· CALL ME OUT (AUTUMN) ·

[hobbitholmes]

🎃 AUTUMN

it's a highway
highway to the dark
and a neon medusa
has got YOUR HEART

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[pussywhipping]

Sharp enough to catch the motion and the symbol a wide and fierce grin broke across her face. She lunged at the passenger unarmed now as he was and grabbed him by the collar with one hand, yanking the door open with the other to spill him onto the street. Her movements were quick and precise, a boot to his temple sent the man off to a deep sleep without killing him.

She crouched as the driver panicked and scrambled with numb fingers to grab his weapon again. She grabbed the door frame and the roof and swung a kick into the car that sent him into the window beside him. A spiderweb of fractured glass radiated out from the impact but only a little blood. Another one down but not dead, she was pretty sure.

Selena extracted herself and hopped up to the roof of the car, to perch there on the balls of her feet and both hands looking into the shadows for the bat benefactor that held watch over the city. It didn't take her long to spot him, feline curl to her lips until she realized the outline was all wrong. Too broad, too...boxy.

She jumped down and click lacked her way over to him eyes narrowed in observation and wariness. "New town, new bat." She murmured. "Pity, I was just getting to like the old one."

[menarebrave]

"I can't say this is unusual."

The fact was that aliens existed. Amazonians, Atlanteans, Metahumans. The concept of reality slipping and another version of himself, or even someone he knew, was hardly as mind bending as it would have been a few years ago. His mind sometimes struggled to remind itself that this was all reality now and again. That hardly meant that reality wasn't what it was.

A younger Catwoman. It brought back certain memories better left tucked away.

"The man inside the car--he's not dead, is he?"

[pussywhipping]

"Unusual isn't what it used to be."

He might be taking this all in stride but she was looking over him so critically. That jawline was something else, and the suit looked like armor more than a symbol. Much like Gotham, the man was more utilitarian in appearance. This place was not her Gotham but he fit in just fine.

Older, more gruff and grizzled than the man she knew but as soon as he asked the question she had to laugh at his similarity.

"No, I toy with my prey a while first."

[menarebrave]

"You shouldn't prey them at all." The Bat gives a frown of disapproval -- perhaps one she is used to. Regardless, he takes those last few strides over towards the car and looks inside it. "You're new in town, aren't you? My town. This Gotham."

[pussywhipping]

"Please, these guys hurt people. Innocent people. If anyone deserves it it's them." Give her that look all you want, she's still not cowering.

"I get the feeling I'm old and all of this is new. My Gotham doesn't look like this at all, but I still knew where I was." Weird right?