good god, she doesn’t miss the SLIP. the kid’s about as obvious as the GAPING HOLE in gotham’s legal sector. the nervousness that trespasses over his features. she has to force back a more than amused ROLL OF HER EYES. he’s too easy to read, TRUST HER. she’s had plenty of experience. they’d made the awful, AWFUL, AWFUL mistake of trying SECRET SANTA one year. ( did she mention how AWFUL it was ??? ) it took babs less than fifteen words, && a grand total of two minutes alone with him to fish out who got her. never again. NEVER AGAIN. it’s pointless when certain PEOPLE just use it as an excuse to anonymously give inappropriate gifts. ( there was broken objects. damaged ribs. yelling. )
❛ oh great ! just what i wanna be doing on a thursday afternoon. shove over, i’ll watch with you, bird boy ❜ she quips, much too his horror, far too enthusiastic. purely to gross him. she could shove him over if she wanted. but what’s the point when that chair of hers, that he’s so happily gotten all COMFY in, has WHEELS. hence the reason the boy wonder has suddenly found himself SLIDING towards the other side of the room. ❛ porn, my ass, ❜ she mutters. yea, there’s a phrase she could’ve happily gone without saying in her lifetime. ❛ you’re using my arkham surveillance feed, drake ? — — why ? ❜ big sister voice activated.
WHOOP. She shoves Tim’s chair (her chair, whatever) over into a corner of the dark room. He loses the outline of his own body, but Barbara shines brightly in the computer’s blue light.
He’s faster than she gives him credit for, though. Tim palms the thumbdrive he had hidden from her even as she questions him. Really, he could leave now. Again, he would risk the beating of two lifetimes if she finds out he stole intel from her, but he could. He’s just not stupid.
“That’s gross, Barb! What if I had been watching porn?”
Tim easily sidesteps the question. They’re both Bat-trained, no matter how much she likes to pretend he’s still a little boy. He can evade with the best of them. Not even Big Sister voice could rattle him.
“You know, the Big Guy was asking for you.”
Just going to drop that interesting little tid bit of information, hang it out to dry...