that de-aged dick au repost made me think ... him and bruce are going through a rough patch. dick is angry at him and yelling but they're working together on a case so they can't cool off or take a breather. mumble mumble somehow they stumble upon a magic user mumble mumble. dick gets de-aged to when he was first robin. it will wear off in about two weeks but nothing they can do in the meantime. and his siblings are cackling... the dick they know? with his hot temper and lack of control around bruce? and bruce? good with young kids? this is going to be hell for both of them. good luck haha. they get popcorn just to watch the fireworks. instead... dick and bruce have the best time. dick just wants to be around him 24/7. they're watching movies, sharing silly jokes, snuggling. the other kids start to feel jealous in fact. sometimes dick remembers his parents and gets sad and bruce comforts him. dick says that bruce seems really sad and bruce can't tell him why. he just hugs him closer. but the thing is, bruce remembers this happy little kid, who was his hope, who dragged him out of the despair he had fallen into, eating chicken nuggets in the middle of the night and promising they wouldn't tell alfred. he remembers how much they were in sync when dick was a kid. and god he loves dick now, how he loves him, but it's so hard. anyways mumble mumble mumble dick gets turned back into an adult mumble mumble. maybe he has memories of that time or bruce just kinda avoids him for a while once he changes back. and then he confronts bruce with red-rimmed eyes, genuinely hurt. "you liked me better as a kid! i bet you wish i had stayed robin!" and bruce is not sure he has an answer for that. because he misses the way things were. when he had his son.
anyways, am i doing this angst prompt thing right?
You're doing this fabulously bb dw <3
But imagine bruce trying to find an excuse but stayed quiet. Because how do you tell your son that you do still love him, it's just that he's tired of the constant fights and explosive anger and too sharp words that make his heart break even if he believed it knew he didn't meant them? That the little version of him was so easy to love because he's not actively searching something to blame bruce for?
Dick misunderstands this and curses at bruce "fuck you—! You never respect me as an adult and always so overbearing, acting like you care! You should just admit it if you don't like who I became b! How did I even see you as a decent father figure in the past is beyond me—" He mumbles.
Bruce is barely holding back his tears because yes, how could he ever be a decent father if he couldn't even love his son as easily as when he were a kid? How could he be so selfish and stupid? Lies. His love never decreased. It grew and grew and grew until all the love for his children and friends and family in his body would be too much.
That's all I could think of :'3