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asterbatics) wrote2013-04-10 07:40 pm
asterbatics) wrote2013-04-10 07:40 pm
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"Your call has been forwarded to an automatic message system.
ROBIN is currently unavailable.
Please leave your message after the beep—"
BEEP!
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and then, in addition to that, there's the rest of what damian says that doesn't make sense. batman again and you're still in the cowl and you chose to stay all seeming to contradict each other. and maybe, just maybe, if rob wasn't still reeling over when he's hearing, he would think about what the words could mean before he says them. he could have realized what it means when he says them. but he doesn't, and they come out just as confused as his questions before. ]
I stayed? [ he thinks about the training session, miss m. thinks about curling up on himself in front of black canary. of the crushing, all consuming, overwhelming sense of this isn't what i want. ] Why?
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It's not like they were partners anyway. He was too young. Only Robin now, not Batman. It would be stupid-no, it would be pathetic to allow such an answer to hurt him. Damian isn't weak or stupid and he's certainly not pathetic. He closed his mouth and spoke again a moment later.]
How the hell should I know? [Damian carefully folds his arms across his chest, carefully drawing himself in.]
It's not like it matters here.
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oh, but he does notice. it might take a minute or two, and be spurred on by damian's arm crossing and near-pout, but it's still...a lot to process. ]
I guess not. [ he still doesn't understand it, still doesn't know why he would do that, but damian is pointedly not looking at him and rob has a vague idea as to why and he lets out a sigh, a slight smile. ] So there are two Batmans where you're from? Us and him? Or I guess- we're the duo and he's the uno?
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You and I patrol Gotham while he tackles...larger problems. [Batman Inc. Batman gone global. He's still not entirely sure how he feels about it, but that's not something he's going to get into now.]
You asked me why I left the League. I did not. Mother sent me to train with Batman-with Father-because she wanted me to learn from him. The intent was always for me to return.
But then Father "died" and you took me on as Robin instead. She didn't like that. [Mother and Grayson had probably hated each other since before Damian had even been born. He shrugs, explaining as if it hadn't been the single most important decision he'd ever made in his life. As if it wasn't still a decision that very few people were aware of. None of the superheroes in his world knew what he had given up to remain as Robin.] She gave me a choice, and I chose to stay.
Now I am no longer al Ghul. [Disowned, disinherited, and replaced with a clone.
He has yet to tell a single living soul in any universe about the clone.]
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[ he breathes a little easier when damian seems to drop the offense. granted, rob will probably end up apologizing for it later, but for now they're okay again. whelmed, even. ]
That...actually makes a lot of sense. [ what, considering how their latest ploy with the inter-universal mind control had left gotham all but completely defenseless. they probably should have thought about that before bruce-
well. it doesn't really matter any more, does it?
but then his brow furrows, confused. sent him to train? batman's son, raised by assassins, sent to train with batman and then was going to go...rob's head spins a little, but he tries to set it all straight. ] Did Batman know you were going to go back?
[ were, but that all changed. damian decided to make the change. that's a fact that rob actually has to pause for a moment to process. to understand. because rob does understand the importance a single decision can have, and even if damian doesn't put any real weight in the way he explains it, rob still feels it in his shoulders.
and i chose to stay. ]
And now you're a Wayne. [ if there's a small smile added on to that, well, damian will just have to deal with rob's misplaced 'proud older brother' feelings. ] A part of the family.
[ 'family' is still something rob is figuring out for himself, but this much is obvious even to him. they're partners in the future, they're family in the future. the rest can make sense later. ]
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[He shifts, uncomfortable with the first question. He doesn't know. Batman had known that his intentions had been to return and had appeared to condone it. Grayson had...not. Grayson had made him Robin with the express purpose of keeping him from returning to Talia. (But then Grayson had never ever liked his mother even since long before Damian had come into the picture.)
And now you're a Wayne. He's only fourteen but the smile and the words are such a sharp reminder of his Grayson, the one back home, that he has to drop his eyes to the side and swallow the lump he feels rising in his throat. When the moment of weakness brought on by the sudden longing for his brother has passed and he feels confident enough to speak, he shrugs, pretending at apathy.]
So the older you from my world won't let me forget. [The words are trying at annoyance but he can't hide the pride and astonishment that touches them. Family. For the first time in his life, he had one.]