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    Little Brother, I'm Listening by

    Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Teen Titans - All Media Types, Nightwing (Comics), Batman (Comics)  

    14 Mar 2025

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    “Complicated?” Bruce says. He isn’t wearing a mask yet, and the computer lighting casts his shock in a blue glow. “Ra’s isn’t some two-bit villain. He’s a sophisticated megalomaniac who’s gotten it in his head he wants his grandson back. And Damian waited a month.”

    He waited until I was home, Dick doesn’t say. He feels the shame just as acutely anyways.

    Damian is more secure in his place at the manor, sure. That doesn’t erase a decade of childhood trauma. Of course he wouldn’t tell anyone but Dick.

    Dick’s the one who lived that trauma with him, the person who separated Damian from the whip. And then, when it came down to it, disobeyed Slade in his name.

    Dick is also the one who’s been cavorting around Bludhaven and avoiding Gotham for the past month.

    Really, it’s no wonder Damian reacted the way he did.

    Or, alternatively, Damian is taken to Nanda Parbat. Dick brings him home.

    Updates weekly or sooner. I have no patience.

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    13 Jun 2026

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    Oh, Father tell me, do we get what we deserve? by

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

    25 May 2026

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    Reverse Robins: Damian finds Dick after Tarantula takes him to a motel for a few weeks post-Blockbuster. They get through the aftermath together.

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    Dick isn't sure how long he's been staring at this grey wall.

    He isn't even sure how long it has been since he'd been brought here, or since She had taken his clothes…somewhere.

    Or where exactly “here” even is.

    Or where She had gone and for how long.

    All he knows is that the wall is his friend.

    It's safe.

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    09 Jun 2026

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    Trade my Tomorrows (For One Yesterday) by

    Fandoms: DC Extended Universe, Nightwing (Comics), DCU (Comics), Batman - All Media Types  

    07 Jun 2022

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    Things I don't see in DC yet - Dick Grayson time travelling, deciding to join Talon just so he can fuck them up from the inside and then forcibly joins Bruce at 12. Bruce has no idea what to do with a murderous assassin kid who has more of his shit put together than he does. Also, not Dick vicariously adopting all of the Robins and Bruce faced with three smaller children sitting at his table every night looking at him accusingly.

    [Taken from a prompt over on tumblr.]

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    04 Jun 2026

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    Bird Bath by

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

    01 Jun 2026

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    “My word, master Richard, whatever happened to you?”
    “I fell into the harbor,” Dick said and grinned at the butler with chattering teeth.
    “The harbor, master Richard?” Alfred said and gently pulled Dick’s drenched wings open from around him. “You look like you’ve been through the sewers!”

    Robin falls into an oil spill, and Alfred and Bruce help him get it off his feathers.

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    03 Jun 2026

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    Like We Were Then by

    Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types  

    25 Mar 2024

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    “Your butchery of the English language astounds me.” Damian says, sliding into the seat.

    “Second language.” Dick replies. “Can’t be blamed for my mistakes.”

    Damian sniffs pretentiously as Dick starts up the car and gets them on the road, the reprimand already on his tongue. “Don’t be foolish, Richard, you have mastered a number of languages and are perfectly capable of speaking them as they were intended to be spoken, as I do. Making excuses as such is undignified.”

    Dick hums, amused. “I think there was actually a compliment in there. You’re getting soft, baby bat.”

    Damian’s scandalized face is exactly as Dick pictured it. “I am not!”
    …

    Bruce died. Bruce came back to life. The months between those moments don’t stop meaning something even if it would be easier if they did.

    It’s up to Dick to reassemble his life and find a way to be a brother to the boy he considers his kid. It shouldn’t be a problem (except that it is) and where the hell is his sweater??

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    27 May 2026