http://femme-du-chat.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] femme-du-chat.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] jla_watchtower2007-09-26 10:44 am
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A glimmer of silver...

Having to get used to your own body isn't something that most people ever have to do. Luckily for Selina, it doesn't seem to be taking her very long at all. Still, she hasn't ventured out onto the rooftops yet. Not further than her own roof, at least.

Wouldn't want to go and do something really embarassing.

Looking out over the city, a glimpse of something silver catches her eye as it moves through the night. Soft notes reach her ears as she turn to look, one of the facets drawing her eyes to it.

Whatever this is, she would like to keep it.
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[identity profile] anotherknight.livejournal.com 2007-10-20 01:41 am (UTC)(link)
A search through the house will end fruitlessly. He's left the Manor. To go outside. To watch the sun set on the horizon.

[identity profile] femme-du-chat.livejournal.com 2007-10-20 01:44 am (UTC)(link)
Eventually she finds him.

The expression on her face would be one that is distinctly worried as she stands behind. This isn't like him.

[identity profile] femme-du-chat.livejournal.com 2007-10-20 01:51 am (UTC)(link)
"It is."

She wraps her arms around herself.

[identity profile] anotherknight.livejournal.com 2007-10-20 01:57 am (UTC)(link)
"I've never really noticed it before."

A statement of fact without emotion attachments.

[identity profile] femme-du-chat.livejournal.com 2007-10-20 02:03 am (UTC)(link)
Selina makes her way forward, sitting down next to him.

"You... What did you do?"

[identity profile] anotherknight.livejournal.com 2007-10-20 03:00 am (UTC)(link)
He just sits there for a minute, looking out over the land his family has owned for generations, a blank look present on his face.

"I made a deal," he finally states.

[identity profile] femme-du-chat.livejournal.com 2007-10-20 03:05 am (UTC)(link)
"You bastard."

There isn't a lot of heat in her words but they are full of emotion.

[identity profile] anotherknight.livejournal.com 2007-10-20 03:18 am (UTC)(link)
"I wasn't going to lose you, Selina."

[identity profile] femme-du-chat.livejournal.com 2007-10-20 03:24 am (UTC)(link)
"So now I have to lose you, you selfish bastard?"

The rage in her voice is entirely cold, almost frozen.

"Now I have to stand strong and watch you die? Explain to you family that you thought I was more..." Her voice cracks and she can't continue.

[identity profile] anotherknight.livejournal.com 2007-10-20 03:44 am (UTC)(link)
He turns his gaze upon her, his expression impassive. The anger he expected. The hardest part awaits.

"You'll get over it."

[identity profile] femme-du-chat.livejournal.com 2007-10-20 03:48 am (UTC)(link)
"I'll get over it about as well as you would have. How dare you. How dare you try to tell me that I'm going to have an easier time of this than you would."

Selina's so mad. She's just so angry with him.

[identity profile] anotherknight.livejournal.com 2007-10-20 03:57 am (UTC)(link)
"Isn't it the truth though?"

He molds the words into a biting accusation. Pain blossoms within. A pain that has nothing to do with the progressive cancer that spreads through his body.

[identity profile] femme-du-chat.livejournal.com 2007-10-20 03:59 am (UTC)(link)
"No."

Turning she looks at him, "No. And you can't get me so angry that I'm going to leave you. You can't do it anymore, Bruce. I've lived with you too long.'

[identity profile] anotherknight.livejournal.com 2007-10-20 04:55 am (UTC)(link)
"You're right. You have lived with me too long."

There are so many ways the statement could be taken. He lives it deliberately open to interpretation.

[identity profile] femme-du-chat.livejournal.com 2007-10-20 05:01 am (UTC)(link)
Selina takes a hold of his arm.

She isn't letting go of him.

[identity profile] anotherknight.livejournal.com 2007-10-20 05:08 am (UTC)(link)
He stands, hoping to slip from her grasp.

[identity profile] femme-du-chat.livejournal.com 2007-10-20 05:10 am (UTC)(link)
Selina stands, "No, Bruce. I'm not letting you do this."

She keeps her hold of his arm.

[identity profile] anotherknight.livejournal.com 2007-10-20 05:13 am (UTC)(link)
"It's already done, Selina."

[identity profile] femme-du-chat.livejournal.com 2007-10-20 05:16 am (UTC)(link)
"I'm not letting you push me away. I'm not going to let you hide and die alone." There is a hitch in her voice toward the end.

[identity profile] anotherknight.livejournal.com 2007-10-20 05:27 am (UTC)(link)
Stony are his features. A war rages inside. What husband wouldn't give his own life for that of his wife's? What husband wouldn't do everything in his power to spare her pain?

He must push her like he's never pushed her before. "Go," he orders.

[identity profile] femme-du-chat.livejournal.com 2007-10-20 05:41 am (UTC)(link)
It isn't going to work this time.

The anger has settled into a knot in her chest.

[identity profile] anotherknight.livejournal.com 2007-10-20 05:56 am (UTC)(link)
There have been few women in his lifetime that have been able to face his ire. Selina stands chief among them.

"Tell me you would have done differently if our positions had been reversed."
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