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[detectivewonder]

WHEN: New Years' Night.
WHERE: Miscellaneous rooftops and alleyways.
WHAT: Tim goes on patrol.
WHO: Red Robin, Artemis, and anyone else who prowls the roofs at night is welcome to join.

The snow was starting to melt. It made running around on the rooftops a little warmer, but a lot more dangerous. That was probably part of the appeal. Tim still made nightly patrols, but they'd gotten shorter and shorter for months now -- after Jason left; after Cass vanished... crime wasn't high enough on the island for there to be much of a point. Maybe once a week, he stopped a mugging, but other than that, it had become just a quick, hour-long prowl, exercise and training and looking out to see if anything newer and stranger had taken over the island.

For the last week, he'd been out three or four hours every night. It wasn't that he needed to clear his head. Or at least, it wasn't just that.

There was someone else out here too -- and whoever it was didn't answer on the radio frequencies he shared with Steph and Torchwood. So every night, he made another try at this little game of cat and mouse -- bat and bird? -- trying to get a closer look.

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[shes-traught.livejournal.com]

"Everyone's entitled to a secret identity," she says. "But I guess you know theirs already after all."

She breathes a sigh of relief. "That's - actually really reassuring. If you were from my future, and - I wasn't there." She shrugs, uneasy. "Well, it's not the best thought."

Alternate universes, though, that's a weird one. There was an incident once that was rumored to be the Justice League from an alternate universe, but nobody ever figured out much about it and the Justice League didn't really talk about it. Alternate universes were a whole shenanigan-level up from the stuff her team dealt with.

Deals with. The stuff they deal with, present tense. "Okay, so, alternate universes. With that more or less out of the way - you said you work with someone, here? I don't need names, but I am interested in what you can safely tell me."

[detectivewonder]

"Call it a group of concerned citizens, pooling resources. It doesn't hold a candle to the Justice League, but the island's Police Department is... compromised, at best. Their agenda is keeping things calm and under control. Ours is figuring out what's going on and keeping everyone safe. A database, a central HQ for storage and staging, a very slowly expanding bank account and a few people to network with... that's all we've got."

[shes-traught.livejournal.com]

"You can count on whatever contribution I can offer," Artemis says. "It looks like I've got two jobs now and I may not need all the money for building my stuff if business is as slow as it seems. If it involves trying to get out of this place and back home, I'm in. There was - stuff back home. I have to get back. The sooner the better."

[detectivewonder]

"I understand."

After a moment, he pulls his hood back on.

"Well. One mystery solved. How about a night-time tour of the island? I'd call it a patrol, but..."

[shes-traught.livejournal.com]

"But there's nothing to beat up." Artemis shrugs. "I guess I should be thankful for that, but it's a weird idea."

She pulls out her crossbow and checks to make sure it's loaded with a grapple line.

"But yeah, that sounds fun. After you."