Author's Note:
This won't be an every chapter thing, but in this chapter Stephanie and Sam do have some kind of friendship going, same goes to Stephanie and Lena. It does make somethings easier.
National City. Definitely not where Stephanie thought she would be at any point of her life. Not that she was complaining too much, jobs in Gotham started becoming harder to find for her. This was much more of a fresh start, that Bruce might have helped her with. Even though it was so boring just trying to be a normal person. Especially after living in Gotham her whole life. Taking out a few people here and there as Batgirl wouldn't cause too much trouble, right?
She didn't realize how wrong she had been till the next morning and seeing the bat symbol everywhere, paired with headlines such as, "Batgirl in National City?" It wasn't what she wanted, but she didn't seem to mind it much since she was used to having people's attention in Gotham.
Although, this is a lot different than in Gotham. Stephanie thought to herself. They are used to me there, here… They might not like me much. She was in deep concentration before having fingers snapped in front of her face to get her attention back to what she was doing before. "Sorry, Wendy. I was somewhere else." She explained as she felt the embarrassment creep up her neck. "What where you saying?" She looked elsewhere in the hospital room she was visiting her friend in.
The dark-haired girl giggled slightly, shaking her head. "I said that I should be getting out of here tomorrow. I'm doing better than the doctors thought. Then we can start working as Team Batgirl again."
"Only if you are feeling up to it. If you still need time, you can take it. I'm doing fine fighting without Proxy in my ear." Stephanie explained, leaning back in the chair as she crossed her arms in front of her chest. "Though, it has been boring just talking to myself."
"Oh, haha." Wendy said, rolling her eyes. "I'm fine. I wasn't hurt that badly in the car crash."
"You had a concussion. And needed surgery to get some of the glass out of your arm. Seriously, you should really let that heal more before you try to help me while I'm out there." Stephanie's voice began to sound concerned.
"I'll be okay. I don't have much to do anymore since my job gave me a few weeks to recover. I don't want to go crazy just sitting in my apartment." She explained, seeming to have made up her mind at this point.
With a sigh, the blonde shook her head, but smiled instead of giving the other a look of disapproval. "Alright. Then I guess I'll be looking forward for tomorrow night. Team Batgirl's first official night in National City." She stretched her arms above her head before letting out a relaxed sigh before standing up. "I should get going. I do still have a job I need to do. Only way I'll be able to make rent." She said goodbye to Wendy before heading to the exit of the hospital.
Her mind began to wander again, thinking about what Bruce would say since he has probably already heard of Batgirl being in National City. Hopefully he wouldn't be too mad about it. Her thoughts were quickly brought to a halt as she ran into someone, or something that was really hard, as she was leaving through the main doors.
"Oh, gosh. I'm so sorry." The person she ran into said as they helped her up.
She let out a soft laugh as she began to brush herself off. "Don't worry about it, I think we both are at fault for this one." She said, moving her hair out of her face before smiling at the person in front of her. Her eyes caught the other girl's, beautiful orbs that seemed to be able to blend into the sky. "We should try and be more careful." She offered the other girl the chance to go first, after a quick study of the person and seeing that see clearly was working on getting somewhere. "You seem like you've got to be somewhere, so I don't want to waste anymore of your time."
The other girl just gave her a quick nod before speaking. "Thanks. And sorry again." Before Stephanie could say anything else, the girl rushed inside, making the vigilante curious on where she was going, but she didn't exactly have time to find out. She left the building and made her way to L-Corp.
"I have to remember to thank Bruce for his help landing this job. Even though it feels like I'm kind of taking someone else's job right from under them…" Stephanie said to herself as she walked passed security, already having spent time talking to them her first few days there so they knew her face and what she did. She flashed Jess a smile as she walked into the main office, finding Sam sitting at the desk. "I hope I'm not late." She said after closing the door, trying to get the attention of the other.
Her jumping wasn't what Stephanie wanted when getting her attention, but it seemed to work. "Oh, Steph. No. I've just been trying to get a head start so I can hopefully spend some time with Ruby today." A light smile came from Sam as she put the paper down.
"Hey, that's why I'm here. Two active CEOs are exactly heard of, but hey, sometimes it's too much work for one person." The blonde smiled and took the paper from Sam's hand, mostly to tease her as she began scanning it over. "So, what are you reading about?" She asked, trying to read any part of it before Sam ended up taking it back.
Which happened a lot faster than she thought it would. "I'm pretty sure since I have a head start on it, I'll be able to get it done faster."
"True, true." Stephanie smiled and grabbed a calendar she kept to keep track of things that needed to get done. Granted, it was probably not the best way to keep track of things since meeting are canceled sometimes. But it was a way she had grown to like when in college. "This can't be right. One meeting today. Well this is gonna be boring. You want to take it, or should I?"
"That would depend on what it is." Sam said, a pen slightly pressed against her temple. "I can't do anything after five. Ruby keeps reminding me it's game night and that I'm not allowed to miss it." Stephanie raised an eyebrow, giving Sam a confused look. "We go over to one of my friend's and we play some random game. They are like Ruby's Aunts, so it's like a family thing."
"Alright, I get it." Stephanie said, smiling at the other. "It says it should run from three to five, but since they usually take longer than that, I guess I'll take it. Might as well get these guys used to having me around as well." A smirk grew on her face as she stretched and looked around the office for a moment. "So… What's this about a game night?"
Sam just laughed and shook her head. "Work first, then we can possibly talk about it." That answer just got a soft groan from the blonde, taking a look at some of the forms that was on the desk instead of trying to push it off.
