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[flippity]

[ so, later sunday evening after the execution, papika is gonna be poking her head into her hotel room. she doesn't go in right away as she seems to be checking... for... ]

Robin?

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[flippity]

I can do that! I might not be the best liar here, but that might not matter if I just say things in a certain way.

[ she then shrugs. ]

I don't think people here take me very seriously though so they probably wouldn't really expect me to have any important information.

[bittybat]

That's their mistake. Never underestimate your opponents. Especially the ones that seem least likely to cause harm.

[flippity]

[ she nods her head. after all, damian is like the youngest one there and look at everything he can do. ]

Are you going to tell anyone else?

[bittybat]

[He pauses in consideration.]

Todd... possibly.

[flippity]

Do the two of you know each other from before here? Your clothes were kind of alike.

[ she spoke to jason during the first week, but hasn't really since then so most of her opinions on him are "the guy who was in the stocks that one time" ]

[bittybat]

[An accurate description of Jason Todd, tbqh.]

Yes. [It sounds like he hadn't planned to really admit that so freely so soon to her. So how does he say this without sounding mushy???] We are a part of the same... organization.

Batman is the leader, and my father. There have been five Robins. Todd was the second. We work with Batman to stop criminals the police aren't equipped to handle. We apprehend them and turn them over to the legal system.

Batman sometimes works with a bigger organization, the Justice League. They stop global and interdimensional threats to the earth.

[flippity]

So you're like... like superheroes!

[ papika looks really excited at the thought? her eyes are practically sparkling in amazement. ]

No wonder you're so smart.

[bittybat]

[Oh... God.]

I guess. We're not really superheroes. We're just doing what's right.

[flippity]

It's very super and heroic!

[ so. superheroes. ]

... if you're on the same team though, why didn't you tell him before me and Percy?

[bittybat]

[bittybat]

[STOP!!!!!!!!!!!!!! PAPIKA IS AS BAD AS PERCY!!!]

I--because I didn't know whether to trust that Todd was capable of handling that information. He could have used it to be an idiot.

[AKA: "I may give a tiny toot about Jason Peter Todd and don't want him to be stupid and get into trouble."]

[flippity]

[ she notices that he faltered there for a second, but she is nice enough not to point it out. then again, it also made her smile even more, so that is practically the same thing as verbally calling him out on it. ]

If he's your teammate then he has to be okay! You're very capable.

[bittybat]

One of the few. [It's grumbled. It took him a long time, but he realizes, deep down, they're all capable in their own ways. Even if Jason is still a giant idiot in his timeline.]

I'll tell Todd later. If he knows anything important, I'll tell you after.

[Maybe.]

also important but they are gonna have a big ass bean bag chair bc she put it in the suggestion box

[flippity]

If you want to.

[ she knows damian well enough to at least know that he isn't big on the whole trusting thing, so she wouldn't be too surprised if decided not to share the info. she does not look too bothered by it though. ]

LMAO oh my god!!!

[bittybat]

If it's important. [Which is at least a promise that he won't withhold it on the account of not thinking she would be worth it.

At the door, something begins scratching. Then, slowly, a little white paw eases curiously under the space at the bottom to dig at the air.]

they are gonna have the COOLEST room now

[flippity]

Pennyworth!

[ she almost immediately hurries over to the door to let the most important character in whole ass into the room. ]

Um. I'm a member of a group called FlipFlap. We're not... superheroes or anything, we were just trying to collect fragments of something to get a wish.

[ since. damian told her about himself. ]

i'm ready

[bittybat]

[True to the exclaim, it's Pennyworth. The cat trots in and leans heavily into Papika's legs after a meow of greeting, and then he stretches his front long over her foot, spreading his paws.] A wish?

[More importantly: the fuck is a name like FlipFlap?? Says the boy named after a bird with a father named Batman.] Like a djinn? It's dangerous.

[flippity]

[ she kneels down to scratch pennyworth behind the ears.

also like. is it really a surprise that someone like papika would work for something called flipflap. ]

Not exactly like that. It's, ah, complicated to explain? But something bad happened to a friend of mine and I'm trying to get her back, and collecting all the pieces is the only way to do it.

[bittybat]

[No, it's no surprise. At all.]

She died?

[flippity]

[ she picks pennyworth up to take him over to damian. ]

No. Mimi was... special, and there were people who wanted to use that until she couldn't stand it anymore. She ended up doing something that wasn't really good, even if it wasn't her fault. When she was trying to get away I managed to stop her, but that just made her... vanish... so we're trying to get her back now.

[ the explanation is vague, but it's less to do with not trusting damian to have the full story and more that papika just isn't really sure how to explain it in detail. ]

[bittybat]

[It really doesn't make a lot of sense, but Damian will take Papika's word on it despite being curious.] I see. [Rather than take Pennyworth, he just reaches out to stroke the cat along the head and around to one side of the chin.]

If anything happens to me, I want you to take very good care of Pennyworth. He's a good cat. [From his pocket, he takes out a slim tin container of sardines.] I put a request in the suggestion box for these. There's nine of them left, including this one. They're for Pennyworth.

Four are at the homestead, and five are here.

[flippity]

[ she opens her mouth to argue, to say something along the lines of that nothing is going to happen to him. but she shuts it. even she's aware that's a lie in their circumstances. ]

I'll ask for more. [ then, more softly, ] I hope that won't happen though.

[bittybat]

It's not. [But he's glad for the sentiment, even if he won't admit it.] I don't plan to die so easily again.

[flippity]

Again?

[ she gapes slightly. papika hadn't really thought that some of the people here might have already died once, but. ]

You died before?!

[bittybat]

Tt. [He doesn't seem angry so much as frustrated and disappointed.] Unfortunately.

Todd, too. [Now he can't make fun of Jason for dying. Well... he can and will, but listen.] Todd is older in my timeline. Just as stupid, though.