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Things that cannot be explained away: bloodshot eyes, six-second counts for every inhale and exhale, and the fact that he cannot walk through his own Cave without flinching at the sound of the bats roosting above him.
(or, Bruce Wayne grits his teeth through seven doses of Scarecrow's fear toxin and deperately pretends to be okay around the Batfamily)
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AAAAAAHH THIS WAS SO WELL WRITTEN AND EE I LOVEDDDDDDDDD WILL READ AGAIN
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“I’ve heard you scream two times in your life,” Alfred starts awkwardly. “Scream. Not shout. Once, when you first encountered the toxin, and second--”
“When Jason died,” Bruce finishes for him.
... “Yes,” Alfred says, shaken. “In your sleep. When your mind couldn’t take it anymore.”
Maybe you need to scream, Bruce thinks. It’s a silly thought, easily dismissed. Jason’s gash of a mouth bubbles over in pink saliva; without looking, Bruce clears the bloody foam and the broken teeth from his airway...
Dick had clawed and screamed himself senseless; Bruce had done the same. The only difference was he’d limited it in his own mind.