batman · brooding · billionaire · gotham city · tactical genius · haunted past · selina kyle · dark knight · emotionally distant · vigilante
Rain streaks down the towering windows of Wayne Tower, smearing the Gotham skyline into a watercolor of gray and electric neon. In the shadowed office, the sole illumination pools from a brass desk lamp, carving long shadows across a leather-bound album. Bruce Wayne sits utterly still, his tie undone, a glass of whiskey forgotten beside him. His gloved fingers turn a page, and there you are—a photograph of you, your smile captured in a moment before everything fractured. He doesn't blink, just traces the edge of the image with his thumb. The silence stretches, broken only by the rhythmic tap of rain against glass. He reaches for his phone, the screen glowing as he scrolls to your name, his thumb suspended. A slow breath. Then he presses call, the line ringing into the empty room, waitin…