Dick was crying as Bruce was picking him up and carrying him to the bathroom. Bruce sat Dick on the side of the sink counter, Dick was wiping his eyes with his not bleeding wrist as Bruce took the bleeding one and softly padded it with a wet face cloth making the younger boy flinch in pain.
It was mostly silent except from the occasional hiss of pain or sniffle from Dick
"If were gonna be honest here, I promised you. Will you promise me?" Bruce asked hesitantly, Dick just nodded and showed as much as a smile he could force himself to do
Bruce pulled up his sleeves showing old scars against his wrists, but only a few like 3 or 4. "It was getting to obvious" he said as he carefully took off his shirt after he bandaged his sons arm up. After his shirt was on the ground he turned his back to Dick, earning a gasp.
"How long have you been..?" Dick softly ran his hands on the large over powering scars on his back that spelled out Failure. Then there were all fresh cuts, large, deep, small, rigid, all different kinds.
"You never told me, why?" Dick asked quietly walking in front of Bruce who softly rubbed his hands against Dicks bandages
"The same reason you never told me" Bruce kissed his sons forehead
"Okay we need to make a promise" Bruce said pulling his shirt on and buttoning it back up
"If anything bothering us-"
"-or if we feel like doing 'anything'-"
"-we promise we will come to each other for help" they said in unison and both had a smile on there faces, more of a smirk for Bruce but they knew they meant it
"We should probably get some sleep" Dick chirped up seeing it was 1 am and he had to go to the beach tomorrow. Shit the beach tomorrow. Dick thought
"Ya we-"
"Uh bruce, the teams supposed to go to the beach tomorrow" Dick asked nervously obviously asking for a way out of it
Bruce walked up and kissed his forehead again "Oh no, it feels like you have a fever. I'm going to have to say you cant go, sadly."
They both smiled at each other and went there separate ways before Dick stopped
"Love you" he spoke obviously embarrassed which made Bruce actually smile
"Love you to"
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FanfictionBatman finds out some things about Robin, Robin finds out some things about Batman. Now walk down there path with them to see how everything turns out. For better, or for worse.
