Out the window she went descending from the top floor of the Gotham high rise apartment.
Stephanie felt free. Like a new born bird finally with wings to fly. No resistance, no wild flapping of a unkempt cape on her back, no loose costume to break her form, and no raggedy boots to worry about if they'll rip off her feet from a kick she'd throw too high or too hard.
Stephanie felt she could make any movement she wanted without consequence.
She fired her grappling gun.
It moved fast towards the top of the roof. Like a missile it soared through the dark sky where the hooks dug deep into the cemented edge.
The shifting torque from her descent turn into a powerful drive up. It was unlike anything she every felt.
But it was not the roof Stephanie aimed to go.
Stephanie released the hook on the roof at the push of the trigger, quick to retract the steel wire into the barrel of her grappling gun the second she got high enough.
Floating in mid-air with an almost slow-motion feel, Stephanie turned her sights on the window where she knew she'll find her intended target.
She fired her grappling gun yet again.
The glass window of the penthouse apartment shattered against the sharp hook tethered to a steel wire bearing its teeth.
The hook sunk into the wall on the far side of the apartment.
Stephanie watched her speed picked up, descending fast towards the open window of Rachel's penthouse apartment. But in that moment she could see from the corner of her eye a trail of orange lightning race towards the window she was aiming for. The two stood inbound for a collision.
Inches away from colliding; Stephanie knew it was going to take near perfect timing to avoid the streak of lightning.
Waiting until she could see the shape of the body she knew had to be a a speedster, Stephanie released her pressed finger from over the trigger that broke the harden shape of the steel wire from her grappling gun.
No longer in route for the window into Rachel's apartment, Stephanie's new destination swung her through the window below.
She crashed through the window of the apartment below Rachel's.
There was no graceful landing as she bustled through the furniture like a bull in a china shop.
Picking herself up off the floor, it's in the corner of her eye where Stephanie found a man and a woman having a candle light dinner on the other side of the apartment.
With dim lighting and a rose peddle trail on the floor leading into the bedroom, it's likely she may have ruin any chance for this couple to end their night with passionate love making. "I hope this is not a first date?" she asked them, not expecting an answer to come for their dumbfounded faces. Because who in a million years would stop to think they'd find Batgirl crashing through their window.
"Is it normal for you to crash through windows?" the man replied.
"I'd like to say no."
The sound of breaking glass underfoot pulled Stephanie's attention towards the window where she crashed through.
There she found the speedster who came close to cutting her off.
"Don't worry, neither of us are staying long."
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The Lone Knight (Under The Cowl Book #1)
FanfictionStephanie Brown's return to Gotham City is not what she expected. A few years removed from the life she thought she wanted to leave behind, fighting crime and putting away the city's scum, learns upon her return that Gotham is worse than when she le...
