Fickle Luck

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After Tim and Barbara's presentation ended, they had all come to the conclusion that they should speak with Marinette before deciding on the next step.  Everyone agreed that it was for the best for now.

After the meeting, they all got up, but Damian noticed that Grayson and Todd were left behind.

Damien suspected that they were going to talk about Marinette and found himself in a moral dilemma, on the one hand, he could stay and listen to the results of the investigation about Marinette, but submit to the ridicule of his brothers, or he could remain ignorant and keep his dignity intact.

Deciding better to investigate on his own, if he was lucky maybe he could find Marinette in the city, he left the Batcave without listening to his brother's conversation.

"Timmy!  What have you got from the girl?" asked Dick excitedly

"Did you see the face of the midget when you implied that she could be involved with that bastard?  If he could kill with a look, you would already be six feet underground!" Jason scoffed.

"I wasn't accusing her of anything!"

"The way you said it sounded a bit accusatory," Barbara pointed out with a smile.

"I swear it was not my intention!  I don't think there is any way that Marinette Dupain-Cheng  is involved with Hawkmoth!"

"You seem very confident," Jason pointed out.

"I am," Tim said sighing when he saw the look of his brothers "I investigated her, remember?"

"What did you find?"  Asked Dick.

"First of all, Marinette is the only student in her class who has never been akumatized, there was a boy named Adrien Agreste who had not been akumatized either, but recently he was akumatized.  She has been president of her class for 4 years, she is an aspiring designer who has already received praise from Gabriel Agreste and Audrey Bourgeois herself, which is a great thing."

"The woman who humiliated Bruce's ex?  I don't blame her, that bitch was insufferable, but she was quite ruthless in criticizing her dress." Jason said with a smile.

"That same one, it seems that Marinette caught her attention at age 14, she's something like a fashion prodigy," Tim explained, being interrupted by Barbara.

"From what we saw it is not "something like a fashion prodigy", the girl is a fashion prodigy, she was in that designer show, the one we saw together, "Fashions Discovery", she worked as Erika Kurumi's assistant."

"I remember!  They were sabotaged by one of the models and had to remake the last two dresses!" said excited Dick.

"I think I fell asleep," Jason said, seeing Dick and Barbara's eyes, he added sulkily, "I don't speak French!  Don't  judge me!"

"Well, I can assure you it was amazing," Barbara said, then thought about it for a few seconds and added, "Maybe this ring a bell to you!"

Images of a certain rocker appeared on the computer.

"Jagged Stone!  Do you mean that girl has worked with Jagged Stone ?!"

"Yup," said Barbara with a smile, "I think it's pretty obvious that she's MDC, the one responsible for her Eiffel Tower glasses, as well as some album and poster covers and more recently some of her outfits."

*WOW!" The three boys said in unison.

"Yep, this girl is something."

"Not that this is not interesting, but why did you discard her as a possible suspect?" Jason asked "I'm not complaining!  It's just curiosity!"

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