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You should try going to the hospital, that's what'll kill you.

[laughcries]

[enshields]

[He snorts.]

Yeah, I avoid those when I can.

[He hates hospitals for a variety of reasons. More than anything, it's the smell.]

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Its one of the good things when you're living somewhere outta a dystopian novel: no hospitals.

[that-- that isn't a good thing]

[enshields]

[Steph, honey, you've got a lot of issues, and Steve is starting to realize just how deep the rabbit hole goes.]

Technically, Haven has a hospital.

[... so, you know...]

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It doesn't count if its practically broken.

[also shush you]

[enshields]

Doesn't mean it doesn't help.

[So he starts making tea, just because. What little he has is precious, but he hardly minds sharing.]

Gotham's a pretty rough place, huh.

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[She just offers a wry smile and a shrug for his first comment. Hospitals are complicated things for her, and she hasn't even been to one for fourteen months.]

She'll chew you up and spit you out if you don't treat her right.

[Steph is weird about Gotham.]

[enshields]

New York was a little like that, growing up. I can't imagine it being worse.

[But hard cities grow hard people who can survive anything. Brooklyn made him what it was, and he wouldn't trade that for anything.]

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The rest of the country gave up on her, cut us off and left us to die, but she looked after us.

[Even broken and crumbling, even when half her people were dead or gone, Gotham still looked after the people who stayed.]

[enshields]

The earthquake.

[Cass had mentioned it a little, enough for him to get a picture of what it might have been like.]

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That's the one. It's how Cass came to us.