Don't Let Them See You Cry
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but trust me to take you home by Daisyapples
Fandoms: Captain America - All Media Types, Batman - All Media Types
23 Apr 2024
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“Shit.”
The soldier didn't startle — it had long been beaten out of him — but he did turn his head curiously.
The small boy wasn't Stevie. Whoever Stevie was. He was as small, and as angry — the soldier could see it twitching under his skin like muscle spasms — but his hair was black and his skin tan. Nothing like Stevie's pale Irish complexion and blonde hair.
“Shit,” the boy said again. “You just took them out. With three punches. Fuck.”
The last person the soldier spoke to had been Captain America. Steve.
And he might have been a brain damaged, amnesiac assassin but even he could figure out that Steve and Stevie were probably the same person.
And that this child was neither.
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- Part 1 of Don't Let Them See You Cry
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I'm what's left when children go to war by Daisyapples
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Marvel Cinematic Universe, Captain America - All Media Types
01 Jul 2024
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“Bucky,” he whined, the third time Jarvis had said they couldn’t go to the rooftop garden because it wasn’t safe. Like safe how? Were they afraid they’d both jump? That Bucky would suddenly become a different person and throw Jason over the edge? At this point, he might welcome it. Except for the part where he went splat. “I hate it here,” he said as he leaned into Bucky’s body.
“I know, pal.” Bucky ran his hands through Jason’s hair, picking apart any knots in his curls. “They’re gonna have to let us out eventually.”
“Sergeant Barnes, Mr Todd is allowed to leave at any time,” Jarvis said. “It is you that is not permitted.”
Jason glared up at the ceiling, resting his chin on Bucky’s stomach. “One, no one invited you into this conversation. Two, if Bucky can’t leave, I’m not leaving, and three, fuck off.”
“Jaybug, remember how we’re trying not to curse.”
He stuck his tongue out. “Butt out,” he said to the ceiling instead.
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- Part 2 of Don't Let Them See You Cry
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you became the light on the dark side of me by Daisyapples
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Red Hood and the Outlaws (Comics), Captain America - All Media Types, Batman - All Media Types
24 Jan 2025
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Moonlight lit up a darkened apartment. He blinked stinging tears out of his eyes. He couldn't recognise anything in the dim lights coming from the streets far, far below. Before he could do anything else, before he could even really take in where he was, a lamp flicked on and a gun was aimed at him.
A man with a metal arm stood wielding it with an ice cold expression on his face. “Who the hell are you?” he rasped, voice cold.
Jason shifted, blinking when he moved out of the shadows and into the light.
“Jason?” The man's gun dropped to his side. “Is that blood?”
“Buck, what's going on?” A boy emerged from the hallway, wearing red pajamas covered in multicolored books, and wiping his eyes like he'd just woken up. “What was that noise?”
Jason gasped when the boy pulled his hands from his face.
It was him. Little him. Tiny him.
He blinked but the kid was still there. This couldn’t be real — it had to be some type of dying dream. A hallucination, or coma.
“Buck?” Little him asked again, voice wobbling as his eyes darted between the two of them. “Is that me?”
Jason decided that this was a good time to pass out.
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- Part 3 of Don't Let Them See You Cry
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cause I'm bad, but I could've been worse by Daisyapples
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Batman: Arkham - All Media Types, Batman - All Media Types, Captain America - All Media Types
25 Jan 2026
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Jason landed, hard.
He gasped in a breath and tried to shake free of the dizzying disorientation as he pushed himself up on shaking arms. The world swooped violently and he fell back down, jarring his chin on the rough ground. He closed his eyes against the nauseating swaying before he threw up.
He swallowed harshly, forced the rising bile back down, and took slow, deep breaths. Just like Slade had shown him. He could practically hear the man’s voice in his head, as gruff and impatient as always.
Orientate yourself, Jason. Find a weapon. Get somewhere defensible. Kill anyone in your way. Recon.
He nodded along to the remembered instructions and forced himself to stand. He stumbled drunkenly for his first few steps but he wouldn't let anything stop him. Not ever again. Definitely not some stupid fucking dizziness.
He staggered across the rough grain of the rooftop he had landed on. New York’s skyline stared at him across the East River.
How the fuck had he ended up in Brooklyn?
Fuck.
He had to find Slade — he, at least, would know what to do.
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- Part 4 of Don't Let Them See You Cry