#he’s only a little salty damian didn’t tell him about Danny first

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One of the two puppies that survive go to each of them and they meet up regularly so the dogs can see eachother again and socialize.

The puppies absolutely love Titus, and since he’s so much bigger than them they *must* climb him. Danny and Damian go on dog walks, play dates, dog park, even watching eachothers dogs for them sometimes. Neither realize it’s kind of a date but soon enough they start hanging out outside of dogs.

The batfam are confused yet excited that damian has a new friend. They think he met Danny as a civilian and they bonded over dogs. They don’t know Danny met Robin and now knows the secret but doesn’t care.

Damian meets Cujo goes surprisingly well, eventually they both have no secrets between eachother and start dating for reals. The batfam wonders where Damian is going all day and why does he look so happy.

Que batfamily stalking damian only to find a secret boyfriend!! Dick cries, they all confront Damian, spy on Danny, look into his background, and ofc all of them have to give him the shovel talk. Danny is pretty much unfazed.

Meanwhile all the ghosts and Jazz decide to give Damian a shovel talk of their own. Jazz was the scariest and Damian will never cross her.

Eventually Damian introduces Danny to the family and is a bit upset his boyfriend (and dogs) gets along with his siblings so well. Bruce is suspicious and suspects Danny is a meta but doesn’t want to upset Damian so he keeps an eye on it.

This is getting long but anyways. Shenanigans ensue. Danny meets Jason and y’all can decide how that goes. Damian goes on a trip to the ghost zone, meets the Fentons (yikes), and meets Dani. Things go well, until he finds out about the GIW👀

But yeah anyways they’re cute and I love them

The last thing Robin expected on this winter evening was to be in the river.

A dirty river where garbage, waste and corpses are thrown out.

And also a bunch of puppies, which, thank any extraterrestrial forces, continued to squeak.

Damian knew that it was frankly a bad idea to interrupt the patrol in order to save essentially already dead puppies. They obviously won't live long after that. But…

Maybe at least one will survive?

In Damian's head, for some reason it was a weighty reason to get into the river.

He took the bag and lifted it above the water. Dirty water trickled down from the cloth bag.

He was about to return when he was jerked out of the river.

– You'll get sick!, –Someone said, and then a coat fell on him, completely covering him.

The squeaking bag was brazenly taken away, and Damian, quickly throwing off his coat, just caught the moment when the stranger was untying the fabric, and one by one hid the puppies in his bosom.

The stranger was not much older than Robin, and under the light of a lone lantern and a snowy haze, he seemed strangely beautiful.

As if that's the way it should be.

Robin listens to this Winter Stranger swearing in an unknown language that was a bit like Latin, as well as cursing the "Ancients", whoever it was.

And it seemed right.

Even if he sometimes growled something towards Robin, it was expected.

Even when he was supporting the bottom of the jacket, and with one hand he was trying to put a discarded coat on Damian, it was familiar.

Even if he was constantly talking about what an idiot Robin was, and that he would definitely get sick, although Damian was not afraid of a cold. His immunity has been tempered by poisons that he has been taking since infancy. And a simple river can't make him come down with this very "cold" that a Stranger is worried about

However, this person didn't even try to listen to him. He jerked on Robin's coat, once again discarded, and with his free hand picked him up and dragged him to the nearest apartment building, which looked like an old broadcasting studio.

Small details filled Damian's mind.

Is the stranger dangerous?

No

No, definitely not. Damian felt it with all his "absent" heart.

This man clearly had experience with stressful situations, although by the fact that he did not recognize him, Batman's Pocket Demon, it is clear that he is not from Gotham… And he's not interested in the hero industry at all.

His steps were wide, and he moved as if he wasn't wearing any slippers and there wasn't ice on the street.

The Snow Stranger lived up to his title, and his body temperature was somewhat lower than the environment.

So much so that Damian was worried about the puppies, which abruptly quieted down.

Fuck! Puppies! To hell with the stranger!

–Give me the puppies, – he says, not letting go of the man's hand.

Damian's body temperature is a little higher than normal, and it would be better if he was that guy who could get lost among the snowdrifts.

The guy snorted, jumped on the icy steps, and opened the door of the house.

–You're cold yourself, I'm no better. Get in the house now! – He commands, and literally drags Damian into the house.

This can be considered a kidnapping. He will consider it a kidnapping. If he really hadn't been frozen to the bone, he would have already been asking the teenager for his whole background.

Damian was quickly seated on the sofa, where he was given a blanket and puppies, and the boy himself disappeared among the corridors to a strange big house.

Even their estate seemed smaller than this three-story house.

Strange.

In general, everything is strange…

He was in the river, but he's dry.

He's calm. He doesn't feel this hum at the edge of consciousness…

He doesn't feel any danger.

It's all weird. It looks like a dream.

A good dream, no nightmares.

This…

He rubs the puppies, trying to warm them up.

A few moments later, one of them stirred.

He put it down and picked up another one.

Rinse and repeat.

At some point, the Snow Guy joined him.

He doesn't know how long they've been sitting.

The sense of time is gone.

Was he

Puppies

Stranger

And the struggle for life.

...

Damian came home 24 hours later. In his hands is a puppy, in his pocket was a piece of paper with a phone number, and his biography could be updated in the section of personal life on "the case of custody of puppies with a man too good for me."