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thejusticelounge2014-11-03 04:12 pm
bossymarmalade) wrote in thejusticelounge2014-11-03 04:12 pm
bones of plans and people
B: You need to stay intact.
O: I am completely intact. Considering you look like you just escaped a gulag, i should be saying that to YOU.
B: I ate the cookie.
O: That’s not enough. Remember my threat about the horse pills.
B: What do you want, Ollie?
O: I want what’s yours and I want what’s mine
O: Sorry that was a song lyric.
O: I want you to take better care of yourself, honey. That’s what I want.
B: Can I expect the same from you?
O: Of course. I’m strong as a horse and in great shape so it’s not even like I’ve given you a reason for concern. You’re the one who’s dropped three trouser sizes.
B: I cut down every autumn.
B: You were thrown through a wall by a half-Tamaranean.
O:No, I got accidentally smacked by your granddaughter. There’s a difference.
O: And don’t be ridiculous. Cutting down has never gotten to the point where it necessitates padding and makeup. You body’s eating itself.
B: You were never inside for the times it has.
O: Take better care of yourself. That’s an order.
B: Which means you’ll do the same.
O: I already said that I am! Quit deflecting.
B: I am struggling with my appetite.
O: Now we’re getting somewhere.
O: I don’t want you starving yourself.
B: I haven’t been starving myself. That implies intent.
O: All right. Whatever it is that’s been happening, I want it to stop. I don’t want to quarrel.
O: Let me take care of you.
B: I’m.. apprehensive.
B: I don’t want to hurt you.
O: Life is pain, dearheart.
B: It shouldn’t be. Not for this.
O: Well, to fall back on another hoary old cliche, you can’t always get what you want.
O: We were never supposed to even have this much. So I think dealing with the fact that our relationship has shifted in tone isn’t the worst thing that could have happened.
B: Shifted in tone?
O: You know. Turned a corner. Finished a chapter. Moved to the next phase. The way relationships do.
B: What chapter are we on?
O: I dunno. The one where I’m a little less foolish and blindly optimistic, I hope.
O: But then I’ve always been pretty foolish.
B: Less foolish and blindly optimistic about what?
O: I’m not in the mood for Twenty Dispassionate Questions, Bruce.
B: They’re not—
B: I want to understand.
O: Then carry on a conversation instead of an interrogation.
B: I’d like to know what it is you are less hopeful about, Ollie. About us?
O: Not … I mean, nothing so stark. Saying “I’m less hopeful about us” is too melodramatic. And anyhow, I never mentioned hope.
O: I mean that I may have approached this relationship from too adolescent an angle. All the cautionary comments that you and Kate have made, I should’ve paid heed. Instead of brushing you off as being needlessly fatalistic. That’s what I mean when I say I was foolish.
B: You feel like we weren’t being fatalistic. That there was some credence to be given to our.. Warnings. In regards to, what? How we interact, what we say or do?
O:Sweetie, when I said I didn’t wanna be interrogated, I didn’t mean for you to ask questions in longer forms and paraphrase what I’m saying. I mean I want you to tell me what you’re thinking and feeling too.
B: I’m still upset I hurt you. I don’t know what else I will feel or think that will mean I’m thinking something horrible about you. It feels as if where we were is gone, and I want to be back there, but more importantly than all that, I want to understand you.
O:I don’t feel like it’s gone. I feel like things have changed, is all.
O: I’m not hard to understand, baby. I’m not a complicated man.
B: I feel as if I am losing my hold on things.
O: What things? Is it because this all coincided with what happened to your home and city? I do feel bad about that, Bruce. I wanted to be able to support you through this, not pile more onto your plate. I feel that way about Kate, too — my intention was to be there for you both and that’s not what happened, ultimately.
O: How can I help?
B: Don’t apologize, Ollie.
B: I feel like I’m going to lose control of myself.
O: You’re not going to. I won’t let that happen. And if it by some chance it does, I’ll make sure you don’t do anything to hurt anybody.
B: I’ve never made you swear to anything, Oliver.
O: So who’s asking you to? I volunteered this of my own volition.
B: There is almost nothing else I can think of that would matter more.
O: Then you got it, baby. Freely given, with all my heart. I’ll take care of you.
B: Take care of them.
B: Oliver, I’m sorry.
O: No. You’re taking care of everybody else, I’ll be taking care of you. It’s not a zero-sum game. Doing what I can to help you keep it together is what’ll make certain everybody else is safe. Or haven’t you been paying attention to the Gotham street art lately?
O: And. Thank you.
B: The street art?
O: We’ll go for a walk together and I’ll show you. Or you can turn on your cameras at Koreatown, the Aparo Expressway, the Amerigold, Exit 70 of the I-75, to name only a few.
B: What did you do?
O: Me? I don’t have an artistic bone in my body. It’s all your people, B.
B: Why?
O: I don’t understand the question. What do YOU think about it?
B: Why did you do this for me?
O: I didn’t do it, B. I dropped a vague suggestion in an ear and the people of your city, the people /you’ve/ helped over the years, they did it all by themselves. Because they wanted to. Because they wanted you to know how much you mean to them.
B: All right. Okay.
O: You set a good example. It isn’t all for you, it’s true. It’s for themselves and each other as well.
O: And to remind the bad guys who this town’s got looking over it.
B: I need to find him. I need to find him and get him back in his cage so I can sleep.
O: Do it. I’ve got the rest of this covered, me and the kids you trained.
B: I can’t yet. But I will.
B: Someone is trying to buy majority stock in Wayne Enterprises.
O: You think it’s whoever’s bankrolling the clown?
B: I don’t know. Between Tim and I, we haven’t made a dent in getting through.
O: Maybe you need to do something dramatic.
B:…and I am assuming you have a suggestion.
O: Nothing concrete. And what I’m thinking of might be a little crass. I don’t wanna upset you.
B: I’m past the point of being upset by anything.
O: Public sympathy for you is still very high in Gotham. You should make waves about unscrupulous business deals being made to rob one of the city’s pillars of society when he’s down, how it’ll scuttle all of Wayne Enterprises’ charitable works and scientific innovation. The media furor might force whoever it is to play their hand earlier, sloppier, or at the very least lull them into a false sense of security about how hopeless you find the situation.
B: That’s not crass. It’s smart.
O: Even a broken clock, B. :)
B: Don’t sell yourself short.
B: Did Adebayo clear you?
O: I was only supposed to stay in Medbay one more night to rest, and I got better rest at home. So yeah, in a way, Adebayo cleared me.
B: Did she officially clear you?
O: Good god, I’ll go up and get her to check me over again, if that’s what it’ll take to get you to stop nagging. Might I remind you, I’m not the one who’s skin and bones right now. So you might as well come with me.
O: I am completely intact. Considering you look like you just escaped a gulag, i should be saying that to YOU.
B: I ate the cookie.
O: That’s not enough. Remember my threat about the horse pills.
B: What do you want, Ollie?
O: I want what’s yours and I want what’s mine
O: Sorry that was a song lyric.
O: I want you to take better care of yourself, honey. That’s what I want.
B: Can I expect the same from you?
O: Of course. I’m strong as a horse and in great shape so it’s not even like I’ve given you a reason for concern. You’re the one who’s dropped three trouser sizes.
B: I cut down every autumn.
B: You were thrown through a wall by a half-Tamaranean.
O:No, I got accidentally smacked by your granddaughter. There’s a difference.
O: And don’t be ridiculous. Cutting down has never gotten to the point where it necessitates padding and makeup. You body’s eating itself.
B: You were never inside for the times it has.
O: Take better care of yourself. That’s an order.
B: Which means you’ll do the same.
O: I already said that I am! Quit deflecting.
B: I am struggling with my appetite.
O: Now we’re getting somewhere.
O: I don’t want you starving yourself.
B: I haven’t been starving myself. That implies intent.
O: All right. Whatever it is that’s been happening, I want it to stop. I don’t want to quarrel.
O: Let me take care of you.
B: I’m.. apprehensive.
B: I don’t want to hurt you.
O: Life is pain, dearheart.
B: It shouldn’t be. Not for this.
O: Well, to fall back on another hoary old cliche, you can’t always get what you want.
O: We were never supposed to even have this much. So I think dealing with the fact that our relationship has shifted in tone isn’t the worst thing that could have happened.
B: Shifted in tone?
O: You know. Turned a corner. Finished a chapter. Moved to the next phase. The way relationships do.
B: What chapter are we on?
O: I dunno. The one where I’m a little less foolish and blindly optimistic, I hope.
O: But then I’ve always been pretty foolish.
B: Less foolish and blindly optimistic about what?
O: I’m not in the mood for Twenty Dispassionate Questions, Bruce.
B: They’re not—
B: I want to understand.
O: Then carry on a conversation instead of an interrogation.
B: I’d like to know what it is you are less hopeful about, Ollie. About us?
O: Not … I mean, nothing so stark. Saying “I’m less hopeful about us” is too melodramatic. And anyhow, I never mentioned hope.
O: I mean that I may have approached this relationship from too adolescent an angle. All the cautionary comments that you and Kate have made, I should’ve paid heed. Instead of brushing you off as being needlessly fatalistic. That’s what I mean when I say I was foolish.
B: You feel like we weren’t being fatalistic. That there was some credence to be given to our.. Warnings. In regards to, what? How we interact, what we say or do?
O:Sweetie, when I said I didn’t wanna be interrogated, I didn’t mean for you to ask questions in longer forms and paraphrase what I’m saying. I mean I want you to tell me what you’re thinking and feeling too.
B: I’m still upset I hurt you. I don’t know what else I will feel or think that will mean I’m thinking something horrible about you. It feels as if where we were is gone, and I want to be back there, but more importantly than all that, I want to understand you.
O:I don’t feel like it’s gone. I feel like things have changed, is all.
O: I’m not hard to understand, baby. I’m not a complicated man.
B: I feel as if I am losing my hold on things.
O: What things? Is it because this all coincided with what happened to your home and city? I do feel bad about that, Bruce. I wanted to be able to support you through this, not pile more onto your plate. I feel that way about Kate, too — my intention was to be there for you both and that’s not what happened, ultimately.
O: How can I help?
B: Don’t apologize, Ollie.
B: I feel like I’m going to lose control of myself.
O: You’re not going to. I won’t let that happen. And if it by some chance it does, I’ll make sure you don’t do anything to hurt anybody.
B: I’ve never made you swear to anything, Oliver.
O: So who’s asking you to? I volunteered this of my own volition.
B: There is almost nothing else I can think of that would matter more.
O: Then you got it, baby. Freely given, with all my heart. I’ll take care of you.
B: Take care of them.
B: Oliver, I’m sorry.
O: No. You’re taking care of everybody else, I’ll be taking care of you. It’s not a zero-sum game. Doing what I can to help you keep it together is what’ll make certain everybody else is safe. Or haven’t you been paying attention to the Gotham street art lately?
O: And. Thank you.
B: The street art?
O: We’ll go for a walk together and I’ll show you. Or you can turn on your cameras at Koreatown, the Aparo Expressway, the Amerigold, Exit 70 of the I-75, to name only a few.
B: What did you do?
O: Me? I don’t have an artistic bone in my body. It’s all your people, B.
B: Why?
O: I don’t understand the question. What do YOU think about it?
B: Why did you do this for me?
O: I didn’t do it, B. I dropped a vague suggestion in an ear and the people of your city, the people /you’ve/ helped over the years, they did it all by themselves. Because they wanted to. Because they wanted you to know how much you mean to them.
B: All right. Okay.
O: You set a good example. It isn’t all for you, it’s true. It’s for themselves and each other as well.
O: And to remind the bad guys who this town’s got looking over it.
B: I need to find him. I need to find him and get him back in his cage so I can sleep.
O: Do it. I’ve got the rest of this covered, me and the kids you trained.
B: I can’t yet. But I will.
B: Someone is trying to buy majority stock in Wayne Enterprises.
O: You think it’s whoever’s bankrolling the clown?
B: I don’t know. Between Tim and I, we haven’t made a dent in getting through.
O: Maybe you need to do something dramatic.
B:…and I am assuming you have a suggestion.
O: Nothing concrete. And what I’m thinking of might be a little crass. I don’t wanna upset you.
B: I’m past the point of being upset by anything.
O: Public sympathy for you is still very high in Gotham. You should make waves about unscrupulous business deals being made to rob one of the city’s pillars of society when he’s down, how it’ll scuttle all of Wayne Enterprises’ charitable works and scientific innovation. The media furor might force whoever it is to play their hand earlier, sloppier, or at the very least lull them into a false sense of security about how hopeless you find the situation.
B: That’s not crass. It’s smart.
O: Even a broken clock, B. :)
B: Don’t sell yourself short.
B: Did Adebayo clear you?
O: I was only supposed to stay in Medbay one more night to rest, and I got better rest at home. So yeah, in a way, Adebayo cleared me.
B: Did she officially clear you?
O: Good god, I’ll go up and get her to check me over again, if that’s what it’ll take to get you to stop nagging. Might I remind you, I’m not the one who’s skin and bones right now. So you might as well come with me.