Settle Our Bones
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5 Times Tim Spends the Night at Wayne Manor + 1 Time He Comes Home by motleyfam for batmoniker
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, DCU (Comics), Batman (Comics)
29 Jan 2022
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Tim is good at galas.
No, scratch that—Tim is great at galas. He’s been attending them ever since the age of three, when his parents first stuffed him into his little Gymboree tuxedo and gave him a stern lecture about ‘sitting quietly’ and ‘speaking when spoken to.’ He knows all the rules: what to wear, how to stand, when to smile, what to say, what not to say. He knows how to come across as polite and intelligent and charming, and on absolutely any other day, he would be rocking this.
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Or, my take on a ‘Tim Joins the Family Early’ AU, told through a series of sleepovers, most of which are unplanned.
Featuring pre-teen Tim, Alive!Jason, and a whole lot of hurt/comfort.
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- Part 1 of Settle Our Bones
- Part 1 of 5+1 (expansion pack)
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A Jumbo Miscalculation by justbeyondstars, motleyfam
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, DCU (Comics), Batman (Comics)
22 Jun 2022
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Suddenly a new voice, gruffer, deeper, says, “What are you doing?” and Tim goes cold all over. That’s Bruce. That’s Bruce speaking a full sentence for the first time today and of course it’s when Tim is hurling his guts out in the bathroom and didn’t want him to know about it.
Shit.
“Picking the lock,” Jason says, like it’s obvious. “Didn’t think you’d appreciate me breaking the door down. I can, if you want. I am absolutely fine with that option actually.”
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Bruce is in a bad mood after a case doesn’t go entirely to plan, and Tim is determined not to do anything to make it worse.
Unfortunately, his shrimp allergy didn’t get that memo.
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- Part 2 of Settle Our Bones
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DANton-ten-six by motleyfam
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, DCU (Comics), Batman (Comics)
08 Apr 2022
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Two months into Tim’s new foster placement with the Waynes, he wakes up feeling kind of lousy.
His stomach started hurting sometime after dinner the night before, which he initially chalked up to the heaviness of Alfred’s chicken fettuccine; that man does not skimp on the heavy cream. It’s why he only ever makes it when Dick—the family’s resident lactose intolerant dumbass, as Jason so lovingly puts it—is confirmed to be staying in Bludhaven for the evening.
(Not that it ever works. Dick’s been known to sniff out leftovers from the fridge days later like a bloodhound, consequences to his delicate digestive system be damned.)
Anyway...
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Or, in which Tim gets Sick™, but actually reaches out for help for once, and in return his new family comes in clutch.
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- Part 3 of Settle Our Bones
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Conference Room 2B by motleyfam for batmoniker
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, DCU (Comics), Batman (Comics)
21 Jul 2022
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And okay, fine, Tim can admit it: his parents paying off a school official to circumvent social services just to see him was sketchy at best—probably illegal at worst. They really shouldn’t have done it. Bruce and Alfred would be furious to find out that they had. Not to mention Jason, who would go absolutely apeshit.
But–
But it was also just really fucking sweet of them.
Tim hasn’t felt this loved, this cherished, this fought for and desired by his parents in years.
Doesn’t he at least owe it to them to hear them out?
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Three months into Tim’s foster placement with the Waynes, Jack and Janet Drake decide they want back into their son’s life.
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- Part 4 of Settle Our Bones
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All Things to All Men by motleyfam for justbeyondstars
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, DCU (Comics), Batman (Comics)
14 May 2025
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Tim’s pretty sure that Jason hates him.
Granted, Jason hadn’t seemed to hate him yesterday and Tim has no idea what he did to cause Jason to come to this conclusion today— (and it’s not like Tim hasn’t been racking his brain for the answer to that very question ever since he woke up)— but the signs have been there all morning and the signs never lie. The sullen mood, the closed-off body language, the vague grunts and one-word responses to Tim’s few attempts at conversation… they all point to a singular conclusion.
Jason has finally gotten sick of him.
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Or, Jason starts acting weird while both Bruce and Alfred are out of town, and it dredges up some stuff for Tim.
Luckily, he’s still got one big brother left he can call.
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- Part 5 of Settle Our Bones
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Natural Consequences by motleyfam
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, DCU (Comics), Batman (Comics)
16 Jul 2023
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If at six years old, Tim chose to watch that scary movie with the alien ripping open the guy’s stomach that Jack told him he was too young for, then he could change his own sheets later that night when he wet the bed from nightmares. If at eight, Tim broke a window playing with his new slingshot too close to the house, then he could pick up all the shattered pieces of glass himself and pay to replace it from his birthday savings. If at twelve, he was irresponsible enough to forget to request more funds on his school lunch account before his parents traveled to the remote mountains of Nepal, then he could go hungry for a few days until they returned to cell service range.
His parents rarely ever punished him, per se, but they’ve always been big believers in letting him feel the full weight of his natural consequences.
Tim knows better than to expect any help.
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When Tim gets hurt doing something stupid, there are a few misconceptions that still need to be cleared up between him and his new family.
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- Part 6 of Settle Our Bones
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*Recalibrating...* by motleyfam
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), DCU (Comics)
13 Apr 2025
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Sometimes, Tim wonders if he’s cursed.
Like, actually cursed. By a witch or something. Because he can’t ever seem to catch a fucking break.
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Tim’s first sleepover in Bludhaven ends up going very much par for the course with this series.
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- Part 7 of Settle Our Bones
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You Must Be This Conscious to Ride by justbeyondstars, motleyfam
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, DCU (Comics), Batman (Comics)
20 May 2024
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For Tim’s fourteenth birthday, the Waynes take him to an amusement park. Unfortunately for them, this happens to coincide with a sweltering heatwave.
What could go wrong?
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In which the boys ride a few rollercoasters, play a riveting game of I Spy, cut a toddler in line for a corn dog, get a crash course in heat-related illnesses, and make memories to last a lifetime.
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- Part 8 of Settle Our Bones
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Rail-Splitter, Brain-Splitter by motleyfam for justbeyondstars
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, DCU (Comics), Batman (Comics)
29 Apr 2024
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“What are the side effects?”
“Uh..." Tim scrolls down. “It says, dry mouth, dizziness, fatigue, headache, blurred vision, nausea, vomiting—”
Jason cuts him off, “So the side effects of migraine meds are fucking migraines?”
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For Jason's seventeenth birthday, Tim “wins” three tickets to the iconic off-Broadway stage production: Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (The Musical). The night is going pretty well until Dick’s head decides to nope out.
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- Part 9 of Settle Our Bones
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Reply ‘STOP’ to Unsubscribe by batmoniker, motleyfam
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), DCU (Comics)
06 Jul 2024
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It begins as it always does: palms sweating, shivers down his spine, echoes of the Ides of March…
(Okay, maybe not that.)
It actually begins with Marcie Danvers bursting into tears as she scrambles up onto her desk, shrieking something about how the walls and floor are crawling with spiders. Only, there are no spiders. And, even if there were, it doesn't explain Angela Sinclair desperately trying to open a window because ”the ship is going down!”
And then Jason’s phone lights up with a single text message from Tim:
My dad’s here
That's when Jason realizes what's happening.
Fucking fear toxin.
Between one rapid heartbeat and the next, the school has erupted into chaos.
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- Part 10 of Settle Our Bones
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Turkey with a Side of Stressin’ by motleyfam for justbeyondstars
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), Super Sons (Comics)
17 Sep 2025
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What should be a wholesome family vacation turns into Tim’s personal hellscape when the Waynes decide to spend Thanksgiving at the Kent Farm.
Featuring an impromptu road trip, a packed-out farmhouse, an overeager grade-schooler, and a festive sprinkling of unresolved trauma.
(And pie, of course. There’s also pie.)
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- Part 11 of Settle Our Bones