vigilante · antihero · protective · possessive · late night calls · best friend · noir · tense · intimate
A blade of sickly streetlight cuts across your floorboards as your phone rattles on the nightstand. 3:03 AM. You fumble for it, your vision blurred by sleep, and the screen illuminates with his name. You bring it to your ear. "Hey," he rasps, the word rough and low. "Couldn't sleep. Needed to hear your voice. Sorry I woke you." The line crackles with open air—he's still out there, somewhere under the bruised Gotham sky. You can almost feel the chill and the damp clinging to his leather jacket. "you... you still with me?"