capeandcowllogs | let's join forces

WHO: Batwoman II and Tonks
WHERE: the police station
WHEN: Feb. 2nd? after the new comms, before Max steals her second Batwoman comm.
WARNINGS: Most likely none.
SUMMARY: Batwoman has information for the police, but no comm to send it to them on. So she's just going to casually drop it through a window. Without being noticed. Right?
FORMAT: Para to start, whatever you'd like after.

She'd had a couple of investigations since she got here that led to actually needing police to shut it down, and had always simply sent them a compilation of information on her second comm. Only Batwoman was attached to that comm number, and as such she'd managed to maintain more or less anonymity.

But now she was back to one comm, and one that needed to remain a Max comm if only for the sake of appearances. The only real reason for her to vanish off the network for a while was using her comm for a superhero identity, and given that a total of one person was certain of that identity and only a few more had suspicions, she was pretty attached to keeping that on the downlow. Very attached, in fact.

Which certainly went a long way to explain her present actions. Namely, gently breaking into an upper floor of the police station at night. It seemed pretty empty, the lights mostly off, and all she needed to do was leave this folder of information she'd printed out on someone's desk. The note on top was pretty self-explanatory. Thought you could use this, signed with a yellow bat. She crossed the floor quietly, put the folder down on a desk, and turned to go. Mission almost successful.

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It's always the same with her. Paperwork is her bane. She puts it off. It piles up and then she's forced to spend her free time completing it. You'd think she'd learn...

Tonks walks up the staircase to the second floor. She rounds the corner and walks down a corridor. The lights aren't bothered with until she enters the office area.

She reaches to her right and flicks on the light switch.

Max freezes as the light switches on. Oh. Great. She's wearing almost all black except for the yellow bat on her chest and she's clearly in the process of leaving the police station after having broken in. This ... probably doesn't look that great.

"This is really not as bad as it looks," she says, hands held out placatingly. "If you could just... note the bat ears and bat insignia and all that and not shoot me, that would be great." And then, because it's true, she adds with a grin, "I like your hair, by the way."

Not as bad as it looks, she says. For a moment, Tonks just stares at her. It's not every day that someone breaks into the police station. She hadn't heard a thing.

Tonks does note her appearance which is the only reason her wand doesn't come immediately out. "I wouldn't shoot you." Hex, jinx or curse? Yeah. Tonks could do that.

She's aware of masked vigilantes. She doesn't get them, especially their idea of what's supposed to be intimidating but that's no matter. "Are people really that terrified of bats where you come from?"

"Oh, well, that's nice to hear," Max says with a grin, dropping her hands slowly, but she keeps the palms facing towards the other woman and far enough away from her body that they don't present a danger.

Well, she can't say that's what she was expecting to hear - some sort of variation on "intruder!" and alarms was more like it - but she's not going to question it too much. "Oh." She grins. "They are now."

"Nice? It sounds like you've never had the grave misfortune of having your knees bent backwards." Her tone is amicable but Tonks is watching her. Tonks' wand is within easy grasp, just in the sleeve of her shirt, should she need it.

"Now? Did it take a lot of kicking arse?" Tonks is curious. Why not ask? She is just standing there after all. "I have to ask, what are you doing in here?" She doesn't think that the batperson is there to break anyone out. They are on the wrong floor. Information, though? She could be after that.

"I... cannot say that I have, no," Max says, slightly alarmed. That didn't sound all that good. But so far, they're still just talking. Just talking is good right?

Yes. Definitely. Also good is questions. "Yeah, it did," she says. Well, so she hears, at least, but that indicates future-ness and that gets complicated. And there's the question she's been waiting for. "I'm actually dropping off some information. Normally I just send it over the network, but with all the glitching... I figured I'd just leave a hard copy."

"It's not fun." Tonks shakes her head. She's seen it done. Just don't ask for specifics.

"That seems sensible," Tonks agrees. The communicators have been weird. "Why didn't you mail it? You could have done that anonymously."

Huh. "Does it make me sound bad when I say that the mail honestly didn't even occur to me?" She shrugs and smiles. "But still, I don't think I'd want to take that chance. Some of it's a little time-sensitive, and I'd rather none of it went through places it might get into other people's hands."

"No. It doesn't." Tonks slides her wand from out of the sleeve of her jacket. She flicks it at folder and a silent summoning charm brings the folder to Tonks. "That does seem rather reasonable."

She catches the folder after a little back step. "I don't suppose you'd like to tell me what's in the folder?"

Interesting. That... wasn't something she was at all prepared to defend against. She couldn't help feeling rather pleased the window was right behind her.

"A couple different things - some drug runners whose routes and stops and bosses I've finally gotten all together. It should be a clean bust."

"Alright. I'll get these passed on." She slides her wand into the back pocket of her trousers. With both hands free, Tonks briefly riffles through the contents of the folder.

She then lifts her head and smiles at Max. "Thanks for this. I'm sure it'll be helpful." A sudden thought occurs to her, "My name's Tonks by the way."

Max grins, cheerful and bright. Well, that was a good first step, all things considered.

"I hope it will be." She takes a step towards the window and then pauses at the introduction. "It's nice to meet you, Officer Tonks. I'm Batwoman."

"Batwoman? Hmm. It's direct and gets to the point. I like it." Tonks is going to let her leave. She gets the feeling that these masked types aren't usually one for chit-chat and probably has other things to do, like Tonks has other things to do. "Let me know if you have anything else."

"Good to meet you," Max said from the window, crouched. "I will definitely make sure to drop you any information I have." A bright smile. "It'll be nice having a contact."

And with that she drops from the window.

Tonks waves goodbye. "Take care."

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