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Chapter 1: Coming to Jump City.
Thanks to her father's agreement Barbra Gordon a.k.a. Batgirl was flying the Bat-Jet to Titan's Tower in Jump City with two pieces of cargo. One being Harley Quinn, the diva of discord, Joker's girlfriend along with being his partner-in-crime. The other being a small disk that was held in her utility belt. Commissioner Gordon allowed her to take the video tape long enough to make a copy on the computer and a disk so Robin can truly understand everything. She just hopes that he wouldn't be to mad with her because of the situation. She knew Robin a long time so she doubt he wasn't going to be after all protecting a potential victim goes with the territory in their kind of work. But having an enemy left to stay at your home has some sort of potential for disaster like that individual hacking your security. The young woman hoped that after seeing the recording of Joker's death would be enough to convince him to protect…"Hey, BatGirl?"
"Yes, Harley?"
"Is their a way to make a call Batman in this thing?" Ms. Quinn asked leaning over the seat so she could be in the redhead's peripheral vision. Not wanting to ask why she just flipped a switch that allowed a direct video link to be open to the Bat cave. A few seconds passed before Batman's cowl covered face appeared.
"What is it, Batgirl?"
"Harley wanted you for something."
"Hey, Batsy, do you think you can go and make sure Red is ok?"
"Gordon already sent someone over and she appeared fine."
"I don't care. I want you to check on her." Harley said with fear evident in her voice. It caught both Bats off guard, but, after thinking about it for a while they understood why she was this way. Joker was her boyfriend and now that he's gone she doesn't want to loose her closest girlfriend. Besides they figured she saw Poison Ivy as an older sister, and, no one wants to loose their family. Batman related to this much easier the BatGirl could have.
"Ok, Harley, I will. Do you want me to deliver a message to her?"
"Yeah. Tell her to be careful, stay safe, and I love her."
"Alright. I'm on my way. Have a safe journey you two."
"If we don't, it will be her fault." Harley stated with a small smile on her face and more of her recognizable humor. Batman cut out shaking his head laughing internally while his female apprentice ignored the jab.
"It's nice to see you worried about Ivy."
"Yeah. Me and her always had a great time whenever we got together."
"I know. I have the medical records to prove that."
"No. I'm not talking about doing a job. Just hanging out in that green house of hers. I never had that many girlfriends growing up and being with Mr. J. doesn't exactly help with that. So its nice to have someone go to whenever me and Puddin' got in a fight."
"What about your parents?"
"They died while I was in college and I was an only child."
"I know how that is. The only child part. My father is still alive while my mother is lord knows where. She left when I was five years old."
"Ouch. I guess that is one of many reason why you decided to become who you are today."
"You can say that." There was a strained silence between the pair for a few moments before Batgirl got an idea. "So you got to stay at Ivy's house. What was it like?"
"It was really nice. With all those plants there the air always smells so delicious. The atmosphere is always so calming unlike where me and Mr. J stayed. Plus Red would allow me to cuddle up next to her when we went to bed."
"You slept in the same bed as Ivy?"
"Yeah. She has this huge queen size bed and whenever I stayed she would share it with me, and like I said she would let me cuddle up next to her before going to sleep. Mr. J never liked that." Harley said in a bitter sweet tone.
"I guess it's nice to have someone that is like a big sister."
"Well that isn't what I would call it, but, I figure you and Batman wouldn't know."
"Wouldn't know what?" The older woman kind of backed away looking towards her feet as if trying to fight off a small blush while the pilot tried to get a good look at her and not crash at the same time. "Oh my god! You and Ivy!!"
"It only happened a handful of times. It mainly happened after Mr. J and I got into a fight and he threw me out or I left to get away. Please don't tell anyone I told you."
"No problem. But for the record I find the mental image of you and Ivy more appealing then you and Joker."
"Gee, I wonder what that says about you."
"Don't make me use the ejector seat."
"Fine, fine, I'll drop the subject." Harley said not really wanting to see if it was an empty threat or not. Several minutes pass until Joker's side-kick couldn't stand the quiet any longer.
"So you and Robin, huh?"
"Let me guess, Gordon."
"Yeah."
"Should have known he would be a gossip." Batgirl said before adding a 'Well you ever learn to shut up, dad' in her head.
"Well I got curious and since you know about my love life I might as well find out about yours." No matter how much she wanted to deny it Barbra had to agree there was some logic behind Harley way of think.
"It was a long time ago. We were young and stupid. Plus he was always so shy we barely got passed second base."
"Not that much of a romantic is he."
"Oh he's a romantic. It just takes him a while to open up. When we were first going out it took him a weeks worth of talking to himself in the mirror before Batman sat him down and said either ask me out or he'll do it for him."
"How did you learn that?"
"Batman told me after Robin left for Jump City." Batgirl lied. Well technically part of the story she told was a lie. In actuality Alfred was the one that did the things she was talking about. She could hardly see the old butler do something like that, but, according to Bruce the man that raised him was far worse with him.
"Wow. I don't really see why you broke up."
"Let's just say Robin can be a sweet as sugar half the time and a stubborn ass the other half. But it's nice to see Starfire being able to put up with it."
"Starfire is that alien girl right?"
"Yeah. According to Batman he got together with her after something the Titans took care of in Tokyo."
"I saw some pictures of her when I was trying to convince Mr. J to pay bird boy a visit. He must really have a thing for red-heads."
"Please don't remind me."
"Huh?"
"Well lets just say one of the times we fought involved a nice make-out session followed by a certain someone slipping a particular redhead we both knows name."
"You." Harley said teasingly.
"I thought you were going to drop that subject." Batgirl said with an edge to her voice.
"Oh come on. I'm trying to bring light to my dark mood. It's not healthy being depressed all the time, and Mr. J would want me to smile."
"While we are on that subject what did you find in Joker to date him?"
"Well he sort of reminded me of an old boyfriend."
"I run into guys that remind me of former boyfriends all the time that doesn't mean I'll date them."
"You don't understand. While I was in college I had a boyfriend that liked to find stories in the news paper and read to me so he could make a funny joke about them. He said he loved to hear me laugh."
"What happened to him?"
"I watched him kill himself. Someone pulled a gun on me intent on killing me. He stopped him and during the struggle he shot the guy in the chest. Not really comprehending what he did he said that wasn't going to jail and was to commit suicide. I begged him not to do it telling him everything was going to be fine, but, I'm sure you going to figure out the rest." Harley finished with a sniffle trying not to shed anymore tears then she already has.
"I'm sorry. I shouldn't have brought it up."
"It's fine. Sometimes remembering the bad stuff makes you realize how good things are." Harley leaned back over the seat so Batgirl would know she was alright. "So when is the little birdie expecting us to arrive at his nest."
"Well about that…" Batgirl said hesitantly.
"You didn't call him did you?"
"No."
"Chicken."
"Give me a break. This would be the first time I saw him since he left Gotham and me being the one to tell him you have to stay with him at Titans Tower would certainly flip his lid."
"So."
"If I called ahead letting him know he would probably ask Cyborg to set the security to target any planes that comes with in half a mile of the Tower."
"Oh come on. He can't be that bad."
"He's almost as bad as Batman. I occasionally talk to Raven and she told me how paranoid he got during the time he was searching for Slade. I'm just thankful Starfire is there to get him to loosen up from time to time because god knows I can't do the same for Batman."
"Wow. Sounds like he is trying to be just like Batsy."
"Why else would I say Robin can be a stubborn ass?"
"True." said Harley noticing a city coming up on the horizon. "Is that Jump City?"
"Yes it. We should be coming within the Tower's radar system in about five minutes and land there in ten."
"Well you better request permission to land because I don't want to risk getting blasted."
"Good idea." Batgirl responded. "This is Batgirl calling Titan's Tower, repeat, this is Batgirl calling Titan's Tower. Over." Seconds later they got a response.
"This is Titan's Tower, Cyborg, speaking. Over."
"Hi, Cyborg, I need permission to land on your roof. Is that ok?"
"Sure go on ahead, Batgirl. It's good to see some of Rob's old buddies from Gotham stop by. Is Batman with you?"
"Would I be talking to you if he was?"
"Touché."
"Um, Cyborg, do you know where Robin is because I need to talk to him?"
"He's out having dinner with Star."
"Great, and I thought I was dead woman before." Batgirl muttered under her breath.
"What?"
"Nothing. Could you please call him and say he needs to be back in the tower. My ETA is nine minutes."
"Sure. What do you want me to tell him?"
"Just say that I'm coming and I said that Alfred burnt the cookies again. He'll know what that means."
"Ok. See you in a few. Bye, Batgirl."
"Bye, Cyborg." The red-headed super heroine said before the transmission cut off.
"What does 'Alfred burnt the cookies again' mean?"
"You don't want to know." Batgirl answered with a visible shudder.
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A/N: Yeah, yeah, I know. I'll have all the Titans in the next chapter so don't get your superhero undies in a twist. I just wanted to set up Robin and Batgirl's relationship a little more because it does come to play a little more in the next chapter. I'm working on it at the moment so I'll get it out as soon as possible. I have so many writing projects I don't know which one to work on first. LOL. Now it's time to do a few shot to those who gave a review.
Tessa-MarKEWLIO: Glad you liked it so far and I hope you liked this chapter as well.
RoyalBlue: Thanks. I'll be glad to know if you enjoyed this chapter too.
joaquin: Thanks and Duh! I said it in the Author's note in the last chapter.
RabulaTasa: I appreciate the advice and I promise I'll work on that. It's just some times when I'm writing I literally get sucked into the story myself and I don't bother with the details.
Alright since that's done I guess the only thing left to due is to say, "Shogun Out!"
