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[katarik]

Title: Worst of fortune's might
Summary: Adeline is used to the way Slade loves.
Author's Notes: Petra wrote me When nobody else is looking, which anybody who is not outright allergic to Slade should go read right now and comment. And then come back here.
This is the story of Adeline meeting Tiercel.
Title from Sonnet X.

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[petronelle]

The rare footage she has of him makes her remember the sharp-eyed soldier she trained and married far more than she wants to.
Perhaps if she points this out to Slade, he'll stop wondering when the sucking cloud of doom will eat him.

Joe... isn't a soldier. She doesn't want him to be.
I hear Wonder Girl, Speedy, Aqualad, and Kid Flash are going to get a cosmic phonecall soon.

Hey, maybe he could team up with them.

Does this make Dick Tara?

I'm back in the threesome with Kory place, do not pass go, do not collect $200.

If he is older than Joey she will shoot out *her* eye.
Relative age is very difficult, but I don't think so. Not with the sideburns. Most 19 year olds can't manage decent facial hair.

It had been all over the news, Batman's death and Richard Grayson's disappearance.
Dick doesn't miss having to hide.

The things *she* could have done with this boy...
I fear. Honestly. I like him better as an assassin than as an outright soldier.

She stifles the urge to tell Slade to train that openness out of him; it will be useful in the future if neither Deathstroke nor his -- partner -- can hide from her.
Slade has as much stomach for the task as Bruce did.

and when this child will realize that Slade is in love with him
Something in the way he looks at you, Ms. Kane, could tip off a blind man.

and when Slade will betray him, too.
That's the beauty of all this. Slade betrayed Dick and everything he stood for simply by taking him under his deadly wing. His spirit was broken, and instead of helping him heal, Slade used that.

So you see, the doom already came for him, in its blue and orange.

You can stop worrying now.

*uses default icon on purpose*

[katarik]

I am not at all certain this Adeline would send Joey to work with the Titans, but I am also not at all certain that she *wouldn't*, and he's... better off with them.

Aside from the eventual possession by Azarathians gone evil, of course.

Does this make Dick Tara?

*chokes*

He's *much* saner than she was. And Slade likes him more.

I'm back in the threesome with Kory place, do not pass go, do not collect $200.

Oh, now, aren't *you* a pretty image...

I fear. Honestly. I like him better as an assassin than as an outright soldier.

So does Slade. There's a reason that, of all his options, Dick did not get sent to Adeline, even though she's one of the best in the business and Slade knows it.

Dick's *pretty* without his mask(s), metaphorically and literally.

Something in the way he looks at you, Ms. Kane, could tip off a blind man.

And Dick's not even half-blind...

Oh, Slade. You'll always be in love with her and she knows it. So do you.

That's the beauty of all this. Slade betrayed Dick and everything he stood for simply by taking him under his deadly wing. His spirit was broken, and instead of helping him heal, Slade used that.

So you see, the doom already came for him, in its blue and orange.

You can stop worrying now.

I want to have something smart to say, but I just... !!!

(BABIES.)

[rubynye]

*points upwards* Uh, what she said, because I'm too busy going FLAILFLAILFLAILFLAILFLAIL to be any use.

(FLAIL.)

[katarik]

You were coherent the other day. There's limited amounts of coherence among people.

(*kinda flails with you*)