never gonna let you down; alfred (yes_sir) wrote in rooms,
Re: quicklog, gotham: wayne manor
[It may not have been supposed to be like this, but it wasn't an outcome that wasn't unforseeable, either. Of course the family hadn't wanted to think about that possibility, but the violence had gone so deep it probably would have taken someone's death to break through the pattern. Alfred had talked to that woman who called herself Death, he had hoped like the others it wouldn't come to it, but he had worried it would.
He had no idea that it had happened before, though, and he felt quite worthless about helping Bruce right now. Alfred hadn't known Damien, and he couldn't grieve like the others. His heart right now broke for Bruce and the still living. He put his hand back on the man's shoulder, grouping firmly.]. You should have a memorial. For the family, soon. [People who felt the loss as well as Bruce.]