[It actually takes her ten minutes to respond to this...because this can't be right. It can't be true. She keeps staring at the post hoping it's not true. She finally turns on her NV.]
[He can't actually say. It'd kill the mystique of Batman to let it be known that he'd been killed by 'some' serial killer, overwhelmed by a metahuman. It's...wrong somehow, to break that to just anyone, no matter how much he respects Re-l. And this is a public feed, so it's even worse.]
I can't be sure. I found him at the SERO tower.
[She'd have heard the same report he did, on the scanners, about a body hanging 60 stories up.]
[She did hear that report, but she didn't think...
She quickly closes the NV before he can hear anything, whether she ends up crying or not. The shock hits first and she can't quite get over the idea. She stands at her desk for several minutes, wide-eyed and uncertain, before she opens her NV again.]
I'm sorry. Thank you for telling us.
[A million thoughts are racing through her head. What's going to happen now?]
[Idiot. Perhaps if he were a better man, that wouldn't be the first word to cross Sherlock's mind. Perhaps not. Either way, it's there. Was this what heroism earned you, then? An overly dramatic death and a cavalcade of masked mourners?
He also can't help the irking sense of disappointment-- had he really bought into the fever across the Port that believed with Batman's help, the Newcomers could actually change something?
[Clark hadn't expected it, and so he jumped just a little bit, clutching tighter to Bruce. In fact, Sherlock is lucky he doesn't get introduced to heat vision--jumpy Kryptonian is jumpy.]
Mystique isn't a game, Sherlock, unless you want every villain on the island to think that Batman is fallible. That he's human.
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Don't look for revenge. Don't ask for the cowl. You're too good for it.
Look after Damian and the others.
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In pure fucking anger.]
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Dammit.
Well, it's not like he can go back to the Cave anyway. There's even less of a reason now.
Still, it's more than a few hours before Jason finally says something.]
Where.
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Now, or later?
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[Jason's not even aware of the fact that he's mentally begging for it to not be the cave.]
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How?
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I can't be sure. I found him at the SERO tower.
[She'd have heard the same report he did, on the scanners, about a body hanging 60 stories up.]
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[She did hear that report, but she didn't think...
She quickly closes the NV before he can hear anything, whether she ends up crying or not. The shock hits first and she can't quite get over the idea. She stands at her desk for several minutes, wide-eyed and uncertain, before she opens her NV again.]
I'm sorry. Thank you for telling us.
[A million thoughts are racing through her head. What's going to happen now?]
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[He really sounds heartbroken too.]
If my doing so breaks the law, I will understand if the city wishes to penalise me.
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[And she'll be there, waiting, as promised.]
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He also can't help the irking sense of disappointment-- had he really bought into the fever across the Port that believed with Batman's help, the Newcomers could actually change something?
There's not even a good mystery left behind.]
Sylar?
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[Sherlock is welcome to seek him out. He's walking east from the SERO building.
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I don't have time for games. If that murderer is out there again, I want to know.
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Mystique isn't a game, Sherlock, unless you want every villain on the island to think that Batman is fallible. That he's human.
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