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Post by Kate Kane on Oct 16, 2013 22:40:26 GMT
Kate removed her mask, setting it down on the table next to him. She pulled her hair back, trying to keep it out of her face. "Tada."
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Post by Bruce Wayne on Oct 16, 2013 22:48:49 GMT
He dropped his batarang. He was going to use it to stop her, then find her identity.
"Well...I didn't see that one coming..."
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Post by Kate Kane on Oct 16, 2013 23:12:56 GMT
"There's a reason for that" Kate said. "I had to keep people from figuring it out."
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Post by Bruce Wayne on Oct 16, 2013 23:16:25 GMT
"What made you do this?" he asked.
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Post by Kate Kane on Oct 16, 2013 23:30:07 GMT
"Did I ever tell you about my sister Bruce?" Kate said, leaning against a glass case. Her gaze lost focus, and she started to smile.
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Post by Bruce Wayne on Oct 16, 2013 23:32:35 GMT
"I don't think so," he said.
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Post by Kate Kane on Oct 17, 2013 0:55:18 GMT
"No matter how bad things got," Kate started to explain, lost in memories, "she was the girly one, I was the tomboy. And she has the prettiest blue eyes you've ever seen..." With tears in her eyes, she corrected herself. "Had. She had."
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Post by Bruce Wayne on Oct 17, 2013 1:11:08 GMT
"...what happened to her?" he asked in a low tone.
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Post by Kate Kane on Oct 17, 2013 17:53:11 GMT
"Dad was working, so Beth, mom and I were sightseeing. Brussels was lovely that day, and mom always knew how to make anything interesting. I remember her making me enraptured by the concept of making chocolate chip cookies once. I have no idea how she manged to put up with twins, but she did. God we could be monsters some days," she said with a laugh, followed by a sigh. "But then again, she never had an unkind word to say about anyone." Kate said, barely aware that Bruce was even there. Tears ran down her face, before she buried her face in her now bloody cape. "Not even the people who set off the bomb." Her voice cracked, hesitating as she let out the words "All I remember was that Mom spent her last moments trying to get the rubble off of Beth, and Beth's lifeless eyes staring at me."
Kate crumpled to the floor, crying her eyes out wordlessly.
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Post by Bruce Wayne on Oct 17, 2013 20:10:43 GMT
He'd have gotten up and tried to comfort his friend, but he couldn't. He leaned his head back, cursing his pain, cursing his inability to do anything other than speak.
"Kate, I don't know quite how you feel, but I do know that pain. You know about my parents...it doesn't get easier, but you can find ways to remove the sting..."
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Post by Kate Kane on Oct 17, 2013 20:30:17 GMT
Kate looked up at Bruce from where she sat. "Is that why you do it?" Kate asked, between tears. "Is that why you became the Bat?"
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Post by Bruce Wayne on Oct 17, 2013 20:32:29 GMT
"Yeah...that's one reason..."
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Post by Kate Kane on Oct 17, 2013 20:35:33 GMT
"There are others?"
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Post by Bruce Wayne on Oct 17, 2013 20:39:34 GMT
"This city needed me," he told her.
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Post by Kate Kane on Oct 17, 2013 21:47:54 GMT
"You don't have to do it alone ya know" Kate said.
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