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Live or Die While the Fuse is Lit Cause There's No Turning Back by That_One_Computer_Geek (T1CG)
Fandoms: Nightwing (Comics), Batman - All Media Types, Red Hood and the Outlaws (Comics), Young Justice (Cartoon), DCU
23 May 2025
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Summary
Blüdhaven is gone.
And so is the man Dick used to be. The Court of Owls found him in the wreckage and turned what was left into a weapon. Even after the Court fell, their claws stayed buried deep. Dick wears the right masks—Nightwing, dutiful son, loyal soldier—but underneath, he’s something else.
He swore he could keep the two lives separate. He almost believed it. Until he found Wally West—lost in Gotham, hurting, stubborn, good. Until Wally looked at him—not as Dick, not as Nightwing—but as something new. Something dangerous. And smiled anyway.
Wally doesn’t recognize him. He doesn’t know that the hands he trusts, the mouth he kisses, the shadows he falls into—all belong to someone who already betrayed him.
Dick tells himself he should let him go. That Wally deserves better. That loving him like this—lying to him like this—is a cruelty even the Court would envy.
But Dick is too far gone. Too broken to stop.
He can’t have Wally as the man he was.
But maybe, in the dark, behind a different mask, he can still hold onto him.
Even if it means becoming the thing he swore he’d never be.
Series
- Part 1 of Flying the Cage