"Bingo. Within a month, he had his old buddies over at the house and they were talking about...oh, knocking over a bank or something. There was a theme." Steph rolled her eyes. "You know, at first, I was actually surprised. But that didn't last long. I thought...not this time. I was done with it. So I called the police and told them his whole plan."

She sucked a bit of frosting off her finger. "They blew me off. 'The tip line isn't for pranks, kid.' So, yeah, that wasn't going to work. And I thought about reaching out to Batman, get him to stop but Dad was small time. Not really in the Bat's league. Which basically left...me."