Here she is boys and girls. The last chapter of To This Day
THIS CHAPTER WAS UPDATED AND PROOFREAD FOR TYPOS, GRAMMAR, AND PLOT/TIMELINE ISSUES AS OF 7/18/2020
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Nearly two months had passed since Rachel Dawes and Harvey Dent had died. A lot happened during those months. Anslee graduated high school two weeks after the Harvey incident. She made a decision on where she wanted to go to college, though she really didn't consult Bruce on anything or let him in on it. He didn't really seem like he cared.
But it's not like it mattered anyways.
Since Bruce had decided to let his second alias take the blame for everything Harvey had done in order to protect the city, he'd just been deteriorating. The fall he had that night had taken its physical toll on his body. And the loss of the love of his life took a mental toll on his mind and his heart.
Nowadays, all he did was sit around and brood while wallowing in his own sadness and pity.
Anslee had noticed Bruce wasn't the same. She knew he was sad. But she also had to cope with her losses once it all set in in the aftermath. But she couldn't do it on her own, she needed that emotional support. She craved that attention from Bruce. He was all she had left. But instead, she got the exact opposite. She got used to it after a month, but that didn't mean that she was okay with it.
He was sitting in that same spot he had always been in over the past two months, his father's desk in the study. They had moved back permanently in the manor after everything so they could live peacefully. His five o'clock shadow masked the lower half of his face and dark circle and bags accented his eyes. Anslee stood over him and looked down at the man.
Bruce looked up at her, "Do you need something?"
Anslee crossed her arms over her chest, "Yeah, when are you gonna stop wallowing in your own self pity and get on with life?"
Bruce frowned up at his daughter, "I'm grieving," he grumbled out.
"Grieving?" Anslee scoffed, "It's been two months and you're still grieving? I wish I could still have time to be hung up on what happened. But I can't, I have to move on and live with that burden on my shoulders everyday."
"You don't think I have to either?" Bruce quickly stood, towering over the girl.
"You made your decision to put that blame on yourself, nobody made you do anything. That was all you," Anslee looked back up at him.
"It's not like I had anyone to help me with it anyways," Bruce rolled his eyes before he turned away from her.
Anslee's jaw dropped, "And you think I did?" she demanded, "I had to deal with all of it on my own! You played father of the year for a week after she died and then you started whatever bullshit you've been living your life in!"
"I lost everything!" Bruce turned back to her, raising his voice as he talked.
"No, you didn't," Anslee spat back at him, "But now you have."
Anslee turned away from Bruce and started back towards her room.
Bruce's frown dropped quickly, "What are you talking about?"
"I can't keep doing this," she stopped and turned back to look at him, "I can't keep living like this, worrying about you constantly and not getting the support that I need! Bottling it up has been so awful, and I can't stand it anymore. I'm not gonna sit around and do nothing while you wallow, I can't live like that. I'm leaving."
Bruce took in Anslee's words, trying to decide if she was being serious or not. She was...leaving?
"Where do you even think you're gonna go?" he asked her.
"Don't worry about it," Anslee shook her head, "But you got what you wished for. To be alone and sad. Because that's the choice you made when you decided to pin this all on yourself. I'm not making it another weight of chains on my shoulders anymore. I'm leaving."
Bruce looked at her. He really couldn't believe that he had driven his daughter out of his life a second time around. He couldn't believe she really was about to leave him for God knows how long. Where was she going? How was she going to support herself? Would he ever see her again?
Well…
I guess that
Only
Time
Will
Tell.
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Um...I finished it. This is something I really never thought that I would finish it. But I mean...I did it. Wow. It's really weird and I don't know what to say, but like...yeah...I'm gonna do a separate chapter concerning the sequel. But here you are my lovelies