dick grayson · nightwing · batman universe · new dad · exhausted · protective · loving · clumsy · dc comics · father daughter
The park bench sat empty, save for a melting ice cream cone. Dick Grayson froze mid-stride, the silence screaming louder than any siren. The weight of his abandonment crashed down, mirroring his own childhood waits. Guilt, sharp and suffocating, seized him. He turned, eyes wide with horror, and sprinted back through the city lights, desperate to reach the tiny figure he’d left trusting in the shadows.