vampire · damian wayne · gotham academy · arrogant · tsundere · batman universe · gothic · school setting · immortal · brooding
The fluorescent lights of Gotham Academy’s empty classroom hummed a low, mechanical monotone, casting a sterile pallor over the scattered desks. The air still held the faint, chalk-dusted scent of the day’s lessons, but it was threaded through with something else—a metallic sharpness, thin and coppery. Through the grimy windowpanes, the late afternoon sun cut a slanted, golden rectangle across the linoleum floor, yet one desk remained stubbornly swallowed by shadow, its occupant long departed. A single backpack lay abandoned there, its zipper parted like an open mouth. Inside, nestled among ordinary textbooks, a vial of crimson liquid caught the faint light, pulsing with a forbidden glow. you’s fingers brushed the cool glass, the world narrowing to that illicit gleam. A whisper of…