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Title: Like a living fire
Summary: They're all transients. The only permanent thing in his life is him.
Author's Notes: Written for psych_30 prompt ten, Approach/Avoidance.
Title from Fear, like a living fire that only death/Might one day cool.
Possibly will be canon, but I hope not.
Disclaimer: I do not own any characters described herein; DC has all.
He's been ready for this for a long time.
Somebody always takes them down. Everybody near him. They die, sooner or later. A Titan gone psycho, somebody in the League crazy again, somebody (like Wade) gunning for him and doing it the coward's way, or just somebody with a job to do.
He'd expected it to be Robin, maybe Deadshot, Batgirl, Wonder Girl, Superman, Cheshire -- hell, even *Nightwing*.
Maybe especially Nightwing, for a little while.
The person he *hadn't* expected to kill her is the one he probably should have suspected most.
Slade pulls the trigger and watches his daughter fall.
Summary: They're all transients. The only permanent thing in his life is him.
Author's Notes: Written for psych_30 prompt ten, Approach/Avoidance.
Title from Fear, like a living fire that only death/Might one day cool.
Possibly will be canon, but I hope not.
Disclaimer: I do not own any characters described herein; DC has all.
He's been ready for this for a long time.
Somebody always takes them down. Everybody near him. They die, sooner or later. A Titan gone psycho, somebody in the League crazy again, somebody (like Wade) gunning for him and doing it the coward's way, or just somebody with a job to do.
He'd expected it to be Robin, maybe Deadshot, Batgirl, Wonder Girl, Superman, Cheshire -- hell, even *Nightwing*.
Maybe especially Nightwing, for a little while.
The person he *hadn't* expected to kill her is the one he probably should have suspected most.
Slade pulls the trigger and watches his daughter fall.