Drabble: Darkness and Light

[starsandsea]

Title: Darkness and Light
Rating: PG
Character/Pairing: Bruce/Clark, Dick, Alfred
Word Count: 232
Disclaimer: I own nothing
Author's Note: A belated present for eve_k! Dick is maybe 9? 10? in this, I think. And it's odd. But then all my stories are. :P Unbetaed, so point and I shall correct.



Dick looked around the gloomy manor. It always got like this when Clark was away for a long time. He brought the sun in. Dick knew he did that too, but Clark made it extra sunny. Extra bright.

Bruce pretended to grumble about it, saying that he needed the darkness, but Dick knew that Bruce was really bright too. He just hid it under all the darkness. He wondered what Bruce was afraid of, sometimes, that he didn't want to show his brightness. Clark had said that Bruce needed to have the darkness so people could be afraid of him. If he let the light in too much, let it show too much, then people wouldn't be afraid of him anymore. But Dick still didn't understand why Bruce couldn't do that around the manor, around him and Clark and Alfie. Clark had just looked at him sadly, then said he would understand when he was older. He heard Clark and Alfie talking about it later, Alfie saying something about how Bruce was afraid he was going to forget his parents if he didn't hide in the darkness.

Dick never asked again. He didn't mind being the light for Bruce. But Clark made the light extra special.

When he saw Bruce with Clark, the light became blindingly brilliant. Dick could only grin at the sight of it.