This story utilizes characters owned by DC/Time Warner/Warner Bros., and
does so strictly in a not-for-profit, parody fanfic usage meant for the
enjoyment of comic fans everywhere.
Characters in this story are loosely based upon the Batman Adventures
animated show, since in the comics Batman, Robin, Batgirl and Nightwing
do not appear or work together. Consider it a sort of Elseworlds type story,
not really set in any of the normal Bat realms. My imagination does not
necessarily work within the usual DC Comics realm.
Mark 2 Batgirl - Who, me?
by Steve Zink
part 1
Ever since donning the mantle of the bat a couple of years earlier to take
Batman's place at a rally in support of her arrested father, Police
Commissioner Gordon, Barbara had walked a tightrope in keeping him from
finding out her alter ego. The prematurely grey Detective was cleared of the
charges and brought back into action, which he relished. James Gordon may
have been in his mid-forties, but he had the physique of a fit twenty year old.
He lived for the action of working the streets with his force.
Barbara Gordon was a petite redhead with a body to die for. It gave her
father great pleasure to see the way she had trained her body to be fit and well
toned. Her actual physique had probably been inherited from her late
mother, who'd died while Barbara was still a preschooler. The small frame
that Barbara was endowed with was proportioned perfectly, with a tiny waist
and nicely rounded hips. It wasn't until she reached her junior year in high
school that puberty struck Barbara hard, and it was at that time that her chest
started to blossom to match the rest of her gorgeous body. By the time she'd
become Batgirl, Barbara was blessed with a 40D-22-36 figure, and her
costume showed it off nicely.
Barbara had great difficulty sneaking in and out of her ground floor
bedroom window at the Gordon residence. Her father wasn't deaf, and odd
noises would lead him to her activities right away. Batgirl had to forgo some
missions, merely because Barbara couldn't get away from her dad. Once she
finished school and got a job at the library, Babs started working on
persuading her father to let her move into her own domicile. Batgirl had to
bide her time, and watch her moves very carefully.
Finally getting her own apartment helped, since she no longer had to live
under the same roof as her dad, but Batgirl now had the problem of getting
in and out of her apartment without being discovered by her neighbors. One
of the bedrooms in her two bedroom flat was being utilized as her computer
center, from which she could tap into any system in Gotham City, or beyond
if necessary. The other bedroom had more than just her bed in it.
The large walk-in closet in her bedroom had a huge unused space behind
it, and very conveniently, a ladder leading to ground level was only twelve
feet to the right along the inner wall. Barbara had a working permit drawn
up in her computer, with all the appropriate signatures in place, to have a
large enclosed room built in the blank area behind her closet. The
construction team were given the impression that the cute young redhead
merely wanted a bigger closet in which to store her seemingly huge
wardrobe. Little did they know just how large Barbara Gordon's wardrobe
actually was.
When the construction work was finished, Barbara herself rebuilt a thin
wall at the back of her closet, in place of the one torn down by the workers.
A carefully hidden doorway was built into the right side of the wall, in the
back right corner of the actual closet. The door, when opened, would lead to
Barbara's miniature Batcave. A large rack was assembled upon which her
costumes could be hung, a dressing table with a brightly lit mirror on the
wall above it was against the outer wall, and a shelving unit was put in next
to the costume rack for her wig and cowl collection. Batman and Robin
weren't the only disguise specialists in Gotham City. Thanks to her taps into
the Bat Computer, Babs knew that their disguises went well beyond
costumes, however. She knew the identities of all the members of the Bat
team, and had been careful to make sure they did not know hers. She'd been
thinking about that as she continued to worry about her dad and his
suspicions.
The hardest part of the construction for her hideaway had been the skinny
walkway Barbara had to install leading from the doorway in the side of her
unit along the wall to the ladder. She put this walkway on hinges so that
when it wasn't in use, it could be folded up and not lead any straying eyes
directly from the ladder to her room.
Of course, the main reason that Barbara selected the complex into which
she'd moved was that there was a lockable shed big enough for her
motorcycle tucked away in the blank space on ground level. All she would
have to do when Batgirl was needed, was to get into her little lair, change
into her costume, open the door and lower the walkway, make her way to the
ladder, then climb down two stories and walk forty feet to the concrete shed.
There was a restricted access alleyway behind the complex, which had a thin
facing between it and the blank space, so a quick action set of doors was built
for the Batcycle to go in and out of.
James Gordon did not become a Detective, and then eventually Police
Commissioner, by being an unobservant fool. Even with his daughter out
from under his wing, he still lived close enough to her to see her for dinner
and other affairs on a pretty regular basis. He did wonder every now and
then if Barbara was ever going to replace him with a younger man with
which to spend her time, but so far she seemed to be a loner. What got his
suspicions started long ago, therefore continued for the time being. Ever
since Batgirl had come on the scene, he had noticed a distinct pattern of
disappearances of his daughter.
Every now and then, Jim would call to invite Barbara out for dinner, or to
go to a movie, and she wouldn't be there to take the call. At the same time, it
usually turned out that some kind of action had taken place involving Batman
and Robin, along with their female ally, Batgirl. When Barbara started to
notice a distinct pattern of behavior on her dad's part which showed a deep
suspicion of her activities, she started to get a bit worried. What could she do
to take him off the track?
********************
Bruce Wayne was what many young ladies in Gotham City, nay, all of
New York, well, maybe even the whole country, thought to be the ultimate
catch. He was still young at 35 with a vital heart, and even more enticing, he
was a multimillionaire with every chance of eventually becoming a
billionaire. He had a perfectly fit body with neatly trimmed black hair that
many an Olympic athlete would crave, and it is easy to see why Bruce was a
girl magnet. He had to put on the false front of being a playboy dallying
with many young women to keep any serious women from getting close to
the truth of his existence.
The side of Bruce Wayne's life that had to be hidden from his playboy
admirers was his dark side, the bane of villains everywhere, Batman. When
Bruce was a youngster, his parents had been shot in front of his face by a
young hoodlum who would also show up later to give him trouble. Bruce
was raised after their deaths by the family butler, Alfred Pennyworth, who
ended up being more of an elder adviser than a butler to the young Mr.
Wayne. Throughout his early years of private schooling and tutoring, Bruce
had been haunted by the vision of his parents being gunned down in front of
him. As he matured, he vowed to put his inherited money, his acquired
intelligence, and his hard earned muscular body into some way of avenging
them. Becoming Batman gave Bruce the way.
For the first year or so of his activities as Batman, Bruce was a loner. He
took in Dick Grayson, a young acrobat who'd lost his parents to a contrived
accident under the Big Top, almost out of pity in seeing how young Dick was
going to go through the same hell he had. It was inevitable that Dick would
eventually find out about the activities taking place below the mansion in
which he lived, and soon Robin joined Batman in operating from the
Batcave.
Dick Grayson eventually had to move away from the Wayne estate to go to
University, and it was shortly after graduation that Dick adopted a newer,
more adult identity, Nightwing. He stayed independent from Batman and
the Wayne estate, operating both solo and occasionally in partnership with his
old friend in fighting crime.
When Dick left the Mansion, Batman was once again operating alone. This
did not last for long, though, as a young lad named Jason Todd stumbled
across the Batcave one day, and almost by default, was then trained by
Batman to be the new Robin. Jason's days as Robin did not last long,
though. He fell into the hands of the Joker, the brilliant maniac who at one
time earlier in his life had shot a couple of adults in an alleyway, but had to
leave the kid behind alive so he could escape. Joker had no respect for human
life at all, and out of sheer joy at tormenting Batman, placed the young Mr.
Todd in a shack that he then blew up.
Grief and a feeling of personal responsibility for Jason's death kept Batman
as a solo operator again. Soon after Nightwing came into action in Gotham
City however, a young computer hacker named Tim Drake accidentally made
his way into the computer in the Batcave. In short order, Batman once again
had another Robin to operate at his side. The most interesting point about
this was that Tim was so young, only 14 when he first donned the red and
green costume, and Bruce was getting so much older. The age acquired
wisdom and worldly ways of Bruce became a much-needed inspiration for
the youngster. Tim was an overachieving font of energy that absorbed all he
could from Bruce, and at the same time gave Bruce a younger, more alive
viewpoint on matters.
So now, whenever the Bat Signal played upon the skies over Gotham
City, there were usually at least two heroes answering the call. Robin
sometimes could not get away from his home because of homework or some
other restriction caused by his parents, but usually made his way out of the
house whenever the alert came from Batman. Sometimes Nightwing
happened upon the scene, either filling in for the missing Robin or
occasionally making it a three man operation. All three were more than a bit
astounded to find that they eventually had a fourth partner, but it most
definitely wasn't a four MAN operation.
Batgirl was looked upon by all three as a hindrance at first, just a well-built
young woman in a costume, trying to butt in. Her intelligence, agility and
eagerness to help, along with her good looks, of course, soon made Batgirl
an accepted member of the Bat team. She proved her worth the most when
she was working with Batman and/or any of the other guys when their
opponent was Catwoman, Poison Ivy, or any one of the other villainesses
that frequented the bowels of Gotham. It sometimes took the insight of a
woman to defeat the opposing woman, and Batgirl proved to have an
uncanny ability to work out what the bad girls were up to. She almost
seemed to be able to think the way they did.
********************
Since both Barbara and Tim were computer hackers, it followed that
eventually the two would meet up in the line of their non-Bat work. Robin
eventually gained the confidence of Batgirl, and the two seemed to share
something that drew grins occasionally during before and after battle
sessions. Though Barbara was ten years older than Tim, the two worked
together easily. It must have been the similar energy levels of their bodies
that gave them the ability to stay at it, even when Batman was starting to
show signs of fatigue in long engagements. Even Nightwing, who started to
view Batgirl as a lot more than a fellow crimefighter, started to tire before the
seemingly similarly aged Batgirl, and the young Robin. Perhaps Mr.
Grayson was partaking of a bit too much beer?
Barbara was on the computer one day, building up a database on
supposedly secret 'black' weapons being developed for close-in combat,
when Tim hacked in with his traditional, Yo! Babs grinned, and put the data
building on hold. When Tim had her undivided attention, she zapped back a
Hey! to him. Thirty minutes of idle computer chat then took place, with
Barbara laughing out loud and her end and Tim having to stifle the laughter
at his house so that his parents didn't come checking on him. In the middle
of one guffaw, Babs had an inspiration, and waited for Tim to finish his
latest missive. She then asked him to meet her later that night on top of the
Waynetech Building, presuming that the criminal element would cooperate by
staying inactive. Tim made the presumption that she meant in costume,
because of the location, and Barbara got yet another chuckle.
Barbara was in luck that night, as the Bat Signal stayed dark and no alarms
were sounding anywhere in the city. When Robin bounded into view,
Batgirl raised her yellow gloved right hand to high five him. After
exchanging a few more ribald comments, Batgirl took Robin by his shoulders
and said, "Hold on, Tim. I asked you to meet me here because I have a
special favor to ask. I did not trust even our secure computer lines for this.
Let's sit down." An equipment locker on the roof provided a bench, and the
two crime fighters took a seat.
"Tim," smiled Barbara, "I know that you and Batman must have made a
breakthrough in some high tech disguises during the past year. I even found
references in the Bat Computer to Batman being able to go undercover as a
notorious, well known madam at a brothel once. Did you, yourself, ever do
any disguises as a female?
Robin grinned wide. "A year ago, after I hit 16 and Batman figured I was
finally *mature* enough, he let me join him in undercover work," he told
her. "You know that time that Batman was the brothel madam? Well, I was
one her young whores! I really shouldn't be telling you this, but this
scientist dude at the Wayne Institute made a breakthrough discovery in
molecular memory."
"You're kidding!" Batgirl gasped. "You were able to pass yourself off as
a prostitute? How? And what's molecular memory?" With all her work in
tapping computers, Barbara had never heard of the term.
"I never got to the point where any sex was involved," Robin replied. "I'm
not really sure I understand it, but in the Batcave, we have the prototype
machine. It kind of maps a person's body down to the atomic level. It will
only read living tissue, along with the not quite living stuff like hair, skin
and fingernails, and with this data in memory, it can take another person and
transform them into a perfect copy, as long as they have a similar mass. I
became the identical twin of a teenaged whore, and Batman, the Madam.
The originals were kept sedated at the Batcave. We found out which
politicians were behind the vice and drugs in Gotham." Tim chuckled, then
added, "I wish I had kept some of the pictures to show you. I got a kick out
of them, but Batman was too embarrassed to hear of it!" Barbara shook
her head, saying, "Don't worry, Tim. I'll take your word for it. Since you
have done a female part, at least once anyway, how would you like to do it
one more time?"
Tim's eyes went wide. "Barbara, what do you have in mind? I didn't have
any problem in working with Batman before, but if I have to go out on my
own, I'm not so sure." He reached with his left hand, and placed it on her
right thigh. "Would I be working with you?"
"No, Tim," she said, "at least, not directly. I have a problem with my dad
suspecting that Batgirl might be a part of his family. I'm going to try and
show him that his suspicions are groundless. This invention sounds like a
godsend! How would you like to be Batgirl tomorrow evening, while I'm at
dinner with my dad?"
"Gee, I don't know, Babs. Trying to fill in as you might call for a pretty
hefty acting job," he told her. "Before, I had Batman with me, and was in a
reasonably controlled situation. What you're calling for sounds a bit more
hairy!" He looked more than a little bit scared.
"Oh, come on, Tim!" Batgirl argued. "You could do it, I know you could.
You've got the balls, well, maybe for tomorrow night you wouldn't want
them, hee, hee," she giggled, "you know, you have the ability to pull this off
without a hitch! It's only for a couple of hours!"
A revelation suddenly dawned upon the young man. "Hey, we could do
this! You and I are almost the same height, and I'm not a whole lot bigger
than you in physical proportions. But then," Tim snickered, "you do seem
to be a bit bigger than me in a few dimensions!" He was thinking, how
would it feel to have *boobs* like Batgirl's, and actually *be* the famous
crime fighter?
Babs said between laughs, "I don't want even Batman to know what's
going down, so is there any way you could sneak me into the Batcave to take
my image, or whatever?"
Tim was now getting excited. It appealed to his adventurous spirit. "Not a
problem, Barbara. Batman is out of town for a few days, on some kind of
mission with the JLA. We can go right now! I'd have to blindfold you,
though, 'til we get into the cave."
"That's great! I was worried that I'd have to scrounge up some yellow
boots or get a custom set made in your size, but it looks like you'll be the
same size as me. And since you've had experience in heels, I guess you
won't have any problem in these boots," she told him as she lifted her own
right foot, which had a four inch spike heel projecting from it.
Tim laughed, "Just don't tell my folks!"
Soon they were in the Batcave. Tim had alerted Alfred while they were on
the way that he was going to do some research, so the caretaker was not
alarmed when he saw the indications of activity down below. "That boy,"
he thought. "No matter what hour, always trying to learn more. Master
Bruce was never this enthusiastic!"
Babs looked around in awe after the strap was removed from her eyes.
Though she'd heard tales and seen computer information, she'd never before
witnessed with her own eyes the marvels of modern technology hidden away
there. She could see where Bruce Wayne spent his millions. After a brief
tour, Tim led her to the machine. He went around to the operator console as
she stripped out of her costume, wishing he had a monitor to watch. Feeling
just a bit queasy, Barbara stepped under the scanner and felt a tingle that
seemed to penetrate every fiber of her being. Tim then read the dials.
"It will work!" he called out. "Our masses are close enough, and the
machine can now make a copy of you." Barbara knew now how pointless it
was to worry about her nudity with a person that would soon share her
body, and just walked right around the unit to peck Tim with a light kiss.
He blustered, but then looking over her closely, thought it would be weird;
tomorrow, he would actually *be* Batgirl! After putting her costume
back on, Barbara handed Tim a sack which she'd filled at her apartment
before they went to the Batcave. "Here, Tim, this is something for you to
wear tomorrow. Dress as best you can in these. Tomorrow after school, get
to the Batcave to make your transformation, then come to my apartment.
Find some way to clear it with your dad to be out tomorrow night."
"Okay, Barbara. I think I can work up some lame excuse like a club meeting
or something. I've had a lot of experience in coming up with excuses for
being out of the house!" he told her.
"I can't wait, Barb! Watch for me!"
part 2
Barbara made quick time in getting back to her apartment. She was very
nervous, hoping she was doing the right thing and not getting Tim into any
trouble. She decided to take a quick drive to nowhere, thinking it might relax
her. One lightning fast change from black spandex to a blue cotton pullover
over figure hugging jeans later, Babs was a good looking young woman
instead of a costumed crime fighter. She brushed out her hair after pulling
off the wig, and tied some sneakers onto her feet. Emerging from the door
in the back of her closet, she grabbed a light jacket to ward off the chill
setting in as the night developed.
Driving almost on reflex, Barbara just meandered about. On an impulse,
she made a turn and somehow found herself in an unfamiliar section of the
city. Her car approached a shoe store with an empty parking lot, and
something made her want to stop there. When she entered the otherwise
empty shop, the shoe clerk smiled at her.
"Miss Gordon, isn't it?"
"How did you know my name?" she asked, puzzled.
He laughed. "Your picture has been in the papers, hasn't it?"
She shrugged. That had to be it. She'd been at her father's side during a
number of awards ceremonies. Babs then caught sight of the footwear.
Great, sexy looking footwear. Scanning the arrayed pairs of shoes and
boots, she muttered to herself, "Geez, now I know where Catwoman gets
her boots. Look at these things..." She was drawn to one pair in particular -
- an attractive pair of patent red vinyl boots with what looked like at least six
inch stiletto heels. She lifted one to inspect it. Barbara saw that though it
had lacing up the front for effect, it also had a zipper down the inner side for
easy on-off. When she looked at the bottom of the sole and saw the price of
$125.00 on the tag, marked down from $300.00, she whistled, then said,
"I've just got to get these!"
The clerk happened to walk up at just that moment, and said, "Do you like
those boots, ma'am? They set off your hair nicely. Would you like me to
see if we have them in your size?" Barbara handed him the boot so that he
could get the model number from the tag, and said, "Yes, please. I fell in
love when I first saw them. I wear a size 7." He took the boot, got the
number, and then set it back down with its mate. "Size 7? I'll go check.
Hang on a minute," he told her.
While the clerk was hunting, Babs looked around some more. She found
a pair of thigh high vinyl boots with an inside zip that stretched to fit, and the
sign next them said they were available in a number of colors. Barbara made
a mental note in her photographic memory to come back at some point and
check out the supply of these in her size. She was just picking up a pair of
black ballet toed ankle boots when the clerk came out of the back room with
two boxes in his hands. She set them back down and turned to greet him.
"Looks like you found them," Babs said. "What's with the two boxes? Do
you want me to try on different sizes or something?" Motioning to the seat,
the clerk told her, "Oh, heaven forbid, ma'am. If you say you are a tiny size
7, I'm sure you are. I found your boots in red like you wanted, and also in
black. I brought them both just in case I could persuade you to take them
both." Barbara grinned, and said, "Well, I suppose my plastic is in shape to
take a beating. Why not!"
He smiled charmingly. "Why not, indeed!"
Barbara untied the laces on her sneakers, then pulled them off and set them
aside. The clerk lifted the red boots from the box, then unzipped each and
pulled the stiffeners from the insides. He then knelt in front of Babs and
slipped her right foot into a boot, and zipped it up. The left boot soon
followed. Babs loved the tight feel they had, clinging to her calves. She
couldn't believe how easily her feet fit in the boots! They seemed to caress
her feet like no other shoes had before. They felt so comfortable, and on
such high heels, too! As the clerk leaned back, still in a crouch, Babs stood.
Her jeans fell back down to cover the boots down to her ankles, but the heels
made her feel so good. The increase in height she took on made her feel
regal. The four inch heels on her yellow costume boots were almost lame
compared to these.
"These boots feel divine!" she told him. "Am I ever glad that you brought
out the black ones, too." As she started to take a few steps in her
unbelievably high heels, Barbara quivered ever so slightly for a moment, then
got her bearings and minced with short steps over to a vertical mirror. The
clerk rose at the same time, and whistled. "You do look like a goddess in
those boots, ma'am. I'm glad you like them." Babs twisted and turned in
the mirror, admiring the shape coming out from below her jeans. "Like
them? I love them! Would you please put my sneakers in that box? I'm
going to wear these home!" As the clerk reached down for the sneakers, he
smiled and said, "Wonderful, step on over to the register and I'll take care of
you."
When the happy young lady left the shop gloating over her great boots and
what a steal they had been, the clerk's smile widened, and took on a satanic
sneer.
"Enjoy your boots, my dear Batgirl. I think they will broaden your life --
yes, I think you will find them very exciting! Very exciting, indeed!"
Barbara had to be careful on the drive back to her apartment. The angle her
feet were at compared to the gas pedal was quite a bit different from anything
she'd done before. She just couldn't get over the feelings she got from the
boots. They were just divine. After parking her Toyota in the designated
spot for her apartment, Babs stepped out and proceeded to walk across the
pavement. In her new boots, she noticed that she did indeed have to take
shorter steps, but that meant even more clicks of the heels on the pavement.
She just loved it! Disregarding the elevator, Babs decided to walk up the
stairs to the second floor.
Once inside, Babs went to her desk and picked up a ruler. On the way
back to the couch, she passed her phone, and saw the blinking answer light.
Setting the ruler down, she made sure the volume was turned up and then
pressed the play button. "Hi, Babs, it's dad. I hope you haven't gone and
made other plans for tomorrow evening. I'm still looking forward to treating
you to a dinner at Maxie's. Call me when you get in. Bye!" Picking up the
phone and the ruler, Barbara made her way to the couch and sat down. She
punched the phone number for her dad, then stuck the phone between her
chin and her shoulder.
While listening to the bell ringing at her dad's end, Babs put the ruler
against the heel of her left boot. She was just getting ready to whistle and
say, "Six and a half inches!" when her dad said, "Gordon residence," and
she had to say instead, "Hi, daddy! It's me, Babs. I just got your message."
"Are you still meeting me for dinner tomorrow night?"
"Yes, dad. I wouldn't miss it for the world. I've made sure to arrange
everything else around it." She smiled, thinking about how she would trick
her dad.
"Okay, great. I won't bother to ask where you were earlier when I called.
You're a woman with your own life to live, and I hope you were having
some fun."
Thinking that he must have thought Batgirl was out in action again, Babs
then thought to herself, "You don't want to now what kind of fun I was
having," then said, "Oh, daddy, you worry too much. I can take care of
myself! I was just out shopping, and bought the most divine boots!"
Knowing just how well Batgirl could take care of herself, Jim said, "I
know, sweetheart. I just worry sometimes that you might be getting in over
your head. See you tomorrow!"
"Good night, daddy! Love you!"
"Love you, too. Bye bye."
Babs heard the click in the phone line, and set it down on the couch. She
picked the lighter of the two boot boxes. She took her sneakers out, then
unzipped her new red boots. Rezipping and then folding each boot in half,
she put them in the box, then put her sneakers back on. She gathered up the
boxes, grabbed her jacket, then went to the closet in her bedroom. The
jacket went on a hanger, then Barbara reached behind it to open the
doorway.
Flipping on the light switch as she entered her hideaway, Babs then walked
over to the dressing table and set down the two boxes. The red boots were
taken from their box and then stood up on the rack next to her other boots,
adding to the collection. She had to get the stiffeners out of the black ones,
but before she set them on the rack with the others, Babs had an idea. "I
wonder," she muttered.
Babs set the boots on the dressing table, and pulled off her sneakers. She
then stripped out of her regular clothes. She even took off her bra, because
she didn't want it to show. Barbara walked over to the costume rack, and
took down a long sleeved black lycra spandex leotard with high cut French
legs. She also grabbed a pair of suntan shaded glossy pantyhose, some
black fishnet tights, and her elbow length black gloves.
Sitting at her dressing table, Babs slid on the hose, bringing the waist up
past her own. She loved this brand of hose for the way they made her legs
shine. Over these she pulled on the fishnets, and the effect of the hose
below them was just what she'd hoped it would be. She then stood, and
slipped her legs through the leg holes of the leotard. As she pulled the
leotard up over her torso, the French cut legs showed almost all of her hips,
reaching almost to her waist. Barbara felt the leotard pulling in her stomach
and waist. The deep cleavage showed off her abundant chest nicely, with
plenty of rounded skin showing. It was made of a special brand of spandex
that Barbara had nabbed from Catwoman after one of their escapades, sort of
a fortunes of war type thing. She'd made the leotard a few months earlier,
and this was the first time she'd gotten around to trying it on.
Barbara then slid her feet into the black boots for the first time. She felt the
same electrifying feeling she'd felt when trying on the red ones at the shop.
They just felt so divine! No, not divine, wicked! Delightfully wicked.
Wicked? Where did that thought come from? She did feel somehow quite
different from her normal, rational self. Barbara stood, then took short regal
steps to her wig rack. She picked up her wig cap and pulled it on over her
short red hair, tucking it all in. Next to her long red Batgirl wig was a waist
length black wig. She picked it up off the wig stand, and placed it over her
head. Barbara then went back to her dressing table and sat down, carefully
placing her hair behind the seat. Why did she feel like she was on autopilot?
Babs got out her makeup kit, and with a black eyebrow pencil, started
working over her red eyebrows, until they were charcoal black. A black
eyeshadow was used, and a black eyeliner completed the effort of
surrounding her eyes in black. Barbara reached for a brush, and shaded her
cheeks with a deep rouge. She applied ruby red lipstick to her lips, then
coated them with a lipgloss sealer. Babs licked her lips, then blotted them.
She looked into the mirror, and thought, "I know this is a disguise, but who
am I? I don't recognize myself!"
Almost without any control now, Babs stood up and pulled the gloves over
her hands and arms. She walked over to the cowl rack, and reached with a
black clad hand for a black domino face mask. It had been another war prize
from Catwoman, one she'd worn a few years ago with an older costume.
Barbara placed the mask over her eyes, noting the way the eyeholes covered
all the skin around her eyes so that the black eyeshadow met black mask in
one uniform blend. She reached behind her head, lifted her hair up, and
pulled the elastic of the mask up and over it. After letting her hair fall back
down over the band, she took a brush and combed it out.
When she took a look at herself in the mirror, the black clad vixen said, "I
know who I am! I am Catgirl! Meowwwrrrr!!!"
Catgirl went through Batgirl's utility belt, looking for items she could use.
She then went through the drawers of the weapons locker, and found a few
more. One more of Catwoman's old toys was added to her armory, a 20 foot
long bullwhip. Catgirl wrapped the whip around her waist and then up and
over a shoulder, then back down and through the binding around her waist.
She found a wide black belt in Batgirl's disguise collection, and a small black
hand purse. The purse was strung onto the belt, and then the belt was put in
place over her hips, well below the waist. The gadgets she'd nabbed from
Batgirl's utility belt and weapons drawer were than placed into the purse,
now a weapons kit on her hip.
Barbara should have been more careful. The feelings she'd noticed earlier
in the evening while wearing the red boots, making her feel so regal and
proud, should have warned her. Then, using materials originally belonging
to Catwoman, added to the intoxicating effect of the black boots, had
combined with the nearly criminal mind that made Batgirl so effective, to alter
her personality completely.
Catgirl made her way to the doorway leading out of the hideaway, and
flipped down the walkway. Her well-trained and agile body had no problem
getting to the ladder, and she quickly made her way down to ground level.
She took one look at the Batcycle, and scowled. Fortunately for her,
Barbara had a second bike on hand, just for emergencies when the Batcycle
might be out of service. Catgirl took the jet black Yamaha out of the shed,
and wheeled it to the doorway. She wanted to make damned sure nobody
saw her leaving. Catgirl saw nothing after she poked her head through the
swinging doors. She eased the bike onto the street, then climbed onto it and
cranked it up. The muffling system installed on all the Bat bikes and
potential Bat bikes gave her a speed demon that hardly made a sound. The
few people that looked up upon hearing a soft whispering sound were
greeted with the sight of an incredibly sexy, black clad vixen with coal black
hair streaming behind her head as she sped down the road.
At first, Catgirl was driving her cycle aimlessly, thinking she would just hit
a target of opportunity. Then a sudden urge struck her, and she made a sharp
right turn. Catgirl brought the black Yamaha to a halt behind the Gotham
Diamond Exchange. Reaching into her weapons kit, she extracted a spray
bottle of acid. The area around the handle dissolved, giving her the ability to
hit the locking mechanism itself with the acid. In no time, Catgirl had the
door open, and was slinking in softly, keeping her heels from clicking, until
she was sure no guards were on hand. Seeing no one, she pranced more
casually, proudly making her heels announce her progress. When she found
the display case holding the collection on loan from the Prince of Monaco,
Catgirl stopped.
She pulled a glass cutter from the weapons kit, and made a hole in the
display case. Reaching in with her black clad right hand, Catgirl gingerly
picked up the only item there without any diamonds on it, a Cat's Eye Jade,
which stood out among the rest. She nabbed a diamond encrusted, four inch
long Persian Cat, a brooch in the shape of a cat's head that was ringed with
diamonds, and a diamond necklace with a ruby tiger attached. These were
placed into a soft packet, then placed into her weapons kit.
Just as she was turning to leave the building, Catgirl heard the clash of
alarms going off. She had to hurry. Just before she got to the door, she
heard a shout, "Halt! Stand where you are and don't move!" Catgirl had no
intention of doing so, and stepped behind a pillar adjacent to the door. As
the guard approached, she unraveled the whip from around her body, and
jumped out in front of him. At just that moment, every light in the building
came on, and the guard saw the image of a black demoness. She flexed her
arm, and the whip came crashing against the gun in his right hand.
"I don't think you'll be wanting to use that toy, little boy!" Catgirl yelled
out. "I've got what I want, so I'm going to get out of your hair. If anyone
wonders who the black goddess was in the pictures that I'm sure are being
taken right now, tell them that Catgirl was here. Meowwrrrrr!!!!!" On that
note, Catgirl slipped out the door and made her way back to the bike. She
was gone, on a whispering comet, before anyone even looked outside.
part 3
Catgirl made her way back to her lair via a roundabout route, just in case
anyone had spotted her. Satisfied that she was unobserved, she parked the
bike in the shed, then climbed back up the ladder. At the top, she again
flipped down the walkway, then proudly pranced back to her lair. She
opened the doorway and entered, without raising the walkway.
Catgirl hid all her loot inside a shoebox under the table, except for the
Cat's Eye Jade. This she decided to mount at the bottom of the V formed on
her leotard. Once it was in place, her eyes became glued to it, as if they were
entranced. Catgirl briefly became one of the most malevolently garbed
mannequins ever seen, but after a few minutes, nodded her head, as if
coming to a realization. She then started to disrobe, carefully putting all of
the weapons back where she'd found them, and all the costume parts back in
place on the rack and shelves. Back in Barbara's clothes, she then left her
lair to go back into her apartment. The black makeup was washed away
from her eyes, but the rouge on the cheeks and the lipstick were forgotten.
Catgirl then went to bed, since it was midnight and she was getting tired.
Luckily, Barbara had reset her alarm clock the morning before after shutting it
off, and so, the occupant of the bed was going to be roused from her slumber
in less than six hours. What Catgirl didn't know, though, was that the items
that gave her an existence only did so while being worn. She didn't know
that she would not wake up.
Barbara was troubled by some fascinating nightmares that evening. She
kept seeing herself as an evil villainess, creating havoc and working
alongside her partner, Catwoman. The tone of the nightmares eventually
faded, and when the alarm brought Barbara out of her slumber, she rubbed
her eyes and wondered why she still felt so tired. After she reset her alarm
clock for the next morning, Babs slipped her legs out from under the covers
and dropped them over the side of her bed. She put off the tiredness as a side
effect of the bad nightmares she'd had. She remembered tossing and turning,
but couldn't recall any of the details.
When Barbara slipped into the bathroom to relieve herself and take her
morning shower, she noted the extreme makeup on her cheeks and lips.
"Funny, I don't recall going out last night," she said to herself. It should
have made more of an impact on her. Babs ignored it, and took a shower to
start her day. She was looking forward to the afternoon and evening.
********************
Tim Drake went directly home after the meeting with Batgirl. His day at
school was typical. None of the classes came close to challenging him, and
he had to fight off the boredom that kept creeping in. The after-school
games and team practices were skipped out on, as he sometimes did. Tim
missed them so often that his absence didn't even raise any eyebrows
anymore. If they'd known that Robin was out on duty all those times Tim
was gone, maybe somebody might have said something. Tim was careful,
however, to avoid any references to the boy wonder at school.
As he'd done on a number of occasions, Tim proceeded home and changed
into his costume. The red top with short billowing green sleeves over green
tights, with a cape that was gold on the inside and blue on the outside, was a
big improvement over the old Robin costume, Tim thought. He even
considered his leg coverings as tight fitting pants, not tights; after all, they
were heavily lined with Kevlar armor, along with the rest of the costume.
How could anyone consider Kevlar as tights?
Sneaking out of his house as easily as he'd snuck in, Tim made his way to
the hidden Redbird, his own personal Batcycle. Sliding the red helmet over
his head, Tim made sure all the com links were working by setting up the
Gotham City police channel. Just as it was concluding, he caught a reference
to a heist the night before by Catgirl. "Catgirl?" he wondered aloud. He'd
have to check up on that later. Once he was zipping down the highway,
Robin keyed in the Batcave on the radio.
Robin called in to Alfred. He told Alfred that he needed to come in to the
cave and do some work in the Bat Computer. Alfred set the alarms to watch
for the Redbird, and then told Robin to have fun.
After parking the Redbird next to the Batmobile, Robin took off his helmet
and set it on the seat. The first thing he did was to boot up the computer, just
in case Alfred came checking, then Tim proceeded to the molecular modifier.
He undressed, and did a scan to store his own image in it; otherwise, he
wouldn't be able to switch back to himself. That had been impressed upon
him by Batman! When that was done, he set the machine for Babs' body,
and feeling both excited and scared, he activated the machine. Every part of
his body seemed alive with excitement, and he trembled. Tim passed out for
just a moment, then came to.
"That was weird!" he said -- and she knew Barbara's voice well enough to
know that it was Barbara she'd just heard talking. Sure enough, the
computer confirmed that for her. To cover her tracks, Tim then erased from
the computer's memory any reference to the actions he'd just taken. The disc
with Tim's physical makeup on it was hidden in his rack of computer game
discs.
Tim just couldn't help herself. She went to a mirror. A grinning Barbara
Gordon stared back out at her. Her magnificent tits were tingling and
jiggling. Feeling guilty, Tim played with them! She couldn't believe the
sensations she felt as he tweaked the nipples. That felt great! Babs would
never know! She saw her beautiful face filled with passion in the mirror.
Could this really be him?! Reluctantly, she stopped -- she had to get to
Babs' place like he'd promised. She grinned with luscious lips. She would
have plenty of time for that later, yes sir! Tim then asked the computer to
access any data collected from the GCPD on the heist he'd heard about. She
told it to specifically key in on the name, Catgirl. In moments, the computer
was pouring out police reports about the break in, the goods stolen, and
pictures taken at the scene by security cameras. She had to admit, the vixen
she saw in the pictures sure looked wicked enough, almost like a younger
version of Catwoman. The report said she called herself Catgirl, so maybe
there was some connection. Nothing else was available, since the culprit had
disappeared right away, without any trace.
Feeling silly, Tim started dressing in the clothes Babs had dropped off the
day before. She wished now that he'd looked at what was in the bag at that
time. Putting them on was awkward at first, but she soon got the hang of it.
Babs must have wanted to tease him, because she had picked out a short
black leather mini skirt, a tight, provocative, low cut blouse, and four inch
heeled shoes. "I'll get her for this," Tim vowed in laughing embarrassment.
Tim put Robin's helmet back on over her now lush, thick red hair, strapped
herself onto the Redbird, then zipped out of the Batcave. The trip to
Barbara's apartment gave no indication that anything at all was happening
that afternoon in Gotham.
********************
Break to a high cost high rise in downtown Gotham. Inside one of the
penthouse suites, we see a woman with a long raven mane and the ultimate
in voluptuous bodies, soaking in a bubblebath in an antique stand alone
bathtub. This woman was at least one other interested party that caught the
notice about the robbery the night before by Catgirl. Selina Kyle was
enjoying her soak when the news on the TV broke to the robbery story.
When she heard about the heist on a target that she herself had planned on
hitting, Catwoman took notice. She sat bolt upright in the tub, her eyes and
ears glued to the TV set. "Catgirl? Who the hell is Catgirl?" she screamed,
loud enough to scare away two of her pet kitties that were sleeping in the
bathroom doorway. The image she saw that was taken from the security
cameras made her grin. "At least the young upstart has got the body and the
costume to fit the name!" Catwoman would have to watch for any more
appearances of her namesake.
In what may or may not be a shoestore, a man heard the same news and
smiled with satisfaction as he rubbed his hands together. It looked like
Barbara Gordon was enjoying her purchases. That was good. Very Good.
********************
Barbara heard references to the robbery all day, first while eating breakfast,
and later via radio and TV newscasts. Her reference desk at the library had a
complete communications center, all at her own insistence after getting the
job. Besides a number of computers, there were radios, TV's, faxes,
photocopiers and scanners. She had programmed one of the VCR's to tape
any broadcast with mention of the heist. When Barbara first caught a view of
the pictures taken of Catgirl, she whistled, and thought to herself that Catgirl
was a viscious looking character. Babs committed the image to her
photographic memory, but somehow failed to see the connection between
what the vixen was wearing and some costume parts in her own inventory, or
even the image she'd seen in her own mirror the night before. Perhaps if the
camera angle had shown the parts of Catgirl below her knees, she'd have at
least recognized the boots. Then again, they were readily available boots.
Or were they?
Barbara's day went more or less slowly, other than the news about the new
villainess. She went over to Police HQ on her lunch break, to see if her dad
had anything more on Catgirl than what the news media had put out. She
explained her interest to him as merely a natural curiosity about events
transpiring. Over a quick bite in the HQ cafeteria, Jim told his daughter that
the only thing they knew about it that the news people hadn't mentioned,
was that Catgirl had escaped on a very quiet motorcycle. Another tidbit
added to Barbara's personal data field, but still she failed to make any
connection with known quiet motorcycles. It would probably be asking too
much for Babs to see the entire picture as a self portrait. After all, she knew
who she was -- didn't she?
Back at her apartment later in the day, Babs waited anxiously for Tim to
arrive. She figured on the time school got out, then added a bit for a trip to
the Batcave. But Babs had no idea how fast the machine worked -- or if it
would work at all! Her ringing doorbell brought her out of her reverie.
Barbara went to answer it, and opened the door to *herself*! Intellectually,
she had been expecting it, but it was still an emotional jolt to come face to
face with herself!
Tim grinned with her lips. "Hello, Avon calling. My name is Barbara
Gordon, miss. May I ask to see the lady of the house?"
Babs giggled. It was unreal. "My name is mud!" she answered.
"Thanks, Tim. My God, if I didn't know I was me, I would swear that you
were Barbara Gordon," she sighed, staring at her gaudily dressed double.
"Well, then, let's get you into costume, girl! We're sure cutting it close on
time, Tim," Barbara added. "I hope we can get finished in time for me to get
to my dinner date."
Barbara's twin smiled and told her, "Not to worry! I'm sure we can get
me into costume by 6. Hey, did you hear about Catgirl?"
"That's the only significant news coming out today," Babs answered. "The
pictures I saw of her make her look deadly, and from the report of the guard
who saw her in person, she seems to be pretty gutsy. I have to wonder what
the connection is between her and Catwoman."
"I checked the Bat Computer while I was in the Cave, and it had no more
than the news broadcasts. She looked pretty sexy to me, besides being mean
and nasty," Tim told her. "She bore a striking resemblance to an earlier file
photo of Catwoman, taken many years ago. Think maybe they're related?"
Barbara looked her in the eyes, and said, "I doubt Catwoman is old enough
to have a daughter looking like Catgirl. I've been up close and personal with
Catwoman on a number of occasions, and she does not strike me as being an
older lady. No, I think there is some other, more dire background to
Catgirl."
Tim had never been to Barbara's apartment before, even though she knew
about it through computer records he'd checked. She had no idea how she
could be Batgirl and operate out of the apartment as she saw it. Babs took
her into the computer center in the second bedroom, and Tim's mouth fell
agape, but before she had a chance to say anything or get her hands on any
of the keyboards, Barbara yanked her by an arm and then led her into her
bedroom. "Barbara, don't you think I'm a little young for this?" she joked,
as she led her past her bed. "Still a virgin, Tim?" she asked. "I thought that
with the rampant morals in the high schools these days that you'd've been
laid many times by now!" Tim was pretty sure Barbara didn't know about
Stephanie, his girlfriend that was soon to give birth, but since it wasn't
known yet just who the baby's father was, she kept her mouth shut and just
grinned with a shit eating grin. "Why, you little..." Babs giggled, as she
reached into the back of her closet.
Tim was a bit surprised when she saw Barbara disappear into the back of
her closet, but recovered quickly and figured that she was supposed to follow
her. Pushing some hangered blouses and jackets aside, she saw the
hatchway and stepped through. Once again, Tim's mouth took the shape of
an 'O' as she took in the sheer amount of costume supplies, weapons kits,
and other feminine paraphernalia in the mini Batcave. "Welcome to my own
little part of the Bat world, Tim!" she proclaimed.
part 4
"Wow, Barbara, you really are well equipped here," Tim said. "I don't
even want to think of how you hid this in your dad's house before you
moved." Babs chuckled. "Believe me, Tim, you don't want to know. Now,
let's get going, here. Go ahead and strip down to your birthday suit." Tim
hesitated for just a second, then figured that, after all, it was her body, and
she saw it every day!
Barbara was doing a quick visual assessment as more and more of Tim's
physique became apparent. It was true. Tim was actually exactly like her
physically. She wondered briefly if he had made any mental changes as
well. Anyway, right now she was one hell of a beautiful woman, if she did
say so herself!
Babs knew she'd have to apply the makeup, since Tim probably didn't
remember anything of it from the year before. She started with a basic
foundation, thankful that Tim's complexion was identical to her own. This
was then powdered, and blush applied to his cheeks. Babs worked the
blush carefully to blend the shapes of Tim's face into a beautiful vision.
Batgirl was going to look stunning, as usual.
When wearing her mask, Barbara almost always wore electric blue
eyeshadow, so Tim's eyelids and the area below her eyebrows were worked
over. She did up her lashes with a black mascara, then used a black pencil to
line the lids. Her traditional fire engine red lipstick was applied to her lips,
lined with a maroon pencil, then sealed with a lipgloss. When she was
finished, Barbara was looking at a live version of what she normally saw as a
reflection while getting changed.
Barbara grabbed the nearest wig cap from the shelf and pulled one over
Tim's head. She tucked the loose strands of red hair up under it, then pulled
down her Batgirl wig. This wig was the same color as her own hair, but fell
in waves to just below the shoulder blades. Knowing that Tim could handle
the brushing, she gave her the brush while she went to get the batsuit.
When she pulled the hanger from the rack with the black spandex suit on
it, Barbara saw the black leotard hanging next to it, with the Cat's Eye Jade
glowing. For an instant, her eyes were locked to it, and she softly said,
"Yes." Tim thought she heard Babs say something to her, and said, "Babs?
I'm sorry, did you say something?" Tim broke the Jade's hold on her, and
Barbara shook her head, blinking. "What did you say, Tim? I missed it."
Tim figured Babs must have been in another world, and couldn't know how
correct she'd been, when she said, "Oh, nothing, Babs. I thought I heard
you say something to me as you were pulling the suit off the rack." Barbara
looked at the hanger in her left hand with the batsuit on it and the hanger in
her right hand with the leotard on it, and wondered why she was holding
both. She hung the leotard back up, and pulled the batsuit off its hanger.
Barbara pulled down the zipper on back, then handed it to Tim. She slid
first her left leg, then her right, into the legs of the suit, then pulled it up,
smoothing the material on her legs as she went. The material felt even more
silky than the hose she'd worn the year before, and she said, "Babs, what is
this material? It feels awesome!" Babs put on a wide grin, and said, "Tim,
that is a material that was developed as a teasing device by Catwoman. It
clings to the skin like spandex, but massages and stimulates the skin to bring
on a truly amazing feeling. You're gonna love it when it is covering your
whole body, and not just your legs. I find that it makes me faster and keeps
the adrenaline up!"
Barbara was starting to reach behind Tim to pull up the zipper, when she
surprised her and did it all by herself. Tim's arms seemed to know what to
do, she thought. Tim sort of wiggled as she felt the material working her
skin, and said, "You mean you go into action with this suit giving you a
massage every time?" "Yeah, don't you just love it?" she replied.
While Tim was straightening out her hair over her back, Barbara was struck
by the fact that she was watching Batgirl get dressed. The work they'd done
had paid off. "Well, Batgirl," she said, "what would you like to put on next,
your boots or your gloves?" Tim picked up on the reference real quick, and
said, "The boots, please. I want the dexterity of my fingers to work with
before putting on the gloves. "From here on, try to start thinking of yourself
as a female, not a male. You'll find it making the disguise that much easier.
Also, as you'll soon see, those gloves have all the dexterity of your own
fingertips."
God, she was moving so much like herself -- Batgirl! -- it was unreal!
"Would you hand me my boots, please," she asked. Babs was still a bit
stunned, but handed the boots to Tim. She sat down on the seat and slipped
first one, then the other foot into the yellow boots. The zips were pulled
closed, and Batgirl felt her calves fit into their feminine shape perfectly.
Barbara handed her the yellow gloves next, and these were pulled onto her
arms, with a moment spent in straightening out the bat scalloping on the
outer edges. Barbara was marveling at the way Tim was doing it just the
way she normally did.
Babs picked up the yellow utility belt to pass it to Batgirl, and wondered
why one of the compartments was open. She couldn't remember using it
recently, and never left them open, regardless. "Whatever," she mumbled to
herself, and closed the lid without checking for what should have been
inside, then passed it to Batgirl. Batgirl strung it around her hips, well below
her waist. She sincerely hoped she would not find a use for the utility belt
that evening.
Babs took hold of the yellow cape, and passed it to Batgirl, who noticed
that her fingers had no problem handling it, just as Babs had predicted. She
clipped it to her shoulders, then swished her hair back out over it.
"Now for the crowning touch!" Barbara exclaimed. "Your cowl, Batgirl!"
she said as she handed the black headpiece over. Batgirl threaded her hair
through the slot in back, then pulled it up and over her head. The bottom was
pulled down to her throat, where Velcro attachments hooked it to the back of
the cowl. When the bottom was tucked into the top of the suit, Batgirl was
in full costume.
"My dear, you look outstanding!" Barbara said. "I could retire to the easy
life of a librarian and let you take over, as good as you look. But then, I
suppose Batman might want to have Robin around every now and then, so I
guess after tonight, I'll be back to doing my night job!" "You may have to
fight to get this costume back," Batgirl said, in a voice that echoed her own.
"Just kidding! I'd hate to think of having to relearn how to fight in this
form."
Barbara led Batgirl to the doorway leading to the outer walkway, then said,
"Okay, here's the plan. My dad is treating me to dinner at Maxie's. You
know it, don't you, the steakhouse on route 3?" "Sure do, I've been
there with my folks on a number of occasions," Tim replied. "Do you want
me to make an appearance there, so that your dad can see you and I together
in the same spot, or did you have something else in mind?"
"I doubt there could be any reason for you to show up at the restaurant,
Batgirl. Just use the comm gear on your Batcycle to monitor for any activity,
doing a casual patrol. If any activity does come up, don't try to get involved
too much, since you aren't used to fighting in that form, but I'm sure that
word will get to my dad that Batgirl was on the scene. Make sure they take
pictures. If nothing does come up, I'm pretty sure we're due back at my
apartment by 9. Try and drive by on your bike somewhere between Maxie's
and here so that dad can see you."
"Sounds good, Barb," Batgirl replied. "Have fun tonight!"
"I'll try, but having my dad watching over me is going to be tough, as well
as the excitement I'll feel as another me is roaming around, in my costume
and on my cycle," Barbara said. "Here, let me show you how to get to the
Batcycle."
Barbara opened the door, expecting to have to flip the walkway down. To
her surprise, it was already down. She thought she'd retracted it last night,
but maybe she forgot. Babs would have found another anomaly if she had
gone to the shed holding the Batcycle, instead of Batgirl. Batgirl had no way
of knowing that the Batcycle being stuffed behind a jet black Yamaha was out
of the norm.
As Batgirl sped out of the hideaway, Barbara went back inside to change
into some dinner clothes. She had about 20 minutes before her father was
expected. They had timed it perfectly.
Jim Gordon pulled into the parking lot at precisely the time he'd predicted,
and Babs wondered if he had some way of working around the timing of
stoplights and the general flow of traffic. Of course, driving around Gotham
City in both official and unofficial vehicles over the years had given him an
uncanny ability to arrive anywhere he needed to be almost exactly when
predicted. He parked the Montero in a designated guest spot, and was a bit
surprised to find Barbara coming out the front door as he was about to open
it. Barbara had learned to be on hand when her father had given an ETA.
Babs was maybe a bit overdressed for the occasion, her father thought.
After all, this was only dinner at a family steakhouse, not a banquet. She
was wearing a floor-length dress that almost qualified as a gown. It was
powder blue in color, with white lace trim. A wide white belt was used,
making it evident just how small a waist she had. Jim got the impression that
Babs was standing just a bit taller than usual, but put it off to just the way
she carried herself.
Every now and then, Jim caught sight of a flash of red beneath the long
dress, and remembered Babs saying something about having gotten some
new boots. It was so she could get away with wearing her new red boots
that Barbara picked the long blue dress to wear. Most of her dress shoes
pinched in one way or the other, but her new boots just seemed to fit
incredibly well. What Barbara had failed to notice in her reverie was that she
was becoming more and more adept at walking and moving around in the
extreme heels that had been a bit of a problem at first, the night before. She
should have wondered how heels of that height could possibly be worn with
ease.
Another reason for the bit of overdressing on Barbara's part was the fact
that her boots made her feel so regal. A simple cotton dress for dinner?
Perish the thought! Dress in class! Mr. Gordon even noticed a slightly
different manner in which his daughter worked her plate at the table. No
sloppy handling of silverware, it was all picked up and replaced with gentle
care. Ham handling rolls or napkins? Not a chance! Her fingers daintily
picked up the rolls, and the tiny bites she took showed some kind of restraint
he'd never before seen. Napkins were picked up gently and dabbed to her
lips. Was this really his daughter eating dinner with him? Barbara may have
blown her opportunity to show her father that she and Batgirl were different
women. Right now, Batgirl was acting more like Barbara that Barbara was.
Barbara was becoming further and further intoxicated with the enchantment
of her boots.
After the meal, father and daughter chatted over coffee. Jim felt more at
ease about the classy demeanor of Babs, and she spoke eloquently about the
day's activities at the library and plans for the future. She very carefully
worked around any reference to time spent at the apartment that afternoon.
Babs sincerely hoped that Batgirl was going to make some kind of public
showing to make her dad know that his suspicions were groundless.
The night at Maxie's finally came to an end, and Jim walked behind Babs in
going out to the Montero. He had never noticed her carrying herself the way
she was, almost regally. They got back to the apartment right at 9, but Babs
never caught sight of Batgirl, so she was sure her father hadn't either. She
hoped nothing really dangerous had developed for her while on patrol.
Instead of parking, Jim pulled up in front of Barbara's first floor hallway
entrance, and watched as she lifted herself from the car, pranced in quick
short steps to her doorway, then turned to wave good-bye to him, saying,
"Good night, daddy. Thanks for the dinner. See you tomorrow!" "You're
welcome, Babs. Good night, and sleep tight." He waved, then drove off.
part 5
While Babs and her father were dining, Tim was navigating the Batcycle in
a squares pattern through downtown Gotham. So far, the faux Batgirl had
been lucky. No crimes had been reported calling for her help. She checked
in with Alfred and was told that all was quiet. It was so funny that Alfred
thought she was the real Batgirl!