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Tim gave her a small smile when he took the fry from her. He'd been hearing that question a little too frequently lately and it wasn't like he could talk to Steph about it. Telling her about Tim's problems was crossing a line he really wasn't supposed to. Nor did he want to. His time with Stephanie felt like the only time left where he could be normal. Not pitied for what happened to his father or scolded for how he was reacting to it... he just just Robin when he was with Spoiler. It was all he needed to be. "Yeah, Steph. I'm right as rain." He said, taking his attention off her and putting it back onto the building they were watching.

"Let's see..." He said, quickly trying to change the subject to solely the game they could play. Kicking his feet and raising a hand to cup his chin as he thought. "There's I Spy? 20 Work-Related Questions?" He joked, giving her a grin. "We could always make a game out of how many bad guys we take out tonight. Whoever gets the most by sunrise gets to dare the other? And they must do the dare."

cluebustersteph

"Right as rain? How old are you?" Stephanie stifled a laugh with the back of her hand as it attempted to fall from her lips, a note of pleasure hidden within the noise. Robin was an old soul trapped in a 20-something's sculpted body. Just looking over the rippling muscles of his biceps would provide no indication of the old man that resided inside his brain. One of the things she enjoyed most about Robin, besides the fact that he was great at keeping a secret, was that he was unlike anyone else she had ever met. There wasn't a single thing about him that reminded her of anyone she had ever met in Gotham and it reflected in the way she felt around him - only him. Stephanie's heart stumbled in her chest, bumping clumsily into her ribs.

"20 Work-Related Questions?" The blonde quirked a brow, a mischievous glint dancing along with the stars that reflected in her eyes. "Like what? Who's the coolest Rogue you've ever single-handedly taken down?" Spoiler already knew that a game like that would remind her of just how inadequate she was, living in the shadow of real heroes like Batman and Robin. "Now that is a game I can get behind. Do we have to tell each other the dares now or can we come up with it later?"

#{ &* Tim }

thedetectiverobin

He'd seen her without her mask a few times now. When he visited her as Robin at her home and then most recently, when she was all dressed up at the Gala. She didn't know then who he was and their conversation had been tragically cut short. He was mustering the confidence to ask her to dance when he noticed the shining signal light cutting through Gotham's dark sky. Successfully stealing him away from Stephanie Brown and the party onto the dark, chilly streets of Gotham. Even in the heat of a fight, all he could think of was her. All dressed up and standing on the sidelines, all alone. He wondered if she'd waited for him to come back, or if she'd been interested in Tim Drake at all? Maybe she only really liked him in the mask in their current dynamic. Maybe she didn't really like him at all and she was this flirty with everyone...

Her voice interrupted his thoughts and he blinked at her. "Huh?" Robin asked, his voice pensive. As though he was just waking from a daydream. "Oh, sure." He said, taking a fry and finally putting his mind to the mission again. What was she doing to him? That he couldn't even stay on track? He settled himself into a proper sitting position beside her. Sick of crouching. "Should we play a game while we wait?"

cluebustersteph

When Stephanie had made the decision to become a vigilante, donning the purple handmade suit, it had never occurred to her that she might rub shoulders with Batman and Robin. They were legends in the city and her father had always spoken about them with caution as if they were to be feared. Retrospectively that made sense, but she had no fears when she spent time with Robin. In fact, she found that she felt the opposite around him. Stephanie was fearless, free of the restraints her worries bound her in.

"Fry?" She repeated the offer, shaking the bag in an attempt to catch his attention. "Are you okay?" She asked brows knitted together, the concern reflecting in her tone. Robin was always okay, although she assumed that like her, he had a life outside of being Robin that might be affecting him. It was a lot to juggle, but she was sure he had his reasons just as she did. "What kind of game?" Stephanie tried to leave that train of thought behind. Wondering who was behind the mask was useless, even if he knew who she was it didn't give her an entitlement to his identity.

#{ &* tim }

𝐂𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐟𝐨𝐫 @intrepidlxne

"So you're thinking what I'm thinking, right?" Stephanie worked through her sentence with her hands moving in circles around each other. She had always been an animated speaker, finding that thoughts exited her mouth more easily if her hands were helping work them out. "Pizza and cheesy bread? Or does it make more sense to order the pizza with cheese stuffed crust?"

#{ &* Lois }

𝐂𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐟𝐨𝐫 @ofbalance

"Is this what you were looking for?" Spoiler asked, the question muffled from behind the mask that covered the lower half of her face. Pulling the usb drive out of one of her hidden pockets, she flashed the metallic object at Nightwing, a hidden smirk dancing across his lips up into her eyes. "Because this looked important and you look stressed so girl math dictates you might be looking for this."

#{ &* Dick }

𝐂𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐟𝐨𝐫 @thedetectiverobin

The night that hung over Gotham was a shroud of smog and neon lights, but on the edge of the world perched atop one of the many gargoyles that protected the Belfry they were above it all. Below, in the bowels of the chaos reigned. It was below in the shadows of Gotham where the people like her dad operated, planning and scheming on ways to push themselves above the rest. Down there was where she would finally be the one to stop Cluemaster. Turning to Robin, she held up the thin paper bag that contained the over-salted limp fries she offered, "Fry?" She asked, attempting to break the silence that had fallen over the pair.

#{ &* Tim }

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thedetectiverobin

He wasn't expecting to get this far for whatever reason. He thought Steph might shew him away, especially since her brows had been knit with deep thought when he first approached her. Instead, their eyes met and he felt a sudden sense of vulnerability without his mask. Would she recognize him? Was this a bad idea? He pushed the thoughts away when what she said finally sunk in for him. Not until now. It implied quite a bit. Enough to keep him here planted in front of her. She was the same girl who hit him with a brick and yet he couldn't be more intrigued. It helped a bit that she got him out of a few bad jams and had the best sense of humour too but that was besides the point.

"Well, there might be someone I got my eye on. Maybe you can take a guess on who it is?" He said with a smile tugging on his lips. She had to be aware that she was way out of his league, right? ...Better not clue her into that. He glanced from her to the crowd as if he was people watching and his eyes were on someone else. Before shooting her another glance and smirking back to her.

cluebustersteph

The man's smile looked like a mockery of innocence, implication dancing in the swirling shades of umber and chestnut. "Very mysterious." She let the words hang between them, insuating. There was a chance she was reading into things, but something - intuition maybe, told her there was more to this. "Well," she decided to push past the growing pit in her gut. "I hope it's not our mayor, but who knows. I don't exactly know your type, or anything about you for that matter. Not even a name. You can't expect me to guess who you have your eye on without a name." The pit in Stephanie's stomach swelled as she caught his glance once again, jolted by something in the corner of his smirk; Robin. A memory of the previous night played out before her, leaving her wishing that the stranger beside her was someone else entirely.

Drawing her eyes from his gaze, she looked back out at the crowd with spirited interest. "What about her?" Steph, gestured vaguely into a group of people with the hope that one of them would be the one.

#{ &* Tim }

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He saw a flash of blonde hair in the corner of his eye and something in him forced him to turn and look. Stephanie Brown stood not too far from him, with her face turned to the crowd. Watching the people in their fancy get ups. Was she here as Spoiler undercover in the same way he was? Waiting for something to go horribly wrong so she could swoop in and save the day? Or was she here for another reason? Maybe she had a date. Some guy he didn't know about and she was waiting for him to bring her some punch on the sidelines. He took a timid step towards her and then another. If she was dating someone, then at least she'd tell him here. Then again... was it really all that good of an idea to talk to her as Tim Drake? He kept his identity a secret from her for a reason. A reason that he couldn't seem to recall as he looked at her now. All dolled up in a way he'd never seen her before.

Tim drew in a breath and forced himself to finish walking the rest of the way up to her. Standing beside her. There was no harm in saying hello afterall. She didn't need to know that he already knew her. "People watching?" He asked. "Is there anyone interesting you have your eye on?" It was both his way of teasing her and asking just how available she was.

cluebustersteph

Stephanie ruminated on her father's overheard plans, wondering if he was going to make an appearance at tonight's affair. His words had led her to believe so, but even if he did, she didn't have a plan of action and there was a large part of her that hoped he wouldn't show so that she didn't have to come up with one. Emerald eyes scanned the crowd, searching, avoiding, pleading to find nothing but a crowd of relatively harmless Gothamites.

Stephanie flinched, a shudder skittering down her spine in reaction to the disembodied voice that apparated beside her. "Something like that." She turned to face the voice only to be met with eyes that branded her. If she hadn't known the world beneath her feet, she may have faltered, struck by the stranger, but instead, a suggestive curve shaped her full lips as she stood her ground. For a stranger, he asked a lot of questions. "Not until now." Her voice was a low purr caressing every consonant, lacing the statement with playful causality. "What about you?" It was an invitation, beckoning him to play along with the harmless flirtation.

#{ &* Tim }

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"Nice to meet you too. Just Steph?" Clark asked, "Would you like me to leave out your last name for the interview? I don't mind doing that for you." He told her. He really didn't mind, especially if she wasn't comfortable. He was all too aware that some people just didn't want their name out there in the paper. He actually found it was more common here in Gotham. There was a darkness to this city that he just wasn't used to yet. It's innocent people suffocated in it. His heart bled for them. Even knowing this city had Batman, it didn't feel like enough. He was more like a legend. People whispered about Batman like he was a frightening ghoul. It didn't feel at all like the way the citizens of Metropolis spoke of Superman. "I have a couple of questions." Clark stated before flipping a page back in his notebook. "But if you have opinions outside of the questions that you'd like to express; I'm all ears! So... Were you old enough to have voted for Aubrey James when he was running?"

cluebustersteph

"Just Steph." She confirmed, attempting to conceal the wave of relief that washed over her with a warm smile, allowing herself to be just as inviting as any Gothamite was. "Okay, go ahead and shoot." Steph watched as Clark flipped his notebook open like a private investigator from a dark novella. "Nope." She answered with ease. There wasn't much to think about when it came to that question. Aubrey James had been mayor for as long as she could remember, not that her thoughts ever lingered very long on him. It was just another constant in her life; like her father being gone, locked up in Blackgate. Just another part of life she had learned to accept and had grown to stop questioning years prior. "He's been mayor for basically forever. Wait...how old do you think I am?" The blonde's eyes narrowed at the tall reporter, her chin angled to try and get a better look at the stranger.

#{ &* Clark }

supesclark

"Hey, I'm sorry to bother you... but I'm collecting interviews from regular old' Gothamites. I just want to know how the people of Gotham feel about the mayor. Could I have a moment of your time?" Clark asked softly, pausing for a moment before realizing he hadn't even introduced himself yet. "Oh! I'm Clark, by the way. Clark Kent from the Gotham Gazette." He quickly reached up to flash the badge he was wearing before holding out his hand for the other person to shake if they wanted to.

cluebustersteph

There was something about the Journalist's choice of words: 'regular old Gothamites', that didn't settle well in her mind. Not after learning what she had about her so-called 'rehabilitated' father and certainly not after the time and pain she had put into creating her own vigilante persona. Nothing about her felt regular since learning of his plan to continue committing crimes without his calling card. She was someone new; Stephanie Brown, daughter of Cluemaster, but also Spoiler, vigilante novice. "Uh, yeah, I guess." The blonde nodded. "Nice to meet you, Clark from the Gotham Gazette. I'm Steph." She offered, holding onto hope that he wouldn't request her full name for the interview. "Do you have specific questions or do you just want to know vaguely what people think? Because I have to know what you hear at the end of the night if you're asking vaguely."

#{ &* Clark }

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