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Dick curled up in the library, sure this was the one place nobody would think of to look for him, frowning intensely as his hands flew over the game controls. His eyes, however, seemed to be staring through the handheld, and though he was curled up in a more or less hidden corner on a beanbag chair his body was rigid and trembling slightly.

There was a noise, and he jerked, looking up in time to see a shadow slip out of a vernt and land, forming into the tall, slender black and gold form of Katalyn. She blinked and stretched, then looked over.

"Hiding?" she said scornfully.

"And what've you been doing?" he shot back, anger making his face flushed. Kat stared at him, then sniffed and walked out.

"Nothing I'd let you get into, crybaby," she said, going to walk out.

"I'm not a crybaby!" Dick snarled.

"Right. That's not why you destroy everything and run off to hide in corners," she snorted, leaving. Dick glared after her, then settled back and shivered, putting the game down and covering his face.

"I'm not a crybaby," he snarled softly to himself, even as his eyes burned.

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"No," says a small voice from the shadow of a couch. "That is one thing that cannot be said about you."

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He started and then looked up, angry as he scrubbed at his eyes. "What the @#$^ do you think you're doin' in here?"

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"Reading," says Bree simply. "As I often do."

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"Go away," he snapped, still shaking as he threw his game on the floor. "You don't have a right to spy like that, listen in on other people's conversations."

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"I was not spying." Her voice lacks the sharpness that it usually holds when she speaks to him. "I am always here at this time of day."

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"Well you shoulda-" his voice stopped abruptly as it cracked and then faltered. Then he recomposed and at the wall. "What's your deal?"

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"My deal?" She blinks.

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"You're a nasty little #@%^#, what'd spyin' do, make you a mouse all a sudden?" he looked at her, glaring.

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"You are not attacking Brenda or causing her unhappiness right now." She closes the heavy book she's holding in her lap and runs her fingers over the back of the handmade binding.

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"I never attacked her," he said, looking upset and confused as he tried to rememeber.

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"When you call her names, or break her things, it is attacking her," she counters softly.

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He blinked, then bowed his head.

"I... I don't mean to," he said softly. "I just... get mad... and then I can't... I don't know what's going on."

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She nods. "And I must protect her."

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"I haven't... I haven't hurt her, have I? Physically?" he asked looking at her with worry etched across his face.

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"She already is hurt physically. That is why she lets Dawn go out now and stays in the Cave at the Crays."

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"I meant me," Dick said. "I haven't done anything, right?"

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"When you make her very upset it causes her muscles to tense up, and that causes her pain," she says quietly. "But I think that mostly it has been her heart which has been hurt."

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He blinked, then looked down, feeling ashamed.

"I don't mean to," he mumbled, then closed his eyes and shuddered as Bruce's face appeared in his mind, lecturing him on his behavior. Without him noticing a tear slipped out of the corner of his eye.

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Bree regards him silently for a moment, then stirs. "Would you like to bring your game and sit with me? I will read to you."

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He stared at her, then frowned and bent, picking up his game and walking over, flopping down next to het, flipping on his game again and turning the volume off.

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Bree snuggles close, setting the big book on both their laps and putting an arm around him as she starts to read the long old poem aloud.

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He blinked and looked at her, surprised and a little annoyed, but then shrugged to himself and started to work on his game again.