Fics like Your Love Is So (Hurt) Heartful

Your father’s child body should not have been covered in bruises and broken bones. His youngest brother brought little Bruce’s hand up, resting his forehead against the back of B’s hands. “You were supposed to be safe”, he growled into Bruce’s hand. He emphasised the word safe, spat the word out with so much offense that as if with enough strength, Damian could will his wish into existence and rewrite this cruel moment of Bruce’s past and morph it into something kinder, something more befitting for a man who will spend the rest of his adulthood covered in the same kind of bruises and walk the earth with bones broken ten, twenty times over from protecting a city that bites the hands that try to hold it with even the slightest hint of kindness and later, from protecting the whole world with the strength of his heart and the wit of his mind as his greatest weapon. “You were supposed to be l—" Damian’s breath hitched, and it was a terrible sound. Loved. Dick finished in his heart. You were supposed to be loved.

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