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Tim woke up from a Nightmare, hes been having a lot of them mostly about his dads death. Tonight he sees his father’s lifeless corpse on the ground with a baterang in his chest then his father’s ghost starts screaming at Tim that it was his fault. Usually the nightmares are worse so he got lucky, but still it shaked him and every time he closes his eyes he sees the blood, the empty eyes and his father’s face. The face of the man who called him chum, who used to play football with him (before Tim turned 8 and he started to leave Tim alone in the manor ) the man who no matter what, he just kept loving. He can’t go to sleep but he had been awake for past 74 hours before this and he was tired and he wants his dad.He just wants his dad to hug him and tell him that it’s going to be okay and that nothing is going to happen, just like he does with dick and Damian. So what does Tim logically do? He goes to Bruce’s room, it’s not so far away and he just wants someone to hold him, but what if Bruce doesn’t want to have Tim cuddling him? Sure when Damian has a nightmare he always goes to Bruce’s room and Bruce comforts him so why couldn’t Tim do the same, sure he isn’t Bruce’s biological child but still cass and dick did the same. So without thinking any more and muttering “what’s the worst that can happen “under his breath he grabbed his shark plush that dick gave him when he first started as robin, (he doesn’t tell dick that it’s now his emotional support shark because he will never live it down) just in case Bruce actually doesn’t mind Tim cuddling him. When Tim is in front of Bruce’s door he pauses for a second to really think about it, he does come to the conclusion that in fact the worst that can happen is Bruce kicking him out and ignoring him or something like that. He opens the door walks to the bed and crawls next to Bruce, obviously Bruce noticed,he noticed that something was wrong the moment he heard someone outside his door at 4 am in the morning ( obviously he did he’s Batman) but he expected Damian,Cass or dick( for fucks sake he even would have thought it was Jason maybe coming back from patrol wanting to ask him a question or even having a nightmare, he sometimes goes to Bruce’s room after particularly bad nightmares) who he didn’t expect was Tim, Timothy his most independent child the boy that practically saved him. it’s not like it was the bad kind of surprise he is glad even happy that Tim finally trusted him enough to go in his room at 4 am. Tim has always been the most hesitant to go to Bruce if he needed anything so when Tim crawled to cuddle him in bed he was taken aback but just for the sake of Tim he didn’t let it show instead he hugged his son that he loved oh so much tightly and fell asleep.