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From this.

"You will find strength, and peace."

He promises, with belief.

Date: 2012-08-21 09:42 pm (UTC)
lasiurus: (checkmate)
From: [personal profile] lasiurus
That snaps him out of the post-orgasm peace. He sits up, eyes hard and cold again, daring Bane to try it. (Ra's had loved that expression, had always smiled so faintly it was barely a twitch in his beard, and then had always knocked Bruce aside).

"I'm not going to be your puppet, or your servant. I'm willing to learn from you, to do what you ask so that the people I love are safe. But you will not reshape me."

Date: 2012-08-21 09:47 pm (UTC)
lasiurus: (rough night)
From: [personal profile] lasiurus
He bristles at the idea that he is just that predictable, that easy to push. He reaches over Bane and gets the coffee, not caring that it's gone cold.

"Do we get the news here?"

Date: 2012-08-21 09:51 pm (UTC)
lasiurus: (grim smile)
From: [personal profile] lasiurus
"I want to hear."

It's not an order or a demand, but neither is it a request. He needs to hear, is what he means.

The hope that one of the Avengers might be alive out there is swatted away like a particularly loud mosquito. They're dead; they were among the first to die. Bruce would have been among them, if there hadn't been so much doubt as to whether or not he was really Batman.

He just needs to find Alfred.

Date: 2012-08-21 09:56 pm (UTC)
lasiurus: (dressing)
From: [personal profile] lasiurus
The answer satisfies even impatient, stubborn Mr. Wayne. He lies down again, not on Bane this time, but near him. He stares up at the leaves, through them to the clouds, past those to the sky.

"Did you do this? When you first got out of the dark?"

Date: 2012-08-21 10:03 pm (UTC)
lasiurus: (huh)
From: [personal profile] lasiurus
Bruce is only thirty-five himself, and he looks at Bane in surprise. He tries to imagine what that must have been like, and simply can't. He's lived in prisons, in solitary confinement, in caves. He's slept in hay piles and manure to keep warm. But he always had the sky.

"What were they treating you for?"

Date: 2012-08-21 10:11 pm (UTC)
lasiurus: (maskless)
From: [personal profile] lasiurus
Bane doesn't need his pity, or his sympathy. Bruce does respect him a great deal more, though. It's one thing to want to protect the innocent. It's another to risk your life for them, when you had absolutely no reason to do it.

"They treated you after they attacked you?" And, another strange detail, "If she could crawl free, why didn't the other prisoners?"

Date: 2012-08-21 10:18 pm (UTC)
lasiurus: (diving)
From: [personal profile] lasiurus
He's watching Bane, enthralled, concerned that places like that exist. He's been to terrible places, but never anything like that.

"Did she bring help? Was there help for prisoners...?"

Date: 2012-08-21 10:29 pm (UTC)
lasiurus: (lazy)
From: [personal profile] lasiurus
Bruce brushes his knuckles against Bane's leg. He's not fully 'back' to himself yet, doesn't question the urge for affection. He feels too good to maintain a real distance.

"I wish I could have met her."

Date: 2012-08-21 10:33 pm (UTC)
lasiurus: (Default)
From: [personal profile] lasiurus
He frowns up at him.

"I've never killed anyone."

Date: 2012-08-21 10:39 pm (UTC)
lasiurus: (breaking character)
From: [personal profile] lasiurus
The juxtaposition is so baffling he doesn't know which to react to or how to keep the reactions from mingling. He sits up, but straddles Bane's lap.

"He was going to kill me. Me, and fifteen million innocent people."

Date: 2012-08-21 10:52 pm (UTC)
lasiurus: (toiling)
From: [personal profile] lasiurus
He nods, glad to hear confirmation of what he had been hoping was the case. His thumbs brush along both sides of Bane's throat.

Ra's was evil, and too dangerous to be given to the police. But there are things Bruce has never said to anyone; it's easier to cling to the notion that it was all fully justified.

"I didn't want to do it. And I'm sorry that I caused her pain. I know the anger she must have felt for me."

And if it consumed her the way it almost did Bruce, and if Bane had to sit and watch the way Alfred had, then he's sorry for that, too. But he conveys that by sliding further onto Bane's lap and dipping his head to offer sharp little nips along his collarbone.

Date: 2012-08-21 10:55 pm (UTC)
lasiurus: (you think)
From: [personal profile] lasiurus
"Seven years."

He doesn't have to stop to think about it.

Date: 2012-08-21 11:02 pm (UTC)
lasiurus: (lazy)
From: [personal profile] lasiurus
"Good plan."

That quiet, League whisper. He keeps exploring Bane with his mouth.

"How far does your network go?"

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