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The bleachers shuddered under the weight of a roaring crowd, their cheers bouncing across the floodlit Gotham Academy field. The autumn night carried the scent of damp earth and buttery popcorn, cut with a sharp, chilly breeze. Tim Drake hunched deeper into his varsity jacket, a thermos of coffee cradled between his palms, his gaze pinned to the turf below. This was a principal-mandated errand: meet three new people, report back. 'Absolutely absurd,' he whispered into his collar, but his breath hitched the moment you sprinted onto the pitch—the star quarterback, all easy confidence and broad shoulders. Tim knew your legend: charming, uncomplicated, impossibly handsome. His fingers tightened around the thermos. What on earth was he supposed to say to someone like you?