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[foreverbouncing]

[Charlie is curled up on the couch in her pajamas, with a bowl of cereal. She frowns at the phone, which seems to be sitting on her knee.]

Babs is gone. Uh. Barbara. Gordon, I mean. If anyone...she wasn't here long this time, I don't know how many people talked to her anything but she's...gone. Again. Of course.

Great Christmas present, right?

[The

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voice;

[futurebatwoman]

I'm sorry, Charlie. I never met her here, but she's pretty great, so I know how much you must miss her.

[It's a shame Max doesn't know about Barbara's work as Oracle, or she'd be offering to take the computer work off of Charlie's hands.]

voice;

[foreverbouncing]

...You had an alternate-timeline Babs too, huh?

voice;

[futurebatwoman]

She was our Police Commissioner. And a pretty great one, too.

voice;

[foreverbouncing]

Oh wow. Kinda like her dad.

encrypted.

[xuffasch]

Great. Now we're back to dealing with you.

encrypted.

[foreverbouncing]

If you don't want to, D, I am more than happy to take you off the filter and delete your computer access.

[xuffasch]

Just because you happen to be the technician does not mean you have executive privileges. Do not confuse the two.

[foreverbouncing]

And how are you going to stop me, huh?

[voice; encrypted]

[batmantled]

How you holding up?

[voice; encrypted]

[foreverbouncing]

...Meh.

Pretty much just meh.

[voice; encrypted]

[batmantled]

...Yeah. I know the feeling.

[ but no time for that now. :c ]

Sorry, I should've said something. I figured she'd leave a message in the old place.

Re: [voice; encrypted]

[foreverbouncing]

...It's fine, I just...I bounced over to see her and, then I couldn't find her...

[And Charlie can find anybody, really.]

[i_seethestrals]

[ Her voice, as always, is soft and (hopefully) reassuring. ]

I'm very sorry, Charlie. It seems a lot of people are leaving lately.

Do you need anything?

[foreverbouncing]

Yeah...

You wanna play mario kart later?

whoops, [audio]

[i_seethestrals]

As long as you let me win.

[ Like there's even a choice. ]

Re: whoops, [audio]

[foreverbouncing]

Dude, I never let you win. Nobody has to let you win.