Eighth Unused Utility Belt | Text, Video, Action Spam

[hellofist]

[Private text to Bruce Wayne]
[It takes her ten minutes and a lot of staring because what she gets out doesn't look right, but in the end, Cass sends the message anyway. He'll get it a few minutes after midnight.]

Marry Krismiss
Love, Cass

[She doesn't expect him to say anything back, but she can't let her first Christmas pass without saying something to him.]


[Video]
[When the video turns itself on, instead of an excited Merry Christmas!, the barge gets a shot of Cass sitting in bed in a blank cabin. She's in her pajamas still, hasn't gotten far, and her eyes are red and she's still crying.]

Merlin's gone. [Her voice is surprisingly even, despite speaking through her tears.] Went to bed and... he was here... Now his room is...

[She doesn't really know what to do, to say, but she knows she has to tell people that Merlin has disappeared, gone home. She's not thinking it might seem strange to most people on the Barge that she'd be sleeping in Merlin's bed at all, not right now. With a swipe at her eyes to try to dry them that completely fails, she tries to continue.]

Don't know... if he'll come back. But, he's...

[She doesn't finish. Instead, her hand covers up the camera and there's a few muffled sobs before the feed cuts off entirely.]

[Spam]
[For anyone who wants to go looking for her, Cass is still in Merlin's bedroom, still in his bed, curled up under the blankets. It's not fair that her first Christmas be like this, that she doesn't even have the familiarity of Merlin's room to comfort her. She'll get up eventually, but it will only be to drag some of her things back to the empty room. She has to save it for when he comes back, can't let anyone else move in. If that happens, she really has lost him.]

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[hellofist]

[And that means more to her than anything else possibly can at this moment, that Selina even wants to try at all. She knows how independent she is, just like a cat, so she knows how special this is.]

Yes. He's... my first boyfriend.

[silvestris]

The first one is always the hardest one.

You think you can tell me about him? Sometimes it helps. Like draining a wound.

[hellofist]

He was... one of my first friends.

[Not just on the barge, but at all. One of the first people she'd even talked to here, and then she had just been drawn to him since that, always found herself with him. He was like a magnet, always pulling her to him and she was always happy to go.]

We're both... strong, in ways that... scare people. Used to hiding, feeling like... monsters. Learned together, we're not. Because of each other.

[silvestris]

[Selina nods, at least able to empathize. She found that in her Bruce, after all.

Selina has an armor of rage and bitterness now; she can't imagine what it would be like to experience this and still be as alive as Cass is. She's not at a point where she can even begin to think of something insightful or warming to say. So she holds her tighter as if she can strip away the grief, or protect her from ever having felt it.]

There are a lot of people here who feel like monsters. What else was it about him that you love?