Does sound like a lot of potential for manipulation here. Interesting psychology to it all.
LoA

I have to say that I adore your Icon, Batman rocks. This story gave me a lot of hints and clues along the way to keep me interested and the description of his face and the confusion of what his expression meant was great. The type of person he is is highly dependent on exactly how he felt at the end and you let the reader decide, which is cool, unless you are going to reveal it in another story?ooo, challenge! lol