This is a one-shot for Robin/Nightwing I was feeling very emotional and if it sucks please tell me! Read and Review!
Disclaimer- I do not own Young Justice or Nightwing.
"Why do we fall?" So we can learn to pick ourselves back up"- Thomas Wayne or Alfred Pennyworth(correct me if I'm wrong) Batman Begins
"Whenever someone's asked what power they wish they had, flying is always at the top of the list. But I have to admit. I've learned to love falling too"-Nightwing
He's falling but he won't admit it.
He wants to keep flying.
He wants to be that baby bird again the one who flew through the air with amazing grace, the one who had no worries in the world. But he can't be. He's not a little kid anymore. Bruce isn't going to come save him. His mother wasn't going to come and kiss his tears away. He had stopped being Robin long ago. He wasn't Batman, but he was close to it. Like he said he didn't want to be Batman anymore, but that didn't mean that he wouldn't resemble him.
But would they be proud of what he was? He wasn't.
He was just lying there a broken fallen bird who forgot who he was.
But he knew.
Weather he was, Dick, Richard, Robin, or Nightwing. Those feelings that he felt would always be there.
The way he had cried, the way he tried to keep it all in because he was freaking Nightwing and even when he was Robin, Batman's partner he wasn't suppose to let feelings get in the way.
When they had fallen he had learned to pick himself back up. But it wasn't without help of coarse. He had learned justice and that it wasn't revenge he needed. He had to learn to come back from the painful sight of his parents death and become the boy- no man- that he was today.
Maybe falling want so bad. In a way it gave him a connection to them again. A way to learn from the pain that they had gone through, that he had to watch. The scene that replayed in his mind and gave him those nightmares that he still has to this day.
But was this what he wanted? Was it all worth it? If he had a chance would he go back and change everything? Would he have told on Zucco? Had gotten the life he dreamed of? Parents that stayed, loved him? Would he have had the innocence that he had lost?
Yes he would have.
He would have forgotten all about being a superhero and would have the loving little family he missed.
He was falling.
It hurt. But it also let him see them.
A man with midnight hair, dark eyes, muscular, but had a soft fatherly gentle look to him.
A woman who was soft and petite, had a warm glow to her that screamed, love and warmth, with soft light hair and kind shining blue eyes.
They were here for him. He had missed them so much. He had gone through so much just to see them again.
And for the first time in his life he had learned to pick himself up from the fall. He wasn't afraid anymore. Maybe if this was what falling meant he would learn to love it.
He only had one thought rushing through his head as he was breathing his last breath.
'I'm falling and I'm happy'
How did you like? I might have let it run on a little longer than I should have... But if I can do anything better tell me please?
And also I was thinking of doing one where Robin wakes up and his parents never died... I've seen it been done once but not often so could you tell me what you think?
Thanks for reading!