TITLE: Close Enough
AUTHOR: Alison
DISCLAIMER: I don't own the Bat or the Bird. DC Comics does and they don't always do right by the boys but they own them. I'm not making any money off of this venture, which is really too bad. No copyright infringment is intended.
This was part of the 150 word challenge that was issues a while back. I took the premise- that you had to start the story with one of the given lines- and ran with it.
The explosion was fierce and unexpected. It threw him across the room but his cape caught on a jagged piece of something, the force jerking him outof orbit. It swung him to the right, slamming him into a pillar with a resounding *thwack*.
He felt them crack. Hell, he HEARD them crack, all those little bones necessary for living. He felt suddenly heavy and like he was breathing water. Not good.
He moved his arm and his whole body ached. The urge to lay back and sleep was harder to ignore. His mind begged for a reason to get up, to get moving, but his body kept finding more for him to stay down.
He coughed, covering his mouth, and his gloved hand came away speckled in blood. Black spots darted in front of his eyes. Wait, not spots... fingers. Black gloved fingers. Then a face, blurry.
"Batman...?"
"Not quite, little bro. But close enough."
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The End