Thanks so much to all for your comments. This is the third part of the
serie. I hope you like it so much. Thanks so much to Helenakyle who helped
me editing it. And to nightstalker, Yank, Shadow Walker and Shadowpup!!
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That weekend Barbara was working on finishing a new invention, she called it the transponder. She took a screwdriver and used it to adjust a piece. She was sure that when she finished the transponder, she would be able to walk again. The idea of her invention was to connect her brain to her legs. She didn't know if that would work, but she wanted to try it. She had been working on that machine for almost a year, and she was optimistic about it.
::Barbara.:: The red head listened suddenly Helena's voice on the speakers.
"Yes, tell me." Barbara put a new transistor in the device.
::Why Albert Eintein got the Nobel Prize? ::
"It was in 1921 but not for relativity. It was for his 1905 work on the photoelectric effect."
::Ah. okay.
Barbara kept working and a few seconds later Helena interrupted her again. ::Who said 'The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of.::
". a profound truth may well be another profound truth.'? Niels Bohr, physics; born on October 7, 1885. He won the 1922 Nobel Prize for physics, chiefly for his work on the structure of atoms."
::Ah.::
"What are you doing?" Barbara welded a transistor with her caution.
::Nothing, one more. Rutheford.::
"Ernest Rutherford, 1871-1937. He is the greatest experimental physicist of the 20th century. He discovered alpha, beta, and gamma rays. He also discovered that the energy of radioactivity was not from an external source."Barbara kept silence and raised her head; she looked the screen where she could see the location of the kid. She was at school. "Helena are you cheating?"
She just heard silence on the com.
"Helena are you taking an exam?" Barbara felt angry "the comset is not a toy to cheat with. We will have a serious talk when you come back, turn off the mic!" Barbara saw the point on the screen disappear; Helena had turned off the comm.
Barbara moved her head and continued working.
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Barbara waited impatiently taping her fingers on the desk for Helena. She couldn't go back to work on the transponder thinking about the new crazy idea of Helena's. At least she heard the elevator door opened. She turned around to see the girl walking in. Helena closed her eyes when she saw Barbara waiting for her; she took a deep breath and went to her knowing she would be receiving a very hard scolding.
"What was that Helena?" Barbara asked, her eyes locking to hers.
The kid put her school bag over one of the tables and stood up on front of her mentor "It was a good idea." She said.
"That was cheating! I don't to like be part of your cheating! Why you didn't study?"
"I did it, but those ones were hard. Barbara didn't you ever cheat on exams? You must have!"
"Of course not!"
"You were really boring." Helena mumbled.
"That's not funny." Barbara crossed her arms.
Helena saw Alfred walking in the upper lever. "Hey Alfred, you know her well, I'm sure she cheated at school! Did she?"
"Not exactly cheating." He said looking them. "But she sometimes needed to take advantage of some situations."
Barbara glared at him "What are you talking about?"
Helena smirked and encouraged him, "Tell us."
Alfred stood up in the second floor and looked down "I just remember that motorcycle contest; she was very good doing that but she wanted to teach a lesson to some one and she just needed some information about how fast the bike of her opponent would be."
"Alfred!" Barbara exclaimed.
"He deserved to be taught a lesson miss Barbara, for that reason I helped you. And Master Dick understood that he must respect you as a heroine after that."
"Dick?" Helena looked Barbara who blushed "Who is Dick?"
"Master Robin, later Nightwing. A very close friend of Miss Barbara" Alfred said and returned to the kitchen, he smiled knowing they had taken the bait.
"A close friend?" Helena was surprised and looked her mentor "You never told me about your close friends. Was he a. boy friend?" Helena smiled. Barbara blushed more and the kid clapped "He was your boy friend! Tell me, come on!"
Barbara almost killed Alfred with her gaze; she knew Helena had done that on purpose to avoid the continued scolding. "Alfred!" she shouted.
"Barbara who is this Robin guy?" Helena insisted curious.
"Don't change the subject, you cheated!" Barbara said annoyed.
"So did you." Helena answered crossing her arms.
"No, that wasn't cheating!"
"Any way, tell me who Robin or Nigh thing is? You never spoke to me about him."
"No way!" Barbara said.
Helena looked up and ran upstairs calling Alfred. Barbara was sitting there with her mouth hanging open having no clue how she had lost control over the situation.
"Who is this Robin?" Helena sat on the table behind Alfred. She wanted to know more about Barbara as a woman. She always was discreet about her personal life, she always appeared to be almost perfect and always had control of any situation.
Alfred was preparing the meal, "The partner of Master Bruce.
"Partner? He worked with a partner?"
"Yes, a young boy, he lost his parents when he was a teen."
"Well this is like a Karma, in this family everybody lost their parents," Helena frowned.
"They were Batman and Robin." Alfred explained "Later Robin turned in Nightwing. Miss Barbara deduced Batman's true identity based on Robin's. (Batman family #3) And Robin presumably spilled the beans to Batman. It was full disclosure all around." "I'm not stupid, and I am a detective." Barbara said wheeling into the kitchen.
"What's his real name? He knew you were Barbara?" Helena asked excited "Was he was your boyfriend?"
"Helena." Barbara felt trapped "slow down please. His name is Dick Grayson."
"You two were boy friend and girlfriend?" Helena insisted. Alfred asked for permission to open the refrigerator and took out some tomatoes. He returned to the table to cut it in pieces.
It was hard for Barbara to talk about her life. She always scolded Helena about that. But Helena needed to accept that Barbara was like her in that fact. They were both very secretive about their lives.
"Well." she hesitated ". It was never official."
"You kissed him?"
"Helena! That is not a point of conversation." Barbara blushed again. Alfred asked her for permission to take a dish from one of the shelves. Barbara wheeled back to let him walk by.
"What? It's natural to kiss a boy!" Helena raised her hands "What is the matter? I have kissed boys!
Barbara raised her brow. "You? You never told me."
"Of course not, you never asked me."
"How many boys have you kissed?" Barbara felt surprised.
"Well I could just tell you that I'm a master of the kissing thing, but don't change the subject. We are talking about you." Helena said.
"Excuse me." Alfred said and took a knife from the behind Helena.
"But first we were talking about you!" Barbara pointed her.
"Okay, but now we are talking about you." Helena grinned.
"Okay, we meet when he was Robin and I started my career as crime fighter. We both were almost eighteen."
"Wow and what happened with Dick or Robin or what ever his name is?"
"Nothing." Barbara played nervous with her fingers.
"Nothing? Never had sex?" Helena's eyes shone waiting her answer.
"Helena please!" Barbara said with annoyance in her voice.
"Ladies," Alfred said smiling "I want to cook and you two want to discuss, why don't you do that at your place and not in my kitchen?"
"You started this whole mess." Barbara said to him.
"You were a young congress woman right?" Helena took a coke out of the fridge and sat on a chair next to the table.
"Yes, my accelerated schooling and college degree allowed me to be registered as a candidate."
"So why is so hard for you talk about something that is as natural as love?" Alfred exited in a discreet way of the kitchen. "I think it might be better for me to order a pizza." "Hey! Look who's talking!" Barbara pointed Helena.
"When did he gave you your first kiss?" the kid took a sip of coke.
"Well. it was. it was me who kissed him."
"What?" Helena spat her coke.
"Oh God Helena, look what you do to me do!" Barbara covered her face ashamed.
"Tell me. tell me."
Barbara took a deep breath. "Robin make me the suggestion that I can hang up my cape and I greeted him with a demure thank you. Then, I knocked the wind out of his lungs with a kiss that left him too stunned to offer further advice." (Batman family #1)
"And later?" Helena crossed her arms on the table.
"It's difficult to have a relationship when you are a crime fighter." Barbara explained. It was hard for her, but she tried to give her best effort. "We just flirted, we kept it at a platonic level. Nothing had ever happened between us. He changed his name, he began to work as Nightwing, not as Batman's partner. He moved to Blüdhaven to try to find his own identity. Now he is the leader of Teen Titans, and I know that he has a relationship with his alien teammate, Princess Koriand'r, Kory, a young girl from Tamaran planet. We talk some times but that's all. Now there is nothing between us except friendship, like there always was."
"Is he is the only one that had ever caught your attention?" Helena rested her chin on her hand.
"No, Jason Bard, a detective was my first boy friend."
"Tell me about him."
"No, enough for today.!" "Barbara!"
"No way!"
Alfred smiled while listening in on the discussing at the other side of clocktower. He had the phone on his ear, "Good afternnon," he said, "I would like to order a large pizza with ham and cheese and three sodas."
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That weekend Barbara was working on finishing a new invention, she called it the transponder. She took a screwdriver and used it to adjust a piece. She was sure that when she finished the transponder, she would be able to walk again. The idea of her invention was to connect her brain to her legs. She didn't know if that would work, but she wanted to try it. She had been working on that machine for almost a year, and she was optimistic about it.
::Barbara.:: The red head listened suddenly Helena's voice on the speakers.
"Yes, tell me." Barbara put a new transistor in the device.
::Why Albert Eintein got the Nobel Prize? ::
"It was in 1921 but not for relativity. It was for his 1905 work on the photoelectric effect."
::Ah. okay.
Barbara kept working and a few seconds later Helena interrupted her again. ::Who said 'The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of.::
". a profound truth may well be another profound truth.'? Niels Bohr, physics; born on October 7, 1885. He won the 1922 Nobel Prize for physics, chiefly for his work on the structure of atoms."
::Ah.::
"What are you doing?" Barbara welded a transistor with her caution.
::Nothing, one more. Rutheford.::
"Ernest Rutherford, 1871-1937. He is the greatest experimental physicist of the 20th century. He discovered alpha, beta, and gamma rays. He also discovered that the energy of radioactivity was not from an external source."Barbara kept silence and raised her head; she looked the screen where she could see the location of the kid. She was at school. "Helena are you cheating?"
She just heard silence on the com.
"Helena are you taking an exam?" Barbara felt angry "the comset is not a toy to cheat with. We will have a serious talk when you come back, turn off the mic!" Barbara saw the point on the screen disappear; Helena had turned off the comm.
Barbara moved her head and continued working.
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Barbara waited impatiently taping her fingers on the desk for Helena. She couldn't go back to work on the transponder thinking about the new crazy idea of Helena's. At least she heard the elevator door opened. She turned around to see the girl walking in. Helena closed her eyes when she saw Barbara waiting for her; she took a deep breath and went to her knowing she would be receiving a very hard scolding.
"What was that Helena?" Barbara asked, her eyes locking to hers.
The kid put her school bag over one of the tables and stood up on front of her mentor "It was a good idea." She said.
"That was cheating! I don't to like be part of your cheating! Why you didn't study?"
"I did it, but those ones were hard. Barbara didn't you ever cheat on exams? You must have!"
"Of course not!"
"You were really boring." Helena mumbled.
"That's not funny." Barbara crossed her arms.
Helena saw Alfred walking in the upper lever. "Hey Alfred, you know her well, I'm sure she cheated at school! Did she?"
"Not exactly cheating." He said looking them. "But she sometimes needed to take advantage of some situations."
Barbara glared at him "What are you talking about?"
Helena smirked and encouraged him, "Tell us."
Alfred stood up in the second floor and looked down "I just remember that motorcycle contest; she was very good doing that but she wanted to teach a lesson to some one and she just needed some information about how fast the bike of her opponent would be."
"Alfred!" Barbara exclaimed.
"He deserved to be taught a lesson miss Barbara, for that reason I helped you. And Master Dick understood that he must respect you as a heroine after that."
"Dick?" Helena looked Barbara who blushed "Who is Dick?"
"Master Robin, later Nightwing. A very close friend of Miss Barbara" Alfred said and returned to the kitchen, he smiled knowing they had taken the bait.
"A close friend?" Helena was surprised and looked her mentor "You never told me about your close friends. Was he a. boy friend?" Helena smiled. Barbara blushed more and the kid clapped "He was your boy friend! Tell me, come on!"
Barbara almost killed Alfred with her gaze; she knew Helena had done that on purpose to avoid the continued scolding. "Alfred!" she shouted.
"Barbara who is this Robin guy?" Helena insisted curious.
"Don't change the subject, you cheated!" Barbara said annoyed.
"So did you." Helena answered crossing her arms.
"No, that wasn't cheating!"
"Any way, tell me who Robin or Nigh thing is? You never spoke to me about him."
"No way!" Barbara said.
Helena looked up and ran upstairs calling Alfred. Barbara was sitting there with her mouth hanging open having no clue how she had lost control over the situation.
"Who is this Robin?" Helena sat on the table behind Alfred. She wanted to know more about Barbara as a woman. She always was discreet about her personal life, she always appeared to be almost perfect and always had control of any situation.
Alfred was preparing the meal, "The partner of Master Bruce.
"Partner? He worked with a partner?"
"Yes, a young boy, he lost his parents when he was a teen."
"Well this is like a Karma, in this family everybody lost their parents," Helena frowned.
"They were Batman and Robin." Alfred explained "Later Robin turned in Nightwing. Miss Barbara deduced Batman's true identity based on Robin's. (Batman family #3) And Robin presumably spilled the beans to Batman. It was full disclosure all around." "I'm not stupid, and I am a detective." Barbara said wheeling into the kitchen.
"What's his real name? He knew you were Barbara?" Helena asked excited "Was he was your boyfriend?"
"Helena." Barbara felt trapped "slow down please. His name is Dick Grayson."
"You two were boy friend and girlfriend?" Helena insisted. Alfred asked for permission to open the refrigerator and took out some tomatoes. He returned to the table to cut it in pieces.
It was hard for Barbara to talk about her life. She always scolded Helena about that. But Helena needed to accept that Barbara was like her in that fact. They were both very secretive about their lives.
"Well." she hesitated ". It was never official."
"You kissed him?"
"Helena! That is not a point of conversation." Barbara blushed again. Alfred asked her for permission to take a dish from one of the shelves. Barbara wheeled back to let him walk by.
"What? It's natural to kiss a boy!" Helena raised her hands "What is the matter? I have kissed boys!
Barbara raised her brow. "You? You never told me."
"Of course not, you never asked me."
"How many boys have you kissed?" Barbara felt surprised.
"Well I could just tell you that I'm a master of the kissing thing, but don't change the subject. We are talking about you." Helena said.
"Excuse me." Alfred said and took a knife from the behind Helena.
"But first we were talking about you!" Barbara pointed her.
"Okay, but now we are talking about you." Helena grinned.
"Okay, we meet when he was Robin and I started my career as crime fighter. We both were almost eighteen."
"Wow and what happened with Dick or Robin or what ever his name is?"
"Nothing." Barbara played nervous with her fingers.
"Nothing? Never had sex?" Helena's eyes shone waiting her answer.
"Helena please!" Barbara said with annoyance in her voice.
"Ladies," Alfred said smiling "I want to cook and you two want to discuss, why don't you do that at your place and not in my kitchen?"
"You started this whole mess." Barbara said to him.
"You were a young congress woman right?" Helena took a coke out of the fridge and sat on a chair next to the table.
"Yes, my accelerated schooling and college degree allowed me to be registered as a candidate."
"So why is so hard for you talk about something that is as natural as love?" Alfred exited in a discreet way of the kitchen. "I think it might be better for me to order a pizza." "Hey! Look who's talking!" Barbara pointed Helena.
"When did he gave you your first kiss?" the kid took a sip of coke.
"Well. it was. it was me who kissed him."
"What?" Helena spat her coke.
"Oh God Helena, look what you do to me do!" Barbara covered her face ashamed.
"Tell me. tell me."
Barbara took a deep breath. "Robin make me the suggestion that I can hang up my cape and I greeted him with a demure thank you. Then, I knocked the wind out of his lungs with a kiss that left him too stunned to offer further advice." (Batman family #1)
"And later?" Helena crossed her arms on the table.
"It's difficult to have a relationship when you are a crime fighter." Barbara explained. It was hard for her, but she tried to give her best effort. "We just flirted, we kept it at a platonic level. Nothing had ever happened between us. He changed his name, he began to work as Nightwing, not as Batman's partner. He moved to Blüdhaven to try to find his own identity. Now he is the leader of Teen Titans, and I know that he has a relationship with his alien teammate, Princess Koriand'r, Kory, a young girl from Tamaran planet. We talk some times but that's all. Now there is nothing between us except friendship, like there always was."
"Is he is the only one that had ever caught your attention?" Helena rested her chin on her hand.
"No, Jason Bard, a detective was my first boy friend."
"Tell me about him."
"No, enough for today.!" "Barbara!"
"No way!"
Alfred smiled while listening in on the discussing at the other side of clocktower. He had the phone on his ear, "Good afternnon," he said, "I would like to order a large pizza with ham and cheese and three sodas."
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