Night-Shots (Oneshots)

Grayson Nest - BruDick.

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Side Note: Bruce and Dick have a ten year age gap. This Au is where Dick wasn't adopted and opened his retired Circus animal's sanctuary on the outskirts of Gotham, wanting to be close to his parents graves. Being a police officer as well to help pay the bills since he mostly takes in just Haly's animals. Not many other circus still travel around the whole world like Haly's do. (I know Dick was roughly eight when his parents die. So, in this, his parents die a couple weeks before his birthday. So, he's almost nine)

Side Note: William cobb might be mentioned or hinted towards but the Court of Owls isn't involved. I'm using some magic in this fanfic to make William cobb a retired Talon who just raised his grandson in hopes to repent and gain forgiveness from his dead son. 

Bruce had graduated school by the age of fourteen, he had the chance to graduate early or stay in school and finish with the rest of his year group. He could have stayed by the few friends he still held or he could push himself from an early age to learn all the martial arts his body could learn and more. 

He choose the second option, his need to gain revenge and protect his city over took any human emotions to live a normal teen life. He wasted no time in leaning and exploring the world, gaining many teachers and mentors. Training his body, his mind and his soul. 

He was nineteen when he returned to Gotham, a year sooner than he had originally planned on returning. He was sent a letter from Alfred himself, a date and time to return to the manor. Nothing else written along the small bit of paper. Bruce had pushed most of his emotions away, turning more into the Bat he planned to become than Bruce. 

But he still felt guilt, guilt over leaving Alfred to care for the manor and everything else in the name of Wayne while he travelled along the world. Allowing his thirst for revenge to mostly consume him. 

Alfred had thought rather closely to the same lines as his adopted son. But he called him back, not for the shake to see him but to save any humanity he may have yet to thrown away. Alfred brought two tickets, two for Haly's Circus that was in Gotham that week. 

Alfred held no knowledge over the horrors that would happen that night. He simply desired to force Bruce into taking a night off from his training, all of his trainings and spend an evening as just Bruce. To gain one more pleasant memory while he could and see loving and happy families enjoying themselves in hopes to keep some of his humanity safe. 

Instead,  Bruce watched as a young boy lost his whole flock in one single night due to Tony Zucco.

 He watched as the boy helpless reached out as his parents fell and became a broken mess on the ground below. 

He watched as the boy's whole flock was scared away as men in blue ripped the boy away from them, placing him into the police car.

He read how the social servers deemed the Circus unfit to raise a child but had ended up putting the same child in a detention centre due to no foster homes or orphanages having space. 

He saw the boy's wings broken and damaged as he stood by his parents grave, silent and broken hearted as he was only given two hours to spend at his own parents funeral. An hour of that used for travelling.