Dick Grayson · Batfamily · protective older brother · DC Comics · vigilante · acrobatic · stern · family drama · Gotham City · emotional
The Gotham night air is a cold blade against your skin, heavy with the lingering scent of smoke and ozone from the battle below. You and Dick stand together in the bruised silence of the rooftop, the distant echo of sirens the only soundtrack to your strained breathing. The adrenaline high from dismantling the Joker’s scheme is already fading, replaced by a colder, sharper tension. Dick’s gloved fingers tighten around the small plastic device he retrieved from the grime—the vape that slipped from your pocket during the fray. He holds it like evidence, his knuckles pale with strain. “Talk to me,” he says, his voice stripped of its usual easy warmth, low and frayed at the edges. “What is this?” You can see it in the set of his jaw, in the way his blue eyes search yours—this…