"I had not anticipated the glee with which you would embrace your own conquering. The relief in your every twist and twitch. You belong like this."
He murmurs, leaning down over him.
"You fight because you feel you have the responsibility to, you are too self-disciplined not to fight for all you are worth. But is it not a relief to remain caught? Held, in a way he never could quite manage?"
He asks, softly, looking him in the eye, holding him like that. He doesn't let him speak yet, knows the denial will be instantaneous, but rather wants him to think about it.
He lies still in Bane's arms, absorbing pain and something stable.
"Bats."
It comes in a rasp, with a smile. And it's true, but there's also the fear of failure, which he developed after Rachel died. So Ra's never touched either phobia.
"What she does not see cannot hurt her. The dead, in my mind, do not watch."
He murmurs.
"They simply are not. Snuffed, from the world, without consequence or meaning. There is no justice, no harmony, but no injustice or dischord either. We are simply a sum of cells. Shed the intolerable cruelty and injustic of her death and focus on the air that moves in and out of your lungs."
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Date: 2012-08-22 07:18 pm (UTC)Flipping the thing so he can drive the blunt end into muscle.
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Date: 2012-08-22 07:24 pm (UTC)"Thought you knew I'd be like this. Keep going-"
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Date: 2012-08-22 07:28 pm (UTC)He murmurs, leaning down over him.
"You fight because you feel you have the responsibility to, you are too self-disciplined not to fight for all you are worth. But is it not a relief to remain caught? Held, in a way he never could quite manage?"
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Date: 2012-08-22 07:34 pm (UTC)"You aren't like him, or I wouldn't take this."
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Date: 2012-08-22 07:42 pm (UTC)He answers, breathing in deeply. He can't even really smell him.
The frustrated growl echoes through him, head to toe.
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Date: 2012-08-22 07:52 pm (UTC)Mouth trailing over Bane's neck.
"I owe you for yesterday."
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Date: 2012-08-22 08:12 pm (UTC)He tells him, sly and quiet.
"I have abstained this long, I shall wait a few weeks longer."
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Date: 2012-08-22 08:27 pm (UTC)For all Bane knows, Bruce is just teasing.
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Date: 2012-08-22 08:29 pm (UTC)He pushes Bruce's hair back, and then presses a fingernail against the thin skin of his ear where it stretches taught over skull.
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Date: 2012-08-22 08:37 pm (UTC)"Keep talking."
A soft request.
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Date: 2012-08-22 08:42 pm (UTC)Hand over his face now. He does love that jaw joint.
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Date: 2012-08-22 09:36 pm (UTC)Really afraid of. But that joint makes Bruce cry out so there's no time to finish the sentence.
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Date: 2012-08-22 09:41 pm (UTC)He asks, softly, looking him in the eye, holding him like that. He doesn't let him speak yet, knows the denial will be instantaneous, but rather wants him to think about it.
"I'll teach you to face it."
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Date: 2012-08-22 10:22 pm (UTC)"Bats."
It comes in a rasp, with a smile. And it's true, but there's also the fear of failure, which he developed after Rachel died. So Ra's never touched either phobia.
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Date: 2012-08-22 10:29 pm (UTC)He murmurs, forehead creasing down at him.
"Fearsome in flight, I suppose."
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Date: 2012-08-22 10:32 pm (UTC)He's well aware that it's ridiculous. It was absurd even when he was a child.
"So I became Batman."
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Date: 2012-08-22 10:39 pm (UTC)He decides, shifting them, sitting back, dragging Bruce up.
"You'll like them once they're in your lap."
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Date: 2012-08-22 10:43 pm (UTC)"And what's your fear?"
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Date: 2012-08-22 11:14 pm (UTC)Which he survived.
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Date: 2012-08-22 11:49 pm (UTC)He taps his nose.
"The rest is just finding rhythm once more."
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Date: 2012-08-23 12:05 am (UTC)He's resisted it for so long...but the world is falling apart and he can't help if he can't pull himself out of his own wreckage.
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Date: 2012-08-23 12:06 am (UTC)He orders him, arms around him.
"The past is past."
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Date: 2012-08-23 12:18 am (UTC)"Is that how you're all right with having me around, even with how she felt about me?"
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Date: 2012-08-23 12:25 am (UTC)He murmurs.
"They simply are not. Snuffed, from the world, without consequence or meaning. There is no justice, no harmony, but no injustice or dischord either. We are simply a sum of cells. Shed the intolerable cruelty and injustic of her death and focus on the air that moves in and out of your lungs."
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