A/N: Was listening to my ipod when this song came on. Couldn't resist the opportunity, so i give you some Father/son fluff!
Somewhere Only We Know by Keane
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They weren't excatly sure how they found it.
They had just been playing tag outside, and all of a sudden they just stumbled upon it.
Bruce looked around with wide eyes. All of his life he had lived in the Manor, yet he had never seen this place before.
"Wow!" Exclaimed six year old Richard, "this place is so cool!" and he was right. It was a large meadow filled with beautiful wild flowers all in bloom. It was located right in the middle of the dense forest behind the manor, and a river weaved its way around the trees and ran across the middle of the meadow. Its water was a clear and striking blue so unlike the water in Gotham. Bruce just gazed at it in wonder. How had he never known about this?
"Come on Daddy!" little Richard said, bringing Bruce out of his musings. "lets go look around!" Bruce chuckled at his exhuberant son, "All right, all right!" and let himself be dragged around by his little boy to look at the magnificent landscape and the wild life in it.
After a couple of hours of looking and playing, they were found laying in a tree on one of the thicker branches, trying to get dry after their splashing contest. Bruce lay with his back against the tree with Richard sitting comfortably in his lap. Richard, being so small, was able to curl up into a little ball, with still enough space to move if he wanted to. Bruce was gently running his fingers through his soft raven hair.
"Daddy?" Richard's sweet little voice brought him out of his thoughts "Hmm?" he hummed.
"Do you like it here?" he asked.
Bruce looked at him curiously "Yes." He said with an eyebrow raised.
Richard was fingering at the hem of Bruce's shirt now. "Did you have fun spending time with me here?" Bruce looked at him surprised. "Of course Dickie, I always have fun spending time with you." He lifted his little boy up into his arms so he was lying across his chest. "What brought this up, huh?" he inquired.
A blush starting forming on his face, "Well, since you like it here, and liked spending time with me, I was wondering if this could be our own special place? We wouldn't tell anyone about it, and it could just be ours. Somewhere only we know." He gazed up at him with those big, beautiful baby blue eyes and Bruce just instantly crumbled.
Bruce smiled. "I'd love that little bird." Dick smiled brightly up at him. "Then we have to make a promise. We can't tell or bring anyone else here because then it wouldn't be Our special place... we can't even tell Alfred." he whispered the last part as if Alfred would materialize in thin air.
Bruce felt a lump grow in his throat. Knowning that his son wanted to have this special place with just him and only him, and not anyone else, not even Alfred, caused a warmth to spread throughout his body. He kissed his little forehead. "I promise baby bird." Richard smiled at him brightly, and held up his little pinky "Pinky promise?"
Bruce chuckled and held up his own, much larger, pinky. "I pinky promise." they locked pinkies and Richard gave a satisfied nod. "Good, now it's Somewhere only we know." he got in a comfortable litttle ball again, and soon entered the land of dreams, a soft smile playing on his lips.
Bruce smiled softly and ran his fingers through his soft, silky black hair again, while also slowly falling into the land of dreams along with his son. But before he went completely under he couldn't help but chuckle softly "Yah... Somewhere only we know." and fell into a peaceful sleep with a content smile on his face, feeling safe with his little boy in his arms.