Day 48: Men's Showers [Fourth Shift]
After a rough morning, Lunch was actually fairly easy to sit through. Sechs and Kibitoshin hardly knew him, so light conversation was fine. The things from Breakfast and this morning though, would be sticking with him for a while. When the nurse arrived to take him to showers, he was relieved to find he was the first one there. With that, there
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Even though Recluse was already done with his shower, Harvey still had one more thing to worry about. With the shampoo gathered in one hand, he used the other to pool some water and then carefully dumped it over what was left of his hair. Once it was wet enough, he started to carefully add the shampoo in.
Betrayal? That was something Harvey was more than familiar with himself. He tried not to think too hard about it, though. He didn't need to get himself worked up in the middle of the showers. "I know how that is. I'm surprised you didn't want to make him pay, though." Harvey didn't want Gordon to just disappear, after all. He wanted to make the man feel what he'd felt, and there was one very specific way that he could do that.
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"Oh, I did. More than anything. But certain extenuating circumstances made it difficult to properly express how I felt. He's proved incredibly resistant to such attempts in the past, and I certainly don't have the resources here to make any improvement on previous attempts." Namely, the Destined One. The only one who could kill Marcus, if the prophecy was accurate. Nothing else had worked thus far.
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Listening to Recluse's excuses, Harvey used both hands to pool up more water and then drop it over his shampooed hair. It was a pretty crude method, but it was the only way he could control how much water got on him and where it went.
It sounded like the other man was having trouble acting out his revenge, though. That wasn't something Harvey thought he'd have to worry about. Gordon's supposed morals would get in the way of him fighting back, probably. It made him an easy target. "So you're just glad to have him out of the way? I guess I can relate." If Gordon had been here and Harvey had somehow been unable to do anything about it, that would have just been aggravating. No, more than that -- infuriating.
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"Now I can be productive without him here." He wasn't going to specify how, he was still reticent to share any information that could put him at a disadvantage. Regardless of whether Dent seemed to share the same sort of problem that he had, he still had no reason to trust the man.
And really, he never trusted anyone.
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It looked like his shower was just about done, at least. Harvey sighed and let the warm water soak his body for a little longer.
"Me, I've just been hoping that the guy I'm targeting hasn't up and vanished." If Batman was gone, he'd either managed to sneak himself out (the bastard) or... Well, Harvey refused to believe that someone else had taken care of him. It just wasn't supposed to work that way.
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"If he is brought here, I could assist you." Not for free, of course, but that wasn't necessary to discuss at the moment.
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"I don't need your help," he said with a shake of his head. "I'm sure you've got your own stuff to deal with, anyway." That, and Harvey already had Jason to deal with. He didn't need someone else that he had to argue with and keep track of.
He turned off the water, shook his hair out, and nodded to the man as a quiet goodbye. With that, he headed off, eager to get changed and take his bandages off.
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