Up in the infirmary...

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It was a very long time spent stitching, blood seeping through her fingers and her stitches. Still, they're here in space and Dr Mid-Nite has been stablized. He's not only been stablized but he's been worked on in many different ways with all of the super science and magic. He's been asleep since they got here. Bette has been sitting here watching over him, worried.

She's been reassured by any number of people but until he wakes up she'll be all but convinced that she's managed to screw something up. Maybe he'll be blind and mute.

"Oh God."

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He knows what's said and unsaid. The eyes speak volumes and he can see the hurt there. Though something else is unsaid as well. Impulse is what he does take upon.

"Say or ask. Ain't a psychic but ya should come out with it. If not ya get all constipated."

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"You're weird."

Swallowing, she shakes her head again, "I just don't know what to say. You... I don't know you at all but you seem to have... been through a lot. So. Just wanted to..."

Another shrug, "Just take care."

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"I take it any manner an way I can get it princess." And finally he inhales from the cigarette.

"An yeah been messed over pretty well. Happens when ya killed. Had the option to be all emo like an a punk ass cryin' 'bout it or be pissed. Bachelorette two was the more natural choice."

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"..... Killed?"

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It's not like people don't know who he is totally. But he can hint her in.

"Red Robin. I was the second Robin."

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Oh.

Oh God.

She'd sort of know but she'd never really... Her eyes are wide.

"I didn't.... I mean, I knew something happened but..."

There are few people in the world who know more Robin trivia than Bette Kane but most of it is focused on Dick Grayson. Still, there is knowledge of the other Robins.

For a moment, she almost closes the distance to hug him but she holds back.

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"Yeah ya could say somethin' happened." The smoke slowly seeps out while he speaks.

"Found my birth mother who ended up betrayin' me to Joker so he beat the shit out of me with a crowbar over an over an left me for dead and a bomb strapped where I was with said mother there. Ended with boom. Here a Robin there a Robin everywhere a Robin."

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The floor drops out from under of her, eyes still wide.

"Oh God."

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"Yeah." A bit of a shrug. "But whatcha gonna do?"

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Flamebird just blinks at him.

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"This is where ya say somethin' now. Goes back and forth between the two of us. Conversation. Hell of a thing." A bit of a smirk breaks.

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"I have no idea what to say to that."

Her voice is soft and she looks a little pale.

"I think... I need to go now."

She's very much overloaded.

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"Felt that way when walkin' in the wrong shower room 'round here. Wait. No. It's was a different feelin'."

"Try an take some time off Kane. An get yaself checked out by a doctor. On the real."

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There is another look at him, eyes still wide.

Does /everyone/ know who she is?

And Flamebird starts running again.