Tim is on his third power nap of the week.
He wakes up to damians complaints.
In those complaints, he learns that damian does not know how to ride a bike.
"...the fuck how dont you know how to ride a bike dude..?"
More curses ensue after this statement.
A week later damian finds a new bike parked in his room.
Tim had bought it for him.
Damian takes this as an insult and tries to kill him again.
Tim informs him that he won't participate in sparring with damian anymore if he doesn't learn how to ride a bike.
Damian spends a week trying to learn begrudgingly by himself.
He slams into a tree full force and knocks out a tooth, and scrapes his knee.
That is the first time damian cries.
He cries for his ahki, not because he hasnt sustained injuries a hundred times worse.
Because damian wayne was infact shocked. Embarassed.
The startlement of the injury he had sustained was a stinging and bruising sensation that sent him in a fit of tears.
Dick was not there anymore to help.
They dont talk as tim bandages damian up.
Damian doesn't mention when his bike gets training wheels.
Tim offers a one-time suggestion
"Get on. I'll teach you."
Tim doesn't speak up about how in the months damian had been there, he had taken advantage and completely forgotten about his long forgotten bedtime pleas in the drake manor where he would cry and sobs to his ceiling to be able to have a baby brother.
The first time damian gets on the bike with tim he crashes.
Tim makes damian kunafa while rubbing his palm on the back of the hiccuping tearful boy on the couch.
The second time they take the training wheels off, damian falls sideways after a successful 2 minutes of riding.
Damian does not rush to the phone to call dicks phone which would not answer.
He sits with tim and watches scooby doo.
The last time they tried tim had been sitting on a chair for hours watching damian try to purposefully prolong his achievement.
"Damian. I know you know how to ride the bike now. We've been out here for hours. You're good now." Tim explains with a bored expression.
Damian stays silent for a while, his eyebrows furrowing as he turns away, crossing his arms.
"Damian." Tim warns slowly.
"You have only done this so you can go back to-to hating me! what if I want to be pitied! What if i want to—"
to feel like a child with his big brother— went unheard.
Tim didn't realise damian had been acting this way simply because he didn't want time to end.
Because he had no other excuse or situation that he could act like a child or ask for help.
He wanted the only constant remaining brother to stick around and do child things with him so he could have a valuable excuse to recollect the childhood he missed through choosing tasks he didnt know so tim would stay around for him.
A week later tim takes damian to a skate park.
