outfoxing (outfoxing) wrote in dc_nextgen,
@ 2011-12-16 01:04:00

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We meet again
This wasn't really up to her standards when it came to heists. And it wasn't a real heist. It was just that her employer needed her to get some things to trade on the black market for the cold hard cash he needed to get his little war started soon. He wanted to get Gotham back to being so dirty Detroit would look like it was clean. The metaphor was lost on someone like her who had spent much of her life in Europe and the Middle East.

She misses the desert on nights like these. She had thirty minutes until the security came around to check the vault. She had just enough time to get in and out.

In ten minutes she had gotten her prize and was quickly sailing over roof tops and around ally ways tearing like mad away from a successful job. This haul should please her Boss because it yielded a high pay out for them.

And now she senses trouble.

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cantkeepmeout
2011-12-16 06:15 am UTC (link)

He stares right into the impossibly green eyes, the lenses of his mask hiding the blue of his well, and smirks a little.

Jumping of the gargoyle to land neatly beside her he turns to continue in Farsi, "Work night Foxy?" It's a good thing he's been studying the language ever since that night at the zoo...which he's going to pretend didn't happen for now. Best to stay flirtatious 'enemies'. Although really it's hardly like she's the scum he's used to dealing with. This change is refreshing if nothing else.

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	outfoxing 2011-12-16 06:29 am UTC (link)
	"Oh no. Just out for a jaunt," she switches to French almost effortlessly. Part of it is to not test the limits of his Farsi. "You know. Keep my girlish figure. After all this job requires me to be in excellent shape." She shouldn't lie but she has little choice. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	cantkeepmeout 2011-12-16 06:43 am UTC (link)
	"Really?" He responds in French and now he's moved closer, "and I suppose your haul over there is just weights for the exercise Foxy?" It looks like tonight will be a less playful encounter than last time. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	outfoxing 2011-12-17 12:35 am UTC (link)
	Oh now she has to leave. No more fun for them. "Sorry, Robin. But I have to be a little bad tonight." She has the bag in a flash and dives off the ledge as quick as she can. He's going to have to catch her. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	cantkeepmeout 2011-12-17 12:44 am UTC (link)
	"As opposed to your usual nice girl ways?" He dives off the ledge after her with a slight smirk on his face. Game on. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	outfoxing 2011-12-17 12:48 am UTC (link)
	She lands seconds latter on a lower roof and runs. She jumps so that she has to race over the top of a trailer as it drives. She doesn't miss a beat and shoots up with a grappling line swinging high into the air only to land on a roof. And she races some more getting far ahead. Only to pause briefly to give an almost flirting wave before she is running again. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

cantkeepmeout
2011-12-17 12:59 am UTC (link)

He lands right after her, hoping to close the distance a bit while on foot. Instead of running over trailers he decides to bypass it with a shot of the grappling gun so he can catch up, except somehow she's gotten ahead. That won't do. Especially after that flirty wave.

Time for some shortcuts. Robin disappears from view for a minute, aiming to head her off after the clock tower. Out of view he swings to higher ground hoping to drop down on her a few buildings down. It might not be his Gotham but doesn't mean he doesn't know it like the back of his hand.

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outfoxing
2011-12-17 01:06 am UTC (link)

She hadn't been able to help it. She thought he might catch her. He has the home team advantage after all. Still she is moving fast. As fast as she has been moving all night he can move even faster.

She doesn't see where he is but she has this sudden urge to avoid the clock tower so she turns and goes another way even if she won't have the advantage of height anymore.

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	cantkeepmeout 2011-12-17 01:16 am UTC (link)
	Hmm she's changed course. Well good thing he's got scalloped Batman-cape his predecessors didn't. The wind's even on his side too. Time to fly. Diving off the clock tower he signals his cape to go rigid and soon he's gliding over the rooftops. It may be night already but soon there will be a shadow flying over a certain Fox. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	outfoxing 2011-12-17 01:22 am UTC (link)
	Oh that is not fair at all! Fox shoots a line off hoping to gain some distance. But a bad thing happens as she's about to land on the next building in her path a flock of pigeons comes flying in and throws her off just a bit. She sneezes from the dust from the birds as she lands then takes off at a run. "Damn birds." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	cantkeepmeout 2011-12-17 01:29 am UTC (link)
	He doesn't particularly care about fairness, especially not if it means letting her get away. "Did you mean me Foxy?" He's landed right in front of her with a smirk. He knows he's got her now. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	outfoxing 2011-12-17 01:34 am UTC (link)
	Oh that has her surprised. He's good at this. "No." She's still going to try backing away even if he has her caught she's not admitting it just yet. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	cantkeepmeout 2011-12-17 01:40 am UTC (link)
	"Maybe you should've meant me then," he lunges after her, aiming to grab or immobilize her just so he can trap her. He's not looking to hurt her, just stop her. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	outfoxing 2011-12-17 01:44 am UTC (link)
	They roll with the tackle. She knows to go loose a little stiff in case he really does get a hold of her and she somehow ends up on top of him as they've tolled. Except then she sees that they need to move as to not fall. She tries to get of of him but because she's trying to get away that may end up with him holding on tighter. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

cantkeepmeout
2011-12-17 01:52 am UTC (link)

That doesn't go entirely as planned...skylight in the way. He's got her in a tight grip but rolls so that he's on the bottom and will take the brunt of the impact when the hit.

Except he overestimated the building's standards. The skylight breaks to bits as they crash through, still locked onto each other, him trying to prevent her from getting away and getting hurt in the fall, and her trying to escape his grasp.

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	outfoxing 2011-12-17 01:57 am UTC (link)
	She yelps and digs her fingers in. She never liked crashing or falling if he would just let go everything would be fine. But there's no time. They land and she winces as shards of glass come down from where they crashed through. Again she tries to pull away because she doesn't like this at all. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	cantkeepmeout 2011-12-17 02:11 am UTC (link)
	If he let go then she'd get hurt more, at least this way he can control the fall. The landing is a little rough and he lifts his cape over both of them to protect them from the falling glass. But doing so means he only has one arm to keep her under the cape and from escaping. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	outfoxing 2011-12-17 02:18 am UTC (link)
	She had clung to brace herself against the fall. Then marveled at how much bigger he was than her because that had kept her mostly safe. His cape protected her too. And now she pulls trying to get away. She had slipped out of his hold only to stumble and flop. Shit. Her belt had gotten caught on his uniform. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

cantkeepmeout
2011-12-17 02:24 am UTC (link)

His first thought is that the fall had somehow injured her enough to cause her to collapse.

Then he sees the real reason for her fall and tries not to laugh. And fails.

He takes the opportunity to pin her while she's on the ground and in between snickering he manages to get out, "You alright? Sorry can't let you go though I need your haul. Nothing personal, it's business."

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	outfoxing 2011-12-17 02:38 am UTC (link)
	She's frustrated and trying to get him off of her. The position she got stuck in has some of her gear on her belt digging into her side, especially with him pinning her. She also knows because of their size differences that there is no way she can escape him. "I'm not hurt just embarrassed." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	cantkeepmeout 2011-12-17 02:54 am UTC (link)
	He's got her pinned well, and she's not getting out that easily. "Well..." he swipes her haul away now and tucks it away, "you weren't going to get away even if that hadn't happened. Like I'd let you." The last part comes with a smug smirk. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	outfoxing 2011-12-17 03:04 am UTC (link)
	Damn. She knows other places she can steal from though. Nothing as nice but.... beggars can't be choosers. She'll just have to wait another day or two to throw him off her trail. "If my belt hadn't gotten caught I could have gotten away," she growls. "You just got lucky." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

cantkeepmeout
2011-12-17 03:14 am UTC (link)

"That's what they all say. 'I could've gotten away if it weren't for that meddling crimefighter'," he rolls his eyes.

"It's not luck if this is the second time. 2-0 Foxy. 3-0 if we count me beating you to the zoo."

Now he's thinking of what to do with her. Does he tie her up and leave her for the police? Does he bring her to a nearby station himself? She'll get out of both and...it feels weird handing over a thief like her to the police.

It's not like he's never caught thieves, but most were the amateur kind that had to use explosives to get safes open. Explosives. Ugh that was depressing, they couldn't even open it they had to blow it. But none of them had been any good, none of them were actually talented thieves.

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	outfoxing 2011-12-17 03:21 am UTC (link)
	"'2-0', the zoo was just a game," she says stiffly. She shifts enough to get free just enough that she's not hurting her side from pressure and she can unhook herself from his uniform. She gets the impression though that he will pin her again if she really tries to escape. And nope she's never used explosives to crack a safe. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	cantkeepmeout 2011-12-17 03:29 am UTC (link)
	"It's still in my favour. So, I assumed someone hired you for this job tonight. Doesn't seem like something challenging enough that you'd do on your own." He's basing this off where he saw her leaving from and knowledge of the level of security around the city. That place wouldn't be worth her time. "So...want to give me a name?" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)