Chapter Fifteen: Redbirds and Roses

Blue-Jay woke with a yawn. "Ah, you're awake. I was beginning to worry." She recognized the voice but, for a moment, couldn't remember who it belonged to. It was a second or two before it came to her: Alfred Pennyworth. She sat up, wincing slightly at the pain from her bruises, and looked around.

She was surprised to find herself in the batcave, lying on one of the medical tables, on the table beside her, lay Robin, who was still out cold. She felt her face and found that her mask was still there. "Don't worry, Miss. Blue-Jay," Alfred said "No one peeked." Blue-Jay raised an eyebrow as the butler laid her now clean suit on the table. "While I appreciate it, I don't understand." She said.

"Batman said that you found out who we were because we slipped up early on," she turned and saw Batgirl walking towards them from the bat computer. "We have to find out who you are the hard way." Blue-Jay smirked "Don't bet on that happening any time soon." "Don't worry, I won't." Batgirl said with a small smile.

Suddenly, the doors at the far end of the cave opened and the Batmobiel came in. As Batgirl and Alfred looked over, it came to a stop and Batman and Nightwing hopped out. "Just finished seeing the toxin destroyed." Nightwing said, looking at them. Suddenly, he and Batman gave them strange looks "What?" Batgirl asked "Where's Blue-Jay?" They turned to look back at the table and, sure enough, the girl wonder was nowhere to be seen.

Blue-Jay sighed with relief as she slipped into the hot water.

The moment Batgirl and Alfred had looked away, she had grabbed her suit, slipped it on, and headed for the zip-lines. She had reached the Roost in only a few minuets and had immediately made a bee-line for the hot springs.

After a long soak, she went back up to her room to find that it was Valentines Day morning. The entire ordeal had taken up over a full day and night to be dealt with. Well, right now, she was just glad things would be going back to being as normal as they could in Gotham city, which wasn't saying much relatively speaking.

That afternoon, RJ received a visitor in the form of Tim Drake.

He was blushing as he handed her a bouquet of roses and said "Happy Valentines day." She smiled and kissed him gently on the cheek, making him blush even more hotly.

That night, Blue-Jay returned to the alley by the Jax Toy factory to retrieve her bike, and found a surprise on the seat.

A single red rose, tied to a note with a black ribbon in a neatly knotted bow.

Picking up the flower, she looked at the card and smiled.

Blue-Jay,

Thank you for your help.

It wasn't signed, but it did have a small drawing of a bat at the bottom of the card. She smiled again and sniffed the bright red blossom, before getting on her bike, and roaring off down the road.

THE END

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