The Cave.
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To The Cave. by Alexandria_Antoinette
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Red Hood and the Outlaws (Comics), Red Robin (Comics), Nightwing (Comics)
30 Jul 2019
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Bruce has owned the coffee shop for two decades now; he's seen robberies, gun fights, family break-ups, engagements, parties; everything under the sun has happened in-or-near his shop.
He thought he had seen and dealt with it all, until two young orphan boys started hogging the bench outside the shop, eating cheap ice-cream or old cookies pulled from a school-bag. Then, his love-seat next to the front window, spending hours sitting there and arguing over something or another.
He didn't give them too much thought; he kept an eye on them whenever they showed up, since he's never seen either of them with an adult or guardian. He stayed to himself, until he couldn't; not after the youngest- six, he would guess- asks
"Do you think any of our parents would have thought this might have happened?"
And Bruce watches in a sick sort of fascination as the older -maybe ten- sighs and rubs his forehead thoughtlessly, other arm swinging around the smaller set of shoulders, answering "What would it matter if they did? They're gone."Series
- Part 1 of The Cave.