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035 [audio]

I guess that could have been worse.

Anyone up for doing something?

[Private to Tim]

So now I have a stuffed elephant in my room.

[Private to Wally]

You seriously didn't know I was seven years younger then you?

[Private to Hayley]

I know this is going to sound weird, but thanks for lying about knowing my dad. Seriously. It was really nice to hear.

[Private to Mal]

[Dick was seriously considering just... pretending all that didn't happen. But. He was raised to be polite.]

I just wanted to say thanks again.

[Private to Bruce]

[The feed clicks on to this song playing with maybe some Dick is thoroughly amused by how clever he is chuckling in the background.]

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[Dick doesn't say anything about Hoffman as he goes to retrieve the ball, bouncing it on the table once before serving it to Steph.]

What makes you say that?

[ She hits back, again, harder than necessary, but now she's got the aim to go with it. ]

Because the whole damn barge must know by now what a jackass he was. If heartfelt confessions come up, nobody will be surprised by 'I hate you'.

Considering people's backstories here? I don't think anyone would have been surprised anyway.

I just hate that I didn't have a choice in the matter.

In what, your family?

In showing people my past.

Half the barge-- hell, Hoffman even knows--

[ She's hitting harder now. ]

I haven't been afraid of him in a very, very long time.

[And he's keeping up, because she's right, this kind of sucked.]

Yeah, this one was kind of a real head trip.

I'm not sure what the inmates are supposed to have learned from all that.

I don't know, maybe some of them had never had to deal with kids before and figured out they could handle taking care of someone else pretty okay if they had to. That's sort of a big deal.

A lot of them didn't even try.

But the ones who did might have learned something.

I hope so, because I'm just about sick of these stupid floods.

[Dick somehow manages to shrug while hitting the ball back towards her.] It's part of the job.

[ Now she steps up her game, aiming for the corner of the table in the hopes that he'll trip up and miss it. ]

I liked my old job better.

[Dick frowns a little.] Well, can't blame you there.

So, are we still gonna do training at night? Because I'm not talking to Tim. I mean, I can train with him without talking to him, but I'm not talking to him.

What happened now?

Nothing new, I just refuse to talk to him until he realizes why he's such a hypocrite.

Hm.

How's Blonsky?

I haven't heard from him in a while, but my item hasn't gone off or anything so I guess he's okay.

You ever find out why he dropped dead during Rex's escape attempt?

Not a thing. Any ideas?

I got a little distracted when I realized Tim took a bullet to the shoulder, not to mention trying to damage control as much as possible after the fact.

I had a similar problem, only with less consciousness.

[ Her left hand itches to get in on the game, but she just flexes and stretches it instead, wondering how long she needs to pretend that it's broken before people forget about it. ]

You guys never talked about it afterwards?

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