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[twiceahero]

It's quiet in Gotham, it's quiet everywhere else too. Which means that Babs can either sleep, or work on a personal project. Sleep, right.

Barbara Gordon has done a lot of really weird things in her lifetime, but this has got to rank up there. She's working on an adaptive infiltration algorithm. A sort of virus that can crack through high-security data networks.

She plans on using this one against her own systems. In the future.

Turns out that it's a lot harder to try to hack the systems you think you'll have in a couple of years than one might think. Especially when you know that your future self is going to be running security.

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[alwaysroomforhope]

Steph leans over to peer at it, frowning.

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It's just a camera from a convenience store focused on an apartment on the south side. Just normal people, living a normal life. There isn't anything special about it at all, really. Which is precisely why Barbara chose this view.

[alwaysroomforhope]

It takes Steph a moment to get it, but she does.

"Yeah -- well, duh, Babs, right?"

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"Yeah." Barbara's voice is serious, "And this is what matters, Steph. Not whether Batman approves of you or not. He didn't approve of me, but it never mattered."

[alwaysroomforhope]

Steph nods obediently.

"I get it, I swear."

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"Good." Barbara's always been good at controlling her tone of voice, and being Oracle has only made her better. That's why she doesn't sound as exasperated as she feels.

She starts to say something else when the hovering map of Gotham flashes once and one of the distrcts lights red. "43rd and Greene. Armed robbery in progress." She turns to Steph, "Looks like things are less boring."

"R, we've got a robbery in progress at 43rd and Greene. I'm sending Spoiler. She'll meet you there."

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All thoughts of whys and wherefores are promptly gone from Steph's head.

"Sweet! See ya, O!"

She yanks her hood back on, beaming, and races out.

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Barbara takes a moment to sigh as she looks sadly after the eggplant-clad girl. So much for the easy way. And plan B is a lot messier.