Jason Blood held out his arm for Barbara to take.
"Why do you keep doing that Jason?" Barbara asked.
"Old customs," Jason smiled, "I grew up in before what you now call the Great Migration Period at the end of the Roman Empire."
"Did they really rub noses back them?" Barbara asked.
"I'm not sure," Jason shrugged, "They invented kissing before I was born. England did for a long time did live in fear of Irish attacks."
As they reached the bottom of the stair case, there was a shout, a gun shot, and the sounds of fighting. Barbara let go of Jason Blood's arm and rushed to the entrance of the dining room to see what was happening.
That Todd kid had Sarah on the floor in an arm bar trying to pry her J Framed Smith and Wesson Revolver from her hand. Her father James was on top of the table trying to strangle Dick. Bruce held the kid Helen in his arms shielding her from the brawl.
Selina seemed to be searching for something. Alfred walked up to Barbara and offered her a glass of Brandy off of a silver platter.
"What happened?" Barbara almost was unable to ask.
"Mistress Helen," Alfred started, "Asked if you had feinted again since you were out on the balcony for so long, Mrs Gordon asked why you would be feinting. Helen informed her that you had feinted a few times before and Master Jason said that was because
you were pregnant but not pregnant."
"And then?" Jason Blood asked with an almost demonic smile.
"Well, that news was not well received," Alfred said in his normally unimpressed voice, "I would also recommend that you change into your running shows before your father notices your return Miss Gordon."
"Etrigon is doing his best Joker impersonation right now," Jason noted for Barbara and Alfred, "In between breathless laughter there seems to be a poem about four year olds and secrets."
"Indeed sir, Brandy?" Alfred agreed.
It was then that Selina found what she was looking for, a flash bang grenade. She tossed it to the end of the room and the blast got everyone's attention.
"Now that I have your attention everyone!" Selina shouted, "Let us all retire to the armor before Alfred gets really angry. And there are plenty of sharp pointy objects to help with interpersonal disputes there."
Everyone began filing past Alfred, Jason Blood and Barbara. She could only smile weekly as she got dirty looks from just about everyone. Alfred gave a low sarcastic "Grrr" as Selina walked by.
The armory was towards the back of the building on the ground floor and featured three Olympic regulation fencing lanes in the middle and a series of old chairs arranged around them for guests to view the matches. Selina and Bruce sat at the north end with
Helen, James and Sarah at the east end, Jason Todd and Dick at the west end, and Jason Blood sat with Barbara at the south end.
"Well I guess we should all come clean" Jason Blood started standing up, "Mister and misses Gordon, my name is Jason Blood, I am an occultist. This morning I detected a strange magical occurance. I followed it to this girl that appears to be your daughter."
Barbara was in full panic, Gordon looked like he was going to shoot Jason.
"The confusion stems from the fact that this a Barbara Gordon, but she is not your Barbara "Babs" Gordon. I can not attest to the state or activity your daughter," Jason Blood stated very calmly, "But to hold this young woman as the guilty party is not
just."
"Bull!" James shouted.
"Right," Sarah said with a sneer.
"Right prove it!" James said, "take the make up off your tattoo. You keep trying to hide it from me but Im your father."
"Tattoo?" Barbara asked, "what tattoo?"
"The squirrel on your ankle!" Helen shouted with glee.
Sarah reached into her purse and pulled out a acoohal wipe and walked over to Barbara.
"Right foot, now."
Barbara held out foot with the peep toe pumps. Sarah started rubbing the inner ankle with increasing vigor.
"Ouch your hurting me!" Barbara protested.
"There is no Tattoo," Jason Blood put his hand on Sarah's shoulder, "This is not your step daughter."
"THEN WHERE IS MY BABS!" James Gordon shouted.
"Somewhere else," Jason shrugged, "That is beyond my current knowledge. I do know that this girl is blameless as to the current disagreement. And now that we have that established, let us return to the discord at hand."
"Alright BOY BLUNDER! OUT WITH IT!" James started shouting.
Everyone but Sarah noticed the use of the Joker's old nickname for Robin.
"Hell, we have been off and on since freshmen year of high school. You have to know that," Dick started, "We got really serious summer after the first year of collage. I asked her to marry me last Christmas."
"The sparrow with a heart shaped emerald pendant," James observed dryly.
"Alfred's old fashion idea," Robin said, "I think he got it from a book of medieval romance. We spent spring break together. We were going to use this time to make the announcements to the families, we were going to wait till graduation. It seems the
shorts weren't made to FDA approved thickness, so we agreed that we had to move up the time table."
In the normal World
"Cat got your tongue?" the lust fueled Selina smiled...