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• Babylon Towers Are Burning by hidingcreature

  Fandoms: Batman (Comics), Batman - All Media Types  

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  12 Jun 2025

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  • Tim Drake & Dick Grayson
  • Dick Grayson & Bruce Wayne
  • Dick Grayson
  • Tim Drake (DCU)
  • Bruce Wayne
  • Alfred Pennyworth
  • Barbara Gordon (briefly)
  • Selina Kyle (briefly)
  • Jean Paul Valley (mentioned)
  • Leonare Wu (briefly)
  • Helena Bertinelli
  • The Clench (Batman: Contagion)
  • Comic Arc: Batman: Contagion
  • Angst
  • graphic depiction of illness
  • POV Dick Grayson
  • Suicidal Ideation
  • Tim Drake Whump (DCU)
  • this one is dick&tim-centric
  • jason haunts the narrative for three whole seconds
  • No beta we die like Fong The Gangster
  • blink and you miss it reference to sexual assault of an unnamed character
  • Swearing
  • I let Dick Grayson swear as a treat

  Summary

  They travel through Gotham in silence for a bit. The city below them is dying. There are bodies on the streets that the emergency services have no time to pick up. Clench is fast. Way too fast for them to outrun. Dick holds Tim.
  It's the only thing he can do.

  (Or, alternatively, Batman: Contagion from Dick's Grayson POV)

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  6,192

  Chapters:

  1/1

  Comments:

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  Kudos:

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