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[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.))

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[itstopped]

You got a cat?

[bodilesswarrior]

Felix! [Now she's outright grinning.] Yes, I did. Or, well, I got her back.

[Jonesy lifts her head, peering curiously into the communicator.]

[itstopped]

Did you have a cat I didn't know about?

[bodilesswarrior]

Yes, you're very unobservant. [She holds the flat seriousness for about five seconds, before she smiles again.] I had her as a kid. She went missing.

[itstopped]

Oh. [Huh.] Congratulations are in order, then. Any other exciting news I should know about?

[batfart]

...Barbara?

[ holy mother of god ]

[bodilesswarrior]

[For an instant, she just looks confused.

But she knows that voice, she knows those eyes, she knows how he looks when he's surprised - ]

Bruce?

[batfart]

[ He nods, curt and mute. ]

Powers isn't insane, is he?

[bodilesswarrior]

What, relatively? [It's a light, wry smile, as she shakes her head.] If he told you he's being held in a cosmic prison barge, then he's talking reality.

[batfart]

[ He pinches the bridge of his nose. ]

And you?

Jesus, you're...

[ Young. And different. ]

[bodilesswarrior]

Yeah. Different Gotham. [She's trying to keep her tone light, trying not to scrutinise him too closely. Trying not to remember what Derek said about - ]

I hear I'm commissioner.

[batfart]

You are.

[ He's not broaching the subject of their past if it isn't shared. They split up poorly. ]

[ And no one wants to talk about the miscarriage. ]

[insolubleriddle]

[The camera is pointed to a cast on Eddie's ankle. It's green. Bright, bright green, and so is the jacket of the man the feed pans up to.]

Bruce refused to sign this for me. Unbelievably rude, isn't he.

[rintintin]

I don't know, watching the Human Torch and Namor kick the crap out of each others' kinda different from chatting with another universe.

[Someone is assuming you mean New York oops.]

[gottohaveacode]

...space prison.

[This face? SO DOUBTFUL. Granted this is almost his default expression anyway, but still.]

[lord_roadkill]

[Horus just looks incredibly lost by the explanation. He's thoughtful about it, he tries to follow, really he does, but the words are too big and don't mean much in his vocabulary. So he just cocks his head, birdlike.]

What won't?

Lots of strange things in the world.

[He offers a grin. It's wide and kind of dopey.]

[theboywonder]

You'd be surprised.

[wedonot]

Somewhat unfortunately, strange happenings aren't unique to your universe.

It's very good to hear from you.

[surfaceshine]

Goddamn you meddlesome kids, get off my wifi!

[chaotica]

I gathered, actually. It's quite fascinating.

[bodilesswarrior]

[Well. There's the big one. Dean left, and we got one who lived through the apocalypse.]

Iris is making mechanical horses.

[bodilesswarrior]

Good as my dad?

[bodilesswarrior]

Incorrigible. [Yeah, she's smiling a little.] You could ask a Robin.

[bodilesswarrior]

[...Hello sir you are very tiny.]

Not that Gotham. Mine's in Jersey.

[bodilesswarrior]

Space prison. [She knows, objectively, how completely ridiculous it sounds.] More of a rehabilitation centre, really, but the inmates don't get a choice in the matter, so.