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Barbara Gordon ([personal profile] bodilesswarrior) wrote2015-03-25 04:27 am

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[Her eyes are red, and her voice is flat.]

Cassandra Cain is gone.

Does anyone feel like sparring? [She wants to hit someone. She wants to sweat and ache and bleed.]

[Private to David Cain]

Not you. [Her laugh is low and choked.] It's funny, isn't it, that I don't want to hurt you? [But she's not sure she could stop herself from going for his throat, right now.]
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[personal profile] anewlanguage 2015-03-25 11:06 am (UTC)(link)
[He shakes his head helplessly, wondering who and how and when. She had come close to dying more than once under his care, and that was bad enough.]

You know I don't know the first thing about her, Gordon, I couldn't even tell you how she kept herself fed after she left me.
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[personal profile] anewlanguage 2015-03-25 11:36 am (UTC)(link)
Shiva?

[For the most part he doesn't think about her. Iris has brought her up, but apart from those conversations, Cain has gone on seeing Shiva the way he always has: as a discarded aspect of a plan he now abhors.]

When did-?
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[personal profile] anewlanguage 2015-03-26 01:48 am (UTC)(link)
[Why couldn't she have just stayed Batgirl? But Cain knows why; Cass had told him.]

When did you find out it was Shiva? And when did you find out Shiva was...
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[personal profile] anewlanguage 2015-03-26 08:30 pm (UTC)(link)

Cassandra is the spitting image of her mother.

[it had made him laugh, actually, to see how much more dominant Shiva's genes had been than his own.]

Ah. Figured what out about me?

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[personal profile] anewlanguage 2015-03-26 09:12 pm (UTC)(link)

...Yeah?

[He's not proud of it, not with the history behind it, but he is curious.]

What'd she say when she found out?

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[personal profile] anewlanguage 2015-04-08 06:01 am (UTC)(link)

[He tries to stop himself from asking, but every time he thinks of a change of topic, it just lands right back home again.]

Did you?

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[personal profile] anewlanguage 2015-04-13 02:27 am (UTC)(link)
[It's like hearing that someone has seen you naked, has read your mind, worse than that.]

...How'd you figure it out?
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[personal profile] anewlanguage 2015-05-13 10:51 pm (UTC)(link)

Vesper.

[He keeps his tone neutral, or as neutral as it can be considering. He's sure he already knows Barbara's take on that but he needs to hear it--to be sure, to know.]

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[personal profile] anewlanguage 2015-05-18 10:47 pm (UTC)(link)
[He purses his lips because yes, it's true. He hates that it's true but he's not about to start denying it.]

...Was Bruce like that with you and the rest?
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[personal profile] anewlanguage 2015-05-25 06:07 am (UTC)(link)

Cassandra wasn't his kid either, was she? [For some reason--one other than the obvious--it bothers him to think that she might have been.] She was yours.

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[personal profile] anewlanguage 2015-05-27 09:01 pm (UTC)(link)

He never did. I mean...I knew him. He wasn't as bad as some but good fathers, they have something you just can't have if you're gonna be the kind of person Bruce is. [Or Cain, for that matter.]

It always surprised me about you, actually. Looking at your record as Batgirl and then as Barbara? You could do all the things Bruce does, but you still had...something.

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[personal profile] anewlanguage 2015-05-30 04:22 am (UTC)(link)

[He can't discern the reasons behind her emotions but he can read them plainly, even a hint of the underlying ones. He's just not on sure enough footing to even try to ask about them.]

You mean from Bruce?

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