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browngirlSo, one of the new things I've learned in the DC Fic Fandom is the concept of "omake", which could be loosely described as an extra or bonus. This concept is a nice addition to my ficlet-writing ways.
An amusing thought, looking down these stories, is that they pretty much cover the pairings I write Tim in, though not all of the ones I like reading him in, by any means. And one day I'll get a Jason/Tim bunny, really I will.
Title: Omake to "Able to Succeed"
Rating: PG-13
Spoilers For: Nothing, really. Besides the obvious.
Based on: "Able to Succeed", which you should all go read. It's gen, it's perfect, and it needed to exist.
Disclaimer: DC's, not mine.
It takes Tim two months to realize which scenario Bruce never assigned, and the thought nearly makes him lose his jumpline. It's another month before he considers it again, and meanwhile a few aspects of his life... change.
Still, it persists, undeniable. Dick is... Dick is beautiful, and does showy flips whenever he notices Tim watching, and is no less human than anyone else. Tim wonders if he really could take Dick out if it became necessary, and realizes he needs to know how he would.
He makes himself consider the issue while he watches Dick sleep, so he won't forget any features of the problem. After two hours Tim has the framework of a plan; about fifteen minutes after that Dick blinks sleepily and gives him a sweet, uncomplicated smile. "Hey, Timbo. Penny for your thoughts."
Tim shakes his head, carefully smiling around the hard lump in his throat. "They cost too much."
Title: Cool Glass
Rating: PG
Spoilers For/Based On: the lead-in to War Games and Steph's run as Robin.
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Disclaimer: DC's, not mine.
He didn't forbid her to contact anyone, this time. He didn't have to. She went to see Cass before he could, to let her know what was up, and predictably she hasn't seen her since. She knows better than to try to talk to Nightwing about all this, he'd just toe the line and tell her to go home.
And Tim....
She took his job and completely messed up, what can she possibly say to him?
Not now, anyway. Later, when she's back in the suit, when she can show him. She can talk to Tim then.
Steph presses a red lipstick kiss to Tim's bedroom window and pulls her Spoiler mask back down. She's got bad guys to bust and Batman's mind to change.
Title: Just a Thought
Rating: PG-13
Spoilers For/Based On: Teen Titans 13-15.
Author's Note: A story idea and why I didn't write it.
Disclaimer: DC's, not mine.
OK, it's kind of dumb and girly --- and Cassie would kick my ass if she heard me say that --- but I had this idea, and.... When Robin called and said he was coming back to the Titans, well, what use are superpowers if you don't use them? When he arrived at the Tower, I was planning to grab him right off his feet, take him up to where the air's thin and the clouds are like glittery lace and even Bats can't fly, and kiss him. Because he's my best friend, and I should have a really long time ago, and that's how knowing he was coming back made me feel, just like flying.
He'd have kicked my ass, but it would have been so worth it.
But now.... she's dead, that blonde girl who was his girlfriend and then took over his job. Apparently Gotham's been having worse trouble than usual, some sort of gang war, and that's why he returned to being Robin, but it's also how she got killed. Rob never says much, but, well, even I have a sense of timing.
It would have been really cool, though. It really would have been.
Title: "My Shy and Humble Offering"
Rating: PG
Spoilers For: Nothing, really. Besides the obvious.
Based on: Mary's Room of Robins, whereinmonkeycrackmary demonstrates her awesome Robin-fu.
Disclaimer: DC's, not mine.
She looks beautiful in the suit.
Tim always knew she would. When he discovered she was the new Robin, he'd imagined how she must look, but nothing he'd pictured was anything as vivid as seeing Steph now, after he knew he'd never see her again.
He hasn't approached her; he's standing by the wall, watching her laughing with a curly-haired brunette, her lipstick as red as her tunic, her hair a paler gold. Tim makes himself look for the definitive clue to confirm what he knows, that she's the fourth Robin from his timeline. Even though he recognizes that tilt of her head, the lilt of her giggle, the quick blush when she snorts, he has to remind himself any Steph must have these features, probably all of them do, that he saw the same smile on the slender young Steph he left making friends with Kon-el. Still, he knows that this one is his Stephanie, if he can call her that.
Steph looks so beautiful Tim's eyes hurt.
She turns, the familiar green mask around her eyes, her lenses down; when she sees him her blue-green eyes widen a little, but her mouth doesn't twitch, and he feels sick and scared and proud, and couldn't move if the wall were going to fall on him.
Her smile is like something from a better dream than he's ever likely to have again.
"I should have known I'd find you in the shadows," she says when she reaches him. "Protecting your Gothic paleness?" Her smile isn't like that other Stephanie's at all. It's nothing less than something he thought he'd never see again. Tim briefly wonders if Bruce is here -- he was Robin too, once -- and if he's feeling this same dizzying tumble of emotion because he's seen Jason.
There's so much Tim wants to tell her.
"Hm," is all he can manage, hauling himself away from the wall.
Steph smiles wider, holding out her hand. Her arm is pink and whole above the gauntlet, and Tim is, if he's honest, afraid to touch her. She might disappear again.
He makes himself reach towards her, but-- all he'll feel is their gauntlets. He strips his off, and her arm is warm, so warm and solid, beneath his fingers. She giggles as he drags his fingers down her skin, pulling her gauntlet off, and he can feel her pulse, strong as it speeds up.
Still giggling, Steph is parting her lips to say more when she winces instead. "Ow, Tim, I might need those."
"Sorry. I'm sorry." Tim forces himself to loosen his grip till he can feel her fingers, smooth and strong, slide into a more normal configuration between his. "I, just---"
"I'm glad to see you too." Steph's already smiling again, bright and easy. "This many Robins--- it's really cool, but it's also kind of creepy. It's nice to find the one I know."
Tim nods, and blinks hard against the tingling in his eyes, and wants so badly to warn her... but he couldn't warn Jason, and he couldn't warn any of the Dicks he's met, and the other of himself he's met so far just shook his head with a small, tight smile.
So Tim watches Steph smile till her forehead wrinkles, and searches for everything he's wanted to say. "The lipstick really matches the suit," he blurts inanely, and blushes, but she just grins at him again. "Thanks," she tells him, squeezing his hand.
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Robins: Main-continuity Steph-Robin and current (Bludhaven) Tim.
Author's Excuse Note : In the course of attempting to collect all the Steph!Robin issues I could, I had to brave the wilds of Willingham. I realized something; in the main continuity, according to canon, as far as I can tell, Tim never saw Steph in her Robin suit.
Hence, this.
An amusing thought, looking down these stories, is that they pretty much cover the pairings I write Tim in, though not all of the ones I like reading him in, by any means. And one day I'll get a Jason/Tim bunny, really I will.
Title: Omake to "Able to Succeed"
Rating: PG-13
Spoilers For: Nothing, really. Besides the obvious.
Based on: "Able to Succeed", which you should all go read. It's gen, it's perfect, and it needed to exist.
Disclaimer: DC's, not mine.
It takes Tim two months to realize which scenario Bruce never assigned, and the thought nearly makes him lose his jumpline. It's another month before he considers it again, and meanwhile a few aspects of his life... change.
Still, it persists, undeniable. Dick is... Dick is beautiful, and does showy flips whenever he notices Tim watching, and is no less human than anyone else. Tim wonders if he really could take Dick out if it became necessary, and realizes he needs to know how he would.
He makes himself consider the issue while he watches Dick sleep, so he won't forget any features of the problem. After two hours Tim has the framework of a plan; about fifteen minutes after that Dick blinks sleepily and gives him a sweet, uncomplicated smile. "Hey, Timbo. Penny for your thoughts."
Tim shakes his head, carefully smiling around the hard lump in his throat. "They cost too much."
Title: Cool Glass
Rating: PG
Spoilers For/Based On: the lead-in to War Games and Steph's run as Robin.
Written For:
petronelleDisclaimer: DC's, not mine.
He didn't forbid her to contact anyone, this time. He didn't have to. She went to see Cass before he could, to let her know what was up, and predictably she hasn't seen her since. She knows better than to try to talk to Nightwing about all this, he'd just toe the line and tell her to go home.
And Tim....
She took his job and completely messed up, what can she possibly say to him?
Not now, anyway. Later, when she's back in the suit, when she can show him. She can talk to Tim then.
Steph presses a red lipstick kiss to Tim's bedroom window and pulls her Spoiler mask back down. She's got bad guys to bust and Batman's mind to change.
Title: Just a Thought
Rating: PG-13
Spoilers For/Based On: Teen Titans 13-15.
Author's Note: A story idea and why I didn't write it.
Disclaimer: DC's, not mine.
OK, it's kind of dumb and girly --- and Cassie would kick my ass if she heard me say that --- but I had this idea, and.... When Robin called and said he was coming back to the Titans, well, what use are superpowers if you don't use them? When he arrived at the Tower, I was planning to grab him right off his feet, take him up to where the air's thin and the clouds are like glittery lace and even Bats can't fly, and kiss him. Because he's my best friend, and I should have a really long time ago, and that's how knowing he was coming back made me feel, just like flying.
He'd have kicked my ass, but it would have been so worth it.
But now.... she's dead, that blonde girl who was his girlfriend and then took over his job. Apparently Gotham's been having worse trouble than usual, some sort of gang war, and that's why he returned to being Robin, but it's also how she got killed. Rob never says much, but, well, even I have a sense of timing.
It would have been really cool, though. It really would have been.
Title: "My Shy and Humble Offering"
Rating: PG
Spoilers For: Nothing, really. Besides the obvious.
Based on: Mary's Room of Robins, wherein
monkeycrackmary demonstrates her awesome Robin-fu.Disclaimer: DC's, not mine.
She looks beautiful in the suit.
Tim always knew she would. When he discovered she was the new Robin, he'd imagined how she must look, but nothing he'd pictured was anything as vivid as seeing Steph now, after he knew he'd never see her again.
He hasn't approached her; he's standing by the wall, watching her laughing with a curly-haired brunette, her lipstick as red as her tunic, her hair a paler gold. Tim makes himself look for the definitive clue to confirm what he knows, that she's the fourth Robin from his timeline. Even though he recognizes that tilt of her head, the lilt of her giggle, the quick blush when she snorts, he has to remind himself any Steph must have these features, probably all of them do, that he saw the same smile on the slender young Steph he left making friends with Kon-el. Still, he knows that this one is his Stephanie, if he can call her that.
Steph looks so beautiful Tim's eyes hurt.
She turns, the familiar green mask around her eyes, her lenses down; when she sees him her blue-green eyes widen a little, but her mouth doesn't twitch, and he feels sick and scared and proud, and couldn't move if the wall were going to fall on him.
Her smile is like something from a better dream than he's ever likely to have again.
"I should have known I'd find you in the shadows," she says when she reaches him. "Protecting your Gothic paleness?" Her smile isn't like that other Stephanie's at all. It's nothing less than something he thought he'd never see again. Tim briefly wonders if Bruce is here -- he was Robin too, once -- and if he's feeling this same dizzying tumble of emotion because he's seen Jason.
There's so much Tim wants to tell her.
"Hm," is all he can manage, hauling himself away from the wall.
Steph smiles wider, holding out her hand. Her arm is pink and whole above the gauntlet, and Tim is, if he's honest, afraid to touch her. She might disappear again.
He makes himself reach towards her, but-- all he'll feel is their gauntlets. He strips his off, and her arm is warm, so warm and solid, beneath his fingers. She giggles as he drags his fingers down her skin, pulling her gauntlet off, and he can feel her pulse, strong as it speeds up.
Still giggling, Steph is parting her lips to say more when she winces instead. "Ow, Tim, I might need those."
"Sorry. I'm sorry." Tim forces himself to loosen his grip till he can feel her fingers, smooth and strong, slide into a more normal configuration between his. "I, just---"
"I'm glad to see you too." Steph's already smiling again, bright and easy. "This many Robins--- it's really cool, but it's also kind of creepy. It's nice to find the one I know."
Tim nods, and blinks hard against the tingling in his eyes, and wants so badly to warn her... but he couldn't warn Jason, and he couldn't warn any of the Dicks he's met, and the other of himself he's met so far just shook his head with a small, tight smile.
So Tim watches Steph smile till her forehead wrinkles, and searches for everything he's wanted to say. "The lipstick really matches the suit," he blurts inanely, and blushes, but she just grins at him again. "Thanks," she tells him, squeezing his hand.
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Robins: Main-continuity Steph-Robin and current (Bludhaven) Tim.
Author's
Hence, this.
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Date: 2005-08-16 07:36 am (UTC)Not in the good way, either. Oh, KIDS, dammit. KIDS. Stupid continuity fate crap!
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Date: 2005-08-20 02:37 pm (UTC)But that's what fanfic is for, I guess. *keeps working on being worthy of them*
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Date: 2005-08-16 08:04 am (UTC)*ahem*
Good stuff.
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Date: 2005-08-20 03:20 pm (UTC)"Cool Glass" is totally the sort of thing I write because I read your writing. :)
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Date: 2005-08-16 07:00 pm (UTC)Tim nods, and blinks hard against the tingling in his eyes, and wants so badly to warn her... but he couldn't warn Jason, and he couldn't warn any of the Dicks he's met, and the other of himself he's met so far just shook his head with a small, tight smile.
That just kills me. Kills me deader than an even-numbered Robin. Love!
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Date: 2006-01-21 09:18 pm (UTC)The best things about this entry, really, are the links to other, better projects.