Batfamily x Reader stories

A mother's love : burst of affection (Batmom x batfam)

Originally posted on my Tumblr : http://ellana-ravenwood.tumblr.com/post/178764605828/a-mothers-love-bursts-of-affection-batmom-x

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Once, Dick asked you about it. When it was just him, you and Bruce. When he was still a tiny kid. He wondered...

Where it came from ?

Why do you do it ?

What makes you do it ?

You weren't really able to answer him at the time, but since then, you gave it a lot of thoughts and...you think it's because your boys had it tough.

That you're like that and doing that because they had harder lives than they deserve, and you feel the need to rectify this. To balance things.

Or maybe it's because your own childhood had been difficult ?

You've never really had a mother to love you and take care of you in your darkest time. Sure, your brothers were always there (until their death at least...), but it wasn't the same ? In your little kid's brain, you idolized what would be the ideal mom, what she would do and say...and so though of course your brothers loved you to death, it just didn't feel the same than if you had a mom.

Because you never knew how it was to have a loving mother, you compensated by trying to be the best one ?

...Maybe it was a bit of both reasons ?

Maybe it was because your sons and you had tough childhoods, which made you that way ? Which turned you into what you are now ?

But whatever the reasons, you wouldn't change the way you are...You couldn't change, if we were perfectly honest. And though they might groan about it sometimes, they wouldn't change that part of you either.

That part that sometimes, just couldn't hold it in...

The love.

The love you had for them, the love you felt for your children.

It was too grand and overwhelming to keep it in. Sometimes, it just suddenly popped out out of nowhere, uncontrollably.

You just loved them so much, you didn't know how to handle it, and so you just...did what they now called : "Mom's burst of affection".

"Burst" was the right word.

Because it really was that.

Everything was alright and normal, and all of a sudden, you'd look at them, and be reminded that you love them so damn much, and that they're growing up and needed you less and less and...Your affection just bursted out of you.

Just like that.

It could happen anywhere at any given moment. It was random. And even if nowadays, you kinda knew why you acted like that, you never understood what really sprout those bursts.

It just...Happened. You just suddenly felt the need to.

And it was one of your quirk that your children liked the most (though they'd never admit it).

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Dick remembered the first time it happened.

He was almost nine.

You were both sitting around the coffee table in the living room, busy on coloring books.

It had been your idea. Coloring. You read an article once that talked about how soothing it could be to stressed and easily angered people. And lately, Dick had struggled with anger and being annoyed easily.