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Alfred Pennyworth ([personal profile] flippin_peachy) wrote 2024-09-17 04:19 am (UTC)

[It's a fair question, one he might have asked himself if he were not consumed by grief and when Oswald brings it up he is silent for a long moment.]

Because much like you I've lost the most important thing in my life.

[His voice a low husk, the sound of fallen leaves scraping across the cold ground moments before the rain starts.]

Bruce was everything to me and as much as I want to just give up and follow him.....[His jaw trembles on the last few words and he swallows a lump in his throat.]

I can't.
I can't because I know it's not what he would have wanted, which means I have to find something to live for, something that will inspire me to get out of bed in the morning, something that will give me the strength to keep going.

And that's you.

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