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May. 31st, 2020 03:22 pm The first piece of bad news Dick gets as he leaves the bar, he gets through a news broadcast on the display TVs in the window of the electronic goods store.
And even if Dick didn't already see Two-Face's visage in his nightmares regularly, it's not an easy image to misidentify.
The second piece of bad news comes hot on the heels - and this is that he's been followed. Since before he went into the bar, at least. A gang of teenagers, all older and taller than him, closing in and just telling him that they're throwing down.
...he's been careful. Why are they starting with him?
Well. Their loss.
Because Dick is not in the mood. He's been rejected by Bruce, the bar has none of his old friends, and the man who tried to kill him, who beat him until he couldn't use his arms, who knocked all the fight, the flight, the Robin out of him - is walking free.
And these four idiots try to start with him?
----
There is no playing in Dick tonight. No Flying Grayson, no joy. Just cold, hard, exhausted and angry fight. Not, Robin, but a good hard helping of Bat.
It takes less then two minutes.
"A minute fifty-three seconds."
(See?)
The man with the stopwatch is tall, lean, and all coiled muscle and cold steel, like Bruce but without the love, and with a scar across his face that would cut into an eye if his brow wasn't sharply in the way. Black polo neck, moveable pants, expensive sneakers, just like his attack dogs.
"Aikido, Judo, Savate, and a smattering of Capoeira. I'm impressed. Style, grace, and a bit of flamboyance, but without the obstrusiveness and pitfalls of arrogance.
"I don't usually take on pupils so late in the semester. But I might make an exception for someone with your considerable talents."
---
They hadn't been picking on him specifically. The task had been to find and take down a random person just to prove they could. They had picked Dick because his body language gave hiim away as a fighter, but they hadn't considered just how out outmatched they were. They're only students after all.
And now they have one more classmate. "Freddy" (John Grayson's middle name) "Lloyd" (Mary Grayson's maiden name) just happens to need a place to sleep, and this "Vengeance Academy" clearly needs to be investigated and shut down.
He's sorry, Bruce. Trouble just seems to keep finding him.
MURDERER ESCAPES
And even if Dick didn't already see Two-Face's visage in his nightmares regularly, it's not an easy image to misidentify.
The second piece of bad news comes hot on the heels - and this is that he's been followed. Since before he went into the bar, at least. A gang of teenagers, all older and taller than him, closing in and just telling him that they're throwing down.
...he's been careful. Why are they starting with him?
Well. Their loss.
Because Dick is not in the mood. He's been rejected by Bruce, the bar has none of his old friends, and the man who tried to kill him, who beat him until he couldn't use his arms, who knocked all the fight, the flight, the Robin out of him - is walking free.
And these four idiots try to start with him?
----
There is no playing in Dick tonight. No Flying Grayson, no joy. Just cold, hard, exhausted and angry fight. Not, Robin, but a good hard helping of Bat.
It takes less then two minutes.
"A minute fifty-three seconds."
(See?)
The man with the stopwatch is tall, lean, and all coiled muscle and cold steel, like Bruce but without the love, and with a scar across his face that would cut into an eye if his brow wasn't sharply in the way. Black polo neck, moveable pants, expensive sneakers, just like his attack dogs.
"Aikido, Judo, Savate, and a smattering of Capoeira. I'm impressed. Style, grace, and a bit of flamboyance, but without the obstrusiveness and pitfalls of arrogance.
"I don't usually take on pupils so late in the semester. But I might make an exception for someone with your considerable talents."
---
They hadn't been picking on him specifically. The task had been to find and take down a random person just to prove they could. They had picked Dick because his body language gave hiim away as a fighter, but they hadn't considered just how out outmatched they were. They're only students after all.
And now they have one more classmate. "Freddy" (John Grayson's middle name) "Lloyd" (Mary Grayson's maiden name) just happens to need a place to sleep, and this "Vengeance Academy" clearly needs to be investigated and shut down.
He's sorry, Bruce. Trouble just seems to keep finding him.
