But when Batman comes over to talk to her, she cooperates and even lets him borrow her camera for the evidence on it. He ends up sending Robin back to the Cave with it and taking Tim home personally so he can have a Chat with Jack and Janet Drake about keeping an eye on their daughter and not letting her wander around Gotham unaccompanied. For the moment, he leaves it at that, with the intent to see how Mr. and Mrs. Drake change their parenting. (Maybe dig into things a little more, if he doesn't like what he sees.)
After he leaves, Tim is treated to a lecture on Not Embarrassing The Family because Batman, Batman had to come to their house to deal with her, and really, they thought Tim was better, more mature than that.
Since they can't afford to keep an eye on her every second of the day but think it's kind of ridiculous to hire a nanny to do it for them when she's right there, they compromise by locking her in her room when they're not with her. (As something of an afterthought, they inform her that it's a Grounding and she has Lost Their Trust, but Tim's kind of worried about that. She's never been Grounded before, but in books and things there was usually a set time limit on it, and this seems to be more of an indefinite arrangement.)
It's not that bad. She has an adjoining bathroom, and there's lots of books and toys and a computer with lots of child-lock controls on it that she can use for a set amount of time. She misses her camera, but there isn't really a lot she could take pictures of in her room, anyway. Plus, she goes places with her parents a couple times for meetings so that's kind of neat, even if they're kind of annoyed they have to bring her along and it's really, really boring.
At least her windows aren't locked, partly because it didn't occur to her parents that she could try to climb out them and partly because there's not a lot of ways a kid her age without any tools could get out through them without breaking something. She was having trouble sleeping tonight, so she opened one of them a little to let in some air and decided to read one of her books until she gets sleepy.
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But when Batman comes over to talk to her, she cooperates and even lets him borrow her camera for the evidence on it. He ends up sending Robin back to the Cave with it and taking Tim home personally so he can have a Chat with Jack and Janet Drake about keeping an eye on their daughter and not letting her wander around Gotham unaccompanied. For the moment, he leaves it at that, with the intent to see how Mr. and Mrs. Drake change their parenting. (Maybe dig into things a little more, if he doesn't like what he sees.)
After he leaves, Tim is treated to a lecture on Not Embarrassing The Family because Batman, Batman had to come to their house to deal with her, and really, they thought Tim was better, more mature than that.
Since they can't afford to keep an eye on her every second of the day but think it's kind of ridiculous to hire a nanny to do it for them when she's right there, they compromise by locking her in her room when they're not with her. (As something of an afterthought, they inform her that it's a Grounding and she has Lost Their Trust, but Tim's kind of worried about that. She's never been Grounded before, but in books and things there was usually a set time limit on it, and this seems to be more of an indefinite arrangement.)
It's not that bad. She has an adjoining bathroom, and there's lots of books and toys and a computer with lots of child-lock controls on it that she can use for a set amount of time. She misses her camera, but there isn't really a lot she could take pictures of in her room, anyway. Plus, she goes places with her parents a couple times for meetings so that's kind of neat, even if they're kind of annoyed they have to bring her along and it's really, really boring.
At least her windows aren't locked, partly because it didn't occur to her parents that she could try to climb out them and partly because there's not a lot of ways a kid her age without any tools could get out through them without breaking something. She was having trouble sleeping tonight, so she opened one of them a little to let in some air and decided to read one of her books until she gets sleepy.