Barbara Gordon, Stephanie Brown, Cassandra Cain

🦇 || Long night

SUMMARY:

The three Batgirls have had a rough night, now they just chillin.

INTRO:

4:53 am.

The city sleeps, the crime crawls back into its den, as night slowly creeps to an end, reign of bat-terror draws to its conclusion, for tonight. Tomorrow it will continue - the crusade that sees no end, yet for this night it is time to wrap up...

Who doesn't sleep though? Oracle, the all-seeing eye of Batman, the vigil, the ever-looming shadow that hears every deal stroke and every lie muttered, the... caffeinated ginger in a wheelchair - as Jason neatly put it once, safe to say he didn't try to exercise his eloquence on Barbara again.

Oracle takes off her glasses, to rub her eyes, God, she's been staring into the holoscreens all night for... who knows how long. And just as Barbara thinks 'okay, time to go to bed' (at almost 5 am), the screens light up:

SPOILER STATUS UPDATE: CLOCKTOWER

ORPHAN STATUS UPDATE: CLOCKTOWER

"Wha-..." Barbara doesn't even have time to put her glasses back on, as soon as she whips her red head around, yep, there's two girl-shaped shadows staring down from the roof hatch. Girls. "... What are you two-?"

"Can we hop in?" Spoiler asks and without waiting for response jumps down the hatch and neatly lands on the hardwood floor.

Orphan shrugs her shoulders and follows the example set.

'Kids these days' - Barbara almost says, but manages to restrain herself, barely, just because it would sound too much like her father. Confused, Oracle grabs her glasses back, and yep, either those are very realistic insomnia hallucinations or Steph and Cass just crashed her 'party'! Why though? The thought makes the ginger feel not like her dad, but like a mom to two unruly shitheads (which isn't that far from truth).

"Uuuugh, I'm beat!" Stephanie exclaims drastically, yanking her hood off, and crashes into the first chair she can find. Cassandra, meanwhile, is looking stupidly hilarious pulling her mask off, literally pulling. "Hey there, Babs!"

And Babs just stares at the spectacle for a moment. It's not often the Fam crashes into the Clocktower, really, when night's off, they all go crawling back to the Batcave, not here.

"... Hey Steph. Hey Cass." Orphan pull