I've never done this before, but I had to with this story. A lot of people asked why didn't Bruce just give Jack the money. The funny thing is I had dealt with that, but found it hard to figure out where the scene would fit in and finally found I was unhappy with it being anywhere in the story. Not sure why, but that's what I felt. So, here is the scene that I wrote, but never posted. Consider it having been somewhere in between when Jack left Bruce's after Bruce offered his help and he came home, but before the chat with Dana.

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Jack was stopped at a red light on his way home to Dana when the cell phone he'd left in the car rang. The older man jumped slightly, but groped quickly for the phone.

"Hello?" He asked breathlessly just as the light turned green. Horns instantly interrupted the conversation and Jack hit the gas driving into the intersection. "Hello?" He asked again.

"I can get the money," the voice, now recognizable as Bruce, said over the line.

"What?"

"You said you owed Gardenee money and I can get the money to pay him back."

Jack quickly pulled his car to the side of the road to avoid any accidents. Once in park, he gripped the cell phone tightly.

"You'll give me the money?"

The voice on the other end seemed to grow colder. "No, I would be giving Tim the money."

"I don't need your help, Bruce."

A humorless bark of laughter came over the phone line. "You already asked for it."

"You volunteered," Jack bit back not even bothering to consider how ridicules the conversation was. Bruce had offered to fix everything in one swoop, not as Batman, but as Wayne and Jack found himself resisting. Pride was an interesting deadly sin; it did not operator by reason and, in some part of Jack's brain, he had asked Batman to help him, not Bruce. Batman was a legend, he was something that people told stories about; he didn't truly exist. Bruce Wayne was flesh and blood and had stolen his son away; Wayne was the father that Jack never had been. If he asked Bruce for help, Jack would he admitting all his failure and he would not give Bruce that satisfaction.

Bruce was the bane of Jack's existence and he would never- could­­- never ask him for help.

"No, Bruce, I don't want that."

"You are a fool then and your son will pay for your pride."

The phone went dead and Jack was almost tempted to call Bruce back. Was he letting pride get in the way of his son's well being? Was he being irrational in only seeking the help of Batman, a creature that he still found himself unable to associate with Bruce?

Jack shook his head and closed the phone. He had to get home to Dana. Batman would take care of things and his child would be back safe and sound. Wayne would not have to save Timothy from anyone's clutches.

Jack put the car into drove and headed home to be with Dana.

End scene.

Okay, so here's my rational for not having put this in the first time. There's a lot going on there in Jack's head and I didn't want to have to pause the story in order to explain how I saw things. But, now that the story is over, I'll dive into it.

Jack has issues with Bruce because Bruce is flesh and blood and is representative of all the ways that Jack failed his son. Batman is this fictional entity to Jack, like he is to so many Gotham citizens. In Jack's head he understands that Bruce and Batman are one and the same just as he understands that Tim and Robin are now one and them same, but the association is still difficult to make. And here, asking Batman for help is like praying to God; he's asking something that he doesn't know if he should accept is real or not. By asking Bruce, though, he would be lowering himself and showing Bruce that he needs the help; that he can't take care of his family on his own.

So, there ya go. That's why I have this scene and why things didn't work out so easily for poor Tim in my head.