A/N - 222-word drabble on Day 2 Prompt - Soulmates


Ch. 2 - You find your fortune falling


"Bruce!" Harvey's voice rings out, shocked and desperate, as the billionaire falls.

A scarred hand presses a two-toned handkerchief to his bleeding chest. Bruce thinks the bullet missed his heart, but it might not matter. He's losing a lot of blood, fast.

What a way to go. Not even as Batman, but as Bruce Wayne, in the wrong place at the wrong time.

"What are you even doing here?" Two-Face growls at him after snarling at a henchman to bring the car up, despite the bullets still ricocheting off the run-down housing project walls.

"Charity," Bruce mumbles. His tongue feels heavy. Eyelids feel heavier. Head feels light, floaty -

"Keep your goddamn eyes open," Two-Face orders, squeezing Bruce's jaw hard with the hand not pressed over his wound. "I'm gonna kill that fucking bastard," he adds under his breath.

"Don't," Bruce mumbles. Riddler's crew wasn't aiming for him. Just unlucky timing. Two-Face snorts.

"You want to save his life? Don't die." His voice is hoarser than it should be. Eyes wetter, too.

"Still love you," Bruce murmurs to the man he'd once considered his soulmate, until Harvey's soul had twisted and split into something - someone - unrecognizable.

"Fuck you," Harvey whispers, blinking rapidly. "Don't you dare die."

"Flip ya for it," Bruce chuckles weakly. Harvey flings his coin down the sewer grate.

Bruce lives.


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