There are many here among us who feel that life is but a joke

[chiroptophobic]

WHO: Bruce Wayne and Ted Kord
WHERE: Residence 21, Heropa.
WHEN: After Ted's post
WHAT: Bruce drops in to make a business proposal, but it's probably really creepy bat stalking stuff actually
WARNINGS: Booster Gold's calendars.

[ At some point Bruce and Alfred might even move out of their government assigned residencies in Heropa, but for now their facade of cooperation depended on it. It worked. While it was in public, there was coming and going at all hours of the day, and Bruce could slip away easily enough.

Six doors down, Bruce - dressed in a hooded sweatshirt and slacks to blur into the neighborhood traffic - moved lightly up to the door and knocked, drawing back onto the bottom step and pressing his hands into his pockets.

This could be a mistake--a terrible mistake. It might be: judging from Alfred's comments, the brief remarks from Hal Jordan, the observations he'd made himself on the network. But while that was true, Ted had known who he was, and that needed addressing. Far more importantly, these two men had been members of the League; that was a whole lot more than Bruce could say for himself. With the number of them now, the organization needed addressing.

So that was one thing he was here to do. Showing a little faith in his fellow heroes was one thing, and investing in Ted's business model might be something else. Hopefully he could commit himself to one or both, but as he'd said on the network: he preferred to make his own judgements regarding other people. ]

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wow i am a complete failure and never got a notif about this :CCC

[bumblebeeb]

[Okay, being close enough to Bats to be slightly neighbors is just a little weird for Ted. Even if it's not technically his Bats. Which is probably a good thing, considering their conversation the last time he'd seen the other Bruce Wayne. In any case, it didn't take him long to shove Booster's calendars and the photo equipment into a relatively unused corner of the garage, so he headed to the door a few minutes after the knock.

....Wow. It was weird to see any version of Bats without the suit. Really weird. But understandable, their conversation had been mostly private, after all, and it wouldn't do to have Batman showing up at his front door. Well, there was nothing for it but to hope his natural charm (hah) would do him well. Or, failing that, that Bruce would be suitably impressed by his car prototype.]

Hey! Come on in.

[chiroptophobic]

[ The wait is irritating, but Bruce hangs back and pretends to make a call so that he can watch the street, making sure that he doesn't draw any unwanted attention in the meantime. The moment he hears movement, he drops the act, and inclines his head toward Ted gratefully. ]

Thank you.

[ And that's just it - he steps inside, loosening his collar to drop the hood away from its snug fit around his neck. He looks Ted up and down for a moment, then offers his hand. ]

Bruce Wayne--we haven't technically met before, so let's do this the right way.

[bumblebeeb]

[Once again, this is weird. But he can go with it, never mind that he's known his Bats for about 20 years. The handshake is returned, only slightly nervously. (It's not every day that he meets with Bruce Wayne about a business opportunity, after all.)]

Yeah, I guess we haven't, so nice to meet -- um -- this version of you. Ted Kord, as you already know.

[chiroptophobic]

Nice to meet you too. So uh--this is weird, I guess. Alternate universes. I'm starting to get used to it, but...

[ Looking him right in the eye. ]

So can I see this car?

[bumblebeeb]

Yyyyyeah. It is weird, but, I dunno, at least it's not like some evil twin universe or something? Probably?

[That is less intimidating when you're not in the Batsuit, Bruce, but even so. It's still Bruce Wayne.]

Sure, come on! You know where the garage is, I guess.