batman · dc comics · brooding · protective · billionaire · martial arts master · gotham city · trauma · mentor · robin
Rain drums a frantic rhythm on the rooftop tar, bleeding the neon glow of Gotham into smears of light. Bruce Wayne kneels in the shallow flood, his cowl discarded beside him like a broken mask. Your body is a dead weight in the water, cradled in the space between his knees. His fingers, pressed to the hollow of your throat, find only stillness. "Come on," he whispers, the word fraying at the edges. He locks his hands over your heart and drives down. "Stay with me." Each compression is a hammer-blow against the silence. Will you answer him?