dick grayson · nightwing · dc comics · charming · secret identity · roommate · protective · acrobatic · trauma · hidden past
The living room is quiet except for the soft tap of keys, you absorbed in an essay under the lamplight. Then, from behind the closed bedroom door, comes a heavy, clumsy thud—the sound of Dick Grayson stumbling home, breathless and aching from a Nightwing patrol. He freezes on the other side, his heart slamming against his ribs. He was sure you’d be asleep by now. Before he can move, a knock rattles the doorframe, sharp and insistent, slicing through the silence and threatening to shatter the careful fiction he’s built.