The only thing left to do is run, and Jason wastes three of those seconds frozen still, caught between the choice to fly upward and out or to go deeper into Rapture.
Either way requires a bathysphere.
Seven seconds.
Jason takes off at a dead run. He can't get lower, but he can get further away, and however brilliant the Batman might be, he doesn't know this underground world like Jason does. Jason might not make it to a bathysphere, but he can make it into hiding. Stolen time might be the only advantage he has.
He trusts only his own two hands and feet, uses no tricks or tools that Bruce might hear and track, running swift and silent through the Welcome Pavilion for the greater chaos of Medical. He thinks, briefly, about screaming for Bucky, and thinks right after that Bucky hadn't come home last night.
He hadn't come home, and Bruce is here, and the trade is so cruel in its symmetry that Jason finds he'll scream after all, running sloppy and hard through the endless echo.
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The only thing left to do is run, and Jason wastes three of those seconds frozen still, caught between the choice to fly upward and out or to go deeper into Rapture.
Either way requires a bathysphere.
Seven seconds.
Jason takes off at a dead run. He can't get lower, but he can get further away, and however brilliant the Batman might be, he doesn't know this underground world like Jason does. Jason might not make it to a bathysphere, but he can make it into hiding. Stolen time might be the only advantage he has.
He trusts only his own two hands and feet, uses no tricks or tools that Bruce might hear and track, running swift and silent through the Welcome Pavilion for the greater chaos of Medical. He thinks, briefly, about screaming for Bucky, and thinks right after that Bucky hadn't come home last night.
He hadn't come home, and Bruce is here, and the trade is so cruel in its symmetry that Jason finds he'll scream after all, running sloppy and hard through the endless echo.