pre-tdkr. (looking around?)

[overkill]

I'm as much for progress as anyone, but retirement doesn't agree with me.

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[adapted]

Why not? Don't you feel like you've earned all those wild parties at retirement villas?

[overkill]

Nobody likes a wallflower.

[adapted]

Except maybe Stephen Chbosky.

[overkill]

I think he just liked writing about weird teenagers.

[adapted]

Kind of sounds like your life story. Without the billions cushioning everything, obviously.

[overkill]

My life story sounds like writing about weird teenagers?

[bratzhena]

If it doesn't. Stab it continuously and mercilessly with a knife, until it agrees with you

[overkill]

I'll keep that in mind.

[callit]

Bruce Wayne, retiring? Somebody check hell because it might have frozen over.

[overkill]

You aren't congenially poking fun at the fact that my rich kid ass has never had a real job, are you?

[callit]

Who me? Never.

[He totally is.]

[overkill]

You're a pal, Harvey.

But what good would I do in the DA's office besides spill things and get underfoot?

[callit]

I don't know, we always need interns to get coffee and file papers. I'm sure you can't make that big a mess of the filing system.

[overkill]

Are any of the other filing clerks cute?

[starcrossed_hawk]

Yeah. Can't really picture you sitting still, Bruce.

[overkill]

I guess not.

You know me?

[starcrossed_hawk]

Long boring story that involves a multiverse.

[overkill]

Oh, one of those.

Completely boring, I know.

[starcrossed_hawk]

Shayera.

[overkill]

Well.

I appreciate the vote of confidence, Shayera.

[barsad]

Never would have suited me, either.

[ Not that he got the chance. ]

[overkill]

[ A moment to place him - not from events he hasn't experienced yet, but from.. a mountain somewhere, perhaps? Not that Bruce ever ended up with that fraternity's brand. Obviously. ]

Some of us aren't built for it.

[barsad]

[ Could be. He's certainly known to hang around with that gang. ]

A blessing, to live a better than ordinary life.

[overkill]

Do you feel blessed?

[ Curiouser and curiouser. ]

[barsad]

[ He does. Bone-deep; it is a part of his reality, and there is an honest hint of surprise when the question is posed to him.

He has a place to belong. Every bullet, every spill of blood over his fingers is part of this blessing.

-- Then, for someone to kill so young, perhaps he's numb to the horror and sensitive only to the light. ]

You don't?