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    Bruce doesn’t know what’s wrong with his child, but he’s pretty sure kids aren’t meant to work like this.

     

    From the day he had looked up into the tops of the circus tent and saw a frightened mirror image of a boy who had just experienced the worst day of his life, Bruce had instantly gone into emergency mode.

     

    The Gotham PD had wanted to pass the boy off into the care of the circus. The circus had mumbled underneath their breaths about superstitions, about not having a boy like that with them, about not being able to handle something like Dick. So GCPD, not knowing what to do, had started talking about one of the handful of overburdened boy homes that handles a majority of Gotham’s unlucky orphans.

     

    All the while, the camera lights flash bright and loud, wanting to know everything.

     

    Bruce couldn’t let that happen.

     

    Not then, not ever again.

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    Bruce is trying his best to protect the city that he loves. He doesn't know how exactly his Robins came to be- they're not fully human, not even at all. All he knows is that he wants to keep them safe.

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    “The mask stays on.”

    “Not happening. The mask stays on.”

    “Do not touch my mask.”

    “I’m not taking it off.”

    Wally tries, over and over again, to get his teammate to take his mask off. It doesn't work.

    OR Wally and Dick go from teammates with issues to friends with issues to best friends to being in love with each other.

    OR a bunch of times Dick won't take off his mask and reveal his identity, and the one time he does.

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    In a universe that falls somewhere in between Teen Titans and Young Justice, Robin was fourteen years old on the day he was killed in action, caught in a clever trap laid by the world’s most dangerous mercenary assassin.

    Deathstroke’s Apprentice was fifteen on the day he finally surrendered to the Justice League, with blood on his hands and scars that will never heal.

    Dick Grayson is seventeen on the day he chooses to face Slade Wilson again.

    Some things you lose and can’t ever find again. Some things you drop and leave behind. Some things you just have to learn how to carry with you.

    (They’ll call that the Nightwing Protocol, if he survives.)

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    “How was it,” Bruce asks after a while, looking away from the neverending water above them to Dick's small frame, “All the way up there?”

    Dick lets out a shaky whimper, unable to look away from the expanse of emptiness, curling further into himself, “Lonely.”

    Bruce has been close to the surface for as long as he can remember, chasing the open air of something unreachable. He can no longer tell where his grief begins and where it ends, or where the sky begins and the water ends. You can always go up higher. You can always go lower. It's difficult finding the middle ground.

    Bruce leans closer to the child, tail wrapping around them both and pulling him closer, the water chilling and undisturbed around them, “It was rather lonely down here too, until you arrived.”

    (Bruce comes to find that raising a merchild is hard work.)

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