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Tweak says, "MOAR ASYLUMS"

Dick Grayson (gothamboy) wrote in utr_logs,
@ 2008-04-18 01:13:00

Entry tags:

carrie kelley, dick grayson

Who: Dick and Carrie
What: Discovery of some difficult truths
Warnings: Maybe language.

Nightwing had been done hurting people for the night. A small portion of the black market had been shut down (admittedly very small, but gun sales were down and that was the important thing) and at least three muggers had learned the error of their ways, in addition to learning about how hard it is to be thrown at a wall.

All in all, it had been a very rewarding evening.

And then Nightwing came back, checked the mail, and instantly decided that it was time to go back out on the prowl. After all, there were probably still some criminal types... criminaling. There always were. In a city of however many million, he had to assume that someone, somewhere was breaking a law. Unless he was very, very unlucky.

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gothamboy
2008-04-21 02:20 am UTC (link)

"I guess we'll have to get a divorce," said Dick. His voice was somewhat flat, but he was making the effort to sound as if this were simply the logical solution instead of something he found appalling. "Y--we're clearly not ready for marriage and we were..." No one in the world would believe they were drunk enough at that point in the video to completely bypass whatever instincts they may have had. "We weren't prepared," he finished lamely.

He turned off the DVD player, then the TV, and then for good measure, unplugged them both. He walked across the room and sat down at Burt. "Look up Hawaii annulment laws." Dick doubted they would qualify. Months had passed, they were cohabitating before the marriage, they had been together for a year or so, and they hadn't discovered anything disturbing about the other between now and then.

Well, except for the fact that Dick had been thinking about proposing, but that didn't count for a married couple.

"Gosh golly, Nightwing, you don't qualify!"

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girlwonder
2008-04-21 02:28 am UTC (link)

Carrie looked up at the ceiling and ran her hands through her hair. She had been married at eighteen and was headed for a divorce at nineteen. It wasn't fair, it felt entirely wrong.

"Dick..." Carrie kept her gaze away from him. She looked instead up at the ceiling, then down at the floor, then at the dead television. "I think I need to go." She needed to get her head straight and she couldn't do that here. She probably wouldn't be able to really think anything over for a few days.

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gothamboy
2008-04-21 02:45 am UTC (link)

Dick sighed. He'd felt it coming, he knew her too well not to expect her to leave. "Look, we're... married." The word felt foreign in his mouth. "And I understand that you're afraid of that because of... whatever reason you have. You don't believe in it, it's dumb, it doesn't matter. But the fact is that you don't have anything to be afraid of. We've been married for the past couple of months, and we have lived exactly as we did before. Sure, we didn't know it, but do you think that would have changed anything?"

He stood up and placed his hand on Carrie's shoulder. "If you don't want to be married to me, then we'll go down to City Hall first thing tomorrow morning and you won't be. If you don't ever want to be married to me, I won't pressure you. That's a promise. But I'm afraid that if you run away now, right now... you might not come back."

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girlwonder
2008-04-21 02:52 am UTC (link)

He knew her well. Too well, maybe. "I just need to figure out what to do," she said. Her voice was very soft. "I just need-" the end of the sentence hung lamely in the air. She needed air. Space. To get away for a little while.

She wanted nothing else than to go back a few minutes and unlearn this news. But that wasn't possible. Dick had a point. Marriage wasn't too terrible when you didn't know about it. But now that it was out in the open, the weight of it was resting heavily on her shoulders. "I was eighteen," she blurted. "You're my first real boyfriend."

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gothamboy
2008-04-21 03:58 am UTC (link)

Dick had married his first real girlfriend (Liu didn't count on the grounds of being an evil sociopathic bitch, as it happened) when he was twenty, but that was one of the differences between him and Carrie. She was afraid of being that much to someone, and he wanted nothing more.

"Did you assume we were going to break up at some point? That you'd get tired of me, or I of you, and we'd go our separate ways?" They'd only had one or two real fights in their relationship, the kind that meant more than Dick torturing Carrie when she was hung over or Carrie pasting his modeling photos all over everything he owned. They... they worked. "I don't think you did, otherwise--not to put too fine a point on it--you wouldn't have proposed."

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