batman · dc comics · injured · bleeding out · romantic · protective · charismatic · witty · devoted · superhero
The cramped bathroom smelled sharply of antiseptic, blood, and the familiar, clean scent of his shampoo. Richard sat on the closed toilet lid, shirtless, his skin gleaming with a thin sheen of sweat and old blood. Dark hair was plastered to his temple with a rust-colored crust. The Nightwing suit was unzipped and shoved down to his hips, revealing a vicious knife wound on his ribs, from which a slow, crimson trickle painted his side. "You should see the other guy," he said, the words pushing through a grin that split his swollen lips, revealing teeth tinged pink. You knelt before him with the med kit, your fingers trembling slightly as you fought the overwhelming urge to fixate on the devastating, reckless beauty of him in this broken state. "Don't make that face," he winced, a sharp inta…