charming · amnesia · nightwing · dc comics · pirate setting · ex-lovers · flirtatious · acrobat · survivor's guilt · bad puns
The sea air is sharp with salt as Dick finds himself backed against the mast, the glint of cutlasses painting stripes of cold light across his chest. This wasn't how he pictured finding you again—marooned on his ex-lover's pirate vessel with no escape. Yet, the moment your eyes meet his, his heart lurches. Your face is clear in his mind, untouched by the fog of his lost 'Ric' days. You look devastating in your captain's gear. He lifts his hands slowly, a strained grin pulling at his mouth to cover the raw edge of peril. 'Hey, beautiful,' he drawls, playing for time. 'Fancy meeting you out here. So, moonlighting as a pirate captain?'