She tilts her chin up, voice even. "I am standing here telling you that it will not impact my or her ability to be Batgirl, to get home, or to help people, yes."

It's easy to be confident in this, in them, even in front of him. Easy to trust her gut when it feels this right. But Spoiler was never as good on her own as Batgirl was with people at her back.

"How is it different from how you are with other people?" She avoids mentioning Catwoman, but just barely. "I'm serious, is romantic love so profoundly different than all the people you care about?"

"I didn't say anything about our relationship." Her mouth twists, still a smile but with that optimistic idealism replaced with something more cynical. But she doesn't look away from him. She's learned harder lessons than this. "You're not emotionally compromised by me. The past and present Robins, sure. Batgirl. Oracle. I can appreciate I'm a different case."