Let's end this spiral down, pick ourselves off the ground [W5, Sunday]

[hydrokinetics]

[It's early evening when the Bounty group gathers again. There's more to discuss now that they've had time to cope and pick themselves up again, ready to get back to work. Time is still marching on and it's nothing that they can waste.

Together again, they settle. The room is quiet for a time as they all gather their thoughts. With everything that came up this weekend? They need a new plan of action.]

Comments

[bittybat]

I'm not throwing it away. There were no other options. There still aren't any other options unless we find a way to end this non-lethally.

It was the surest way to bring the Deputy out of hiding. I'm done risking the lives of everyone else on top of watching them die every week. Something had to be done.

[Who sounds like Bruce? This lil dude.]

[impulsiveness]

[HE SURE DOES SOUND LIKE BRUCE. And that just makes Jason even sadder, honestly. He doesn't have enough energy to argue about this properly, so he settles for


flicking him on the nose.

And then signing: You sound just like him.

No need to clarify who "he" is. Also—

If they killed you and you came back, you'd still have to kill them to end the game. It'd be pointless unless you're willing to do that. We don't have a Plan B.

Someone get Bruce Wayne to punch through space and time to save them, honestly.......]

[bittybat]

[?????????????

Don't flick him on the nose!! He reaches up to rub it, brows and nose wrinkling. Leave him alone.] I'm not him. [It's said quiet, and with a lot of self-deprecation. Looks like Jason isn't the only one who thinks Bruce's boots are too big to fill.]

We could have at least had them apprehended.

[impulsiveness]

[He'll flick him on the nose all he wants. It's his right as.......... technically Damian's big brother? That is still weird to think about. It's not like Bruce even sees him as his son, right? Right. Anyway, that gets him to furrow his brows at him. Only one of them is allowed to be self-deprecating, dumb.

Which is why he signs: No. But you're on the right track.

Closer than Jason will ever be, anyway. He's apparently doomed to rise from the grave and become a murderer, so. Damian's doing well by default.

How? Sheriff would let them out. Or make the game continue until they die.]

[bittybat]

[Damian frowns. Jason isn't wrong.

Game, he signs. Give them show. Remember? Only thing important. Killers not Deputy.

Deputy stopped. Killers alive. Murder. He looks away and, after a moment or two, looks back. Father.

He find way. Always.]