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Otabek met his soulmate a long time ago.
A few months into their friendship, Yuri asked about it. “Are they shitty?” he asked, tapping two fingers against the black mark as casually as anything. They sat side by side in two ornate, decorative chairs in the lobby of the dance studio.
Otabek huffed a laugh through his nose. “What makes you say that?”
“You dropped them, didn’t you?” Yuri shrugged, slouching back into the stiff cushions and hooking a leg over the arm of the chair in a futile attempt to get comfortable.
“Is yours shitty?” Otabek asked, nodding down at Yuri’s wrist.
“Fuck if I know,” Yuri scoffed. He flicked his wrist upwards, flashing his own row of zeros.
Otabek’s lips twitched. “You don’t know who they are?”
“Don’t care, either,” Yuri said flippantly.
Otabek nodded.Series
- Part 2 of Counting Footprints
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All his life, Viktor has been watching the step counter on his wrist, waiting to meet his soulmate. He's done experiments—he knows how the counter reacts when he hops and spins and leaps and crawls and somersaults. He's calculated his steps per mile at ten different walking speeds. So Viktor knows he's about to meet his soulmate. He's practically choking with anticipation.
Yuuri covered his step counter when he was sixteen. Courtesy of anxiety, everything already feels cosmically significant all the time. He doesn't need the actual cosmos weighing in.
Yuuri is late, running full tilt across his college campus when he crashes into Viktor. Viktor falls, Yuuri catches him, and then Yuuri's gone, leaving Viktor with a broken heart, a spilled coffee, and a luxury sweater from a boutique called "Giacometti". Cue a scavenger hunt, a Venmo war, and an increasingly improbable series of near-misses.
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One night, Robin spots a kid with an overnight bag on a rooftop, and he jumps to the obvious conclusion: the kid's trying to run away. The kid is doing a really bad job of it, though, and that's the sort of thing Robin just has to correct.
Except the kid is Tim Drake, and Tim isn't actually trying to run away. But "running away" does sound a little better than "stalking bat-themed vigilantes through the crime-infested streets of Gotham every night." So he lets Robin have this one.
Besides, that's the end of it, right? Robin might have found Tim once, but no one ever looks for Tim a second time. Robin can think whatever he wants. They'll never see each other again.
(They see each other again.)
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buy back the secrets by sundiscus for cairosene, remux, regional_catastrophe
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Young Justice - All Media Types
28 Feb 2025
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He takes a long, slow breath. Ignores the glares from the other students. “Superboy,” he murmurs. “It’s me. If you’re listening, I could use some help.”
Or: 5 times Superboy saves Tim Drake, and one time Tim Drake saves Superboy.
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15 Jul 2025
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When he ends up ditched in Atlanta after a fight with his dad, Tim decides to do the only sensible thing: Tell no one and make the 800 mile journey back to Gotham on his own.
Because the "call Batman when you're in trouble" rule only applies when he's Robin, right?
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to memory now I can't recall by Etharei
Fandoms: Captain America (Movies), The Avengers (Marvel Movies)
24 Nov 2014
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While on a mission storming a HYDRA facility, James Buchanan Barnes touches one of the many strange alien devices collected by the Red Skull. He does this, in fact, twice— in the past, and in the future.
Next thing he knows, Bucky Barnes is opening his eyes in the 21st century, which is full of great gadgets and coffee, and at least includes his old pal Steve. (And, inexplicably, a different Stark.) Meanwhile, the Winter Soldier finds himself in the middle of World War Two, helping Captain America hunt down HYDRA (which is at least familiar), pretending to be Bucky Barnes (which is not), and figuring out the very noisy group of soldiers who call themselves the Howling Commandos.
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Into the Brighter Night by shoalsea
Fandoms: Batman (Comics), Red Robin (Comics), Young Justice (Comics)
25 Oct 2020
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When an unknown enemy threatens Robin, Gotham's vigilantes come together to keep him safe.
Unfortunately, they're protecting the wrong Robin.
Or: Tim Drake plans his own rescue. Things get complicated.