eudio cuddlr.

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B (44) The answer is probably no.

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Without a picture, how is anyone supposed to admire the color of your eyes?

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What's wrong with my normal inbox? It'd be harder for me to backtrack your anonymous hackjob without the app frame.

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Then I wouldn't have been able to swipe left.

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Given the purpose of this app I don't understand why you'd need to take that into consideration in either direction. Is there something you want, Jason?

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I asked you for a picture of your eyes.

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[ Attached: A close-up cropped picture of grey-blue eyes, familiar, the lines around them betraying all the aging he's done in Jason's absence. There's no hint of anyone or anything besides himself. The sliver of expression is blank, or barring that, distantly tired. ]

It's over.

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You expect me to take your word for that?

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Why did you ask if you weren't going to?

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To see what you'd say.

[ obviously. ]

You should be dead by now.

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'Should' has never held much weight with me.

I'm not lying to you.

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That's what he used to say.

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I'm sure he used to say a lot of things that you will hear repeats of over the rest of your life, as there are only so many demonstrative pronouns and verbs in the English language. This does not change the fact that when I say something is over, it is over.

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It's exactly what he would say if he were wearing you like a bad suit, because it's what you always say. You told Drake it was over, too. You told him you were fine before you shut the cell door.

I saw you. I saw him in you.

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And you sound exactly like any of the hundred hallucinations I had trying to torture me. Do you want to prove you're fine, Jason?

Think. You're capable.

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I don't have to prove anything to you.

[ logically, rationally, the eudio representatives likely wouldn't have brought bruce here if he were possessed. but they'd brought jason here, knowing his body count and his... emotional history. they'd taken a risk with him.

he's seen nothing to indicate the joker's presence during his surveillance. he's already taken steps to neutralize clark if he becomes an obstacle... and yet he can't stop thinking about it.

he can't stop thinking about it. bruce's voice and the joker's words. green eyes instead of blue. the two of them together, and all the hooks they'd left in him. ]

What hallucinations. What did you see.

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You don't think so?

[ Bruce knows Jason needs help, and he knows what happened to the younger man is his fault. There's no two ways about it. Had he never been Robin, he'd never have been taken.

But Jason became a supervillain. His actions killed people, endangered more, destroyed whole swathes of Gotham. He hurt Barbara. Bruce doesn't know how to treat him. ]

I'm not rehashing that just so you can enjoy it.

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The people running things here are happy to leave me loose. That not good enough for you? I know you prefer locking away your problems.

I want to know what he showed you. I want to know what he said.

[ maybe it's better this is all text, so bruce doesn't have to hear the thinly buried emotions under that request. obsession still rides him hard. ]

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No. Not ever.

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You don't have the right to keep secrets from me.

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[ There's a significant delay for this response. ]

What happened to you was my fault, and I am sorry. You're right to hate me. But I'm not giving you that. He's gone.

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He's not. Don't you get it?

You brought him here.

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You are aware that he cannot break me, and that all other things aside, it is impossible for me to be possessed here in this city. Enough, Jason.

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And if you're not possessed? If he's just waiting under the surface? Letting you drive until it's convenient, until

[ that text ends mid-sentence. another one comes maybe a minute later. ]

It was a smart move, enlisting S as your bodyguard. He's probably with you right now, huh? Does he know?

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Jason, you are describing possession.

What exactly do you think I need protecting from? And yes, Clark knows.

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[ of course he does. why lie when you can use the truth more effectively. ]

Of course you told him. Told him to watch you for any sign, any hint, so that he'll know how much of a martyr you are. So he'll hold back if it does happen, desperately wanting to believe that you're still in there. Trading on his guilt.

Well played.