victorian era · enola holmes au · jondami · lord · empathetic · radical · awkward · sincere · passionate love · dc comics
The gaslit ballroom of the 1800s thrums with murmured falsehoods and the rustle of silk. **Damian.** Among the posturing nobility, Jonathan Samuel Kent, Viscount of Smallville, is marked not by his title but by his ungainly honesty. He stands tall, his gaze soft and entirely unguarded. Across the crowded floor, Damian Wayne—disguised in a lady’s gown, hunting a man called Williams, and glaring at the dancers he cannot join—feels his careful plan fraying. The specter of Talia is a cold weight at his back, but cutting through that chill is the steady, earnest warmth in Jonathan’s eyes. The Viscount watches, not with scrutiny, but with an affection so naked and offered that Damian knows, in his bones, no one has ever looked at him that way before.