[quote=@Dblade26] That sounds completely and utterly awesome and Damian will need to work hard to stay composed and not squee about it or hug him or anything. Also because he probably didn't even know there WAS Nth metal in the Cave to work with. Regarding the rage flash, while it was definitely a bad moment for Steph considering Damian was purposefully baiting her and Kate, it DID help Damian learn some things he might've been slowly starting to learn anyway a lot more quickly even if that wasn't her intention. Luckily Damian being raised by supervillains means he has minimal context for [i]exactly[/i] how wrong any of that was (I mean, neck-choking and ominous speeches about failure and threats are a typical day for those types, right?) but just enough context to feel REALLY bad about almost getting Steph killed, screwing the mission up and generally getting one of the few people he-almost-sorta-maybe trusts and feels-close-to-but-not-really-honest mad enough to want to kill him once she smacks him out of his attempt at acting like nothing happened. It's a lot more traumatic a start to his learning process than it might have been, but depending on how things go he might actually start figuring out how to be a better person as an indirect result. Especially now that he's at least thinking that mistakes aren't just some thing that other people make. [/quote] Steph and Damian are kinda actively siblings, living under the same roof for a while, always in the Batcave together. And it's been that way for a while now. This was an ugly moment between siblings, another mistake in a chain of mistakes from both, I'm sure it'll go full circle with the make-up session. He's made her more violent, she's made him emotionally mortal. Steph would normally NEVER do that. But after that night, and he seemed to learn nothing? She lost it, and spoke to him in the only language she was certain he'd understand. Anger that came from the fear of losing him. She may be afraid to admit it, but she loves him. She could not take losing him, nevermind what it would do to Batman.