( bruce is trying. damian can see it, even if he disagrees with what he's trying to do. but he understands this is also - bruce defending himself, albeit one that is entirely different. damian sees those edges, too: where this bruce and his own collide, the differences between them, how this one is still so - young, untested. he could get into it. could yell and scream for days about all the stupid, reckless things his father does when he should know better.

yet all he does is turn his head to give bruce the flattest look. )

If you ever fall from several stories up, dislocate your shoulder and elbow while drugged to the point you would have died if I wasn't there to administer a cure, then insist on suiting back up, I will dislocate both of your knees and give your cowl to Todd.