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“Perhaps you should consider a nap,” Damian replies, with as much sarcasm as he can muster.
For some reason, Damian’s suggestion just makes Tim laugh. Well, sleep deprivation has been known to cause a number of strange side effects, and Tim was never all that normal to begin with.
“Yeah,” he says, eyes flicking back to whatever garbage he is watching. “I’ll do my best.”
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Tim gets hit by something, and now he can't fall asleep. Damian is not concerned, not even a little bit; he just wants Tim out of the house again, that's all. Honest.
(He is maybe a little concerned.)
Whumptober 2022 No. 4 | Can't Pass Out
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- Part 7 of Whumptober 2022
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it rains (it pours) by NocturnalAnomaly
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Red Robin (Comics)
15 Feb 2023
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“Shut up!" Damian shrieked. If he had been anyone but Damian, Tim would have said he sounded like he was about to cry. "You are self-centred and selfish and you make everything about you! Everything!”
If Tim had been thinking more clearly, it might have registered in his brain that Damian was lashing out.
“Selfish?” His voice had taken on a dangerous edge. The tension in the cave ratcheted up another notch. “I’ve been stuck being perfect. My entire life!”
Damian rolled his eyes scornfully.
Tim couldn’t do this anymore.
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Tim is sleep-deprived, and as a result, Dick gets hurt. Damian is less than pleased. They argue, and Tim is just so, so tired.
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Tim tugged his coat tighter around him, trying to shield against the buffeting snow. There was a storm kicking up in the mountains. This would need to be a quick trip.
Despite how many times he had done this, he still hesitated before the dark. He knew what was inside, but he couldn’t help the nerves jumping in his stomach and the chill that crawled down his spine.
His father leaned down and pulled Tim’s hood up on his head.
“Remember, don’t look them in the eyes. Don’t listen to their words.”
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05 Jun 2026
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“Dick, look at the evidence! He’s not dead—”
“Grayson, the Pretender’s logic is not entirely without merit—”
“You’re going to take that track, Dickhead? Going to break this family up again—”
“I am trying to keep this family together!” Dick shouted. They all fell silent. “I am trying to keep this family together,” he repeated, his voice cracking.
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05 Jun 2026
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Where Mourning Ends by Cdelphiki for nxttime
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), Under the Red Hood
26 Feb 2019
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What if Bruce acted like an actual parent when Jason first revealed himself after his return to Gotham? Instead of deciding that 'this changes nothing' and declaring Red Hood as his enemy? How would he act if he were responding like a parent who has been mourning the death of a child as severely as canon depicted him mourning Jason's death?
Well, like this.
Starts off at Batman #641 and strays from there.
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05 Jun 2026
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your heart and mine reaching across the stars by arguablysomaya
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), Justice League - All Media Types
31 Jan 2021
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One quiet night at the Watchtower, Diana, Clark, and Bruce talk about their kids.
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05 Jun 2026
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The dragon of Gotham slowly took more and more children into his Manor ever so often. But the people in the city don't see what happens behind closed doors. The first night each child decides to stay is wildly different each time, but there is one constant: they all end up wrapped in Bruce's arms (or wings).
(You should probably read the first work in this series before trying this one)Series
- Part 2 of Light The World Up For Just One Day
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05 Jun 2026
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I walk the streets at night (with monsters in my mind) by arguablysomaya
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types
15 Apr 2020
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The City of Gotham is plagued by a dragon, one that draws lonely boys and girls to it every few years. The town watches, horrified, as time after time, children disappear into the forest, and the ones that stay behind are nearly as terrifying as the ones who go away.
Or: this fandom has a sad lack of dragon!au fics so I took the responsibility upon myselfSeries
- Part 1 of Light The World Up For Just One Day
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05 Jun 2026
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Bat Out Of Hell by arguablysomaya
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, DCU (Comics), Batman (Comics)
02 May 2020
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Five times the Bats are weird, and one time that weirdness saves the world
Or, the Bats are weird, everyone that’s even remotely aware of the superhero game knows this. But, odd as they are, they’re still humans. Which is why it should probably be impossible that they’re such forces of chaos. And when they’re all together? Well, most people are just glad they’re on the good side.
And they are.
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05 Jun 2026
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I found something (in the woods somewhere) by Choices_We_Make for Ceciliedr
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types
30 Aug 2021
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Jason pushed himself to his feet, closing the window silently, and flipped the light switch on before turning to look around. It was a room, probably a guest room. There was a desk, a closet, a bed, a boy, all neat and tidy and tucked away - Jason swiveled. That. That was. There was a boy on the bed. Laptop on his knees, camera on the bedspread beside him, staring as Jason curiously with wide blue eyes.
“Hello,” The boy said politely, and blinked at him, looking disturbingly like an owl.
The kid looked - he looked about ten, and that was his reaction to having a stranger break into his room in the middle of the night?
“You - ah,” Jason stalled, staring at him, a bit stupefied. “What are you doing here?”
The boy blinked at him again . “I - this is my house?”Jason runs, Timmy is just trying to help, bless his heart, and Dick is confused. It's a long night for everyone.
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05 Jun 2026
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Pictures Worth a Thousand Words by MotherOfOompaLoompas
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types
12 Mar 2021
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Benched for a few days, Tim dusts off his camera and goes back to one of his old hobbies: stalking vigilantes.
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05 Jun 2026
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He looked down to his hands. He was crouching, his knees bent. By raising his torso, his hands were now below his head. And he said looked down to his hands, but he guessed he should say he looked down to his claws.
Damn, that’s why Dick and Bruce didn’t want to come close.
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- Part 1 of Sworn On A Dragon's Heart
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05 Jun 2026
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Not So Large but Definitely In Charge by dottie_dc (dottie_wan_kenobi) for renecdote
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types
28 Dec 2019
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Alternate universes suck so much. Tim has always known that, but he’s never really grasped it, not until he and Dick were forcibly thrown into one a week ago.
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Written for the Gen Batfam Christmas Stocking 2019, for the prompt "Advice"
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- Part 4 of Batfam Stocking 2019
- Part 12 of Batfam Fics
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05 Jun 2026
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Tim Drake has a secret.
Well, he knows Batman's secret, but that one isn't really his, he's just holding on to it.
Tim's secret is that he and his parents are wolf shifters, and they refuse to let anyone know about it. But it's fine. He can shove down his feelings and instincts that whisper that he's been abandoned and live a perfectly normal Bat-photographer life.
Except that there's a black market for shifters and the way home is longer than he had thought possible.- Language:
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04 Jun 2026
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Jason heads to Titans Tower, intent on teaching his replacement a lesson.
Dragons are notoriously possessive of their hoards. And the Replacement stole his.
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04 Jun 2026
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Lost and found by Speechless_since_1998
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), DCU (Comics), DCU
29 Aug 2023
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His voice trembled, "You don't know what you're asking me."
"I'm asking you to stop being a coward and keep Timothy. He needs his father when I…"
She licked her chapped lips, then continued, "Look, if things had been different, I would never have told you the truth and we would all have continued with our lives. But Jack has decided to become a rich widower, who knows maybe he wants to marry one of his mistresses. I don't know and I don't care. What matters to me is that when I'm gone, Timothy may have someone to rely on. Can you do at least that?"
Bruce hesitated. There were tons of reasons to say no. Too many.
But that was a dying woman's wish. Who was he to deny it?
"Okay, Janet," he finally gave up.
“I will take care of Timothy.”
She smiled weakly, "Then you're not a coward like I thought."
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After Jason's death, Bruce has to start over. He doesn't have the luxury of giving himself up to crime-fighting with no quarter, not with a child to take care of.
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Thomas and Martha Wayne lost their son Bruce in the back street behind a theater in Park Row, a seedy neighborhood in Gotham now known as Crime Alley. Years later two boys show up and claim to be the adopted children of their long dead son and, well, let's just say stranger things have never happened.
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Tim and Jason accidentally stumble into a universe where Bruce Wayne died and Thomas and Martha lived.
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04 Jun 2026
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As much as Dick and his siblings have argued, Bruce has never budged on his "Keeping Secrets Policy". There's not a person alive outside of the family that knows the secret identity of any of the Bats. Not even Dick's boyfriend.
Dick understands the need for some secrets, knows that keeping their identities safe keeps them and their loved ones safe, but when he takes up the cowl, team dynamics aren't the only things that begin to change.- Language:
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03 Jun 2026
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There’s nobody in his safehouse. He can sleep now. He’s safe.
He is.
Mad Hatter tries hypnotism for the first time. Tim, shaken, tries to plan his way out of the hundreds of new alarming worse-case scenarios. He hasn't slept in five days and, according to Jason, it's long overdue.
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03 Jun 2026
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things could be stranger (im not sure how) by deargalileo for theurbanspaceboi
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types
21 Dec 2023
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“Wh' you guys doin'?” He needed water, desperately, but Bruce and Jason seemed more content to stare at him with wide eyes instead.
Something about them looked... Off. Tim squinted, trying to pick it out. It wasn't quite uncanny, but just. Different.
Bruce was missing a few scars on his face, though it could have just been the lighting, and Jason—
Tim blinked, as if that would change the sight in front of him. The warning bells in his head began to clang, clearing the clouds out of his mind.
”Did you dye your hair?“tim ends up in the wrong universe: one where batman doesn't exist. he's starting to feel like he's a cosmic joke at this point.
(birdwatchers one word prompt challenge - day 355 - difference)- Language:
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03 Jun 2026