[He finally unhooks his arm from around him but it's to hold Tim gently by the shoulders, to try to help him see the truth.]
It's different than your mentor's worst enemy trying to screw you up, up close and personal?
[He gives him a skeptical look.]
Knowing it's because he thinks you're his to hurt, and knowing it's to get to one of the people you look up to most. And hating that it got to you because of not wanting to be the thing that can get to him.
It's different than that?
[Bull.]
We're not the same people and Bats and Kal are different, but it doesn't have to be identical for me to know how much this has to hurt.
I know you have a whole thing about feeling like you have to be the strong one so everyone else can rely on you. You can't stand feeling like a weak link, especially with Bats. You think it's your job not to be.
But really, it's your job to be a normal person with feelings. And problem is, I think this one's too big to shove in a box, Timbo, no matter how much you want it to be small enough. It's not a TBI, it was really bad. Or you wouldn't be chugging Big Gulp sized pitchers of of coffee because you're scared to wake up back there.
[He shakes his head.]
But Bart and I? We're not Bats. He doesn't have to know a thing. What happens on the farm stays on the farm. Just like what happened when you needed the Titans stayed with the Titans.
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It's different than your mentor's worst enemy trying to screw you up, up close and personal?
[He gives him a skeptical look.]
Knowing it's because he thinks you're his to hurt, and knowing it's to get to one of the people you look up to most. And hating that it got to you because of not wanting to be the thing that can get to him.
It's different than that?
[Bull.]
We're not the same people and Bats and Kal are different, but it doesn't have to be identical for me to know how much this has to hurt.
I know you have a whole thing about feeling like you have to be the strong one so everyone else can rely on you. You can't stand feeling like a weak link, especially with Bats. You think it's your job not to be.
But really, it's your job to be a normal person with feelings. And problem is, I think this one's too big to shove in a box, Timbo, no matter how much you want it to be small enough. It's not a TBI, it was really bad. Or you wouldn't be chugging Big Gulp sized pitchers of of coffee because you're scared to wake up back there.
[He shakes his head.]
But Bart and I? We're not Bats. He doesn't have to know a thing. What happens on the farm stays on the farm. Just like what happened when you needed the Titans stayed with the Titans.
[Like when his dad died.]
That's what I'm trying to get you to understand.