DC One-Shots
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bound to happen at some point by Samuel_Walker
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Nightwing (Comics), Justice League - All Media Types
24 Sep 2023
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“I’m sending him to the Galactic Negotiations.”
“Are you fucking kidding me?” Aquaman nearly shouted.
Clark had forgotten he was there. When did he learn curse words? Ma would be so disappointed.
“I wasn’t allowed to attend single planet negotiations, let alone Galactic Negotiations, until my eighth year and I’m a founding member. And you’re going to send Nightwing in a Batman cosplay-”
When did he learn about cosplay? Why did Clark know what he was talking about?
“To the biggest event in the galaxy?” Arthur asked.
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- Part 1 of DC One-Shots
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that same humorless chuckle by Samuel_Walker
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Nightwing (Comics), Titans (Comics), Teen Titans (Animated Series), Young Justice - All Media Types
21 Nov 2023
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It was presumptuous of Wally to assume this was only about Jason, maybe a little wishful, too. Or maybe Dick was deflecting. Does it really matter, though?
“I’m not going anywhere,” Wally parroted.
This time Dick flinched, and something explosive flashed in his eyes before dying just as quickly. “You can’t say that. You of all people can’t say that.”
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- Part 2 of DC One-Shots
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don’t tell Batman I called him a himbo by Samuel_Walker
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Superman - All Media Types, Justice League - All Media Types
29 Nov 2023
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“You’re in a polyamorous relationship with Batman and Bruce Wayne.”
Clark had never truly understood the meaning of flabbergasted until that very moment. That was saying something considering his parents once told him that he was found in an alien tin can in a corn field and was, in fact, an alien himself. It ripped a boisterous laugh out of him that would have been disingenuous if it wasn’t so hysterical.
He could hear Ma Kent in his head tellin’ him he sounded madder than a wet hen.
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- Part 3 of DC One-Shots
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Nothing had prepared him for fatherhood. Every book he’d read, class he’d attended and master he had studied under were entirely useless. He couldn’t help but think that he was bad at it, being a parent. Dick was so bright - is still so bright - shining beyond the hazy streets of Gotham and past the tragedy that clung to him like wet denim.
Poem - "Father Forgets" by W. Livingston Larned
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- Part 4 of DC One-Shots
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Still, that failed to distract Tim from the task at hand. This idea, this new theory, the pattern, locked onto him and wouldn’t let him go. Every time he managed to think about something else, anything else, this pattern that has its teeth sunk in him, shook him like a wolf tearing into a fresh kill.
Dick Grayson.
Jason Todd.
Dick Grayson.
Tim Drake.
Dick Grayson.
Cassandra Cain.Series
- Part 5 of DC One-Shots
- Part 1 of Tim Drake and Personhood (DC)
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Patchwork by Samuel_Walker
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Nightwing (Comics), Justice League - All Media Types, Young Justice - All Media Types
17 Apr 2024
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Dick Grayson is made up of bits. It’s a habit he creates when he’s small, when he doesn’t know how to “person” quite yet. Others around him seem to know, so he just picks up little things from them and sews them together into a patchwork quilt Dick Grayson.
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- Part 1 of The Truth Companion Pieces (DC)
- Part 6 of DC One-Shots
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like a battlefield to be traversed by Samuel_Walker
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), Nightwing (Comics), Forever Evil (Comics), Grayson (Comics)
31 May 2024
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On one particularly notable occasion, when thirteen-year-old Barbara ventured to tell Dick about her greatest achievement, she had the gall to call herself his first friend. She can’t quite recall what he said but she knows exactly what she said back.
“Richard John Grayson, don’t you ever compare a woman to an elephant again!”
And from then on, they were Dick and Barbara. Gordon and Grayson. The original dynamic duo.
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- Part 2 of The Truth Companion Pieces (DC)
- Part 7 of DC One-Shots
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find that for themselves by Samuel_Walker
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Nightwing (Comics), Batman (Comics), Young Justice (Cartoon), Young Justice - All Media Types, Young Justice (Comics)
06 Jul 2024
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He’s getting more agitated as he keeps rambling, nearly shaking, probably gripping Cass’ hand a little too tight. She doesn’t complain.
“And now - and now they’ve taken centuries of tradition and put it on the internet for anyone. For so long we’ve been persecuted, taking the only thing we could control, our language, and using it as a shield. And now they’ve taken. They’ve taken it from us. They have no right. They have no need for it. It’s not theirs.
“And worse,” he continues, pausing to wipe his nose with the handkerchief Cass produced from seemingly nowhere. “They’ve lumped them all into just Romani. Hundreds of unique dialects spanning nearly the entire inhabited globe, some of them so distinct they can be considered their own language and they've just decided on a couple, mixed them together, and labeled it Romani. Like it’s theirs.
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- Part 8 of DC One-Shots
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a sight to behold and a horror to be shunned by Samuel_Walker
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Nightwing (Comics)
16 Aug 2024
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He wanted to believe it. It would be so easy. A simple hum of assent and they could be on their way. Jason would be free. He wanted to believe it. He didn’t.
He thought about leaving. Walking away from the conversation. Escaping into the night. Jason would be free. He thought about leaving. He didn’t.
“Really?” He knew the answer.
“No,” Dick confirmed.
Because if the conversation ended, if Jason walked away, he would be free. But Dick would remain. In a cage that wasn’t a cage. In a trap that didn’t need a trigger. In a space he’d grown to fit, not a space fit to grow.
Sequel to "the punchline would be devastating"
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- Part 9 of DC One-Shots
- Part 2 of To Grow (DC)
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In a Safe by Samuel_Walker
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Nightwing (Comics), Batman (Comics)
05 Sep 2024
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Bruce Wayne kept his heart in a safe, in a wall, behind a keypad and a biometric lock, securely covered by tasteful piece of wall art in his office.
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- Part 10 of DC One-Shots
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the least he could do by Samuel_Walker
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Nightwing (Comics)
18 Sep 2024
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Dick stood up, once again placing himself between Jason and Tim. “This is–”
Jason got off the couch, moving to look Dick in the eye, “I know you haven’t come to terms with it yet, and that’s okay, but he’s not helping and, as much as it pains me to admit, he deserves to know why.”
“It’s not his fault, Jay.”
He took a deep breath, trying to contain the flood of emotion that statement caused, shoving his hands in his pockets because he had to do something with them. “I know, Dickie. I know. Let me tell him that.”
Dick looked hesitant and Jason put on his best reassuring smile. “I promise not to kill him.”
“Or ‘beat the shit out of him’?”
Jason sighed, “Do I have to promise?”
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- Part 3 of To Grow (DC)
- Part 11 of DC One-Shots
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the punchline would be devastating by Samuel_Walker
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Nightwing (Comics)
09 Apr 2024
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“Golden Boy can’t do something perfectly. Must be gut-wrenching,” Jason mocked. Dick hadn’t said anything wrong, really, but Jason was in the mood to bicker. His brother didn’t bite back with the usual venom, though.
He turned toward Jason, setting the sealed vial in his left hand and Sharpie in his right down on the table. “Look, I don’t -” Dick sighed, running his now empty left hand through his hair, flexing and relaxing his fingers at the crown of his head before shaking it out.
His hair was boarding on shaggy compared to his usual mop, like he missed his last haircut appointment by three or four months. His shoulders, previously a bit tense with the concentration needed to perform a difficult task, were now taut with what Jason could - with questionable accuracy - identify as stress and discomfort. “I can’t figure out why you think that.”
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- Part 1 of To Grow (DC)
- Part 3 of The Truth Companion Pieces (DC)
- Part 12 of DC One-Shots
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Bats in the Belfry by Samuel_Walker
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Nightwing (Comics), DCU (Comics)
26 Dec 2024
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Jason slowed as a lone figure began to take shape on the side of the quiet stretch of highway. A hitchhiker. Rolling down his window as he came to a stop, Jason was face to face with the man. “Where ya tryna get to?”
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Maybe Jason’s finally lost his fucking mind. That was it. That had to be it. A few crayons short of a box. Off his rocker. He’s got bats in the fucking belfry.
He was tired. Life was taking a toll. And he wasn’t going tonight.
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- Part 13 of DC One-Shots
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the sand and the glass by Samuel_Walker
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), Nightwing (Comics)
07 Apr 2025
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Dragging armfuls of stuff down the stairs, through the entry way, and across half the yard to shove them into his backseat was nothing compared to his usual workouts, but doubt was slowing him down.
Maybe this wasn’t the best idea. He and Dick were a couple’a beers and the newest Real Housewives type people. But that was the problem, wasn’t it.
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- Part 6 of To Grow (DC)
- Part 14 of DC One-Shots