Chapter 73 - [AT] My Accent Was Great...

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We are both walking up the flight of stairs to the rooftop in silence with Barbara still being embarrassed about me teasing her and me enjoying her being fl.u.s.tered when out of nowhere she brings out a topic that I was definitely not expecting. "Here, this is yours right? You left it in the library when you ran out all freaked the other day." Reaching into her pocket she pulls out a very familiar memory stick which she proceeds to hand over to me and after looking it over and feeling the weight in my hand I can confirm that this is my special memory stick which I seem to have forgotten after the confusing merging, now that it's served its use I wonder what was left on it, I hope nothing but I can't say for definite.

"Thanks, you didn't look in it did you? Because that would be a breach of privacy you know." I ask her trying to judge what she's seen on it because there's no way that a naturally curious person like Barbara wouldn't look in it and judging by the fact that she tensed up when I asked her she has definitely looked into it. "I mean, you rushed off so fast and I didn't know who it might belong to so I had to look in it to find its owner but there doesn't actually seem to be anything on it so I came to the conclusion that it was yours and you were gonna use it but fell asleep before you could actually do so." She tries to explain her reasoning but I'm just so happy that there was nothing left on the memory stick after it was used, still I should probably destroy this as there's probably some magical trace or signature on it, I don't f.u.c.kin' know how magic works all I know is that it's bullshit.

I'm also glad that this wasn't the Catwoman video memory stick, good times good memories, I wouldn't know what I would do if she saw that (it's kind of incriminating because it's a s.e.xtape of me with a criminal) but now that I think of it it's still back at the apartment in my backpack and I've been so busy that I completely forgot about it, I should probably make sure that that's secure so no one will be able to view it (wouldn't want Batman to see it and get listed by it or something, he's kinda hard to predict that guy), it's decided first thing I will be doing when I get home is encrypting that memory stick and then destroying my used magic memory stick just to make sure that nothing can be tracked back to me.

"Come on, we're here." Barbara tells me and I realise that we've reached the end of the stairs and no there's is just a rooftop entrance in front of us which will lead to Jim Gordon on his smoking break which will hopefully make him more relaxed for what I'm about to do because he will definitely be a bit angry at me, following Barbara after she opens the door and goes through first before holding the door open for me behind her we enter into the rooftop and immediately I take notice of the main feature of the rooftop, mainly the giant projection lamp that has what seems to be the silhouetted shape of a bat on it presumably to cast it across the sky of Gotham City.

From what I've researched in this universe Commissioner James Gordon incorporated it as a means of contacting Batman whenever he was needed and it was placed on the roof of the headquarters of the Gotham City Police Department though as Batman's existence is not officially recognised by the Gotham City authorities the 'so-called' Bat-Signal is explained as a method of using the 'urban legend' of the Batman to terrify the criminal class of Gotham, this is mainly because the Justice League has not been founded yet and Batman hasn't fully come into the light and been accepted as a superhero so Gordon has to use this excuse in order to cooperate with the Batman but after the Justice League becomes a thing there should be a lot less secrecy around him.

Looking past the Bat-Signal I can see a man with red-brown hair with some strands of grey standing at the edge of the rooftop smoking a cigarette while looking down at the dark streets of Gotham, he is wearing worn black shoes showing that he runs in them quite a lot, a pair of plain brown slacks, a plain white shirt with a loosened red tie around the neck and on top of that he he has on a long brown trench coat that has definitely seen some use, he turns around when he hears the rooftop door open and I can finally see the spectacles on his face as well as his bushy moustache and his uneven stubble confirming for me that this is definitely the Commissioner James Gordon who I am looking for and who is going to help me finally get justice for my suffering at the hands of those two monsters.

I start to mentally review all the information I have on him in my mind, James Gordon is the Commissioner of the Gotham City Police Department and one of the Batman's greatest allies but he is a controversial political figure in Gotham City because of his willingness to work alongside a vigilante, he is one of the most honest police officers in the service and on occasion struggling against corruption from within. He frequently works outside the law when necessary, although he maintains a strict and unbreakable moral code because of which he has made it clear many times that he only tolerates Batman because they follow the same code and if he ever crossed the line Gordon would not hesitate to bring him down. They share many rooftop meetings on top of the Gotham City Police Departments Headquarters going over cases with Gordon supplying information to the dark knight, he contacts the Batman for their regular meetings using the Bat-Signal which shines a bright bat symbol into the night skies.

His daughter is Barbara Gordon better known as Batgirl (all the meta-knowledge I used or had on people I interacted with stayed thankfully so I at least know her alter identity which I'm great full for), the hot red headed girl with glasses who brought me here that is currently marching up to her father with quite the frightening frown on her face. "Dad, how many times have I told you to stop smoking? You know that it's bad for you." She finally stops in front of her father with her hands on her h.i.p.s, I followed closely behind her but now I'm just standing awkwardly of to the side waiting for them to finish their family moment.

"I know sweetie but you know I only smoke now when I'm stressed which is mainly because I'm stuck on a case, I've been trying to cut down like you wanted." Barbara is still frowning even though Gordon is trying to appease her but I get the feeling that she's frowning more because her fathers stuck on a case and not because of the smoking. "Well, what case is it?" She asks proving my theory correct. "It's the recent robbery at Wayne Manor, the thief stole some valuables from a safe in Wayne's study and then trashed the place after which they left but not before knocking out Wayne's old butler Alfred Pennyworth, thankfully the old man's alright but we don't have many clues in this case."

Oh shit, he's talking about the burglary I did with Catwoman at Bruce Wayne's mansion, well at least this will let me know what he's got so far. "Well, what clues do you have?" Barbara asks her father, I would also like to know incase I might need to make a quick getaway in the future. "We have practically nothing, for some reason Wayne only has cameras on the outside of the building and not on the inside so we don't have much footage of the thief, and what footage we do have is too dark and blurry to make anything out, apart from that all we have is Mr. Pennyworth's description of his assailant which is basically that he has dark tanned skin as the rest of his body was pretty much covered up. He also told us that they had a southern accent but the butler reckons that it was fake and not the perpetrators real accent, so we've pretty much hit a dead end for the case though Wayne doesn't seem to care too much if we solve it, that kind butler is wasted on a playboy like him."

What the hell, my accent wasn't so bad, I was really proud of that accent. "Barbara, who's the tag along you've brought with ya and why've ya brought him to me?" Gordon ruffly grumbles out looking at me with unfriendly eyes, this guy definitely doesn't like me hanging out with his daughter...

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