Tony looked up for a second then back down to his own coffee. “Don’t see your name on it. Seems like were in a public place where anyone can sit.”  

“Excuse me,” Dr. Knight coughed, pointing to the now occupied seat in front of him. Placing his order of pure black coffee in the middle of the table, he gave the stranger a squinted glare. “You seem to have confused my seat for your own.”

Tony wasn’t really paying attention to the conversation that was happening around him, until he heard a girl shout. Looking up he raised his eyebrow. “You heard the girl, I’d back away now.”  He moved his blazer slightly to show his police grade weapon. Not a complete threat, but a shadow of one to the man. 

            Cassandra had always thought it ill to speak poorly of the dead, but even more so when it concerned the Batman. People were ungrateful and cruel and – “Hey,” she barked at her perpetrator, “you don’t talk about him that way!”

His jaw stiffened when she spoke. Yes, when the the going got tough he ran. he always had. Still the tension sat in his jaw not quite answering her. He didn’t want her knowing about Allison. Worried that if she really was alive - if the joker wasn’t just playing him like a pawn - that the woman across from him would kill her. 

He wasn’t in love with Allison, no that was to simple and honestly to cliched. He didn’t love the girl he’d saved. He just felt the urge to protect her. The only sympathy he seemed to have had was lodged deep into the girl who got pulled from the fire. Love wouldn’t describe that.  “My mother. He threatened my mother.” 

It was a lie. A no good lie - he could see in her face that she wasn’t going to believe him, but he saw her move towards the girl. 

“Arachne no. Don’t.” His and went out as she went nearer to the mayor’s daughter. His hand taking the gun off of the table before moving closer.  “Okay. Okay. Just - put the acid away. Please. See I have the gun. Just don’t - not like that.”  He desperately tried to find away out of this wehre the girl could live. He wanted so badly to save her. Just like he’d tried to save Allison, but instead he put the gun next to her chest. 

“I’m not going to let you kill her like that, Arachne. Damn it.” 

A cold chuckle escaped her carefully painted lips. Leave? Her? She wouldn’t run, she wouldn’t hide. If she needed, she’d make the kill herself, perhaps that would count as a task at least halfway done; still better than nothing at all. “Is that what you do when the situation gets worse? Run?” Her face grew more serious as she turned to the unconscious girl, her gaze lingering around her for a little bit longer. Soon she’ll start waking up, and it’s going to be another problem to solve. Worst comes to worst, there was his gun not far away.. Arachne was fast enough to grab it, if anything. 

“Who did he threaten?” Arms wrapping around her rib cage, eyes narrowing in question, she turned to him with a slightly reproachful expression. The woman seemed collected and calm, without a single sign of humor in her, which might have looked a little off, if not very much so for a person used to her sharp grin. “Tell me. Who. did. he. threaten.” 

He wasn’t going to do it — he didn’t have it in him, and it was going to be his death. She stepped closer to the girl, moving a silky thread away from her face. Arachne saw her fingertips moving, a sigh escaping her pale lips. “I have to make sure you take the shot. If you won’t, I will peel her skin off till you make the mercy kill.”

“You’re talking about the woman who has acid touch, doll. I once put a password lock on my phone and she burned through the phone because she got angry. So no I don’t hide unimportant things.” 

"Ooooo Tony, why does Arachne know where your condoms are? You seem to be contradicting yourself~"

“Because she’s a snoop. And goes through my things.” 

"Ooooo Tony, why does Arachne know where your condoms are? You seem to be contradicting yourself~"

“Because she’s a snoop. And goes through my things.” 

what kind of sex parties are you throwing that you need three boxes of condoms

“I have four younger brothers who find it amusing to try and frame me when they come into town with my very Catholic mother.” 

“I keep them mostly to piss off Arachne.” 

“Dove, I have at least three boxes next to my bed stand.” 

“The point is we haven’t slept together, not if I passed health class.” 

YOU DONT HAVE TO BE DATING TO GET SOMEONE PREGNANT

“Someone missed the point.” 

YOU DONT HAVE TO BE DATING TO GET SOMEONE PREGNANT

“Someone missed the point.” 

daddy how are babies made

“When a man and a woman - “ The mic cuts off as Tony gestures. 

You got Arachne pregnant :/ Don't you know what condoms are

“No. I didn’t. We aren’t dating. ”

IM IN ARACHNE'S CAR VROOM VROOM! GET OUT ME CAR! aw

are you a car

arachne laid an egg sack and now u have a thousand babies how does that make u feel

“ I don’t think that’s how biology works.” 

daddy

“Really, Jesus Christ.” 

Your my dad.

“I’m sorry Billie Jean, but the kid is not my son.” 

“You’re probably looking for my brother.” 

Your my dad.

“I’m sorry Billie Jean, but the kid is not my son.” 

“You’re probably looking for my brother.” 

“Hey, that was different Arachne. I wasn’t saying you were mine, I was telling the son of a bitch that if he wanted to get a girl maybe not smell like he swam in a river of Axe.” 

“It was my obligation as a bystander to tell him that. Besides are you going to tell the class what happened when the waitress gave me her number.”  

When Tony looks at you he says "that MA WOMAN"

“..Well that’s not entirely true.”