For you, a thousand times over
For you, beloved @elesameow
Bruce climbs the stairs tiredly, ready to sleep for three sweet hours before waking in the morning to drive Dick to school.
The night has been fruitful.
He managed to find out what Penguin was cooking: a shipment of smuggled art works that were arriving to the harbor in a few days. They will hit it right after the ship docks, without making a single move before the day of arrival in order not to alert Penguin. Cobblepot’s ego is big enough that he will fool himself into thinking that he has managed to hide the deal from the vigilantes, and they will take him without much resistance.
Bruce pensively rubs his eyes. These past days have been nice. Quiet.
Except Oswald rearing his head up like he always does every couple of months, Gotham has been calm.
Dick and Jason are getting along better than he could have ever hoped.
They spent every afternoon of the past week in Dick’s treehouse: neither of them wanted to share what they were working on with Bruce. They snickered, when he asked, and refused to elaborate, like it was a big secret that only they could know. Bruce is glad that they have each other.
He arrives in front of Jason’s bedroom. Like he does every night, he lowers the handle and soundlessly leans inside.
Bruce’s hand spasms around the handle.
He swings the door open, to see if Jason is in the attached bathroom.
No light on. The door is open. The space is empty.
Bruce almost breaks the handle.
It’s fine. Jason probably had a nightmare and is taking a walk around the manor. Probably in the library. Bruce will go check. He will find him, because nothing could have gotten in: he has the best security measures in the entire world. He would have received an alert, if someone had broken into the premise.
He leaves the door and rushes to Dick’s room.
He lowers the handle and soundlessly leans inside.
The bed is empty. The bathroom is dark and lifeless.
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