Around twenty minutes later, Dick had entered WE and poked his head in Bruce's office, not actually entering, because he still - even after a couple months of living in the city and dealing with younger, I have relatively little idea of who you are Bruce - felt a little awkward just barging into things and smiled, holding up the files.
Bruce hit that briefly awkward moment he got every time 'boss' came into the equation. He was used to it around Wayne Enterprises, even sometimes with Sasha, but this was different. He'd never quite been 'boss' in this sense before.
Adjusting properly to it was still on the way, so the nod that came after betrayed a little bit of that feeling. "What'd you find?" Bruce rose from his desk, motioning to the table and chairs not too far away. Hiding behind a desk for normal circumstances was bad enough as it was.
From Dick's perspective, "boss" was more like the "Dad" Dick had never really felt comfortable saying except on rare occasions where the word just ended up slipping out, and he definitely wasn't doing that here. He headed over to the table, sat down in one of the chairs and immediately started explaining
( ... )
Separating the first file from the rest, Bruce looked it over, reading about the woman in the accident. Normal, from what he could read. Aside from how she died. And even then.
"Do you know if he had any target in mind?" Random shootings, also normal to a degree. If this was their captors' way of trying to inject normality into their lives, Bruce felt like responding with some violence of his own. He forced as far back in his head as he could, and frowned as he looked the rest of the files over. "When I caught the guy in the alley, he was intent on killing the man he was beating. He didn't seem to know why, but the victim was definitely the target."
"I'm not sure if he did, since the reports we've got said it definitely seemed like a random encounter, but he definitely didn't hesitate to pull the trigger." He pulled that file out and opened it up, nudging it over towards Bruce so he could get a look at it. "Caffery bumped into him, the assailant pulled the trigger, Dean Winchester wandered onto the scene and was shot when he tried to get the gun away from him."
"But admittedly," he elaborated, thinking it over. "Officers didn't arrive on the scene until later, so testimony doesn't necessarily match up with what happened. Weirder things have happened then someone targeting people without knowing why they're doing it."
"And this place thrives on weird." Unfortunately for them. Bruce read over the file Dick had given him, and shook his head, glancing his way. "If this is them, it has a purpose. They don't do anything that isn't a means to some kind of end."
Rush was a little harder to explain away, but Bruce was sure they thought that was justifiable too. He glanced Dick's way before looking down at the files again. "I assume you have a theory?"
Reply
Reply
Reply
- - - -
Around twenty minutes later, Dick had entered WE and poked his head in Bruce's office, not actually entering, because he still - even after a couple months of living in the city and dealing with younger, I have relatively little idea of who you are Bruce - felt a little awkward just barging into things and smiled, holding up the files.
"Hey boss."
Reply
Adjusting properly to it was still on the way, so the nod that came after betrayed a little bit of that feeling. "What'd you find?" Bruce rose from his desk, motioning to the table and chairs not too far away. Hiding behind a desk for normal circumstances was bad enough as it was.
Reply
Reply
"Do you know if he had any target in mind?" Random shootings, also normal to a degree. If this was their captors' way of trying to inject normality into their lives, Bruce felt like responding with some violence of his own. He forced as far back in his head as he could, and frowned as he looked the rest of the files over. "When I caught the guy in the alley, he was intent on killing the man he was beating. He didn't seem to know why, but the victim was definitely the target."
Reply
"But admittedly," he elaborated, thinking it over. "Officers didn't arrive on the scene until later, so testimony doesn't necessarily match up with what happened. Weirder things have happened then someone targeting people without knowing why they're doing it."
Reply
Rush was a little harder to explain away, but Bruce was sure they thought that was justifiable too. He glanced Dick's way before looking down at the files again. "I assume you have a theory?"
Reply
Leave a comment