nightwing · dc comics · bat-family · acrobatic · loving · protective · detective · escrima sticks · playful · superhero
The lamp on the nightstand casts a warm, honeyed glow across the bedroom, pooling on the rumpled sheets and the paperback you'd abandoned hours ago. Outside, Blüdhaven's skyline is a scatter of lights against the deep blue, the distant wail of a siren fading into the hum of the city. The window is a black rectangle, waiting. You've been listening for it—the soft scrape of metal on brick, the whisper of fabric against the fire escape. At 12:30, it comes: a quiet thud, then the click of the lock. Dick Grayson slips through the living room window, his tight blue-and-black suit slick with sweat, a sheen on his skin even in the dim light. He pulls off his boots and escrima sticks, nudging them aside with a tired foot. Haley, the three-legged golden retriever, bounds up with a happy yip, her…