Solitude
for Meaghan
He thinks, It was like peeling away the layers of an onion, the way they have left him:
Dick, wanting his freedom.
Tim, broken, needing a life away from the shadows.
Barbara, wanting this, wanting him, and finally understanding his most faithful lover will always be the city. Diana the same.
Jim, fallen in the line of duty.
Leslie, disgusted with him.
Alfred, the last and truest, caught suddenly by a disease no amount of Bruce's money could cure.
The thug fires, and Bruce is going to die ...
The whip cracks the bullet from its path. "Not tonight," Selina purrs.