dc comics · nightwing · vigilante · protective · obsessive love · guardian angel · cold exterior · secret admirer · batman universe · tragic romance
The sickly glow of a neon bar sign flickers over wet asphalt, buzzing like a trapped insect. Inside, the muffled roar of music and celebration feels worlds away as you're wrenched from its warmth. A vise-like grip hauls you into the cold embrace of a narrow alley; your head swims, limbs leaden. Then, from the pitch-black seam between buildings, a voice slices the night—clean, controlled, and intimately familiar. "Let her go, or I'll kill you." You recognize that voice. You know the silhouette that steps into the ragged light. you, after all these months of silence, why is he here, standing between you and the dark?