Ok here's chapter 3 of my story.

Disclaimer: I do not own Young Justice, it is the property of DC Comics

'Zatanna two-five'

Black Canary looked up from the monitor screen at the new arrival to the Watchtower. She watched as the younger woman strode purposely into the monitor center. From the look on her face though Black Canary could see that the encounter she had didn't go as planned.

'I take it that it didn't go well'

'That's an understatement'

'Really? What happened?' the older woman asked.

'Well after a while of searching I found Nightwing in alley beating up some thugs who appeared to be harassing some woman. The last thug pulled a gun on him so I felt the need to intervene. I quickly ended the situation and reassured the woman. By this time Nightwing had moved to the rooftops. I followed him and bound him in a spell. This is the point where thing go downhill. He managed to avoid answering my questions directly even under magic and when I tried again he managed to distract me and break free from the spell and escape'.

Black Canary finished typing up Zatanna's account of the incident and submitted it to the mainframe.

'I think it's safe to assume that the other Bats will now be on the lookout for us so unless we're extremely lucky we won't find them'.

'So?' Zatanna questions, 'what do we do now?'

'Well there's a League meeting on in a half hour to discuss the Bats and their latest activities, so why don't we get some coffee until then'.

'I'll be open to that.'

The two Leaguers walked down the long corridors making idle chatter along the way. They reached the cafeteria and grabbed their coffee and continued to talk. Most of the talk centred on the Team. They had being progressing well and the next generation were adjusting well to the whole hero thing.

'There's something that's been bothering me Zatanna' Dinah began as she put down her cup.

'Oh yeah, what's that?' the younger woman questioned.

'Well I know you pretty well and I've trained you, so I know that it would take a lot in order to break your concentration, so the question I'm asking is how did he distract you?'

Zatanna put down her cup and looked a bit flustered at the thought of the memory.

'He kissed me' she stated flatly.

Black Canary looked at her shocked not even sure she heard that right. When she looked back at the young sorceress for confirmation and she only nodded in response.

'He kissed you? She asked in disbelief. 'Did you kiss him back? How did it feel? How did you let it happen?'

Fortunately Black Canary's barrage of questions was interrupted by an announcement over the intercom saying the meeting will soon begin. The two heroines got up and Black Canary shot the magician a look that said that the discussion was not over. Zatanna sighed and put down her coffee. She followed Canary out of the cafeteria and went to the meeting wondering what a certain bird was up to as well.

'Thank god for coffee' was Nightwing's only thought as he downed his fourth cup in row. He has only slept for four hours in the last two days and that meeting with Zatanna a few hours ago had exhausted him mentally. He really needed a good sleep but he couldn't afford right now.

He been researching the late night visitor to Brummell's hotel room and after excruciatingly long hours of researching who exactly that person was and he finally found a hit. Apparently she was and high ranking associate of the mob in Blüdhaven. He couldn't find her real name as she had many aliases but he did find the location of the brothel she worked for.

Apparently a consulting firm in the northern part of the city was operating as a front for the brothel. It was located on the thirtieth floor of a fifty floor building. Nightwing hacked the city's records and found the blueprints for the building. He formulated a plan of action and decided that it was high time for some sleep as it would be foolish to underestimate the people in the building.

The next night he was dressed in civilian clothes as he calmly took the elevator to the up to floor above the consulting firm. He strode purposely to the bathroom and locked himself into a stall. He quickly pulled of his clothes to reveal his costume underneath. He then got out of the stall and climbed into an air vent in the wall.

It was a tight fit and Nightwing had to keep try and remember some of the techniques the contortionist at Haly's Circus taught him. He crawled his way down one floor before he got to the level he needed. He quietly crawled around the ventilation system for anything that would look like an office.

However, all he found was the front desk and various bedrooms. He was about seriously considering getting out of the vent and walking around when he came across it. It was a room that was very different than the others. It had a bed but it also had a desk with a computer on it and an office chair that looked well maintained. It was empty so he got out of the vent and walked over to the computer.

He sat down in the chair and connected the computer to the one on his wrist and started up the retrieval program in order to get everything. It would take around two to ten minutes to break the encryption on all the files and another five to download them onto the Bats server.

After seven minutes the encryption was broken and the files were being downloaded. It was then that Dick heard a noise. He looked up at the door and heard two sets of footprints heading this way. He didn't have time to get back to the vent so he attached a wireless transmitter to the computer so the he could move away but the file would still download. It wasn't as fast as the direct connection as each file had to be encrypted when they were sent to the receiver in Dick's wrist.

He dived under the bed as it was closer, then the vent and waited to see who would come in. Two figures walked into the room. They wasted little time before getting on the bed. Panic struck Nightwing as he realised he would have to listen to them until they leave. It took around a half an hour for them to finish and in that time Dick had tried to think about anything bar what was happening above him.

After they left Nightwing left his hiding spot and grabbed the transmitter before leaving that floor as fast as he could. When he walked out of the building back in his civilian persona he made sure to send an anonymous tip to the police about the firm.

He made his way back to his apartment and began to shift through all the data he had received from the firm. He had gotten veritable gold mine of information including customers, addresses, monetary transactions and employee files. 'You gotta love the paranoid ones' Dick thought as he began his long search.

It took almost four hours of searching for in order to discover what he needed. Apparently the operation was a lot bigger than just one floor of a building. He discovered that Brummell's late night visitor was a gift from the mob, for what reason though was a mystery. There was however a name attached to the request.

The name was more like a title and it simply read Patron. This grabbed Dick's attention as he had never heard that name in the underworld before and he must be pretty big in order for the firm to send out their best courtesan at no charge. This alliance must be bigger than we thought if even after all this time Dick had never heard of the Patron.

Although now he knew he was going to have to find out. 'At least he can stop tailing Brummel now' he thought as he had already found the mob link. Now all he needed to do was find evidence linking it to Stanley and the alliance between the different organised crime families goes down.

It sound simple in his head but he knew it was going to be difficult. He quickly typed up a progress report and sent it to Selina before he went to sleep in order to be fully rested for the investigation tomorrow.

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