So, I'm back from vacation! With a new chapter! Hurray!

Ok, so part of this chapter was inspired by a realization that HOLY SHOOT I DON'T HAVE BABS IN HERE. SHE WAS IN LIKE 2 CHAPTERS OF REUNITING BUT SHE'S NOT IN DIVIDED. WHAT IS THIS WHAT AM I DOING OHMIGOD.

Right. After the minor freak-out above, I decided to make sure I added her now. Problem solved.

Hope you enjoy! Oh, and if you can't tell by the end, we are definitely approaching the end now. I really want to work in another chapter with Jason, or Dick on a trapeze (although I feel like I've already overused that one) or Dick getting a concussion just so I can piss Slade off some more, but other than that, I think I'm going to go for the end. Sob. Last chance for any requests!

DISCLAIMER: Blah blah blah yawn.

Full title of chapter: Hell Hath No Fury like a Woman Scorned... or Uninformed about a Certain Bird's Kidnapping.

Selina Kyle was a bit ticked off with Batman. According to him, Dick's kidnapping had been an ordinary, run-of-the-mill kidnapping of the billionaire's son. He had not mentioned anything about a notorious super villain who was definitely not good news. Nor had he mentioned the fact that Dick was apparently on such good terms with said villain that he would willingly work with the guy and use a gun for him. The gun thing was what really bothered her. The fact that not only did Dick use the gun, but actually had the skills to fire it and hit whatever he was aiming at told her that this had been going on for a good long while. Longer, perhaps, than even Bruce knew. She may have acted like she knew what was going on when she was talking with Dick, but she didn't really.

Regardless, she was determined to get some answers now. She may not have been involved before, but she would be now.

There was also one more surprise for Bruce. Before she went to Wayne Manor, Selina had run into one more Bat on the rooftops. Another Bat who, it seemed, knew just about as much as Selina herself did about what was going on. So, instead of one angry female, Bruce now had two on his hands. And one was a redhead who had practically grown up with Dick. Selina wasn't quite sure how Bruce had managed to keep Barbara from finding out about what was going on, but she was fairly sure he was going to regret it now.

Bruce may be able to face the worst of the worst of Gotham dressed up like a bat, but against two worried, angry females? Not a chance.

Bruce was met partway up that stairs by Alfred who had a mischievous twinkle in his eyes. "They are waiting upstairs, Master Bruce." He said solemnly. Bruce nodded, started walking up, and then paused. "They?" He asked, to the empty air. Alfred had disappeared, although no doubt he would be watching the action from a safe vantage point.

Bruce had a sudden, horrible feeling. This was not going to be good. Tim was nowhere to be found and he had an angry sorta-girlfriend upstairs with someone else now. He took a deep breath and began walking up the stairs again. No sense in putting off the inevitable.

He tried to plan out what he would say. That plan quickly ended once he realized that he had no idea what Selina and her friend knew, what she'd found out, and what they wanted to talk about.

He'd tried to keep this issue relatively quiet, keeping the knowledge to the League and the Titans- and Tim, of course. They were the only ones who knew the details. Everyone else who needed to be informed believed that this was just another relatively normal kidnapping, when really it was anything but. He wasn't sure how Selina had found out about that- actually, he wasn't sure she'd found out anything at all. Alfred had only said that she wanted to talk about Dick. Maybe she just wanted to talk about what he'd been doing for the past three years when he had been missing.

Deep down, he knew he was fooling himself with that line of thought. Finally, he reached the door of the living room where Selina and her friend were waiting. Taking a deep breath, he opened the door and walked inside. He froze when he saw both Selina and Barbara, together, with identical expressions of irritation. He gulped.

He was screwed.

Selina and Barbara had been waiting for about ten minutes before Bruce arrived. His expression when he walked in, however, was worth every second of waiting.

"Hello, Bruce." Selina purred from her perch on the couch.

"We've got some things to ask you." Barbara smiled, deadly sharp. "We'd like to know what really happened to Dick."

"And don't even think about denying it." Selina added. "We know something's fishy here. Tell us what we want to know and we'll tell you how we found out."

They both stared at Bruce. They were smiling and relaxed. They weren't yelling or lecturing or preparing to beat Bruce up. They were completely terrifying, because Bruce knew that any second now they would erupt.

He cursed Alfred for his uncanny sense of when to get the heck out of the room. Bruce was all alone, with no other options than to give in and tell the two women the truth, which would no doubt elicit some form of retribution for keeping it from them.

So, he sat down and explained everything. He told them about the little hints while Dick was at Titans Tower or the Manor, he told them about the actual kidnapping, and the search afterwords and the letters and files. He told them about that one meeting with Slade in the warehouse, and finally he told them about what had happened with Tim and the Joker.

Once he stopped talking, the women exchanged looks, and then turned and glared at Bruce.

"How," Barbara started, "could you keep this from us?!"

"Really, Bruce." Selina scolded. "Didn't you think that we could help? I mean, I do have contacts."

"And we could have helped with the search!" Barbara exclaimed. "I know Dick better than anyone, I would pick up clues even you missed."

"I was trying to keep this quiet." Bruce growled. "Can you imagine what would happen if word got out? The first Robin, poster-boy for the good side, a role model, turning dark?"

Barbara blinked. "Is it really that serious?"

Selina nodded before Bruce could respond. "He seemed pretty comfortable with that gun." She noted. "And he didn't seem to mind chatting in front of Slade."

Bruce's gaze snapped up to her. "What?" He asked. Selina leaned back and smirked at him.

"Oh, didn't I mention?" She said innocently. "I met him on the rooftops after that whole Joker thing, before they left the city."

She wished she had a camera. Bruce's face at that moment was hilarious.

"Tell me everything." He ordered. Selina did. Once she was done, Bruce leaned back and thought. "Did he mention anything that might lead us to him?" He asked. Selina thought and then nodded slowly. "He did talk about Metropolis a lot." She mused. "That's all I got."

Bruce blinked, thought, and felt tempted to face-palm. Of course it was going to be Metropolis, the one city that did not currently have heroes crawling all over it because Superman had been helping him everywhere else.

Barbara saw his expression and smirked. "You did something stupid didn't you? Maybe you should have told us about this earlier, since we seem to have solved everything in about a minute."

Bruce could only nod.

And done! Lets see... still on the short-ish side, but I've been working on a new one-shot as well, so I've been dividing my time. Oh well. I don't really have anything else to say here, other than the obligatory

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