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[torchbearer]

sure i'll do a sweep.

[reneger]

thanks

( kon's--gone, but jason figures keeping an eye out wouldn't hurt anything. )

we're moving our base of operations out to central temporarily

[torchbearer]

because of tim or something else?

[reneger]

this stays between us

tim's been in shit shape since the joker got him
i figured he had kon to help him out but he's gone now, so

bruce is less than half his normal size, grayson's got his hands full between that and tiny tim
junior's got his own problem kids he's wrangling
hell if i know what we're doing with duke at this point

and dick jr decided he was going to tail me for reasons i don't know, but he'd probably prefer to be closer to the chaos

[torchbearer]

i like how you say that, as though i have other people to tell.

bruce is still young? damn.

that is a lot, even for you all.

[reneger]

should i be mad you knew and i had to find out from dick?

i spent over a year with mostly just damian and a different mini me
not even the break was enough to prep me for this mess

[torchbearer]

i don't spill your stuff to bruce or vice versa. and i wasn't sure how okay he was with sharing.

what do you want to do? are you stepping back into it?

[reneger]

they're family

tim didn't give up on me, even when everyone else had

[torchbearer]

i know. i'm not asking you to give up on them.

i just want you to be sure.

[ not that kyle is uncaring, but he's going to prioritize jason first. ]

[reneger]

( it makes his chest ache. how jason's going through all his family's bullshit and kyle's concern is jason. he knows that this is--how it's supposed to be, but it doesn't make it hit him any less hard. )

our b isn't here and the one who is isn't half bad
it'll be fine

[torchbearer]

[ isn't half bad??? what even happened? must have been quite the epiphany. ]

ok. i've got your back.

[reneger]

come with me?
after i find a bigger place
we can always kick tim's shit out of your old place if you want it back

[torchbearer]

no it's fine. i'll come.

you got a place lined up?

[reneger]

i've got lists of potential places across the globe
don't have jack shit picked out yet
i can send you the list if you and dickie want to go through it, save me some time

[torchbearer]

across the globe??? why???

but sure we can do that.

[reneger]

never know when having a place in aruba might be useful

[torchbearer]

never seems apt.

[reneger]

what if we're tailing someone and they decide to try and take a vacation?

[torchbearer]

then aruba will do much worse to them than we could.

[reneger]

kyle
i could do so much worse than aruba

[torchbearer]

that is debatable.

[reneger]

because you've only seen my good side

( he knows it'll come across as horrendously fake even before he presses send, but look. jason can't help himself. )

[torchbearer]

[reneger]

looks just like me

[torchbearer]

the resemblance is uncanny.