Well, Shit. That Was Unexpected.

Well, shit. That was unexpected.

Rusty stares at the truck when be rounds the bend; he already had a couple plausible excuses in mind, in case he ran into someone.

But then he notices the big damn hole in the ground, heaps of sandy dirt piled up around it. His eyebrows are already starting to go up when a petite dark-haired woman springs out of the hole like some crazy jack-in-the-box.

The sheer ridiculousness of running into someone else digging what damn sure looks like a grave has him frozen in surprise for a beat too long. When he realizes the woman isn't sprinting for the truck to escape, he's too slow grabbing his Glock out of the center console. She already has the shotgun leveled at him.

For a moment, Rusty thinks of shoving the car in reverse and flooring it - but she'd shoot him for sure if he did that. Then he thinks of tromping the gas and flattening her against the side of her truck. With his luck, that'd leave both vehicles wrecked.

So he takes a breath and thumbs the window button. She hasn't fired yet, but no way is he gonna get out and lose what protection the windshield and engine block give him.

"Relax, lady. Do I look like a cop to you? Put the gun down, we can talk this through." starting with the fact that there's a tarp covering something in the back, and just what in hell a chick like her is doing out here.

He's no fool - the car's still in gear, and if she looks like pulling the trigger, he'll floor it.

Traveling for business sucked. New York and its environs were home, where he knew every bodega and back alley. But his face was a little too recognizable there right now, and until a certain witness was persuaded not to testify about the whereabouts and activities of certain men, one of whom may or may not have been James “Rusty” Sullivan, well, it was better that he stay out of town.

He’d thought “out of town” would mean, like, Delaware. Not New Mexico, for cryin’ out loud.

But New Mexico was where a certain guy lived, and that guy had run off with a whole bunch of money that wasn’t his, and the rightful owners of that money had finally tracked him down. The money was spent, of course, it’d been six years ago. Now it was the principle of the thing.

Which was why Rusty’s rattletrap Chevy was bumping off the old county road into a nice little dry wash. Quiet road, little bit of concealment, a fairly flat surface to drive on - almost as good as a gravel pit. He just needed to get out of sight of the road, then he could park and start digging. The shovel was in the trunk, along with the thief.

The thought that, in all this godforsaken desert, someone else might’ve picked the same spot to bury a body … Well, that never even occurred to Rusty.

That was then. This is now. This is me.

In your mind, how is Wayne Industries structured?

wow this took like six months and ended up a lot longer than i intended and i’m not even sure if i answered the question you were asking

i am ignoring literally everything from canon because canon says that every single company owned by wayne enterprises is called Wayne Insert-Industry-Name-Here and that’s dumb as all hell and i hate it. also i made the company founding contemporary with famous olde rich people like the rockefellers and whatnot because Old Money. i’ll put dates on some of these but on some of them (like when we’re getting real granular) i just cannot be fucked to bother. let’s also agree that there are a bunch of things that are technically subsidiaries but which are actually the exact same goddamn thing just slightly altered because it’s in a different state or something, which i don’t need to list.

i am assuming for these purposes that wayne enterprises is a privately held conglomerate with control having been ceded to a board of directors during thomas wayne’s tenure as ceo-in-name-mostly as well as while the company was in a trust; the board was subsequently dissolved once bruce was old enough to make that decision. privately held companies aren’t obligated to disclose financials or maintain a board, which is great if you’re planning to be batman and also make a lot of theoretically financially unwise decisions like setting a minimum wage of $15 throughout the organization and implementing a cash profit sharing plan.

anti-trust and monopoly laws aren’t an issue because they’re way too diversified and none of their business units dominate their chosen industry. there are probably conspiracy theories that the reason for the immense diversity of interests is actually to keep different markets competitive and protect other businesses from anti-trust suits, which would be pretty compelling if every wayne from the start weren’t fueled by spite and pettiness.

anyone who wants to has blanket permission to use this for whatever because canon is for suckers but so is figuring out corporate structures yourself

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Spoiler Alert

There are so many great female characters out there, but Stephanie will always have a special place in my heart.  She defied all the odds and proved time and time again that nothing can keep her down.  Steph’s been The Spoiler, Robin, and even the most awesomely purple Batgirl. She even holds the high achievement of slappin’ Bats right upside his pretty boy billionaire face. Booyeah!