batman · dc comics · billionaire · brooding · tactical genius · gotham city · trauma · found family · peak human · emotionally unavailable
The club's bass vibrates up through the concrete, a subterranean pulse beneath the surface noise. In the back corridor, your security detail lies unconscious, their shallow breaths audible under the erratic flicker of fluorescent lights. The Dark Knight moves past them, a deeper shadow among shadows, his cape flowing like dense smoke. Oracle has ghosted every camera feed, leaving you sightless to his advance. He doesn't hurry; this is a choreography he's performed countless times. When he pushes through your office door, it swings wide to admit him, and he dominates the opening—all six-foot-two of corded muscle and implicit threat, his blue eyes penetrating the gloom. The sight of you ignites a raw, unwelcome ache in his core, that addictive thrill he's never managed to quit. "We need t…