"So?"
"So what?"
"Are you going to tell me what is Shorty doing with Golden Boy?"
The smile erases from her face and she looks cold and unreachable.
"There is nothing to tell…Damian made his decision. He is no longer welcome at our house and he is an enemy"
"Yeah that is what I heard. But I know you. You could have made him to stay. But you did not. Kill Dick, brainwash your kid, maybe revive Dick, make him insane and take him as your lover"
Talia growls and slaps him on the arm. "Don´t be stupid. You know why I did it"
"So he can choose his own destiny? Ha. As your "Beloved" would let him. Every boy that man touches, he expects him to be the future Batman, or a future Robin, a future corpse"
"Bruce is dead"
"The replacement thinks he is alive. I do too. Bruce is..difficult to kill"
"Well…your butler was pretty sure about it. That is what I made the remote control thing"
Jason started running his fingers through her hair coaxing her gently to tell the rest of the story.
"He is like my Beloved. Never has like to be told what to do. He was beaten daily for that. So I knew that if I tried to control him like that…"
"He will never forgive you…"
"And then I will make him choose. Choose the life as a heir of our family, as a ruler, as a conqueror….or the life as a vigilante…" she pauses and sighs…"hoping with all my heart my boy will choose to stay with Grayson. The final push was to show him the baby that will replace him"
"So you did it on purpose? Why? Why going with all that trouble?"
"Because as you said, my beloved, if alive, would have dictated the fate of my boy. But Grayson…. I am an assassin and a heir, and I live to fulfill my father´s vision, my father´s wishes. Everything I do is to glorify his name.
I did not want that for my boy.
Grayson seems to understand Damian, but most of all he encourages the boy to follow his desires and heart. He is teaching my son that he can be loved, being whoever he wants to be. I can´t teach him that. And I can´t allow him to become me.."
Jason kissed her to give her a break, emotion clear in his lover´s voice. The woman respond passionately and lose herself on the kiss, thankful Jason will let her covered her weakness.
When they were finished, they lay next to each other, sweaty and exhausted. Time was running out and the next time they will see each other was always unknown.
"So if you wanted to spare your little devil spawn the fate of being Al Ghul´s heir, why did you clone him?"
Talia smile again, that smile Jason likes to think she only uses with him. (she does, because even if she loves Bruce, Bruce is duty, and Jason is one of the few things she does because she feels like it)
"As I told you it was the final push for Damian to take his decision. But also, I am sure, that if Damian grows in the man I hope he will, he will come and get the boy from me. That is why I hope I made the right decision in trusting your circus brother with my first born…"
Jason remembering his days with Dick nods.
"If anyone can do it, rest assured that is Dick Grayson"
"Good. I hate my plans to fail, as you know I am a perfectionist…Now enough of bed talk. We have only one hour left" the woman demand.
And Jason obey. He really can´t say no to her.