Fiance?

( it's almost insulting, hearing that word. dick grayson -- this dick grayson, with a word that means a future, and a life, dangling right in front of him and he ... he can't reach out and take it. that isn't him. he's a vigilante, and his entire family is dead or estranged -- the whole world might very well be dead on top of that, and

and nico says fiance, and dick has the gall to think, i want that.

bruce always taught him to be selfless. it's the mission, the people, justice that comes first, and the rest is all white noise. he'd be profoundly disappointed, dick thinks, to see his eldest son with a secret, dirty, domestic desire. )

N-no, I, uh. ( he shakes his head, knitting his eyebrows like that might shake memories back into his head. ) That's definitely not me, sorry. For what it's worth, this is the third time this has happened, now and, I'm, um. ( fuck. fuck. ) Sorry, again. I'm not who you expected. Dick freaking Grayson, huh? What a Casanova. Haha.

( not only did that dick have someone, he had someones. he had so man someones, his someones had someones. how can one version have at least four people, and this version have absolutely fucking no one? dick would like a refund on his shitty life, thanks. )