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Keep Breathing, I can’t do this alone by The1eldritchapple
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, DCU (Comics)
25 Apr 2023
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He’s eight years old and he screams for his favourite person, meeting his eyes for a moment, and he is scared and he would have seen that Alfred was too, if not for the shot ringing on the street.
If not for Bruce being too shocked at seeing him fall, the body hitting the ground dry, not like he did when he faked being shot by Bruce. dramatic and prolongated.
He fell like a duck being shot from the sky, one moment you see it flying, above and swift and then-
bang!
“Alfred-!”
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“What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: 'This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more' ... Would you not throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse the demon who spoke thus? Or have you once experienced a tremendous moment when you would have answered him: 'You are a god and never have I heard anything more divine.”-Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science