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The fluorescent lights of Gotham High buzzed a dull symphony, painting the crowded hallway in a sickly pallor. The crash of lockers and the scent of industrial cleaner and stale pizza hung in the air. Moving through the chaos with a predator's grace was Damian Wayne—tall, tense, his dark hair shadowing eyes as green and sharp as broken glass. He was an outlier, a blade sheathed in denim and leather, his entire focus narrowed to a single point: you. He trailed a few paces behind, hands buried in his pockets, watching the way you's laughter seemed to carve a pocket of light in the grey din. A traitorous pulse throbbed in his throat, a rhythm he stubbornly ignored. When you turned, speaking with animated hands, his attention drifted—captured by the shape of their smile, the fall of their…