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He’s not going to be just another victim
He’s not, he’s not
He hasn’t gone through all the shit life threw at him; hasn’t suffered and pushed himself to the furthest limits he is capable of; he hasn’t sweated and cried and bled for this to be his fucking end
He promised himself, he swore he was never gonna end up back in a place like this; at the mercy of a being that’s more monster than man, one that has enjoyed every second of enflicting this misery on him
He got out-
He got out-
He’s Robin-
Robin isn’t a victim, Robin helps victims; he isn’t one, he can’t be one-
He refuses to become a victim again. He can’t, he can’t, he can’t
He shouldn’t be another of Joker’s victims. He couldn't.
To be just one more number in the huge tally of that monster’s record-
He has to endure, he has to last
Five more minutes and Bruce will be here. Just five , and he’ll be found. He’ll be...he’ll be rescued , saved. His dad will save him, like he did before.
But he has to get to the door; has to make a last effort, before he can rest.
Rest will come after . Rest and warmth and safety. He’ll be safe. He’ll be home.
He'll be home.
Blankets and hot chocolate and hugs
it’s so close
i can feel them
their warmth, their care
He just has to keep pushing. One step. Drag the foot. Fall. Try to stand up. Crawl. Crawl. Keep crawling. Everything, anything to get out.
dad, i’m so close
I'm so close but it hurts so much
There’s a sharp sound. Rhythmic. Repetitive. Get to the door first. Crawl. He’s closer, he’s so close.
Everything hurts. He feels things moving, shifting. Things that shouldn’t move around. Skin and bones and muscle. Breathe. Breathe and crawl. Almost there, alm-
it’s closed.
no no no no no no nonononONO
He has to get out, he has to get out
he can’t die here, he won´t die here, won’t become one more in thousands of casualities in this fucking GAME Joker’s been playing for decades
He won’t
he won’t be
just
another
victim
This can’t be his end, he’s better than this, he trained to exhaustion to be better than this
-robin is magic-
He’s broken and bloody and in so much pain
Bruce has to help him, he has to
He’ll be here, any minute now.
Three more minutes, right? Then i can rest.
That noise. It keeps happening. Over and over and over and over, like... like a clock-
or a countdown
There’s a bomb, of course there’s a fucking bomb.
Less than a minute.
He’s got less than a minute now, and he-
-robin gives me magic, robin is hope- he has to have hope-
He won’t become a victim
hope, hope, hope, hope-
dad will save me
He is not-
he is not
i will not be-
peep-peep-peep-peeppeeppeeppeeppeeppeeppeep-
Oh.
I will.