The Roof, Thursday Evening

[batwaffles.livejournal.com]

It had been an uneventful trip home, for the most part: a thorough debriefing on everything she'd observed and learned about in Fandom so far, complete with the expected stinging critique of what she could have done better, but much to Stephanie's disappointment not even one little brief and boring patrol. So uneventful, for the most part, except for getting to catch up with Cass, and then the fight she'd had with Tim that had started with her calling him on not being happy that she hadn't quit being Robin yet and ended with what she was pretty sure was a breakup. Oops. So much for a good Valentine's Day. (She could have felt worse about it, but really, if he couldn't be happy for her . . .)

She'd gotten back to Fandom just before nightfall, and spent a couple of hours putting away her clean laundry and carefully stashing all the treats Alfred had sent along, then headed on up here.

She wasn't really brooding; Steph didn't do brooding. That was the big guy's job, and part of hers was to balance that out. It was just that everything was a little simpler when you were hanging out on a rooftop under the cover of night, in costume or out of it. And, she thought, legs dangling idly over the edge of the building, it was a pretty nice night.

[OOC: Open roof is open!]

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[willbethenight.livejournal.com]

Meanwhile, Bruce was heading up to the roof to brood a bit. IRONY.

"Stephanie," he greeted as he realized his hope of a brooding night had been cruelly taken away from him yet again. "How are you tonight?"

[batwaffles.livejournal.com]

Way to go, Steph. Ruin the brooding for him like that. GOOD ONE.

Note to self: "Didn't I just see you earlier today" isn't a viable comeback here.

"Hi, Bruce," she replied, glancing up over her shoulder. "Just enjoying the quiet. How's everything been here?"

[willbethenight.livejournal.com]

"It's the week before spring break. I think most of the school is just ready to get out of here," Bruce said. "So it hasn't been too exciting."

[batwaffles.livejournal.com]

"I would," Stephanie said with a sigh, "miss both of my classes for the week and make it back just in time to pack up for spring break, wouldn't I? Oh, timing. Are you going, too?"

[willbethenight.livejournal.com]

"I was looking at possible other vacations, but nothing really panned out," Bruce said. "And if Hawaii is my fall back option, I'll take it."

[daventryprince.livejournal.com]

Alexander really didn't have much of a reason for coming up to the roof, no. But sometimes, a prince just needed to brood. You know. Longlost loves, childhood in slavery, crippling fear of being an ineffectual leader. That sort of thing.

But he could handle the distraction of the roof not being particularly empty when he got up there well enough.

"Oh, hello. Good view tonight?"

[batwaffles.livejournal.com]

"Well, the darkness leaves some blanks your imagination has to fill in, but if you can do that, it's spectacular," Stephanie quipped. "Pull up some roof; there's plenty of room."

[daventryprince.livejournal.com]

"I should certainly hope so," Alexander said, doing just that by finding spot to sit, "otherwise we'd have a bit of a party on our hands, and that would ruin the nice, quiet solitude one can get while up here."

[batwaffles.livejournal.com]

"Should I be glad I didn't bring up the keg, then?" Not that she ever would, but why ruin a wisecrack like that? "So other than being party-free, how's tonight finding you?"

[daventryprince.livejournal.com]

"A little too ponderous for comfort," Alexander had to admit. "It's probably a good thing there are others out upon the rooftop tonight, otherwise I'd be getting downright maudlin. And how is it finding you?"

[momslilassassin]

It was a surprisingly mild night and so Ben headed up to stare at the stars for a while.

"Oh, hi," he said. "I didn't mean to intrude."

[batwaffles.livejournal.com]

Stephanie waved a hand. "You're not intruding. Unless someone put up No Trespassing signs on the roof when I wasn't looking, which I wouldn't rule out, but . . . pfft. Plenty of room up here."

[momslilassassin]

"Well, if you prefer, I can stand way over there and yell out a conversation," Ben said, smiling.

[batwaffles.livejournal.com]

"Would it liven up your night?" Stephanie asked. "And more important, would everyone inside getting annoyed about it liven up your night even more?"

[momslilassassin]

"Well, I try not to be deliberately obnoxious," Ben said, then added, "most of the time."

[hoorayimrich.livejournal.com]

Tony was just going to go over to that ledge and collapse. Like you do.

There was even more footage of 'Iron Man' flying through New York and telling reporters to stop following him and he got his ass kicked by some freak calling himself the Mandarin. But he destroyed the earthmovers, so it was a kinda win.

"Hey."

He'd do more than twitch in your general direction another day, Stephanie.

[batwaffles.livejournal.com]

And Stephanie without any snazzy internet-accessible devices at the moment. Just your luck, Tony.

"Well, look what the cat dragged in," Stephanie remarked, raising an eyebrow at him. Was there something in the lighting that made his hair look funny? "Sheesh, Tony. What happened to you?"

ASK THE AWKWARD QUESTIONS, STEPH.

[hoorayimrich.livejournal.com]

"...I got shocked by one of my experiments." Yeah, that worked. "And then fell down some stairs."

Totally worked.

"And yes my hair is pink."

[batwaffles.livejournal.com]

"And they say we should encourage kids to experiment with science." Stephanie tsk-ed. "They, whoever they are, never met you. Are you okay?"

Beat.

"The experiment wouldn't have happened to be with your hair color, would it? Because talk about shocking."

[momslilassassin]

"Hey, Pinky," Ben said, sounding concerned, "what'd you do to yourself?"

[hoorayimrich.livejournal.com]

"A little practical testing of the shield this afternoon," Tony replied, taking a deep breath. He was going to spend the whole spring break sleeping or on his laptop.

[momslilassassin]

"Not a terribly successful one," Ben guessed. "Do you need to go to the clinic?"

[willbethenight.livejournal.com]

"Rough night?" Bruce asked when he caught sight of Tony.

[hoorayimrich.livejournal.com]

"Testing some of my designs out on a practical level," Tony said with a weak wave. "And some falling down."

After being shot. Goddamn robots.

[willbethenight.livejournal.com]

"The joy of invention," Bruce noted. "Do you need anything, or are you reasonably sure you'll live?"