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searching faces by Take_Me_To_My_Fragile_Dreams
Fandoms: DCU, Red Hood and the Outlaws (Comics), DCU (Comics), Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics)
01 Apr 2025
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“I need your help,” Tim says. “I need - “ again, the liquid sloshes in his cup. He releases it to rub his hands over the fabric of his pants. “I need your help.”
“Do you?” She is usually not the one approached for these sorts of things. Jason gets the calls, and Roy charms his way into information. She is merely a companion, one that most people stay away from. “What sort of help do you require, Tim Wayne?”
There’s a flinch, so minute anyone else would have missed it. He lets out a harsh breath and grabs for his drink once more. He yanks his mask down in one swift motion and brings the straw to his lips. He drinks like someone who hasn’t had water in days, with a single minded determination Kori has seen plenty of men use to go at bottles in dark lit bars.
His face is flushed. The red comes through in blotchy patches made worse by the stark white that splatters the lower left of his jaw. On his cheeks are two reddened slashes. They start at the corners of his lips and cut up towards his ears in diagonal lines.
“Sanctuary,” he says, when his cup is empty and his mask is up once more. “I seek sanctuary.”
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In the aftermath of Joker's torture, Tim runs to the only place left he can think of.
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- Part 1 of finding your way home
- Part 1 of DC works
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I long for things I should not say by Take_Me_To_My_Fragile_Dreams
Fandoms: DCU, DCU (Comics), Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics)
24 Nov 2024
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“I couldn’t help but overhear that you’ve subjugated humanity.”
A purr rumbles in Dick’s chest. “They were fools to stand against us. I warned them from the beginning.”
“Wow.” Tim shakes his head slowly. “Hearing that from you is - weird.”
“You know of an alternate me?”
“Yeah. He’s - well. I guess he used to be my mentor. I’m not really sure what we are anymore.”
“He’s human?”
“Mostly. He’s got the Sight and a wanderer’s Spirit but he’s still probably more human than the rest of us. He definitely acts like it, at least.” The smile that crosses his lips is small and sad. “He was my hero once, but he doesn’t approve of what I’m doing. Not anymore.”
“What would he think of me?”
“You?” Tim looks up at him, as if seeing him for the first time. There’s humor in his eyes, made morbid by the words that follow. “You would horrify him.”
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- Part 2 of DC works
- Part 4 of DickTimWeek
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where do you run by Take_Me_To_My_Fragile_Dreams
Fandoms: DCU, Batman - All Media Types, DCU (Comics), Nightwing (Comics)
21 Jul 2023
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Dick heads to Mumbai to find out more about Ra's mysterious heir. There, he runs into Timothy Drake, a visiting business man who can't possibly have anything to do with his mission. Or can he?
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- Part 3 of DC works
- Part 1 of DickTimWeek
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no place like home by Take_Me_To_My_Fragile_Dreams
Fandoms: DCU, Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), DCU (Comics)
27 Jun 2023
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Two years after an accident that left Tim without a mask and no real life purpose, he's worked hard to make a new place for himself, to build a home, but the arrival of a hooded vigilante runs the risk of ruining it all.
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“Is this blackmail?”
“Blackmail? No.” There’s a scoff. “Not real sure what this is yet, t’ be honest. I was plannin’ on shootin’ ya and bein’ done with it but it looks like someone else got to ya first.”
Tim’s smile is brittle at best. “If you don’t know what this is,” he says with all the cold calm instilled in him by Janet Drake. “then perhaps you should come back later. I have animals to feed, Mr…?”
“Red Hood.”
He makes a polite sound, as if that’s as normal a name as any.
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- Part 1 of Tim Drake's farm for wayward souls
- Part 4 of DC works
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one hell of a bluff by Take_Me_To_My_Fragile_Dreams
Fandoms: DCU, DCU (Comics), Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics)
23 Jun 2024
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“It’s not a punishment,” is what Dick tells them, “it’s a training exercise. Right, Bruce?”
Bruce, who stands beside him, who is supposed to be both their trump cards, takes a not-so-discreet elbow to the ribs and echoes in the voice of a damned man, “a training exercise.”
Really, it’s all downhill from there.
(aka the roadtrip nobody asked for)
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- Part 5 of DC works
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I saw you by Take_Me_To_My_Fragile_Dreams
Fandoms: DCU, Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), DCU (Comics)
29 Oct 2024
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He’s shivering by the time he reaches Drake manor, early into the morning. He wraps himself in blankets and sits in the mirror room, staring at where his face should be, but where Robin’s is instead. The domino hides the eyes; despite that, Tim knows what’s—or rather, who—is behind it now.
It’s there, alone in his parents’ too-big-house, that he makes the decision to never tell another soul of what he knows. He is, after all, becoming very well acquainted with keeping secrets. Especially the dangerous variety.
(Or, Tim is a mimic. It changes a lot)
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- Part 6 of DC works
- Part 1 of mimic this
- Part 3 of DickTimWeek
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termination: undefined by Take_Me_To_My_Fragile_Dreams
Fandoms: DCU, Batman - All Media Types, Cyberpunk 2077 (Video Game), Cyberpunk & Cyberpunk 2020 (Roleplaying Games)
15 Jul 2024
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Where Tim is a graveyard of science, Dick is the flowering meadow. They could not be more different. It’s why Tim doesn’t understand—still doesn’t really understand—why Dick took a shine to him so quickly. At age fifteen, Bruce took him in and Dick, who was Bruce’s ward and assistant, took a personal interest in his recovery. Tim was half convinced he’d been doped with Glitter the first time he woke up in Bruce’s clinic to see Dick hovering by the chair, asking if he needed anything.
(a series of interconnected one-shots that are stand alone unless otherwise specified)
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- Part 7 of DC works
- Part 1 of fake realities
- Part 2 of DickTimWeek
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we feel like home by Take_Me_To_My_Fragile_Dreams for wickedsmille
Fandoms: DCU, Batman - All Media Types
24 Sep 2024
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Jason’s magic surges as he bares his teeth. He towers over Tim, big and imposing. Green pushes up against Tim’s shields, searching for weakness. “I don’t need a familiar,” Jason hisses.
Tim stares him down coldly. His heart races in his chest, but Jason doesn’t need to know that. Jason needs to see that he will not be walked over, that Tim is his mother’s son and has plenty of teeth of his own.
“Liar.”
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(Or, Jason doesn't want a familiar; Tim doesn't want a bond. Bruce has other ideas.)
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- Part 8 of DC works
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death becomes by Take_Me_To_My_Fragile_Dreams
Fandoms: DCU, DCU (Comics), Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics)
20 May 2025
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It starts with a man who won't let himself die; who leads to a daughter who births a son. The son is the true beginning, really. It's the son that leads him to Gotham, to the Bat and his shadows. Tim takes things from there.
(Banshee!Tim adopts the Bats. Shenanigans ensue.)
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- Part 9 of DC works
- Part 5 of DickTimWeek
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a question of suit by Take_Me_To_My_Fragile_Dreams
Fandoms: DCU, Batman - All Media Types, DCU (Comics)
25 Jun 2025
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Jason has some concerns about the Stray suit. Unfortunately for him, Tim would have to consider his own well being in order to be capable of hearing them in the first place.
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- Part 2 of mimic this
- Part 10 of DC works
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It'd come to them in the mail, hand delivered to Wayne Manor's mailbox in a seemingly innocuous brown box with a postage stamp that didn't make any sense and a sticky note with a little smiley face on the front. They'd run it through all the machines in the cave before finally opening it up to find the pieces of Tim's cut up Red Robin suit alongside a Polaroid of Tim mask-less and a thumb drive with a single video on it.
Dick can still see the way Tim had listed on the rusty coroners table, skin bruised and lacerated in all the places his clothes didn't cover. He'd looked so small in all the leather straps. Like he was bird boned and too rough a touch would make him snap.
Worst of all, though, was the way something had squealed off camera seconds before Tim had erupted into the most gut wrenching screams Dick had ever heard. He's seen a lot of messed up stuff, things that continue to haunt his nightmares; none of it has made him as violently sick as he was that day in the cave, bent double and dry heaving into the dark as he listened to Tim and his daemon scream.
It was low to target someone's soul but that had never stopped the Joker.
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- Part 11 of DC works
- Part 6 of DickTimWeek
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you can take it all by Take_Me_To_My_Fragile_Dreams for oliversong
Fandoms: DCU, Batman - All Media Types
15 Jul 2025
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Tim takes Dick's face firmly between his hands and closes what little space is still between them. "Dick," he says, so close he can practically feel the heat coming off of Dick's skin in waves, "this is me, entirely sober, telling you that I consent. Whatever your body is telling you it needs, whatever you want to do, it's okay. I promise. And if—" he hesitates, his own chest aching with the words that follow, "—if it's me that's the problem, you have my word that I won't touch you. This is on your terms, as much as it can be."
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- Part 12 of DC works
- Part 7 of DickTimWeek
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the rock and the tether by Take_Me_To_My_Fragile_Dreams
Fandoms: DCU, Batman - All Media Types
19 Jul 2025
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Dick has always been the rock of the family, the thing that everyone moors themselves to in the storm, but Tim is the tether. Dick doesn't work without Tim there to keep everyone from being swept away. It's about time that he reminds him they're a team.
Or: Tim is de-aged, Dick follows suit and relationships are mended.
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- Part 13 of DC works
- Part 8 of DickTimWeek
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these shadows (become monsters) by Take_Me_To_My_Fragile_Dreams
Fandoms: Danny Phantom, Batman - All Media Types
05 Aug 2025
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The Court of Owls is yet another line on Danny's never ending to-do list and they've issued a formal invitation. It isn't until he arrives in Gotham that he realizes what he thought was a clear cut case is not so simple, after all, and it's all hands on deck for the Phantoms' when Lady Gotham issues a demand bearing four faces.
(Or: Four Talons, four ghosts, one angry city spirit and an entire murder cult. What could go wrong?)
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- Part 14 of DC works
- Part 1 of love (with teeth and claw)
- Part 1 of DC x DP
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every bat has a cat by Chubby_P1nk, Take_Me_To_My_Fragile_Dreams, WindyEngel
Fandoms: Danny Phantom, Batman - All Media Types
13 Aug 2025
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There’s an old phrase in Gotham: every Bat has a Cat.
Like most things whispered through Gotham’s smog, it’s only mostly untrue. Technically, the only Bat who ever really had a Cat was Batman himself—and even that’s been more of a tug-of-war than a love story. Though, not for lack of effort on Catwoman’s part. She’s tried everything: seduction, threats, borderline kidnapping. At one point, she swore she’d adopt all of Batman’s kids just to spite him. She’s teamed up with the Birds of Prey—where a few of the Bat-daughters moonlight—and once even tried to snatch up little Timothy Drake, back when he was still following the Bats around with a camera. It didn’t last long. Her first Stray had too big of a heart and was far too self sacrificing to not become the Robin Batman needed after Jason Todd's death.
And then there was that… incident with Nightwing. But Gotham doesn’t talk about that. Gotham forgets. Gotham represses.
Still, the saying sticks around, mostly as a joke. A rite of passage, the locals will wink: “Once the birds become Bats, they’ll find their Cat.” Like puberty, but with more rooftop flirting and potential felony charges.
It's all fun and folklore—until it isn’t.
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the lie in temporary by Chubby_P1nk, Take_Me_To_My_Fragile_Dreams, WindyEngel
Fandoms: Danny Phantom, Batman - All Media Types
13 Feb 2026
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Phantom’s claws tighten against Tim’s back in subtle warning. His voice slides through the air, velvet and steel all at once: "Pleased to see me… and my Temporary Consort."
The word lands like thunder.
Tim freezes. Consort. It's exactly what he was aiming for when he propositioned Phantom the night before and still, to hear it out loud feels final. He's taken a step out into the unknown and has yet to find if there's something there to actually support him.
The shift in the air is immediate—murmurs, restrained outrage, a spike of cold hostility that presses in from every side.
Phantom only smiles wider, lowering his head until his lips brush Tim’s ear. His whisper is a growl, a caress, a threat all in one. "Stand tall, little bird. Let them look… and know you are mine."
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Or the story of how High King Phantom met his High Consort and the journey between Temporary and Permanent.
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- Part 3 of the deaths I've lived for you
- Part 16 of DC works
- Part 2 of DC x DP
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we need (more teeth) by Take_Me_To_My_Fragile_Dreams, WindyEngel
Fandoms: Danny Phantom, Batman - All Media Types
07 Feb 2026
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Dick’s mouth twists into something feral, teeth bared in a grin that’s half threat, half promise. He tugs Tim flush against him until their breaths mingle, voice low and dangerous. “That’s exactly what we’ll do—we’ll drag both of them back from wherever the hell they slipped off to, and we’ll make them answer. Alive. Breathing. Explaining.”
Tim’s hands fumble in Dick’s hair, clutching like a lifeline. “You won’t kill him,” he snaps, urgent, hoarse. “I want him. I want to keep him.”
For a breath the room holds still. Then Dick’s expression shifts — something softer and almost tender under the surface. He mulls it, thumb rubbing over the tense muscle at Tim’s hip.
“Fine,” he says finally, low and absolute. “We bring them back. We question them until they confess the truth. You get yours— use him for whatever you want. I get mine too. If either of them hurts you, I gut them myself.”
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