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[hellofist]

Um. I'm awake, now.

[Have a wave and half a smile, Barge.]

Didn't mean... to worry anyone. Sorry. I'm okay, though. I know... things have changed. Birthday passed. Was going to be... first one. Never knew it, growing up. Guess weapons... weren't allowed them. Merlin said, can have party. Don't know how, though. Could use tips.

Want to see everyone. Can meet somewhere, or you... come to Merlin's room. Staying here now, moved stuff already. It's... safer, this way. For my heart.

[That doesn't make a lot of sense out of context though, does it? She sighs and her smile fades, dissolves into a look that's somewhere between uncomfortable and just sad.]

There's a man here, David Cain. My father.

[She's truthful almost all of the time anyway, but this is when it becomes clear she's affected by this flood.]

Don't kill him. He's not... worth your time. Deserves a chance. Bad father, bad man, deserves to die, maybe should die, but... deserves his chance, too. Just leave him alone. Don't want people... getting hurt. Love you all too much.

That's... guess that's all.


Private to Bruce Wayne
Don't anymore, okay? Once is enough.

I love you.



Private to David Cain
Promise still stands. You kill anyone, I kill you.

... Hope this place... works, for you.



Spam for Dean and Barbara, separately
[Some people deserve to see her in person without waiting so she goes to them first, knocks and knocks and knocks on their doors until they open up, let her in. Once they do, they'll have an armful of Cass because there's no stopping her once she sees those faces again.]

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[hellofist]

[Tea is just about the only thing Cass ever drinks so there's always some ready, but when Steph says that she frowns.]

Can get something else. Something you... actually like.

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[ichoosefight]

I'd actually really like some soda but I don't want to be rude or a nuisance. [ Oops. ]

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[hellofist]

Not rude. Don't have any, though. Can go get some.

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[ichoosefight]

That's okay, I don't need anything to drink. I just want to spend time with you because I'm really happy you're awake.

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[hellofist]

Me too. Happy I'm... awake, want to see you.

[Even if there's some really weird stuff getting aired here, it's nothing really new. Not to Cass, anyway. She sits beside Steph and smiles at her.]

Talk. I'll listen. Will be like... old times.

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[ichoosefight]

Sure. I never really know what to talk about but it doesn't usually take long and today I'll probably just start rambling about something I didn't even want to share, like I did with Bruce.

[ And lo and behold. ]

Oh, that's something to talk about, he hugged me. Like, five times. It was kind of weird actually, in a nice way. I don't want to admit I liked it because I got in so much trouble trying to get Batman's approval and I know I don't need it but I still kinda want it sometimes even if I don't want to want it.

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[hellofist]

What did... he say?

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[ichoosefight]

He said a lot of things. [ She looks down at her lap. It was a very strange conversation, and she's still sort of processing. ] He said that he cares about me and he trusts me and he wants to help me if he can. And then he said that he's selfish which seemed kind of silly after he said everything else.

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[hellofist]

He'll graduate, soon. Can see it, he's changed.

Think he'll stay? Become... Warden, to someone?

[The hope there? It's pretty obvious and maybe just slightly desperate. She doesn't like the idea of Bruce leaving.]

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[ichoosefight]

I don't know, but I hope so. He deserves to get out of this place but I don't like the idea of what he has to go home to. I think he should just bail and find some other world. [ Let it never be said that Steph never cuts and runs. ]

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[hellofist]

Well, Kon's going... to your world. Take Bruce too.

[There, fixed. Easy.]

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[ichoosefight]

I'm not sure how the other Bruce would take that. And you know they wouldn't be able to hide from each other.

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[hellofist]

If anyone can... find way, it's you.

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[ichoosefight]

[ She grins, almost sheepishly. ]

I love how much faith you have in me even if I don't always feel like I deserve it.

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[hellofist]

You do. That and... a lot more. For who you are, and... what happened.

Still don't... blame you, for leaving. Never have. If you had to, you had to. So don't... feel guilty anymore, okay?

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[ichoosefight]

I'll stop feeling guilty when the people I love stop hurting because of it. [ She looks down at the floor, thinking of Tim. ] So it might be a while. I know that I couldn't help it and I shouldn't blame myself but I still feel bad. I hate that any of it happened at all.

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[hellofist]

[She doesn't really have anything to say to that because it's all true. Of course it is, that's the nature of this flood. So Cass does the only thing she can think of that might help.

She leans over and puts her arms around Steph, hugging her tightly.]

It's okay.

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[ichoosefight]

[ Steph hugs her back, squeezing just as hard. ]

It will be. Some day. Thanks for saying it.

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[hellofist]

[It's always nice when she gets an excuse to hug Steph, so Cass rubs her back absently, trying to make it the best hug possible.]

Don't have to thank. Say it... because it's true, to me.

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[ichoosefight]

I'm glad. Even if it is just the truth it makes me feel better.

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[hellofist]

Well, good. Want that. For you... to feel good.

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[ichoosefight]

I want that for you too. I really hope you don't decide to stay here forever.

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[hellofist]

[Welp, so much for that moment. Cass pulls back and frowns at Steph.]

Happy here, most of time. Why did... you do that? Bring that back?

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[ichoosefight]

I can't help it. [ She flushes in her perfectly candid distress. ] It's the flood. I'm just saying everything that crosses my mind. I even started describing the details of my love life to Doyle.

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[hellofist]

Not- that why. Why can't you... just accept it? Don't want Gotham, don't want dying, don't want- whatever I do.

You think... what I want, doesn't count? Not- what you want, for me? [Now that she's started, she can't seem to stop.] Want me to... come back with you? Watch you, happy with Kon, married, children, while I'm... alone? Is that better? Better to be sad there, or dead in Gotham? That's better... than helping people here?