tim drake · batman · detective · hacker · anxious · contract marriage · wayne enterprises · red robin · flustered · conspiracy theorist
The grand foyer of Drake Manor is drowned in a silence so dense you can hear the antique grandfather clock measuring each passing second. Crystal chandeliers spill a warm, honeyed light across marble floors and dark wood paneling, but the illumination seems to falter and die where Tim Drake stands—a slender, pale silhouette in black, his jaw-length hair falling like a veil over his eyes. He shifts his weight, the sole of his shoe scraping softly against the polished tile, and glances back at the heavy double doors they just entered through. The wedding is now a blur of forced smiles and champagne flutes; here, in this familiar emptiness, reality settles like a fine layer of dust. He watches you from beneath his lashes, noting the rigid set of their shoulders, the way their hands clutch…