So here it is our next look into the Bat family and well…

I think people should just stop me reading Batman comics I have just added so much of it into my warped little continuity. But it's so much fun to play with the events and possibly get it completely wrong!

Add Jimmy eat world to the list of bands too, they are my favourite they had to turn up at some point though… this is my favourite song of the album… it's just so creepy yet cool it puts me in the mind of Iris actually…

I do not own Batman

Movielike

Barbara Gordon wasn't your ordinary Collage student after all her first stop when heading home for the brake wasn't her father but to see if Damien and Tim had killed each other yet.

Arriving in costume to the cave she found Batman busy on the computers, Robin lifting weights and Damien was standing with Bruce.

"Barbara!" Tim called out smiling "you're back?"

"Collage does have holidays" she pointed out as the boy stood up; she ran her eyes over him then. He had grown a little taller since she had seen him last but had still stayed pretty thin. That hard look he had had when he had first come to the mansion was back now.

"How's Gordon?" The boy asked

"Haven't seen Dad yet I came to make sure you and Damien haven't killed each other" the look on Tim's face looked almost disgusted

"Give me Jason's temper any day over it" He got a glare from Bruce

….

When Barbara drove up to her father's house she found something felt a little off… Something was wrong here but she didn't know what it was… It was to quiet though.

The house looked like most of the others in the neighbourhood.

She shook her head deciding that she's just hung out with Batman too long and is getting paranoid. She opened the door to find inside dark.

That makes her alert.

She turns on the light and moves down the hall.

"Dad?" She calls but then someone appears from the room she just passed with a hockey stick and hits her over the head.

Knocking her out

When she wakes up she had been tied naked to a pipe, her head hurt. Looking up she saw her father who is also tied up. She met his eyes but he didn't speak.

She was tied up with rope, moving her hands she found there was a little room it wasn't tight enough that should couldn't escape with a little effort after all she was still Batgirl even though she spent most of her time away from Gotham.

She got into a standing position as her captor walked back into the room.

Joker

They looked at each other for a moment, long enough for the man to pull out a gun and long enough for her to try and dodge. Somewhere in the time between the gun shooting and her flip a bullet had entered her back and without any armour… Nothing could stop it

She collapsed feeling warm blood roll down her back as the joker laughed, he said something to her father but Barbara didn't hear it she was unconscious again soon after.

When Batman and Robin found their location it had only been a few minutes since Barbara had been shot.

They had found some rather disturbing photographs in a package left for them at the precinct. It hadn't been difficult to find the location from that. There were in an abandoned amusement park and quickly entering one of the indoor rollercoaster rides they saw the Joker quickly flee out the other side.

Batman ran up and started to untie Commissioner Gordon when Robin spotted Barbara.

"Batman she needs medical attention!" He looked down seeing the girl

"Handle it!" he growled, concerned. Robin nodded doing as he was told

"Batman…" The Dark Knight looked down at the commissioner "I'll be fine… Get him… But by the book" the gray haired man gave his friend a weary smile "show him our way works" Batman smiled without much happiness it was a blank smile back having finished untying Gordon and chased after the Joker.

The clown prince of Crime had run into the fun house and was easy for the detective to find.

"What was the point of this Joker…" Batman couldn't take the edge out of his voice; he wondered why anyone would do something like this.

"It's simple Batty" the Joker called back from a high place "it's just proof that even the best of us will go crazy given one bad day" Batman glared at the man balling his hands up he should have taken the Joker right back to Arkham the moment he had broken out but he was afraid…

Afraid of what he would do to the man who took his daughter away…

And now Barbara and Jim were being punished for his mistake.

"That was why you did that to the girl!" He yelled, the Joker thought for a moment

"Do you mean the photos?" He was referring to the pictures he had taken of Barbara while she was unconscious; he had steadily taken off her clothes and did things to her all in the name of proving a point because he forced her father to watch the whole time. "Or the bullet? That was her fault if she hadn't moved it wouldn't have been that bad!" The Joker was about to speak again when he was knocked unconscious by the Dark Knight's fist.

When Barbara woke up she was in a hospital. Her father was sitting by her bed asleep in the chair. Dick was also there he was placing some flowers on the windowsill. She coughed letting him know she was awake. He went to get the nurse.

It wasn't long until she found out…

She would never be able to use her legs again…

Was it stupid that her first thought was that she would no longer be Batgirl

That she would no longer have that power… That place

The ability to help people had been taken from her…

It was taken by the Joker to prove a point and his plan hadn't even worked out right.

She had lost her legs for nothing.

Once she was allowed out of the hospital she moved back with her dad for a bit before deciding to go back to collage there wasn't much else she could do…

Even if she hadn't been very active in Gotham she dreamt of being Batgirl again every night she didn't get to wear the suit.

That chance was gone now.

Or that was what she had thought…

It was once, one time

Dick came to her asking for some help

At the time she had thought he was just being nice to her, being sympathetic. Asking for help with a case. He wanted her to hack into the target's computers. She did and it took only moments.

Their systems weren't even that well guarded and it felt good moving her hands over the keys with a purpose.

She sent the information to him without delay and he thanked her.

Barbara sat back in her chair for a second before looking at it and thinking…

She opened a communication link to Batman

"I have an idea…" she started before he could speak

She knew he probably wouldn't like the idea at first but she also knew the Bat well enough that he'd come around to it.

Even if she was stuck in this chair…

Even if she couldn't be Batgirl…

Couldn't help people actively…

She didn't mind being a tool for those who could!

She'd be their information guru, their hacker.

She would know everything and everything to come…

She would be their Oracle.

Yes I know this one is much shorter than the other one but… I liked what it was

I haven't actually read killing Joke I'd like to get around to it but when I write these I like to know the event but not have to many times where I just put it in here it never comes out as good as it would have like this.

That said the bits I took form Under the Hood worked because they were only short bits and pieces here and there.

I also love the character of Oracle maybe it was because Barbra in the animated series was a bit of a hero for me as a kid… But the moment I found out who Oracle in Hush was… I just loved her all the more!

Anyway off to the next one shot!

And remember folks don't flame unless you have an extinguisher!