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[frightening]

[ Bruce reads everything on the network and scours the cuddlr app for new names daily - sometimes more than once daily, if he's bored. Of course he's going to recognize Cassandra Cain. She looks the same, she's close enough to the age he'd know her as.

... Wayne, though.

It takes him a while to decide to message her. ]

Everything all right?

[slam_poetry]

[There's a decently long pause between when he sends the message and when she responds. At the same time, it may have something to do with the fact that text-based communication is not her forte]

Yes.

[The ... symbol is on there for a while. Clearly, she's having some trouble.]

What're you doing here?

[He'd just sent her off, after all. A hand on her shoulder from him, a video message from Barbara... they'd both wished her well. They'd both told her that if she needed to do this, then this was the best path. Barbara had clearly been more comfortable with the concept than Bruce was, but in the end, she'd convinced him. She'd convinced him that her hands had to belong to her. She could never doubt her own hands again. Not if she wanted to live up to her dream. Not when the chance was in front of her.]

[frightening]

[ --Shit. He's an asshole. Bruce switches over to video: sitting cross-legged on his bed in his sparse under repair bedroom, in the process of taking his reading glasses off. ]

Completing a contract.

[ Text-only is a habit, one born of understandable paranoia. ]

audio; private

[batmansphoenix]

[He likes text better. But he isn't going to make this any harder for her.]

Hey Cassie. Do you know what Valentine's is?

audio | private

[slam_poetry]

I know about it from movies. There's cards and candy and dinner. I'm not really sure why.

Barbara always said it was to sell chocolate.

audio | private

[batmansphoenix]

It probably is, yeah. Babs is usually right.

But it's supposed to be about being with people you care about and shit. You doing anything today?

audio; private.

[snapchatting]

Hey Cass, are you going to that knight-training thing?

audio.

[slam_poetry]

[ there is ANNOYANCE in that voice ]

Yes.

[snapchatting]

[Ooh, good. Encouraging.]

Will you show me enough stuff that I can put that asshole on his ass?

audio;

[batmansphoenix]

Yo, princess.

Got time to talk?

audio

[slam_poetry]

Of course. I'm not very busy.

Re: audio

[batmansphoenix]

Okay so.

I'm going back home. And it'd be a jerk move to do it without telling you.

present.

[requites]

[ One time, when Cassandra is out of where she lives, she will return to her place to see a little bat with a black cape attached to it and a little tape saying" play me. bw.

When it's played this is the message: ]

You're too old for this and you probably don't like it, but I may have indulged a fatherly instinct too much at that carnival earlier this month. Consider it a gift, Cassandra.

[slam_poetry]

[ She thinks back to a visit to a prison, a swim back to shore in clothing that hadn't felt normal or natural to begin with, let alone when she was escaping from the guards. To a box presented to her without, seeming, reason. Does she like it?

Yes, yes she does. She has the urge to hug it and so she does, because she can, and puts it in a place of pride in her little apartment above the TV.

Accordingly, he will find, some days later, a little mug with a tie curled up in it. And, of course, a note. ]

You weren't here earlier so it's late.

[requites]

[ If Bruce happens to type out a message to her while drinking out of that mug and perhaps wearing the tie ( okay mostly just drinking out of the mug ) the next morning, well no one can prove it because they didn't see it. ]

It's June in someone's timeline. Thank you. I've been needing both of these things.

LETTER OF INVITATION.

[medievals]

[slam_poetry]

[ If there is an RSVP card, she will RSVP. If not, Arthur will receive a simple message of 'I'll be there' signed with a C. ]

video;

[ichoosefight]

[ She turns on the video because she knows it will be easier for Cass that way, but she can't quite make herself look at the screen. She still feels so guilty, and now she feels guilty for poking at this particular wound. ]

Hey, so... I got this thing. [ The memory share visor is in her hands - the screen is purple, of course. ] And I know we haven't really talked about it, but I owe you an explanation, for... disappearing, after the gang war.

This would be easier, for me. [ She wouldn't have to try to keep talking while going over some really painful memories. ] But the thing is, it isn't pretty. So if you don't want to know, or if you want to just move on, that's fine. I just thought I'd offer.

audio

[slam_poetry]

[ She isn't sure she wants Stephanie to see her while she answers but she's better with her voice than with text. ]

I want to know.

text » un: GRAYSON

[pleasant]

Hey, long time no talk.

( post steph talking to him, he sends a message -- it doesn't exactly flow organically, and he shortly remembers cassandra's penchant for speaking through looks ... ah. maybe it's smarter to ask questions. )

Do you like pizza?

( dick please you are more suave than this )

We should get pizza sometime.

( but that sounds too forceful!! one more time with feeling. )

You me and Steph. Pizza and movies, how does that sound?

UN: Cain_Wayne

[slam_poetry]

Stephanie texted you.

{ she's not really asking, mostly because the timing is kind of obvious }

I like pizza. And we can have pizza.

I don't expect you to change your opinion. If she yelled at you, I can talk to her.

video;

[ichoosefight]

Hey Cass! We can talk about this more when I get home, but there's this guy I know, and I was thinking, if you wanted to give the, ahem, rougher sex a try- [ She is inordinately pleased by this joke. ] -he'd be a good choice.

Unless you'd be more comfortable with someone you knew better. Either way.

[ In Steph's mind this is all about Cass, of course. Making sure Cass knows what her options are, that Cass has been able to experience everything good that there is to experience, with someone trusted and skilled. But, also of course, she thought of Dean because sex with him was so good and she can't help but remember that when she talks to him.

Ever helpful, she provides a link to some video of Dean. ]

video;

[slam_poetry]

If you trust him, I'd be willing to meet him. I can't say more until I've met him.

[ She needs to hear his voice, the voice of his body, see if she finds it attractive. ]

video;

[stealstires]

[Video is really far from Jason's favorite method of communication. If it were up to him he'd go with text most of the time. But he's gathered enough from Cass to know that it would be rude to her. And if he's doing voice, may as well go the extra mile and give her video... because he's also gathered enough to know that would be useful.]

Heyo. So your girlfriend contacted me, just wanted to make sure you're really okay with what she's suggesting?

[slam_poetry]

[ She tends to default to audio, but she has no problem with video, really. It's just weird and disjointed for her sometimes. Right now, she looks relatively placid, eating some cereal in the midst of watching something on TV. ]

What did she suggest?

[ A pause before tilting her head- ]

I know what she asked. I don't know what she said to you.