[ She lays the flowers on her lap, given the arms of the chair, and the flat plain of her raised legs, help balance it in a way her empty lap wouldn't entirely. And maybe she doesn't quite want to let go of them. Of some subtle, physical act of Dick Grayson's effusive, sometimes messy, but always loyal heart. Of his loving her. Of it mattering. That he is truly sorry, even about things they can't take back and would do again.
She loves him. She always has. Every bit of the good man he is.
And sometimes, briefly, the world reminds her why that's terrifying, too.
The question makes her wrinkle her nose, and she lets her whole face scrunch up semi-exaggeratedly with it. Topic #2 she doesn't really want to talk about, but she'd rather do that one, and he's going to continue asking. It's been a very long time since anything this big ricochetted into their lives, without breaks or beds amid prolonged fighting. So he'll keep asking, and Cass n' Steph will keep bouncing in with reasonable and transparently obvious excuses. She doesn't ]
Like a rude coworker who won't get out of my office no matter how nice I ask.
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[ She lays the flowers on her lap, given the arms of the chair, and the flat plain of her raised legs, help balance it in a way her empty lap wouldn't entirely. And maybe she doesn't quite want to let go of them. Of some subtle, physical act of Dick Grayson's effusive, sometimes messy, but always loyal heart. Of his loving her. Of it mattering. That he is truly sorry, even about things they can't take back and would do again.
She loves him. She always has.
Every bit of the good man he is.
And sometimes, briefly, the world reminds her why that's terrifying, too.
The question makes her wrinkle her nose, and she lets her whole face scrunch up semi-exaggeratedly with it. Topic #2 she doesn't really want to talk about, but she'd rather do that one, and he's going to continue asking. It's been a very long time since anything this big ricochetted into their lives, without breaks or beds amid prolonged fighting. So he'll keep asking, and Cass n' Steph will keep bouncing in with reasonable and transparently obvious excuses. She doesn't ]
Like a rude coworker who won't get out of my office no matter how nice I ask.
[ A returning volley. ]
How are you feeling?