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[At first, you just hear a voice, with no image.]
Toto, I don't think we're in Gotham anymore.
[Then the camera turns on to reveal an attractive red-haired woman in a wheelchair. The green eyes behind her glasses are tired, but she manages a wry smile.]Whoever can hear me, I have a question to ask ( Read more... )
Toto, I don't think we're in Gotham anymore.
[Then the camera turns on to reveal an attractive red-haired woman in a wheelchair. The green eyes behind her glasses are tired, but she manages a wry smile.]Whoever can hear me, I have a question to ask ( Read more... )
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It sucks-[Oh snap. Supposed to act that he obviously is okay and doesn't need Bruce around.]-that he left when he had so much to do.
It's just easier to say it in those ways.
No. Most of my team is here. Some people I don't really recognize, but they know me. You might know her. Goes by Stephanie.
Pretty well? I mean, I'm just a freshman. But we talk a lot.
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Any time he left, it would be when he had so much to do. [She smiles as she says it, but she means it, too. It's Bruce; he won't stop until he dies. And maybe not even then.] Do people who leave ever return?
[She nods.] Yes, I know Stephanie. [And she wonders what she made of this version of Dick]
Your team? [She could guess, but it's better to ask, let him tell her. And yes, she's grilling him and she knows it, but she'd rather ask questions and gather data than dwell on everything that might be gone.]
[She tries to imagine it - knowing Dick at school, being friends that way first. But she can't, not really. It's too different. By the time Dick was a freshman, she was in college - that's what happens when you graduate early.] Was school where you met her? Back in my version of Gotham, we met at the Policeman's Ball.
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Sometimes. One of my teammates totally ditched us but came back recently. Apparently there was an older me here before too. Oh, and I was older once. This ship does really weird stuff if you haven't realized.
Kid Flash, Superboy, Artemis, Miss Martian, and Aqualad is our leader. All of them are here except Superboy disappeared recently.
Uhh I guess? We talk outside of school, but it's kind of a time constraint. I don't always have a lot of time to do that hanging out thing. Crime doesn't sleep. And neither does Batman apparently. [Snorts.]
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...Aqualad is your leader? [And that's genuine surprise in her voice. She didn't mean to show it, but that's just weird.]
No, he never did. I can't imagine that changing.
I guess that means she never joins you.
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I'm too inexperienced to be the leader. [Pouting.]
Who's she? I don't think we're getting a larger team or anything.
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That's... well, let's just say that it sounds a little strange. [She smiles, but it's a little rueful, and she doesn't look directly at him.]
Oh, I was never on any teams - not back then. I was the wrong age, you see - too young for the JLA, but too old to be a Teen Titan. But I did a lot of work with my universe's version of you.
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I'll get better. And good enough to take charge. [He sounds determined.]
She-you. Wait. You used to team up with me? No way. [Dude. Dude. If Babs ever started working with him. Sweet.] We don't have a Teen Titans though.
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If you're anything like the version of you I know, I know you will.
[She's smiling now, remembering it.] We did. Quite a bit, actually.
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I look forward to apparently being as cool as your version of me. Wow, saying that out loud was weirder then thinking it.
Man, I hope she ends up getting into the whole business. I wouldn't mind hanging out more with her. It beats always being with tall, dark and broody all the time.
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The multiverse always takes some getting used to. [She says, as though she isn't bothered at all. It's a lie, but she's never been one to admit when things make her uncomfortable.]
If she's anything like me, I'd be surprised if she didn't.
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I've noticed. You probably would have hated the planet full of comics. It was like reading your own life in the form of pretty pictures and text. It was really weird. That, and the old men dressed like me. Gross.
I'd ask, but that probably wouldn't fly with the B-man.
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They knew about us? Were there versions of us living there?
[She smiles, remembering. He'd been so hard on her at first, but Bruce had come around surprisingly quickly.] He might surprise you.
He didn't work with me much himself, though. He sent you to do that.
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No. But I guess you can say that to them, we were just fictional characters in a comicbook to them. Not real. Ironic.
From the sounds of it, mine sounds nicer at times. But I guess I shouldn't base it off an old man who's always angry. [BC Old man Bruce wouldn't play basketball with him.] Well, that's alright. I bet we were totally awesome together anyways.
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Fictional characters? [Her eyes widen a little as she imagines it, then narrow as she glances at her legs.] If I'm fictional, I'd like a few minutes alone with someone.
I didn't know yours, so I can't say. [And the one she knew wasn't that old.]
[She smiles to herself and speeds up a little before she replies to the final statement.] You're right about that.
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Yeah. I read some of it, but after getting approached by a bunch of geeks about "my costume being really good" or "you're the best Robin I've seen!" or something, I kind of tailed it out of there. Although, I'd like to know who decided fictional me's childhood. [Because losing parents isn't as bad as an entire family.]
Sounds like an aster relationship then.
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