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[twiceahero]

It's quiet in Gotham, it's quiet everywhere else too. Which means that Babs can either sleep, or work on a personal project. Sleep, right

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[i_spoiled_it]

"Wow. That looks way complicated." Steph peers over her shoulder, aware that Babs will have known she was coming from blocks away. "What's up?"

[twiceahero]

"It's a quiet night, I thought I'd get a little personal time with some assembly code." Barbara flashes a grin over her shoulder at Steph. "How have you been, Stephanie?"

[i_spoiled_it]

Steph is trying to read the screen, but not having any luck.

"I'm good. Bored tonight, it's really quiet. Is there anywhere you need me?"

[twiceahero]

"Oddly enough, I don't need anyone anywhere." A couple of taps on her keyboard and a screen springs to life showing Gotham. It's broken up into geographical zones, and each of them pulse a calming green.

"It's been quiet."

The look Babs is giving Stephanie is a searching one, but whatever she's looking for she doesn't seem to find.

[i_spoiled_it]

Steph squirms a little under the look, but it's not from anything she feels particularly guilty about; it's just a standard reaction.

"That just means someone's plotting something, right?"

[twiceahero]

Barbara snorts, "Probably."

"But there's nothing we can do now but keep watching." She's silent for a moment, "Have you thought any about what I said?"

[i_spoiled_it]

"What you said when?"

[twiceahero]

Barbara doesn't sigh. She's been doing this too long for that.

"About not being so worried about having Batman's approval."

[i_spoiled_it]

Steph nods. "Yeah, I thought about it for a bit. I dunno, it seems kind of silly, Babs. The whole thing's about him, isn't it? You can't make it not be."

[twiceahero]

There's a sudden tension as Barbara stares hard at Steph. "Is that what you think? That it's all about Batman?"

[i_spoiled_it]

Steph looks at her curiously.

"Well, isn't it? ... Okay, lots of it is about Robin too, but that's different, that's just because he's hot."

[twiceahero]

"Steph," Barbara's voice is dead serious, "If you're doing this for them, then you're in the wrong line of work."

[i_spoiled_it]

Steph looks at her, and sobers up a little.

"I'm doing it because of my dad, Oracle. It's not 'cos of anything else."

[twiceahero]

"I was too," Barbara smiles fondly, then shakes her head. "But that's not enough, Steph. You have to come to a point where it's about," another screen springs up, this one showing a camera image of a small apartment complex, "them."

[i_spoiled_it]

Steph leans over to peer at it, frowning.

[twiceahero]

It's just a camera from a convenience store focused on an apartment on the south side. Just normal people, living a normal life. There isn't anything special about it at all, really. Which is precisely why Barbara chose this view.