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_darkknight_ in jla_watchtower

When is a house a home?

Jan 04, 2009 11:30

Even for billionaire playboys, rising at 3pm is pushing it. Well, what the hell. The Batman was up until dawn collaring a group he thinks is tied to Black Mask - one way or the other, dope pushers need to be taken down - and for his trouble, he got a fresh set of bruises, a shallow gash in his forehead that bled like a son of a bitch, and a ( Read more... )

nightwing, alfred, batman

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_nightwing_ January 4 2009, 16:48:44 UTC

Someone else is already there, sitting at the breakfast table, and he's munching away on a handful of cheddar Goldfish crackers, pilfered shamelessly from the opened bag he's brought with him. Alfred would likely have a conniption fit if he saw the debris of crumbs.

_darkknight_ January 4 2009, 16:50:43 UTC

Bruce glances at the man at the table as he heads toward the coffee pot, grumbling, "Remind me to update the alarm system."

_nightwing_ January 4 2009, 16:57:19 UTC

He grins cheekily back at Bruce, annoyingly awake as usual and sporting far less in the way of obvious physical injury. "Not much good an alarm system can do you when your burglar's got the keys."

_alfred_ January 4 2009, 17:00:09 UTC

A damp kitchen towel is suddenly dangling next to Dick's face. "I believe you will find this to be the key to a different problem, sir." Alfred gives the table a meaningful look.

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_nightwing_ January 5 2009, 16:14:34 UTC

Dick's expression grows more shuttered, and for once, he falls silent. He's not in a position to pass judgement - he'd asked for the same when Blockbuster figured him out, after all.

_darkknight_ January 5 2009, 16:26:24 UTC

And mind wipes are not precisely high on Bruce's list of happy subjects. He looks away a long moment, letting the silence rest there, then says in a soft, serious tone, "You remember the first morning we sat at this table? I'd gotten the hell beaten out of me, and you asked if I'd been boxing? Alfred made...pancakes, I think it was."

_nightwing_ January 5 2009, 16:31:58 UTC

There's the twitch of a faint smile as he gazes at the tabletop, which bears the scars not only of his childhood - scrapes from idle forks and spoons - but from Jason's, and Tim's afterward. "Yeah. Buckwheat. I thought they were weird-looking."

_darkknight_ January 5 2009, 16:49:31 UTC

"Still are." Bruce smiles a little too, adding, "I bribed you into cleaning your room."

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