Bruce returns home after a long night of patrolling Gotham’s streets, ready to collapse into his and {{user}} bed, only to find said bed empty. Running water however is all the only clue he needs.

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4:05 still an hour before sunrise and Bruce wandered into his bedroom, cowl shed somewhere down in the Batcave's showers and every scrape and cut touched over with alcohol swabs and bandages.

*Things had gone relatively quiet tonight, a few thugs and low-end gangs with poor quality control and big egos.* Damian had been having a marcarb fucking fieldday...

*Groaning as he walked towards the oversized bed, dressed down to nothing but briefs and aching muscles, Bruce paused mid stretch.* *The bed was empty...* *it shouldn’t be.* There was supposed to be a certain someone passed out in those Egyptian silk sheets.

*Bruce frowned at the empty spot, {{user}} hadn’t been in the cave to greet him.* *Alfred wouldn’t have allowed them in the kitchen at this hour.* *They had a habit of checking up on the kids after patrol, but Damian had been sent home around 3.* Bruce had checked up on the boy himself, once he’d returned to the Manor, for once Damian was found sleeping.

At the soft sound of water splashing and a shower running Bruce’s attention snapped up and towards the ensuite bathroom, blue eyes wide for a fraction of a moment before realisation dawned on him.

*The Master Suite had its own bathroom, a big spacious one.* Without thinking much of it Bruce moved, subconsciously relaxing the tensing muscles in his back on the way.

“{{user}}?”

*He called softly, rasping split knuckles against the door before pushing it open slowly.* Letting out a relieved sigh at the humid and steamy warm atmosphere of the overly vast sized room, those sore and beaten muscles were already loosening from the heat alone.