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[pulvisetumbrasumus]

I don't need this.

I don't want this, and it won't work. You don't understand a single thing about me if you think it even might. I'm not like them. I chose this. I don't need to be fixed. I don't need therapy. I don't need this.

Send me as her Warden if you have to make me anything. I'm not one of your damaged victims. I'm the one who protects the people like them. If you can't grasp that fundamental fact we're going nowhere.

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[pulvisetumbrasumus]

That's not true.

[Bruce has always been unrealistic.]

Your legacy did great things. But you would have done greater. I wouldn't have turned myself in to anyone else. I didn't.

[unbiasedchance]

I killed five men, Bruce. I was going to kill Gordon's son. Trust me. My legacy was better than me being alive.

[Harvey knew just how much of a looney he was, why the hell don't you?]

[pulvisetumbrasumus]

Before that. If I had just gotten to you sooner--or never let you get taken at all.

[He can't let anything go, that's why. Not since he was eight. What else does it say about a man when the only woman he felt he could love was his childhood friend? What else does it say he spent eight years hiding because he couldn't see a future not built exactly like his past?]

Even after. I should have saved you, Harvey. Even if you had to disappear for Gotham. If you could have stayed alive.

[unbiasedchance]

Bruce...you couldn't have done anything. It was all up to chance.

[Which was something Harvey knew very well.]

[pulvisetumbrasumus]

The Joker didn't go after you and Rachel because of chance.

[You're the saner one now, Harvey. Enjoy it for what it's worth.

But because Bruce believes in Harvey Dent, he stops.]

What do you think I should do?

[unbiasedchance]

Go to the Barge. It helped me and, apparently, it helped Crane.

[You can hear from the tone of voice that he's Not Too Happy about that.]

It can definitely help you.

[Another pause, and a frown.]

Read up on 'alternate universes' first, though. You'll need it.

[pulvisetumbrasumus]

[He doubts anything can help him. But he also.doubts he has a choice, and if Harvey and Alfred both want him to go...

At least they're happy.]

I'm gathering. Apparently in most of them I'm a psychopath who murders children.

[Sensitivity, Bruce? Do you know what it is?

No? Right, then. He pauses, then smiles faintly again.]

It's too bad you aren't going to be there. I always felt like I never really got to know you.

[unbiasedchance]

Apparently so am I.

[Harvey smiles slightly. Yeah, that whole alternate universe thing threw him for a major curve ball.]

Who knows, I might end up popping back in eventually. I've got some people who I'd like to see.

[pulvisetumbrasumus]

[Bruce predictably flinches. Right. That.]

Can you drink?

[Out of...nowhere, apparently, but wait!]

I'm a few medications that strictly forbid the consumption of alcohol.

They also told me I'd be lucky not to walk with a limp again. If you show up--let's have a beer.

[Bruce was never much of a drinker after Ra's. But there is such a thing as a special occasion.]

[unbiasedchance]

Carefully.

[Cause, y'know, he's got a fucking hole in his cheek.]

Why the hell not. I'll remember that, you know.

[pulvisetumbrasumus]

[Bruce huffs. It's as close as he gets to ge uine laughter these days. But it's there.]

I'll hold you to that.