A.N. Thank you for the reviews!!! You have no idea how good that made me feel and good news, I have another friend who enjoys harping on me to write faster.
To help you keep things straight: - 'these are sparrow's thoughts'
- ,-,these are batman's thoughts,-, (its his mask not a squee!)
And a list of the whore names, Sparrow-Robin, Cat-Catwoman, Stone-Terra, Stars-Starfire, Goth-Argent, Hands-Jinx, Wendy-Wonder Woman, Crow-Raven, BBee-Bumble Bee, Tweety-Black Canary, Smiles-Cheshire, Scout/Slut-Supergirl.
Enjoy!
Chapter 8
Damion looked up as Crow leaned through his door.
"Visitor." she informed him emotionlessly.
Pleasure or Business?"
"Business."
Damion nodded and Crow opened the door all the way allowing a greasy haired man into the room. He was wearing what might have been considered a nice business suit, had it not been for the limp tie hanging loose and the stains on the once white shirt.
Damion raised an eyebrow, "Mr., Wagner, to what do I owe the pleasure?"
The man had plopped down in the chair in front of Damion's desk before the question had been finished, "I think you know why I'm here Damion."
Damion withheld a sigh at the man's response, "No, Ira, I'm afraid I don't."
Ira leaned over the table, "You've got yourself a Robin."
Damion refrained from breathing to deep for fear of the alcohol fumes he knew would be on the man's breath. "Yes, I introduced her last night. In fact I believe I saw you in the crowd enjoying the view."
Ira growled and stood up, "You knew I had a Robin in training! You knew and went ahead with yours anyway. I've had that boy getting ready for months now!"
Damion resisted the urge to slam his hand down on the button that would summon Barney to his office. There were times he could not believe the nerve of this man.
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Ira Wagner owned a bar downtown know as Wanna-Bes. It had opened a couple months after Look-a-Likes had and supported a cast of under-the-table male superheroes for rent. Damion had intentionally ignored the theft of his ingenious idea and not said anything. While Look-a-Likes flourished under Damion's attentive care, Wanna-Bes was floundering as Ira managed to squander the majority of his profits in drugs and gambling. Ira's younger sister, Alex, was the only one actually doing any work, you know, besides the men themselves. Now if Alex had come over lodging a complaint against Sparrow's character Damion might have been tempted to listen, however, as it was...
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"Ira," Damion began as patiently as he could, "My Robin is a girl so unless the client is lesbian, you haven't lost any females, and if she was a lesbian, she wasn't your customer anyway." Damion spoke to Ira as if he were speaking to a very slow child.
Ira glared at Damion but in reality had no other argument, he hadn't had a good argument to begin with but he'd been drunk last night and wanted to take out his hangover on someone besides his little sister.
Crow stuck her head in the door, "Damion, business."
Damion stood up, "Well, Ira if our business is over, would you allow Crow to escort you to the door? Or shall I get Barney?"
Ira looked cowed at Barney's name, "The girl will do."
Damion began to straighten up his desk then glanced up, "And Ira, hands off the merchandise."
Ira glared at Damion then brushed roughly past Crow, "I'll find my own way out."
Crow ignored the manhandling and looked calmly at Damion once Ira was out of earshot, "Bruce Wayne is waiting for you in the lobby."
Damion preformed a spectacular full-body double-take, "Bruce Wayne!? Are you seri..." he cleared his throat, "Are you sure?" He looked at her questioningly then realized that it was Crow he was talking to, she wasn't likely to joke about anything, much less something he considered this serious. He straightened his jacket and smoothed back his hair, "Do I look alright?"
Crow looked him up and down and seemed to consider her answer carefully, "You look like your profession."
Damion smiled only half hearing her, "Thanks." he was already past her and walking into the lobby when the implication of her statement hit him. He looked back at her in time to see the slightest ghost of a grin pass her lips.
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Barney and Sparrow were in one of the back rooms working out, Barney liked to think of it as his personal Dojo but in reality it was little more than a glorified weight room. All the girls worked out there so it was quite a surprise that they were alone.
Barney was barefoot, wearing only a pair of loose sweatpants, and sweating heavily while circling Sparrow, waiting for her attack. The young hooker was similarly clad with the deviation being her sports bra. She was also panting while she observed the large bouncer. She darted forward using a spinning kick which was blocked as she had expected so she quickly followed it up with a rapid series of punches. She skillfully dodged the heavier punches thrown at her, when Barney dropped to a crouch to take her legs out with a sweeping kick Sparrow flipped into the air, landing with her knees straddling the back of his neck pushing him face first onto the mat. Sparrow flipped off him with a one handed cartwheel and landed lightly in a defensive stance
Barney stood slowly, "Enough for today Sparrow. That was good, really good."
Sparrow relaxed and walked over to take his hand which was outsreched in congratulations when she heard applause from the doorway.
"Well Barney, seeing you bested by a woman is quite satisfying."
The two fighters looked over at the door where Damion stood next to an imposing figure in a designer suit.
"Wayne? Man, I haven't seen you since you skipped out on that last semester of college!" Barney walked over and grabbed Bruce around the middle and lifted him off the ground in a bear hug.
Once back on the ground Bruce straightened his jacked, "Guess it has been a while hasn't it Scholarship boy?"
Barney chuckled, "What brings you to Jump city?"
Bruce looked over Barney's shoulder at Sparrow, "Well business brings me to the city, but I think this little girl is what brought me to this establishment."
Sparrow blushed slightly in shock. "Me?"
Barney raised an eyebrow, "Her?"
Bruce laughed at their looks, "I'm a Gothamite, when I hear about one of my home-town heroes so...vibrantly portrayed I feel the need to witness it for myself. I'm only sorry I missed your coming out last night. But I am glad that I decided to stop by anyway. Who would you have guessed it, Barney: Black belt kick boxer and captain of the college swim team, reduced to a bouncer?"
Barney scoffed, "Why don't you go with Damion who will show you exactly what I've been 'reduced' to hanging around while I shower, then we can catch up?"
Bruce nodded and turned back to Damion, "How about that tour?"
Damion smiled winningly, "Most certainly, after that how would you like to take a turn with Sparrow."
Sparrow choked at his choice of words.
Damion continued ignoring the slight interruption, "Barney told me that you were quite good at kick-boxing back in college. You could show us what kind of fighting skills all that money can buy."
Bruce looked at Sparrow, "I haven't fought much since that college time...well if she promises to do it in costume...I'll consider it." He grinned in a way that almost forced you to like him.
Sparrow nodded, "I think that could be arranged."
Damion smiled, "There you go, now shall we?" He led Bruce Wayne out of the training room to see the rest of the establishment.
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I grabbed a water bottle out of the mini fridge in the corner and chugged half of it, "Wow, Bruce Wayne, Damion practically has a man-crush on him, in the most heterosexual way you could imagine. And Barney, who'd have thought that he was in college at all, let alone one expensive enough to attract Bruce Wayne!' I finished off the last of the bottle just as Cat and Goth came in dressed in exercise cloths.
Cat hopped onto the treadmill and looked over at me, "So, where's Barney?"
I forced myself to keep a straight face, "Showering, giving Damion time to show Bruce Wayne around before he and Mr. Wayne go out for coffee and reminisce about their college days."
Cat laughed, "No seriously, where's Barney?"
Goth nodded, "Seriously, I heard Crow telling Wendy to get the pictures from last night ready for Mr. Wayne to view."
Cat grinned, "A Gotham native here? Good chance to get some first hand info on my character. Is he as good looking as the tabloid pictures?"
I nodded, "Ohhh, yeah."
Goth nearly gagged, "He's over twenty, what is at all attractive about that?"
Sometimes I forgot what an open pedophile she was; 12 to 20 was her age range. I shivered mentally, 'creepy.'
Cat shook her head at Goth, "Trust me its very attractive. Damion is probably going to jerk-off in his office the second he's alone."
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Damion was at the moment quite comfortable in his pants, not experiencing any embarrassing swelling, as he showed The Bruce Wayne around his establishment. They'd visited the lobby, the club/bar, the girls' rooms (a humiliating confrontation between Damion's head and naked-Stone's accurately thrown shoe) and they were now in the computer lab, laughing at footage of the Titan's 'bust' of the club.
Damion paused on a shot of Robin looking like he was going to kill Barney, "You might not believe it but that kid is about 5 nothing and is the singularly most intimidating individual I've ever met."
Bruce laughed loudly, A fact I'm quite proud of
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Barney walked back into the training room and stiffened as he saw all of the girls there, some in and some out of costume, "So.. you heard about the fight?"
Wendy looked over at him, holding a video camera in one hand, "Well duh."
Sparrow came down, dressed in her female costume, and started, much the same as Barney had, "Oookay, this should be suitably humiliating for at least one of us."
Stone came over and looped a casual arm around the younger girl's shoulder, "You'll do fine honey and if you do it win, the girls and I have a reward for you."
Stars smirked, one hand behind her back, "You'll get it anyway, but you winning was just a convenient excuse."
Sparrow looked nervously from Stars to Stone to Cat who was grinning as widely as a Cheshire. 'I'm so fucked.'
Bruce and Damion walked in at that moment, laughing at a joke one of them had made. Bruce looked around, "well hello ladies."
Damion glared at Barney.
"Hey, don't look at me! Word travels fast with these girls." Barney raised his hands defensively.
Bruce waved off Damion's concerns, "It's alright, just a few more witnesses to me getting my ass handed to me by a look-a-like. Hello to you as well Miss. Sparrow, or shall I call you Robyn?"
Sparrow strolled over to his side and looked coyly up at him, "Mr. Wayne, you may call me whatever you wish."
Bruce whistled stepping back looking at her with wary respect in his eyes. He looked over at Barney, "You are going to owe me big for this."
Cat walked behind Bruce and began to strip him of his sports jacket, "Don't be a spoil sport Brucey."
Bruce stepped quickly away form her, leaving her coat in her hands, "Okay, okay." He shook his head and sat down and began to pull off his shoes and socks, trying to ignore the audience. He stood up and began to unbutton his shirt, but after a wolf whistle from one of the girls he paused and grinning widely proceeded with his de-clothing adding dance moves to it, pulling the shirt slowly down his back as the, now cheering, girls clapped out a beat for him to strip to. He dropped the shirt to the floor and continued to dance a few more suggestive steps to the girls' delight.
Sparrow smiled appreciatively at the dancing billionaire as he came to a stop in front of her then bowed in perfect form.
"I'm ready to be taught Shi-fu."
Sparrow looked slightly embarrassed at the show of respect, "Well, if you must you may address me as Sparrow-sensei. I prefer the Japanese styles." She bowed in return then took a firm stance and opted for an open handed defensive pose.
Bruce paced in a small circle for a few seconds to get his bearings then faced her, his hands clenched and his stance steady but ready for immediate movement. His mind was calm, he had no interest in the women watching the fight, he wanted to see how much sparrow had. He wanted to prove or disprove her as the fighter he'd seen fighting Slade in the video he'd hacked out of the Titan's computer. Alright Sparrow, show me what you've got girl.
Sparrow dropped her defensive stance immediately and launched herself at him, her fists tightening and her footing steady as she brought the fight to him, making it up-close and personal very quickly. How Robin fights, should have trained him out of that
Sparrow's punches were fast and hard, her whole body being behind them without compromising her balance. Bruce fell back as a few of her punches got through his defense, "You've got more power in your hits than anyone your size has a right too."
Barney looked on proudly.
Sparrow smirked and jumped back into the fight, open-handedly blocking most of his punches and rolling with those she couldn't block, using his weight and momentum against him when she could. Robin hasn't had to resort to this style for several years, but its the perfect form for a light-weight female with her build After one such move, followed up by a blow to his gut, Bruce found himself on his hands and knees, rolling to the side to avoid a lifted knee that could have shattered his jaw and pushing himself back to his feet as fast as he could to avoid her low-placed kick which could have cracked a few ribs had he still been on the ground. Total deviation, had either of those landed the victim would have been rendered incapable of speech, useless in crime-fighting. Too harsh for the style Barney uses
Bruce planted himself again, "You don't pull your punches do you?"
Sparrow smiled, "I figured that if poor-man Barney could take it rich-boy Bruce should be able to stand the same." She darted toward him again using a couple high kicks and jabs to try and unbalance him. "Besides, you've got insurance if I were to hurt you too bad." Playful banter: check
Bruce grunted as he deflected the attacks with his forearms. "And if I decide to sue?" He threw a strong punch at her midsection.
Sparrow placed her hand on her upper arm as she dodged the punch and used him as a handhold as she flipped over him. She landed lightly and darted forward lightly tapping directly over his kidney lightly with her knuckles. "If you did, you'd have to admit in court that you were beaten by a Look-a-Like." she grinned victoriously. Taunting and gloating, one of Slade's marks on her style
Bruce pretended to curl over clutching his side in pain; "Ahh, you got me!" he called out in false agony as the girls congratulated Sparrow. He watched admiringly as the diminutive girl accepted the praise, but his head he was anything but amused , She's too good, someone only playing the part would only be equipped with what they would need for a choreographed fight. She adlibs very well for a fighter of her caliber, but I wouldn't rate much higher than the Joker when it comes to hand-to-hand combat. However...her whole fighting aspect has a lethal feel to it, as if whoever has been teaching her recently is someone who is used to using deadly force regularly, someone who builds his whole style for the purpose of killing his opponent and, subconsciously, she has been picking that up through fighting with him. This girl is in the wrong business with the wrong man He ran though the images of the fight sequence he'd seen, Yes, this was her. This whole establishment bears monitoring
Bruce grinned over at Barney as he picked up his shirt, "You're right, the little bird kicks ass."
Barney smiled proudly, "Taught her everything she know." Shows how little you know
Bruce knelt and tied his shoes and grinned at Damion who was smiling proudly yet sheepishly at the fact that one of his girls had taken out his idol.
As he stood back up Bruce nodded his approval to the pimp then glanced at his watch assuming a worried expression as he did, "I'm sorry to end this but I have business later and I still wish to catch up with the scholarship boy." He plucked a card out of Damion's jacket pocket, "but I will be back and I promise to call ahead of time so you can have a good show planned out." He accepted his jacket from the flirtatious Cat. "Thank you ladies, it has been most enjoyable being beaten for your amusement; to you sensei: I look forward to my next training."
Amidst much laughing, thanking and cheering Bruce and Barney made their way out of the room to enjoy reminiscing and catching up over coffee.
Damion's smiled watching his bouncer and his idol leave then settled his face back to a serious businessman's expression. "Well girls, I think you could all find something productive to do."
Goth rolled her eyes, "I know I can. It'll take something major to scrub the image of the old man's nearly naked body out of his mind."
Damion sighed as the other girls laughed, "Thank you for that prime example Goth. Sparrow, once you've calmed down some I need you to come to my office."
Stone brushed a stray hair out of her face and shook her head, "You really are a kill joy," she said as he began to walk to the door, "you know we think of you when we need to delay an orgasm?"
Damion glared at her and opened his mouth to respond only to be interrupted by Cat, "Oh, boss you know we're just teasing."
He stalked out of the room trying to ignore his injured pride.
Sparrow sighed, 'might as well get this over with.' "So what's my reward?"
Stars came forward, one hand still behind her back, "Well you know that last night there were a few mistaken identities and a couple of embarrassing moments on both sides of the table."
Sparrow nodded, "I know very well."
Stone smirked, "Well, in the confusion Stars got a very unique, possibly one time only, experience."
Cat came to stand behind Sparrow, "She go the extreme pleasure of feeling up Jump City's Boy Wonder, though according to what she felt he's a bit more than a boy."
Sparrow looked nervously around, "And this has what to do with me?"
Stars held out a beautifully wrapped gift. "We thought that since you have the male costume, you ought to have the male parts to match."
Sparrow tentatively took the gift and unwrapped it and found herself staring in shock at a well-endowed strap-on.
Cat laughed at the speechless girl, "Robin got your tongue?"
Stone smiled, "We even let Stars pick it out so the size as close as you can get to the original."
Sparrow sputtered a few times, "But...but what am I going to do with it?"
"Wear it!" the three answered at the same time.
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I tapped on Damion's door then poked my head in. He glanced up then beckoned me in. I stood in front of his desk with my hands clasped behind my back.
Damion brought up the video of Slade and I fighting, "Care to explained this to me?"
I cleared my throat, "It was just a LARPer, nothing to worry about."
"Robin seemed to think otherwise."
"He made a mistake."
Damion looked me in the eye, "Sparrow, you don't need to lie to me. I can't protect you from a man like that if you keep going to him."
"Damion he's no one, I'm fine."
Damion looked over my face carefully, "Alright, I'll let you handle it." he clearly didn't believe me. "Now, I've got another assignment for you, you'll be working with someone this time. You haven't done this before as Robin have you?"
I shook my head, "No. Who is it going to be?"
Damion pulled a large box out from under his desk, "Barney."
I looked from the box to him, "Barney?! Robin with a muscle-bound bouncer?"
Damion smirked, "No, not a bouncer." He opened the box and pulled out a very recognizable cowl.
My jaw dropped.
A.N. Cliff-hanger! Well more like "anticipation galore!" Boy that was fun to write. Hope you didn't have to hard of a time keeping up. It was really fun writing Bruce Wayne, he's such a fun man and the Batman's thoughts were fun too. I'll try to write soon and please remember to review?
Lady Jecalyn signing out.