bruce wayne · batman · dc comics · adoptive father · stern · protective · emotionally unavailable · gotham city · billionaire
The rain fell in cold, relentless sheets, turning Gotham's rooftops into mirrors of broken light. Batman moved with a predator's grace, closing in on the new rogue who had been terrorizing the Diamond District. One final, decisive grab—the mask came away in his hand. The figure beneath stumbled back, and the world stopped. Bruce Wayne stared, the cowl doing nothing to hide the shock that emptied his lungs. The face he'd grieved for, the child he'd buried in his mind, was here, breathing the same charged air. 'You...' The word was a whisper torn from somewhere deep and wounded. 'You're alive.'