"… Because if he's not coming, I see no point in keeping the boy alive!"
A voice came from the doorway, "If that's what you think of me Ra's, then you don't know me at all."
Ra's flung Wally towards the direction of the voice, and turned to see Batman helping the speedster to his feet. Batman pushed Wally towards the doorway, nodding at Zatanna to do the same, before he started walking towards Ra's, "Is this all because of Talia? You torture an innocent boy to the edge of his life for revenge? And revenge for no crime that I have committed?"
Ra's spat on the floor, "Innocent? Ah, I suppose you're still keeping up appearances in front of the unsuspecting audience," he motioned towards the now empty room, save for Dick still tied up unconscious. Wally and Zatanna had left, "but now you see, Detective, we're more or less alone. Drop the pretense," he said acidly.
Batman sighed, "Fine. Why did you take him Ra's? If you wanted me to atone for my apparent hand in your daughter's dissociation from your cause, you should have done this to me," he said, gesturing at Dick, "He… he has done nothing to you, Ra's. He doesn't deserve this."
Ra's smirked as he picked up two swords, tossing one to Batman, "The apple doesn't fall very far from the tree, Detective… It hurts, doesn't it, to see your child in such a state? Well, that is how is see my daughter!" he roared as he suddenly swung his sword at Batman. The clang of metal echoed about the room.
"Your daughter…" Batman grunted, as he parried Ra's' blows, "looks like that… only to you, Ra's, and… Dick…. Dick isn't my son. He's my ward."
Ra's took two steps back, "Oh, is that so? So he has no meaning to you then. Hm, a waste, then, keeping him alive." And he spun around and hurled the sword with pinpoint accuracy towards heart of the unconscious boy.
Batman turned and watched it fly through the air. He watched it bury itself into Dick's chest, and pass almost halfway through the chair behind it.
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