Harbor Hoping with Batman...
"Batman!" Bat-girl shorted loudly, almost at the tops of her lungs as they glided over the roof tops, The dark Knight, winching once more as she continued to sing the ghastly tune of Na Na Na- Batman and the Christmas song of how he- or his father- smelled and when in gods name did any Robin`s ever lay an egg.
Damian glared at the girl as he jumped over the alleyway and onto the rooftop of a Ware house, smile on her round face as he landed, "Bat-girl, I`m sure your aware that giving our location away to low lives isn't the best of strategies."
"Theres no one out today B," She said, crossing her arms over her chest, "All the "low lives" are hiding it out after that thing with Poison Ivy in the Gotham central Park."
He grunted his only reply, because it was true. For the past Year now as Poison Ivy aged her body was losing control of the toxins in her blood that allowed her to control her power over plants, sensing her time had come she tried to reek as much of the city as she could before her power over took her in the middle of the park, all that was left of her now were twigs, leave, branches and roses that had encrusted around her, leaving a statute of her in the Gotham Park.
Now the criminals were too afraid to come out as of right now, but they would be out tomorrow.
"Hey, Just had a great Idea." Nell said proudly and Damian resisted the urge to face-palm because most of Nell Little`s great idea`s turned out to be not so great. He wasn't saying anything negative about her Bat-girl training because that would mostly be a spite upon himself seeing as he was the one to train the girl before Brown had given her the suit. "No." he said a small growl in it and she pouted instantly, "Why not?"
"Because It`s late, and if patrolling is useless then a good night`s sleep is in order before we have to start our early day lives." Damian pointed out, his voice sounding robotic as it was something his Father would and probably had told him at least once.
"Okay." she nodded and Damian frowned, the action looking like a glare in the batman suit as the space between his brows got closer together. "Okay?"
Nell nodded, eyes clear, no real mischief that he could see but that meant nothing, "Yep," she said, "But first a bath." she said he hissed as he saw the mischief flare up instantly, not noticing her clipping off her belt and cape before they landed with a clatter.
"What are you doing." he grumbled quickly, eyes on her face intently as she stripped. Not noticing how his face heated up.
"Taking a swim." She said casually like they were at Wayne manor with the pool, her eyes flashed up at the eighteen year old who swallowed, hard, "Wanna join me?" she snickered and Damian rolled his shoulder, "This is inadequate behavior, anyone could see you and strike you down."
"Sure they could." she nodded, sarcasm dripping in ever word.
"You have no idea what s in those waters." Damian tried again as she knelled down to sit on the roof, pulling off her boots, "There are Joekr fish and-and Bacteria, do you know that percentage of things you could catch just by drinking that water, let alone jumping in."
"Fine, then I wont drink it." she teased and Damian's shoulders dropped. "Your missing my point."
"Completely." she nodded, standing back and and pulled off the rest of her suit, Damian looking away, maybe he could fight some crime for a few seconds and then she`d be done-what? Showing off? He had no idea how females worked things out in their heads and Grayson had once told him to just nod, smile and walk away.
"Come on D," Nell pouted, bouncing on her toes by sound the roof top was making as she moved, "It`s cold up here."
"I`ll be cold down there as well." He pointed out.
"Damian please come with me, I swear if you do then I`ll never do anything like this again...swear." She whined and Damian clenched his teeth, another thing she was good at...lying. She had an amazing talent for it, once convincing Todd that Damian had turned into a stray dog they had rescued a few months ago. Though without looking at the girl he really coudlnt tell if she was lying or not.
He would all and all blatantly lie to anyone that he did not let out a loud yelp and Nell pulled at his cape, having not head her walk over in his thoughts.
"I can hear your internal struggle." She pointed out cheekily.
He let out a very cat like hiss before he spoke, "Fine! But no more childish mockery games...or songs on patrol."
"Deal!" She giggled and Damian grumbled as he undid the latches of his cape and his belt hit the roof top loudly taking off everything except the under armor that her refused to take off in public and he thought it was a good rule, and apparently so did Nell as she still had on the black under wear covering her chest and boy shorts covering below.
He picked up the grapple gun and waved it at her, "How do you except us to get back here without this, hmm, your great idea`s dont seem so thought out apparently."
"Thats why I do them with you," she grinned, grabbing his wrist, "You work out all the kinks in them."
He grumbled, ignoring the heat on his face, "Alright, lets get this over with."
They ran off the roof side, that thankfully was close enough to the edge of the docks that they landed in the water, thought they did break apart when they hit the icy cold water.
They both resurfaced, curses spilling out of their mouths as they hurried to the dock`s edge, "IT`S SO COLD!" Nell both screamed and laughed at the same time as they pulled themselves out of the water, Damian growled, teeth chattering, "Now do you see-,"
He was cut off as she pushed him back off the docks and he glared at her when he came back up, ruffling water from his wet hair, while holding up the grapple gun he had thankfully kept a firm grip on, "I should leave you here for that." he said and Nell giggled, the two heros pushing themselves to their feet and she draped her arms around her neck, "For some reason, I dont think you can let me go Boy wonder."
He chuckled, rolling his eye as he wrapped on arm around her cold waist, grappling to the roof from some much needed warmth.