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Let it be a reminder, Alfred had said, of this pain you are trying so hard to bury. Even you cannot shut yourself off from it, and I will not allow you to. Bruce hadn’t had the heart to tell him that he hadn’t needed the reminder. That there was an empty space lodged in his chest, the space where Jason should have been and no longer was, and that the pain had taken root there. Taken root and sprouted, its branches entwining with the pieces of himself that remained. There was no burying the pain because it lived there now, down in that hollow pit, and to pull it out would be to pry open his ribcage and see the emptiness within. In which Bruce still keeps the past on display, even as the present slips through his fingers.

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