i love you, okay? not out of pity or survivor's guilt or whatever- i just love you for you. everything you do. and i'm never leaving, not unless you want me to.
his eyes are genuine, as they always are, almost convincing barbara that she had been the best thing that ever happened to him. but the small fraction of her ( the realist side ) denies it.
at this rate, i’m just a glorified operator.
she misses being OUT THERE ---- in gotham, in the suit, accompanied by him and bruce and everyone else. things had been good then. now she doubts dick grayson. she goes great length to avoid the care he and the rest of the family has to offer her, because she doesn’t want the pity. and no matter how much he’d insist it isn’t so, there’s something rooted in him that feels the need to PROTECT HER.
her own words are like daggers to her ears. ❝ i need time, dick. to be alone.❞
