Re: jurassic world: selina/steph -- escape
[Stephanie laughed out loud at that.] Well, that too. We're all kind of uppity little assholes, honestly. [And that was joking, too, but in a self-aware sort of way. Clearly, clearly part of the problem with the bats was how judgemental they were. It was why Selina didn't feel like Gotham was home anymore. It was why there was a fissure now between the two women. Because bats were so quick to judge and quick to act, and sometimes? That wasn't a good thing to do. And Stephanie? She had a lot of regrets in her life, but the most paramount at that moment was the fact that she wasn't there for Selina when she needed it. And, frankly, when Stephanie herself needed it, too.
That was going to change. She would make sure of it. She knew that she wanted to be there for Selina, even if she was the last person in Gotham to do so. She had her family, of course, but she understood Selina more in these last couple of months than any of the boys. Lost little girls trying to find their meaning in life after everything they fought for was just gone.]
It's hard. [Her voice cracked, and she walked again, biting at her bottom lip because she refused.] Makes me feel like maybe there was no point to any of it at all. That maybe? It was just fucking filler. [Left behind for damn sure, and Stephanie tried so hard not to be bitter about it. It was what brought her down into her spirals of self-hatred instead. He was happy with her, and that was that.] It fucking hurts, is what it is. Knowing that all those years ago, when I was scared that this was going to happen? It happened anyway. She got him. She won. [A huff, and she was trying not to think anything of the deity that her ex-husband was living with now, that he was falling in love with. And not only because the second she walked back into her home door, said deities brother would know. Oops. She knew it wasn't that easy, and she knew that the other woman (because oh, yeah, she was a woman now) didn't snatch her husband from under her. but still.
A shaky sigh, and she pushed that away, a shake of her head and a shrug.] The last Damian didn't. The last Damian was so low he let himself die.