007 | Old Faces Turned New

[gonnaloveme]

[Screened to the Bat Family || Unhackable]

We seem to have a Harvey Dent with us now. Let me talk to him first. He's from my world. And... he doesn't need to know his future.

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...Harvey? Harvey! Is that really you? God is it nice to see a familiar face around here. Even if you are the "worst" kind of fellow to see--geez, who invites a

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[dualfaced]

[obvious surprise in his tone] Wayne? Well now I know I'm hallucinating, unless this 'war' needs financing.

[Voice]

[gonnaloveme]

[laughter] Yeah, kinda what I thought. I'm still trying to figure that one out... so until I do, I've got nothing for you.

...Gonna answer my question?

[Voice]

[dualfaced]

Maybe they'd want you for your skills at espionage. You certainly infiltrated that russian ballet without much trouble.

Question? Do I believe that we've been 'recruited' to fight in some alien war? I think I'd bank on actually being tied up in Arkham was they try to figure out why I'm hallucinating madness than accept that too easily.

[Voice]

[gonnaloveme]

[more laughter this time ending with an obviously fake cough] Ahem. Yes, well. What can I say? The ladies love me. --By the way, you should have seen all those legs. Oh, wait. Guess that would have just embarrassed a man like you... never mind then~!

[pause] Well. I would love to say the same--but I've been here long enough to pretty much pass on that idea. I almost wish this were Arkham. Then the crazies would be tied up, as you said. But... they're not...

[Voice]

[dualfaced]

[a shifting of cloth as he tries to hide his smirk awkwardly, pointlessly] Well I'll have to take your word for it then, can't let my eyes wander. I have plenty to keep my attention after all.

Well this- [distractedly] If you're here is Rachel here too? Damnit, the Joker's around, could she even be kept safe in this place? I heard Batman was too, so maybe-

[a pause and a sigh] This is real, isn't it Wayne?

[Voice]

[gonnaloveme]

...Yeah. You do.

[the above is pretty toneless, pretty unusual for the playboy; but below is back to normal after a very brief pause]

The Bat and the Joke are here, yeah. Not so much your lovely assistant and my childhood friend. Thank God for small victories. She's... safe.

[here comes that other tone again but it's liter than before even after the vague awkwardness of the word "safe"] It is. It's very real, unfortunately. You're just lucky... you didn't have to--

[Voice]

[dualfaced]

[a sigh, mind still on Rachel, torn] I'm glad then. The Joker's finally been caught, even if she's back home she's... she's safe.

[a pause, noticing some of the tones, the sort of thing a witness might let leak with his words alone. Was something wrong? Well, more than was obvious. Then again billionaire boy Bruce Wayne in these conditions- the mighty had certainly fallen hard. Still, he was Rachel's friend, though Harvey wondered...] Yeah well I-

I didn't have to what?

[Voice]

[gonnaloveme]

--Die.

[said very bluntly, then continued on with the rest of the conversation as if nothing was said and back in his usual selfness]

Yeah, she's safe so long as she's not here as far as I'm concerned.

--Caught the Joker? What's that all about? Wasn't there something on the news about catching the Bat? They get both of them or something?

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[dualfaced]

[a confused pause] Die? What do you mean Wayne? You're not telling me people are dead here are you?

[reluctantly moving on, a bit of amusement mixed with 'figures he would blow off learning the current happenings'] Do you watch the news Wayne? We drew Joker out with the false bait of Batman. Thankfully the original showed up and saved my ass. Jim Gordan was faking dead, ha, he's the real hero here. He arrested the scumbag and saved the Batman.

[Voice]

[gonnaloveme]

Well, if you want to go down that road technically speaking I'd be apart of those "dead" people. Everyone here--before a week or two ago--is--are? We all died.

Not really. --That all happened? Really? Dang. Almost makes me want to start watching the news. Sounds pretty exciting actually. When exactly did all that take place? You'd think even I would hear about all that--sounds like something the gossipers would love to chat about anyway. [chuckling]

[Voice]

[dualfaced]

[slowly] But how, you're here right now. You're not helping this non hallucination argument Wayne. Unless you all turn water to wine and lead nations I think rising from the dead is saved for messiahs.

Well I'm sure you'll hear all about it at your next get together. Maybe this time the entertainment will be better.

It was... it was tonight. I was just getting in the car to go see Rachel and plead for forgiveness when I ended up here. Wait, how long have you been here? That's impossible, if you had been missing even a week the whole city would have been talking about it.

[Voice]

[gonnaloveme]

Well. See. That's the most common theory behind the entire event. Some sort of mass hallucination or--or something. It felt real though. It felt damn real.

...

I've been here for just about two, almost three months now I think. I guess that's another weird thing about this place: time seems to be pretty relative. I--could be still back there when you were taken and when I was--could have been before or after that little piece of entertainment you just spoke of.

[Voice]

[dualfaced]

... So you're saying that there was a hallucination in the middle of a clearly real scenario of alien wars in alternate dimensions. I spoke to a duck Wayne. A very affluent if not bizarre habited duck. I-

[a sigh, getting back on track] Well if that's the expert opinion of the matter for now. Maybe the next one will be a voodoo curse that's keeping you all animate. Might as well add zombie movie to the scifi.

When were you 'taken' then? The Joker was spouting some sort of nonsense about a kidnapping, I'm guessing some sort of mind game.

[Voice]

[gonnaloveme]

Yeah...--you did what?

Well. I've heard of some other--nevermind. You'll see.

I wouldn't know about all that. I'm not exactly kept in the know where it comes down to law and order, you know? The last major thing I could definitively tell you about would be the ballet theft. Or did the fund raiser for your campaign take place after that? ...See? I have no clue. It's all the same to me, Harv. Fun and games~.

...This place is boring though.

[Voice]

[dualfaced]

Not that he was unpleasant to talk to but- [a sigh and a small thump] Wayne, you better have access to some kind of alcohol because after tonight I need a drink. You owe me for that ballet incident, 'coincidence' or not.

Don't forget the ancient aztec curse. Might as well mix some new culture into the melting pot.

[wearily amused] Glass always half full Wayne? Well thank you for that startling specific. What do I do now? You seem to have experience.

... boring?

[Voice]

[gonnaloveme]

I can look into that. Might be hard to come by right now--the Indigeo isn't working right now. Well--it's working--it's just not working right.

...We have gods here.

Try and find something useful to do I suppose. That's what kind of guy you are, right? Me? I'm just waiting for the chance to go home. I don't fight, Harv. Not for anything. It's not my style. I'm a lover, not a fighter. ...That's your job. Being the White Knight of Gotham and all.

Well, compared to being back home with everything at my fingertips thanks to my inherited money? Oh, yeah. Boring.