I'll be the catcher in the rye
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Everyone hates a tall child by ManonBlackbeak
Fandoms: DCU, DCU (Comics), Batman - All Media Types
08 Feb 2026
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There is a scar running down his face, starting from the corner of his left eye down towards his mouth and then cutting across his chin. Bruce imagines it makes his rare smiles sharper, more menacing, always with a slight downward tilt.
His gaze stays on his eyes. God, those eyes. They anger him more than anything. How dare this man wear them. Right now, with no hint of green present, they are exactly like they had been all these years ago. A sky-born blue caged in a beautiful almond shape. They used to be so expressive… these eyes cried and laughed and screamed so loudly, one did not have to look anywhere else to gaze deep inside his son’s soul. They are exactly the same now.
Bruce forces himself to take a breath. “Hello Jason” he says and nods at him. Jason keeps looking at him as if trying to uncover a deep secret- no that is not true. He looks at him as if he has already found it and wishes he hadn't. He does not say anything.
Set throughout the months after the confrontation with the Joker. Bruce does not believe that this older, taller Jason is the son he lost. Everyone grieves differently, some people grieve forever.
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- Part 1 of I'll be the catcher in the rye
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The day I outgrew the world by ManonBlackbeak
Fandoms: DCU (Comics), DCU, Batman: Under the Red Hood (2010)
28 May 2026
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“Look, I’m saying it for your sake more than anything. I don’t need you to play big brother with me. I don’t live under Bruce anymore and I’m not that young either.” Jason finally puts into words what he's been wanting to say for months now.
“It’s for my sake, you say?” Dick finally asks and he does not sound angry at all, inquisitive is more like it. He wishes he knew what he was thinking.
“It is not for my sake Jay.” he finally says and smiles sadly. Jason does not understand. “Because there is a small little detail you’re forgetting and that detail changed everything.”
“Oh yeah, and what is that?”
Dick holds his gaze as he says. “You died.”
Takes place after the events of "Everyone hates a tall child" but can be read regardless. Dick learns of the batarang incident.
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- Part 2 of I'll be the catcher in the rye
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Of soldiers and their pretty stones by ManonBlackbeak
Fandoms: DCU (Comics), DCU, Batman - All Media Types
21 Jul 2026
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“Would it be so difficult for you to accept him?” he asks desperately. “Everyone else has.” he kneels right next to the bed. He looks at Bruce, at his mentor. Mentor and mentor only, never father. Not when he was younger and certainly not now. He takes Bruce’s hand in his, squeezes it more than he should.
“He is such a good kid, Bruce.” He can feel his tears running down his face. “And he’s in so much pain.”
Bruce closes his eyes at that. He looks like he’s been hit.
Or, Dick learns of the batarang incident and confronts Bruce about it.
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- Part 3 of I'll be the catcher in the rye