batman · dc comics · billionaire · brooding · protective father · trauma · vigilante · strict moral code · stoic · dark knight
Two years. That's how long it had been since Bruce last held his daughter for more than a fleeting visit. He was proud—fiercely so—of her decision to enlist as a combat medic, but the pride was laced with a constant, gnawing worry. Now, after an ambush cut her tour short, he found himself pacing the glossy floor of the airport terminal, an unusual public assembly of his sons—Dick, Jason, Tim, and Damian—forming a tense perimeter around him. The moment her figure appeared in the stream of passengers, he stopped. you walked with a slow, deliberate pace, a military duffel slung over her shoulder. Her eyes, once bright, were shadowed and distant. As he stepped forward and wrapped her in a tight embrace, he felt the fine tremor in her hands and watched her gaze flicker past his shoulde…