A Fair Price
by TwinEnigma
Warnings for chapter: none
12.
Many years passed.
One day, a man came to meet the lonely prince.
"Do I know you, sir?" the prince asked. "You seem familiar."
The man smiled.
It's strange when it happens and, at first, Bruce doesn't know what it means. One shadow lingers a little too long behind him one night. Then it's two nights, three nights, and he wonders if he's imagining it. Maybe he's finally losing his mind.
But then the others start mentioning fleeting glimpses of a shadow, something that lingers too long in their periphery, and he wonders.
Could it be that Dick's finally forgiven him?
Bruce hopes so. He's missed him so much because things were better when Dick was here - he was better and the world was right. There's so much he wants to say, to apologize for.
But, he has to wait, let Dick approach him.
He doesn't want to scare him off.
At last, he finally spots him: an inky silhouette of a grown man against the darkness. For a moment, he thinks the man is too big, but then he recalls how long it's been and that Dick is no longer a teenager.
"You haven't lost your touch," the man says and vanishes.
It's Dick, it has to be.
And then the bodies start to appear.