Chapter Four
It didn't take Batgirl long to get back to Gotham, she wanted to get out of Bludahaven as fast as possible, she thought to herself as she left that Bludahaven deserves Dick and Dick deserves Bludahaven… a lost place where people with no hopes or dreams spend the rest of their lonely lives, she wishes that wasn't entirely true, at first Dick went with enough hopes and dreams for everyone there, dreams to make Bludahaven a better place, to prove to Batman that he is capable of cleaning up a city worst than Gotham, better and more effectively than his mentor. But know it is although he has accepted that Bludahaven is beyond hope and in the same way a captain goes down with his ship, Dick has done the same with his lost city.
Batgirl approaches Wayne manor and runs her hand through her hair to smooth it and enters down the side of the manor into the cave, she is aware of her slightly wind burned face as she walks up to the side of Batman who is sat at the large computer, he doesn't acknowledge her.
"Where have you been" This is Batman's form of hello
"I've… been searching" She hesitantly replies, she feels although she was sixteen again and has just broken curfew.
"What for?"
"Leads… leads on the Jokers whereabouts?" She confidently replies, thinking it was a good backup story.
"In Bludahaven?" His deep and almost disappointed voice replies as he looks up to the Bat computer, which is displaying a map of Bludahaven on it.
"Oh" Batgirl sighs as she remembers that every part of her costume is rigged with trackers.
"He needs time" Batman's calm but still rugged voice replies
"He's had time… how much more time does he need!" Batgirl can feel her emotions rising again
"Have you had a report from Alfred?" Batman ignores her last statement.
Batgirl realises that he wants to steer away form the subject, he hasn't spoken about it since it happened, Batman isn't the sort of person who talks about his feelings, hence why he is so dark and intense although she is aware that he is hurting as much as she is, if not more, Dick had been the closest thing he has as son, to family, bar Alfred.
"Um… no I haven't" Batgirl appreciates that he no longer want to talk about it, and really she hadn't wanted to either.
"I want you to find out where the Northern Bank moves the contents of their safe to at night"
Batgirl shakes her head in notification and makes a quick exit from the cave.