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|Date of Scene=2019/07/28
|Location=Stephanie Brown's Apartment - Gotham
|Synopsis=Damian, and Steph have their talk, though there were no explosions!
|Cast of Characters=973,1134
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|Poses=:'''{{#var:973|Damian Wayne (973)}} has posed:'''<br>Damian stops the car outside of the large apartment complex and sighs to himself as he hated showing himself around outside of his Robin outfit, or whatever disquise he was wearing he seemed to figit a bit as he gets out in the visitors parking lot. He is wearing his nice all black relaxed suit with the blood red tie, and the lighter red shirt he looked around a bit at the others for a moment looking as he did everywhere as no place was safe not even a school. He sighed a again reaching back into the car he pulls out what looks to be a tube of some sort, about forarm's length wrapped in white paper with old rope tied around it, though to him it was totally normal as he closed the door looking up.<br><br>He had come during the day since he figured tonight he would be busy, tough it was still early. He had to remind himself since he did not sleep other then when he must that others had a clock they stuck to he was glad he could tell it was around ten in the morning. He walked towards the complex that was hers on the map he had memorized before he left the cave ignoring all the people that were trying to be friendly, or to help him. He was here for a reason only after that maybe he would have time to be sociable.<br><br>This continues as Damian walks past the people walking into the Apartment complex as someone walks out, moving as if he belonged there still so hoping most will just ignore him as someone that should be there. He would find the stairs right where they are supposed to be, and walk all seven stories to get up to her floor enjoying the work out of a good walk up some stairs. When he gets to her room he is still fresh just warmed up a bit after all that climbing for later when he gets out into the streets. Of course the doors are nice and numbered for him, as he walks down the hallway quietly not interupting anyone as much as he can going to Steph's room, or at least the one she wrote down as her residence.<br><br>Damian knocks like the police, three quick raps on the door with enough force that one would think they are not kidding around. He would then wait, and if enough minutes pass there would be another. It would follow suit with three quick raps on the door.<br> <br>

:'''{{#var:1134|Stephanie Brown (1134)}} has posed:'''<br>Stephanie is kicked back on the touch, her feet up and relying on the ceiling fan to help keep her cool. The air conditioner works, but during the hottest part of day it can still be slightly more than comfortable in the apartment. But the fan is enough to make it quite bearable.<br><br>An ice pack sits nearby on the coffee table. She's been trying to get the shiner around her eye to go down, but it's about past the point of ice helping. It has helped though, one can tell it was there, but the worst of it was starting to face, and the edges had already turned back to a normal skin color.<br><br>The knock catches her by surprise. Dick was the only one who had been visiting her of late, and she thought he was going to be busy for awhile. She gets to her feet, only wincing a little. Her ribs were feeling better, and there were a lot of bruises on her torso, but the worst of the pain was done now.<br><br>The blonde girl walks over and checks the peephole. Her eyes widen a little in surprise, not someone she'd expected to show up at her place. She glances back at the somewhat untidy room, but nothing to be embarrassed about. She undoes the deadbolt and the chain and the second deadbolt, then opens up the door. "Hey Damian," she says, managing a soft smile. "Come in?" she offers, moving aside to let him in."<br> <br>

:'''{{#var:973|Damian Wayne (973)}} has posed:'''<br>Damian mearly nods, and enters holding his cylinder wrapped in paper in both hands moving into the room. He does look around a bit, and gives a nod though doesn't outwardly note on how messy or clean it was. He had someone who cleaned up the room when he let it go, so could not judge others. He turns looking at her serious as always quiet for a moment he looks her over to match the reports with the visual inspection, "I asume you know why I am here?" he asks seriously putting the canister on the coffee table or some room that is open. He is quiet a moment letting her guess, or assume he just waves a hand down for her to take a seat, and quietly unwraps the canister which once he takes off the paper is actually a few canisters stacked.<br><br>Finally he speaks again, "I assume you have a tea pot? Is it clean, or should I return to the car for mine." as yes he has his own in the car right now bringing it for this very reason. Still not answering why he is there though till finally he sighs. "I am here to go over what went wrong, and talk about the woman you fought. I had a talk with her before your encounter where no-one was killed now three bodies drop. I want to know what happened." he says looking down at the first canister he pops it open to smell the leaves inside of it. The smell may reach Steph, and while it does smell bad it does have a very strong smell of something unknown.. though woods like maybe.<br> <br>

:'''{{#var:1134|Stephanie Brown (1134)}} has posed:'''<br>Stephanie begins walking further back into the apartment once Damian is in and the door closed. At the question, she poses, "After-mission evaluation probably?" She pauses in the kitchen, watching as Damian unwraps the package and reveals the containers. "Ah, tea. Yep, I have a pot," she says, turning to look at her kitchen with a speculative look.<br><br>She does have a teapot. Of course she normally just microwaves a cup of water and drops a teabag in. Now where did that teapot go to? Stephanie moves over and starts opening one cupboard after another, before finally finding it in one under the counter.<br><br>Stephanie starts filling it with water, glancing briefly with a curious look at hearing Damian had talked with Stockholm. "She'd killed a guard before I got there," Stephanie says while the faucet runs. "Was going to kill a teller, which is when I went in. The other two were her own men. While I was fighting some of the others, one corrected her on my name when she called me Batgirl. And she shot him in the head. The other, while Cass and I were fighting - mostly Cass at that point - she blew the vault door with him standing close enough to the explosives it took him out," she explains. The teapot goes onto the stove.<br> <br>

:'''{{#var:973|Damian Wayne (973)}} has posed:'''<br>Damian nods, and listens quietly as he opens another container putting the tea-bag together by hand though quickly as if second nature. "I see.. It is too bad, I thought I was starting to get through to her though it was bound to happen. You going after her, or are the others going to go clean up?" he doesn't stop doing what he is doing only asks as if it were nothing, not accusing her of nothing. After the second bag is done he closes both containers moving them aside, and moves out the last one.<br><br>"The tea is a herbal mix I learned while at the League. It is not magic, though it does help heal dulling out the pain some." he doesn't go on for a moment opening up the third canister it just stinks real bad, though he smells it calmly before recaping it. "This.. will help the outside heal properly. Let it sit for an hour then remove it." he pushes it aside as well though turning. "We give these things to the children in the league so they can be brought in to the tough training. I only have one warning... Do not train after you drink the tea as you could further injure yourself." and with that he puts the three ontop of each other to make sure they are out of the way.<br><br>He could not delay it further, and he sighed again.. "Well you saved her, so there is that.. Though it didn't turn out all bad at least. If you let that lady beat you with only that many people though you need to work on your training." he shakes his head at that though continues quickly, "If it were someone else I would of even agreed with you, but do not think all criminals act the same." he glances at the table, "Jessica used to be a fed, worked on our side of the law. hates Bat ladies so prob knew you were coming." he sighs a bit with a shrug, "Could if of gone better.." he pauses, and looks at her then grins just a bit before looking serious again.<br><br>"You are alive, and that lady is alive. Next time try hitting them more is what Tim always says."<br> <br>

:'''{{#var:1134|Stephanie Brown (1134)}} has posed:'''<br>Stephanie listens to the instructions with the containers. She opens the third to sniff it. "Oh. My. Yes, won't be wearing that in public. I have enough problem making friends," she comments. "But, I mean, thank you," she tells Damian, giving him a little smile.<br><br>She gets a cup for the tea once it is ready. "I've gone over it a few times and... well, I don't know what I'd have done different on my entry. I didn't have angles on enough of the gunmen the way they were deployed. And my body armor is some older stuff, so I had to be more defensive, not sure what kind of rounds they had."<br><br>Stephanie moves to sit down in the chair at the kitchen table, moving with a little grimace. "I haven't thought much about it yet, to be honest. Was told to take it easy and heal first, or else I'd be trying to find a lead." She leaves out the threat Alfred levelled after she'd left his medical care to go fill out financial aid paperwork at the University. Who'd have thought Alfred could be so cross!?<br> <br>

:'''{{#var:973|Damian Wayne (973)}} has posed:'''<br>Damian looks at her on her friend comment, but lets it go as she does thank him for the things so most likely will use them. He is quiet as she explains even as she returns with her tea though he stands again as he re-looks over the place. "You will run into her again, perhaps use that as reminder it is not just what we have done, but what we will do." he adds giving her a nod. He glances over at her, "I am sure the Bat will take care of it sooner or later especially since people were killed. I just wish she listened to my warning." though turns back again.<br><br>"Well your tea is delivered, and we have gone over the mission. Have you worked things out with Tim yet? I remember that being an issue." he asks almost half-interest as he figured by this time they had worked something out so what happened didn't again. He shrugs, "I have been undercover for the Shredder thing. I just heard about this as I read the report."<br> <br>

:'''{{#var:1134|Stephanie Brown (1134)}} has posed:'''<br>Stephanie Brown tells Damian, "Haven't had a chance to go over it with Tim. He's got a mission going on though, mainly I've just been out of touch completely. Just resting as much as I can. School is starting up again soon as I want these bruises gone before I'm having to walk campus. As it is I had to go to the Registrar's office. I got asked four times, in differing degrees of subtlety - or not! - whether a guy was beating me."<br><br>Stephanie sighs. "In actuality it was three, but I doubted that would take any of the conversations a direction I wanted them to go." She lets out a breath. "So how are you doing? I knew you'd been off working on something, but not what. How has it been going," she says of the mention of Shredder.<br> <br>

:'''{{#var:973|Damian Wayne (973)}} has posed:'''<br>Damian nods, "He is working with his new team, but his view can be unique do not underestimate it." he answers waving off the topic of Tim further for now. He gives a short hard laugh at the school thing, "It is good to learn though I believe they would be more efficent with a cain now and then." in his mind pain associated with memory so to learn properly there needed to be pain as well. These schools were soft, hand holding institutions that he did not see the point of anymore.<br><br>He turns to face her falling out of his thoughts, "It is going well.. I am working to stew chaos within, and soon he will be chasing ghosts so much he forgets about us." he turns a bit that cold look back in his eyes as he looks away. "After this I am going to find Julia if you have not by then. Heal for you have time, but then you might want to go get her before I do." he had given her a chance and she had turned away from it. His next visit would not be so kind. He doesn't talk more about the Shredder thing, and scolds himself for sayig anything in the first place as he did not want her to get dragged into it so just changes the topic, "Oh I ran into walking human sized Turtles, and a Vampire.. seems we are not alone in Gotham."<br> <br>

:'''{{#var:1134|Stephanie Brown (1134)}} has posed:'''<br>Stephanie looks over across the room away from Damian, and he'd probably pick up the micro-expressions that suggest animosity in the blonde as the topic comes back to Stockholm. Not something she's just ignoring, clearly, if not focusing on it yet. "I need to investigate her more, I know the gist but not enough to know what she might have been going after in the vault," Stephanie says.<br><br>Stephanie's eyebrows go up. "Walking... human sized... turtles?" she repeats. "Like are they as slow walking as the normal ones are?" she asks curiously, trying to get her mind around this. "Vampires... there's one that's kind of allied with us, dealing with some werewolves. Lycans, she called them, that were recruiting in Gotham. Talked to Bruce if I remember right," she says.<br> <br>

:'''{{#var:973|Damian Wayne (973)}} has posed:'''<br>Damian nods, "I would if I were you, whatever your planning I bet she knows. She has a way of getting into your head though keep in mind it is just a copy." he says slowly just moving to look out the window down as it reminded him of being out on patrol a bit, "At least that is what I got from her when we talked, she tried to shadow me might of been decient at it, though I would still put her at entry level." of course they didn't fight so it was a guess on what he had saw of her.<br><br>He keeps looking out there, "Yea that is what they were doing the vampires, hunting down werewolves in the sewers at night. They really need to get a better cover story you could see their teeth poking out." he sighs to himself closing the window to turn. "And no, they were fast there were four of them, but I took one down as a test." he shakes his head, "He moved like I move.. Well different, but simmular.. It is hard to explain." adding a shrug to it.<br> <br>

:'''{{#var:1134|Stephanie Brown (1134)}} has posed:'''<br>Stephanie shakes her head. "Werewolves and vampires. Such a strange world we live in," she says. She finishes drinking the tea and then rises. "I should probably go get some sleep. Alfred keeps saying that's the best thing I can do for an injury."<br><br>She gives Damian a soft smile. "Thank you for bringing these buy. I really do appreciate it," she tells Damian. "Good luck with Shredder. Even banged up, if you guys need me I'll be out there," she says. Even if it means Alfred chews her out.<br><br>Again.<br> <br>

:'''{{#var:973|Damian Wayne (973)}} has posed:'''<br>Damian turns and nods to her in a good-bye like fashion turning to move to the door. He opens it then stops turning to look at her, "I.. do not need your help." and turns leaving the room as quietly as he entered shutting the door behind him. Of course in his way he ment for her to get better, and he did prefer to work alone though he thought about it, and just sighed to himself walking away from the room. He would return to the cave shortly before he left again.<br><br>This time he was flying off to go find said Turtles hoping to talk to their leader, and set up his trap for Shredder. No he did not need her help this time, as he was making enough trouble on his own. With that Damian just drives away with a cold smirk thinking about his next step.<br> <br>
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