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You learn to breathe by nxttime
Fandoms: Batman (Comics), Red Hood and the Outlaws (Comics), Batman - All Media Types
28 Jan 2026
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Dick finds out about what Bruce did to Jason and he won't stand for it. Not anymore.
Formerly titled "Never Again"
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the limbo between presence and absence by nxttime
Fandoms: Moon Knight (Comics), Marvel (Comics)
25 Dec 2025
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Marc's got some time to himself, which means he's got space to think. That goes...a way.
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mirror mirron on...wait, where's my mirror? by nxttime
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types
24 Dec 2025
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Brotherly shenanigains while Jason goes apartment hunting!
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come, let's watch the rain (as it's falling down) by nxttime
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics)
18 Sep 2023
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Jason's died again, and Tim finds Dick sitting by the headstone, just staring at it. Tim helps Dick cope with the loss again, and sticks with him through the apathy, nightmares, panic attacks, and anger. He stays with him through the good days and the bad ones, and Dick repays the favor on the days he can/Tim needs him to. Hopeful ending. Just two bros getting each other through another loss.
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these bruise-colored skies by nxttime
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), Red Robin (Comics)
24 Apr 2021
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Tim lay there and stared up at the stars, and he started to think.
To wonder.
Robin's just been taken from him, so Tim goes on a road trip to think. He runs into a familiar face while out and gets to talking. Meanwhile, back in Gotham, Dick is tearing himself apart in an effort to keep the world from collapsing around him. He starts to wonder where it all started going wrong.
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they say we die twice by nxttime
Fandoms: Injustice: Gods Among Us, Batman - All Media Types
22 Apr 2021
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“I lost my wife—”
“You didn’t watch it.”
“I lost my planet—”
“You never knew your planet.”
“I’ve lost more than you ever will!”
“You’re wrong again.”
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walk slow through the fire by nxttime for withthekeyisking, loosingletters
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics)
02 Jun 2020
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Maybe the multiverse is real, he thought to himself, staring at the lights hanging above him like they were stars. And maybe in one of them I’m a hero.
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He was sitting in a room, looking into a camera. He can’t remember why. It’s important, though, that much he knows.
He takes a deep breath.
“Hello, future.”
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Merit by nxttime
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), Red Robin (Comics), Red Hood and the Outlaws (Comics)
08 Feb 2020
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"If it [my heart] stopped… …Would you miss me?"
Tim's not doing too good.
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holds my hope by nxttime
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), Nightwing (Comics), Red Hood and the Outlaws (Comics), Red Robin (Comics)
08 Oct 2019
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Part two!
Jason is very tired and stressed but he refuses to let himself sleep, Dick is also very tired and stressed but he does catch a z or two, Tim is asleep the entire time, Dick has a good partner, and everyone is everywhere and nobody knows what is going on at all because neither do I :D
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- Part 2 of Whumptober 2019
- Part 2 of this isn't how it's supposed to be
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Whumptober prompt day 5: Gunpoint
Jason and Tim deal with a situation at Gotham National Bank, and things take a hard left.
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- Part 1 of Whumptober 2019
- Part 1 of this isn't how it's supposed to be
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another shot of whiskey by nxttime for withthekeyisking, loosingletters, Sidhewrites
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), Nightwing (Comics), Red Hood and the Outlaws (Comics), Red Robin (Comics)
04 Oct 2019
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Gotham City. She was known to the world as New Jersey’s sin city, made hell seem like a tourist attraction. Whispers of her streets and the tales they could tell reached every corner of the United States, at the very least, if not including Canada and Mexico. Tales of the gore spilled on her streets, of malice unleashed upon her inhabitants, of cruelty that ran amok in her heart.
Those stories were far outdated; by a decade or so, in fact.
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- Part 1 of thank you for driving me crazy
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and I won't lose hope by nxttime for withthekeyisking
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), Red Robin (Comics)
07 Sep 2019
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Every case was rough. He dealt with cases of rape, murder, hate crimes, drug overdoses, sexual assault, pedophilia, sexism, etcetera. Name a social issue and Tim had experienced and dealt with it, no doubt about it.
Every case sucked to deal with.
But some were harder to get through than others.
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woah, woe is him by nxttime
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), Red Hood and the Outlaws (Comics), Under the Red Hood, Red Hood: Lost Days
04 Sep 2019
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He swallowed thickly, squeezing his eyes shut tighter, and realized how hard he was crying as tears dripped off his jaw, hands gripping the instruments they held tightly out of emotion but delicately out of respect and care, teeth biting his lower lip so hard he bled as he started to lower the violin and bow, now visibly trembling that he’s finished the song.
It came out perfect.
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- Part 1 of we're lost then we're found
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all the time by nxttime
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), Nightwing (Comics), Red Hood and the Outlaws (Comics)
31 Aug 2019
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Stressed was a good word for how Dick was feeling. So was defeated; exhausted and drained were good ones too.
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living in a world so cold (so crowded) by nxttime
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), Nightwing (Comics)
28 Aug 2019
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When he got to his apartment, Dick was shaking and he couldn’t control it. His hair—his entire body—was damp and water was steadily dripping off him to the floor of his apartment, which he’d normally try to prevent by taking his jacket and shoes off at the door, but he'd come in through the window and he wasn’t wearing a jacket because Nightwing didn’t wear one and he—
He couldn’t think.
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- Part 2 of so it looks like i'm doing abo now
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quick, before you skip the song by nxttime
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), Green Lantern - All Media Types
25 Aug 2019
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“I don’t mind if you sleep over at all, Tim,” Bruce reassured with a small smile, ruffling Tim’s hair when he’d walked over. “You know our door is always open to you.”
“I fuckin’ told ya,” Jason immediately crowed in triumph.
Tim threw a couch pillow at him and Jason laughed.
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- Part 2 of I'm not where I'm s'posed to be
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listen to my aching heart by nxttime
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), Green Lantern - All Media Types
23 Aug 2019
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If you asked him, Dick would immediately tell you that—for him—being a Blue Lantern was great. He represented hope; he got to spread it and literally glow the color around the galaxy.
It was wonderful.
But, sometimes while he was out with the stars, he did miss home. He missed Bruce when he wasn’t with him, yes, but he mostly missed Jason and Tim and Ms. Esther from across the hall.
Even when he was around on Earth he wasn’t really there. Space was tiring, and when he came home it was to rest.
Today, though, was a day with Jason.
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- Part 1 of I'm not where I'm s'posed to be
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It's who we are by nxttime
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), Red Robin (Comics)
20 Aug 2019
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“You gonna jump?” Drake spoke up, still looking down at the life below them, voice without judgment and ire, simply calm as if he were addressing a co-worker or an old friend.
Damian continued to pay attention, settling himself comfortably as he watched.
“Maybe,” the man replied hollowly. “I don’t see why not.”
Drake hummed, kicking his feet a little.
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I lost myself in this maze (yes, it haunts me) by nxttime for withthekeyisking
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), Nightwing (Comics), Red Hood and the Outlaws (Comics), Under the Red Hood
29 Jul 2019
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Jason was the one who discovered Dick was missing, and damn him Dick just threw all of Jason’s careful planning out the fucking window.
He hadn’t figured it out because Dick had missed a meet up, or because Dick wasn’t answering any imaginary calls, or because he was in Blüdhaven and hadn’t seen Nightwing around.
Nah, he’d figured it out because—for whatever reason Jason couldn’t even begin to fathom—he’d gotten an e-mail from the Iceberg Lounge, inviting the Red Hood as a guest of honor.
An e-mail.
__“A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for a time of adversity.” – Proverbs 17:17