Barbara gave a nod. "Yes... it... it's exactly like that.", she reluctantly admitted. "You're... Batwoman?", Nora whispered as like she was trying to keep a secret from God.
Barbara took a deep breath, "Yes...", looking at them straight in the eye, and the pair looked stunned and astounded for a moment before Victor whispered, "How long?".
"Since I was a junior in high school, and I was then Batgirl...", Barbara spoke quietly, and Nora gasped quietly, whispering in concern, "10 years plus... Are you hurt anywhere from...out there tonight?".
"No. Practically unscathed, just some lotion for relaxing my muscles and such. But I can't promise that I can't come out unscathed every time as it's my life...I'm 26, and I can take care of myself, and as for the others, they are comrades, and I assist them once in a while...", Barbara answered.
Nora pleaded, "Please tell me that you are practically protected with the best Kevlar suit.", and Barbara nodded, "I am, thanks to Batman. Nora, Victor, I appreciate that you two care...and you don't have to worry so much now...".
Victor replied quietly, "We can't stop you from protecting the innocent if you want this, but don't lie to us anymore of where you're going, especially to Nora, and I have to agree as how we can help you if you can't trust us all the time?".
"I have so much to lose with this, guys...What would you have to lose anyway?", Barbara asked, and Nora gave a soft sob, "You...", and Barbara blinked in confusion and concern, "What?".
Nora glanced at Victor who gave her a warm smile, nodding as he rubbed her shoulder, and Nora then looked back at Barbara, "Barb...I'm not straight...I'm secretly bisexual...My father...You may think I'm an open book, but I... I was forced to hide who I am because of my father...He was satisfied of me dating men, but when he found out that I like women too, especially after my stepmom betrayed my trust to him, he threatened to terminate my college fund for this university...and so, I pretended to be straight while deep down, I was scared of losing university for my dreams...When I heard you proudly saying that you were bisexual, and that your father and high school friends entirely accepted you, it was like you were this light I wanted to have, but afraid of my father, I kept staying hidden, eventually enamored with Victor as you know...I got brave enough to tell him last month on our anniversary of two years dating...He then gave me a gift, a gift of using his saved salary from his patents to pay for university the next few years on my own...and now, to think that you are in danger every night, and I would've lost you to a knife or a gun...We would've lost you...before we would get the chance to tell you...", with a soft sob.
"Oh, Nora...", Barbara sighed as she wanted to take her friend into a tight hug. "You should've told me sooner. I have my own friends... ones that would've easily supported you. You didn't need to live in fear of your father, you could've told him off and my friends would've taken you in easily. Financially speaking...".
Nora gave a small smile, "I know that now...And of course, one of your friends is Poppy Wayne...I was a bit envious, but when I see you smiling around her and her family in the park or whatever, I realized that you were happy having a best friend...I never exactly had a best friend before until Victor...".
Barbara smiled, "Well, who says I can't have a university best friend either?", looking at Nora whose smile grew, "Really?".
"Really. And...I won't lie of where I'm going, guys...", Barbara nodded before exhaling, "I can't believe it...All this time, I thought you were straight, and now...Can you believe me if I said that I got a major crush on you, Nora, and attracted to Victor?", blushing as she rubbed the back of her neck...
She was stunned that her night was full of secrets being revealed, from Poppy revealing herself, and her family's secrets of their alter egos, and promising to keep them safe, and now, revealing her Batwoman secret to her duo of friends, and to find out that Nora had her secret of being bisexual, and being forced to have her orientation as straight due to her father, and she had to wonder how Nora was open-minded with such a bigoted father like that, perhaps her mother had inspired her to be herself, before she died in a pedestrian/drunk car incident where she was the pedestrian, and with Victor clearly accepting Nora as who she is, standing up to be brave to tell him her secret last month on their anniversary, through does Victor accept Barbara too?
"Look... Victor...", Barbara cleared her throat, adding along. "Believe me when I say this... I did feel pain in the fact that it seemed like Nora wanted you than me, but I knew it would be wrong to try to sabotage and break the two of you up. And now after this...", Barbara came to a bit of a halt as she really didn't know how exactly one would exactly ask about... well, essentially the solution that would have everybody winning in regard to this little love triangle.
Victor certainly was surprised to hear that from Barbara. He thought he was lucky enough to have Nora attracted to him, but Barbara? "I... I wasn't aware...", he stammered; somewhat stunned and caught off guard with the admission.
"Well, it was a thought that had crossed my mind.", Nora admitted. "Especially when you let me know that you were bi, but I thought maybe you just saw me as too much of a friend and any sort of feelings was purely my imagination...".
Barbara widened her eyes, "Really? It crossed your mind?", and Nora blushed with a smile and a nod, and Victor replied, "I...I knew I was good-looking to a lot of people around university, but I...I never truly given thought to have two women attracted to me at the same time, even after it popped here and there after Nora told me of her secret last month...and I knew that she was attracted to you once upon a time.".
"I do understand if you don't want me, Victor, I'd let go of my crush and attraction on both of you if it means I want you two to be happy yourselves...I'm not exactly a brainiac, even if I'm a great hacker, and I'm not gorgeous like Nora, and I...I'm still a virgin, yet I am not a fool about sex, protected or not, considering that you two go at it every other week. Oh, I know it's hard to believe, considering that we're all in college and all, but I only got so far by making out and touching under clothes in experimenting in short flings, since I was under Dad's roof at the time and all back then, being a sheltered woman under his overprotectiveness...", Barbara sighed when she spoke to Victor, and then blushed red of embarrassment when she admitted to the last part.
"Barbara...", Victor spoke up. "You're as gorgeous as Nora, never sell yourself short like that.". He looked to Nora as she smiled and nodded. Nora honestly thought Barbara was leagues better than her in terms of looks; to hear her say that was quite a bit of a surprise. "Really?", Barbara's eyes widened a bit as she went even more red faced.
Nora gently grabbed her hand, "Really. Victor never lies on things in front of him including you right now...And I would love to share my experience with you, Barbara, and show you how it's like to be truly intimate with a woman and a man altogether...You are gorgeous to me too. I want you as a part of a new triad, a poly relationship, and share with Victor, and don't worry, I promise I'll be as brave as you someday when I stand up to my father, to say that he has no control of my life, and that I am in a relationship with an amazing woman, and a fantastic man. Of course, considering that I brought this up in the first place, it's also Victor too.", glancing at Victor with a smile and a gesture for him to choose fully accepting the new triad, or needing a bit of time to wrap his mind around that two women want him at the same time, as she knew Victor wasn't of the greedy, possessive kind, but of the hardworking, open-minded, and scientific kind.
"Victor... is... is this something you could do?", Barbara wondered as Victor gave a small nod and smile. "To be honest... I never thought I'd actually find romance after a while. I was so obsessed with my work and studies that my mind barely thought of a relationship. Then Nora and you entered my life; though Nora obviously made the first moves while as you said, stood by despite your own feelings for both of us to be happy.", Victor said.
Barbara nodded a bit, and Victor took a deep breath, and took Barbara's other hand, "A part of me, my scientific part wants to compare facts and all of how it's like to be a triad, while the other part of me just wants to skip the stone and see where it goes with all of us...I can't promise that I'd be really smart to figure out how to share two women equally, but I do know that I can try. From now on, it will be communication, so I can know how to keep you two happy equally and not care what anybody else thinks around here...And that includes helping you two study up for your big test next week, and for me and Nora to cover for you when you do your night job, and more.".
Barbara's eyes wetted a bit as her heart thundered against her chest, astounded that she is literally in a poly relationship, "Thank you, guys...", looking between Nora and Victor, and she snickered.
"What's so funny?", Nora smiled, and Barbara giggled, "You're wearing each other's shirts, you didn't even notice all this time, as you didn't see in the dark!", and they blinked, looking again to check, glancing at each other wearing a different shirt, and they began snickering, and then laughed, with Barbara joining in, for a while.
They took deep breaths as they smiled, and Nora and Victor realized that they were still holding into Barbara's hands, and they looked at each other with the air of a practiced couple of lovers, and nodded before they leaned in to kiss Barbara on the cheeks warmly, surprising Barbara as her heart skipped a beat, feeling one of her dreams coming true as she felt soft, supple lips by Nora and firm, thin lips by Victor on her skin.
"W-Wha?", Barbara whispered, and Nora whispered, "Tell us if you just want to be held and ravished without sex tonight, and we can make it our routine until you are ready, like a year later or whatever. You must be so tense, even with the lotion on your sore muscles...", with a soft smile.
Barbara went as red as her hair by hearing all that. Poor girl was practically almost suddenly overwhelmed with the feelings coming over her not to mention how it almost felt so fast to her. Not to mention the fact that she honestly was trying to keep herself awake after how exhausting paroling the city was.
She stammered a bit before whispering, "I...I couldn't mind being held, but I'm not in the mood for major ravishing...Can we just sleep with a bit of massage for my shoulders?", and Victor smiled, nodding, "Of course...Give us a couple of moments to get our shirts switched back and put our pajama pants back on. You go shut off your bed light, okay?", kind of relieved that he and Nora was semi-nude, but sort of sad understanding that they can't have sex, even with Barbara sleeping in her bed if she said otherwise than what she asked.
Barbara smiled gratefully, "Okay...", while nervous that this is the first time she'd really could literally sleep over in another bed, and be held by two people she is having major feelings for, and turned around, getting off the edge of the bed, hearing the scuffles of them behind her as she went to turn off her light, making sure the window is down, having blinds angled, and checked her phone again on her hacked cameras, and she knew she firmly had closed the door in her arrival earlier.
She then turned around when she heard that the shuffling is done and looked to see the couple sitting on the edge of the bed, all dressed in their pajamas properly, and she came closer, with Nora asking gently, "Which side do you want us to be between you?".
Barbara appreciated having a choice, seeing that they are considerate of her, and not rushing her, and she smiled shyly, "Can Victor be on the right, on the wall side, while you go be on the left side, Nora?", knowing that in a situation of danger, she would immediately roll over Nora, protecting her from the front with Victor protecting her from the back, for as Batwoman and being the daughter of a cop, she would immediately be on defensive, using the lamp or pillows or even a book in her surroundings to throw at an invader.
"Wanting to be in the middle?", Nora gave a light teasing. "Eh, more of trying to be in the best position to protect you just in case...", Barbara rubbed her neck as she nervously chuckled.
"You really should relax then if you're constantly thinking that, Barbara.", Victor told her. "It's not healthy to be that extremely alert... on guard even when at home.".
Barbara exhaled, "I know...It's just that being crime-trained by my father, and then years of crime-fighting ingrained instincts deep down in me, and I promise I'll try to relax more, now that I have you guys to care for me, along with a team of comrades occasionally...", somehow glad now that she got more people to count on than ever before.
Victor nodded, "Good to know...", satisfied to hear that, and moved to the wall side of the bed, shuffling as he made himself comfortable, holding out the blanket with a gentle smile at Barbara who took a deep breath, and moved in, making herself comfortable as she relaxed as best as she could as she settled in the middle of the bed, and glanced at Nora who joined in, smiling as she was given the blanket to cover them all up.
"Are you still wanting that bit of massage on your shoulders?", Nora asked, seeing her new girlfriend still tense and nervous, and Barbara nodded, "Yes, if that's okay...", and Nora whispered, "It's okay, we got you, Barb...", her left hand moving to gently grasp into the back of Barbara's right shoulder, while Victor moved his right hand into the back of Barbara's left shoulder, and with smiles, they began to massage, easing the knots Barbara didn't know she had.
Barbara gasped in relief and pleasure, sighing and moaning, "Oh, that feels good...Victor, a bit to the right, Nora, a bit to the bottom...", amazed and stunned by the power of her new paramours' talent of massaging, lasting for so much needed minutes, with the pair following Barbara's instructions.
"Oh, right there, Victor, a bit lower, Nora...", Barbara sighed as she became completely relaxed, a puddle of content surprise and exhaustion, "I really, really needed that more than I thought...Thank you...", as she smiled at her new paramours.
Nora chuckled, "You're very welcome, Barb...What's our reward?", and Victor nodded in agreement with Nora, and Barbara blushed, smiling, "A kiss on the lips per turn is the reward...Show me, and then after that, you turn off the light, and we go to sleep, and you hold me and cuddle me your way, okay?".
"Okay.", Nora smiled as she leaned up a bit, to give Barbara her first kiss with a college woman as Barbara turned her head to meet her. It was a bit quick, but tender and perfect kiss, feeling like how Barbara imagined it to be with her.
Barbara whispered, "Wow...", after Nora pulled back, proud that she made Barbara feel wonderful like how she did, strangely feeling the same intensity that she has with Victor, "Good to know that you really liked it.", before resting her head back on the pillow, happy to take in Barbara turning her head to face Victor who did the same in leaning up a bit, and moved in to give Barbara her first kiss with a college man.
Victor and Barbara's lips met as Barbara closed her eyes and let her senses take over the moment as Victor gently put his hand on her cheek and slowly caressed it as they continued to share the kiss. It was a few moments later before they finally parted, and Barbara smiled. "This... this isn't a dream, right?", she asked. "Like I'm not about to wake up and all this isn't happening, is it?"
Nora moved closer to her, cuddling and holding her as she glanced at her, "Nope, it isn't a dream, Barbara, I promise.", as Barbara's smile grew, and Victor moved closer, embracing around Barbara's neck and Nora's side, "And we'll be here when you wake up, and you will be happy, Barbara, I promise too.".