PARABOLICAL GRAFFITI

Christmas is coming up pretty fast. This is the first time I've ever been away from Gotham for the holidays..it's weird Mom and the twip probably have the apartment all set up with lights by now. Know what I never understood about Christmas? Eggnog. Ick. Mom used to like it so it was tradition. I'd pretend to, and Christmas eve we'd have it. But it was so thick it can't be fit for humans.

[ooc: good guy filter added on late after Harley and Crane-they can still see and comment]
Dad.. I know you've been dreading it, and been avoiding it, hoping I wouldn't remember because you've been extra impossible to find. But today is your birthday. So because I can't seem to find you in the manor for now. It's really only a matter of time though so hiding, really? and honestly this way is much more fun anyways I'm saying it here. Happy birthday.

I'm..not exactly sure how old you are right now, but back in my time we celebrated your 60ith birthday. You hated that musical even though I thought it was schway. How can you not love a musical about Batman? But fine, this time will be better. Different..

I..have no idea what I'm doing. What do I do with a fifteen year old girl? who thinks she's Robin
I don't even know how to be eighteen yet

[filtered from Bruce and baddies]
Bruce's birthday is coming up..I'm thinking a party of some kind. Social events where he has to come out of the house into the light of day for once. Twice. I got him out ONCE, and I think he still kind of resents me for that, but..he can't stay in the manor forever. Maybe a Halloween thing.

I accidentally closed my dorm room window when I went out and then I couldn’t get back in and then I finally managed it and now I’m in the past and it’s not my fault.

I’m looking for the Justice League. None if you know me and I thought it would be better to contact you before I showed up without warning. I don’t have a communicator with me and even if I did, it wouldn’t do me any good here. So please, if you can see this, respond.

So..I've been thinking about getting something for Bruce. Only problem is I'm really not good with this gift giving thing. He's done so much for me. Took me in when he didn't have too. And after I called him a creeper in a haunted mansion and everything. And..he can be kind of next to impossible to buy for considering I don't know what he likes, he doesn't exactly leave hints. What do you get for someone who has everything?

Hundreds of years from now, all of you are going to be long forgotten by nearly everybody. Nobody will remember who you were or what you did. You may have been the Scourge of Europe or the vampire who willingly went out and won back his soul, and yet, when your names are thrown out into the open, they won’t be recognized. The blonde and the traitor carry faces and titles and triumphs that will not be talked about and when the villains ban together to drag this world into Hell, there will only be one who will stand any chance at stopping them. But it won’t be enough. Because one is nothing when up against thousands. Millions.

Nothing you’re doing now will matter. You’re all wasting your time. You’re forgettable. Thousands will dwindle down to zero. And then zero will become one. And one will not be enough.

I almost feel bad for all of you. Almost. But not quite.

Getting back into the flow of school is..hard. I got so used to sleeping in all day and patrolling at night. Brentwood Academy home of the rich and snobby. I guess I should just be happy Oracle didn't pick a school with uniforms. Bruce..do I really still have to go here? I could be doing so much less more at the manor with you.

It's the first day and I've already got homework.

Many peanut butter cookies and an X-Files mini-marathon before bed makes for really strange dreams.

I think...I need to step back for a while. Not forever but just for a few days, a week maybe..I don't know yet. I almost killed a man tonight Just need to clear my head, is all. Think you guys can handle the extra patrols for a little while?

That was the strangest patrol I've been on in a while. I've heard it the past few nights I've been out, but didn't really think anything of it the first time. I thought they were just toying with me. Tonight I heard it everywhere I went. Demons were talking about it in more than one of my usual stops. "Something's coming in the dark." I tried to get more information, but when I pressed the only thing they could tell me was about boots. Any ideas?

I need to see more movies. Anything good come out lately? I actually may have time to watch them this weekend. It's been a surprisingly good week so far. I think I actually managed to teach Dante something aside from "Get the shoes" that stuck with him, he now sits on command. It used to be when you tell him to sit he'd take that as a cue to run and jump at you instead. Now he's sitting! I didn't even have to bribe him as much as I thought. I might be better at this dog training stuff than I thought.

In the spirit of Claire's distraction post, I'm starting one of my own. A good game of Anywhere but here

Me, I'm going to say Paris. Because I've never been, but everyone says it's so pretty. And I want a proper french pain au chocolat, with coffee.

[Sam]

It's done. They won't be coming after you if you stay away from them.

I'm never touching sugar again. Now I remember why I stayed away from the stuff. It tends to give me issues. Migraines and...just, no good comes from it. Except the cars. The cars were good. It was hard enough to focus on things before. I've been so scattered. So many things on my mind all at once. Maybe I just need to step back. But it's hard.I hate asking but I don't know what else to d I think I need help.. it's torture I can't make it stop. It feels like I'm being pulled in two, and I'm not sure where either half is going. I'm scared

[Filtered to Spike]
You told me about your fight club and betting, but what if I wanted to fight?

[Filtered to Dick]
Hey.

I don't think I've ever run so many red lights in my life. I think I even out ran a cop. That wasn't really my fault. I couldn't tell he was there, because he was all tiny and little in the mirrors by the time he turned on the lights. Did you realize half the cars in Bruce's garage can go from 0 to 60 in under 10 seconds? That was only the first row of Bentley's. There's still the BMW's and the Z3's, and a few dozen motorcycles to try. I dunno where this came from. But we just have so many, many cars and we only ever drive one. It just doesn't seem fair to the rest of them to sit there and get all dusty. Sometimes they're even driven by our driver. It's Car discrimination I tell you! Pure and simple. Lets see, I've already gotten through about ten cars. I should be done by morning. Or maybe tomorrow morning. I think I can do this all night.

Dick's been shot. how the hell does Night Wing get himself shot

[filtered to Bruce.]
I think we should just disconnect the manor phone. It's never good.

I actually got to drive. Bruce let me drive his car without fighting. That's the first time ever. I wasn't sure it could happen. I don't think I did to badly. May have been a little over the speed limit. But seriously. It wasn't my fault the speed limits were so different. Nobody warned me they'd be different everywhere. Back home in Gotham it's just one speed. Makes it so much easier.

The Zoo wasn't as bad as I thought. Maybe even kinda interesting. There were penguins. I lost count of how many times I had to drag Bart away from trying to pet things. You almost got us kicked out. Only you could get kicked out of a childrens zoo.

Finally summer break. No. I'm not going to take any summer courses. I'm so done with this right now it's not even funny. I've had enough of that prep school. I just want one weekend of nothing. That would be nice. still having the nightmares, but now I just don't want to talk about them, maybe they'll go aw I think I'm going to take a walk around the manor tonight, just to make sure everything's still in it's place. maybe go to the caves to make sure hes still dead Something just feels off. I'm not exactly sure what it is.