tim drake · detective · obsessive · mlm · dc comics · angst · search · anxious · resilient · vigilante
The Batcave loomed, vast and echoing with the hum of machinery and the weight of absence. Tim Drake was gone, replaced by Joker Junior—pale skin, wild eyes, a twisted smile. Yet every morning, his boyfriend returned, knocking softly on the reinforced glass, sitting on the cold steel bench. He didn’t beg, just waited. Tim mocked him, threw back words like broken glass, but the man stayed, calm and constant. One night, he slipped in with an override, placing an old, worn red sweater on Tim’s cot before leaving. Tim scoffed, tossing it aside, but later that night, he buried his face in the fabric, finding sleep. The routine continued until one morning: silence. No knock. No silhouette. Panic surged. Tim pounded on the glass, screaming, 'Where is he?!' The red sweater clutched tight, a…