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As we promised there's gonna be a surprise for Nightwing/Roxy shippers, enjoy! Oh and please let us know what you think because we even argued about some moments in this chapter. So we would like to know how it turned out.

~Roxy

TheGreenScar: Argued? More like Roxy sat in a corner until I relented but if that's arguing then sure lol

Roxy-Bluff: Argh!…

Chapter 14.

It's been two weeks since Scar had left. Of course everyone missed him, but between missions and trainings there wasn't much time to mourn about it. The team got used to his absence pretty soon, so the only one who still was sad was Roxy. She started to take part in missions and acted pretty well, but Nightwing saw she wasn't okay. And her sorrow could cost the team one day. He just had to do something. Besides, being a leader of a team of teenage superheroes with their hormones ranging wasn't that much of an easy job. So Nightwing came to understand why Batman left Red Tornado to watch them 5 years ago. Emotionless Android could handle the teenage problems a lot better than even Dark Knight himself. And considering Dick also had to keep an eye on undercover mission and the fact he couldn't tell about it to anyone only added to the stress he was having lately.
So one evening after a few hours the team got back from the mission he decided he need to change something in this whole situation.
He knocked on Roxy's door. After a few second he heard footsteps and Roxy's figure appeared in the doorframe.
"Uhh.. hey?.." she looked at him with confusion. Not every day you see a Batman protégé coming to visit you. Even if you're a member of his team.
"Hey.. Roxy.. um.. hi.. I.. uh.. well.. we all tired.. especially you.. and I was thinking.. maybe you wanna go for a walk or have a cup of coffee or something?" he was wearing his civies with his usual shades. The t-shirt wasn't too tight, but not too loose, It fit enough to reveal his muscles with dark blue jeans and sneakers.
"You mean.. right now?" she pointed at his outfit.
"Yeah.. why not? I mean if you want to, of course.." he shifted lightly. 'Man up, damn you, it's just a walk' he scolded himself.
"Uhh.. yeah.. okay, let me change my clothes, five minutes tops." she gave him a small smile and closed the door after he nodded in agreement.
A walk or coffee with Nightwing.. hmm... interesting.. she thought while she quickly pulled her baggy pants down and took her jeans out of closet.

~XXX~

But not all of them could deal with Scar's leaving that easily. Zatanna was sitting in her room in the Watchtower hugging her knees to her chest. The last time she was so confused was when her father gave himself up to Dr. Fate. She didn't know what to do... she was just about to say something really important to Scar before this whole 'Subject 1' thing happened. Something really important consisting of three words. Three short words... she remembered her hesitations about it, wasn't it too early to say this out loud? Wouldn't it scare him off? Is that really true or just her imagination? And now he doesn't even know who she is.. well, apart from her name and formal things. And judging by his behavior he didn't like her this time... what she did last time she haven't done this time? What he liked in her back then but didn't like now? She couldn't concentrate on her work for the league. She started to make mistakes at mission and Batman dismissed her... temporary.. or at least that's what he said.. until she put herself together again... geez, they were dating for such a short period of time, but he got so deep under her skin.. How is that even possible? She couldn't make herself to eat or leave her room.. she didn't want to do anything... yeah, it was so long ago since she felt this numb before...

~XXX~

The change of scenery had been nice, at first Roxy was a little apprehensive of the whole idea but an hour in and she could feel her stress and sadness just sort of float away as her a Nightwing sipped coffee at a local shop, she would always be sad for Scar because he was family but that didn't mean she couldn't get on with the rest of her life, hell Scar hasn't even contacted her like he said he would.

"Roxy?" a voice broke her out of her rant and she turned to Nightwing who had a smirk on his face.
"You're daydreaming again." he says with a warm tone, Roxy offers him a small smile as she wraps her hand around her warm cup of coffee.

"Sorry I was just thinking about him…" she says solemnly, Nightwing studies her face before taking a sip of his coffee, his fingers outline a piece of paper that Scar and given him on their latest get together, Scar had said he was hearing rumors and some facts about the meteostations but nothing to serious, he also warned him about the upcoming raid on the cave and made sure the bird was ready.

It was a note for Roxy that Scar had put together to inform Roxy he was ok and getting along fine and it shouldn't be long before he could see her in person again. Nightwing sighed as he looked across the table at the stunningly beautiful girl in front of him, he hated lying to her, every time he did he felt this sense of guilt creep up into him, he missed the old Roxy, he missed the fiery grey eyed girl that wouldn't let anyone get away with anything, that's the girl he was falling for and he'll be damned if he doesn't get her back.

After their coffee Nightwing had bought a couple of those cupcakes they sell at the front and offered Roxy one, Roxy smiled and took the treat and began to eat it as they made their way outside - after a few minutes they passed by Gotham park and Roxy could see a huge Movie screen in the middle with a few people up on hills and at the concession stands ordering what looked like food.

"What's that?" she asked curiously pointing at the crowd, Nightwing follows her finger and smiles.
"It's an outdoor movie premiere, people get together and eat junk food and hang out while they watch classic films." he states, Roxy visibly brightens at his words.
"Really?" she asks with just a hint of excitement in her voice, Nightwing only smirks when he sees her smile.
"You want to go?" he asks, Roxy nods and heads off towards the big screen taking in all the sights and smells of something she's never been to before she looks around and finds a grassy knoll not too far with a tree on top with a perfect vantage point to see the screen.

"Come on lets go grab a seat." she says grabbing Nightwing's hand and practically dragging him to the tree as she ran up the hill, Nightwing chuckles as he sits down next to her, he's happy to see her excited for a change - her old glow is starting to come back as she looks to and fro at the families sitting around and playing and people in line at the food stands.

"Hungry?" Nightwing asks.
"Yeah but there's so much to choose from...how about one of everything?" she says with a goofy smirk, but something tells him she is only half joking.
"Sure thing." Nightwing says with a warm smile as he walks down the hill and starts to stand in line at the various concession stands.

After some time Nightwing got back to Roxy with two hotdogs in his hand and huge plastic glass of cola with two straws.
"Sorry, I took one big instead of two smaller ones, not enough hands." he said with a goofy grin. Roxy wasn't sure she ever saw him with expression like this, but he looked cute, so she chuckled standing up and helping him by taking one hotdog from his hands. She noticed and noted to herself that one of them didn't have mustard in it. She hesitated for a few seconds until Nightwing nodded showing her she took the right one.
"The one without mustard is yours." he said as they sat down beside each other.
"H-how did you ..?" she didn't remember telling him about she didn't like mustard.
"I'm a good detective, remember?" he tapped a finger on his temple which made her blush. Yeah, Batman's protégé, how could she forget? She didn't know whether she should be flattered he noticed or scared he spied on her... but it still felt nice he actually knew something about her, something this small and meaningless for everyone else but something that had a huge significance to her. She felt this warm feeling in her chest filling her from the inside making her breathing hitch a little and her stomach tighten.
They were silent while eating both in their own thoughts. But when the movie finally started they turned their attention to the screen. Nightwing noticed a tiny little spot of ketchup on the corner of Roxy's lips. He even lifted his hand up in sudden urge to wipe it off, but stopped himself in the last moment. Roxy turned to look at him in confusion.

"What?"

"You.. you have a.. ketchup on your lip, right here." he pointed at his lips in the place Roxy soiled herself.
"Oh.." she blushed. Making herself look like a little miss piggy in front of her crush, just great! She wiped her lips and turned to look at him. "How about now?"
"It's fine now." he sighed as they turned to the screen again. The movie was black-and-white, apparently one of the American classic movies and Roxy hasn't seen it before, so she was watching attentively while Nightwing was looking at her. After some time there was a moment on the screen where the main character showed some note to his friend, but it blinked so quickly Roxy didn't have a chance to read it.
"What the note said?" she asked in a hushed tone not tearing her gaze from the screen hoping they would show the paper again. When there was no answer she turned to look what Nightwing was so busy with not answering her. She suddenly found her face so close to his, their eyes were inches apart. He lowered his shades so she could actually see those beautiful blue eyes of his. They were staring at each other like this lost for the world for a few moments, until both realized they were too close and rushed to move away.
"khhmm.. " Nightwing coughed as his voice suddenly became hoarse. "I missed that too.." they turned back to the screen not daring to look at each other in this awkward silence.

Nightwing silently cursed himself.'You moron, you can sneak inside the watchtower and not be seen yet you can't notice when the girl you like is about to catch you looking at her? Way to go dumbass' he scolds himself as he watches the movie, but he wasn't concentrating on the movie, oh no he was more focused on the beautiful girl next to him and their close proximity, did she like him like he likes her? How would she react to a kiss? Would she scold him or just burn him to a crisp right there with a lightning bolt?

'Pull yourself together for Christ's sake' he tells himself.'It's not even technically a date is it?' he thinks as he replays all the events that lead up to this in his head but he is quickly brought out of it when a romantic see causes Roxy to 'Awwww' at the screen.

He leans over to peck her on the cheek but he stops short of her seeing.'Man up you bitch and kiss her already' he commands himself, he gently leans over but catches himself as he thinks about the possible consequence, he really likes this girl and he doesn't want to scare her away on their first 'technically not a date' so he eases back so she can't see what he might of been doing and leans up against the tree again.'Maybe later...but not now' he thinks, she was having such a good time with the movie that he wanted her to enjoy it and not have to sort through her feelings that a kiss might cause.

When the movie was over Roxy stretched out and looked at Nightwing with a warm smile.
"Thank you so much, I really needed this."
"No problem, what heroes are for?" he shrugged with half-smile. She chuckled in response. Heroes... yeah...
"Soo.. uhhm... let's go then?" she asked hesitantly.
'Yeah.." he stood up first and offered her a hand to help her get up. She accepted. When their fingers met she felt this thrilling sensation in her stomach again. She looked up in his eyes but they were covered by shades so she couldn't tell if it was just a polite gesture or he meant something by it... when she stood up he didn't take his hand away immediately but held it a little longer. Maybe just a little bit too long than it was politely appropriate. Her heart sped up three times. She let the moment linger and didn't want to pull away before he did. They were standing like this, looking at their hands neither saying a word. But when after a few moments neither did anything, Nightwing just squeezed her hand in his and they headed to the park exit.

~XXX~

In the mean time at the sub…

Scar was leaning up against the shower wall letting the water flow over him, he couldn't really feel hot or cold as such but the feeling of the water running over his body and the sound of the water helped him tune all everything around him...that is until a knock on the door brought him back to reality.

"Sam...you ready?" the blonde's voice came from the other side, they only called each other's names in private, it sort of helped remind them of who they were before the whole undercover thing went down.

"Not really...you?" he asks under the water, he wasn't looking forward to the cave mission. He had already attacked his friends once and even captured the one who he considered a sister but he had been under their control so one could forgive him for what he had done, he had even lost most of his memory, but doing it willingly for the sake of his cover still left a bad taste in his mouth.

"Not really…" she says as she walks over and sits in the chair next to the desk, this next mission could really cause some harm if they're not careful, especially if the twins decide they want to go outside mission parameters, 'Thank God Sam's coming along' she thought to herself if the twins did get out of control he was the one person who could put them in their place….

~XXX~

They were walking holding hands to the zeta tube,neither dared to break this peaceful silence. Roxy's emotions reeling… Nightwing himself is holding her hand right now! She remembered how Scar used to tease her about this huge crush she had on Batman's protégé. Every time he was on the news Scar managed to rush into her room to grab her and make her watch the report and then laugh at her and say she was drooling, and for the record, she did not! At the thought of Scar she sighed...If he only knew... God, she wanted to tell him about it so much! He was the only real friend she had, for some reason girls tend not to like her, so she discussed all the personal stuff with him. And now she can't even call him… but she tried to push those sad thoughts away and concentrate on the current situation. Nightwing's palm was broad and warm; she felt this nice feeling of secure and protection when he held her. She wondered what it was like to be with him. And where this takes them? Probably nowhere... Just a movie in the park, so what? Not a big deal. She tried not to get her expectations too high so it wouldn't hurt later if it actually didn't mean a thing.

By the time they got to the tube she was calm and made her inner excitement die down a bit. They stopped in front of unused telephone booth and Nightwing bent ever so lightly.

"Ladies first." She could catch the hint of playfulness in his tone. God, is he always so cool and collected? A sudden thought of taking his calm mask off and bring his true passion to the surface crossed her mind. She cleared her throat and forced a smile that came along with a light blush as thinking about ripping his clothes off standing right in front of him was.. well… too perverted. She stepped into the tube and punched the code.

Nightwing stood there was a few seconds to collect himself, this whole thing was too overwhelming. He was in this dreamy cloud for a bit before he realized he forgot something, something really important.

The Light attacks the cave… in…. he looked at his watch…oh God… right now….

A/N: Dear readers! We actually have something like an interactive game for you. There were some reviews about different pairings that we didn't actually put in the story, but some of you guys wanted them. So, here's the thing. You leave a review to the story saying what pairing you want to see and maybe a reason for it, what do you see in the pairing that we obviously missed and the best one wins, no slashes though -_0

The winner gets a side-story about a pairing this person requests. We send it to the winner via PM or DocX.

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