Shadow Boxing 3

==Misc==
===(Dw) Grandmother===
>Liu and Ra's meet up<
"How fares your grandmother?"
"Thriving despite your best efforts." 
"They /were twenty years ago." 
"Fifteen years, seven months, two weeks, and four days. She asked me to poison your tea."
"As if there exists a poison to which I'm not immune."
"We'll see about that."
.
“What exactly were you hoping to accomplish with that letter? I respect her opinion but she doesn’t control me and certainly doesn’t tell me what to do.” 
“Oh, I know.”
“Then why waste your time?”
“I merely did so because I could.” 
==Situation==
Situation: Grapple (Captain) | Luck/Off the Map | Bad then Good | Rubber Duckie | 
Batphone | Tower (Commiserate?) | Princess | Hostage | Not a Hostage | Spineless 
===(B) Grapple===
>not Tim because he’s only two inches taller than Min, so too short for this to be at all graceful<
One day, out in the city, there’s a Situation. Nightwing rappelles down, offers a lift to Min, and they head back up. He lays out how they’re going to cross the rooftops and where they’re going to swing across. He goes slowly, she hobbles along after, and two rooftops later Nightwing fires his grapple and they swing one more block from the fight—
The line snaps. 
They’re going to slam into that window but instead it smashes around them and they bounce into an office. 
“Richard, if you desire attention, you can bother your father.” 
Nightwing wobbles to his feet and stumbles to Min; she’s blinking and trying to sit up 
The building shakes, and Ra’s shoos him back to the battle and helps Min to her feet but she finds every other step’s like she’s being stabbed—
Meanwhile, “Captain, my Captain!”: Long tried the ol' pirate trick, leaping into a free fall from several stories up, slowing herself with a knife through a banner, and sticks the landing. 
Dead. Silence. 
Then, 
Red Hood drops to one knee, “Oh Captain, my captain!”
A crowd of stunned civilians sheltering at a nearby restaurant stand collectively: “Oh Captain, my captain!” 
Long straightens her shoulders and takes charge. 
===(Bw) Bad then Good===
Min hears her prognosis but doesn't really get it
===(B) Update===
Long gets her update, laments that she’s probably going to have to send Min home since she needs far more care than she’s comfortable getting from the Wayne family. Ra’s tsks Long’s overreaction, declares he has enough staff to care for one mostly-immobile teenager, and privately, he and his may not be banned from eastern China for the next century. 
===(D) Off the Map===
When the Batfam convenes afterward the Situation, Dick’s recounting how they went through the window and Tim’s like, “how??? Ra’s uses hurricane glass? One does not simply smash through it?”
From nowhere, Liu says, “She stepped on a needle.” 
A evidence bag is tossed onto the table. 
Liu joins them. “It provided the necessary stress to shatter the glass.” 
Tim asks how Min is, Liu reports that Ra’s said she’d slept the afternoon away and would be fine. Tim asks when they got back and Liu says, "Just me” and informs them Min will be staying at the compound outside Gotham for the time being. 
"I can't believe you trust that guy with your cousin!" 
"I never said I trusted him." 
"Which is why she's here and not with him. >action break< He's /weird." 
"I trust exactly two people on this planet: one of them is my grandmother, the other is myself in that I have done a good enough job cultivating my reputation such that anyone who knows my name also now that if they cross me or mine I would take everything they hold dear, pluck every trace of them from the map and claim it all as mine, and then set them on fire." 
"Tea, Miss Long?" 
"That would be lovely. Thank you, Alfred." 
===(Bw) Rubber Ducky===
The next morning, Tim is determined to get Min back to the manor. Jason’s not doing anything so he tags along on this ‘rescue’ mission. 
Min brains Jason with a Superduck instead. 
It comes after a somewhat not-fully thought-out plan of Tim's; Liu's fine leaving Min with Ra's (she and her disaster magnet are out of freaking Gotham, for one thing) but Tim's like, 'that is a terrible idea' and Jason's not doing anything so they break in, find Min ... and she's in the middle of a bubble bath. And not super-interested in leaving.
Besides the fact they would have to smuggle her and her wheelchair out (or carry her but neither lends itself to stealth), she'd also have to shower off all the bubbles and get dressed which could easily be half an hour. 
She's got a whack of reasons besides bubbles as to why she's fine staying, too, and tells the boys to please. get. out. of her bathroom and when they won't, ducks go a-flying; specifically a Superman-themed rubber duck from Min braining Jason. 
Jason is /so insulted :D the indignity of it all! 
 
Because having something branded with the mark of that overrated metropolitan chucked at you is greatest of insults.
Someone comes to check on Min (the boys set some minor explosives on the opposite side of the compound)--an assistant calls from the hall--and Min's all, "everything's fine~!" and points the boys to the shower and then tells the assistant that she /did see them but asked them to leave. Took some convincing, but they left. The assistant leaves, the boys get the message and slink off, and Min returns to turning herself into a prune 
===(D) Batphone===
>Pru’s assignment is to be Nice and get Min to somehow stop jumping at shadows, so she's watched waaaay more Teen Girl movies than she ever wanted to and will hopefully be Relateable; also, Min can tell Pru isn’t an NPC but she has no idea who she is--that’s for their next scene!<
When the seatbelt sign dings to life, Pru closes the laptop with great prejudice and stuffs it in her bag, and punches out a text:
 
----I have so much pop culture in my brain I want to barf. WEDNESDAYS. i s2g if i have to wear pink i’ll give birdy ALL the deets alive after this binge. on the other hand, ive learned BFFs insult authority figures a LOT
 
A reply comes more quickly than her mobile can auto-sleep:
-----Your vulgarity already offends my sensibilities; well done, Prudence.
 
Fuck, does she ever want to gloat. Or grin at Z or Owens and kick off a 'who can be the most ~vulgar~' competition. But her ... target? assignment? charge? wouldn't be 'comfortable' with a friend like that, so,
 
-----Awww, thanks, Boss! :) :) :) Prudence~ OH MY GOD THIS IS AWFUL
.
Pru strolls into the study.
Princess sits on a couch, twisted around and looking out the window into the courtyard, back to the door (such strange people, civilians). 
"What're you supposed to be, then?"
 
Princess sits properly, swivels as Pru saunters to a couch and sprawls. “A convalescing patient.”
 
“Pru snorts. “Haven’t heard that one. Bunch of ‘It’s just a flesh wound’, the lot of them.” 
 
Princess giggles.
 
“I’m a companion, by the way. His ‘Lordship’ requested I drop everything—like I was doing anything—and return here at once.” 
 
"That's a good idea."
 
"Oh?"
 
"The other day, there was, um, a ‘rescue’ attempt except, well, ... I'm either curled up with lots of blankets—I don’t move around much—or I’m exercising and sweating a lot so I’m changing from some sleep clothes to other sleep clothes and I like to be clean because they’re clean clothes, so I was cleaning—bathing, I was in the bath—they didn’t know that—but then they just wouldn’t leave.”
 
“Oh my god, you were—I’m assuming you were—” 
 
“Only bubbles.”
 
“Jesus Christ. Did they expect you to leave like that?” 
 
“We didn’t really get that far.”
 
“Those idiots. That’s /so inappropriate. I’m honestly embarrassed to know them.” 
 
“I had to throw a rubber duck at them.” 
 
“You scared them off by wielding a rubber duck?”
 
“May have had something to do with it being a Superman rubber duck.”
 
“You hit Birdy—”
 
“Uh—” Min digs a small notebook from her nest, flips through—“‘Red Hood’?”
 
“You hit Red fucking Hood in the hood with a Superman duck.” 
 
“That I did.” Softly, looking away, back rigid.
 
“I would’ve paid fucking /gold to see the look on his mug.”
 
A cautious grin and, “He was pretty upset.”
 
“Okay, this I gotta see. Gimme—may I—Is that tablet from here?”
 
Mind nods, hands it over.
 
“You’re in—what room are you in?”
 
“Go left out that door, then right, second door on the left.”
 
“Gotcha.” Pru taps away, plunks down beside Min. “I’m Pru, by the way.” Doesn’t offer her hand.
 
“I’m Min.” She doesn’t, either.
 
“Here we go.”
 
The app shows two feeds: one from a camera over the door facing the window and a kittycorner vent, the other, a view of the door from under the window with a sliver of the doorframe around the bathroom.
 
“Did you not get a fucking door?”
 
“There’s one for the hallway.” Almost a grumble, “It’s hard enough to open with crutches.”
 
The feeds flicker—
 
“They set explosives on the other side of the compound,” explains Min.
 
“At least they thought through that part of their plan.”
 
The vent pops open and Red Robin wiggles out, seconds later Red Hood bursts through the door, then they attend the washroom. 
 
“I’m detailing why I’m not leaving besides the fact I don’t want to.”
 
“They don’t listen, huh.”
 
“Nope, and there’s—”
 
“There’s the duck!” Pru cackles.
 
Min smiles in spite of herself.
 
“Oh my god he’s so angry. Or insulted. Who cares, this is fucking gold.”
 
The boys attend the door, then dart in the washroom.
 
“Where’d you send them?”
 
“Shower.”
 
“Clever.”
 
Boss strides into the frame, stopping just inside the hallway door.
 
“You know he knows they’re there, right?”
 
“Yea … I thought it would be the right thing to let them leave instead of Mr al Ghul having them escorted out.”
 
Pru frowns thoughtfully.
 
“He’s telling me why everything shook earlier and asking if I’m okay and if I saw them—”
 
Boss looks directly into the window camera like—
 
“He’s doing that thing from that TV show!” Pru nearly cackles herself off the couch, but—“What’s wrong?”
 
Min worries the cuff of her top. “I was just telling him that they’d come by to break me out but it didn’t seem like it’d occurred to them I couldn’t walk and I told them just to leave, which, he seems to know I’m lying ….”
 
“Oh! You think—he’s not looking—“Looking” at you, that’s what his face, well, what he does whenever Birdy does something particularly dumb." Reconsiders. "Irritating. Reminds me of a prune."
 
"Right. Tim being irritating. World doesn't revolve around me." She chuckles awkwardly.
 
"You're what, fourteen?"
 
"Sixteen."
 
"Even better. Find me a sixteen-year-old who /doesn't think the world revolves around them and I'll kiss Birdy." 
 
A laugh–real this time–flies from Min–she claps a hand over her mouth.
 
Pru beams, then, "Keep watching?"
 
Min nods, nestles closer.
 
Boss stares at the camera for a moment, then resumes being a gentleman.
 
"He wants to know if I mind him leaving a couple people behind but–"
 
Boss attends something out of the frame and shoos it away.
 
"So Birdy and Hood could get away?"
 
Not really.
"I kinda wanted to be alone? Possibly for the rest of my life? And wear like, nine dresses at all times." 
"Yea ... that's reasonable."
"You'd think I've worn enough hospital gowns over the last couple months I'd be over it–"
"Doctors don't count." 
 
She smiles. "True."
 
"Keep playing?"
 
"Yes please."
 
Boss attends forward–
 
"He's being polite and I was just like, 'please leave'."
 
Boss winces.
 
"That is the look of someone who put themselves in the shoes of someone who has a zillion very good reasons to feel super uncomfortable with everything especially other people."
 
Boss nods and then sweeps from the room, then Pru fast forwards a minute or two and Tim and Jason slink into view and over to the vent; Jason gives Tim a boost, puts the cover back in place, heads out but pauses--
 
"I think he was glaring at me–"
 
"About the duck. Totally about the duck."
 
"The /Superman duck."
 
They grin.
 
"But seriously, I really can't tell. If he wanted to emote with his face he should've gone with something you can see his eyebrows.”
 
"That is a very good point--and he's off, under his own power." Pouts.
 
"Yea, it was either that or--"
 
"Nah, giving them the boot's too 'grumpy old man' of him. Plus he wouldn't get much of a monologue in at Birdy. He'd probably go for a power play and call Batman to pick them up and get one in then." 
 
"Lord over his captive audience while they wait."
 
"Yes! Exactly that, brilliant! Plenty of time while--" Pru's face goes kinda slack, then she grins very slowly and very hugely.
 
Min queries, just a little alarmed.
 
"He would /call Batman to come /pick /up his errant /children."
 
Min's eyes get huge and sparkly with a smile not quite sure if it has permission for the rest of her face.
 
"Oh my god you have /got to do that next time."
She flinches, schools herself into something of a smile. "I have to live with them."
 
"You're not living with them /now."
 
"But I'm still in Gotham."
 
"True."
 
"I really hope there isn't even a next time."
 
"Birdy's got his knickers in waaaaay too much of a twist about this just to let it drop. You probably won't see him for a couple weeks, but."
 
The joy in Min dies a painful death.
 
Pru … "What if /I get them caught?"
 
A little bit of tension drains away; "I guess ...."
 
"Fantastic!" Bumps her shoulder. "Hope you like me, kid, 'cause I'm stick with you until then at least and even then!"
 
.
 
"How was your afternoon?"
 
"Not bad."
 
"You and Miss Yeung seem to get along."
 
"Of course we did. Fastest way to a teenager's good books: insult the people she wants to insult but can't and make fun of authority. [You] look like a prune when Birdy's involved, by the way."
 
"Charming."
 
"Ain't it? She laughed. Also avoided that cliché--told her upfront I was on assignment that, as it turns out, is the best one /ever."
 
"Pray you remain of that mind after next week."
 
"What happens next week?"
 
"Between now and then, Miss Yeung has three appointments in the city and the uncanny ability to draw disaster down upon her head."
 
"We talking a revenge plot? Aliens, time travel ...?" 
 
"Prepare for /everything."
====(B) Batphone II====
Pru makes good on her threat and gets Red and Hood caught. They’re marched to an office to sulk--beyond entertaining for everyone else, and pouty boys in capes is hilarious.
Tim: >:( we're not children
Ra's: clearly. children don't try sneaking into a girl's washroom 
Tim:>spluttering<
Jason: does it help we were hoping clothes were involved this time?
Pru: their dad's here! :DD shall I send him in?
Jason: you know, if ever someone's rifling through your memory, you can just think back on this and they'll cringe so hard they'll boot themselves out of your head
Aaaaaand since Pru, Steph, and Barbara exchanged contact info (in “Tower”), they both have copies of the video and Steph shared it with Cass who showed it to Damian and Tim's actively considering changing his name and moving to Peru.
===(WiP) Tower===
Steph, Cass, Pru, and Min hang out at Barbara's
Pru babysitting then leads to her getting really bored, really fast, and offering to accompany Min outside; Min texts Barbara a picture of her and Pru and Barbara’s like, 'welp, she knows who we all are sooooooo, maybe we return the favour? but really, at this point, what harm?
So they go to Barbara's, Steph and Cass join them—
'Hi, I'm Pru, i worked with Drake when your boss was doing that whole ~lost in time~ thing. I doubt he said anything about it.' 
'Trying to get that guy to talk is like ... Cass, you think of a metaphor.' 
'>thumbs up<' 
'I'm Steph, that's Cass, you probably know who we are from sources that aren't Tim.' 
'Yeaaaa, let's leave it at that.'
--laughing uproariously at Cass' impressions of everyone and having spaghetti (Barbara was already making it for dinner; the extra company just meant an extra can of sauce and another box of pasta). 
At some point (I can’t remember how), they’re talking with Tim on the phone and Pru cackles at him that she did a better job getting the princess from the tower than he did
Cass raiding Barbara's nail polish such that when Pru figures they should be getting Min to bed Cass can't reaaaaaallly go anywhere and isn't it interesting how little room there is on the couch between Steph and Pru
===(D) Commiserate===
Has Min commiserated about crazy families with the saner members of the Batfmily (like Barbara or Alfred) so here's Barbara and Min grumbling about the crazy people in the Wayne Manor
Barbara: So, your cousin. She's ... something. 
Min: I guess ...? 
Barbara: she slid down four stories but used a knife instead of a grapple 
Min: she did /what? 
Barbara: does ... does this mean there's /another lunatic living in the manor? 
Min: I wouldn't say Long's a lunatic—
Barbara: trust me, I say it with love, they're all nuts, they're my extended family and I adore them to pieces but the lot of them are the most self sacrificing, death wish having pack of idiots I've ever met. Except Damian who insists he's immortal. 
Min: i can't believe my cousin dropped four stories with just a knife 
Barbara: and adding one more to that house? You're never going back for your own safety. My dad's the police commissioner I can say stuff like that
===(Bw) Princess===
Pru asks Min what happened with her leg. Min asks what version she wants. 
===(Bw) Hostage (I Am Not)===
Hostage: Tim's trying to get himself and Damian when Ra's calls. Tim tells him that if he wants to talk, he can do so when he drops Min off. Liu objects, Tim objects, Liu gets threatening, Ra's gets threatening, there's a standoff, and Tim excuses himself and asks Min if she'd like him to pick her up (she would). (; "open channel")
(I Am Not): Min hangs out in Tim's office (in her PJs) all day
===(B) Spineless===
Tim tries convincing Min that staying at the compound is Not a good idea, she tries convincing him that she's fine and that Liu knows what's best, Jason suggests to Min that maybe she should grow a spine, she reveals she was kidnapped in broad daylight, beaten, and promised to have her throat slit, and she still leaves the house. "What've you done today?"
==Misc==
Misc: Stealth Mode | Robots | Tech | Taiwan | Boundary | Painting | Explosion | ‘Min’ with a ‘T’
===(B) Stealth Mode===
Who’s sneakier: Batman or Long? 
Forty markers around the city; first one to tag them all wins
No outside help
Each frame in which they appear loses them a point
BatFam watches their trackers with Barbara or with Alfred
===(Bw) Robots===
The aliens send robots; it’s such a loud, frantic mess that Superman checks on things and someone's like, 'Go to the address and stay there and do not leave for /anything' and guess what? a robot went astray and is shooting up wherever Min is. because that's her life; she’s hiding under a toppled bookcase and finds a coin. 
===(B) Tech===
Tim gets to muck around in alien tech. 
===(N) Taiwan===
The Batkids decide Long, despite being in Taiwan at the time, must've been the one who rescued Min. 
===(N) Boundary===
Tim confronts Long about rescuing Min all those months ago
===(P) Painting===
, 
The High Dragon is polite, petty, and passive aggressive to the nth degree, and, being far too medieval to send a 'thank you' to Ra’ conventionally and damned if she sends (another) one of her people into that warzone, summons Tim to her lair to escort a painting back to Gotham. 
She’s somehow exactly what Tim expects (omniscient, in complete control of everything) but also ... not. (possibly because part of him figured Long just walked fully formed from a shadow and didn't have parents but also because the High Dragon answers his questions with actual information)
[HD offers Tim three questions]
"But you're providing me with a room and [food]."
"A good host would not dare do otherwise. I trust you find them satisfactory?"
"Very comfortable and the food is absolutely delicious--as good as Alfred's."
"Generous praise indeed."
…
'Why did you and yours keep in contact with him?'
'Why wouldn't we?' 
'Because he's a functionally immortal megalomaniac who gets nuttier each time he resurrects himself and also kills people a lot?'
‘I’ve survived 10 different iterations of this country. Why should I be afraid of a single man?’ 
'Do you really think a single man would scare me after I’ve lived through the death throes and rebirth of this country? This is its tenth life, his hundredth, and my first.’ 
>or something<
A few issues: Tim was told he was leaving less than an hour before his plane did and only Tam was around, it's a long flight to China and he's staying overnight, HD lives in a mountain (therefore mobile reception is /terrible), and also a typhoon closes the Hong Kong airport so he ends up staying a couple extra days. 
A couple extra days during which he can barely check messages, let alone read them. (The lair has excellent wifi but he never got the password.)
Now, the very fun part! The BatFam aren't expecting Tim back in contact for a few more hours when he comes back from WE, so Ra's is the first to notice no one has the slightest idea where Tim is. Prudence is on the east coast, thankfully, so they don't lose too much time.
So Pru wanders over to the manor, says Tim wants her to copy a file for the case they're working on and whomever she explains this to is like, wonder why he didn't just call/come himself.
There are thoughts about the BatFam asking Wei if she has any idea--(reminiscent of them breaking into her personal rooms)
"Not a clue." 
"Don't you pride yourself on being functionally immortal?" 
"Good point. >consults Wei!net< He’s not in any danger." 
"Which would be where?" 
"Yet to be determined."
.
When the BatFam catches up with Pru outside a Bat-known safehouse of Tim’s, they ‘interrogate her as to where all she's checked: 
"I can either lie and let you sleep well at night or I can tell you the truth and save time." 
"We should save time." 
"Ninja and I've checked the hospitals, the asylum, and all the safe houses." 
"/All the safe houses?" 
"Every. Single. One." 
"Welp, I'm never sleeping well at night!" 
"It's actually really cute how you thought we didn't know where they were." 
"Definitely not sleeping well at night!"
.
Ra's is less than impressed but can only thank the High Dragon--she’s often commissioned to do restorations or ‘forgeries’ but her original work is pretty much kept under guard in her fortress, so receiving an original is a great honour and it wouldn't have left China if Tim hadn't accompanied it, but Ra's doesn't have to be happy about it and if something Very Interesting draws Tim to the middle of League of Assassin's territory for the next month, well, isn't that a nice coincidence!
===(B) Explosion===
Trapped and under fire, Min takes matters into her own hands and gets herself killed. 
Min sets off a chain reaction of accidents which ensnares the majority if not all of the Batfamily or at least in this case, she's started to put the pieces together that she has 'incredible' luck so she moves to start off a chain reaction—
"What're you doing??" 
"Getting us killed!" 
Except the gasoline burns away before it reaches them and the inferno runs out of fuel before they run out of air!
===(WiP) ’Min’ with a ‘T’===
Probably want to work this into something larger
Min gets cagey when asked about the 't' in 'yeung_TM', her chat ID
“What’s the ‘T’ stand for?”
“’Tang’. I used to go by ‘Tang Min’ but I dropped it after I moved.”
“So it was more western?”
“’Min’ isn’t really all that Western. It turns out having a name easily shorted to ‘Tim’ isn’t wise when working in a coffee shop.” 
“I don’t get it.” 
“There was a Tim Horton’s across the street.”
“Oh.”
“Yea, Tin, Tim, Tam, … you get the idea.”
Jason gets /that grin. “How did you break your leg again?”
“I got beaten up.”
“I thought you fell out a window.” 
“The police never proved that conclusively—there wasn’t any glass—but it’s easier to say than ‘I was kidnapped off the street and made into mince meat’.”
==(B) Psychic==
Aura | Scared 
===Aura===
Min's aura has gone black, but person who noticed assures her that it's a delightful sparkly pink. 
===Scared===
Min quietly confesses to Cass that she thinks she's being lied to; Cass confronts the aura person
“I think the adults aren’t telling me something,” says Min.
“Adults lie,” agrees Cass.
“I’m scared.”
“I can hit things?”
“I don’t know if that’ll be enough.”
“We’ll find out what it is and we’ll make it enough.”
“I appreciate it.”
“Bed time?”
“Yea. Goodnight.”
“Sleep well.”
“Thanks, you, too.”
==Endgame==
Spoilers
==Checklist / Misc==
Copy in: Robots | Stealth mode (chat)
===Misc references===
Min's handwriting, Wayne Manor (girls’ rooms, motor court
===Random thoughts===
* Tim stays at his flat Friday night through to Monday and the manor Monday evening thru Friday morning "for the commute" (which would make sense if he wanted a /longer commute but really he just doesn't want anything to do with the BatFam)
* Long needs to be more controlling for Min
** Min asking to call her parents, maybe? 
* Work in details of the compound somewhere
* Notebook: Min has a notebook of 'who's who' (aliases, brief description, whether or not Min should stay near them) but it's transcribed in 16-year-old-girl hanzi which is cute and girly to the point it's almost illegible from anyone not a teacher or a fellow 16-year-old girl--I can't believe the same thing didn't happen in China. It has little colour portraits of the names' faces, and people keep telling Min she's such a great artist but they’re thanks to LY
** The hanzi equivalent of a letter’s elements (the bar across 'A' and 'H', for instance, as opposed to serifs (semi-structural details that do not convey information (thank you, phineas and ferb!))) are strokes and with these I may accurately describe the 16 year old girl-ness of Min's handwriting: the dots are hearts, she writes a certain combination of strokes in such a way that they make a cat face, and overall her handwriting looks like ruffles. 
“Oh, I have something you gotta add to Nightwing’s entry!” 
Min clicks open her pen. 
“One of the few vigilantes whose secret identity isn’t a secret!” A very wide grin. “His ass gives him away.” 
Min smiles, puts her pen away without writing anything. 
“We’re serious! You can recognize the guy by his butt!” 
* Liu’s name for Long: Chinese for “Rose”? What comparative fairy tales are there?
* An in-universe reason for Liu to know/be on good terms with everyone: he has money and business connections based in Hong Kong, right? On all sides of the law? He's probably negotiated deals or provides funding to all of the major players at some point.
* Ra's' manipulation vs Liu's; is Ra's too reactive?
* Takes place between the beginning of August and December~: Liu leaves calling between July and August, Ms Vale's interview with Min implies the new school year's fast approaching, and “Endgame: Heaven” needs snow
Deleted/director's cut
* “Europe”: Tim is shoved into a trap
* Something like Dick with the biggest grin /ever approaching Bruce and, 'So what do you think of this font for the 'welcome to the family' sign?'
** I'm also seeing something like one of them commending Long on how well she avoids being lethal in a fight and how well she'd fit in the family and Long being like, 'uhhhhhhh ...’
‘You /haven’t killed anyone, have you?’
‘I haven’t killed anyone in Gotham!’
** Also, pray Dick never see a picture of Min’s best friend, Siqi—she has short, perpetually untidy dark hair, crystal blue eyes, and (unfortunately for Dick’s plans) two adoring parents.
* Talia drops by the Chu shrine
===Scenes w/o Timeframe===
* Anything filed under ‘Misc’
* Victorious: Faceoff! Ra's vs Long! (Either Long slips up on purpose or Ra's kicks her through the wall and Long has to make a speedy exist or risk dying in front of people; )
* Long’s shadow gets a knife through it and Long has to casually stop quickly and insist staying where she is is totally fine
* Long and Cassandra talk about weaponizing accessories: I have this lovely image of Cass and Long getting ready together and wordlessly offering each other more easily weaponised accessories
* Alfred and Liu interacting: I bet he would be infinitely pleased that /finally someone's staying at the manor who knows the zillion unwritten rules of being the (guest of an) employer of a butler--not that he doesn't love the BatFam and all the exceptions he makes to his list of acceptable behaviour!
* ===Functionally Immortal===: The third or fourth time HD has her aide call Long with a message for Ra’s, Long passes it along to Tim, 
Tim's like, 'I am not getting involved in these--'
"Passive aggressive squabbles of the functionally immortal?"
Tim's sense of self preservation flies the coop. "I'm gonna tell him that." 
* JLA? 
** “So, I have some thoughts on this. While I would love to read Long being grumpy at aliens, this seems more like normal character behavior than a limitation. Additionally, trying too hard as a character flaw is kind of like going into a job interview and, when they ask you about your biggest weakness, saying something like "I'm a perfectionist." It's a sort of weakness that isn't really a weakness at all except for when it comes to damaging interpersonal relationships. You could play up this aspect (and I think you should), but I'm also of the opinion that everyone in the DCU is vulnerable to being beat by something/someone … so...
 
I have a proposal. You've said that Long isn't great around telepaths, and that an alien invasion is coming up. I propose you find a way to bring in the Martian Manhunter (post-research, of course) since he is, to my knowledge, the strongest telepath in the DCU and probably the individual the JLA brings in to consult on this sort of thing. This would fit plot-wise while also demonstrating that Long isn't a perfect paragon of undefeatableness.”