All characters appearing in the following narrative are fictional. Any resemblance to any real persons - either living or deceased - is entirely coincidental on the part of the Author. Unless otherwise noted all persons appearing in the narrative are written as being of the majority age of eighteen years owing to depictions of graphic sexual activity contained throughout the body of this work.
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Rain for the third straight night and still no sign of The Riddler, or any of his flunkies. Stephanie Brown - the Batgirl - stretched and yawned as best she could from her precarious perch on the side of the Gotham Savings and Loan. Why the hell she had to be out on a night like this searching for signs of when one of Batman's rogues was going to unleash his latest diabolical scheme was anyone's guess. Nights like this made her wish she had never allowed herself to be brought into the fold as one of the Dark Knight's junior partners. Times like this made her wish she was still just another junior-vigilante taking out street punks and the costumed villains that Batman would not waste a second punch on!
"Something to cheer you up?" Came a hushed whisper from behind her.
She was so startled that she almost took a fall off the ledge! Whipping around, fists rising to the ready position, she came face to face with one of the only other reasons that kept her suiting up night after night. Five feet and six inches tall, one-hundred and forty-five pounds of sinew and muscle, and the sweetest smile she had ever seen. Tim Drake. Formerly known as Robin, now building his own reputation as the Red Robin, had dropped down on the roof behind her. There he was with a thermos of hot chocolate and two collapsible cups. No doubt something Alfred had come up with! His new outfit looked good on him and was - so far as Stephanie was concerned - tight in all the right places!
"It would kill you to make some kind of noise when you do that?" She asked.
"The Boss would take away my play time on the computer if he knew I had made a noise when dropping in on someone." Tim smiled as he said it and that alone was enough to earn Batgirl's forgiveness.
Jokes about 'the Boss', Batman, were common between the sidekicks. It was probably why he kept taking them in? As a means of warding off some of the dark brooding for which he was infamous. Stephanie risked a giggle even as she reached out a hand to accept the steaming cup of warm liquid. Tim was doing his level best not to look at her so she took advantage and drank in a good long look of her own! It almost made her wonder just how well he would fill out the old Robin costume that was archived in the Cave. She definitely had no problems seeing Tim in those green briefs and the red vest that Dick Grayson had made famous and Jason Todd had died in. Just thinking about that though was putting her off the reason she had been sent out here tonight. That, and it was making things inside of her tighten up in ways she knew were not good for her. The thought of what he might look like in nothing at all sprang, fully formed, into her mind before she could stop it and brought a blush to her cheeks!
"Oops! You laughed while on patrol!" Teased Tim as he crouched down on the ledge next to her and drank in her company. "You blushed as well. Keep up this behavior and I am going to have to report you." His own smile was hidden behind his cup. Tim had been working with 'the Bat' too long to make the same rookie mistakes she was.
"You're not even the least bit curious as to why I was blushing?" Stephanie risked asking.