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a/n: housing a series of drabbles with no definite end/continuance. Ideas and scenes which pop in but I can't find to put in any other storyline. I know I put the characters Batman and Wonder Woman in the description, and that does apply to a bunch of the first few drabbles, but hopefully I'll be touching on other characters in the DC world as well. Hope you guys enjoy! R&R, comments and ideas are always welcome (:
No Place for No Hero
1. To Die.
(DCU, post-Sacrifice storyline)
The cave blistered as Bruce's glare cut into the ground, the earth. His eyes were shadowed, pupils cloaked away from her. Diana could only flinch. Even invisible, they spoke the ominous words: Murderer. Cold, righteous, so righteous as he sat there, pointedly ignoring her gaze.
She understood. All the same, she wanted to cry, "I did it for you, and Clark, you stubborn man. I did it for you". But she was Amazonian. She had made a tactical decision. It would not do to retract that now. Maxwell Lord had to be killed. It was a war he had waged on two of the men closest to her.
Two she had alienated. She glanced up and this time their eyes met. He held the gaze, painfully impassive. She mumbled something, it sounded foreign. Throat refused to work.
She had killed for him.
As she walked away, back retreating from him, Bruce allowed his head to droop again, hearing his own breathing, no longer pained and laboured, almost wishing it was still so. She'd killed for him. He would've died for her. But she had killed, for him. As despicable as Maxwell Lord was, as insane, it did not matter. Bruce was the motive. Bruce was the cause.
Bruce had murdered too.