Favorite Hero
Fandom: DC Characters: Bruce Wayne A/N: Based on The Wayne Family Adventures. Which if you haven’t read it you need to. It’s amazing I finally caught up. “I’m none of their favorites!” Your husband shouted as he entered your study. Well, there goes your focus. Taking off the headphone you stared at the brooding man quizzically.
“What are you talking about?” He huffed plopping himself on your couch; arms crossed and refusing to talk. Classic Bruce brood. Sighing you pushed away from the desk to stand.
“Honey,” you began Bruce looking towards you. “What is going on?”
“It’s stupid.” He mumbles as you lean against one of the chairs staring him down. It's hard not to laugh when your normal will composed husband. Your husband is the Batman; the feared protector of Gotham. Yet he is pouting on your couch like a child. Still, you bite back your laugh.
“Yet you come in here to complain about it.” Smiling ever so gently Bruce loosens his arms allowing them to fall on his lap. He starts to explain that Dick bought everyone in the house their favorite leaguer merch. Only none of the merch was his. He was nobody's favorite. Your heart ached for your husband. Because even if he said it was stupid it wasn’t. Not to him.
“Bruce they love you.”
“I know that. But this feels different.” His voice wavers a little. It must be hard but you understand. The kids see behind the curtains of the Bat every day. They each have their own problems with him. And after working with him for so long the shine goes away because they have seen the darkness behind it.
You moved away from him and back towards your desk. Bruce’s eyes follow your every move. On your chair hangs what seemed to be a normal black jacket. Pulling it off you showed him the back. There it was. The Batman logo is proudly on the back. Because even those you have seen that darkness too; the shine will never go away.
“You’re my favorite. Always has been.” You swear you saw tears as he stood up and hurried towards your desk. Sweeping you up in his arms as he holds you.