Ciara smiled back, "I would like that very much, Barbara... I guess I should go back to my room..." She said holding the door for her.

"Thanks" Barbara smiled and wheeled out, "I hope you're feeling better soon."

"Me too. I hope we can chat again soon." She waved and headed back to her room, "I'm going, I'm going." She said when the nurse gave her a 'get your butt back in bed' look. She slipped under the sheets and turned on her side when she realized the blue prints of the ice room weren't there anymore. "...Maybe Jerk face took them.." She mumbled falling back asleep.

Some time later... much, much later. When she's not half a pint of blood away from a coma...

"Aha!" She cheered as the metal box opened to reveal her reward for solving the rubik cube like puzzle beside the trophy. "What do we have this-" She froze and blushed holding the gift basket of chocolate,condoms (Trogan to be exact), birth control, pregnancy test sticks, bubble bath, sea salt and dollar store hand cuffs. Her eye twitched as she looked at the flowers painted on the side of the basket. "...Very funny, Riddler... Very funny..." She tapped her eye piece, "I found another trophy Oracle... And I think he knows why we're getting so much food from Ivy." She said, holding the basket up with some water, no longer wanting to touch it.

"uh-huh" Oracle replied, trying desperately not to laugh, "well then... ah... yeah...."

"Its not funny! Its not like I really have a choice in the matter... Im gonna head back now. " She said, ooking over a few industional warehouses. Several of which had been decorted with colourful paint and balloons.

"Right, not funny at all" Oracle replied, grinning from ear to ear but trying to sound professional.


((Walking by the clock tower?))

Ciara pouted, "whatever..."

She dropped off the 'treasures' she'd found before heading back to her pad for a bit of rest. She paused as she passed the clock tower and looked up, a bit confused.

Every time she went by the tower, a little part of her subconscious drew her attention to it. At first it wasn't anything big, but now it was like she was sensing something... was...was someone up there? Was that why she kept sensing something every time she went by? What if they were trapped? Or hurt? She wondered, eyeing the building.

Slowly, she opened the door to the clock tower and looked around. The stairs seemed to still be in one piece. She gulped, if someone was really up there... she'd have to bit the bullet and climb and pray she didn't look down. Slowly and silently she creeped up the stairs. One after another after another....

After about half-way up Oracle chimed, "Ciara. What are you doing?" she demanded.

"Checking... something out, for some reason the clock tower keeps drawing my attention... I think someone might be up there, " She stated, a little surpised to be questioned.

"There's no need for that" Oracle argued, "Robin checked it out the other day. Everything's fine."

"Well it's there now... cause my senses are getting stronger as I go up." She protested.

"you can sense... okay, well yes, there is someone up there but they don't like to be bothered. They're harmless, you should really head back-I've been tracking some strange movement on the west side of our territory and I could use you to check it out" Oracle replied hastily.

There was a pause, "Ok...." And slowly, a balloon shaped water shape carried Ciara the rest of the way, silently. Oracle was acting weird which made Ciara wonder just WHO was at the top.

"... Ciara, your headset has a tracking beacon in it. I know you're still coming up. I said drop it, please."

Did she just hear an echo?... She sighed, "Alright... Alright..." She said slipping the ear piece off and slowly lowering it down in a bubble of water as she went in the other direction.

((XD tricky, determined bitch.))

As she approached the top, she slowed down, gathering the water around her feet. She took hold of the floor and slowly lifted herself to get a look at what was up there.

"Ciara... Ciara? ... Neptune, why aren't you responding?" spoke the red headed girl in a wheelchair. The very same red-head that had donated her blood to help Ciara not too long ago. She was sitting before a network of computer screens that showed most of Gotham-quite a few sections seemed to have been shut down since the earthquake.

"Damnit" the woman grumbled and switched frequencies, "Dick, i need you to report to the clock tower. Yeah, I'm fine but Neptune isn't responding."

Ciara looked on, in silence. So that meant Oracle was really Barbara Gordan! She couldn't help but smile and wiggle a bit in mid air. This just made Barbara Gordon even COOLER <3! After a moment she looked down, that was as far as she could move the ear piece without dropping it. She moved it until it hit a wall and left it drop down on the stairs.

Now the question was should she reveal herself. She'd bump into Barbara every now and then. Especially more since she met her at the hospital... perhaps a way to keep her from figuring things out. And then another question, who was dick? Perhaps she'd wait and see. Maybe it was Nightwing or Robin... She felt the excitement building, it was much like the feeling when you're playing hide-and-seek as a child and you're bursting with excitement; only Ciara didn't let out any giggles or noise.

"Seriously Dick, my proximity alarms are going wild" Barbara stated, a bit panicked, "Tim, you'd better come to. I can't see what's going on" she smacked one of the computer monitors, "useless cameras. You can show me the mayor getting jiggy with a prostitute behind his wife's back but you can't tell me what's going on around my own base?"

"Uh... Oracle" Nightwing's voice came through the speakers.

"Yeah? What is it?" Barbara demanded.

Nightwing sighed, "Her com is at the bottom of the stairs. That, and thermal imaging shows someone's hiding behind you, covered in Bat-tech."

Oracle paused, then slowly turned around.

And like any excited, hiding child, Ciara quickly ducked down, covering her mouth.

"... Ciara?" Barbara questioned as she approached the edge cautiously, "Seriously woman. What did I tell you?"

After a moment, a water ball with a chocolate bar float up, "...You were acting funny. I was only gonna peek," her voice much resumbling that of a child in trouble.