Quite the floor show

[gothams_son]

Master Wayne, it is...good...to hear your voice.He didn't look up from where he was watching Harry through the binoculars when Alfred answered the phone in Gotham. Harry had asked him a question, could he handle what he'd become or was he already dead and Bruce moving on to forget

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[ny_city_boy]

I left the hotel after sunset, ready to get some distance from everyone inside for a bit. The silence thing was pretty easy since I was only talking to the kids, but after spending so much time on the island there were things I had to get taken care of. With the sun allergy problem, I couldn't exactly do that during the day. Luckily, I was able to get Tyler to ask Connor if he would be willing to watch them in case Faith stepped out for slaying before I got back. He rolled his eyes at having Tyler play go between, but he agreed

[gothams_son]

"I'm just an urban myth, I'm sure they'll never know." Why not refer to the other side of myself, it was more honest anymore than pretending to be Bruce Wayne.

"You said if I wanted to know to come see you. Well here I am."

[ny_city_boy]

The gaze that I was still trying to master kicked in as soon as Bruce spoke. I was really going to need to get control of that soon.

"You want to do this some place a little less public?" I asked, looking up at the building we were close too and the fire escape. Apparently I had a thing for roofs now because I didn't wait for an answer before heading to it.

He would be able to see the difference in how I moved. How quick and graceful I was now. It would either add to his freak out or his fascination.

[gothams_son]

I wasn't dressed the part so there wasn't going to be any swinging to the roof on a line right now. I did have a line but there wasn't any need to use it as my public self.

Harry didn't even move right anymore, his trip up that fire escape was like a punch in the gut. The things he could do while on the enhancer formula was nothing compared to his movements now.

And I found myself instantly cataloging how to hit him with his new moves.

"Rooftops are usually my thing." it took me longer to climb the fire escape like a normal person so he was standing there waiting for me when I reached the top.

[ny_city_boy]

Oh, I hit a lot harder now, but I wasn't looking to fight with Bruce. The last thing I wanted was another fight.

"I was always scrambling to catch up with you so you can't blame me for taking a liking to it."

I tilted my head like I had so many times before when he puzzled me. It was always so hard to read him.

"So. I don't think I'll ever want to visit a beach again. How about you?"

[gothams_son]

"I was never that fond of the beach to start with." Actually other than the times Harry dragged us to his island I had never been to a beach.

"Well, you caught up. What's it like?" I was deliberately being hard to read, I know he can hear my heart and my breathing but they won't give much away right now because I don't know what to think yet.

[ny_city_boy]

"Caught up?" I asked in that silky low tone that came so naturally now. "Is that what I've done?"

I shrugged and looked at him, unsure what he wanted to know. Was there going to be a test to prove that I was still me?

"You should probably try and see the kids soon, Bruce. They're growing up so fast and Lex will win Uncle of the year if you don't get to competing soon."

How the hell did I manage to be a dad before they did?

[gothams_son]

"You said you were always scrambling to catch up, well now you're stronger and faster than I am. You'll live forever, how does it feel?" The sound of his voice made me sway towards him and with a frown I backed up a step. I was here to find out what he was not get close to him.

"Alexander is more of a father figure than I am."

[ny_city_boy]

"Bullshit," I told him when he made the comment about Lex. "You've always been paternal to me. Look, if you can't accept what I've become, fine, but christ are you really going to hold it against my kids?"

Yeah, so there went the look and tone that came with the fangs and in it's place was classic kicked puppy that he should be used to by now.

"No one lives forever. I can be taken out in this new life just like I could with the old one. It's just a new phase."

[gothams_son]

It's Harry...it's not...I don't know what to think and everytime he talks its worse.

"I don't need to involve anyone else in a life that's not going to last very long Harry. I shouldn't have promised I wouldn't leave again, I will. Someday one of them will take me down and I'll leave you all alone again. That's the reality of my life." Push him away, make him leave on his own and then it's not me who did it.

[ny_city_boy]

"Fuck you." I hissed at him and yeah it was pure me. That was probably creeping him out.

"You can't even tell if I'm still me or not because you walked out on Alex and me years ago. Whatever. I don't care."

Lies. He knew I cared. I fucking hated him so much.

"You're so much like Norman sometimes that it makes me sick."

[gothams_son]

"I'm worse than him if you want to know the truth." I don't know why I'm telling him this except he thinks he knows me and he doesn't. I don't know who he is becoming but I know what he was and he deserved a better friend than me.

"At least he was honest in not caring about you. I would use what you felt for me to get what I needed. Everything I do is to keep that promise to my parents and I'll use you to do it if that's what needs to happen. I won't feel any guiltier than he did either."

[ny_city_boy]

"Then leave Mary Jane. Shut yourself off from everyone, Bruce, or save the bullshit."

God I wanted to punch him so bad. Did he really expect me to buy this?

"I'm not going to make this easy for you. If you want to walk out on me and sever ties, then do it, but you should know better than anyone I will stay through all the crap when I love someone."

I took a step toward him, my eyes immediately locked with his gaze and I did it without meaning too.

"Is that what you want to do?" I asked him in that soft tone. "You want to leave me again?"

[gothams_son]

His voice is like being stabbed.

"I WANT to leave you all! I want to stop having ties that keep me from doing what I need to do!" But I am only telling part of the truth, the other truth is not as easy and I grab Harry's shirt like I'm afraid he'll run away.

"It's always us, the three of us, I can't lose you two or I'll fall. So fuck you Harry, no I don't want to leave you but I should so I don't break."

[ny_city_boy]

I sighed when he grabbed me, reaching up to gently touch his face before stepping back a bit.

"You're not going to lose either of us, even when you're a dick and trying too. Everyone breaks, Bruce. You can't stop that. But if you're alone then the chances of you getting put back together is pretty slim."

I walked over to the edge of the building and looked down. I really loved heights. I always had, but now it was like I could almost fly.

"I was always the one with the death wish. Stop trying to catch up with me or you'll end up suceeding."

[gothams_son]

"It's not a death wish, I'm just being realistic." I back up my own steps, that wasn't the way I had wanted to approach this and it was making me angry.

"I didn't ask either of you to put me back together." I didn't need them to, the ways I was broken I didn't want to fix.