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BP 140 over 75, Alfred start a blood-fusion.

Yes, dr. Lesle

Lydia and damian stand outside of the med-bey door, when their com's go off. they hear red hood's voice, "Sniper in police custody."

Lydia sighed and put her finger to her ear. "Return to base, that's enough damage for one night."

Damage?

Just return to base, hood.

Ok, stand by.

Why didn't you tell todd what happened?

Too close to the sniper, didn't want him to do something I would have to deal with the consequences from. Beside I need your statement to figure out what happened.

The sniper shot him, what else do you need to know?!

Do you have the bullet that is probable still in the alley?

No.

Have you checked any security footage to prove that it came from his direction?

Not yet.

Do we have a witness?

Yes, i'm the witness.

Then tell me, what evidence do we have besides your statement?

As of right now, just the statement.

Exactly, now can you go and write what you saw with you robin signature at the bottom of it.

Damian turns to head to the bat-comuter. Lydia sighs for what felt like the up-tenth time of the night, when she hears the bat-cycles come in to the bat-cave.

I thought the deal was a full patrol? Red robin removes his mask and become tim.

That was the plan, but there was an unexpected…incident. Damian is writing a statement when he is done can you send it to GCPD to go with the sniper y'all brought in.

Who did damian kill this time? Tim asks as he heads to the computer. Jason turns to Lydia.

What is the incident? Why is damian writing a statement?

Dick got hurt, shot. Damian is the witness. I don't know what happened, and won't know until we get damians statement.

Is dick alright?" he asks while curling his fist.

I don't know, still waiting on dr. lesley.

Anything you do know?

That he lost a lot of blood, and he lost consciousness before I got there."she looks at him. "Hit the showers, and take a minute to compose yourself."

I don't need too.

You might not realise it but you do. You look like you could kill someone right now.

I never could understand how you could be so calm when stuff like this happens.

She gives him a reassuring smerk. "Don't forget, the league would say I was the most like batman out of us three,"

He chuckles. That is true.

Hit the showers. I'll call you if I get any news.

Ok." he walks away.

Lord, please let him be ok." she turns to check on damian and tim.

(break)

Damian finishes his statement. Then passes it off to tim, to send in to GCPD. but not before Lydia had a chance to read it. Now here comes the part she dreaded. she had read some of Damian's previous reports, she doesn't want to try and pri the information out of him. When she went to go and talk to him, the tiredness from tonight was evident on his face. So she opted for a different route.

Hey damian. Why don't you come with me." she says while trying to have a warm smile.

And what is the purpose for that order?" he asks.

Who said it was an order?" she turns to head up to the manor. Intrigued he follows her up. When the get to the kitchen he decides to ask her another question.

Why did we come up here?

I was going to make some hot chocolate. I thought that you would like some.

Tsk, what gave you that conclusion?

Guess.

You guessed?

Yep.

That is unreliable.

Yes, but not useless.

How so?

You're just full of questions. It just is.

The famous "gut", that pennyworth says bats have.

It comes with experience. And are you telling me that you don't want some." she says as she crosses her arms.

If you are going to make some I wouldn't say no.

She smirks. And proceeds to grab two mugs.

But that isn't all that we are up here for? He asks.

No, it isn't. I read your statement, you didn't say why you jumped the gun? Both literally and figuratively.

I was stopping the drug deal.

But your statement says that dick had asked you to stay back. Why jump ahead? There wasn't a point, unless you were trying to prove something." she says as she puts the kettle on the stove.

What is your point?

What I think happened was that dick either said something about your lack of patrolling or he saw something you didn't noticed. So you jumped into the nearest fight to prove that you are capable.

I am capable.

I know. But if you know that, and I know that, then why jump into a fight that you didn't properly assessed at the time?

Nightwing brought up a case that I was involved in a little while back. That case was sealed, he shouldn't have been able to open that case. When I asked him how he knew. He told me to think. I don't need to think, I need to be fighting. That is a better use of my time.

Did you ever consider that he said that he I don't know… wanted to think how he got into that case?" noting how damian used nightwing instead of dick.

I told you, that was not a good use of my time.

But it could be in the future

How so?

You figure out how he got in, you will find out how nightwing thinks. Which might make it easier to fight. Besides Nightwing only let one person learn how he thought.

Father.

No

He looks puzzled "todd?"

Nope and before you ask not me either.

Then who?

The one person he trusted the most. The girl he loved."

And how is this important to me?

She hands him his mug of hot cocoa. "I don't know. You tell me." he just stares at her with a thoughtful on his face as she sips her hot drink.

(break)

Zatanna drops the backpack off on her bed in the mountain. When she pauses, something didn't feel right. But femilur. She couldn't put her finger on it. Then it clicked. "I know there is a bat in here the question is which one?" she turns around.

Damian dressed in the robin uniform. Comes out of the shadows. "The names Robin."

She counts on her fingers. "So that makes you the 4th robin?"

Correct. But how did you know?

I Have dealt with the first and second and from what I heard of the 3th, he was a little older than you. The question I have is should I be calling my team for backup to fight you?

I came to talk. Question actually, I have a question.

Ok then." she sits on her bed. " what is your question?"

You aren't afraid of me?

Nope as I said, I have worked with bats before. I'm assuming that isn't the question you had for me.

No, it isn't." he hesitates. "How does nightwing think?"

Excuse me?

I went through the justice league files. It says that you and nightwing fancied each other. Hooded told me that the girl he loved, knew how he thinks.

Yes we dated, why would you need to know how he thinks?

Why do you need to know?

What can i say. You got me curious. Why is the legendary robin asking little old me for intel?

He contemplates the cons and pros to telling her. Then opped to tell her. "Nighteing asked me a question, I am trying to figure it out. But I can't do it without knowing how he thinks."

And you think i'll be able to tell you?

Yes.

I hate to break it to you, but I couldn't completely figure him out. So I don't think I'll be much help.

You could be more help than you think.

Why not just talk to him?

I can't. Not right now.

Ok then. I think we are at a standstill then.

All I know is half the time he talks is to help teach someone something. Or to completely scare the living daylights out of you.

He thinks for a while. "Thank you mystic maiden, that is what I needed to know." he then backs into the shadows he came from. Without leaving a trace.

"You dang bats and your shadows." she says as she goes through her backpack.