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dragonbat2006

Fic: Sometimes There Are No Words

Mar 21, 2013 00:01

Fandom: Batman
Author: dragonbat2006
Title: Sometimes There Are No Words
Rating: K+
Spoilers/Warnings: Batman Inc #8; Batgirl #18; reference to child death
Characters: Batman, Jim Gordon
Genres: H/C, Friendship, Tragedy, Gen
Words: 1342
Summary: Some messages are hard to deliver... and harder to respond to.

( Sometimes There Are No Words )

char: batman, fanfiction, char: jim gordon

Comments 6

digitalwave March 21 2013, 04:22:16 UTC

This was perfect. Painful as heck, as it should be, but perfect. Thanks so much for sharing it with us.

dragonbat2006 March 21 2013, 12:02:27 UTC

Thank you! I'm glad you liked.

in_excelsis_dea March 21 2013, 09:58:36 UTC

I'm horribly behind in my comics -- I need to catch up from like October. But I've been at least spoiled to the point that I know Damian died, and as much as I want to read and get caught up, I honestly don't know if I can read him actually dying. Back when I read Jason's death or Steph's, I was fairly new to comics, so I didn't really have an attachment to the characters. Plus, I knew they were going to come back (well, except Steph, because it took her another year or so to come back, but the fandom wasn't reeling from it as a recent event like they are now with Damian). But with Damian -- I adored Damian, he's one of my favorite characters, and he was a ten year-old kid, and I don't know... it's just different. Gah ( ... )

dragonbat2006 March 21 2013, 12:08:42 UTC

Well, post-reboot, Gail's left it vague about whether Jim knows. However, Ray Fawkes filled in for #18 and he made it pretty clear that Jim's aware.

What we get in Batgirl #18 is Jim getting the text and going up to the roof. Batman in shadow to us, with Jim telling him he looks like hell and asking what happened. And then the next panel is Jim looking extremely upset in his office, calling Barbara and telling her about Damian. I tried to imagine how the conversation we didn't see probably went down and this fic happened.

Glad it hit a chord with you!

mithen March 21 2013, 10:55:21 UTC

"Hey," he said. "Hey, I've got you. I've got you. It's okay." And there he went again, breaking his word, although Batman didn't seem to notice. "It's okay," he repeated. "I've got you."

Oh, that is a really wonderful moment and you capture Jim's pained empathy so well there--how you can't help but reassure someone with meaningless words, and how they're not meaningless because of that. His thoughts about Barbara are wrenching too. This was painful and good.

dragonbat2006 March 21 2013, 12:23:31 UTC

Thank you. It just seemed natural for Jim to assume that Batman was trying to tell him something about Barbara; after all, he was visibly distraught and showing up at GCPD with a message for Jim alone. And then finding out it's not Barbara, but it's still tearing Bruce apart... of course Jim had to try to be there, even if he was sure he was getting it wrong.

Glad you enjoyed!