Maria Helena Grayson (crossbow_bat) wrote in dc_nextgen,
@ 2012-12-16 23:14:00

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Working out (Open to Thomas)
Maria was in the gym at Wayne Manor taking her frustrations out on the heavy bag. Fists pounded the bag, each strike harder than the last. Anger fueled her punches. Her hands were hurting, even though they were taped up, but she didn't seem to notice. She would pay for it later, but right now the bag would pay.

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	crossbow_bat 2012-12-31 12:08 am UTC (link)
	Maria nodded. "He usually keeps them from arguing too much. It's the glare. They're not immune to it." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	cantkeepmeout 2013-01-02 01:50 am UTC (link)
	"Nobody is one hundred percent immune. Some of us just get good at resisting it." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	crossbow_bat 2013-01-02 02:03 am UTC (link)
	"I need to get better at that. I cave in practically two-seconds." Maria shook her head. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	cantkeepmeout 2013-01-02 02:30 am UTC (link)
	"I could glare at you for practice but unless I go stick on the cowl it's not going to be even close to the same." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	crossbow_bat 2013-01-02 02:32 am UTC (link)
	"I appreciate the thought, but Bruce is the one whose glare I can't stand up to." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	cantkeepmeout 2013-01-02 02:42 am UTC (link)
	"If I'm really set on something I glare back, that usually helps immunity but practice makes perfect and all. Anyway, most of the big heroes cave like wet cardboard boxes to that glare, you do better than them." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	crossbow_bat 2013-01-02 11:45 pm UTC (link)
	"I can't keep a straight face long enough to glare back. It's just impossible." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	cantkeepmeout 2013-01-03 12:07 am UTC (link)
	Thomas can't help but chuckle. "Very true, but laughing works just as well sometimes." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	crossbow_bat 2013-01-03 01:47 am UTC (link)
	"Very true," Maria said. "One time I made faces at Bruce while he glared. It was the only time I was able to resist." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	cantkeepmeout 2013-01-03 02:00 am UTC (link)
	"See? Makes the whole thing ridiculous if you laugh at the glare or roll your eyes or make faces. Besides, the glare is better in the cowl and he knows it." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	crossbow_bat 2013-01-03 03:09 am UTC (link)
	"It is," she said. "Speaking of the cowl, when are you going to step into it?" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	cantkeepmeout 2013-01-03 03:44 am UTC (link)
	Damn her ability for awkward questions. Yes, he'd promise he'd talk to Bruce a while ago, and fine, he hadn't still but...that took a different type of bravery than jumping into a warehouse full of armed thugs. "...When you build up a resistance to the bat glare. Or I suck it up and ask him for it or something kicks me into gear to do that. Whatever comes first?" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	crossbow_bat 2013-01-03 10:42 pm UTC (link)
	"No," Maria said firmly. "You promised that you would talk to Bruce. No strings attached and no conditions. So you have to talk to him without it being contingent on anything that I do or don't do." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	cantkeepmeout 2013-01-03 11:47 pm UTC (link)
	There's some muttered grumbling but she was totally right. He just wasn't going to admit that. "Fine. Be practical." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	crossbow_bat 2013-01-04 12:14 am UTC (link)
	"Fine. I will." She laughed and kissed his cheek. "I don't think Bruce will object to you wearing the cowl." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	cantkeepmeout 2013-01-04 08:39 am UTC (link)
	There's a huff and what is very much not a pout in response to her laughing. Then a long pause. "It's not that. I just...want to be good enough." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	crossbow_bat 2013-01-04 07:12 pm UTC (link)
	"Look at it this way. If Bruce is fine with it, then you know you're good enough. If he isn't, then you have some work to do. We both know that in the end it's his opinion that matters." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	cantkeepmeout 2013-01-04 11:00 pm UTC (link)
	Well, she could certainly put it concisely. "Yeah...it is." He can't help the self-deprecating chuckle that escapes. "It's always his opinion that matters the most for all of us huh?" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	crossbow_bat 2013-01-04 11:53 pm UTC (link)
	"Yep. Just suck it up, Buttercup. It's how life is for us." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	cantkeepmeout 2013-01-04 11:56 pm UTC (link)
	"If misery loves company I guess suckers do too. It's the Bat life." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	crossbow_bat 2013-01-05 12:48 am UTC (link)
	"We should make it our motto," Maria joked. "Honestly, I think Bruce will be okay with you being the Bats. Call it a gut feeling." A pause. "Or it's indigestion. It's a toss up." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	cantkeepmeout 2013-01-05 01:05 am UTC (link)
	"I didn't choose the Bat life. The Bat life chose me." "The confidence you inspire in me in your instincts is truly remarkable some days," he deadpans back. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	crossbow_bat 2013-01-05 01:36 am UTC (link)
	"Does anyone actually choose the Bat Life?" A pause. "That sounds like the title to some really bad reality show. Maria did the only thing she could. She stuck her tongue out at him. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	cantkeepmeout 2013-01-05 01:49 am UTC (link)
	"Oh I'm sure someone out there could make a bad reality show about us. Seems like something you'd be ideal for," he teases in response to the sticking out of tongues. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	crossbow_bat 2013-01-05 01:53 am UTC (link)
	"I'm made for the camera," Maria said flashing him a smile. "It'll love me. Besides, I would love to have a bunch of fanboys to play with." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)