Rule 63 AU Terry McGinnis - Homeless

[dontcallmebatwoman]

Y'know, I'm glad the one game you were looking at won't take AUs. You know you can barely keep up playing a boy version of me, and you owe that game more. Besides, I don't know what your sick fascination with seeing me hurt is - yeah, I know how many screenshots you have of the batsuit being damaged, you creep - but at least now you can't use my friendship with D to hurt me.

Jeez, I may dressed up like a giant male bat, but at least I'm not a freaking sadist.

And you put down that pencil right now, I do not want to hear you whining about how hard it is to make your own icons and then not even use them.

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[timeshare_batwoman]

Since Shriek held the whole city hostage and demanded Batman's life.

I was the ridiculous one back then.

[futurebatwoman]

Dying on the job is a risk we all take.

[timeshare_batwoman]

Usually the people we're trying to protect aren't telling us to go get ourselves killed.

But did that happen? Shriek demanding Batman's life? How long has it been since then?

[futurebatwoman]

There was a lot of media sensationalism over that, you know. Most of the city didn't really feel that way, but the news didn't want to report on them. Didn't make as much splash. [ oh yeah that's just slightly bitter there. ]

... Almost four years, I think.

[timeshare_batwoman]

I remember. At the time, I thought that none of them would be saying such things if they'd been saved by Batman. After I found out... [That bitterness speaks volumes.]

Then, after Shriek's next stunt, and one of the same people who had told Terry to go to his death was interviewed blaming Batman for leaving the city unprotected... Well, that's when I decided something had to be done.

Four years. It's been about the same for me. Sounds like you've had a better time of it.

[futurebatwoman]

Rule of thumb is to just never trust the media.

I can get that. I'd be pretty pissed too. ... Who told you Terry was - had been Batman?

Yeah, I - I guess it has.

[timeshare_batwoman]

I don't. But they weren't forcing anyone to say anything. Some people genuinely felt that way.

You did. Because Terry was officially just missing, but you seemed to be in mourning and knew more than you were saying. I made you tell me what you knew.

And I- Dana from your reality, still doesn't know about Terry?

[futurebatwoman]

There's idiots in every batch.

I thought it might have been me.

You - she - does, actually. Terry hated lying to you and then we all got an apartment together for college and things got too obvious. [ clearing throat. ] You're actually my silent partner in the field sometimes, when Terry and I are on separate jobs and Bruce can't concentrate on us both at once.