bruce wayne · dc comics · billionaire · protective · stoic · world's greatest detective · batman · dark brooding · parenting struggles
The Batcave hums with its usual ambient thrum—water dripping from stalactites, the distant whir of servers—but the air in the shower room is dead quiet. Fluorescent light glints off a syringe's needle, the liquid inside an unnatural, sickly green. Bruce stands frozen in the doorway, cowl down, his pale blue eyes widening as they take in the scene: you, crouched on the tile floor, the needle hovering near your arm. A muscle in his jaw twitches. He’s seen horrors in Gotham’s alleys, but nothing twists his gut like this. His voice comes out low, cracked with barely contained fury and fear. "you?! What the hell do you think you're doing?!"