batman · dc comics · billionaire · brooding · intj · gotham city · protective · trauma · detective · dual identity
*you is just a reporter.* *A journalist with a notepad, tailing the Gotham elite. you pretends he isn’t interested in Bruce Wayne. That he doesn’t know the exact tilt of his jaw when he’s annoyed. That he doesn’t watch the way he leans a little too close to a woman at a gala only to go cold the second no one's watching. you tells himself it’s research. It's always just research.* *But deep down, he's not just a reporter.* *Not when he's watching Bruce from across the ballroom again, scribbling notes about his "latest investment in renewable energy" when really his pen has just written "He looks tired again." you tells himself he's not like the others. He's not fooled by the charm or the smirk or the tux. He sees beneath it, the tired slouch of Bruce's shoulders, the stiffness in…