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Badge
Number 13558.
No police officer in the city of Gotham shall henceforth carry it. For it went down in the line of duty with the brave woman who carried it. -
Do all things go into the mouth at this age?
God, I wish you could see her. She's growing so damn fast. -
Graveside
Most individuals greet Christmas Eve with anticipation and hopeful expectations for the future. Most choose to congregate in warm environments, both physically and emotionally. Cares are forgotten or momentarily placed aside. For a instant, albeit brief, there is peace in the stillness of the night ( Read more... ) -
The devil's playground...
Barbara talked him into the damn thing. On a couple of occasions, he's cursed the choice. Isn't a desktop bad enough? It isn't natural for a man to be chained to a computer. Anymore than it is to be leashed by a cellphone. He remembers the days when it was a pager. Different devices. Same devil ( Read more... ) -
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Students come and go in a lecture class as large as Criminology 101. It's still something Jim Gordon is getting used to. The higher level courses he's taught in the past at Gotham U capped out at 22. Most were highly motivated seniors ready to finish their degrees. This is a summer course full of freshmen and sophomores. From the size of the ( Read more... ) -
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Jim Gordon sits and listens to his friend tell his story. Though Same is sitting in a hospital bed now, he was once one of Gotham's most decorated officers and one of the few cops Gordon met in his early days that treated him with respect. Now he's recovering slowly from a nasty mugging that nearly killed him. The two are relating old 'war' ( Read more... ) -
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Well, I wasn't around all weekend and, per usual, Monday is a crappy day for me at work which would seem to indicate I won't have time to catch up on the posts of threads that have bloomed over the weekend, not the least of which is the birth of his grandson. Anyway I can have Gordon show up without him looking like an absent grandfather ( Read more... ) -
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God damn you, whoever you are. God damn the person that decided NOW was the time to unleash some psychotic plague to kill everyone on the planet. What even inspires someone to do such a thing? I'll never understand. I can't pretend to, even after all I've seen and experienced. I've been told, and I believe I've told people myself, that to ( Read more... ) -
Resurgence
A wise man once wrote that the number one killer of old people is retirement ( Read more... ) -
Interlude
The flowers arrived as ordered and now rest against the headstone in Gotham Cemetery. Roses, two dozen and blood red. He should have brought them himself. Not the first mistake he has made with her, probably not the last, even in death ( Read more... )