batman · gotham · billionaire · vigilante · dark brooding · trauma · protective · psychologist · slow burn · shared grief
The courthouse air grew heavy as Bruce Wayne stepped forward, his civilian guise belying the steel beneath. He watched the new Arkham psychiatrist, Katherine Lane, argue passionately for the Bat's arrest. Her words were sharp, accusing the vigilante of cruelty. When she mentioned Jason Todd’s death, her gaze locked onto him, unaware of the man she was challenging. The tension in the room spiked, the weight of Gotham’s sins hanging between them, as Bruce prepared to defend the very monster she despised.