Coffee and Discussion : take_mychances

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Duela tapped on the steering wheel of the silver two-seater she'd bought herself when the new year's line had been released. As far as she was concerned, it was a cozy little ride well worth every cent she'd paid

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Dalia came out from around a corridor with a group of girls her own age. They all wore uniforms and seemed to be in the middle of an amusing discussion. Dalia, however, looked distracted as she clutched her backpack. When they got to where the line of cars were parked, mothers and nannies idling by the curb, Dalia glanced around. Spotting Duela's sports car, she hurried toward it, muttering a goodbye to her friends as she did so.

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Duela reached over to open the door when she saw Dalia approaching. "Toss your bag in back," she said to the girl.

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Dalia did as her sister instructed and climbed into the car, buckling her seat belt before they took off. Her expression was passive, hard to read.

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Duela pulled out of the circle drive, waiting until they were on the road to speak. Her voice was low as she tried to quiet all the worries her mind conjured.

"You okay?"

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"I never really got a straight answer there. She died, I know that. In the same accident that scarred Dad up. The way Jonathan talks about it, Dad and Mom were together before that but... Dad's not that type." Duela shrugged a bit. "I think they got along before the accident and Dad went to her for help when he got hurt. And from there... it just sort of happened."

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"He went from being the D.A....to the accident...to being...that other guy." She frowned. "To being Two-Face. Why didn't he just get his face fixed, go back to being the D.A.?" It was one of the things that had been bugging her. Obviously it wasn't without good reason -- she knew there were reasons, she knew it was only because he'd had to...but why was that, exactly?

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"What did you read about the accident? Anything? I don't know if Mom kept any newspaper clippings on it," Duela said. What she knew, she'd found out from other sources. Some from newspapers, some parts from newspapers, some from asking the right questions of the right people.

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"He was tied up in a warehouse, set on fire," Dalia said. "And then he was declared dead...except another news article said they found out he wasn't, really, and that he was now a criminal...and then there were more articles...about the stuff they said he did after that."