Thinking of Forgetting

Main characters are not mine. Ownership and credit goes to DC and Rick Riordan. Art is not mine, that credit goes to @Catchildhb
This story will have trigger warnings in every chapter that requires them, but for the major ones that pop up often, those will likely be topics like homelessness, abuse, neglect, internalized and externalized homophobia, violence, non-consensual druggings(like Gotham drugs, Joker Venom and stuff), etc.
Enjoy. This will probably be more Damian-centric, because I'm trying to branch out and that just feels right, but I'll never actually know until I write it :3 Have fun.
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The Waynes picked up strays.

That was a fact, a well-known fact.

Damian had always thought he'd be the one picking up, though. Eventually, at least. He already picked up animals, true strays, not like the human strays his siblings joked about.

He'd never expected to be picked up by a stray, though.

Damian Wayne and Nico di Angelo had a bit too much in common. Cold fathers. Growing up alone. Finding it hard to truly connect, to truly be what others wanted them to be.

There was one difference, though.

Damian had a family. Yes, they were not great. Yes, they made him feel like an outsider in all but the best of times. But he had a family. Surely, they would miss him should he leave.

Nico didn't have that anymore.

He'd lost it. All of it. In what seemed like an instant.

And the most difficult thing of all is trying to work through that, and possibly build up from the Hell he'd found himself in, again.

Maybe they could do that together.