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“Hey, there!”
“GAH!” Batman jumped a mile in the air and clutched at his chest.
“Sorry, man. Did I scare ya?” Xander asked, a shit-eating grin spread all over his face.
Batman declined to answer.
“So…” Xander looked around him. It was a nice rooftop with a cool view of the city below. “What’ya doing?”
Batman turned back to face the building opposite. “Observing.”
“Oh. Can I help? I’m pretty good with the observing stuff. Not so much with the sitting still and being quiet, but I’ve got a really good pair of eyes. Two of them. Two eyes, I mean, not two pairs of eyes. So, can I help?”
“No.”
“You don’t say much, do you? Are you partially mute?”
Batman’s incredulous look was front page material. Was this kid mental? With a slight shake of his head, Batman resumed his watch.
“If you’re looking for the guy with the icky skeleton face, he already left.”
“Black Mask? How did you know?”
Xander shrugged. “He looked kinda shady. And you look like someone who’s watching for somebody shady.”
In a movement that was part super-hero and part camp, Batman stood and put his hands on his hips. “Are you following me?”
“No. Are you following me?”
“No.”
“Good. So no-one is following anyone,” Xander pointed out. “You wanna go for a coffee?”
“But…I’m Batman.”
“Batman can’t drink coffee? How about a milkshake, then? I’m partial to chocolate myself, but you look more like a Banana Man to me.”
“Are you asking me on a date?”
“Sure. Why not? Except, I hate dates. They kinda remind me of squashed bugs…or am I thinking of prunes? Huh. Is there a difference?”
The Bat Signal suddenly beamed across the sky.
“I have to go.”
“Okay. That your really big noiseless pager?”
Batman nodded.
“Rain check, then?” Xander asked.
Batman turned and marched away without a word, his cape billowing behind him, making him look entirely non-human and completely demonic.
Well, he didn’t say no, Xander thought.
Batman marched back without a word, his cape sagging slightly and his boots squeaking. “I forgot my sandwiches.”
TBC…
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