Author's Note: Hi guys! This is based on the episode "Hooked Up", so I hope you enjoy and always review! :-) Sorry it took so long!


Sofia walked in to school feeling refreshed, a night off did her good, good nights sleep and a good night making sure that her family had no idea where she was sneaking off too. "Hey Max?" Sofia spotted her pink haired friend, "You seen Terry?"

Max shook her head, "Not yet but we're due in class so better try and find him." The two of them looked around and then spotted Terry at his locker on the ground.

"Hey, Ter? You wan a wake up?" Sofia tapped him with her toe. He jumped awake, Sofia laughed, "Long night?"

"You have no idea," He yawned and stretched when he stood up. Sofia grinned and kissed him on the cheek. It had been about five months now since she donned the Nightwing mask and about six months since her new life began in Hamilton Hill High School. A lot of things had changed but her and Terry grew closer, and after the incident with the Splicing Terry had asked her out. They made sure that dating did not affect them when they were out 'working'.

Sofia laughed, "Any fun?"

"I'll catch you up on it later," He said putting his arm around her.


"Anything?" Sofia said as she swung around a pillar at the top of a building.

Terry was looking down over the crowds below coming our from the Metro, "Nah nothing." Sofia rolled her eyes, it was good to be out again on the prowl.

"How are you two?" Bruce's voice came through the radio.

"Fine just bored, I should have brought my homework," Sofia replied, making Terry chuckle.

"Oh, I think we have something," Terry said, Sofia dropped beside him to have a look. There was a mugging going on, but it was getting a little more then routine.

"Yeah I know him," Sofia said, zooming in to get a better look. "Yeah, it's Donny Grosso, remember that kid that ran off awhile ago?"

"Oh yeah," Terry nodded, "Well we better go and sort it out." Sofia and Terry jumped off the building spreading their wings as they landed.

"Naughty naughty," Sofia said wagging her finger at Donnie, "Give back the bag, come on now." Donnie pulled the bag from the woman, "Wrong choice." Sofia and Terry launched at him. Terry went for Donnie and Sofia caught the woman as she was almost thrown over the edge, "Whoa, you ok?" Sofia said, the woman nodded, she was too scared to speak.

"No!" Terry shouted, Sofia looked up in time to see Donnie leap off the over pass on to a metro that was heading up to the upper levels, "Nightwing! Anytime you wanna chip in it would be great." Terry said to her, spreading his wings and kicking off the ground. Sofia sighed and took flight, she saw Donnie clinging on to the side of the metro, she gasped as he's hand slipped, Terry shot down after him and Sofia followed. She saw Terry grab Donnie just before he hit the freeway. They skimmed along and cars squealed and honked, "Batman! Pull up!" Sofia yelled, Terry strained and kicked the jets upwards away from the freeway. But just as he was almost out of danger, Donnie swung the bar in his hand and hit Terry across the head, Terry recoiled from the hit, letting Donnie go.

"Shit," Sofia swore and dove towards him, but Donnie landed on a lorry and fell down in-between the trailer and cab. Sofia landed on the trailer and then lent down to try and grab him, "Come on Donnie, reach." Donnie just looked up at her with a look of fear and total loss, he just shook his head and pulled the cord releasing the trailer. Sofia leaped in to the air and shot a cord at the trailer and then the other end at the building pulling the trailer to a stop before it caused any damage. She tripped on landed and fell to the ground.

Terry landed beside her, "Nightwing, are you alright?" He took her arm and pulled her up.

"Yeah I'm fine, just my ego," She dusted herself off, "What was that about, the Jokerz Gang are easier to catch then that! Did you see the look in his eye Batman? He was desperate, somethings wrong."

Terry nodded, they both took off, landing on a near by roof to plan the next move. Terry looked at his watch, "Crap, I told Mom I'd be home to watch Matt."

Sofia rolled her eyes, "I'll join you, need to get homework done and afterwards…" She drifted up to Terry's face, he leaned down to kiss her but they were interrupted by Bruce on the radio.

"Terry, Sofia, come back here as soon as you can. I have something."

"I can't I have to go and watch Matt," Terry said.

"Ok, well Sofia you come back and you can pass the information on to Terry," Bruce turned off the radio.

"Well so much for our plans," Terry sighed.

Sofia smiled up at him then went up on her tippy toes and kissed him lightly on the lips, "See you later." She turned and spreading her wings and taking off towards Wayne Manor.

Sofia arrived back in the Batcave just as her cell phone rang, "Hello? Oh hey Dad, yeah I'm over at Terry's he's watching Matt for his Mom, yeah I'll be home later, I have my key, ok love you too." She hung up, "Ugh, I hate lying to him," She walked over to Bruce and took off her cowl.

"You could always tell him you know," Bruce said, bringing information up on to the screen.

"Yeah and face the wrath of my Dad, I think not. So what is going on?" She looked up at the screen, there was a picture of a red haired girl and a few other people.

"Most of them have turned up in hospitals with overdosed levels of serotonin in their brains. They're comatose but stable."

"They were all runaways?" Sofia asked.

"I thought of it when you mentioned your friend Donnie," Bruce said.

'"Except he isn't comatose," Sofia said, she was surprised he wasn't seriously injured after his performance earlier.

"Not yet anyway," Bruce always had a way to bring you back to earth.

"Ok, well Terry and I will start some digging tomorrow, I better go home before Dad calls again. Night," Sofia turned, Bruce never said goodnight, she wondered if he ever went to bed at all.


Terry and Sofia had told Max about what they'd seen, she had told them that she knew Donnie and his parents, so after school they decided to pay a visit.

They walked downtown towards the roughest part of Gotham. Wow, Sofia thought, this place is rough. The climbed some rusty stairs and walked down a row of apartments. Before they went to knock on the door Terry took Max's arm, "I'm only bringing you because you said you know Donnie's parents, so don't get any ideas."

Sofia had to hide a smile. Max had been asking them to help for weeks now, and Terry wasn't having any of it. "Relax," Max waved her hand, "When you see how well I do, you'll both be begging me to join." Sofia looked at Terry and rolled her eyes. Max went to knock on the door, but it swung in on its hinges, all of them looked at one another, Terry and Max walked in first, I hope nothing happened, Sofia thought and followed them. The apartment was a mess, takeaway food boxes, old newspapers, it was a total mess. "Mr. Grosso, Mrs. Grosso?" Max called out. There was no reply. They walked towards Donnies room and pushed the door open, they fanned out and looked around, there wasn't much to see bar bed clothes and rubbish.

"Look, a used cred card," Terry said, picking it up off the bedside locker.

A voice made them all jump, "What do you want?" It was Mrs. Grosso.

They all walked out of the bedroom to Mrs. Grosso, but stopped when Mr. Grosso came in to the room. He was a large man and a very imposing man, so that might be the reason that Donnie is gone, Sofia thought. Mr. Grosso turned to them, "Who are you?"

Max took the lead, "I'm Max, Donnie's friend, you remember me don't you?"

"No, Donnie ain't here so get out," He jerked his finger at the door. They weren't going to argue, and slipped past Donnie's father towards the door.

"Wait," Mrs. Grosso called after them, "Have you seen Donnie? Did he want something from his room?"

Mr. Grosso grabbed his wife, "Quiet Elaine, we don't care."

"Don please," She pleaded to him.

"Get back in the kitchen," He pointed aggressively, Mrs. Grosso hung her head and walked by her husband, "You know how many times the cops brought him home and told us we just had to show him more TLC? A lot they know! We tried, but we're done trying. If you do know where he is tell him don't come back." Sofia had to hide her horror at Mr. Grosso's words, poor Donnie.

They walked out of the apartment and back down to the street, "Nothing like a visit to Donnie's to remind me how grateful I am for my parents." Max sighed.

"Yeah I know what you mean," Sofia agreed, she thought about her Mom and Dad at home, every time she did she felt a pang of guilt, all this sneaking around was getting to her.

"Come on, lets see where Donnie has been spending his money," Terry produced the card from his pocket. Max took it and ran it throw a scanner.

"Vrroom?" Terry asked.

"V-R Room," Max corrected, "It's an arcade downtown."

Sofia looked at the screen, "Donnie was spending a lot of creds escaping reality."

"Can't imagine why," Terry said sarcastically.

They got downtown and Max lead them to the V-R room, she ran ahead and Sofia grabbed Terry's arm, "Ter we need to watch her, she is getting too in to this, you know what Max is like when she gets an idea in to her head."

Terry took her hands, "I know, it'll be fine, don't worry." Sofia made a face, Terry grinned at her and kissed her lightly on the lips, "Come on, before Max disappears."

Sofia followed Terry in to the arcade. She had never been to an arcade before, it was never her thing. There were flashing lights, nosies, people shouting, and the sound of laser guns and blasters. They saw Max over by a game, it was a hover V-R game, people were hovering in a bubble completely unaware of the outside world.

"So you think this is frying kids brains?" Sofia asked.

"Come on Sof, if they thought it was dangerous, why would they let kids on it? Anyway we're here to investigate," Max said.

"No, we're here to investigate," Terry pointed to Sofia and himself. "You had your chance with Donnie's parents and you blew it."

"Yeah but I got us here didn't I?" Max corrected, Sofia couldn't help but agree. "Tell you what I'll do some back ground research on Doom-Racer."

Terry and Sofia went to look around, Terry re-shouldered the backpack, Sofia had to stop him and adjust it as her Nightwing suit was popping out. Then she saw someone she didn't think she'd see, Donnie and a group of missing kids. "Ter, look," She whispered in his ear. They walked over to Max and began talking to her, Terry and Sofia pretended not to notice.

Max walked over to them, "I think I've got something, there's this new kind of V-R, I've made us an appointment."

"Great," said Terry, "Except there is no you in this picture, me and Sof will go."

"Come on Terry," Max pleaded, but Donnie and his gang came over before she could say anymore.

"Come on, this isn't dangerous," One of them said.

"Not dangerous?" Sofia said, "Look at Donnie," The kid was shaking and sweating.

"Come on, Max doesn't need a chaperone," The other kid said. Max nodded and went to leave, all Sofia's instincts screamed at her not to let her go, but the gang towed her anyway.

The other kid and Donnie were left with Sofia and Terry, "You don't know what you are missing McGinnis."

"Yeah," said Donnie, "Spellbinder hooks us up real good."

Sofia's heart dropped, Spellbinder? She saw the same look on Terry's face, they both ran.


The next night they were on the hunt for Max again, she hadn't been in school. Downtown the hunt continued. Sofia flexed in the Nightwing suit, she drew comfort from it, it's strength, it's speed. Sofia heard something in an alley way, "Batman," She called on the radio, "I think I see Max, down there in the parking lot." Terry landed beside her and looked down to where she was pointing, Sofia decided to make a move.

"Max!" What are you doing?" Sofia landed on the hood of the car and pulled her out.

"Get off me!" Max shouted at her.

"What's going on Max, you weren't in school today, you just disappeared." Terry blocked her exit.

"You guys don't understand," Max shrugged Sofia off.

"We do, we understand that Spellbinder's got you hooked and you're stealing for it," Sofia said to her.

"Yeah? So what?" Max went to walk away.

"So keep at it and you'll end up a veg, listen to me," Terry warned her.

"You don't know how good it feels Terry, everybody wants you in there and the second you're back out here you're whole body hurts for more, I just wanna get back inside," Max hugged herself.

Sofia walked over to her and put her arm around her, "It's an addiction Max, he's messed up your brain chemistry."

"If you wanna help me so much then leave me alone," Max went to hit Sofia in the stomach, Sofia went to to block her and wrapped her arms around her back. "Stop!'

"Now Terry," Sofia said to him, Terry injected her with a sedative.

"Lets get to back to her house," Terry said picking her up.

"You go, I'll catch up, I want to try and find out where Spellbinder is hiding out, I'll come get you in a while," Sofia kicked off her jets and launched into the night sky.

Sofia had been looking around for Donnie and some of the other members of the gang for an hour or so, there was nothing, better get back to Terry. She called her Batmobile from her suit, it glided in to view, the jet engines coming to a quiet stop and the cockpit door slid open. She was settling herself down in the driver's seat, Terry always sat miles away from the steering wheel. Bruce came on over the radio, "Sofia get to Max's now,"

"What happened?" Sofia eased the Batmobile in to the sky.

"Max woke up from the sedative and I can't get Terry on his radio," Bruce told her. Even though the old man tried to hide it, she could hear the concern and panic in his voice.

She sped towards Max's apartment, and jumped in the window. Terry was lying on the floor, oh god, she thought.

"Batman, Batman?" Said rolled him over and saw him blink.

"Huh?" Terry said looking at Sofia, "Where's Max?"

"She's gone, I only just got here." Sofia stood up and pulled him to his feet.

Terry cursed and went to the Batmobile.

They cruised over Gotham looking for Max or anyone that should lead them to her. "I can't believe I lead her in to this," Terry swore.

Sofia place a hand on his shoulder, "It's isn't your fault, Max should know better than to get all mixed up with Spellbinder, she knows what he's like." Terry was still quiet, "Ter, come on, we'll find her." As soon as she said it they both spotted Donnie down below.

Terry put his foot down on the Batmobile, "I'll feel better when I ring Max's location out of Donnie's face."

"Or you could cool your jets and just tail him?" Sofia suggested.

"Oh yeah that would work too…" Terry trailed off. He parked the Batmobile and they both jumped out. Donnie was below them staggering on the sidewalk, but then he broke in to a ran and high tailed it to a building and pushed the door in.

"We got him," Sofia grinned and followed Terry down to the building.

Donnie went in to the building, Sofia threw a baterrang at the control jamming the door open. They slipped inside, the corridor was dark and quiet, but Sofia heard something at the end, a whimpering. She followed her ears as Terry went on to find Spellbinder. At the end of the corridor Donnie sat on the ground shaking and sweating with spent cred cards all-around him. She leant down, "Oh Donnie," she sighed and placed a hand on his forehead to check his temperature, it was through the roof. Donnie relaxed suddenly, she immediately checked his pulse, he had just past out. Sofia shook her head, poor kid. She then stood and went to follow Terry.

She wound her way down and saw Terry standing at a control panel, Max and a few other teenagers were suspended in the anti gravity bubbles. Terry turned Max's off and she fell to the floor with a thud. Terry walked over to her and knelt down beside her, Sofia watched them from the shadows, this had been too easy, something wasn't right. Some thing caught her eye, it moved towards Terry, it was Spellbinder. She had the advantage, he hadn't seem her yet. She crept behind him as he was sneaking up on Terry, he rose to strike, but she was quicker. She flicked her leg around his and pulled sending him to the floor. But Spellbinder had a trick up his sleeve that Sofia didn't see. Electricity pulsed through her suit into her body, she cried out in pain, but it stopped when Terry tackled him. Sofia's head was reeling, and every part of her her hurt. She struggled to her feet and rubbed her head, come on Sofia, get it together, she scolded herself. Terry yelled out in pain as Spellbinder shocked him, she looked around to find something she could use, hanging from the ceiling was a light, she leapt up to the air grabbing the light and swinging forward, kicking Spellbinder away from Terry. She aimed him at the control board, "Never touch him again," she hissed at him. Spellbinder looked up at Sofia; her Nightwing suit almost glowed in the blazing light, her eyes burned, she looked like an animal. Spellbinder cried out and then was still, Sofia got down and checked him, he'd be alright.

"You ok?" She asked as Terry got to his feet, he nodded. They both turned their attention to Max, she was standing there staring at them. "We need to get her home," Sofia said.

They got Max home and in bed, Sofia yawned and stretched as they got back in to the Batmobile.

"Tired?" Terry asked reached back with his hand an touching her leg.

"Just a little." Sofia grinned at him. "Home Alfred." She gestured. Terry grunted and accelerated home.

They parked the Batmobile and got out, as Sofia stood from her seat her body screamed at her to sit down, all she could think of was bed, all soft and warm.

But Bruce killed her happy thoughts, "Well done you to, but Terry you were slow with your reactions and Sofia you need some tuning up too, so tomorrow after school I want you both here for training."

Sofia's jaw dropped, as she pulled off her cowl, "Are you serious?"

"Did I stutter?" Bruce glared at her.

"God forbid," Sofia rolled her eyes, no rest for the wicked.


"Terry come on! Aim don't just throw it. And Sofia higher this time," Bruce stood at the edge of the training area. Sofia leapt from the pole in the centre of the room to the next tucking and flipping, dodging the lasers that were aimed at her. She landed and wiped some hair from her face tucking it behind her ears. She grinned at Terry as he threw the Baterang at the target finally hitting it, "Only took you ten tries," She teased, Terry looked over at her and narrowed his eyes.

"Ok, again," Bruce pointed at the training exercises.

Sofia sat down and shook her head, "Na ah, a break is needed over here." Sofia pointed at her own head.

Bruce glared at her, "Out there, there are no breaks." He pointed towards Gotham.

"Yeah but we are in here, so we're fine," Sofia sighed and pulled her cowl off.

"I agree," Terry grinned and sat down doing the same.

Bruce growled and walked over to the computer. "Wow if we did that back in my day, there would have been hell to pay." Sofia froze, she knew that voice, it couldn't be.

She looked over at Bruce, he was looking as stunned too. From down the stairs came Tim Drake, her father. She stood up beside Terry, there was no hiding, she was standing there in the Batcave in the Nightwing suit.

Tim stood at the bottom of the stairs looking around. "Dad, I… " Sofia began.

"Wanted this?" Tim finished. She gulped, "We all said that at the start."

"Mr. Drake, don't be mad at her, please," Terry spoke up.

Tim looked at Terry and Sofia, Batman and Nightwing together again. He held his hand up to silence Terry, "Why Soifa? Why this life?" He walked over to the cases and ran his hand over the Robin suit.

Sofia walked over to him and held his hand, "Dad, I know what happened to you and I am so sorry. But I am not Batgirl or Robin, I'm Nightwing, I'm different." She looked at him hoping he would understand.

"Different?" Tim looked at his daughter.

She nodded, "You followed Bruce, both you and Barb did, Terry and I, we're equal. And yes I did want this, Dad. Gotham is hurting, Jokerz run the streets, people are getting mugged, not to mention the new weird and wonderful that have appeared. I know you must be disappointed, you hate it, but I'm sorry Dad, I'm not stopping." She looked at him for a gage of his reaction.

He was silent for a minute and looked around the cave; he saw Terry looking at him and his eyes flicking to Sofia, then he saw Bruce, he wanted to hit him and hit him hard, he had dragged his daughter in to this mess of a life, but then his eyes fell back on Sofia. Her deep brown eyes looking up at him, her black hair a mess, the blue of the eagle on the Nightwing suit against the black. He looked from her to the Robin suit, she was right, this was new, it was her time. All the anger was gone, he hugged his daughter tight. Sofia tensed but then relaxed hugging him back.

"It's ok Nightwing," Tim said, Sofia smiled. She sighed, the tension was gone from her, she didn't have to hide this from her Dad anymore.

"How did you know?" She asked him.

Tim grinned, "I was watching the news one night and I saw Terry and Nightwing fighting some goons, and you did a move, a move I thought you, I knew immediately. I used to be a detective too you know."

The mood relaxed, Tim, Terry and Bruce we're talking. Sofia watched them all, the old and the new. Terry looked over at Sofia and walked over to her, "You ok?" He asked.

Sofia nodded, "Yeah I am," But she still rested her head on Terry's chest, he hugged her tightly and kissed the top of her head.

"Come on, get changed and we can split, leave the old timers talking, how about pizza?" Terry suggested.

Sofia nodded, after the few days they had, she needed a night off, and a night off with Terry was perfect.