I was fucked up long before B got his hands on me.
( not like it's a secret. and it's not as if tim wasn't, either. hell, they've all got that in common, don't they? all aside from dick. they were all fuckups, broken in their own way before they'd put on the R and started following around batman. bruce should have been more supportive. his support should have been more than just "firing" his kids when their shit got to be too much to handle. or outright telling them they're broken. who the hell even does that without doing it to intentionally fuck people over? bruce wayne, apparently.
but that's not on them, and not anything they really need to dig into either. tim knows, jason knows, they don't need to rehash their issues with bruce. )
It shouldn't've been on you to be better than me. It should've been on me to realize what an idiot I was being. I'm sorry I wasn't there to support you, to tell you I get it when shit got rough. When B was being an asshole, when Dick was too caught up in his own bullshit. To tell you it's okay to feel shit, an' to tell everyone to lay off when you were uncomfortable.
( he raises his head, but still isn't looking towards tim. focuses on the doorway instead, like he's - considering running out of it. )
I wasn't there for you then, but I'm gonna be now.
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( not like it's a secret. and it's not as if tim wasn't, either. hell, they've all got that in common, don't they? all aside from dick. they were all fuckups, broken in their own way before they'd put on the R and started following around batman. bruce should have been more supportive. his support should have been more than just "firing" his kids when their shit got to be too much to handle. or outright telling them they're broken. who the hell even does that without doing it to intentionally fuck people over? bruce wayne, apparently.
but that's not on them, and not anything they really need to dig into either. tim knows, jason knows, they don't need to rehash their issues with bruce. )
It shouldn't've been on you to be better than me. It should've been on me to realize what an idiot I was being. I'm sorry I wasn't there to support you, to tell you I get it when shit got rough. When B was being an asshole, when Dick was too caught up in his own bullshit. To tell you it's okay to feel shit, an' to tell everyone to lay off when you were uncomfortable.
( he raises his head, but still isn't looking towards tim. focuses on the doorway instead, like he's - considering running out of it. )
I wasn't there for you then, but I'm gonna be now.