Bad excuses...

It had taken two weeks, but Class was being held in person again. Kara sat in the middle of her economics class room as Barbara came over. Kara arched an eyebrow as Barbara held out her pink phone. Kara accepted the phone and looked at it. A part of her wanted to scream. However she simply looked at the live feed of the press release. Mayor Hill of Gotham was meeting with Lex Luthor at the New York City offices of Lexcorps. Of course right behind Lex was Mercy Graves and Nasty Luthor. The Kyron under the image was a note that Gotham PD was getting donations of state-of-the-art police equipment from Lexcorps. Both of them knew that Bruce and Jim Gordon would be pissed off at this. Barbara turned and took a seat next to Kara.

“Oh you know this will not end well,” Barbara muttered.

“No duh,” Kara watched Barbara’s butt as she got her stuff out of her bag, “Did you ride your bike here in the snow?”

“No, I just wanted to wear the biker girl outfit today,” Barbara shrugged.

“I like it,” Kara tried to smile.

“Dick liked it too,” Barbara smirked.

“I think he liked taking it off,” Kara whispered.

“Yes,” Barbara agreed, “Yes he did.”

*

There was yet another news flash about the new guy out of Fawcett City. And there had been a phone call for an answer to a clue left at a crime about every three days. Kara sat with Jason as they looked over the reports flagged by the computer mainframe.

“Think she is one of Ra’s kids?” Jason asked.

“Not really,” Kara shrugged, “Yes she is using some of their techniques, but I don’t think she has Demon Head branded on her ass.”

“She looks like she could be middle-eastern and Tibetan,” Jason shrugged.

“Well she is clearly part east Asian,” Kara noted, “But I think the bigger concern is that she took out three French boarder security agents in five seconds.”

“Did Lady Shiv have a kid?” Dick asked as he walked by the terminals.

“Lady Shiv?” Jason asked.

“Don’t you mean Lady Shiva?” Kara asked.

“Yes,” Dick started, “But no. She might list herself as the Lady of that Hindu God, but really she is a just a mean weapon to kill people in a horrible manor.”

“So a prison Shiv?” Jason asked.

“Right,” Dick said, “Can you bring up the timeline on her?”

“One second,” Kara shrugged, “Here it is.”

“That’s two years of quite time,” Jason noted.

“Right after the time she went after a rogue League Assassin,” Kara noted.

There was a ringing. Kara pulled her phone out of the pocket of her fleece pull-over. She stood up and walked away from her foster brothers.

“Normally she enjoys flaunting her sexually charged dialog in front of you,” Jason commented.

“I know,” Dick shrugged, “How is it going with you and Raven?”

“Good,” Jason smiled, “I was hoping to sneak out of town with her on Thanksgiving…”

“That isn’t going to happen kid,” Dick chuckled.

“I can try, right?”

*

“You seem rather chipper,” Alfred noted as Kara walked into the kitchen, “Did you have a breakthrough on the case of the killer orphan?”

“No, but I got a different breakthrough,” Kara smiled.

“Oh?” Alfred said as he pulled a pan off the stove.

“Oh yeah,” Kara smiled as Bruce came in the door to the kitchen, “Hay Bruce.”

“Hello Kara, Alfred,” Bruce grimaces as he walked in, “Where are the others?”

“Dick and Jason are down stairs,” Kara noted, “Barbara is making dinner for her dad and Kate is at home with her girlfriend.”

“And Miss Kyle and her kittens?” Alfred asked.

“They are pretending to be completely legitimate for the State inspectors,” Bruce rolled his eyes, “Selina is actually trying to adopt the Falcone girl.”

“How is she going to explain that sex dungeon then?” Kara snickered.

“A cat playroom?” Alfred suggested.

“No one would believe that,” Bruce rolled his eyes.

*

“This is a rather impressive cat room Miss Kyle,” the woman from the state smiled, “A verity of posts and platforms for them to interact with. I see this grey one does a very accurate Snoopy impression on this up ulstered saw horse here.”

“And plenty of little danglers to keep them entertained,” Holly said holding a pink pleather tickler.

“Very nice,” the woman said, “The bed space to spend time with them is a nice touch.”

*

“Yeah,” Kara snickered, “No way Selina is getting away with that one. So, what is for dinner?”

“Roast Mutton with sautéed vegetables,” Alfred smiled.

“I heard Mutton,” Dick smiled as he walked into the kitchen from the pantry.

*

It had gotten bad, even a few of the police working for the mobs had gotten involved in the aftermath of Stromwell’s death… but now the State Police and Gordon had managed to put the cuffs on many of the mob loyal cops and much of the blood and ammo was spent on the streets. Thankfully it had been very targeted, with almost no innocent bystanders killed.

“What’s the status?” the police dispatch asked over the radio.

“No sign of any disturbances,” the patrol officer called back over the radio as they walked down the alley, “Hold on… Well that looks like a catch of the day.”

From high above Batgirl watched the Patrol Officer admire Nightwing’s handiwork. Kara had to admit, he was still good at the snatch and hoist ambush. The two goons had thought they would set the Falcone front on fire, but they didn’t count on getting snatched.

“Better send out the Fire Department, or at least a unit with a ladder,” the Patrol officer said into his radio on the street level.

“Hay there sexy,” Batgirl said as the shadow approached.

“Pretty bat come to play?” Dick asked.

“I shouldn’t be surprised,” Oracle smiled as she walked up between the two other vigilantes, “Nice firm tushes.”

Kara had to admit her friend’s hand on her butt did feel nice, but Dick was clearly hamming it up. Kara hand signaled for everyone to turn off their comminutions gear.

“Off,” Barbara said.

“Same,” Dick also turned off his gear.

“Ok, so I got a date with Jean-Paul… And I know the only way that I can do without Bat-Daddy riding my ass over it is to have other people watch from a safe distance,” Kara whispered.

“And you figured we could be the double date?” Dick smirked.

“Well it would be perfectly natural for us to go to the same restaurants and what not,” Barbara shrugged, “I’m in.”

“Yeah, and it would be less awkward than having Jason around,” Dick chimed, “I’m in too.”

Barbara looked down to the Patrol Officer trying to get the mask off one of the suspsended suspects. As the hood came off, she put a hand over her mouth to keep herself from gasping.

“What?” Dick asked.

“That’s Marreitta,” Barbara said, “A sergeant down at vice. Figures he would work for one of the families.”

“Marreitta? I always figured he worked for Falcone’s people,” Robin said as he walked over.

“He did,” Batman intoned, “He must not be confident that the Falcones can protect him anymore…”

“That makes sense…” Dick tried to get back into his Nightwing persona…

“Be careful Kara, it is a dangerous game to play with Valley,” Bruce warned.