#[presumably this is set last night alsjdf so sorry i was late!]

[volucerrubidus]

You wouldn't believe the weird time she's had. There's been snooping and sleuthing and some minor stealing, but did it really count if you stole it from a thief? ...Irrelevant. So is how late past her bedtime it is. The important things is that she thinks she's figured it out and wants to help.

"Red! I'mma be honest, you don't look so good."

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Tim's gotten around 7 hours and 48 minutes of sleep by the time night falls. Not quite 8, but it doesn't matter because it's close enough, and their window of time is already narrowing. The first 48 hours are draining from the hourglass faster than the entire family can even blink, not to mention get a good lead.

They could brute force Amusement Mile, but there's no guarantee that Joker wouldn't just kill Jason the moment they come crashing through windows.

There's technically not even a good guarantee that Joker is behind it. They certainly aren't devoting much time to other theories, of course, but a horrible little fear has settled into Tim that keeps whispering. "What if you're searching in the wrong places?"

He needs to get Jason back. If they're wrong about Joker...

But, no. Jason has been investigating her, right under their noses, the entire time. There is nothing else that it could be but her intervention.

So he focuses his attention instead on trying to invent some way to lure her from the park. If they can get her out for a while, then they can get some operatives in, and they can spring Jason without her even knowing.

What he hasn't accounted for, though, was the fact that the news of Jason's disappearance might spread further than the family could have expected. This isn't a bad thing, but it is a surprise--

Which shows up in Gotham in the form of Melvin.

He glances at her, eyebrows raised, and he wonders what she's seeing that gives him away (...okay, so, it might be easier to tell than he thinks. He's been a mess since yesterday morning), but after a moment, he offers her a wobbly smile.

"Hey there, fellow Titan. I'm... holding it together. How are you? What brings you all the way to our city? Have you been careful? It's, uh... a little more dangerous these days, than it usually is. I'm glad you found me; Titans should stick together, you know?"