Re: Wayne Manor: destiny/steph.
Do you? [Does she really get it?And the question is pointed, it's made to make her think, to consider. He listens to her feet on the floor, how they move away instead of coming closer and knows that it's her seeking distance, another way of dodging the questions.]
How do you think they would feel to hear you say that you are responsible for keeping the family cohesive? That it's your job. Your responsibility. [Maybe he should be gentler, let her off the hook, not force her to this crossroads, but he's seen how it ends and the possibilities of this family ever coming back together grow slimmer by the day. It doesn't require him knowing how the others feel - it could all be surmised by someone on the outside.]
I thought part of being in a family was being there for them. [Of his own siblings - they're better off separated, each of them in their own realms, guiding their respective qualities and coming together when they need one another rather than trying to force into one another's space. His eyebrow goes up at her stance, the glide of skin over skin, and he can hear it in her voice. There are other questions that she has, other things that can have an answer - but this has to be dealt with first.]
Do you decide what's best for them? My family and I, we have separate realms. We don't even live on the same plane of existence. [They function as they need to, when they need to; they're never not a family.]