Harvey Dent ([info]myownluck) wrote,
@ 2008-10-06 23:47:00
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Everyone's gone, now.

Gordon's gone, driven out by his own guilt and Harvey's -- Two-Face's -- rage.

The nurses are gone, knowing there's nothing they can do for him beside ensure that his restraints are fastened tightly, and hope he decides to make use of the morphine drip.

Rachel's gone. Rachel's -- his other half, dead, burned, ashes. Like his coin, there with her, like himself.

Everyone's gone. And everything. And all he has now is this hospital bed, and a scorched two-headed silver dollar, and half a face.

Two faces.



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[info]lastchancetorun
2008-10-07 04:36 am UTC (link)
Poor, poor Harvey Dent.

It took a lot of loud talk and yelling to get Judah past any sort of security and into the hospital room. Maybe even a few favors called in. But he got there.

And he's here now.

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[info]myownluck
2008-10-07 04:39 am UTC (link)
Maybe Harvey knows he's there. (Maybe not.)

If he does, though, he doesn't show it. Laying still, the burnt side of his face pressed against the pillow, his pain-ragged breathing is the only indication that he isn't sleeping.

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[info]lastchancetorun
2008-10-07 04:47 am UTC (link)
Judah will drag a chair closer to the bed and sit down. Maybe he'll turn on the television. Have some ABC Family background, Harvey. "Tell me what you're feeling."

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[info]myownluck
2008-10-07 04:58 am UTC (link)
In.

And out.

In.

And out.

Don't say a word. Maybe if you just lay here, he'll go away.

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[info]lastchancetorun
2008-10-07 04:59 am UTC (link)
He so will not, Harvey. He so won't. He may turn up the tv, though. Oh look.

Step by Step.

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[info]myownluck
2008-10-07 05:32 am UTC (link)
You know, that really isn't doing much to help his impressionable fractured psyche. Harvey groans, and presses his face into the pillow. And groans again, with pain. "Go away."

Please. Just leave him be.

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[info]lastchancetorun
2008-10-07 05:33 am UTC (link)
Well, maybe he'll be impressed into a scarred sitcom dad instead of a killer. "Nope. No can do. Morphine?"

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[info]myownluck
2008-10-07 05:46 am UTC (link)
But he'd need a wife. ;o@

"No."

He turns, pulling away from the pillow (and leaving little blackened bits behind) to snarl at Judah. "Go. Away."

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[info]lastchancetorun
2008-10-07 05:48 am UTC (link)
Oh, Harvey. He doesn't even flinch. Is that weird? That's totally weird. Maybe he's high. "Hm. No. They offer you a graft for that?"

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[info]myownluck
2008-10-07 01:47 pm UTC (link)
"I don't want one."

Oookaaay.

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[info]lastchancetorun
2008-10-07 02:09 pm UTC (link)
"Why the hell not?"

Weirdo.

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[info]myownluck
2008-10-07 02:16 pm UTC (link)
He closes his eyes. Eye. But he can still see through the other one, blurry and distorted. "I told you once. The name they had for me back at Internal Affairs..."

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[info]lastchancetorun
2008-10-07 02:38 pm UTC (link)
He snorts. "Oh, for christ's sake. Harvey. They didn't mean it literally."

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[info]myownluck
2008-10-07 02:45 pm UTC (link)
"Well, they can now." His jaw is set. He's not going to get talked out of this. (Really. He's not.) "The inside on the outside. I'm just not hiding it anymore."

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[info]lastchancetorun
2008-10-07 02:49 pm UTC (link)
"What are you going to do now?"

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[info]myownluck
2008-10-07 03:26 pm UTC (link)
What is he going to do now?

Beside heal, strapped here to this bed, while the Batman and the Joker burn this city to the same ashes they burned Rachel to? Beside let his rage fester, and maybe, maybe, when he gets out --

"I don't know."

It might not have been a lie before. It's starting to become one, now.

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[info]lastchancetorun
2008-10-07 08:30 pm UTC (link)
Oh, Harvey. "I don't believe you."

Not one little bit.

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[info]myownluck
2008-10-07 10:17 pm UTC (link)
He doesn't?

The look he gives Judah is annoyed and puzzled. He wasn't lying that badly, was he? Was he lying at all?

"Why?" Nnngh, so much effort to talk.

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[info]lastchancetorun
2008-10-07 10:20 pm UTC (link)
"Because the hurt her, they killed her, and I know you. I know you won't let that rest, Harvey." So. "So. I don't believe you."

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[info]myownluck
2008-10-08 12:17 am UTC (link)
It's like a punch to the gut. A reminder, an affirmation by someone else that this is all real.

He breathes out, hard, eye closing again. "What do you want me to say?"

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[info]lastchancetorun
2008-10-08 12:18 am UTC (link)
It's fairly brutal, he knows. "I want you to tell me what you want to do."

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[info]myownluck
2008-10-08 12:55 am UTC (link)
Maybe if he tells him, he'll be horrified and go away. (He doubts it.) Maybe if he tells him, he'll --

"I want to kill them. All of them."

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[info]lastchancetorun
2008-10-08 12:56 am UTC (link)
This? This is not Judah's horrified face. "Who? Specifically?"

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[info]myownluck
2008-10-08 01:13 am UTC (link)
That's... more encouraging than disturbing. He should be worried about that, right? "Anyone involved." Involved in what should be obvious. "Gordon. Wertz. The Joker. Batman."

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[info]lastchancetorun
2008-10-08 01:16 am UTC (link)
Of course you shouldn't be.

That's pretty close you're leaning there, Judah. "Who put you in the closet? How far would this have gotten if not for that?"

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[info]myownluck
2008-10-08 01:26 am UTC (link)
This close, Harvey smells... like bbq turkey leg not very pleasant, really. Char and infection and hospital-smell. "Wayne." He's pretty sure. "Wayne. Gordon and his dirty cops. Maroni. The Joker. Batman..."

A nice little list is forming, in his head. Ideas are cementing. Kill them all. Make them pay.

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[info]lastchancetorun
2008-10-08 01:29 am UTC (link)
Judah's smelled worse things. (Well. Jonathan's smelled worse things. Judah is not his brother.) "Who else? Go back further." Kill them all, Harvey. Burn them alive. It's fair, right?

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[info]myownluck
2008-10-08 01:40 am UTC (link)
He hisses. Who else was involved in this terrible chain of events? Who else hurt her? Who else -- He looks at Judah, and there's at least one obvious answer. "Your brother."

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[info]lastchancetorun
2008-10-08 01:44 am UTC (link)
"No big loss if he's gone, now is it? Who would miss him?" But. "You can't do anything like this, Harvey. Looking like his. Being like this. You have to hide what you are. You understand?"

Like Judah does.

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[info]myownluck
2008-10-08 01:50 am UTC (link)
Harvey looks at Judah.

Really, really looks at him.

And he understands. He understands.

And he nods. "Will you help me?"

Edited at 2008-10-08 01:50 am UTC

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[info]lastchancetorun
2008-10-08 01:54 am UTC (link)
"You're my patient." And his friend. "Of course. I will."

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[info]myownluck
2008-10-08 03:53 am UTC (link)
Something like a smile stretches across Harvey's lips, what remain of them, and he reaches up, as far as his safety restraints will allow. Moving to take Judah's hand.

Okay.

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[info]lastchancetorun
2008-10-08 03:58 am UTC (link)
Oh, that's an interesting grin on Judah's face there. Quick, someone get Mr Dent some grafts?

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[info]myownluck
2008-10-08 04:09 am UTC (link)
They won't be able to do much before there's that nasty bomb threat and Gotham General is evacuated, but with Judah's assistance, Harvey is safely moved to another hospital and the operations can start within the week?

Thank goodness for Judah Stark. Who knows what would have happened if he hadn't talked Harvey back from the brink?

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