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48, Crane & Batman

48: Childhood

Before the toxin, he once struck fear with gunshots.

Watching Batman collapse to his knees after he’d combined both dizzied Crane with a euphoria he’d only felt once before. Like Proust, he was briefly transported; he was sixteen, swelling with boyish triumph watching the crows snack on the crone’s mass of exposed cranial tissue.

Under the cowl, Batman croaked in a child’s voice:

“Mom…”

The Scarecrow grinned; sutures split.

“Go on, Dark Knight,” he coaxed, hand gentle on square jaw. “Tell me about Mother.”

He’d long suspected the Batman, too, was a creature carved out of the agonies of childhood.

#batman #scarecrow #jonathan crane #bruce wayne #thank you so much for sending this!!!!!!!!!#the 100 word drabble limit was a fun challenge for my wordy self #also this is so horrid to do to my boy rip i'm sorry bruce #was going to redux scarecrow year one with a more sympathetic bruce learning of crane's origins but this rancidness poured out of me #ah well #see: my genuine surprise scarecrow's love of guns isn't brought into play more often wrt batsy's Thing about them #and also see: why isn't fear toxin used to get bruce's secret identity more often?#anyhoo #ask to tag #bat-tag

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