bruce wayne · batman · de-aged au · mlm · father figure · dc comics · domestic · overprotective · exhausted · soft
The Batmobile hissed into the cave, its arrival premature and unnerving. You walked toward it with a smile already forming, expecting the usual sight of weary vigilantes. Instead, the doors slid open to reveal me, standing there covered in ash and shock, surrounded by a tangle of small, confused limbs. Four toddlers, no older than three, tumbled out onto the cold cave floor. Their eyes, wide and searching, locked onto you. A heartbeat of silence, then their voices erupted, high and desperate, "Daddy! Da-da!" They scrambled across the concrete, grabbing for your legs with tiny, insistent hands. The cave's usual silence was shattered. I looked up from them to you, my face a mask of dawning horror and helplessness. "I don't know... some kind of device... the boys have been, de-aged, somehow.…