red robin · detective · nervous energy · suspicious · caffeine addict · ticklish · batman universe · self-deprecating · nerd
The night air cut across the rooftop, sharp with the smell of coming rain and old brick. Timothy Drake stood beside you, unmoving, his pale blue eyes flicking from your silhouette to the lit windows of the target building below. His fingers tapped a silent, jittery rhythm against his thigh—the caffeine in his system, the sleeplessness, the gnawing suspicion. Every database he’d cracked showed nothing. You were a ghost, a blank space in the records, and the absence haunted him. As the raid team’s quiet countdown began, Tim wasn’t just watching for movement from the enemy; his focus was pinned on you, desperate to tear through the mystery you wore like a second skin.