Hi guys. Sorry for the long wait. To be honest, I forgot about it because I lost interest. Today I realised that I haven't finished it yet so here I am. Enjoy! And I wish YOU ALL a happy new year :D
Flash and GL were still in the cafetaria after 3h. They are speculating on what Diana had said. 'Should we visit him?' were they both thinking. "Do you believe Diana when she said that Bruce actually liked me? And that he would be like me in different time?" FLash asked to Gl. "I don't know, I really don't know. What I do know Flash is that he thinks that I'm arrogant because I'm not affraid of him or something like that." Gl answered. Flash was silent for a moment because he was trying to formalize his sentence without upsetting Hal. "Actually Hal" Flash said "I don't believe he doesn't like you, it's just that it looks from his perspective that you don't even respect him. The rest of us or fear him or respect his way of doing but all you do is complaining that he isn't participating in some of the meetings. Now we know why but therefore we didn't. " 'He has a point, maybe I should apologise' Gl thought. "Flash, do you think it's a good idea to visit him? Because we haven't since he's been here." Gl asked hesitately. Optimistically (like he usually is) flash anwered: "I think that's great! I'm sure old grumpy bats has missed us". "Don't tell him I called him that!" Flash said with a bit of fear in his voice. "Relax! I'm at your side remember." Gl replied.
Meanwhile in the infirmary
'I know I'm not the most enjoyable person in the Jl but it still surprises that me that only Diana and Clark from the founding members have visited me.' Batman thought. Mm put a small smile on his face when he heard that. "Bruce, I'm sure they'll visit you. Maybe they just want to wait untill you're a bit recovered because admit it, your mood would be more enjoyable." 'He got in my head! Look how weak I am at the moment! My shields are down! He has a point though' Batman thought. "J'onn please stay out of my head. It is NOT a happy place to be. But you're probably right. Do you believe I am too serious? That I need to be more friendly to my supposed to be friends?" Batman asked with a bit more emotion than normal. J'onn was surprised at that question. 'Why would Bruce suddenly want to change his way of being?' J'onn thought a couple minutes. He knows Bruce has a lot of patience so he used his time for a good anwer. "Although your way of handling things works very effective against criminals, I think that I need to answer with yes. I do think you're a bit too distant and cold to your colleagues. It may be hard for you to socialise or you just don't see the point in it but I believe it would heal you mentally and it would improve the whole team when in a mission." Batman thought about it too for a couple minutes before he answered: "J'onn, you're right. I am too distant and cold. After about 20 years fighting crime with the thought that I don't have the luxery of having friends because everyone I knows dies or worse. Just look at Jason, who died. Dick, who hates me, Damian who sometimes believes I'm too weak. Barbara who got crippled because of me!" Bruce was almost screaming with tears in his eyes. When he asked J'onn: "J'onn, villians did a lot of bad things for my family so I can't just bond with people. But do you remember when Vandal savage had my plans for neutralizing the league?" J'onn remembered. Ofcourse he did. 'Everyone was in pain. But I don't know why he brings this up now. What does it have to do with this?' Batman saw J'onn's face become sad and asked: "Do you know what happened to me? In our meeting when all my supposed friends were angry at me? Why I was so cold and emotionless that day? Well, I'll tell you." He began to scream "No one knows this but I got buried alive! A worker came to us and said that my parents their grave was opened. I couldn't believe him. But when I saw it I got speechless. And suddenly Bane stood behind me and pushed me in the grave! I was buried with my parents in their grave! Do you know how I escaped? I saw my father's head. And there was only one thing I was thinking! REVENGE! I took my keys in my hand and I began to punch. Bare knuckles against wood! Strong wood I assure you! ALTHOUGH I was bleeding I NEEDED to escape. You don't know how much I was hurt when everyone said that I betrayed them. That I don't care about them! I couldn't handle it anymore and to be honest I was almost crying. So I left. Now I'm here. In the infirmary. And now I realise how stupid I am. I don't deserve to be called a hero. A friend. A mentor. All I am is a broken man with angry issues who uses criminals for my anger.
Flash and GL stood at the door listening to their conversation. With shocked faces. They knew bats had problems, and had issues but this?
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