remembering the fight and how easy it was for both her and Batman.

"Sofia, you are never to do that again, you call the cops or walk the other way," Tim said to her.

"But Aunt Barbara did come. Jeez Dad, I'm not going to just let people walk over me, you taught me to stand up for myself, but ever since we've come back to Gotham you have been so on edge, not letting me go out past dark and any time any of us say 'Batman' you practically flinch. What's going on Dad, have you done something?" Sofia asked him, trying to see his face.

Tim sighed, Sofia was right, he needed to come clean to her, but he couldn't, he just couldn't, "No, there is nothing, nothing is wrong, I just don't like violence alright?"

Sofia narrowed her eyes, he was lying, but she wasn't going to press any further, "Ok Dad, I'm going to bed." She hugged him and then remembered, "Oh yeah, there's a guy at school that's showing me around, Terry McGinnis? He seems to work for Bruce Wayne, that was the guy that took you in as kid yeah?"

"Yeah he was. Well good night honey." Tim hugged his daughter and watched her go to her room. He sighed, Bruce Wayne, that man, he thought, he always finds away.