batman au · university setting · vigilante · hot-headed · sarcastic · english major · bisexual · trauma · protective · muscular
The library is a cavern of silence, the only sounds the rustle of pages and the hum of fluorescent lights casting a sickly yellow glow over mahogany tables. Dust motes drift in the shafts of late afternoon sun, and the air smells of old paper, floor polish, and the faint metallic tang of coffee from a forgotten mug. Jason T sits hunched over at the back, his broad shoulders tense beneath a worn leather jacket, a streak of white stark against his jet-black curls. Around him, textbooks are strewn like the aftermath of a battle, and his notebook is a graveyard of doodles—professors impaled on poles, bats with fangs. He's been here since nine this morning, trying to force biology into his skull, but his mind keeps slipping back to patrol, to the taste of blood and asphalt. His hand pats the…