On upcoming plots.

[batmanschmatman]

You know, being bitten by a poisonous snake and being taken hostage, interrogated about stuff I don't have the answers to anyway, and then rescuing myself? Isn't a normal day at the office. Even for me.

If this is your solution to feeling kind of burnt out right now, I really hope it doesn't turn into some kind of tradition.

Comments

[sixthanimorph]

You think that scares me anymore? Besides, you're gonna come after me anyway.

[batmanschmatman]

No I'm not. I'm going to be lucky if I make it to the infirmary on my own.

[sixthanimorph]

Then I guess I can go after Kirk and Capa after all, can't I?

[batmanschmatman]

Take it up with Tim and the other wardens. And Jim's apparently going to be my ambulance.

[sixthanimorph]

Oh, I'll take it up with Tim all right. I've got a lot I'm gonna take up with him.

[batmanschmatman]

Pretty sure he's going to have a lot to take up with you, too. What with the almost killing me and all.

[sixthanimorph]

So let him. I don't wanna hurt him, but I'm not gonna let him stop me, not this time. And I can take him if I have to, I just never wanted to.

[batmanschmatman]

Wow, you are really just burning bridges lately.

[sixthanimorph]

Look, Dick, this is it. I'm going home this time, I don't care what I have to do. You can hate me and Tim can hate me, I don't care. You'll be back in Gotham and I'll never see you again. But I'm done letting everyone else control my life but me.

[batmanschmatman]

I don't hate you. I'm just disappointed.

[sixthanimorph]

Yeah, I know. You wanted to train me to be the good little inmate who does what he's told and goes along with the program. You wanted to control me, just like everyone else here. But I'm done letting people control me. From now on, I control me.

[batmanschmatman]

You seriously don't get it, do you?

[sixthanimorph]

I'm sick of you talking down to me like that, that's what I get!

[batmanschmatman]

Whatever, David. You can do what you want. I'm done being an advocate for you after this.

[sixthanimorph]

I'm done being here after this, so you and Tim can find some other dumb kid to lead around by the nose who's stupid enough to buy into your line of bullshit. I was stupid to even believe it at all.

[batmanschmatman]

You seriously think that's what we were trying to do? We went to the wall for you when everyone else was willing to just toss you under the bus, and that's all you're taking away from it?

[sixthanimorph]

You lied to me!! All that talk about 'the Code' and 'doing the right thing', and you were breaking your rules when no one was looking just like everyone else! Who the hell do you people think you are, telling me how to live my life?! At least I'm upfront about what I've done!

[batmanschmatman]

What the hell are you talking about?

[sixthanimorph]

I'm talking about Tim and Sylar, Dick. Their little arrangement. I know everything now. Claire told me.

[batmanschmatman]

What happened with Sylar I never approved of. I don't know what Tim did or didn't tell you, but I never lied to you, and you're turning around and thanking me by almost killing me, and apparently, potentially doing the same thing to my friends.

[sixthanimorph]

You remember what you told me that day I wanted to kill Kirk, you and Tim? I do. "What's our rule? What's our first rule?" You talked me out of going after Kirk that day and I believed in you and all the time, all the time, Tim had made a deal to let a serial killer keep right on killing. And you knew about it. You knew, and you let him act like he had some moral high ground over me. So why should I believe a word you say now?

[batmanschmatman]

Because I didn't lie to you. That is our first rule, and yeah, Tim bent it, but that had nothing to do with me or what I was telling you. You don't think it bothers me, that he thought that was okay?

[sixthanimorph]

You had all this time to tell me. How many times have I let you two talk me into backing down? You talked me out of killing Kirk. You talked me out of finishing off Bourne. You talked me out of helping Randall Flagg. Every time, I thought you and him... I had this whole thing built up in my mind, you and Tim were the only people worth listening to, because you wouldn't compromise your beliefs. And all the time, Tim was just a hypocrite, and you were just happy to sit back and let me buy into it. Didn't matter if was true or not, as long as I believed it and did what you wanted me to. Isn't that right?

[batmanschmatman]

No.

[sixthanimorph]

Then what was it? What was it, then, if it wasn't about control?!