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[reneger]

if i ask real nicely, would you let me crash on it for a night?

[torchbearer]

There's like a million of the Bat-people here. Why not crash with them?

[reneger]

they're full up

[torchbearer]

[ bullshit. but it's not his business and kyle doesn't care to know. ]

Fine, but if you bring any drama, I'm throwing you out.

[reneger]

kyle
i am the drama

[torchbearer]

just don't get it on my fucking couch.

[reneger]

no promises

[torchbearer]

big surprise. when was the last time you made one?

[reneger]

( last time he said i promise, it was him promising he knew he wasn't just a stand in waiting to die for someone else. it was well over half a year ago, but jason remembers it clearly because he rarely puts those two words together in that order. the time before that has been his promise to bruce not to fuck up, which he kept until he lost his shit. so. )

if i made promises i couldn't keep, people would assume all of them were fake

[torchbearer]

Not making any doesn't exactly help either.

[ because it's not caution, but fear that does that. kyle also doesn't make promises anymore. he knows better. but he also knows the downside of it. ]

[reneger]

six months and three weeks ago i made a promise to someone important to me
i haven't broken it

[torchbearer]

I didn't think you had.

[reneger]

a year and a halfish ago i made a promise to b

definitely broke that one

( kyle doesn't give a shit so why not bitch )

but you know him, stupid high expectations

[torchbearer]

I think he has a hard time seeing how people are outside of him.

[ kyle's relationship with batman is . . . unique. even after the babel incident and the files batman kept on him, kyle still has a lot of respect. batman was never his mentor, but he was a teammate. he had helped trained kyle, supported him.

but there were obvious downsides too, ones kyle hasn't forgotten. ]

I'm surprised you even spoken to him.

[ even more so, that jason considered a promise to him. ]

[reneger]

i went back to gotham for a while
even got invited to the big family dinners, helped train up signal, did a few big teamups

[torchbearer]

sounds like a lot.

[ the dream, he nearly says. thinks better of it. ]

[reneger]

it was nice
fucked over someone who deserved it and completely destroyed his shit
got a new team together
spent some time in belle reve
had a bomb strapped to my chest
bonded with queen bee

[torchbearer]

the time of your life, looks like.

[reneger]

i know
you were missing out

[torchbearer]

it's fine. i'm used to it.

[reneger]

i would have called, but i didn't have your number

[torchbearer]

i don't think space gets reception anyway.

[reneger]

too bad
i might have finally been able to land a good hit in
i'll work on it here

[torchbearer]

you do need hobbies.

[reneger]

breaking your face counts as a hobby

nothing on the reach?