Re: Batcave: Cat & Bat
He raised his eyebrows. "Was I pointing that you were lying?" Bruce feigned innocence. "I was simply trying to be encouraging." She hadn't given up. She hadn't turned her back on everyone and everything. As much as she might have wanted to stop trying, she didn't, and he thought that was worth pointing out.
It didn't really surprise him, that Selina had seen the baby. "Of course you were." He made a thoughtful sound when she remarked that Barbara was worried about raising Lucy in Gotham. It was a valid concern. "It's not exactly safe for children here. But it's nice, that you two talked. That you saw the baby." Barbara could probably use someone to talk to. Maybe it was a good thing.
"I haven't forgotten," he said, of her reminder that he owed her a charity event. Once there was time... if there was. Bruce wasn't sure anymore. He watched her shrug off the coat, drape it over the chair, but he was frowning a second later; hallucinations weren't good. He listened as she talked, his silence only meaning that he was thinking, absorbing, not that she wasn't paying attention. While he was no doctor, he'd tested enough samples to be able to go through the motions of prep with swift skill. "Toxins can be deadly," he said grimly. "An emotional crisis is difficult. I'm not saying it isn't. But Eddie, Stephanie, even Holly-- they can work through their problems." And then the needle, which he slid expertly into her skin. "As impossible as they seem."