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[voice | Robin]

[ The silence in the background is full and steady, which makes the fast, uneven breathing behind the tablet a little more out of place than it might have been. ]

My friend, he- Jericho. [ a huffed breath out. ]

They- it wasn’t even an accident. He didn’t have a pulse when I... when I got here. [ not a certainty, the accident part. but a guess. a good guess his head's rushing to already, but he's too upset, too angry to think it through right now. ]

I don’t know how long it’s been but you- you could tell that with the right equipment. With the fractures and the head trauma that’s- that’s a lot of- [ work to do is what he doesn’t say.

no he won’t say that. ]

Whatever it takes, I’ll- whatever the white coats use to bring people back, we’ve gotta use that. There has to be a way, there just...

There has to be.

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[ there's a few more seconds of static-ey silence. he doesn't want to be alone, not really. ]

...Yeah.

[ come down though. he tilts his head up at the sky, shading his eyes a little with his hand. ]

Where are you now?

[ she drifts down from about a block behind him and a few stories in the air. ]

Right here.

[ a small, sad smile crosses her face. ]

First thing's first... How are you? And I mean really, none of this "I'm fine, I have a case to focus on," crap that I know Batman pulls, and you may have picked up on.

Edited 2013-06-29 18:29 (UTC)

It's not always crap. [ But his voice is pretty small and quiet, once he gets the words out. He scratches at the back of his neck, because now that she's said that he can't lie now and tell her he's okay.

It's not okay. Nothing about this is okay. ]

I just should've checked on him, that's all.

[ she moves closer, reaching out to put one hand on his shoulder. ]

It's not your fault. I know it probably doesn't feel like that right now, but it's not, alright?

He's a Titan. [ The last word feels choked, which is awful and embarrassing enough that he has to cringe and look away. But he doesn't shift back from the hand. ]

I mean we never made it official or anything, but his Robin's not around either. We're still teammates even if we don't have a team. What kind of a leader just... [ Doesn't check, doesn't notice.

One that's human. [ she says it like human is the best thing anyone could ever be. ]

You can't be everywhere at once, Robin. And if he's a Titan, he knows the risks the come along with this job. We all do. [ her free hand gently touches the side of his face, trying to get him to look at her again. ] It's not your job to watch everyone's backs all the time.

[ It's Supergirl, after all. He can't not look up at her, so perfect and so not human even though his cheeks are warming a little bit. It's starting to dawn, little by little, just how embarrassing this post will be tomorrow. ]

I bet you would have found a way.

[ Superman would have, he knows he would. ]

[ it's weird, being on the other end of this. she remembers looking up to nightwing (she still looks up to batman 2.0, honestly) and thinking that some day she wanted to be as good with people as he is. this turnaround isn't something she ever expected to have to deal with. especially with her reputation back home.

but it's his words more than anything else that hit her like a punch to the gut. she smiles, but it's more pained than anything else. part of her doesn't want to burst his bubble. ]

No, I wouldn't have. I haven't in the past.

[ she'd need more than all her fingers and toes to count all the friends and family she's lost on or to the job. ],/small>

[ Wow, that's...

It's actually kind of unthinkable, in a way. Only he doesn't want to hurt Supergirl's feelings, and more than anything now that she's here he doesn't want her to go away. There's a lot of things he could ask, things she probably won't want to answer. He opens his mouth and then has to close it again before he finds the right words. ]

Why not?

I wasn't fast enough. [ to get to her father ] Or I wasn't strong enough. [ to fight with lyla, to not get kidnapped ] Sometimes I just wasn't there, [ with conner, owen, uncle jonathan, and chris--who isn't dead but is still lost to them ] and other times I didn't realize what was happening until it was too late. [ thara, her mother, new krypton... the list goes on.

she sighs and lets go of dick so she can run a hand through her hair. no matter how much time passes, it never gets easier to talk about this. it always makes her throat feel like it's closing and her guts twist up inside of her. so many people she's loved and lost, and even now she can't help but wonder who the next person is going to be. who is she not going to be able to talk about next? whose grave is she going to be visiting in the near future? ]

We're not-- [ a pause, and she gnaws on her lower lip. ] We're not infallible. It's hard to accept, but we're never going to get it right every time and sometimes--sometimes people die.

Edited 2013-07-19 01:24 (UTC)

Guess that's one thing we have in common. [ She looks so sad, and this time he knows it's because he'd made her sad. He reaches out to touch her arm, but... he stops just short of getting there. His gloves are bloody and awful.

He never should have made her come down here. ]

...Just forget I said that. I shouldn't have said anything.

[ she shakes her head and puts her hand in his. a little blood isn't going to scare her away from him. ]

No, it's alright. I'm happy to talk if it helps you understand. [ if it keeps him from getting lost in guilt like she was for so long. after a beat, she goes on. ] Can I give you a hug?

[ she could use one herself right now, and she bets he could do with one too. ]

[ He should say something else, he knows. That she's still Supergirl and it doesn't matter what happened before - not really - because she'll always come out on top in the end. That he knows that more than he knows almost anything else because it's the only way anyone super knows how to be. That it's all he's ever wanted to be, as brave and special as he knows she is.

Instead he just reaches out clumsily, wrapping his arms tight around her middle and ducking his head down before she can look at his face again. ]

...You just had to ask.

[ it's always hard, hugging people. what kara really wants to do is hold dick tight. but crushing him to her chest could quite literally crush him, so she settles for curling one arm around him while the fingers of her other hand cards through his hair. ]

Thanks.

[ for the hug. for trusting her. for believing in her, which is better than the trust, honestly. ]

It's gonna be okay, you know. He'll be alright and we'll figure out who did this to him.

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