Dick makes leaps of faith! (shadowofthebat) wrote in sog_ic, @ 2012-11-24 23:18:00 |
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Entry tags: | old - dick grayson, old - elizabeth raleigh |
Dawn of a New Day
Who: Dick Grayson and Liz Raleigh
Where: Wayne Manor
When: Thanksgiving Morning, November 22, 2012
What: Dick gives Liz the other tour.
Rating: PG?
Status: Completed in Gdocs
Despite his impossible hours of late, Dick stayed in the night before, and found himself awake before dawn, standing on the balcony outside the master bedroom of the manor, watching the low-lying fog roll in over the hills and picking out the barely visible tips of the pines on the west side of the estate, their dull green points like floating spinnerets in the mist. He stretched, as he always did before waking. Dawn was minutes away, but the cloud cover assured only the dullest of sunrises, an obfuscated bloom of ambient light creeping from the east and casting shadows out from where he propped, one leg on the bannister, his chest nearly flat against it, a grim face the only acknowledgment of familiar and recent pains. It was cold out, but he wore no shirt, used to worse due to his conditioning as Batman's apprentice from the earliest years of his life here in Bruce's castle.
Try as he might, Dick could still not consider it his. No matter that he'd stepped forward to fill Bruce's shoes, or what official paperwork carried his name. He was merely an occupant, now. He and Liz.
The sun would eventually burn the fog away and reveal the acreage of the estate, but before it did much more would be peeled away, revealed finally, despite the cautionary warnings issued by Tim Drake-Wayne, loyal brother and son.
He heard her stirring in the bed, his ears keen to pick up the sounds, and felt a change in wind as the door opened behind him.