Next Day-Jason

I barely got the word into to Dick about their close call. No Reverse Flash didn't notice they were gone but I never got a chance to tell him why. I know I am still not trusted here and I couldn't afford to spend another moment talking to him. Not with Taila and Cheshire coming in to check on me every three fucking minutes. Seriously what do they think I could do in three minutes that would ruin whatever plan they have going on. Well okay besides communicating with Dickhead. Even if I did something, I could take the Cat Bitch easily. Witch Boy and Mr. Speed? Not so much.

It makes sense to me now why they don't use much electricity here. It's to save energy, since their source is the Speed Force. I was shocked myself but mostly impressed. How else to shield what they are doing other than not using the Cities Power to fuel their base of operations. Using a force of energy that can't be detected through normal scanners? Genius. However, they will figure it out eventually. If anyone can it is Dickhead and Tim. I need a nickname for him. It's only fair everyone else has one.

So far there hasn't been any planning, or much of any conversation. Sometimes I can hear Tess arguing with Taila, she did her part by bringing me here and helping her, she doesn't know why she can't get her girlfriend back. I understand why she can't. The moment she gets her back there is nothing holding her to secrecy, she could tell someone about what is happening here, not that she hasn't already but Taila doesn't know that.

I can't help but wonder what the next stage of this plan they have is, she already knows I won't hurt any of my brothers or Raven. So why aren't we splitting up and moving on? Going to 'Eth Alth'eban, it seems strange to me that the head of the Dragon doesn't want to go back home and would rather stay in Gotham where she knows she isn't supposed to be. Witch Boy I can understand slightly, he wants the Gem. None of it makes sense to me, but asking this early could raise some flags we don't want up.

Once again my door opens, Cheshire and Taila standing in the door way watching me eye-fully as I sharpen and clean the weapons in my belt. I release an irritated sigh rolling my eyes.

"How many times are you going to come in here to make sure I am behaving? What am I going to do? I cam here willingly" I say Cheshire doesn't say anything, she never says anything. I have no proof they are actually a chick. They could be anyone under that mask.

"Just because you came here out of your own free will does not mean you are here with the intentions I would like" Taila replies, her facial expressions don't change much. She remains stoic and unmoved.

"Why? Because I didn't want to have sex with you? Come on we both know why that is. It isn't because I have ulterior motives, it's because I simply don't want you to touch me ever again" I reply, Cheshire shifts uncomfortably, the first sign that they are a person and not some robot assassin. I wonder if it's hard to breath through that mask?

"My mission is very delicate Jason, I need to be sure you are on my side. I can't have anything going wrong" She replies to me, I scoff putting my knife down beside me on the bed.

"I thought your mission was to get me, what else do you need to do?" I ask staring into her eyes, she stares back both of us playing what seems like a game of Chicken. Whoever looks away first is the loser. I don't break keeping my eye contact with her.

"You will know when the time is right, for now...I need to know you are with me. I need to know if things don't go the way I want them to you won't leave" She says, I know what she means without her needing to tell me, she wants to give Witch Boy what he wants, but she knows I won't help her with feeding my ex girlfriend to a crazy Magic man. I don't say anything just look down to my weapons, it would be easy to get up swiftly and taken them both out. I could do it with one swoop if I really wanted to. No remorse. Reverse Flash and Magic Dick though, I wouldn't be able to go through. So I suck in a sharp breath and nod.

"I'm not with her anymore. I won't help you hurt her. But I won't stop it" I lie, I don't know if she can see my lie or not, and really I don't care. The thought of anything happening to her makes me sick though, if I blow my cover now I may not be able to do anything about it.

"Be on the look out for now...we are in the gentle phase right now. Reverse Flash is about to head back to Jump City. We need to be very careful" She says, it sounds like a polite advice from a teammate but it's a warning. 'Don't screw anything up'

Present day - Raven

Maybe reconnecting with Kori wasn't such a good idea. I love no longer having this huge grudge against her, however now that we are friends again it seems like she wants to talk to me about everything that happened to her and with her in the past almost four years. The constant need for her to tell me everything has kind of left me wanting a drink, though that could just be the stress as well. I finish my fourth coke in the last hour and a half slamming it down on the table in front of me. Kori doesn't even seem to notice the lack of a social battery I have.

I should have known that opening the door to friendship with her would be rough, however I thought it was going to be awkward. I thought I would be uncomfortable with her after so long of not having to deal with her chipper demeanor and optimistic views on everything. That isn't the case in any way, shape, or form. She has been kind enough not to bring up Jason or anything from that situation other than the fact she is happy I survived. I knew I would have. Even if I didn't teleport out of there I would have found some other way.

"Do you know what the boys are doing?" I ask interrupting her, hoping to talk about something I care about. Like the mission I am about to get myself killed on.

"I think they are figuring out how to turn off the lights from a farther distance. We don't want to be caught." she says, we already almost got caught. We teleported in so late last night we were actually worried the Reverse Flash might have already figured us out. However, somehow someone spoke to Jason and he assured them no one knew we were in Gotham yesterday. Doesn't mean today won't have similar problems.

"If anyone can figure it out, it's Tim and Vic" I reply lowly slumping further into the couch. Kori nods with a bright smile but it falls the longer we sit in silence.

"Friend Raven, I must ask you something" She says fiddling with her fingers in her lap. It piques my interest, her sudden solemn expression and awkward body language. It definitely isn't the body language of the Kori I know.

"Okay" I monotone encouraging her to go on.

"I'm sorry I never helped you" She says, it shocks me into looking over at her, meeting her green eyes. It took a long time for me to get used to even the whites of her eyes being green, however I have learned to not pay attention to physical attributes.

"I am not sure I know what you mean Kor" I admit, she sucks in a breath

"When you left. For a long time I wanted to do the checking on you. Keep in the touching. But I was worried you were upset with me. So I didn't. Looking back I think it could have helped" She goes on, I nod in understanding trying to figure out words to describe what I want to tell her. I don't want to say the wrong thing here, this is kind of delicate.

"Kor...ummm I don't think anything could have helped me at that point in my life. I didn't want to let anyone in. I liked keeping everything to myself because I was...ashamed. Drinking was the only thing that made sense to me. You being involved would have just made it harder on you. You would have slowly watched me throw my life away" I explain, I see the confusion but I don't know how to explain addiction to her. I don't even know how to explain human mental illness to Kori.

"If I was there you wouldn't have drank" She says, I guess that must be how she has to view it.

"Kori it's not like that. Drinking is the only thing that made sense to me. It was the only way I was able to stop the episodes. Being near friends didn't help either. I don't really know how to explain it" I admit, talking about this makes my skin crawl. It makes me feel like it was just yesterday I was dealing with all of this. I don't see a change of understanding in her face, deep thought maybe. Just not understanding. I guess addiction is one of those things you can't really make sense of unless you are partaking in it.

"Maybe I should have been there for you...through that" She says, the ending sounds more like a question. Her voice a little higher pitch than normal to make her confusion noticeable.

"We can't bother ourselves with what could have been Kori. It happened. We can't change the past as much as I would like to. We just move on" I tell her, I want to put it lightly to her, if I were to be blunt I would tell her how pointless this whole conversation is. What could telling me almost four years later that she shouldn't have let me on my own do for me now? It doesn't change my situation currently and it doesn't reverse the years of addiction and the very limited control I feel I have right now.

That is what I am most worry about right now. The strong urge I have for the taste of alcohol. I want to feel the burn of it going down my throat. I don't even realize I am staring off at the thought of it until Kori puts a hand on my thigh alerting me to her presence. I snap myself out of my thoughts just as Alfred brings another coke sliding it across the table on a small coaster. I smile to him silently thanking him. He just offers me a small wink in response.

"It is hard to tell what you are thinking still" Kori giggles, I crinkle my brows looking over to her in utter confusion. Normally people don't giggle when they say that about me, it's usually followed by a curse word or a dramatic eye roll. "It's like you haven't changed a bit"

"We all have though...even you" I admit she softly smiles

"My English is the better now" She grins proudly, she should be proud I know how much she struggled feeling like she fit in with her vocabulary.

"It is, shall we go talk to the boys?" I ask hoping to distract myself with the even more heavy thoughts of my cravings.

I need to be doing something. Just sitting here talking isn't cutting it on distracting myself. She gleefully nods as she gets to her feet waiting for me to do the same. I do so following her down to the Batcave where the boys are sitting in front of the desk, their voices in a hushed whisper as if someone could hear their plan and spoil it.

"Good you guys are here, we have some problems we need to work out" Dick says as we approach.

"What is the problem?" Kori asks taking his side, sliding her hand into his.

"I think they wanted to make sure we couldn't shut down the power remotely. Tim can't seem to find them on the power grid. Which means whatever they are using to power the building isn't something we can find on the city plans" Dick says, Tim looks at the computer, his face distorted in his concentration. I think I can even see the tip of his tongue sitting on his lips.

"I don't understand how they are powering a whole building without it leaving any trace." Tim grumbles typing away at whatever he is trying to figure out.

"What about energy?" I ask, everyone stops looking at me like I am a fucking idiot.

"That would show up on the power grid for the city" Tim says as if it's a common fact.

"No, I mean speed force energy. Think about it, Reverse Flash is on that team. We have seen the Flash Clan do a lot with electricity due to their friction and speed. Why can't he do the same?" I ask Vic looks between Tim and Dick back and forth before slapping himself in the face.

"He could possibly be running back and fourth to give them a little power, which means...we don't need to shut anything down. We need to have the Flash Clan intercept Reverse Flash, before he can get back to power them back on" he replies sighing

"How do we know when he will be doing that though? I mean we don't really know where he is in Jump" Gar speaks up he raises a good point which stumps just about everyone.

"Wait a minute, how long were you here last night?" Dick asks us

"We were here until about...almost two in the morning" Vic answers, he counts back three on his fingers as if he isn't a walking calculator. "So we got back to Jump at Eleven at night, because of the time difference"

"Don't you think he would have noticed if you guys were gone all day?" Dick asks, we all exchange glances, he would have if he would have been there, they have a very strict training schedule and no one normally hides away in there room all day except for me. So, he would have to have not looking.

"Unless he wasn't there" Gar says finally clicking after a couple minutes of silence.

"How long to you think his energy would last?" Dick asks Vic. Vic shrugs his shoulders.

"That's a question for the Flash Clan."

Present day-Damian

I don't understand feelings, it's not that I don't have any, I just really don't know much about how to handle them. My grandfather told me emotions are a weakness, a weakness you can use to get into people's minds and destroy them. However, having emotions of my own I don't know how to handle them. I am worried someone is going to use them to their advantage and leave me weak. Which is why when I went to Timothy about my problems with my Mother coming to town and not wanting to see me, I chose my words very carefully. I know he wouldn't use my emotions against me. It isn't in his nature.

I wasn't expecting his words to actually help me though. Raven has been the only person whose advice really helped me, I never felt judged when I spoke with her though that could be because she wasn't showing the judgement. I relate to her in small ways, we don't show our feelings very often to people and seem to always be the smartest people in the room. I knew I was confused a little but I didn't understand why. He put it in words I could explain to myself. She is my mother. So Yeah I want to talk to her and I want her to want to see me. She is more interested in Jason though. It brings me a little bit of pleasure knowing that he will be betraying her as soon as the plain has been put together. However what he comes home too he may not like.

My father and I have been working on something from information we received yesterday. It is the highest priority to father. I guess I should care more about it too, it would affect the whole family but it would cause great pain to Jason. Right now he is blissfully ignorant to the news and it will stay that way until he gets back and we have squashed yet another threat to our family. I wonder how Father plans to handle this new threat. He hasn't told me much about it. Only someone really bad has escaped their captivity and it will get Jason all riled up and irritated. He is worried about his mental health and how the pit will react to the news.

For now I wait, eating lunch Alfred made me as I read in the library being the only person in this family who isn't involved in the case of my mother. I guess they don't want me to get hurt or to be a distraction to her, or maybe the other way around. They don't want me to be distracted by her. Since I cannot guarantee that I won't, I am comfortable with the choice to sit behind and read. I need my mind sharp for this next battle. Only the intelligent can survive when the Joker escapes.