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that's what family does

[It's a risk, using that word, but she really does mean it.

Dick is family.]

i did, yeah. not a lot, but i figured you'd want a change of clothes and stuff.

[ he doesn't deserve that. he never has, not from Steph.

it's one of those moments where he's really glad text is a function on these devices. ]

even though i said I wasn’t coming ?

[The lack of response on that particular part worries her, but she won't push it.]

i asked around at the hold and someone matching your description was said to be on the ship, so i figured you'd been taken up

thanks

[ he should say more, he knows that. that it means something that she'd thought of it, even though it says too how much she really really never believed in him.

but who could blame her anyway? ]

i just wanted to do the right thing

i know. he'd be proud of you for not giving up.

[Not like she did.

She thinks of what Helena tried to do, making Steph hate her, to give her something to compare herself to, and she realizes she's trying to offer something similar to Dick.

She doesn't want him to hate her, though.]

[ he wants to believe that. he wants it so badly it hurts, because Batman isn't here and hearing it from someone else; from Steph - is all there is. and they do share something, they share Batman even if he doesn't want to imagine that. ]

no he wouldn't
he'd ground me cause i couldn't find a way after all

[She's usually the first in line to think Bruce is too much of a hardass, but...]

he'd understand, dick. don't beat yourself up over this, please.

maybe he would

[ but even as he’s typing that he doesn’t know that it’s true anymore.

he doesn’t know anything anymore. ]

i walked right into it too.

you probably would have known better.

you trusted someone, that's not a bad thing