🦇 catch-all.

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WHO: Bruce Wayne, Clark Kent, etc.
WHEN: During Mission 4
WHERE: Moorecroft Village
WHAT: A collection of planned events and things concerning life in suburbia
NOTES\WARNINGS: tbd in threads

MOORECROFT KENT-WAYNE RESIDENCE Clark Kent, Police Officer Bruce Wayne, Nurse Lara, AI Baby

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welcome home.

[batsymbol]

( there's A Lot to unpack with all of this. the forced normalcy, the house, the job he suddenly has? to-do lists and everything else that comes with this sudden suburbia life he's been thrown into without so much as a say in the matter... and then there's the baby. a little girl that had been left in a basket for them with the card indicating they needed to both name and raise her.

needless to say, much shock and confusion had been felt on bruce's end of things.

inside the house, the baby still in the basket they'd found it in, just now propped on the coffee table in the living room, bruce stares to it. hands in pockets. bewildered in ways he hasn't felt for some time. )

Can you use your x-ray vision to check it?

( because, even at thirty, bruce is both paranoid and doesn't trust the majority of things. especially not after the whole plush incident they'd been through some weeks back. )

[anewhope]

[ clark pauses. gives bruce a long, tired look. ]

You want me to . . . check the baby.

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( bruce gives him a look that’s almost similar and very much reads yes, i do. )

We don’t know what we’re dealing with here. I’d like to avoid another stuffed animal situation if possible.

[anewhope]

I don't think an xray is going to reveal if our baby is demonic or not.

[ but he sighs, putting his glasses away into his pocket and taking a good hard look at the baby.

and he shakes his head. ]

It feels like a normal baby. Parts and all.

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( he needs to be sure, clark!! but fine. supposedly a normal baby, as clark puts it. bruce still eyes the basket with suspicion before he looks back down to the note card he holds with the instructions for them. )

Nothing is ever as it seems. ( he tosses the card down to the coffee table, hands slipping into his pockets as he regards clark. ) How do you want to do this?

[anewhope]

[ clark raises an eyebrow. ]

You mean, raising a family?

[batsymbol]

This mission.

( so, yes. living as a family. )

We’re supposed to blend in here.

[anewhope]

[ clark gives him a bemused look before pulling up a chair. ]

All right. I have some experience in that, at least. What are your concerns?

[batsymbol]

( clark chooses to sit and bruce… continues to stand. )

For this to be as painless as possible.

( he mostly means for him, but. )

Regardless of how either of us feel about this, it’s still a mission needing to be completed.

[anewhope]

Yes.

[ he's affable enough to accept that without much fanfare. ]

But this isn't the kind of thing that will be painless, Bruce. Especially since you've gone out of your way to avoid it for a long time.

[batsymbol]

( who asked clark to go and read him? rude. )

I’m not afraid of a challenge.

[anewhope]

I suppose that's one way to look at it.

But maybe you could consider seeing it as an opportunity.

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( an opportunity to meddle in his version of normal, but.

a glance over to the baby girl there in the basket, he looks back to clark then. right. challenge. that’s definitely what this is. )

We need to name… her. ( it, whatever. ) Come across as her loving parents.

( should be easy enough to mimic how he saw his own parents. or at least he thinks. )

let me iiin

[brat]

( it's shortly after damian's left at the place he's meant to be staying in - shortly after realizing he's stuck with grayson and gordon and an infant, that he - seeks out bruce himself. it's not all that difficult to locate him: damian hasn't spent the last several months with this version of bruce wayne only to allow him to slip out from under him the moment a mission like this comes up.

instead, he shows up to the house bruce had been assigned. doesn't go in through the front door, because who does that. damian's at the side of the house, digging a tool in under the seam of the window so he can unlock it and climb in. most of his robin gear isn't with him currently, packed away and left with gordon where it'd be safe. )

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( bruce has just thrown a load of laundry in — the audacity of him having to do such a thing — and is making his way to the kitchen to try and figure out something to eat in there when he catches sight of a certain kiddo there outside the window of the house he and clark have for himself here.

he takes a second. stares. then heads over to it. stands in front of it so damian can see him and slowly lifts the window up after unlocking it. )

What are you doing?

[brat]

( what are you doing, as if it isn't obvious.

bruce lifts the window, which damian takes as good of a sign as any to drop the lock pick back into his pocket and press his palms against the windowsill. don't mind him as he lets himself into the house. )

Checking in.

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Don’t you mean breaking in?

( regardless, he steps aside some to give damian the room needed to crawl in through the window, shutting it once he’s in. )

[brat]

Same thing.

( breaking in, checking in, what's the difference? damian doesn't use doors, those are for boring people. bruce moves back, and damian takes advantage of the room to let himself in through the window.

and starts through the house, to begin inspecting it. )

Who is here with you?

[batsymbol]

Clark's out.

( he follows after damian, eyeing him some. )

Who are you looking for?

[brat]

They set you up with Kent.

( it could be worse. it could be anyone else. damian turns narrow eyes back to bruce, then starts down the hall to check through rooms. )

I suppose there are worse spouses they could have given you.

[batsymbol]

Where did they place you?

( he reaches for damian's shoulder, a means to get him to cease his searching. )

Are you ok?

[brat]

( bruce's concern, while appreciated and while damian does understand where it's coming from, is unnecessary. he looks more annoyed than anything else when damian stops his search to look up towards his father. )

With Grayson and Gordon. I'm fine, even if they're irritating.

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( dick and barbara. bruce's gaze drops for a moment, then his hand, slipping from damian's shoulder. )

At least you're in good hands.

[brat]

( good hands is difficult to argue with. it's true: despite damian hating being stuck with them constantly, he knows that there were worse options. he could have been stuck in a house with someone he doesn't know, and forced to play along in their game of house. at least with richard and barbara, they know him. he doesn't need to pretend to be a child.

even if they're gross. with bruce's hand off of his shoulder, damian starts his search back up. )

They were left with an infant. Not a real one, a fake one. But it's just as annoying as if it had been real. I hate it.

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( staring after damian, he follows a moment later, hands sliding into his pockets. )

There's one here, too. I had Clark check her. All he could find was that she's an artificial infant.