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    “You saw the body?” Jason asks. It’s a stupid question—of course Tim saw it. Tim was the one who found it, who rolled it into the carpet in the first place. But there’s a second question wrapped up in his strangled tone, which is: Are you okay after seeing the body?

    Tim just purses his lips, almost indignant. “This isn’t the first time I’ve seen a corpse before, Jason.”

    Right, Jason thinks, but it’s the first time the corpse has been your own fucking dad.

     

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    Tim is desperate to keep his father’s death a secret from Bruce at all costs. Which is how he ends up hiding a body with Jason Todd, of all people.

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    16 Jan 2026

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    “Let's start with something easier,” blue man says. “Can you tell me your name?”

    “Timothy Jatson Drate,” Tim replies. Then he frowns. “I tan’t say it right.”

    Cuh sounds and guh sounds are difficult for Tim. Mommy says he'll get the hang of them if he keeps practicing though.

    “That's okay, Tim,” blue man smiles again. “How old are you?”

    Tim knows this one. He's been working really hard on his numbers. “Four!” He holds up four fingers. “That's this many!”

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    Four-year-old Tim is having a sleepover with the Waynes. He just wishes he knew when his parents were going to call.

    (Meanwhile, Tim's family are trying desperately to avoid letting him know that until yesterday he was seventeen – and that his parents won't call him ever again.)

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    12 Jan 2026

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    The legend of Loch Gotham says that any child left on her shores will be taken by the guardian of the lake.

    Tim Drake decides to test that theory.

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    12 Dec 2025

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    The fronds of the potted bush he’d taken refuge next to tickled the side of his wrist as he batted it away for the umpteenth time. He glanced down at it, bored, watching the leaves bend and bob—

    There was kid in the potted plant.

    Now, Dick had found kids in stranger places, but that usually happened when he was in the suit. Robin helped pull kids out of chimneys, chipped them free of ice, heck, even seen one floating away while tied to a giant balloon shaped like a question mark. He didn’t even want to contemplate the trauma that poor kid was probably experiencing to this day.

    But as plain old Dick Grayson? Nope.

    (It might not be a cabbage patch, but if one finds a kid under a leaf, does the rule of dibs apply? Dick Grayson would like to know)

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    10 Dec 2025

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    The Justice League is stretched thin when mysterious fixes and yellow sticky notes signed -b start appearing across the Watchtower. Nobody knows who it is, but its precise, chaotic interventions keep them alive.

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    Cryptid Bruce is tired of the most powerful beings not being able to organize a tool box.

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    09 Dec 2025