Someone is always watching

Chapter 11

Jason's safe house, Robins' meeting before patrol, Thursday night

"So what you're saying is that she's already met the old man?" 

"For the hundredth time Todd, yes she said she has met Batman once. She was in London recently, and Father and I went to her exhibition at Gotham University." snapped Damian clearly annoyed. 

"HEY!" yelled Dick cutting their bickering short. "Tim found something." they all turn their attention to an over worked Tim. 

"First, Bruce is either onto us or he was expecting us to find out he's hiding stuff. I've been knocking down his firewalls one by one, and he had one saying 'Red Robin leave it alone', the one after said 'Seriously stop digging', in the encrypted codes, it's like he bought a sense of humor or something" he took a deep breath and continued. "Second, when she was in high school she applied to the Wayne Foundation scholarship and got it, what I found out was that she was super late with her application and the terms of the scholarship were altered to cover everything. You guys know how these usually work right?" their faces indicated that they don't know. "Well the maximum these scholarships cover is 75% of the tuition fees, she got 100% plus monthly payments. Which brings me to my third point, only Bruce Wayne can do such a change, and guess what? It's never been done before and it hasn't been done since." Tim concluded with that and turned to his computer and started typing again. "Okay she was in London for 6 months, she had an art residency there." he continues typing.

Jason's living room is filled with silence, only the clicking of the keyboard was heard, the boys are trying to understand  everything their brother just shared. Damian knew better than to mention her coming over on Sunday, he and Alfred had agreed not to speak of it, though he was probably going to tell Dick later on patrol. Jason was debating with himself if he should tell them about her comment about dying and her weird knife. Dick was super pissed at Bruce, he thought that after everything that's happened to this family Bruce would act differently. Dick only saw her in person once at the coffee shop, so he had no insight on her as a person, she's sassy that's for sure. He was tired, trying to keep his family from falling apart, trying to go back to being Nightwing after the Spyral disaster, and trying to understand why Bruce was out-Brucing himself on this case. He knew that in order to keep an eye on her; introducing Tim as a student was a good idea, sending Jason in when Tim had to deal with his team was also the smart thing to do. He sure as hell couldn't go himself, Dick Grayson; Bruce Wayne's ward posing nude for art classes the press would have had a field day and the girl would have been harassed eternally. Jason is legally dead, so with some colored lenses, prosthetic makeup and the holographic simulation Bruce used to hide his scars when he had to be caught in embarrassing playboy situations, it made sense. But now he set her up to Damian's school? Dick decided to vocalize his thoughts. 

"Hey Tim, check if Bruce had anything to do with her getting hired at Damian's school. And see if her family knew Bruce before they died, run a background check on both her parents, and try to see if you can find anything about her biological parents specially if they are linked to Bruce or anyone in his family, I'll swing by the orphanage tomorrow as Bruce Wayne's son to sniff around their archive. Bruce said her friend checked out but let's try finding every person she's ever met, specially those she's still in contact with. I'll get in touch with a contact of mine in England, but we should keep looking into it ourselves. We should stop looking at it the way Bruce expects us to, so I say we leave his servers alone and dig through others. Jay look into the plane crash, you have a friend whose a stewardess or something? Isabel was it?" Jason was about to protest but Dick didn't want to hear it. "See if she can get you any information from the Gotham airport or if she can smuggle you in to snoop around. And Damian? You are not to leave her side when she's at GA, I don't care what you do to stay in that studio but you do it." He finally inhaled some air. "I will look into my own archives and files to see where she might have met Batman. Now let's get going, he will probably me wondering where we are." The boys nodded in agreement, but Jason had to say something out loud, before he could Dick added, "Oh and let's look into the guy you saved her from Jay, cover all our basis, bat-cover your tracks okay?"