Re: quicklog, gotham: wayne manor
[Bruce had worried about the mobs or the police getting to Damian first, but he hadn't considered that the boy might end his own life. Maybe he simply hadn't wanted to. His family wouldn't kill him, they would never cross that line, and he really had wanted so badly to believe that his son could be saved. That, somehow, they could get through to him. It was a foolish hope, he saw now. He should have known better.
The mention of a memorial managed to reach him, but not in the way Alfred probably intended. It made him think of burials, made him think of the last time Damian had died. Ra's had stolen his body, and he couldn't let that happen again. No. No. He looked up sharply, an almost manic sort of urgency in his eyes.] We have to burn the body. [Bruce reached up to take hold of his shirt, desperate for him to understand.] He can't be buried. Promise me, Alfred.