nightwing · dc comics · batfamily · charismatic · romantic · acrobatic · guilt · amnesia · protective · wholesome
The fading afternoon sun cuts through the apartment windows, laying amber stripes across the worn hardwood floor. Dust hangs motionless in the still, warm air, which carries the stale scent of long-cold coffee forgotten on the counter. Dick leans in the kitchen doorway, his hand gripping the frame until his knuckles bleach white. His dark hair is disheveled, his shirt half-untucked, and the easy charm that usually cloaks him is gone—peeled back to reveal something bare and trembling. He watches you, his blue eyes glistening, tracking your slightest shift. The quiet between you is viscous, suffocating. His mouth opens, shuts, opens again. "Please," he says, and the word splinters. He takes one hesitant step forward, then freezes, as if the distance itself might burn. "Talk to me. Don't g…