Tim walked to the gate and found Tommy and Brandon standing with Leanne and Rianne.

"Morning dude!" Brandon called out.

"Morning, has Selena arrived yet?" Tim asks. Leanne and Rianne both look at each other hoping he wouldn't see, but he did.

"Where is she?" Tim asks losing his patience as he exhaled.

"She gave us a call around 5:40 am, and told us to grab the homework for her..." Rianne started and paused.

"Because, she's at work. Selena told us that she had to work this morning." Leanne finished.

Tim rubbed the back of his head, which concerned the others.

"Did something happen?" Tommy asks.

"No, I just know where I'm going for lunch today." Tim answered as the first bell rang.

"Let's hope classes are short today." Rianne says.

"You and me both." Tim replied.

After 4 classes, Tim already called Alfred to tell him where he was going. Tim drove through Karsen Industries private parking garage, that's only used employee's only. Tim parked his truck and went up the elevator all the way up. Walking past the secretary desk, Cissy immediately ended her phone call and pushed the intercom.

Inside Selena's office she was sitting at her desk writing in her journal as her favorite song was playing, 

Right Here - Ashes Remain

But it paused when her intercom turned on.

"Ms. Karsen, I have received word that Leanne and Rianne are headed their way to the office for work." Cissy said.

"Thank you for the update, Cissy. Keep up the good work, let me know if the board wants to have a meeting this afternoon would you?" Selena replied.

"I will miss, but..." Cissy starts.

"Cissy, what's wrong?" Selena asks challantly.

"Tim is here." Cissy finishes.

There was a pause, Selena debated about letting him in, but then felt something in her heart, and caved in.

"Let him in please, when the girls get here don't let them in." Selena called out.

Cissy let go of the intercom, and opened the door for him. Tim walked in and walked over to see Selena walking over to her mini bar island,

and grabbed the coffee pot and poured a cup, then grabbed her signature Green Tea glass.

"Coffee? Just the way you like it." Selena said challantly as she handed him the glass.

"Thank you, how did you know to have some prepared?" Tim asks taking it and taking a sip.

"Just a hunch." Selena answered.

"Nice glass, gift?" Tim asks sipping the coffee enjoying the delicious taste.

"Yes, Leanne and Rianne have one as well just slightly different." Selena explained. Tim was silent as Selena was pondering what to ask next.

"How's school? Is Tiffany still being an ass?" Selena asks drinking her Green Tea.

"No, she was surprisingly whelmed today, which is weird even for her." Tim answered noticing that Selena was wearing a grey transparent shirt with pink shorts, while her grey Toms slip on were casual, and her hair was put back into her signature style which was her favorite way of putting up her hair.

He couldn't take his eyes off of her. Selena knew he was staring, but didn't care since it was him.

"Why weren't you at school?" Tim asks getting straight to the point.

Selena was hesitant at first, but then eased it as she walked over to her desk and sat her drink down.

"I know what you really want to ask me, so you can just go ahead and say it." Selena says calmly. 

Tim was silent for a sec, then spoke up.

"Why were you afraid to fall in love? Why come back to Gotham?" Tim asks.

"I knew I couldn't be afraid forever, so if I could face my fears of coming back to Gotham then I thought... if this city was safe I could hang up my hood.. for good. Then I could settle down, and let myself finally be free. But it looks like my plan got switched around." Selena answered.

"Selena if you think that just because you can change into a wolf that I'll be afraid I'm not.. I could never be afraid. The only thing I am afraid of is if you get hurt, and you won't let me help you. Selena, I love you." Tim stated taking her hand.

Selena hung her head and exhaled, as she looked back up at his serious face. Noticing he had placed his drink back down on the island, she wanted to tell him that there was another reason.

But before she could say anything, Tim gently squeezed her waist and pulled her into a kiss. Selena was flushed as she was surprised, her instincts wanted her to pull away but she heart and soul wouldn't let her.

Selena kissed him back, their lips in perfect sync. Her guard was down as Tim felt at peace knowing that she loved him, even knowing his secret. He slightly stepped forward, letting Selena lean down on the couch. Tim didn't let up and he deepened the kiss more and more.

Selena knew in her heart that she couldn't let her job get in the way, she found love and she wanted to keep it and never let it go. Tim licked her bottom lip asking for entrance, Selena breathed out of her mouth as he slightly pulled away. They both smile as Tim moved his tongue in and made Selena shiver. Tim's hands were moving up and down her sides as her shirt was brought up showing her stomach. Selena then started to unbutton his shirt as she rubbed up and down his abs. They took a breath after what felt like an eternity, and were both out of breath.

"Tim, I was shocked when I found out that you were Red Robin, I thought I was mad but then Luna helped me understand that we have the same story. We have the same reasons for why we put on our masks. I want you to know that I am happy to know that you can take care of yourself." Selena said out of breath.

"I was shocked too, a little ticked knowing that you didn't need a knight in shining armor, but proud to see how far you've come all on your own." Tim replied.

"I still don't think it's a good idea for me to join your team. I just think it'd be better for me to stay away, just a little while longer." Selena said.

"As long as you know that your offer will always stand, you're practically family to all of us, Selena. For one outstanding fact, you are the only one of us that Damien actually likes." Tim replied.

"No way? Are you for real?" Selena asks shocked, unable to comprehend.

"I'm serious, and I'm serious about this. You can take as long as you need Selena, and if the wolf ever needs or actually admits she needs help, you can count on a couple of Little Birdies to come to your aid." Tim said making a joke.

"Hey, that's my nickname for you." Selena replies while laughing. Tim smirks as he lowered himself back down for another very heated kiss. Tim glances at her right wrist and found her tattoo.

"I can't believe we've been together for nearly half a year, and I never noticed your tattoo before. After everything we've been through, how could I have not seen it?" Tim said disappointed in himself.

"Well that's your own fault since Leanne and Rianne were the first ones to see it." Selena giggled as he rubbed her wrist with his thumb while holding it.

Tim gave a gentle smile as she cupped his cheeks, and pulled him down into another kiss. Tim was startled, but eased into it as he placed his hands on her sides and squeezing her hips. Selena moaned as she felt his grip, but what they didn't know was that Bruce and Dick were watching through binocular's over in Bruce's office at Wayne Tech.

"That's really cute." Dick stated. Bruce turned his head and walked over to Dick wearing his dark shades, "He is all over her, he must really be in love." Dick finished.

"You sound surprised? Did you doubt his love for her." Bruce asks grabbing his pair of dark shades and zoomed in on the window. Tim was on top of Selena as she was cupping his cheeks as his hands were on her waist.

"Wow, he went faster than I thought." Bruce said pulling his shades down a little on the bridge of his nose.

"Guess he did learn something from you after all huh?" Dick asks like a.. well, a dick.

"So did you, did you ask Serena to move in with you yet?" Bruce asks walking back to his desk.

"Almost, I am gonna do it tomorrow when I pick her up from class." Dick answered going back to watching Tim, like a creep.

"How's BPD going? Are you still a lieutenant or did you make it to captain? I forgot." Bruce asks sitting down.

"I aced my test, top of my class. I made it to top Detective. SO basically I teach the others to look very carefully at the clues. It's almost as fun as night patrol." Dick answered.

"You know you and Serena are more than welcome to stay at Wayne Manor as long as you want." Bruce states.

"Yeah, we know. I actually need your help with a future project I've been working on." Dick replies.

"Oh yeah, and what would that be?" Bruce asks.

"Well, I was hoping you could help me... Wait." Dick answered then paused.

"What's wrong?" Bruce asks.

"They stopped, Selena's walking over to her desk... and now.. she's, she's crying. She just collapsed. What should we do?" Dick said.

"Text Tim, tell him we are on our way to grab him for lunch." Bruce replied as they both ran out of the office and to a car.

Before...

Tim was still kissing Selena as she continued to rub his abs. They stopped when they were interrupted by a ping from her desktop. Selena had to push Tim off gently so she could get up and move. She walked over to her desk and found a new email, she read it as Tim rebuttons his shirt.

Selena then stepped back as she then held her hand over her mouth. Tim saw her scared expression. He took one step closer, but her legs gave up and she ended up on the ground crying her eyes.

Tim held her close till she calmed down, about 6 minutes later they hadn't changed. Then the doors flung open by Bruce and Dick. They kept their cool as they walked in.

"Hey, Tim want to head to lunch." Dick asks nonchalantly as they both then saw Tim and Selena on the ground.

"Tim, what happened?" Bruce asks.

Before Tim answered he gave a look over at her computer. Dick walked over and read the email as Bruce helped Tim move Selena over to the couch.

"Selena, talk to us. What happened?" Bruce asks kneeling in front of her. Selena was too in shock, her eyes looked like she was having a conversation in her head.

"Bruce, you may want to see this." Dick said. Bruce and Dick traded places as Dick helped Tim try to calm her down. Bruce read the email and held back his anger to throw something out the window.

"Selena, are you there?" Dick asks trying to wake her up, but she was still in shock.

In Selena's mind was a conversation...

"You know what you have to do, kill the Michael before he has a chance to hurt us." Luna said.

"No, I won't hurt anyone, no matter how tempting it sounds that is not who we are. When you first awoken you gave me the choice to become whatever I wanted, and I chose to be a hero. I am not changing my mind, these are my powers and this is my choice. I am Selena, I am Nighthowler, and this is me!" Selena replied as she shouted back at Luna.

Back in reality, Selena clutched her head in pain like Black Canary crying at her at point blank. After 4 seconds, Selena passed out in Tim's arms.

Selena woke up about 10 minutes later to Tim sitting with her head on his lap while Dick placed a washcloth on her forehead, as Bruce sat at the island watching them. Selena forced her eyes open and adjusted to the light. Dick backed up as he placed a hand on her forearm telling her not to move.

"What happened?" Bruce asks from afar.

"Just Luna overreacting, please tell me those few minutes didn't just happen?" Selena asks as she felt Tim rub her cheek with his thumb.

"If your referring to the email, then I'm afraid it's true. Your blood Uncle Michael is suing Andrew for legal rights to you." Dick said sympathetically to her.

Selena felt tears trying to run but held them back as she rubbed her forehead. 

"This sucks." Selena managed to say.

"Yep." Dick and Tim say in sync.

"I think it'd be best if I went home. I need to think." Selena replies.

Tim helped her up and took her to car. Tim drove her jeep home as Dick and Bruce followed. 

Selena went home to Ms. Fenton and tried to sleep, but just couldn't relax. All her muscles were tensed as she knew something was up with all of this. Instead of sleeping, she went down to her Coven and sat at her console. She was then joined by Shade, Fang, and Winter. They laid down next to her letting her know that they were there.

Since Andy was asleep she grabbed her Xbox One controller and turned on her Bluetooth speakers. 

Right Here - Ashes Remain 

played. Selena curled up in her chair and started to type on her keyboard. The monitor on the bottom lit up and she typed in her password:

Little721Birdie💜

Selena then pulled up her hacking program and created an encrypted Skype Channel.

Back in the Batcave, Dick, Damien and Tim were at the Batcomputer looking up everything they could find on Michael Karsen, he was involved in a lot of conspiracies, but was never proven guilty. But the one thing that struck out to them was a secret encrypted chat line for him and guess who..

Lex Luthor.

Dick's and Damien's eyes widened as Tim just grew more and more angry. Before any one of them could say anything, their computer beeps.

"Damien did you try to install another game?" Dick asks typing trying to figure out what it was.

"Not since my first year, this isn't me." Damien answered hovering over him.

All of a sudden a video chat comes up revealing Selena sitting in her chair in a place they weren't familiar with.

"Selena!" They all say in shock.

"I'm surprised boys, I thought being protege's to Batman would have taught you to stay whelmed when someone hacked your very secret private servers. I'm a little disappointed." Selena replied.

"Ok I hate to admit this to anyone, and I really do hate it but your good Karsen." Damien said to her.

"Was that a compliment I just heard, guess my theories were correct about you Little D." Selena replies.

"What theories?" Damien and Dick ask.

"That you favor me over your brothers." Selena answered. They were slightly shocked but didn't show it.

"We'll leave you two alone, don't stay up all night. We have plans in the morning." Dick says leaving Tim and Selena alone. Damien left with him.

"So, how did you hack the Batcomputer?" Tim asks. "I think Bruce might have created a secret backdoor for me to find, cause I knew it seemed too easy to hack your servers. Don't worry I have encryptions keeping this chat under the radar." Selena answered holding her sketchpad in between her legs as she was doodling as she was talking.

"How are you holding up?" Tim asks.
"I don't know, this is probably the second worse day in my entire life." Selena answered.

"What about Killer Croc, or Poison Ivy?" Tim asks leaning back in the chair.

"Poison Ivy was second, and Croc was third." Selena answered like it was nothing.

"And what was the..." Tim started to ask but then realized, "I'm sorry." Tim apologized.

"It's fine, you're the only one who can try to say it, but then feel sorry about it." Selena says gripping her rainbow pen that she created.

"What about Leanne and Rianne?" Tim asks. "They are not in the same league as you." Selena answered looking back up at the screen. Tim leaned forward when she looked back up.

"What are you drawing? Can I see?" Tim asks sincerely curious.

Selena's breathing paused as well as her muscles, then touched the side of her glasses. It sent an electronic pic to Tim's monitor.

"Wow, I've seen plenty of beautiful things in my life but that is a whole knew scale." Tim compliments.

"What beautiful things have you seen?" Selena asks twirling her pen.

"The only thing I think is beautiful is sitting in a gaming chair with a sketchpad in her lap while staring at one of Bruce Wayne's sons." Tim answered.

"So I'm a thing now? Is that it?" Selena asks.

"You know what I mean. So, was the whole day bad or just certain moments?" Tim asks.

"If you're trying to find out if your a good kisser then I'm afraid to disappoint that I won't answer." Selena answered in a playful tone.

"Well then looks like I'm gonna have to find out the hard way." Tim says waiting.

"I swear if you do anything stupid I will bite you so hard." Selena said placing her pad down.

"I knew it! I got you!" Tim celebrated his victory.

"Damn it, how could I have lost it like that." Selena slumped in defeat.

"How'd Andrew take the news?" Tim asks.

"Not good, he's tossing and turning in his sleep right now." Selena answered.

"Tim, you gotta get sleep for tomorrow, Father wants us bright eyed and bushy tailed!" Damien shouted through the pathway to the cave.

"What's Bruce got planned for tomorrow?" Selena asks.

"I have no clue, guess I'll find out tomorrow. Good night, Selena." Tim answered.

"Goodnight, Tim." Selena replied starting to let dispair show up on her face.

"Hey, Selena. Everything is going to be fine." Tim says.

"How do you know?" Selena replies. "Because of 2 reasons: 1 is I love you, and 2 is... I have faith." Tim answered.

Selena smiled as she placed her hand on her keyboard. "I love you too Tim." Selena replies pressing a key and ending the chat.

The next day, Selena and Andy were waiting outside the court house as the police held off the press. Selena was secretly vaping, she used it as a stress reliever. Thankfully for her the wolf keeps her from getting high, so vaping is just a reflex for her. Because of the accident, Selena became ADD and sometimes has a hard time comprehending things, it hurts once in an while but she figures it out. She likes watching the puffs of smoke come out, it's soothing to her. When a black car pulled up, Andy held his hand out as Selena put her vape in his hand. He put it in her bag as he created a fake glass case for her to hide it in. The car door opened to reveal Bruce and his sons walking out in casual but appropriate suit attire. 

They walked passed the press and over to Selena and Andrew. 

"Nice to see a familiar face today." Andrew said shaking Bruce's hand.
"You have our full support here, Andrew. To all of us, Selena is family." Bruce replies.

Selena notices Tim looking at her as he was eyeing her attire, including her glasses.

(I have the shoes!)

"See something you like?" Selena asks taking his hand.

"Yeah, I really do." Tim answered smirking as he wrapped his wrist around hers and pulled her into a heated kiss. Selena cupped his face, and they stayed like that for 15 seconds, not caring that they were being watched.

When they eased up Jason and Dick were holding in their laughter as Damien, Andy and Bruce were smiling.

The all walked in and soon enough the worst day in all of their lives had just begun.