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[fille_fatale]

[It's an approach she is very familiar with.]

bullshit, you've never acted like a spoiled brat before

[promisetokeep]

Are you certain?

Because I do recall you spending a good deal of time since we've known one another pointing out how much my family's bank account really does matter. There had to have been a reason for that.

[fille_fatale]

Yeah, because you didn't get what life is like outside of your little castle

[Didn't. He's stayed with her, seen how she lives, how plenty of people live in Gotham - she thought he'd remember those lessons, even if sometimes he puts his foot in his mouth.]

you didn't used to use it to be petty

[promisetokeep]

[There was a lengthy pause on his end, and for a time, he thought about just not responding. Except no, that wouldn’t work with her. She needed an answer. Even if it wasn’t necessarily the whole truth.]

[He wasn’t ready to tell her the whole truth.]

I had a greater purpose then.

But that purpose is gone now. There’s nothing left except to be the spoiled brat everyone expects me to be. Maybe this really is who I am underneath it all.

[fille_fatale]

you sound pathetic

[She doesn't buy it, not for an instant, that this could possibly who he really is. She knows who he is, better than he does apparently, and a party boy is not it.]

you're just taking the easy way out of whatever's bugging you

[promisetokeep]

[He did sound pathetic. And the worst part was that he knew it even before she said anything.]

There's nothing bugging me. There's nothing left TO bug me. Not anymore.

[fille_fatale]

I thought you were supposed to be smart, b

[promisetokeep]

What do you mean by that?

[fille_fatale]

please tell me you're just pretending to be a dumbass

like having nothing left to bug you makes everything fine?? you're fucked up BECAUSE whatever you lost is gone

if you wanna lie to yourself then whatever, but I don't have to play along with this bullshit

[promisetokeep]

You don't understand.

You wouldn't understand.

[...except, the worst part of it all was that he suspected she actually might. She had killed someone before, too, and although her family situation was somewhat different from his...]

[But, no, he was still trying to block off that train of thought.]

[fille_fatale]

well fuck you then

I'm not gonna beg you for whatever's screwing you up right now, tell me or don't but don't tell me I wouldn't understand

[promisetokeep]

[Charming.]

I don't want to talk about it. Not to you. Not to Alfred. Not to anyone.

[...the both of them, really.]

[fille_fatale]

[Despite her claims, it hurts, just a little, that he doesn't want to talk to her, so she just digs a little harder.]

You know other people?

[promisetokeep]

I said not to ANYONE.

[...so if it was any consolation at all, no matter how small, it wasn't just her he was avoiding.]

[fille_fatale]

and I'm saying you don't KNOW anyone besides me and jeeves

[promisetokeep]

I do

[fille_fatale]

uh huh

bet that club you bought is just full of strangers

[promisetokeep]

Some of them.

Not all. I know Grace from school. And now her friends. Tommy and Emma.

[fille_fatale]

[She has no idea who Grace or Emma are, but she just pictures Galivan's niece in duplicate and seethes.

Is he goading her? She considers it for a moment, then decides she doesn't care because she's goading him right back.]

I don't buy it. think you need to prove it

what's the club? i'll stop be later

[promisetokeep]

[There may have been a small, subconscious goad...but it was actually less about making her jealous and more trying to prove her prior statement wrong. About him not knowing anyone besides her and Alfred. To prove that his world was, in fact, expanding.]

[His next response was to text her the address.]

I'll be sure your name is on the list. You shouldn't have any trouble getting in.

[fille_fatale]

[Its not that the idea of his world expanding bothers her - he could use some expanding, always could.

It’s the idea that it might be expanding without her that gets under her skin.]

please. I wouldn’t have any trouble getting in even if you banned me

[promisetokeep]

But isn't it nicer to know you're openly invited, rather than having to sneak in?

[fille_fatale]

It's definitely not as exciting.

[It's easier. She just doesn't want to admit it. Either way, she'll show up later - whether her name stays on that list or not.]

[promisetokeep]

There are plenty more ways to make an evening exciting.

[fille_fatale]

careful rich boy, you're gonna have to put your money where your mouth is