Re: Gotham, in person: Selina K/Bruce B
[She was quiet after his admission of potential weakness and patheticness, because what could she say to that?] Well, if you are weak and pathetic, I suspect you're in good company. Assuming I'm good company. I have a feeling this isn't my best moment. And I definitely know I've looked better.
[His smile, tight and sad, looked familiar somehow, and she didn't much like the recognition.] What kind of bad background? [She shook her head.] I think about trust, and it hurts. How ridiculous is that? [And maybe her mossy eyes were a little wet, but surely that was the fever.] I don't even know if I want this to be real. I just know I don't want the alternative, whatever it is. Am I allowed to ask what you want to be real, or are you going to avoid the question?
[She tugged his glasses out of his pocket almost as soon as he'd folded them and tucked them away, and she tested them to see just how blind he was.] Friends? [Scoff.] I'm starting to think I don't have any. But the girls are here, and they're always good for trouble. [Somehow, she knew that.]