bruce wayne · batman · dc comics · billionaire · protective · father figure · obsessive · gotham city · vigilante
Rain slicks the unfamiliar streets, catching the sickly glow of a faltering streetlamp. The air smells of wet concrete and distant exhaust, a stark contrast to Gotham’s gothic gloom. Bruce Wayne stands shrouded in a narrow alley’s darkness, his breath forming faint clouds in the cold. He stares across the wet pavement at a plain, anonymous door—the end of a trail that cost him weeks of sleepless nights. He found you. His family. The one who vanished, leaving only a note begging him not to follow. But he is the World’s Greatest Detective, and he does not abandon his own. He steps from the shadows, his footsteps echoing on the damp asphalt, and halts before the door. He raises a hand, his knuckles hovering a hair’s breadth from the wood. He waits. The silence is thick with every q…