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Jason Todd (theboyblunder) wrote in somerealityweb,
@ 2019-09-02 20:34:00

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active: freddy freeman

[Batfamily + Tommy]

Tell me this isn’t happening.

[Freddy]

I need you to promise me that you and your friends are not going to talk to the clown. Under any circumstances.

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	Freddy \| Jason freemanspeaks 2019-09-03 01:39 am UTC (link)
	What clown?! IS THE CLOWN FROM IT HERE OMG?!! (Reply to this) (Thread)

	Freddy \| Jason theboyblunder 2019-09-03 01:44 am UTC (link)
	Harley Quinn. I don't know if she's in your universe but she might as well be the clown from It. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: Freddy \| Jason freemanspeaks 2019-09-03 01:45 am UTC (link)
	Oh. I missed that. I told Peter and Nico. Are you okay? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Freddy \| Jason theboyblunder 2019-09-03 02:07 am UTC (link)
	Yeah. I just want you to be safe. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	First Filter dickgayson 2019-09-03 01:41 am UTC (link)
	Motherfucker. I wish it weren't. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	First Filter theboyblunder 2019-09-03 01:54 am UTC (link)
	How the fuck are they in every universe? They’re in every universe! The world where Bruce killed him? He still came back and he killed Bruce. I killed him and he still came back. There’s no getting away. They’re everywhere. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	First Filter dickgayson 2019-09-03 01:57 am UTC (link)
	I thought maybe - maybe - we wouldn't have to deal with this here. Everything was so nice. It was going so well. ~~Tim was right, shit.~~ And now this shit. If you're staying with the docs, I'll stay with you. If you want me to. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	First Filter theboyblunder 2019-09-03 02:23 am UTC (link)
	It was stupid to even think we could have something good for once. It always comes back around to this in the end. I want you to. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	First Filter dickgayson 2019-09-03 02:25 am UTC (link)
	~~I just keep thinking~~ That'll teach us to have hope. I will, then. Whatever you need. I got you. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	First Filter theboyblunder 2019-09-04 12:22 am UTC (link)
	You’d think we would know by now that’s not in the cards for us. Do you remember that one children's book in the library? On the first page, there was that one line...some serve in joy and some in suffering. Joy isn't really what we were made for. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	First Filter dickgayson 2019-09-04 12:59 am UTC (link)
	Yeah. Pretty sure Bruce left that one in there on purpose. So we didn't set our expectations too high. He made that choice for us when he decided that ten-year-olds were mature enough to fight bad guys. And this is what we get for it. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	First Filter theboyblunder 2019-09-04 02:19 am UTC (link)
	You think Bruce picked it out? I always thought that it was... it always seemed like it was just another piece of the library. The way that everything else was just there and always had been. I don’t think there’s any way that it didn’t end up here. It all fits together. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	First Filter dickgayson 2019-09-04 05:00 pm UTC (link)
	I always assumed. It's not the sort of thing Alfred would pick out. Someone had to choose those books. I don't know if Bruce's parents were the kind to feed him that sort of crap, but if they were, a lot would make sense. Maybe we stick to the Brontes for now, instead of taking a stroll down traumatizing childhood literature lane. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	First Filter theboyblunder 2019-09-04 09:32 pm UTC (link)
	It’s not really the book I’m talking about, though. I meant that all of this was predestined like that line said. How many ‘coincidences’ had to happen for this to end up where it did? It never really mattered what choice was made along the way, because it would always end up coming out to the same thing. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

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dickgayson
2019-09-04 09:39 pm UTC (link)

I don't really believe in destiny. But that's not to say I don't believe in curses and maybe the cape is just cursed. We've all worn it, we've all suffered for it, it's the one thing we all have in common.

I made it to draw attention - the costume. Like an animal's warning colors. I made it draw focus, to draw fire, to keep an eye on me so Batman could do what Batman did. And hell if it didn't work. A little too well. I just passed the curse down to the rest of you and I can't take that back. You wouldn't have even been with Bruce in the first place if I didn't threaten him. Not that you would have been any better off if I had raised you instead cause God knows I don't know what the hell I'm doing any more than he does.

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theboyblunder
2019-09-06 04:44 pm UTC (link)

But it happened before we ever put on the cape. Everything had to fall into place perfectly to make that happen, too. How many times did my father sell without getting caught? How many times did my mother shoot up before then? How many times had I been down that alley? Christ, Dick. What about Natalia? I still ended up with him. You never could have stopped it.

And what about you? How does anything that happened between you and him make any more sense than that? There was no reason he should have been there that night. He shouldn’t have even been able to take you home with him like he did. And you shouldn’t have ended up back in his house after the first time that you were out of it. Both of us got out and then both of us were pulled back.

I can’t seem to shake the feeling that it's by design.

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dickgayson
2019-09-07 01:05 am UTC (link)

For years I told myself he was just keeping an eye on Zucco and followed him there. That Zucco brought him there, not me. And that would be a Bruce thing to do. Sit back and watch someone commit some horrific crime because he still wasn't intervening until he had evidence before then. But then he felt bad. Because he didn't intervene. I made it make sense in my 10-year-old head and I just haven't moved on past that despite all evidence to the contrary.

And you know what kept me coming back. I didn't have to be Robin or Nightwing to go crawling back for that. I just had to be a complete idiot.

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	First Filter doctorelliot 2019-09-03 01:43 am UTC (link)
	You're staying with us. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	First Filter theboyblunder 2019-09-03 02:06 am UTC (link)
	~~It’s not gonna~~ Okay. Dick's coming too. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	First Filter doctorelliot 2019-09-03 02:11 am UTC (link)
	Of course. That's what we have a spare room for. I got them out of Gotham for you once. Do you think I wouldn't make sure you're safe while we're here, too? It's my first priority. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	First Filter theboyblunder 2019-09-03 02:39 am UTC (link)
	No. I trust you to do anything that has to be done. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	First Filter doctorelliot 2019-09-04 12:56 am UTC (link)
	And I will. Whatever is necessary. And then a little extra for the fun of it. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	First Filter theboyblunder 2019-09-04 02:20 am UTC (link)
	You always do know how to make things better. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	First Filter doctorelliot 2019-09-04 05:04 pm UTC (link)
	I do what I can. For you. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	First Filter theboyblunder 2019-09-06 06:12 pm UTC (link)
	I know. They’ve always seemed like some unstoppable force. ~~Nothing applies to them like it should.~~ But so are you. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	First Filter doctorelliot 2019-09-07 01:09 am UTC (link)
	I've stopped them before. For a while. It's what I do. If people would stop undoing my hard work. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	[Batfamily + Tommy] babsgirl 2019-09-04 08:57 pm UTC (link)
	I AM TRYING NOT TO HAVE A PANIC ATTACK. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	[Batfamily + Tommy] theboyblunder 2019-09-04 10:04 pm UTC (link)
	Do you think she's the prelude? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: [Batfamily + Tommy] babsgirl 2019-09-09 06:52 pm UTC (link)
	To - more? God I hope not. (Reply to this) (Parent)