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[Dick blinks for a moment, then shakes his head.] You may not have met her yet, but she's probably only 8 or 9 in your Gotham. Babs is Barbara Gordon, Commissioner Gordon's daughter. Though...he's only a detective for you right now, I think?

[He picks up a fry, chewing on it because he really is hungry.] She's also Batgirl. Or Oracle, depending on a few things.

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( lifting the cheeseburger to take a bite out of, he refrains from doing so and just stares to dick when he offers him the explanation— the identity of who babs is. )

Yeah. I know he has a daughter.

( because of course bruce would know things like that about someone he "works with" if even loosely. )

Why is she... Batgirl?

( the look on his face says it all with what he might be thinking. )

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[Given how so many of his kids have come into his care, it's an honest question.]

[Dick snorts softly and grins.]

Well, to start with, she saved my Bruce from a kidnapping while driving to a costume ball dressed as a female Batman. Bruce tried to tell her that she wasn't allowed to do it because of her gender. Babs' reply to that was that Bruce wasn't her father and couldn't tell her what to do. And wouldn't tell her dad on her. Honestly, of all the many young men and women that Bruce inspired, Babs is probably the most grounded. She has a library sciences degree and did a law degree afterward.

[Technically, Dick also has a law degree. Online classes were great.]

She's probably also the best hacker I know, with TJ running a close second. And I should say, she's also really, really good at telling you to your face when you're being dumb.

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( it's strange to hear of things that have happened to some other version of him. that may or may not happen to him at some point in the future. if he's to leave here, that is. now he wonders if that account that had said something to him prior to their coming here had been her. had been barbara. )

So Gordon's ok then.

( because it seems as if every kid he comes across either doesn't have a family or much of one to begin with. gordon, though they've only known each other for two years now... he's a good guy. a good cop. and bruce— batman trusts him. )

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He is when I'm from. Which means he's okay for Jay and TJ. I can't make promises for everybody else.

[He didn't get a chance to talk to Babs very much before he left. He's fairly certain that Gordon is fine in Jason's, Junior's and Tim's worlds. Which only leaves Babs. And it's not exactly an easy thing to ask.]

Babs and TJ are the ones that came to this life entirely of their own volition, with their families intact. [No matter Dick's personal opinions of the Drakes.]