It was a strange fact of life that the best lit place in the tenderloin section of the Narrows was the local porn shop. The apartment buildings and legitimate businesses in this part of Gotham crouched in darkness, hiding their faces from the light while the buildings offering peep shows and lapdances screamed their presence to everyone who passed ( Read more... )

So...yeah I'm an idiot.

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Bruce was standing in the snow with his toes going numb listening to Gordon ask him about Marie and John while staring at the car with it's open door and scattered packages. The keys were laying there, they'd unlocked the door but had never got inside ( Read more... )

It was Thanksgiving, he was supposed to be thankful for things. The problem was Bruce was never very good at counting the things that he had only the things he'd lost ( Read more... )

Master Wayne, it is...good...to hear your voice.He didn't look up from where he was watching Harry through the binoculars when Alfred answered the phone in Gotham. Harry had asked him a question, could he handle what he'd become or was he already dead and Bruce moving on to forget ( Read more... )

Unconditional. It's a word that most people throw into their talk of relationships as if they actually meant it. You hear of unconditional love when people are trying to convince themselves that the pain they are feeling is worth it ( Read more... )

When I was a teenager I told myself I didn't care about anything or anyone. I desperately wanted to be a loner and hard inside so that I'd never get hurt again like I did when my parents died. I wasn't even a very good liar to myself ( Read more... )

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"Desperate affairs require desperate measures. " - Horatio NelsonBruce had never felt the pinch of hunger before. At least not like this, there had been the days where he was too depressed, too angry or just too focused on a project to bother eating. But those periods of hunger were assuaged by the knowlege that he had food and money to secure ( Read more... )