29 - Video

[bodilesswarrior]

[Barbara is sitting on her couch, Jonesy curled up on her lap. Her communicator is carefully angled away from her control centre.

She starts off with a wry wave.] If you can see this, you've gotten pulled into a space prison's telecommunications network. As far as I can tell, it won't affect your systems any, so don't worry.

[Her smile deepens.] And if you're from Gotham, I know damn well this isn't the strangest thing that's happened to you this week.

((Fourth wall! GO TO TOWN.))

Comments

[theboywonder]

You'd be surprised.

[bodilesswarrior]

[Ah.]

...Not by much, but it definitely happens.

[theboywonder]

Hi.

[bodilesswarrior]

Hey. [She smiles, despite all the awkward confusion.] You're - what, fifteen right now?

[theboywonder]

Yep.

Guess it's been a while. [That's a nice way of saying "you're way older than you should be", right?]

[bodilesswarrior]

Smooth. [No, that's really the best way he could have said it.] It's been - lord, almost a decade.

[theboywonder]

Please say I got taller.

[bodilesswarrior]

Not taller than me, but yes. [Well, okay, he sort of is, practically speaking, but that isn't the point.]

[theboywonder]

I guess because it's you, I can forgive you.

[bodilesswarrior]

You'll have to get used to it, all your girlfriends are gonna be taller than you.

[theboywonder]

Nice to know they like me anyway.

Girlfriends?

[bodilesswarrior]

[Helena probably doesn't, but she won't go there.]

Yeah, you're quite the lady's man. [Instead, trolling.

It's out of love.]

[theboywonder]

[Look, that's a complicated relationship.

Just like all of his relationships.]

Better late than never, I guess.

[bodilesswarrior]

Oh, just give it a couple years.

[theboywonder]

What else do I get to look forward to?

[bodilesswarrior]

[Mullets. Feathers. Disco collars.] Come on, I can't spoil you too much. [But then her smile shifts; it becomes softer, warmer.] But I can promise you're still a hero, and better than ever.

[theboywonder]

What, should I have been worried I was gonna go rogue?

[bodilesswarrior]

[Wryly.] Don't most of us, at least once?