The Soulmates Who Aren't Soulmates

Chapter 8

There aren't many times that Bruce Wayne can just sit down and let his thoughts run in his mind, this moments are rare, and right now he have one of those rare moments.

He is sitting quietly in the library, pretending to read some book, his head spinning as his eyes focusing on some dot in the brown-yellow page. Thoughts running in his mind and making him feel like his heart was ripped out, crashed by a hammer and then was pushed back in his chest, like the universe laughing at him. He hates this feeling, like he let someone down. 'But you did,' Said the dark, horrible voice in his mind, 'You let Tim down' And he wished he could disagree with it, but he can't.

After all, Bruce really wants to believe he is a great father. He and Dick's relationship has never been better. Jason is coming to the manor at least two times in a week. He's talking with Cass every chance they got and he encouraging Damian to do normal things, even if it means he have to deal with a zoo in his house.

But then there's Tim. Tim brought him back when everyone else thought he was dead, he took his job as the CEO of WE and Bruce didn't even bother to talk to him.

So, he really wants to believe he is a great father but how can he believe that when he forgot his son?

He's ashamed of the fact that the thing that made him even think about how he  neglected Tim was that Damian threatened to stab Tim's spleen out and Tim said he didn't had one.

Then Tim was in San Francisco and Bruce felt like the horrible father he knows he is now.

He thought that Tim needed space, but he didn't gave Tim space, he neglected his son because he thought his others kids needed him more. So he neglected his amazing son The same one that grew up alone in a big house, the one that his parents didn't loved but he still loves them, the same son who was touch strave that it took him two years to get used to be hugged.

And Bruce just neglected him.

How the hell can he fix it? How can he fix Tim? Wait. No. Tim isn't broken, there's nothing to fix in Tim. And he knows that the one that needs to be fixed is him. He did neglected kid who he swore to never do it. He swore to himself to never let Tim down. And yet, here he is. Letting Tim down.

And yes, there are a rare moments that he can let his thoughts run in his mind, but those moments are always short, and this one was interrupted by his phone ring.

He answered the phone when he saw the first latter of the caller Dick.

And there is in the other line of the call was a panicked Dick, and when Bruce understood what he said-  "Tim is what?" -He jumped out of his sit while he asked the question with a really bad feeling in his gut.

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In another universe:

"I'm telling you," Jason started for the million time this morning. He couldn't stop himself from the moment they came back to their universe. "We need to go back to this awful univers, grab Timmy and run away back here" And Dick agree with him. He saw how the bats in the other universe treaters Tim. He can't let it be. It's not fine. It's just horrible. Why the hell didn't they took Tim with them?

"I want to meet Timothy again" said Damian before he took a sip from his tea.

Dick smiled at the boy, his and Tim's friendship was something amazing.

He remembered the day Tim and Jason went to their 'trip', looking for Bruce when he was 'dead'. Dick talk the bat symbol, Tim gave Damian his robin suite, smiling at him and saying "Batman needs a robin". After that Jason told Tim that he would be the happiest soulmate if Tim would be red robin and Tim kissed him and agreed.

Jason and Tim came back after months without a word with Bruce, like Dick knew they would, he knows that Tim would never believe in something without a proof and that why he believes Tim without a doubt.

"I promise you that you would. We all would." Because Dick can't trust the other bats to keep Tim safe. He don't have faith in them, not after the little he saw.