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Post by Bruce Wayne on Oct 14, 2009 3:28:51 GMT -5
He'd known about her visions, had seen her strange behavior, but had no idea what the actual cause of it had been. He'd assumed it was a side-effect of whatever Crane had done to Jess, but it sounded like it was far more than that.
"But why didn't you say anything after the fall? Why did you let me think you were dead?"
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Post by Lois Lane on Oct 14, 2009 3:34:27 GMT -5
*The more she listened, the more she felt like the room was getting smaller and smaller. She had to leave. Quietly, she slipped out of the room. Frustrated to the point of tears, she left cursing herself for not being able to handle things better.*
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Post by Queen Dopplepopplus on Oct 14, 2009 3:40:22 GMT -5
Jess hears Lois leave, but didn't turn her head.
"I thought you knew, I mean, I'd figured that, you'd have figured out that I was the Queen, that's why I was on the roof. I was, I thought you'd, I don't know, you'd send me to an asylum, or worse. I knew you made an oath to uphold the law, and I'd rather you'd think I was dead than have to turn me in. It wasn't for me, and I know that sounds stupid... god."
She was crying now, hard enough to make her grab her stomach "I'm so sorry Bruce, I didn't know what to do!"
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Post by Bruce Wayne on Oct 14, 2009 3:45:27 GMT -5
"Maybe some small part of me suspected, and I suppose...I denied it, to myself, but I would have--"
What would he have done? Agonized over the fact that Jess was a supervillain? Gone back and forth as Bruce Wayne's feelings were fighting with Batman's?
"I would have preferred anything to thinking you were dead!"
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Post by Queen Dopplepopplus on Oct 14, 2009 3:49:31 GMT -5
"Would you have rather watched me suffocate in a prison? Waste away in a cell, knowing that you'd put me there? Bruce, god dammit, I had to do something, and my instincts told me, they told me to run, run away!" She held her head for a moment, before wrapping her arms back around her stomach.
"I didn't want to hurt you, and now, oh god, I didn't want to hurt you. I know now that I was wrong, I've known I was wrong-"
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Post by Bruce Wayne on Oct 14, 2009 3:53:23 GMT -5
"And how do you know I would have put you in prison? It's possible the situation would have turned out a lot different!"
What was he saying? No, it was not Batman that was speaking at the moment.
"Christ...and I was blaming myself, for somehow not being able to rescue you...Bruce who fails not once but twice to rescue the woman he loved from horror."
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Post by Queen Dopplepopplus on Oct 14, 2009 3:57:50 GMT -5
"It wouldn't have, you have a duty Bruce, and I wouldn't let myself let you make an exception to that! I loved you too much, to make you compromise, Batman is too important to you, to compromise..."
Jess exhaled shakily "I-I wish you wouldn't do that" she swallowed with tightened eyes "what could you have done?"
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Post by Bruce Wayne on Oct 14, 2009 4:03:16 GMT -5
"Something! I could have done something. What kind of 'hero' am I if I can help everybody but the person that means the most to me?!"
He was losing it, losing his cool, and he couldn't seem to stop it.
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Post by Queen Dopplepopplus on Oct 14, 2009 4:11:25 GMT -5
Jess stepped back and leaned against one of the many pillars that lined the front hall "Bruce don't, don't, I was beyond helping, I'd gone too far..."
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Post by Bruce Wayne on Oct 14, 2009 4:14:44 GMT -5
"No...no you weren't. I would've found a way."
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Post by Queen Dopplepopplus on Oct 14, 2009 4:16:51 GMT -5
"You can't fix everything!" Jess exclaimed "I was broken, beyond repair Bruce, and it took my death for me to realize that some things just are what they are!"
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Post by Bruce Wayne on Oct 14, 2009 4:20:15 GMT -5
"You weren't broken! It's not hopeless, there isn't any--" He said miserably.
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Post by Queen Dopplepopplus on Oct 14, 2009 4:25:44 GMT -5
Jess raised her hands, pleading for Bruce to stop, she knew he believed everything he was saying, but she'd all ready gone through all his thoughts, in her own mind.
"I know what you're going to say" she said through tears "I know, because I thought I would have been fine if I would have stayed. But time told me other wise, and I hoped, that if I was able to stay dead in your world, that time would heal all wounds... but it didn't and I couldn't."
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Post by Bruce Wayne on Oct 14, 2009 4:28:54 GMT -5
"Right. And just how does Stark figure into all this?" He sounded strangely tired, to his ears, even though he didn't feel it--he felt almost a strange resignation about it.
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Post by Queen Dopplepopplus on Oct 14, 2009 4:36:51 GMT -5
"Tony found out" she snapped, previously unaware that her newly confirmed relationship with Tony, might have some sort of affect on how she spoke about him.
"It all happened by accident Bruce, but if we were here to talk about current relationships, I would have asked you about Miss Lane."
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