Someone is always watching

Chapter 24

Saturday afternoon Batcave

"Hey, it's not that scary when you're not hallucinating." stated Nerissa as she climbed down the stairs. She looked around, the giant penny, the dinosaur, the giant joker card, it's spooky but not as terrifying as she remembered.

"HEY DID YOU GET COFFEE?"

"It's with Jason, my hands are still shaky," Nerissa replied walking towards Tim and the giant computer screen. She looked around and saw Damian, Dick and Cassandra sparring. She was amazed by Cassandra's fighting skills. She was beating both boys, Dick was a full grown man almost as huge as Jason, and Cassandra was throwing him around like a rag doll.

"You know I'm the only one who beat her?" whispered Jason in her ear sending shivers down her spine, he noticed her amazement and felt the need to top it.

"No way! I don't believe it." she teased.

"That's because you've never seen me in action," she knew he was trying to rile her up a bit, she did walk out on him in the library. She turned and looked him dead in the eyes.

"She's my favorite hero, nothing's changing that," she got on her tiptoes to reach his ear and said in a very seductive voice "but Red Hood, he's my favorite crime lord," she kissed the spot behind his ear, "love me a bad boy, thunder thighs and all that," lightly rubbing his arm. She trotted towards Tim leaving Jason to his demons. "How can I help?" she took a deep breath scanning the open files on the screen.

"I want to show you a video, I found a tight angle of the person who killed the sniper, I just want to see if you'd recognize them." he looked at her and saw her getting uncomfortable, "we can do it later if you're not ready it's okay."

"Play it, if I don't see it now I won't see it." She wasn't falling into the pit again, it's just a video and she's safe. She looked back to find Jason, he was already by her side.

The video played, it had a lot of static, it showed the sniper taking his shot, she instinctively reached for her neck. Then the sniper looked to his right and held his thumb up. A few seconds later he falls to his knees, and a fairly tall man appears with a knife in his hand carves a V on the sniper's head, the tall man doesn't bother to look towards her window, he quickly gets up and leaves.

"Play it again slowly and zoom in a bit?" Tim did as she asked, she knew who it was, she would recognize his silhouette anywhere but that's just because she knows him. Tim paused the video on the clearest side of his face. "That's uh- Joe," she walked away real quick. "What did he carve in the guy's head?" she asked from afar.

"A 'V', there's this killer for hire, Victor Zsasz, he always signs his victims, I think they tried to make it look gang related." explained Tim, not completely lying.

"He didn't check to see if I got hit? Was he still up there when Hood took me up to the roof?"

"See that's the problem, it's a wonder I found this pod camera, most of them don't work in crime alley. But now that I know who it might be I can trace his movements throughout the day."

"Can I go now?" she asked nervously.

"Hey, come on let's go make fun of the brat and dickhead getting their asses kicked."Jason suggested guiding her to the sparring area and they sat on the bench press.

"How does she move like that? She's so skilled." she sighed admiring Cassandra, "I mean I can run in high heels if needs be, is that a skill?" she looked at Jason who was staring at her with hearts in his eyes and something else she wasn't ready to deal with, she looked away and continued "and she's cute as button in her civilian clothes."