I have to apologize guys, I have a huge writer's block. This is really short, I'm trying to get around it. Enjoy!
Disclaimer: Do not own Bane or any TDKR related content. Kali Blake is mine.
Kali had managed to somewhat fix the shower. The heated water came in spurts every other ten seconds. It was better than nothing. Today she didn't mind the cold shocks at all. She had a small smile on her face.
She dressed in some clean clothing and went into the bedroom, where Bane was still napping, tangled in the sheets. She crawled over him, resting her arms on his chest and her chin on her folded arms, looking at him as he blinked back sleepily. He reached for a strand of her damp hair and smelled it, smiling himself.
"Peppermint. My favorite." He murmured.
He slipped his mask back into place, and then gently stroked the side of her face. She put her head on his chest, listening to the steady beat of his heart.
A while later Kali got up and stretched. She was tired but she didn't want to sleep. 6 days and counting.
"I'm going to get some food. I'll be right back." She said, pulling on her coat.
"Not without me you're not." Bane replied, sitting up instantly.
"Oh please. Have I not proven to you I can fend for myself?" Kali teased, rolling her eyes at him.
He pinned her with a heavy stare, and she laughed. She actually laughed. For the first time in months. He smirked as he got up and pulled his clothing on, including the heavy armored vest he wore at all times. Kali groaned as they got to the front door.
"I'm so tired of snow." She growled, glaring at the heavy flakes that were falling outside.
They wandered along the streets together, ignoring any panicked stares they got from civilians. Kali found, as she had suspected, her bag of groceries from the day previous was gone. Bane and she explored numerous stores, but found a lack of any real food, just old bread, expired chips, etc.
"Well... we could always go back to where I've been staying. I have some food there." Bane murmured, wondering if he should chance it. Talia might be there. That would be interesting.
"Better than nothing." Kali replied, her stomach snarling in agreement.
Down under the city they went, into the vast cavern, now with a hole in the ceiling where the Bat's weapons had been. Bane moved to the area he had been staying in, and pulled the cooler box out from under his bed. He had very few pouches of food left. Not that it mattered. He held one full of fruit up to Kali, who raised an eyebrow but made no comment as she took it.
They ate in silence, yet there was always a wave of heavy electricity between them. Magnetic. Bane couldn't take his eyes off her. The cold had never suited her, he noted. She had lost the glow from the summer, and she looked exhausted. Her demons had been eating her alive.
When they were finished they went back to explore the city more, to find what they could to last til the end. Kali stopped at one of the many clothing department stores, in search of a heavier coat and some clothes in better shape than the few she owned. She found suitable items and changed as Bane kept watch. Even if he was the leader of the chaos that had taken Gotham, everyone had gotten to the point that it did not matter who you were. If they could kill you, they would.
Together they traveled the streets, silent and crisp from the heavy falling snow. The city was only a shadow now, a skeleton made so brittle the slightest breath would break it to dust. Their cause was already complete. Now, the only thing left was the final breath that would wipe clean the city of shadows.
Bane looked to Kali, who looked at the city around her curiously. But that was all it was. Empty curiosity. Bane felt something, deep down inside, something he had never quite experienced before. Regret. He had reached for her, for Kali, the light in his ever-present dark. He had never intended to bring her down into the dark with him. Then again, he supposed, it was not so lonely there in the dark with her beside him.
Part of him would always wonder what life they could have had. What if. His conscious was ever cruel to him most days.
Bane's obligation, his love, for Talia had brought him here. But what love was it, between two old friends, that would remove Bane from a life he could have called his own?
Kali caught his stare and blinked, uncomfortable under the trouble in his gaze. She wanted no more confrontation with Bane. Only peace, and what little remnants of joy she could get before the end. Kali missed Harley, and hoped he was being as spoiled as she had always done to him.
They walked quietly back to Kali's apartment, and sat at the large floor-to-ceiling window, watching the snow cover everything.
They were bored, they were tired. Yet they had each other, for the final days of their lives, and that was all they needed to keep going. To the end. Death was waiting.
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