The Batcave:
"I know you are there Tim." Raven says after an hour of reading and editing, she had felt the youngsters presence since he arrived home five minutes ago, she did wonder how he did it though, since Alfred had not left the Manor.
"Damn, how do you do that?" Tim says as he stops sneaking around and walks up to stand beside her.
"Four years living with a boy that made his mission in life to prank me, and he could change into animals." Raven replies without looking up from her work.
"He did have his breaks when he succeeded, and lumps." Richard says as he walks up from the lower platforms. "Or have you forgotten the time you hit him with your book?"
"No, no I haven't." Raven says letting on a small smile at the memory, Richard smiles as he notices the small modifications Raven has made in his presentation, he had deliberately made a few mistakes to see if she would notice them. "So are you done with that mystery project of yours?" She asks.
"Nearly, should be ready for testing in a few days if all goes well." Richard replies. "Anyways, dinner is almost served."
"Sounds good." Raven admits as she gets up. "You are patrolling tonight?"
"Tim and I are; you can join us if you are done?" Richard replies as they walk up the stairs.
"Nearly, only a few more things I need to read up on and edit." She replies.
"Good, we are heading over to the Eastside tonight."
"Neat, I've wanted to see someone else get jumped by you." Tim adds excitedly.
"The whole invasion thing and that wasn't enough?" Richard asks.
"Nope." Tim replies happily.
Later that night, Gotham Eastside:
"Richard, I am following a woman in a black skin tight outfit and cat ears." Raven sends to Richard over the bond, Bruce being currently occupied leading the League around silently in Bravery's forest.
"Hmm, she got out quick, that would be Selina Kyle; Catwoman. Where are you?" Richard sends back.
"Not sure, but there are three jewelry stores further down the road from where she is walking."
"She is walking the pavement?" Richard asks a little surprised.
"Yes."
"Hmm, might not be her, she prefers the rooftops, keep an eye on her just in case. I'll asks Alfred to check up on Selina's last known location."
Raven nods as she continues to shadow the woman, running silently along the rooftops. The woman in question walks casually along the otherwise empty streets, stopping once and looks in the window of the first jewelry store. She seems to examine the place for several moments before moving on, guessing the woman will stop at the next store as well makes Raven teleport to find good cover in advance. Looking once at the store makes her hurry as numerous mirrors are displayed in the window, finding nothing she throws herself flat behind the stone railing of the building.
Again the woman stops, but she seems annoyed by the mirrors blocking the view to the rest of the store as she moves from side to side to get a better view. Raven peeks over the railing to see if she is going in or not, quickly ducking back down as the woman apparently sees something in the mirrors and turns around to scan the rooftop of the opposite buildings.
Raven keeps her head down and her ears open, but hears nothing other than the distant sounds of the metropolis. After a while she dares look up again, finding the street deserted, the woman is gone.
"Damn it." Raven whispers to herself in annoyance, this is a rookie mistake. She is just about to let Richard know before she notices the door to the store is in fact slightly open. Raven is a little impressed; the woman had entered the store and not tripped any security measure in the span of seconds. "She's just entered the Bronston Jewelry Store." She sends, receiving no reply she flies down to the store before landing and entering. "You shouldn't be doing that." Raven notes at the woman looking up from the cash register with an expression of a deer caught in the headlights, the yellow goggles Raven guesses she usually wears is perched on her forehead.
The woman doesn't move for a second, before quickly tossing a fist full of coins at Raven's face before storming through the back rooms. Raven covers herself from the impromptu projectiles with a shield before racing off after her, finding the back door open. She forcibly starts the burglar alarm as she exits into the alleyway in time to see the woman turn a corner further down.
Raven takes to the skies, locking onto the mix of fear and exhalation the woman is now radiating like a signal light. Flying over the buildings, she spots her storming thought the trash littered alleys, expertly jumping and dodging any that gets in her way. Raven guesses this is either Selina, or someone who is used to the alleys. Raven descends as she spots the alleys is a dead end, intending to corner the woman.
She is surprised when the woman shows no sign of stopping for the coming obstacle, instead leaping at the right wall to get momentum to reach the fire escape on the other side before swinging herself up onto the first railing. Without pause, she jumps up to the second railing and onwards till she is up on the roof. Something inside Raven tells her to get the hell moving instead of staring, but the pause has another part add that the woman obviously knew where she was going. Raven agrees to this, she isn't running in blind panic, following her might prove informative. Locking onto the woman's emotions, Raven merges with the shadows and races after her.
Elsewhere in Gotham:
"Batman are you receiving, over?" Richard hears in his cowl after the din of the noise around him fades away, interrupting 12 thugs moving stolen goods gets noisy, he was certain he had heard Raven's voice in his head at some point, but he dismissed it as he was in the middle of the scuffle.
"Batman here." He says pressing the part of the cowl that activates the microphone.
"Spotted Catwoman near the border to the Southside distric, but I lost her."
"Are you certain, Raven spotted her as well not too long ago?" Richard asks as he shoots a grapple hook and pulls himself onto the roof.
"Positive, whip, goggles and leather get up." Tim replies. "Where is she?"
"She wasn't sure, I'll try calling her." He says. "Raven?"
(…)
"Raven?" He tries again, still no reply, meaning she was most likely busy or can't hear him. "Nothing, but I told her to follow the suspect."
"Selina still lives at the old address we have?" Tim asks.
"Indeed she does Master Robin, and yes, she was released shortly after the events in Jump City." Alfred adds, as was normal, he listens in on the communications from the cave.
"I'll head over and see if she is home." Tim says, killing the feed before any objections can be made.
"Penny-One, would you mind checking if Selina has ever had any associates that have taken up her act?" Richard asks as he sends a call to the Gotham police to pick up the burglars.
"Certainly sir." Alfred replies crisply. "Hmm, nothing in the files suggests she has any associates other than fences, but it may well be unrecorded. Do you believe Gotham may have another Catwoman on the loose Sir?"
"I do, unless Raven and Robin have spotted the same person. But that would mean Raven is way out of the area I told her to patrol in. I better head over as well."
"Very good Sir."
Raven has been following the woman for almost 10 minutes now, while she has stopped sprinting, she is still jogging across the rooftops, putting as much distance between her and the jewelry store as possible. Raven notices she gradually slows down, finally stopping for breath on a corner building. Raven moves closer hiding in the shadows of the stair access of the adjoining building , watching the woman as she feels something move past her on the other side, Raven blinks a few times as a second woman in the same getup as her target walks out of the shadows and over to the other.
"Well this got interesting." Raven whispers to herself.
"You look bushed." The second arrival notes.
"Someone jumped me in the store." The first one says between breaths. "Wore a cape."
"Did you get clear?" The second asks.
"Think so, didn't see anyone after I got onto the roof."
"That's not a guarantee in this city, come-on, let's get our stuff and move, this place isn't safe." The second one sighs before making for the door, Raven thinks quick and has the door seal shut. "What the..? Holly did you lock the door when you left?"
"No, of course not." Holly, as Raven assumes the name of the one she has been following is called, replies in a slightly agitated tone. Silently Raven teleports behind the other stair access and climbs onto the top as she can hear the first struggle with the door or more exactly Raven's will.
"Damn thing is stuck!" The first one heaves at the handle. "Whoa!" Raven is on top in time to see the woman pull the door knob free and display an impressive feat of agility as she manages to turn around completely to land on her hands and feet instead of her backside. However impressive it is, Raven knows she has to act and get an explanation out of one or both of them, so she stands up.
"Ladies, you have some explaining to do." She says quietly, as the heads of both women snap up to look at her.
"It's her!" Holly says as she quickly unfurls the whip that was curled around her midsection as a belt.
"And I was growing fond of this place." The other one sighs as she quickly gets up and gets her own whip out.
"Bruce, you may want to see this." Raven sends inwards, before she points a finger at Holly. "You are coming with me for breaking into the Bronston Jewelry Store."
"Does that ever work?" Holly asks, before her free left hand swiftly pulls out something from a hidden compartment at her waist and throws it at Raven.
To Raven the object moves in slow motion, an effect she quickly blames the Flash for. To the two women, Raven's right arm blurs for a second, freezing again holding the knife thrown at her by the pommel, the point aiming at her left shoulder.
"That counts as assault." Raven says as she throws the knife aside.
"Holly I told you, no knives!" The second one hisses angrily before lashing out with her whip, aiming to take Raven's legs away from under her. Raven somersaults over the piece of leather, landing on the ground, and rolls as soon as she lands; avoiding the second whip that slaps the ground where she lands before she gets up.
"That's two counts of assault." Raven grumbles. "Arg!" She screeches as a flare of pain erupts on the side of her face, she clutches the area as she stumbles to the side, her hand comes away bloody.
"Leave now before you get hurt." The second woman says in a warning tone.
"That's three." Raven growls as she whips her hand free of blood and faces the two again.
"Holly, left!" The unnamed one says as she swings her whip horizontally at head height to the right, while Holly ducks and swings hers from the left, Raven on the other hand simply teleports away. "Huh?"
"SELINA!" Holly yells at the roof beneath her seems to sink away taking Holly with it, Selina quickly grabs onto Holly's flailing arms and heaves as two arms reach out of the shadows on the ground, grabbing hold of Holly's midsection.
Selina's eyes grow wide behind her red goggles a she notices two blazing white eyes staring back at her from the shadows. The two engage in a brief tug of war using Holly as the rope.
"Fine, keep her then." A voice says from the ground before Holly is ejected from the shadow and over Selina's head, taking them both to the ground.
"You ok?" Selina asks as she gets up, scanning the roof for the assailant.
"Maybe…" Holly groans as she gets up as well while Selina moves around to look behind the stair access and moves out of Holly's line of sight.
"Damn it, where did it go?" Selina whispers to herself, finding nothing in the shadows.
"Selina!" Holly's warning has Selina leap away from the stair access in time to avoid the fist that sails through the air space her head occupied a second ago.
Raven jumps down from the access and sends several punches and kicks at Selina, who either blocks them or dodges out of the way. Raven is about to land a solid chop with her left hand as another flare of pain races over her back to the sound of tearing cloth. The break is enough for Selina to get away as Raven stumbles forwards before turning to face the two again.
"Keep it up!" Selina says, before the two, almost in sync, lash out at Raven with the whips again. At the same speed, Raven reaches out with both hands and grabs the ends of the whips coming towards her, even if it results in her skin tearing at the contact.
"Crap." Holly says in the short second Raven holds the pose before she twirls the weapons, let's go shortly and grabs them again closer to the wielders. She then pulls hard on both whips and moves towards as both women are pulled off the ground towards her, Raven spreads her arms wide, catching them both by their mid sections before slamming them both together back to back.
"Nrg! Let go!" Selina growls as she can feel her breath growing short in Raven's bear hug.
"Can't breathe." Holly gasps as they flail with their arms while Raven is holding on and looking down to avoid getting her face ripped by the talons on the two's cloves.
Raven ignores them both and the kicks and small scratches she receives from the struggles, that gradually grows weaker and weaker, until the two hang drowsily in her arms, where she puts them down. Quickly she checks them for injuries before pulling off the leather hoods and goggles. Revealing Holly to be a freckled long-haired blond and the other to be a shorthaired raven head.
Sighing in satisfaction, Raven summons the two whips before having them come apart in several long strips, dropping the short pieces of wood in the handles on the ground. Doing a quick search, Raven relieves Holly of several concealed knives and the gloves they both wear, which has sharp cat-like claws in them that glint the in the moonlight. Also finding a pen and a piece of paper on Selina, Raven levitates herself, the two women and the strips of leather down to the street light outside the apartment building.
Using several strips of whip to tie the women's legs together, before using a few more to connect the two, so that they will both drop to the ground if the line is cut. Moving to the arms, she uses her powers to tie them back to back, with their hands and arms tied together between them and using the last strips to connect the strips binding their hands to the ones connected to their feet. She finished by writing a message on a piece of paper as Selina comes to.
"A word of warning, if your feet are cut free or you slip out of your boots, you will drop and most likely break the arms of both of you." Raven says as she finishes.
"Who are you?" Selina asks weakly.
"That's my secret." Raven says as she fastens the note to Holly's suit, using the pen as a needle and drifts away.
"Hey you can't leave us here?!" Selina says angrily, after gauging the distance to the ground to be well over 3 meters from where they are hanging.
"Sure I can, yell loud enough will draw the police and they will get you down. Good evening." Raven says over her shoulder before disappearing in a puff of smoke. Leaving a loudly swearing Selina behind. Neither Selina nor Holly, after she wakes, notice the two separate visitors that stops by, one only a few seconds after Raven disappears, and observe them from the shadows of the roof tops. The other engages the night vision in his cowl to read the note attracted to Holly before vacating the scene.
Lost Kittens looking for new home, with bars.
'Holly', this note is attracted to, was seen breaking into the Bronston Jewelry Store.
"Cute Rae, but hang them a little lower next time." Richard sends after reading it. "Tim said you got hit?"
"It's nothing, but thank you." Raven replies. "Was Tim there?"
"Saw one Catwoman at the Southside, but lost her, he went to Selina's apartment after I told him you had seen one too."
"Strange, I didn't sense him at all."
"He is like me when on the job." Richard sends. "Are you heading back?"
"If you tell me to?"
"Better head for bed. Remember you have a presentation to do tomorrow." He sends in a teasing tone.
"Like I could forget." Raven grumbles. "I will be heading back then and don't come peeking into my room."She says before going silent, leaving Richard with an amused smirk on his face.
Later that night a doorknob is turned slightly in Wayne Manor, but its left at that before a yelp and a splash is heard from the pool in the southern part of the garden, the one in the room did not stir before the splash.
Next morning:
"Late night swimming Richard?" Raven asks as she takes a bite of her morning bread, Richard had been staring darkly at her since they gathered in the kitchen and to agree with his mood; heavy clouds had been forming since they woke up.
"Very funny Raven." He grumbles.
"I did warn you." She replies.
"I suspect the young Miss has her own means of defense against nightly predators." Alfred says while enjoying a cup of coffee, Raven had noted he did take time out for himself when his services were not required, something that filled her with an odd sense of relief.
"I hope you can say that after she pulls that trick on you." Richard mentions, without looking up from his oatmeal.
"Don't worry, I removed it before coming down here." Raven assures.
"Good, Alfie would have a heart attack if he took that dive." Richard grumbles, Raven just smirks.
"So how are your hands?" Tim asks, having arrived in time to witness the standoff, having hiddin across the street in the shadows. "Must have hurt catching the whips like that?"
"The one across my face and back hurt more since I didn't expect them, but yes it hurt, got the job done though." Raven replies offhandedly.
"Why didn't you go all spooky scary on them?" Tim asks.
"I am trying to get used to the idea that Bruce and the others will hopefully not be inside of my head in the near foreseeable future and that I won't be able to leech off Flash's powers, I think I tapped into that when Holly threw a knife at me and that last stunt I pulled." Raven explains and takes a sip from her tea.
"So why not go red skinned, you could have taken them out in a jiffy?" Tim continues.
"I could have taken them out without them even seeing me, but I try to remind myself whenever I can, that one day I might not have those options, so I try to do it like this. Besides, from what I have read, Catwoman is just a thief, a good one, but not one that kills, a rarity in Gotham's special criminal gallery." Raven replies, well aware that Richard had been staring at her since Tim mentioned the whips.
"What is the old saying? Just because one can, doesn't mean one should?" Alfred muses.
"Rae, how much time have you spent healing yourself tonight?" Richard asks.
"Only an hour while joining the others." Raven replies, as she holds up her palms for them to see the two trails of new skin where the whips hit, it stands out more since the area around it is still a little blue. "Should be gone in an hour or so."
"Miss I would suggest, if you intend to practice human only behavior, that you remember that we heal much slower." Alfred says, stealing the words out of Richard's mouth.
"I guess you are right." Raven sighs. "Best option would be to avoid getting hit at all."
"Or wear gloves." Tim adds.
"That is also an option." Raven smirks at the thought of herself wearing two large mittens and doing the stunt she did last night. "Anyways, I need to get the rest of the presentation done. And Richard said something about dragging me out to buy new clothes for this afternoon."
"Haven't forgotten." Richard counters while returning to his breakfast.
"Well, good thing they cancelled school today." Tim says leaning back in his seat.
"Tim." Richard says quietly, knowing a fair few times Tim had tried to worm his way out of school since Bruce left them.
"What? It's true, I only have one teacher today and she caught the flu." Tim replies.
"The note is on the refrigerator Master Richard." Alfred mentions over the rim of his cup, since he drives Tim to school, he was the one who got to see the note from the day before yesterday. Richard turns to regard the piece of furniture spotting the note and the signature at the bottom.
"Fair enough." Richard says as he turns back. "That bike of yours need a work over anyway." He says, getting a groan out of Tim, Raven just smiles slightly as she gets up and walks out the room and down to the cave.
20 minutes later.
"Say Raven, how well can you do magic?" Tim asks as he lies under his bike, tinkering with it, while Raven is busy at the computer.
"It is a hard thing to gauge." Raven says without looking up. "Some may call me skilled, or powerful, others, myself included, consider me no better than a novice."
"In comparison to say, Zatanna?"
"If limited to just magic in a duel, I would have to be very lucky and catch her unaware, like I did on the docks. Zatanna is a very powerful mage really; she just tends to hide it under the stage magician facade."
"And Fate is stronger than her?" Tim continues.
"Much, but it is the helmet that makes him so. I've read about it, it's kind of an heirloom, passes from one mage to the next, storing all knowledge from its wearers, making it available to the successors. Nabu made it and his knowledge of magic was said to be enormous when he first passed it on."
"So what magic can you do?"
"Astral projection and telekinesis, the stuff I normally employ could be seen as a form of magic. I can perform a number of rites and rituals once I have read the spells and with the correct ingredients. Lastly I can do dark magic, but I have very little control over it." She says as she continues reading. "Why the interest?"
"I was wondering if I could get you to help me prank Richard." Tim replies without missing a beat.
"Magic isn't a toy Timothy, especially not the stuff I have." Raven replies flatly.
"I know, Zee told me that enough times before pulling a dove out of my ear. But Richard has been so grumpy since Bruce went missing, it's like he's becoming Bruce or something." Tim sighs.
"He's mentioned that." Raven agrees. "He will probably get angry too if you try anything on him." She continues, remembering the times Beastboy tried doing something, pranking a sour Robin never improved his mood.
"Only for an hour or so and he needs to lighten up a bit." Tim insists. "Tell me what you think of this." Raven groans inwardly having the feeling, she would have no peace until something happened.
Richard is still sitting in his morning wear with the morning paper in his hand and a cup of coffee in the other, currently reading an article about the mysterious nuclear detonation on Oolong Island that was still being talked about. He was having a slight chuckle over the idea how many problems Cale was facing when she is found, since the International Atomic Energy Agency was previously unaware of Oolong even had the reactors and now they want answers to how Cale got the fuel and what they were doing with it. Oddly enough being backed by the entire UN, because no one wanted the erratic island state to have nuclear weapons, or worse; selling them off to even worse people. Richard suspects that Oolong with its vast technological expertise was purposely blocking images being taken by most satellites aimed at it, fortunately for the League; theirs was built with more than just human tech. The thoughts are enough to distract him from the figure of Tim walking through his door while apparently drying his face in a white towel.
"Dick, my head doesn't feel right." Getting Richards attention, with a mouthful of coffee. Tim lets the towel drop and Richard spits out the coffee and ends up spilling the remaining contents of his cup over himself in shock. Tim's mouth, nose, eyes and ears are all drifting around on his face as if it was rolled up paper on water. "Gotcha." Tim says as his mouth seems to drift into his hair, and he turns and bolts out the door, Richard storms after him a second later, spotting the cell phone in the boy's hand.
Later that afternoon:
"Can't believe he talked you into that stunt." Richard says again, over the small lunch he and Raven are enjoying inside a small diner while the rain pours down outside.
"He had a valid point and I wouldn't have peace until I added something to his mad scheme." Raven replies before scooping in another mouthful of noodles with the chopsticks.
The chase had eventually ended right behind Raven down in the cave, where she had separated the two due to the noise. As a sort of repercussion for her aid, Richard had dared Raven to go shopping with him without changing her hair or skin color, just to see how many would actually give it any thought. Raven had just narrowed her eyes at him for a second, before rising to the challenge. Richards's sunglasses vanished mysteriously soon after from the green convertible they were driving in. So far, no one has seemed to actually notice it, not even the tailors who only had muttered a few lines about color matching.
So now Raven is wearing a tight pinstriped black jacket and skirt that goes down to her knees along with a white shirt underneath the jacket and a pair of brown gladiator sandals. She had insisted on keeping them brown so she wouldn't appear completely manufactured for the afternoon, she only used one word when suggested to visit a beauty parlor for makeup and hair, even in its extended state her hair was hers to deal with. Richard is wearing a black suit as well, one of many he assured Raven that he had, before voicing his thought that maybe he should have worn the white one.
"It will be nice when Bruce gets back." He admits.
"The Manor hardly seems the same without him being physically present." Raven agrees as she scoops up the last noodles, even if she hadn't been there for very long, she could almost feel the house was a different place to be in, but not why that was. "When is the meeting set to?" She asks.
"Three. If we head over now, I could give you a quick tour of Wayne Tower?" He suggests.
"I have to calm myself enough before I have to face the board, perhaps try and run it all through first." Raven replies, the last thing she is growing nerves would need was something not going smoothly. "Besides, it's just an office building?"
"Unofficial center of Gotham and an architectural gem according to some who decide such things. But you're right, let's get going." He says as he gets up and follows Raven out into the rain covering them both with his umbrella.
Two hours later, meeting room at the top of Wayne Tower.
"And this is why Mr. Wayne urges you to consider this genuine opportunity that's presented itself. While LexCorps internal condition is not yet publicly known, the turmoil it's in can be read in their figures, thank you." Raven finishes with a flushed face, receiving a short round of applause from the group of 17 men and three women, before they quiet down, leaving Raven standing near the white screen the presentation was projected onto.
"Thank you Miss Roth. But I am curious, how exactly did you come across these papers? And why come to us with this offer?" A middle aged and white man asks, Raven had caught his name to be Fredricks.
"I have a personal friend who works in LexCorp's accountancy, if LexCorp goes bankrupt, she will be out of a job." Raven replies as calmly as she can, thought Anxiety is riding her for all she's is worth and she is fighting an intense battle on the inside to keep her powers subdued. "As a single mom, she is fortunate to have her current job."
"Understandable in these times, but you must realize we can't act directly on these documents." The man Richard introduced as Lucius Fox continues. "If we walk into LexCorp and put these on their desk they can charge us with industrial espionage, and with LexCorp involved, that will result in a lawsuit." Raven nods at this in understanding.
"I understand, I will not tell you how to run this company or anything. I was merely asked by Mr. Wayne to present this material to you because he thought it was worth the look." Raven replies while unconsciously falling into the waiting stance she had gotten used to on Themyscira.
"And how exactly did you come across Mr. Wayne? We have trouble finding him half the time." A man called Smith asks, Raven's mind races quickly to find an answer.
"I was so fortunate that another friend of mine works as a guide on the Bahamas, she recognized him from the tabloids and called me." Raven replies, getting a few nods from the men.
"And how was Bruce?" Fox asks, it doesn't concern him that someone could get close to Bruce Wayne, who, unlike many wealthy socialites, never wanted a bodyguard.
"Well when I first found Mr. Wayne he was… erm… drunk, but I managed to leave a note with him before he partied on." Raven feels like being caught between a rock and a hard place, on one hand trying to work up a workable impression of the spoiled socialite playboy and not offend the man in her head at the same time. "He called the afternoon after."
"Well that sounds like Bruce." Fox sighs. "Thank you Miss Roth."
"Thank you for your time gentlemen." Raven replies, before gathering the few bits she was taking with her and heads out the door drawing a deep sigh of relief after the door is closed.
"See, that wasn't so bad." Wally is the first of the Leaguers to speak, the group having remained silent and observant during the whole thing in case they disturbed, Raven merely holds up her hand watching it shake. "Ok, so maybe it was."
"I need to meditate." Raven sighs inwardly, making her way out to the ladies room down the hall and slumps down on the lid of the toilet in the richly decorated stall that's equipped with its own sink.
"Bet this place costs more than my apartment." John mentions at the bathroom, while Raven begins taking a few calming breaths to slow down her heart rate.
"I never understood why Man's Worlds lavatories always seem so decorated?" Diana adds.
"It's a display of power, meaning the owners have enough wealth to decorate even the bathrooms." Clark mentions.
"This one is just for display really; the ones for employees are more down toned." Bruce mentions, Raven has herself just under enough control to not let her powers spark as someone knock on the door, which startles her.
"Miss Roth?" A woman's voice asks, Raven guessed it's the secretary she passed when she and Richard arrived at the floor.
"Yes?"
"The directors would like you to come back when you are done." The woman says before walking back out.
"Azar, I thought I was done." Raven sighs inwardly before bunching up her courage again and walks out and back into the meeting room, where Richard closes the door behind her. While it has been raining most of the afternoon, as the door shuts, the first lightning flashes followed shortly by the roar of thunder, all of which does not help Raven's nerves at all. "Yes?"
"Sorry, but we just have one question you might not be able to answer." Lucius Fox says.
"While LexCorp has a board of directors, no one here is under any illusion that LexCorp is very much governed by a single person. Luthor had his hands into everything regarding the company, Mercy Grave less so, but we are wondering what their roles are in this?" Fredricks asks.
"As far as I know, Mr. Luthor vanished over a year ago during the Apokoliptian invasion and he was a wanted fugitive before that. Regarding Miss Graves, my friend has only heard rumors that she has been acting erratically for several months now, pouring funds into strange projects left and right with no real ends, throwing away the stabilizing budget LexCorp was steering towards under her guidance. Some are beginning to draw comparisons between her handling of the company to the way Mr. Luthor did. And in these time's that is worrying for her employees." Raven explains while trying to remain calm. So far the US Government had covered up all of the actual parties involved in Jump City, claiming it was a previously unknown cell of tech terrorists who wanted to hold the president ransom rather than metahuman criminals.
"Hmm, we see. Thank you again Miss Roth." Lucius says while looking thoughtful, Raven just turns to see Richard open the door for her.
"The reception will call a cab for you if you need." Richard says as she walks out, she knew he was going to stay.
"Thank you Mr. Grayson." Raven replies giving him a smile as she passes him. "Think I will need one." She adds internally, unsure if she could muster the will and power to get herself back to the Manor.
Author's notes: Just a little Gotham 'downtime'.