campanas: (fourthborn belljokes 1)
Some Daughters Of Some Bells ([personal profile] campanas) wrote2013-11-07 08:08 pm

moved house

Pen likes the new apartment. It's bigger, she has new walls to draw on (she's got paper, too, but sometimes she wants to do a proper mural), and she doesn't have grit under her feathers anymore.

She gets left alone a lot, though. Cindy is out doing things all the time. He doesn't have as much time to take her to the flying place. (Once, when he is out and she can't even ask, she hops out over the patio balcony onto the neighboring roof, and checks to see if there is anybody around, and flies a little bit, low and owl-quiet. She doesn't think anybody sees.) She builds elaborate structures. She solicits another box of pieces.

He leaves the news on, a lot. Pen mostly ignores it. She knows English, technically, but the pentagon didn't tell her the concepts her upbringing has left her missing.
mylegalname: (⑩ have to think about this)

[personal profile] mylegalname 2013-11-10 04:42 am (UTC)(link)
"Yeah. Every year, since I was a kid."
mylegalname: (⑤ mostly serious)

[personal profile] mylegalname 2013-11-10 04:45 am (UTC)(link)
"Yeah, of course."

Assuming they're all still alive by that point, which is not really an assumption he's willing to make, but he doesn't see much point in making that part explicit.
mylegalname: (⑥ what is going on)

[personal profile] mylegalname 2013-11-10 04:46 am (UTC)(link)
"What's a brainphone?"
manofmyword: Quasi-innocent? (⑽ i wanna drive)

[personal profile] manofmyword 2013-11-10 04:47 am (UTC)(link)
"What it sounds like. Handy way to keep in touch, 'cause you can be damn sure nobody's listening," says the Joker.
mylegalname: (⑫ let's hear that again)

[personal profile] mylegalname 2013-11-10 04:50 am (UTC)(link)
He blinks.

"...Okay," he says. "And you can only - brainphone - people who have it? And," he looks between Pen and the Joker and settles on Pen, "you're the only one here who can give it to people?"
mylegalname: (⑩ have to think about this)

[personal profile] mylegalname 2013-11-10 04:53 am (UTC)(link)
"O...kay. Well. Thanks."

He looks at the Joker again, then at Pen. Pen, Joker. Joker, Pen.
mylegalname: (⑧ talk it over)

[personal profile] mylegalname 2013-11-10 01:21 pm (UTC)(link)
"Uh..."

He decides after a final look that the chance of the Joker not knowing what he's thinking is negligible.

"...I'm wondering if you're okay with him or if I should find somebody else to take care of you," he says.
mylegalname: (⑥ what is going on)

[personal profile] mylegalname 2013-11-10 05:49 pm (UTC)(link)
"Okay," says John. "So... now what?"
manofmyword: Quasi-innocent? (⑽ i wanna drive)

[personal profile] manofmyword 2013-11-10 09:34 pm (UTC)(link)
"Mmm... d'you know if they've strung up Jim Gordon yet?"
mylegalname: (⑧ talk it over)

[personal profile] mylegalname 2013-11-10 09:37 pm (UTC)(link)
He hesitates for a moment, unsure how much he should be revealing, and then realizes that his hesitation signals that he has something to hide and there's really only one thing he could be hiding about the answer to that question, so he probably just gave it all away. Good work, rookie.
manofmyword: Grinning. (⑵ simply makes you stranger)

[personal profile] manofmyword 2013-11-10 09:38 pm (UTC)(link)
Indeed: the Joker grins. "He your tank? Mm?"
mylegalname: (⑩ have to think about this)

[personal profile] mylegalname 2013-11-10 09:40 pm (UTC)(link)
"Maybe," he says, more for form's sake than anything. Trying to keep things from the Joker seems to be a losing battle.
manofmyword: From the side, serious. (⑿ is it the scars?)

[personal profile] manofmyword 2013-11-10 09:43 pm (UTC)(link)
"Well, we could've used him before Blackgate," he says. "Now... well, he can probably get more cops on his side than I can, but most of the cops in this city are down a hole right now." He thinks for a second, then adds, "He'd make good traitor bait, at least."
mylegalname: (⑥ what is going on)

[personal profile] mylegalname 2013-11-10 09:56 pm (UTC)(link)
John follows the logic—tell someone where he is, wait to see if they turn him in—and then is ashamed of himself for considering it, and then wonders if they can afford not to. Maybe he'll suggest it to Gordon.

He still hasn't mentioned the Joker to Gordon. Maybe he'll explain who he's been meeting at night and Gordon will shoot him. But who is he to talk? Wasn't he just saying that someday John would be grateful to have somebody around to dirty their hands for him? There can't be many people more qualified for the job.
mylegalname: (⑪ hold on be careful)

[personal profile] mylegalname 2013-11-10 09:58 pm (UTC)(link)
"...I don't know," says John.
manofmyword: Hands, seen through jail cell bars. (⑼ the store by the dungeon)

[personal profile] manofmyword 2013-11-10 10:09 pm (UTC)(link)
"You'd have a hell of a time convincing Gordon to work with me," the Joker says thoughtfully. "But we need more help than we've got. My boys are good to have around, but I wouldn't count on 'em not to be taken in by Bane's savior-of-the-people line."
mylegalname: (⑫ let's hear that again)

[personal profile] mylegalname 2013-11-10 10:10 pm (UTC)(link)
"So you think it's just a line?"

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