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[ladyofgotham]

No.

I don't need rehabilitation. What I need is to go back home and run my city.

I really don't care if Barda called me a dictator. All I'm doing is keeping Gotham safe.

I can't do that on some intergalactic prison ship.

And I won't leave Supergirl to fend for herself.

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[unflinching]

[Even in a different costume, even from a different world, Cass can still see:]

Barbara?

[ladyofgotham]

[Barbara tenses, mouth curling into a hard scowl beneath her cowl.]

Who are you?

[She's already shifted into a defensive stance. No one should know who she is, no one except Bruce.]

[unflinching]

[There's no responding hostility. It's not like she needs to, really.]

Your... [Daughter? It's on the tip of her tongue, and maybe she could have been, but not now, not with this Barbara.] Friend. Ally.

[ladyofgotham]

I don't have friends. [The words are instant and hard. Batgirl works alone, she always has. It's better that way.]

[unflinching]

[That statement hurts, and it shows on her face, her brows drawing together in a frown. There's a long silence before she speaks again]

You should. You need them. To - soften you.

[She's seen how Oracle walks on that edge, it's not hard to see that this Barbara is teetering on the same one.]

[knowsaboutanger]

Excuse me! I can fend for myself just fine!

[ladyofgotham]

Not from kryptonite, you -

Supergirl? [What.]

[knowsaboutanger]

Uh, yeah? You just called my name.

[A little frown after a few seconds] ...That heartbeat is familiar though.

[ladyofgotham]

[From confusion to scowling in .5 seconds.] Don't even start with that.

[knowsaboutanger]

[She hovers right in front of Barbara's face, blue eyes bright while she uses her x-ray vision. There is really no doubt, but... well. There's also reason to doubt this is her Barbara.

For once she's walking.]

...Alternate world?

[batmanschmatman]

Your city?

[ladyofgotham]

My city, yes. Whose else would it be?

[batmanschmatman]

Bruce's. Or, you know, our city. What happened?

[ladyofgotham]

[She just stares at him, for a moment. Why do people keep knowing things about her? Besides - ] Please. Bruce can barely control a board room.

More family, I suppose. This is all his fault, isn't it?

[an_abomination]

My mun has been telling me that Supergirl should be coming to the Barge, if that helps.

[ladyofgotham]

[snort] As a warden, probably.

[an_abomination]

There was some debate but I think she is going to be an Inmate like me.

[ladyofgotham]

[It's hard to look flabbergasted, in this cowl, but Barbara manages it.]

...Different universe. Must be.

[And she looks him up and down.] Which would explain why I don't know who you are.

Have unsouled version? (En-souled self is still going through the shaaaaame mode.)

[unweeping_willow]

Awww; someone's all mopey.

:D Yay! (Poor Willow. :( )

[ladyofgotham]

I don't mope. I glower. It usually works.

(She just needs someone to make her mad/get her to let her inner demon out a little. ;) )

[unweeping_willow]

[There's a small smirk on her face as she encircles this woman, the red leather of her dress surprisingly silent.] Pretty.


ooc: I don't want her rampaging, but Willow really does need to stop thinking "OMG I'm bad and deserve to suffer!" and start dealing with her inner sadist.)

[ladyofgotham]

[Barbara doesn't move, even to follow the woman with her gaze.] I try.

((Ooh, yes. Sometimes the key to moving on is accepting the darker aspects of yourself.))

From an AU game where he was a founding Titan. And Dick Grayson's best friend.

[arach_nerd]

Well this is a new wrinkle. Lemme guess, you'll try to punch me if I call you Babs.

[ladyofgotham]

Try. That's cute. [In other words, yes.]

[arach_nerd]

Yes, try. Dodging is kinda my thing. That and being annoying as all get out.

Plus, I've trained with a Bat-sidekick. You haven't trained with a Spidey-sidekick. (Partly because those are non-existent)